No Alcohol / Smoking

Songkran

Police to toughen alcohol ban and road safety laws during this year's Songkran
Pattaya Mail

No Alcohol - No Smoking

Cooler temperatures

Weather system approaching from the west. 

Increased chance of Thunderstorm through Wednesday.

Long range forecasts are not all that accurate.  Anything can happen to change the weather flow.

If accuweather has it's predictions correct, there may well be a rainy season starting later this month

Sakon FC hosts Mukdahan

televised

  


 







view album Sakon FC-Mukdahan FC

สกลนคร "Very' Hot"

If you're one of those, then today is definetly your day.

• 43 C - 109.4 F, and haze  - weatherforecastmap
• 41 C feels like 45 - 113 F, cooler on Monday 36C  -accuweather
• 40 C today, 30% precip through Tuesday - T.M.D.

Tin roofs suitable for frying

Bring ice chest to football game  

Sakon Nakhon FC hosts Mukdahan FC this afternoon.

No start time mentioned

Miss Lady Boy contest at the CM center today

National Holiday: 

Chakri Memorial Day

Chakri Dynasty founded by  King Rama 1 1782

Monday, April 8, Substitution Holiday, Banks Closed

End of the roadshow ?

Last wrote of the "Manhole remodel" on March 18
Some holes remained uncovered since then, others had wooden planks
Yesterday, April 5, hey came back. 
Had to do some more chiseling and patching to make the covers fit





The Leftovers

T.i.T. plus

IPU Issues Historic Resolution On Thailand - OpEd Eurasia Review

Thai graft body finds no case against PM Yingluck - Reuters

Thailand to use China's home-made Beidou sat-nav network - Bangkok Post

Thai Tourist Police promoting iPhone 'Tourist Buddy' app - eTurboNews.com

Thailand’s illegal dog meat trade - The Ecologist

Italy

Aljazeera reports from Sakon

Songkran Social Taboos

As posted by  Overly sharp dagger Sriboonlue in Nong Han Luang FM 99.50.

Translated by Google Translate

Sri overly sharp dagger merits. 2:21pm Apr 4 Prohibition that Festival 2556 are as follows: 1. prohibit buying and selling on the flanks. Any violation. Punishable both.  2. Do not turn on the sound. Any violation. Punishable both.  3. Do not splash water tank pickup truck on the streets to oppose the imposition guilty. But if it is in violation of the prohibition. The accident resulted in a violation of an offense.  4. forbidden to sit or stand on the rear tailgate Splashing Water.  5. Do not play with high pressure spray gun. Any violation. With imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or to a fine not exceeding 4,000 baht fine.  6. Do not put ice spa. Any violation. Arrested immediately.  7. Woman banned for obscenity. If any violations were immediately guilty of lewd acts with girls or women.  8. prohibit the sale of alcoholic beverages in public swimming areas. If the sale to children under 20 years, or for those who are already drunk. A fine not exceeding $ 20,000 or imprisonment for not more than one year  9. ban on drinking alcohol in the car, both the driver and passenger to drink alcohol. To imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or to a fine not exceeding 10,000 baht fine.  10th. Do not play if the batter is warned. But for the distribution of flour. A fine not exceeding 2,000 Baht  11. prohibit drunk driving. Any violation. Punishable by imprisonment not exceeding one year. Or a fine of 5,000 to 20,000 baht, or both imprisonment and fine. And the court shall suspend the driver's license is required at least six months. Or revoked driver's license.

It's helpful to have some crossword knowledge to make sense of the Google translation.
I had a really good laugh reading the rules.
It wasn't just the translation that made me laugh, I suppose most of these rules apply "where police is present."

Noted at Nok Air website

Nok Air continues ATR72-500 scheduled flights twice daily between Bangkok and Sakon Nakhon through the end of April.

A Boeing 737-800 is scheduled to make the trip once a day effective May 1.  Departure time from Sakon Nakhon is listed at 20:35.