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Actually not bigger but somewhat comparable, according to our friends at Google, Perth - Auckland is 5,343 km. By contrast Chicago-London is 6,370 km. Longest would be San Diego-London at 8,843.

They have the taxi number but the last two times, I used it, the number was not correct. It also has the driver's phone #, which probably has to be accurate as it runs on the driver's phone.

Going from a recognized location, such as a major condo to someplace such as Bangkok Pattaya Hospital, it is a good option. A majority of the time, your taxi will arrive within 15 minutes and you can watch it enroute. It will show a price for the trip which seems to be market or even a few baht cheaper and the drivers honor that price without any dispute. Whether you would do as well going from your house to a darkside bar I don't know as I have never tried.

Watching Channel 3, the are getting some significant street flooding.

From OP Jomtien, some rain to the SE and a heavy squall to the SW. I think the heavy dark cloud is moving south. Raining just upstream from the Hanmuman statue now.

Think there may be one or two female humans about 3/4 of the way down the row. Equal opportunity in Middle Earth. Never worked, or played, with sheep, but something deep in archived data thinks the guy in the blue jacket behind the first sheep is a veterinarian doing something rude but professional to the sheep's nether regions.

Doing business with two banks and a credit union from Thailand. I haven't had any access problems. Two of them even accepted address changes reflecting my Thai address. I did that because I am using their credit cards and I will be here too long for a travel notification to cover the out of country usage. The third one, Wells Fargo, I haven't told. I don't plan to use their ATM card while here, but have done so in the past without any problems other than their fees.

Old school Singha, circa 1975, smelled much the same going out in the morning as it did the night before.

Jinx. We're doomed.

You have the airport bus which runs between Jomtien at the corner of Thappraya and Thepprasit and Suvarnabhumi Airport. You can get to Suvarnabhumi via the Airport Link train combined with either the SRT or the MRT. It's a reasonable alternative if you only have a back pack, more than that--not so much.

You can check the availability on the Dancewatchers site. Working through them is also probably the best way to check on rates as well.

Six pumps could help in areas where water can't escape. Won't do much good in the places where the problem is water escaping in a rapid manner down the street.

He hasn't visited the mess recently. It would not shock me if he was attending in person. If we see someone in the stands wearing a tent size kilt and a Scotland shirt carrying a combat bottle of Chang . . .

It took a long time to get that empty.

I have certainly heard music in Pattaya which would best be consigned to an urn.

The dog?

Nice try but many of those are certainly not April 48 babies without the need of Google searches. Barack, Sr., for example, sired a baby born in 1961. If you follow politics at all, you know Biden is in his 70s. Whether any of them were born in April 48, eh.

We did discuss which single focus lens to use. The two options he proposed was one to match the left eye and one a bit stronger. I went with the stronger lens. I can now read with the right eye alone, although not as comfortably as with the left eye alone. Of course, I read with both eyes. I can also watch TV without corrective lenses. As to the reason I did not inquire about a multi-focus lens, Bangkok Hospital markets them hard. For that matter, so did a clinic I looked at back in the U.S. However, you do some research and it seems they can pose challenges. If he didn't propose t

Part of it is all of the construction so there is less bare ground to absorb the water.

A field report from Surin this afternoon. Not my photo.

Came back from Bangkok yesterday on the 2pm bus. It was raining by the time we got to town but nothing crazy. That came a bit later.

I had known for sometime I had a cataract in my right eye. This thread had gotten me thinking about it and it had become a bit more noticeable recently. I had a cataract repair for the left eye in 2000 so I knew what the procedure involves. Various reports here and elsewhere made me think I did not want it done at BHP, especially the thought they would even consider doing it without local anesthesia. That wasn't going to happen. Instead, I made an appointment at Rutnin Eye Hospital in Bangkok. Made the appointment with Dr. Roy Chumdermpadetsuk on the basis of a recommendation on Thai

The east side of Thappraya below Thepprasit was running curb full with water spouts coming out of the storm drains. I managed to cross the road to go eat, but I could imagine someone with a bit less ballast getting knocked over.

It was raining in Bangkok last night but nothing that heavy.

Under a Graveyard Sky by John Ringo. This is the first of a four book series. Ringo is one of my favorite science fiction authors, but his last series, which I would describe as engineering fiction, didn't do a lot for me. I had known about Under a Graveyard Sky for some time but had seen it described as involving the zombie apocalypse, a genre I won't read. Recently, I discovered it did not involve the undead but victims of a virus which left them incurably and violently insane and capable of spreading the virus to others by biting them. Ringo discloses early on that the virus