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  1. Today I rewatched the film The Killing Fields. Four CH-53 helicopters and crew from my Marine squadron were using during the filming. There were no close up shots of my buddies; but a couple of them can say they appeared in the movie. After it ended, I got on the Google and found the book on which The Killing Fields is based. The Death and Life of Dith Pran, written by Pulitzer Prize winning reporter and author Sydney Schanberg. I found the entire book on https://archive.org/ , where I was able to read for free. It is a short, 78 page account including several pages of photographs. But, it was well written and a nice complement to the freshly watched film version. Highly recommend both.
  2. Come on, everyone here knows the Bridgestones went to the guy that ordered the Michelins.
  3. I always send pictures of all the different Lays flavors we have here to my sister. I’ll try to slip these Doritos by her to see if she’s paying attention.
  4. Hopefully; as this is their last trip to Thailand, it will be much longer than planned.
  5. From my last turbine job. In Washington; near the Canadian border, we overhauled three gas turbines over about four months.
  6. I got carried away on my walk today. A little under 21.5 km. You can see where I cooled down in Big C, Lotus’s and Makro.
  7. https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/special-reports/407992/ladyboy-monk-full-about-face Here’s an interesting story of someone who grew up basically as a ladyboy, estranged from the father, then quit being a katoey to become a monk for a while.
  8. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/music-news/steve-lawrence-dead-singer-1235845675/ I always saw him as he guest starred with his wife Eydie Gorme on shows like Carol Burnett or The Love Boat.
  9. My first job was bagging groceries for $2.60 an hour after school. With my hours limited, I brought home about $60 a week. I was promised a nickel an hour raise every thousand hours, which coincided with a similar raise in minimum wage, so after two thousand hours, I was still at minimum wage. After I mentioned that to my boss; who shrugged his shoulders, I gave him two weeks notice and started at a competitor for a dollar more. I stayed there until I graduated high school and enlisted in the Marine Corps, which paid about $600 a month, plus food and a bed.
  10. ItemFix-dot-com-3256_1709887029.mp4.65ead51578948.mp4
  11. My next door neighbor from California is here in Thailand on vacation with his girlfriend so I went to Bangkok and spent the day with them. We did some tourist stuff like going to the Golden Buddha and the Reclining Buddha. But, I think this picture I took with my iPhone 13 is my best shot of the day. It’s a vase at Wat Benchamabophit. Other than slightly cropping it, there are no digital effects but it looks like a painting to me.
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