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Tomorrow Never Dies

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Bet we have had over half a foot of rain since yesterday.

Yesterday afternoon I spent a good hour or so sitting in font of the Tesco Lotus convenienve store, which is located behind Numchai on Sukhumvit. I had a good view of a lot of lightening in the South sky and one time a lightening rod on a nearby building got hit. I did not want to risk riding my bike home knowing how attractive I am to nature. My Mrs had already disconnected things at home. That evening my power went out, well rather it was only 110 v instead of the customary 240v and I sat up waiting for it to come back, so I could put the AC on and retire. Apparently my TV is fixed, but I am unable to collect it as it would have to go in the back-bed, and it hasn't stopped raining since dawn. Comforting to know someone is thinking of me.

Yes we have had a spell of thunderstorms in the BKK area some days back, and a spell in the Pattaya area yesterday. Power out for a spell. Actually this mornings thunderstorm has moved on to Bangkok and I expect making some problems there right now. Radar Image.

They don't seem to mind you taking them back and forth.

The LD's upstairs in Dollhouse I believe were the same price as my SML, 170 baht... although my memory this morning is faint. That was just a regular, could have been lolly water or Mekong coke. I actually thought there were a few pretty ones in there! They chucked me out of Babydolls because they wanted to go home! In Crazy House I thought Teelack was back in town, but it was BM in question who shall remain nameless. ​Weren't we in Annabelle's as well? (Also quiet) Farenheit, yes a good number of girls, of a good standard, and 90 baht all bottles all night was a plus!

Billy Zane

Thanks for that.... At the moment the TV is in the Samsung Service centre..... easy peasy and far better than Numchai. It is located on North Rd so quite easy for me to get to, you can park there, and TV issues are a separate building to the busy phone dept. Have to wait and see if they can come good! I currently have 3 remotes, a wireless keyboard and a wireless mouse on my little table, and a fly swatter. These devices would add another. Previously I could do most things from my Samsung Smart remote, which of course is with the TV in the shop now. It could control the Home Theatre and the Cable box and of course the TV. I still have to figure out if my Home Theatre/ Blu-Ray unit has some damage as it will not do the AnyNet function anymore but works itself. These lightening strikes seem to result in a plethora of confusing problems.

I don't think I would be able to select between the HDMI inputs from the TV remote with such a configuration. If it was a mechanical switch, well I might as well get up and unplug one connector and put the other in. As I also stated some other features don't seem to be working right. (Anynet). There is frustration in not having things work right with such a new item.

Well it is only 5 months old so I was hoping to get a bit more life out of it. It still mostly works, just 2 of the 4 HDMI inputs don't, and I need one of them, The Anynet feature also isn't working, ie turning the home threatre on and off with the TV, to use the 5 speaker system. Have to dick around with 2 remotes now or stick with TV speakers. Of course Numchai never called back, they never do do they! Similar phrase to 'a cheque in the post' or 'in a meeting'or 'I won't cxm in your mouth'.... Mrs thinks I should take it to the Samsung Service place rather than Numchai.

Oh she's useless on the computer, might as well ask the cat!

Thx, great threadfuck by 2 mods!

A smaller box would suffice, just to fill a gap until keyman's next trip! About 100 bags. I know you are usually loaded up to the economy class gills!

Actually the first strike was a palm tree in my garden. It remained green for some time and I hoped it would recover, but it slowly died off and only a few days ago, I got my gardener to take it down. The recent strike was in a neighbour's garden some 30 yards plus away. Actually I got the chance to talk to the Thai wife from there last night, and they had similar damage to my first hit! TVs and electronics that are plugged in and these electric gate openers seem to go. The neighbour opposite me lost one TV and another his gate motor last year. Currently my recent damages seem minor BUT, looking difficult to fix. Last year, after the hit, I got a new 55 inch Samsung. It has this One Connect Box where all the peripherals, and ariel get plugged into, and then a single cable goes into the TV. It still works but only partially. Two HDMI inputs no longer do. One of those was connected to the laptop.... the adaptor VGA-HDMI on that one got fried, the other, to my True Cable box, which also got fried. Problem is, I can not find this One Connect Box anywhere on the internet, not the exact part number. It is a single point of failure for the pretty expensive TV. I took it to Numchai service centre. They looked at it like they had never seen one before! Despite there being a few in the main shop. They have no idea about it! So beware, the TV models sold in Thailand don't seem to be sold elsewhere, similarly finding parts is difficult. English language websites deal with those sold in UK, USA, Oz etc. These One Connect boxes, although convenient, are a single point of failure that I have no idea how to get fixed. Moving a 55 inch TV around is no fun too, can't even get it in the cab of my truck! I had hoped to get a replacement One Connect box. They said they will do some research and call me back today, I won't be holding my breath and truly expect I will have to box up the complete TV and dump it on them and just say fix or replace! I will have to take the feet off and get someone to help me move it around. I don't relish the arguments, delay or waiting.

Yes, I have heard of it come to think. Rather out of the way for me, I always get lost going down Khao Talo.

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I thought I was safer after the first one!

I can;'t belive this shit, had another lightening strike, in a neighbours garden. The tree that got hit last Oct in my garden isn't there anymore! I have lost my cable box, again, a VGA to HDMI adaptor (replacing the HDMI output on my latop tha got zapped last time), and on my new TV there is this 'tidy' external box which receives all the HDMI inputs (One Connect), Optical audio, ariel etc, and has a single cable to the TV.. well that is behaving goofy! So far that is the known damage. The strike scared me and the Mrs to death! Bugger!

Lovely!