Thai Winter Fashion Collection

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Happy New Year again

Chinese New Year  Fireworks have been going off for the last week.  

Think those were practice runs.

Of course there was plenty of fireworks at midnight last night. Woke me from my sleep.  

The morning fireworks crew started at 8 a.m.  

Think they are on  a lunch break.  It's quiet!

Well versed Commentary 

They do tend to shoot themselves in the foot quite often.

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Only in America 

 Chicago teenager impersonates  police officer, completes one shift of duty undetected

By Special Request: My early years 1940's

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Album 1940s

Gone People Watching in Sakon Nakhon

Choosing to go to the barber on a saturday is just stupid.  But I did.
The consequences, a long wait.
I sat outside and watched the people go by.  Oh I loved it

Haircut and a shave. 

Haircut reminds me somewhat of decades old Thai hair fashion.

Saturday socials at the M.J.  

They've apparently been going on for some time.
I got an invitation: "we talk about those people who don't come." What an incentive.

Service was crummy. 

I waited 10 minutes for a coke. And then it was served to someone else.
Lucky I brought my own SangSom (rum).
The seating area was spacious and comfy. 

Near the hotel lobby entrance, great opportunity for people watching.
Meeting friends, discussing the world situation, pleasant.

• Best Entertainment Award" goes to a three year old practicing Kung Fu tactics.
  

The boy also repeatedly demonstrated his "make believe" machine gun skills.
Groans the father, "he has so many toy rifles at home".
Groans again, "they are noisy."

Later in the afternoon I got my exercise: 

tennis and a four man badminton game for an hour, at home.

6 p.m. I'm taking Joey to the fair: Subtitle: Joey goes to the fair with his A.T.M.
Four cans of beer for a starter for Joey. We walked around a bit.
A wig Joey can wear on school day. A bag of roasted chestnuts for me.

I have a Sakon Nakhon Fair tradition. Target practice.
The first rifle I used was defective. 

Think it was missing the firing pin, or did he forget the safety pin?

Five bullets. Five targets. But I wanted to see how close together I can get the shots.
Two tries.

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Then Joey prompted us into position for a Kodak moment.

H e l l o o u u

I spent 11 years in the U.S. Army. Why? 

H e l l o o u u... do I need to draw you a map? (Humorous sarcasm intended).

After sitting at a table near one of the fair entrances, watching people coming in I headed home for some spinach lasagna. 

Day trip to the Fair

Arrived 4:30 p.m. Friday, obviously long before the big crowds arrive.



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Wish they had more of this stuff around.
You don't see enough  fine Thai art on public display in this area.


So what's an American Indian doing in Thailand. 
Really fine art!



Undoubtedly this is a NO SMOKING Country Western Bar.  ...Ride em on Esarn Cowboy !!

Put your head in the hole 

and you can send pictures home of you riding a cardboard water buffalo.



Too much maintenance and upkeep.

H e l l o o u u

Not much attention to detail here. Where is the dummy dresser ?
Spraying insecticides, not on my veggies please!!

• I must admit I enjoyed past fairs more. The ones when they had the bumper car rides.
  

I'd have aches and pains many days after, but it was 'Super Fun.'
The only place where 'drunk driving was fun'.

• I used to spend 2,000 to 3,000 on those bumper car rides, Thai Baht that is.
  

Give out plenty of ride tickets to opponent drivers so I could pump into them again.
Haven't seen those rides in the past two years. Suspect maintenance and safety issues.

• As for this years concerts, standing room only, if you want to see the action on the stage. Someone hold me up.
  

I can hear money leaving that wallet

"Wosh."

Stopped by "Toon Army."  

Definitely lots of action there.  

Cement mixing, painting, woodwork, plaster boarding.

When I first heard that the walls were going to be painted in black and white stripes I thought of the old prison uniforms, (groan).  

But seeing the finished wide stripes... I can get used to that.

Freshly painted (white) ceilings.  The place just looks a lot brighter.  New colored lighting.

New outdoor furniture.  Heavy wood.  Really looks nice.  Hope there will be pillows available for all us bony old and injured derrières.

The leaky roof has also been fixed.  Tests postponed until the rainy season.

If the note I received is any indication, those dozens of booze bottles on display in the past, will now be full bottles.  The note is the makings of the Thai menu

Plane Landing in Hudson River, NY

Sure they had an award winning pilot and crew.
But there was a hell of a lot of good luck involved

Toon Army bar to reopen January 27

Formerly known as Ned's bar,  the Toon Army bar is closed for renovation.

The establishment will reopen on January 27, 7 p.m. with a party.

Free Thai & Western Buffet and Coyote dancers.

The bar will also offer internet services.
For further details call them at 086-8157174, or 042-718920

Virus Alert - send this notice to everyone you know

I get them all the time, you probably do too...
Forwarded e-mails from friends warning you of viruses, worms and other infectious programs.
These warnings are generally forwarded without confirmation of authenticity.

Most of these e-mail warnings are hoaxes. Spam with a purpose to slow down internet services.

If you receive an authentic notice of a virus, you have already been susceptible.
By the time new viruses are detected and defenses created, they've had plenty of time to propagate and cause damage.

Your best bet is a good virus protection program with automatic and continuous updates to remove malicious software.

The computer worm Conficker is a typical case in point. Apparently of German origin

As of January there are news stories appearing in legitimate sources all over the world,
yet the worm surfaced in October 2008 and seems to continue to propagate on unprotected computers.


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