Thursday, June 15, 2017

Inexperienced medical treatment may be dangerous to your health

Thai schoolboy slammed for fixing braces on friend's teeth for money
Asia News - AsiaOne
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Resume to 1963

First job I ever had was at age 7 Story Teller.
I was assigned nightly duty of talking boys under age 4 to sleep at an orphanage










Second job was at age 9 in Munich
I was hired as a private eye.  
This guy wanted to keep tabs on his wife.
My job was to watch the entrance of her apartment from the playground and report all comings and goings.
It was a three day job.  I was paid 10 Mark (German currency) per day.
in the 1950's that was a hell of a lot of money for a nine year old.





Third job was ball boy at a tennis court.  The job lasted for a month.
Everybody got fired one day.  Think we were replaced by family members.





Quite by accident I became a panhandler at age 12 
I had lost some grocery money and was searching the pavement.
My mother was a disciplinarian. I was sure to get a whipping. I was in tears.
Passersby's would ask me why I was crying.
To my surprise, a stranger handed me money.  I was overjoyed.
That was so easy, for a while I started crying on the streets daily.
I picked a different location every day. Easy Money !!


I remember distinctly how that job ended:
An elderly lady had listened to my sob story.  She was reaching for her purse to hand me some money.
Another woman approached.  Holy crap! it was my mother.  When she realized what I was doing, she was furious.
The old woman tried to explain to my mother: "don't hit him, it was an accident, he didn't mean to loose the money."
Sitting was painful for a few days.



Then we came to America 1958. 


My first job in Anchorage was paperboy.  
I was stalking the paperboy. He got scared and quit, I took over the route.



















Next I became a fur cleaner. I cleaned fur coats, jackets, hat's, and even a few unmentionables.


Fur cleaning involved sawdust and chemicals. 
Besides cleaning furs, I also did a lot of animal skinning.


Trophy hunters would come from all over the world to hunt in Alaska.


They just wanted the trophies, not the meat.  


Benefit of the job was a variety of meats of any Alaskan wildlife.   







1961 I became a concessionaire  at the Anchorage ice skating rink in the winter, and in the summer I worked at Lake Spenard


Did a lot of figure scatting, ice hockey and swimming for two years.






Wednesday, June 14, 2017

Baht strongest in three years

Strong baht tipped to hurt tourist stays | Bangkok Post: business
Bank transfer US$ to THB
Asian currencies quiet ahead of Fed moves; Thai baht near 2-yr high | The Edge Markets 

Thai c.bank chief sees no big market volatility if U.S. Fed raises rates | Reuters

Stay out of the pool during lightning storms

Humidity won't drop below 80% today
Weather arriving from the Northeast
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Thailand has a new coach

1-1 Thailand with United Arab Emirates.  Thailand has a new coach: Milovan Rajevac.  
He's the tenth coach I've seen for the Thailand team in the 14 years I've been living here. Some coaches only lasted a season or three.  One wonders if the many replacements were politically motivated.
Thailand team next sees action in the upcoming 'Kings Cup,' July 15 through 23. The next World Cup Qualifiers are 31 August with Iraq, and 5 september with Australia.


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Tuesday, June 13, 2017

Thailand Football this evening

Celebrating ten years of Sakon Nakhon - Live

Originally started as a website in January 2007 and switched to the blog format in January of 2009.  I did not maintain a copy of the website, but do remember the first posts were mostly about Colin's restaurant, Ned's bar, and Tony's Lilly Bar.


During those days a small beer at the bars was 40 baht. The cost of living and partying was definitely a lot cheaper than it is today

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Chilly Bar closed Monday,
Lil' Pimp hoping for good comments

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Flood advisory, my prediction for Tuesday


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