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Finished the process of renewing my five year license today. Here's the steps I went through from booking an appointment to receiving my new licenses, car and motorbike. Appointment Booking It's strange the Bang Lamung DLT office, one of the busiest, still uses a spiral notebook and pen for booking appointments. But as they're not on the online DLT Smart Queue yet, you have to drive out to the office (map link) and make your appointment in person. From central Pattaya it's about 40 min RT to spend five minutes to book an appointment. In my case the appointment was for one week late

More chaos than usual this morning at Khaos Korners. Typical of Thai planning, after they had taken the no longer needed utility pole down, the traffic police showed up to clear the traffic backup the work caused.

^^^ For those that don't have Photoshop, such as myself, Photoroom has an online free Magic Eraser. Probably not as easy to use as Photoshop's tool, but the price is right. https://www.photoroom.com/tools/remove-object-from-photo

Good to see you found the temple.

Looks like Soi Casino is getting proper drainage in preparation for a proper road surface. With a proper road surface S1 Pool Hall could be the first of many new nightlife entertainment venues in this area. The thought also occurred to me that with the open floor plan of S1 it would be an easy conversion to a casino if when gambling is legalized.

Typical Thai project planning. Reduce the existing Tree Town bathroom to rubble before completing the new bathroom.

I was too slow getting the camera out so missed the guy standing on the edge of the platform painting the trim. The only thing keeping him from tumbling backwards into thin air was a rickety bamboo pole across his back.

Anyone know the story behind this graffiti?

A few shots of the new chinese temple on Soi Nern Plub Wan.

DK Beer Town. Pics in this post...

This will make for an interesting insurance claim.

I'm hoping for another beer bar complex.

A different shape of a new building under construction on 3rd Rd across from the hospital.

The market stalls have their first occupant. Unfortunately customers in their cars and trucks stop to make a purchase and end up causing a bottleneck in traffic at the corner. Didn't capture it in this picture, but saw a backup a couple of nights ago from parked up cars.

LOL, still using the one I got in 2017. Could be I get a pass as I use Manareet for my extensions. I'll pay them the 100B fee to file the 90 day report if it turns out an in person visit is required for the next report. I've been at the same address for 12+ years, but if I ever did move I would play nice and file an updated TM30.

Looks like they've tightened up the online reporting system. I just received a rejection email with the message "This online application can be submitted 15 days in advance until the due date of notification" because the 90 day clock was reset on my return to Thailand on July 4th. I used to be able to do my report every 90 days, even if I had left the country during the 90 day period. It will be interesting to see if they're going to require an in person visit for my next 90 day report because of my trip abroad last month.

Truth in advertising their bar?

Some odd ones out there that for some reason find displeasure in viewing pictures.

I suspect it's probably a case of fat fingering the click that was meant to be green.

You left off the very important part, she was born with XY chromosomes. Here's a good article that discusses the issues around the disorder of sexual development and advantages gained by the presence of XY chromosome. I've included two quotes from the article regarding the advantages gained from the body's ability to utilize testosterone. Track and Field Tries to Understand New Rules for Intersex Athletes ... Finally, they must have a “material androgenizing effect” from extra testosterone. In other words, their bodies respond to testosterone in ways that are typically seen i

If only resurfacing were that easy.

I enjoy seeing the characters that populate the sois of Pattaya. Adds to the uniqueness of Pattaya and keeps things interesting.