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I worked night shifts for seven months last year and 4.5 months the year before and don't think I will do it again this year - or if I do, only for a couple of months. I was doing 12 hrs a night for four nights, then getting four days off, or so it looks on the calendar but that is deceiving because the first day off you are recovering from the past four nights, and the last day off you can't get up to much because you have to work that night. It also got me into trouble with taxes, which I will be late filing as I'll miss the deadline of April 30 because I don't go home until mid-May, so be it. Finally, last summer was the best summer at home we've seen for years and here I was sleeping (when lucky) through the best parts of it. 

1 hour ago, Glasseye said:

I've had two labs when I was younger. A black and then later a Chesapeake.

They were both a handful when young, but as they matured they were great.

 

The key is having the proper space nearby to keep them exercised. 

Yes, having the time and area to let them run properly is important; I think back to a co-worker who got himself a border collie and figured he could leave it alone in his house while he went to work all day - big mistake, the damned thing just about tore the place apart...

3 hours ago, Glasseye said:

 

I'm beginning to think they may be a little bit too high strung for me.

I don't think I would have any kind of working dog unless I had a job for it....

3 hours ago, KWA said:

Just a couple of lanes blocked for a few yards at the end of Soi Honey.

The had an opening down by the Avenue a couple of days ago too, I think they are just tying in some of the new utility ducts.

1 minute ago, Yessongs said:

Great narrative Gord, just a few questions..we missed this place a few weeks back. We did hit "Myth" for a quick drink after dinner one evening...it was OK.

So if you know, what time does the band start? 8:00pm, 9:00pm?  Does the air conditioning make a difference? Can you tell it helps?  

Hate to be the downer, but still for the life of me, do NOT know why they let these bands play as loud as " Deep Purple" back in 1972 LOL!

I seem to recall being in there just after 9:00PM and it sounded like the band was just starting, and yes, the AC does make a difference, was quite pleasant in there. As for the noise level, I agree - it's one thing if you are going to a concert and you are focused completely on the music, but in a bar setting where you want to communicate as well, I do think volume levels need to be managed a lot better and in a big space like this I don't think that would be too difficult. 

2 hours ago, coxyhog said:

I have an absolute mountain of my mum's papers to get rid of & shredding would take an age,so I just bought myself an incinerator.

Now all I need is a few days where it doesn't rain😂....

My big woodstove works great for disposing of excess paper...

On 4/15/2024 at 6:26 PM, Glasseye said:

That's a solid mate. 

I rode some dirt bikes but not much when I was a kid. When I was 19 bought a used Honda 125 cc. One day braked on some gravel and went down. Didn't get injured but that was the last time I personally rode one.

I just ain't cut out for it. But a bicycle... I can handle one of those like a dog handles a bone. But accidents can still happen, had one not very long ago. When a motorcycle passes by me fast I can't help but think about how far the rider would fly upon impact.

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again...lol...I took plenty of lumps when I was learning to ride motorcycles but I ended up being pretty good at it and had some world class dirt bikes later - I miss those days, sold my last dirt bike two years ago because I just don't have the reflexes anymore or the commitment to practise all the time - plus I know if/when I bite the dirt it's gonna hurt too much at this age. 

Mike Pinder, the last remaining original member of the Moody Blues, dead at 82:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Pinder

28 minutes ago, Horizondave said:

That actually is quite sad but so true.

Like a quote I read once - "If you want to find out who your friends really are, check and see who will help you move your freezer out of the basement on Saturday" - lol....

2 hours ago, Yessongs said:

6 weeks ago, I bought a new CD player here at one of the fancy, dancy open markets here locally. These young guys know their shit right? They speak good English too...you can imagine the look on their face when I roll up with my Honda SUV and ask them to show me some of the "CD players" they have and if one is available LOL!

They didn't even laugh at me..thankfully. There were basically none on the main floor, but they had several in the back room right? This kid brings out this "Kenwood" player, tells me all about it.........OK done deal. Installed in 1 hour, 4k baht out the door.....this thing is great, all my CD's I had shipped over here work well. 

Was downtown at Siam Square about a month ago, they had this old school type shop located outside, across the street. This one store had a ton of used CD's...100 baht any one you wanted.......knowing what I had in my collection.....I DID NOT have "Frampton Comes Alive" I have it now......"Do you, you...feel like I do"

I'll have to check out that store - they have a big selection of used CD's in the Dasa bookstore just south of Soi 26 on Sukhumvit but they  are rather awkwardly displayed; however, I have found a couple of good ones in there. 

20 minutes ago, forcebwithu said:

This touches on another subject, how aging affects our mind and motor skills and at what point do we become a danger to ourselves and others if we continue drive and/or ride.

We're not in a position to judge this particular gentleman, but we probably know of others who are family or friend that we would question their decision to continue to operate any type of vehicle on a public road, especially the busy and chaotic ones in Thailand.

Oh, don't I know it - my own mother was becoming a hazard on our city streets as her dementia progressed - she drove a very distinctive vehicle and I was hearing reports of her erratic driving from friends and acquaintances; I took her to her doctor one day with other issues and had a word with him about this, and he had her license taken away - oh, was she pissed off about this and if she had ever found out that it was because of me I probably would have been disowned. 

6 minutes ago, forcebwithu said:

Video is in the article. @lazarus post contains just a screen grab.

https://www.khaosodenglish.com/news/2024/04/22/swiss-national-in-coma-after-brutal-hit-in-pattaya/

Got it now and you're right, that guy on the trike didn't look or even try to slow down - doesn't make it entirely his fault but I'd have much better self-preservation instincts than that even at home. 

