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  1. About a year ago a neighbor replaced their aging 1000 L water tank and offered it to us for free. I agreed to take it off their hands as it would double the capacity of our rainwater collection system for my lady's garden. So after a year of procrastinating I finally got around to hooking it up to the existing system.

    Over the last two days I reworked the plumbing, added a new, stronger booster pump, and added an additional water faucet outside our security wall so she could more easily water her plants along the soi.

    With everything finally hooked up the moment of truth finally arrived to test out the system. I opened the valves, primed and turn on the pump and was heartened to hear water gurgling through the pipes and out the open faucets. Only issue I noticed right away was I had put a gasket on the pump on backwards so it was leaking at the point. That was an easy fix. Not so easy was the leak my lady pointed out a few minutes later.

    She pointed out the drip, drip, drip of water leaking out the bottom of the inlet port on the inherited tank. A reminder you get what you paid for. I'm thinking that's going to be bastard to try and fix as the bottom half of the inlet port has slightly separated from from the tank. Best I can do is try to plastic weld the broken seam. Now on order from Lazada are HDPE plastic strips I'll need for the repair. I already have the heat gun, so in a few days we'll find out just how good my welding skills are.image.jpeg

    Here's pics of the entire system. The business end is tank no. 1 that collects the runoff from a downspout. A good downpour will easily fill half the tank before the storm moves on.
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    Water from tank no. 1 is gravity fed to the inherited, tank no. 2. Still on my to do list is to raise tank no. 1 up about 20 cm so the top of each tank is about equal in height. That way when tank no. 1 is full, tank no. 2 will also be full.

    BTW, the original plan was to position tank on. 2 at the back of the house next to tank no. 1. Unfortunately when the tank was dropped off I discovered it wouldn't fit through the opening to the back of the house, so the front of the house is where it ended up. Rather than have an unsightly big blue tank outside my front door, I wrapped it in green netting to reduce slightly the unsightly factor.
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    The final piece to the watering system is a 450W booster pump that's connected via a T joint to the line to both tanks.
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  2. 17 minutes ago, thegrogmonster said:

    Wishing I was single.

    The missus is paranoid about security and keeps the door locked for the room we are staying at in her mum's place. Both keys for the lock are on the same keyring and what does she do but lock the keys in the room. The niece's husband and myself have spent the last hour unbolting the security grill on the external window. We just got it open enough so he could slide through and open the door. The missus made the mistake of thinking it was funny. I don't think she realised how pissed off I was.

    All good now until the next misadventure occurs.

    Only took one time for me to be locked out to decide having a spare key hidden outside was a good idea.

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  3. 1 hour ago, jezza said:

    when it first opened you did get exactly that (2 drinks and paid for 1) so has it changed now ?

    For as long as I can remember they've advertised buy 2 drinks for the price of 1, but the reality of the promo has always been you paid for 2 drinks at a time and received a slight discount on the price per drink compared to per drink prices at some of the nearby bars.

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  4. 15 minutes ago, fforest said:
     
     
     
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    I dont want to bore you guys by posting things I buy with the discounts but I thought I would post this one......
     
    Its the best % percentage wise discount I have ever got...
     
    This Syrup sells for 415 normally but I caught a sales day so the price was 394.......
     
    Then after all the discounts I only paid 204 baht or about 50% of the price and they gave me free shipping to boot...lol
     
     
    I get good savings on all orders, but this one is a record breaker.....
     
     

    That seems quite pricey for a bottle of flavored sugar water. How does Monin compare to Hale's at around 40 - 50B/bottle?

    As an aside: I use Hale's to make my own cherry flavored diet coke. Just a couple of capfuls in a bottle of large diet coke is all it takes.

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  5. Since there are sign boards advertising the 2 for 1 I see it as a marketing gimmick rather than a scam. But I do agree it pisses enough people off I wonder why the owners haven't caught on that it's a bad marketing gimmick. They also lose customers such as myself when I'm looking to have only one more drink before heading home or moving on to another venue.

    I don't know if they still do it, but at least at Billabong you could tell the staff you only want one drink and that's all you would pay for, although at a slightly higher per drink price than if you ordered the two drink special.

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  6. Amazing only six are missing.

    I noticed in the OP's video you can see vehicle traffic on the bridge up until just before the collision. From the news report someone on the bridge heard the ship's mayday call and reacted quickly enough to stop traffic. Hats off to those that heard the call and blocked traffic as they saved many lives.

    RIP to the workers that were working directly above the collision point and fell to their deaths.

    Six presumed dead after cargo ship crash levels Baltimore bridge, company says

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    Jeffrey Pritzker, executive vice president of Brawner Builders, confirmed that six were presumed dead and one survived during a telephone interview with NBC News. Their names were not released.

    Pritzker's announcement came just hours after Maryland Gov. Wes Moore insisted there was still hope that the crew, who vanished after the Francis Scott Key Bridge disintegrated from the impact, might still be found alive despite having been in the freezing water for hours.
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    Moore said there might have been drivers in the water were it not for the “folks” who, upon hearing the mayday, blocked off the bridge and kept other cars from crossing.

