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If I was inclined to take on such a burden, I would want to know if the licenses could actually be assigned to a buyer and whether there was a lease that could be assigned/subleased. If the lease could be transferred, I would certainly want to know the duration and terms.

In the 52 page passport book, the pages are all numbered with the quotations. The fee is the same. Semi-educated guess--if pages are added to a US passport and it is apparent they have been added (I'm guessing it would be) the lettering of the added pages would be a first check that they were added by the State Department and not someone unofficial. Might be that if you presented a passport with added pages and they were all numbered, you might get to have a long meaningful conversation with CBP, or, if you were really lucky, with the authorities someplace outside the US. I would have had to have gotten a new passport within a year in any event and all of the pages were used up in the old one with the last trip.

Just in case anyone is facing this right now and will be making the application in the US. Info on requirements, a link to fill out and print the application on your computer and to check the status of the application at http://travel.state.gov/passport/renew/renew_833.html You do have to send in the paper application. Determined (correctly) that I did not need to apply in person Fought with auto fill functions and defaults and eventually got the application filled out correctly Sent off the application, the required photo, the old passport and a personal check for the required fee on April 17 by express mail Tracking the express mail knew it got to the passport center in Philadelphia on April 18--yes BigD, the Postal Service did well Was able to confirm online that it was in the system in about 5 days--also got an email confirmation They were advertising 4-6 week turnaround Got my new 52 page passport book in the mail today (May 13)--If I remember correctly the online form defaults to 28 page book so check that. Updated the passport number in the DHS/CBP Global Entry system online.

Just signed on. Sunspots?? BFOM Edit: But when I tried to check the balance, it gave an error message saying it could not establish an SSL connection.

Yes, that is true. It is on the baht bus main route but it's not like staying at the RG where you can walk to WS if the spirit moves you. Not too bad when you get away from high season. Peak season, you need to be patient.

You do know that British Columbia is the home for farmed salmon in the Pacific NW?

Stayed in 2A for three months and will be going back in September. I was a bit more upmarket but Dancewatcher's budget condos http://dancewatchers.com/Budget_rooms_for_rent_View_Talay_2A.html might be a starting point. There are a few units on the 1st/ground floor that are basically flop houses--not sure what they go for.

Being a believer in free will, I'm not going to blame himself for Tebow's career decisions.

Peshawar by any chance?

Interesting--I've bookmarked it, always up for comparison shopping . The guy who kvetched about 757s probably never rode a stretch DC-8 from California to the Philippines with refueling stops in Alaska and Japan. With the shameless Delta plug, time to mention the line I first heard 40 years ago while living in South Carolina, "If you die in the southeast and go to hell, you'll fly Delta and change planes in Atlanta."

I may be having a senior moment, but when the Fiesta was originally marketed in the US (some years back) I seem to remember it being available as a diesel. I don't believe its reputation was that good, but, as I said, that was a while back.

Back when you actually got paper tickets, I hit the purchase button on Travelocity without realizing my account still showed an old address 3,000 miles away. The folks who lived there were nice enough to send them back to Travelocity. Don't know if the guy tried to get a kitchen pass to go to Bangkok by himself. FWIW, my next trip is on EVA and the fare rules show a USD100 cancellation fee.

Rugby is a very interesting and respectable game. But let's be real, there are a lot of legal tackles (although not as many as there used to be) in North American football that would automatically lead to red cards in rugby. Also, North American football can be a more wide open game, the Canadian version more so than the US variant, with ball carrier and tackler often at full speed. There are quite a few football players who you could see being successful in rugby and vice versa. I used to say that probably did not include interior lineman until I heard a front liner in a rugby club game I was watching mentioned as being 22 stone (298 lbs)!

Bless me father for I have sinned. It's been, well ,never mind. I ate breakfast twice at the McDonalds in Udon Thani in February and I liked it.

Had a cousin who was a WWII vet and who has now gone to his reward. Wonderful guy, but to call things as they were, he was an old drunk. He never suggested it had anything to do with his service, but in that generation he never would have claimed it was. He did have a number of more conventional medical problems and he was always very satisfied with the medical care he got from the VA.

Everything is fine at the Seoul Incheon airport at the moment other than that I just got off of a plane FROM Thailand.

If you have to explain a joke

Cannot abide them anywhere in the world.

Plugged in my US kind of smart phone to charge it but forgot to use the voltage adapter. Came back two hours later and the phone was charged and not fried. Don't know if this is proof of the statement quoted or just of the adage that sometimes lucky is better than good.

Could say something about the one following the other but post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy and all that.

I went there for my semi-annual steak last night and was quite pleased. Many thanks to EP. Even if I had walked down that arcade, would never have gone in otherwise.

Saw a notice that the Provincial Electric Authority now has a location for the payment of electric bills on the first floor of the Royal Garden Plaza open 1100-1900.

He's channeling Joe.

Freudian slip?

I wouldn't say the OED is quite as categorical on that as you believe. The OED on-line, itself, is a pay site. I'm not that curious. The Oxford Dictionaries, which may be drawn from it has, for example honour Pronunciation: /ˈɒnə/ (US honor) http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/honour That seems to be an acknowledgment by a UK based publication that the spelling varies from one country to another and nothing more.