Sakon Nakhon

Thursday, March 21, 2013

130321 T.i.T. News and a funny

Thailand faces Lebanon in tomorrow's Asian Cup qualifier in Beirut

Kick-off 22:30 (Thailand time)

Thai Baht Hits 5-Year High, Is Asia's Top Performer in 2013

BoT says it won't stem soaring baht

Thai PBS attacked for telecast ...

100 people led by a woman calling herself "Black Coffee"

The Russian are coming...Tourist Roubles

Phuket Russians targeted in Thai New Year crackdown - Phuket NEWS

Northern Thailand’s haze crisis- A local perspective

Ancient Giant Trees Found Petrified in Thailand - Discovery News

Wednesday, March 20, 2013

It's the Hot Season

Weather this week

Expect VERY HOT, with feels like possibly reaching 44C/112F
Actual temperature 36-38.
Weather system from the west, at the moment mostly north of Sakon City, expect scattered showers.
After school everybody is heading out of town

Heard of a

parade yesterday

1:30 pm, at the provincial headquarters.
At that time of day I opted for a dip in the pool and resting in front of three fans.
It was a gathering of the civil defense volunteers.
Pictures at sakonnakhon go th

Some local music...

...all quite good!! The third was a surprise

Monday, March 18, 2013

Made my ulcer churn like a cement truck

I dislike berating work ethic.
But there are those occasions when they
can make my ulcer churn like a cement truck.

Road construction in front of my house started February 20

The project sat abandoned for about ten days.
The road to my house was like an unkept dirtbike trail.

Drainpipes were connected while we were at the Udon Football game on Sunday.
Charge 700 Baht

Of the three pipes leading to my house, only one was actually connected.
Two pipes were simply burried. No connection made.
The site supervisor happened to watch me furiously digging the pipe out to do the job correctly.
He "convinced" the crew to do the job right.

Wasn't able to change the third pipe before the cement truck arrived. It's about a foot in the wrong direction and a foot too high.

I'll have to do some serious remodeling to use the pipe provided. Parts and labor I estimate 5,000

The main drain is quite dry. An indication that no one has connected their waste water to the drains (yet). Surely the apartment complex would have generated plenty water by now.

The road crew worked overtime to complete the entire street.

The cement patern obviously shows when it got late.

A thunderstorm or a few over the next days will put the drain system to it's test.
I can tell when these local storms arrive, by the amount of the humidity, usually my eyebrows begin to sweat like a fawcet.

Sakon FC Host Loi City FC, Sunday, March 24

Video: Sakon FC at Udon Thani FC, March 16

With all teams in the league completing their fifth game of the season,

Sakon FC has slipped to 13th (of 16 teams).

Sakon FC next hosts
12th place Loi City FC.

With homecourt advantage this game is winnable.

Even though, Loi city has previously handed Sakon FC a homecourt defeat.