thegrogmonster

I am flying with them back from Udon Thani in April and later that same day continuing my homewward flight to Brisbane from Bangkok. I hope Vietjet don't stuff me around.

I started at 131kgs and dropped to 86kgs mainly I believe from giving up beer for 12 months drinking vodka and soda instead. I love beer and started back on it harder than ever and now back to 112kgs. Trying to cut down my visits to the pub to lose some weight again. Fat me: Skinny me:

Still one of the best Pattaya street shots. (From Stickman's website many years ago).

Stir fried cabbage.

Shoot the c**t.

My wife made something different yesterday and she ended up calling it her Thai Aussie soup. It was going to be her normal pork noodle soup but she decided to use ravioli instead of noodles. Very nice it was.

If anyone watches the 8 part series of Boy Swallows Universe can you please let me know your thoughts.

Friendship?

I got a text from DTAC saying I have been with them for 15 years but I know I have had the same number with them since 2001. Anyway all I do each trip is log onto our accounts and add a data package that suits our trip to our existing phone numbers. The data package is finished at the expiration date but the phones keep working as long as it has credit. Our phones stay active for 12 months from each topup.

The old joke something along the lines of: I'm not going on that ship again as all night the cabin boy was banging on the door. Finally I had enough so got up and let him out.

Sorry double post.

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This morning after rain all night long.

I don't claim to know all the details as I try to not get involved in my wife's financial dealings but from what I see she appears to save money and then with this she buys gold. When her friends are short of cash she gives them money in exchange for their gold. She once showed me a pile of gold jewellery she had and it was quite imressive. She must be doing OK as previously when she wanted things (cars, land, helping out family etc) I would lend her the money. These days she uses her gold to pay for these things. Recently she had to spend 160,000 baht for work done on her land in Pattaya and this was done by sending gold with one of friends going back to Thailand who then gave it to my wife's sister. The sister then sold it at a Gold shop to pay for the work done. Gold seems an easy way of building wealth for many Thais.

So do I.

Sitting out a heavy rain storm.

My condolences and please stay strong. You have a lot of friends on this forum that are here for you if you need them.

Thank you kind sir. Your comments are appreciated.

I am currently 250km away from work at my holiday shack but am supervisor on call for work still. Spent at least 12 hours on the phone yesterday organising different teams to try and keep services going. Today I have a cable team pulling in 400m of underground fibre optic cable to replace the damged aerial cable. At first light we have a team walking 2kms up a mountain to manally start a generator as trees are everywhere across the access road. Another team will be on generator refuelling duties. I wasn't supposed to be on call over Xmas as I gave them 6 months notice I was going away. Due to a few issues they were not able to cover my call so they said I could do it remotely. Good being able to wear a pair of shorts drinking a few beers directing traffic from afar.

Dealing with damage at work since last night's storm which has caused massive damage. The Gold Coast railway line at this stage is planned to have replacement buses running for the next 2 days until the line repoens.

Have you grabbed a Xmas bed warmer yet?

An air fryer cooks very good pork crackling.

Glad everyone was saved.