    “These people are heroes,” Moore said. “They saved lives. They saved lives.”
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    Maryland Department of Transportation Secretary Paul Wiedefeld said the workers on the bridge were repairing concrete ducts when the ship crashed into the structure.

    At least seven workers were pouring concrete to fix potholes on the roadway on the bridge directly above where the ship hit, a foreman named James Krutzfeldt said.
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  7. 15 minutes ago, Jambo said:

    I have to change my flight back to Thailand and I am trying to decide between September and October.

    The rainy season usually ends "Up North" by October but in Pattaya (second half of my visit)  invariably October is the last and by far the worst month for rain is it not?

    Decisions, decisions. 🤣

    Either way, there are already way too many entertainment venues so maybe it just becomes another white elephant like Tree Town.

    It's a crap shoot which month has the most rainfall, Sept or Oct. Last year Oct won out.

    Personally I wouldn't let the rainy season affect my travel plans as the rains last only an hour or two. The exception would be if we get hit with a tropical storm, but those have been rare the last several years.

    And even if it does rain, you'll have the shiny new Las Vegas Beer Garden to wait out the rain in. But then again, maybe not.

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    http://www.pattayaweather.net/Historical-Weather-Statistics.html

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  8. 52 minutes ago, Lemondropkid said:

    I'd have been furious. Its killing heat at the moment why deliberately put people through the worst of it?

    Is this a macho thing?

    Nah, just not thinking it through. Some hares are better at designing trails, while others are just lazy, or don't care when it comes to a well thought out trail.

    There are also hares that just go out and wing it rather than use technology to help them design a great trail. For Saturday's trail it's easy enough to see via Google Earth the alternative trails that could have been used.

    As an example, the blue lines below are trails we've used in the past, the green line is Saturday's trail. For the "Tramac Section" and the "Bloody Hot Section" it would have been easy enough to head into the areas marked "Shady Area I Would Have Used". But the hares on Saturday aren't comfortable with using GPS logs and Google Earth for planning, so we ended up with a less than ideal trail.

    Not really an issue as most of the guys are pretty fit, and we take comfort in the knowledge there will be plenty of beer waiting for us at the end.

    As an aside, no surprise given the heat our beer consumption was up. The 46 hashers consumed 297 cans and bottles of beer at a total cost of 10,078B. By that measure it was a great day out. :default_drink:

     

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  9. 1 hour ago, forcebwithu said:

    I'm hearing rumbles from the NE. Iffy right now if the rain will make it to central Pattaya.

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    Iffy has turned to certainty. Now raining near Suk and Klang. If the plants in the garden didn't have roots, they'd be dancing for joy.

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  10. Reading this news report I got to wondering why we don't read more news reports of fires on ships caused by lightning strikes. Part of the reason I know is built into ships are measures to direct the energy from a strike into the water to avoid damage to the ship.

    Fire extinguished on Carnival Freedom cruise ship after witnesses reported possible lightning strike

    I did a search on YT for video of the fire and two things became quickly apparent. One is the list of videos had the same ship with a fire on the opposite, starboard, funnel from a year ago. The second is in the latest video of a fire on the port side funnel you can hear the guy saying "it's amazing, it's on fire again". I suspect there's more to this story than what is being reported in the latest news article.

     

     

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  11. 23 minutes ago, Yessongs said:

    Respect for doing this in that humidity!  Would be too tough on me. 

    Not really the humidity that gets to me, but the oppressive heat of the sun beating down on you when you're out in the open for extended periods of time.

    I wasn't happy with the trail the hares set. So many opportunities to avoid the farm fields and keep us under shade, but instead, for whatever reason they elected to use the unshaded areas. The worst was one section that went 600m on tarmac road. With the heat it felt like twice the distance. All the while I'm trudging along the road I'm looking to the left at beautiful tree canopy that if I were the hare I would have looped the trail through.

    For those that aren't familiar with hash runs. There's two or more hares that set trail a day or two before a run. They use hanging paper and bits of shredded paper on the ground to mark the trail. On the day of the run the hounds, us, are dropped off at a start point and we follow the trail to the end where we drink copious amounts of beer and tell embarrassing stories about our fellow hashers.

    The link below is to the run report for Saturday's run. You can view run photos and a map of the trail that we ran, or in my case mostly walked. Hopefully later today we'll also have posted a scribe report detailing in humorous fashion the day's run.

    https://pattayamonkeyh3.com/PMH3/RunReportLkup.html?109

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  12. 58 minutes ago, thumper63 said:

    I'm still in bed. Started out atTime bar then over to Cloud 9 and finished off the night at Heaven Above. For someone who hasn't had a drink in 32 years I sure spend a lot of time bars....5555

    If you were there around 20:00 you would have seen our group of hashers crowd into an already very busy HA. It was too crowded for my taste, so called it an early evening. I understand a few stayed quite late as HA is probably the #1 place to be on Soi Boomerang.

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