I also used the services of Maneerat to extend my visa exempt for 30 days on the recommendation of boydeste - I'd done it myself twice before Covid and the Russian Invasion with no real problems but this year I'd backed myself into a bit of a corner with timing - I would have had to extend on the 15th or 16th to fit in with my (also extended) departure date and of course Immigration was closed on the 12, 15, and 16 for Songkran. Boydeste told me that Maneerat could extend my visa at any time to start at the end of my visa exempt period and this is just what they did - all it took was a drive over to Jomtien Immigration for the photo, which I think they do just to prove that you were actually there in the office, and I found my own way home by choice - two days later and I am good to go. A little expensive at 4500b vs. the 1900 it would have cost me to do myself, but I simply don't have the patience to deal with the crowds in Immigration by myself any more and I consider the money well spent and will do it again next time. 

3 hours ago, lazarus said:

In the video, what about the silver car that stopped at the intersection that the white car went around? Looks like it was giving the cross traffic the right of way?

TiT...don't assume anything, right?

I couldn't make the video play, but I would say agree with you not to assume anything, with the addition of the fact that if it is bigger than you, give it the right of way whether it belongs to them or not...

1 hour ago, Freee!! said:

But that vendor wasn't using them. You could even have bought one right next to that cop without any problems, those would have only come if/when you started to use it in that location. Buying one to use the next day at the beach was and is perfectly fine.

Nope - everywhere I went you could see them in use and the cops were not taking any notice of them; maybe if someone was really being an asshole with one it may have attracted the attention of the BIB but I never saw anybody get one taken away. 

I don't know what brands of perfumes the East Indians and some of the Europeans are dousing themselves with here in my condo building but man, do those elevators stink sometimes when they exit them - not to mention the odd BO as well, dunno what smells worse - enough to make me gag sometimes. 

5 hours ago, Glasseye said:

I'm on the edge as it is. If I did that I fear there would be no return.

Well, I guess I don't have quite as vivid an imagination as you have because I went out there some years ago and had a look around and it didn't cause me to have fits - it's actually a very tranquil setting, like walking around in a park; but then you look down at the ground and see all these tiny little bits of blue cloth and what look like bits of shells but they are actually pieces of human bone and you are walking around on them - kind of a sobering thought. And of course, there is also the tree they used to beat babies against to dispatch them - more unpleasant thoughts, such savagery from deranged people and I give the Cambodian masses credit for getting past this awful time in their history and being able to create a proper society again. Really, it is worth going to see stuff like this just to realize what man is capable of doing to their fellow man, but you can't dwell on it. 

1 minute ago, Derek Dangleberries said:

I thought that what @galenkia posted was a well known backstory to a hit song. Perhaps it is only well known in the UK and by old gits like me ..

Very familiar to us colonials too, and Geldof made a whole career out of that one song, it seems...

We also had dire warnings in several online sources of stiff penalties for those caught with "water cannons", yet on the last day I saw a vendor of same walk right by a cop who didn't even look at him - gotta love it. 

2 hours ago, fygjam said:

You gotta wonder why these companies supply engine heaters for hydrocarbon fueled vehicles. Don't they know they're unnecessary?

 

Maybe they are unnecessary in Australia but they are certainly necessary in my part of the world, unless you want your heavy truck to sit and run at fast idle all night while you are sleeping - this is what they did in my youth, it was common too see up to 15-20 trucks at some stops roaring away by themselves when it got cold because they simply couldn't afford to have them not start in the morning. 

10 hours ago, KhunDon said:

That FB Page won’t load. 😟

Trouble getting charged?
Why would anyone buy an EV that they can’t charge at home, or at least at a nearby DC charger, seems extremely stupid to me, especially as the distance between public chargers must be high, compared to the UK where distances between chargers are very low.
How stupid to rely on a charger 100 miles away, especially if when they get there, it’s broken. 

Obviously range will be lower in winter, if they didn’t understand that when they purchased the vehicle, that’s their fault. Didn’t they try googling anything about EV’s to do their due diligence? A few clicks on a pc would have told them about range in winter conditions. 

Bad dealerships are all over the place, we have them here in the UK for both EV’s and ICE vehicles, but that’s got nothing to do with how EV batteries work in cold temperatures. 

😉

I'll do a  copy and paste for you:

56 minutes ago, Zambo said:

I've spent a lot of time on the escalators myself. What made it worse was i thought it was "7 floors of whores" i kept trying to find the escalators going to the upper floors until i realised the rhyming was much better for "four floors of whores". 

Thai girls reduced a lot and much more were Vietnamese and Filipina.

I got my first Thai girl out of Orchard Towers on my way to Australia in 2002, and on the way back from that trip I made a side trip to Thailand and the rest is history....

1 hour ago, KhunDon said:

No they don’t. They sell loads of EV’s in Canada, which are used through their very cold winters. 

And many people who have bought them have said they will not repeat the experience - lots of trouble with range, getting charged, abysmal service from the dealers who sold them, etc. - and this is from southern Canada, never mind the north where I live where you'll have over 100 miles between settlements and much colder weather - no EV in my immediate future. 

https://www.facebook.com/sten.linde.5/posts/pfbid0RYndzLpGKFQW5z8KxW8bLU2HWYrygTQzUva9Xj6CbrZtT9LrSbNHfUVKPfCWEjEtl