"Mathew Kagis" wrote in message news:XTdGd.28784$06.13353@clgrps12... "badwilson" wrote in message ... "Mathew Kagis" wrote in message news:Kq3Gd.98009$dv1.84483@edtnps89... Britta: You live in Thailand?? Where? Yes, I've lived in Thailand for almost 4 years. For the first 6 months we were in Songkhla, which is in the very south on the east coast. Near Hat Yai. But for the last 3.5 years, we've been in a small town called Ban Chang in the province of Rayong. It's about 45 min east of the cesspool that is known as Pattaya. I was in Songkhla, doing the: 30 sec in Malaysia to re-up my Thai visa thing... I never went to Pattaya, mostly becaus I heard it was a cesspool. Mostly known for sex tourism, which was not my cup 'o tea. Ha! Yes, I've done that visa run to Sadao as well. When we first arrived we only had a 3 month visa and the company was too slow to arrange for our 1 year in time. So I did the visa run. After that we had 1 year visas for 2 years but then the company decided not to give them to us anymore because Dennis is actually working in Myanmar now. So I had to do a visa run to Cambodia which is much closer to where we live now than Malaysia is. Still, it's a 4 hour drive, one way. It was a long, long day. Fortunately, we were able to arrange another 1 year visa privately. It's not as good as the one we had before because I still have to leave the country every 90 days, but at least it isn't every month! Actually, this has just reminded me that I'm going to have to drive to Cambodia again before the 26th. We were going to go on a trip to Vietnam but because of hassles with our Aussie visa, we're most likely going to have to cancel our trip. Aaargh! Yeah, I know what you mean. But you would be surprised at how much Thailand has changed since you were here. I'm guessing that you were rock climbing at Raylay Beach in Krabi near Au Nang? I've been there 5 times. During that time it's grown incredibly. There is now a McDonald's, dozens of ATM's, 7/11's, Italian pizza restaurants, etc... I know Starbucks will be next. I indeed spent about 2 months at Raylay. I'm sure it's changed alot... I remember Krabi as a Nelson sized town, with no 'western' franchise spots. Right now, I'm sure it's a big mud pit, recovering from the Tsunami. I was disgusted when I saw a Pizza Hut in Chiang Mai, but all those beautifull Wats made up for it.. You kinda expect that stuff in Bangkok... I remember being gratefull for the 7/11 in the Kao San Rd area... Only spot with air conditioning... Yes, i'm afraid to even think about how that area looks now after the tsunami. It's heartbreaking. I really hope they can get it re-built as soon as possible, there are so many small businesses that depend on the tourism for their livelihood. No need to go to 7/11 for aircon anymore, it's in just about every store now. But I have heard that in Thailand there are more 7/11's per capita than in any other country. I believe it! There are 3 in my town of less than 10,000 people. The next most prevalent thing seems to be KFC closely followed by Dunkin Donuts. Ugh. I like the idea of naming cats after wines. If I hadn't already decided a long time ago to name my next kitty Renfield, I would definitely call him Gewurtztraminer ;-) LOL... When I adopted Muscat, there was a little mottled grey kitten who almost came home instead, I was toying with the name 'Sauterne'. My favourite wine is a good Australian Shiraz. But I could never name my cat Shiraz because every time I said his name I would want to drink some and that could lead to bad consequences for my liver and my waistline! Oh cool, you're in Nelson? I love that town. I went to college in Castlegar for 2 years. 1990-1992. I was in the aviation program at Selkirk. We used to go to Nelson to party all the time. I don't remember Louie's Steakhouse & Lounge, but if it was around back then I couldn't have afforded it anyway. Louie's is a fairly new concern in Nelson. It's in the New Grand Hotel, which you would have known as the Lord Nelson. Well, the martini offer is a standing one, so if you ever come back for a visit... Nice pics BTW... brought back some memories. Hmmm, I would love to visit. We only go back to Canada every 18 months or so and we always have to go to Victoria (where my parents are), Vancouver (where friends are and we have businessy type stuff to do) and Calgary (where Dennis' family is). But we may drive from Vancouver to Calgary one time to bring some stuff to Dennis' sister. If we do, I'll make sure to drive through Nelson :-) I'm glad you liked my pics. Travelling and picture taking are a couple of my favourite activities. -- Britta Sandpaper kisses, a cuddle and a purr. I have an alarm clock that's covered in fur! Check out pictures of Vino at: http://photos.yahoo.com/badwilson click on the Vino album |
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office. Head butts to all, Lisa. "Tanada" wrote in message ink.net... Ok, I'm curious. What does everyone in here do for tuna money? I know we have some, ok a lot, of computer geeks, educators (or what passes for one) and so forth. You don't have to be any more specific than you want, but I confess to being extremely curious. If you're currently out of work, you don't have to say so, just list your career field. I am a Substitute Teacher for Cumberland Co. North Carolina, married to a Blackhawk mechanic/inspector who is medically retired from the US army. Pam S. |
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little bag of salted peants. The Vogons cooks are great at picking up on the sub etha space transponder, but the hyperspacial jump will really bounce your brain off the back of your head. You might even see yellow. Hey, yellow, oh, gee, bulldozers. Don't remind me. I read the book in 1983, account of the reccomendations of my college roomie. Who was a hoopy frood. -- Christopher A. Young Learn more about Jesus www.lds.org www.mormons.com "Mathew Kagis" wrote in message news:O%dGd.28841$06.7106@clgrps12... OK, I'll bite-- what is *in* a RL version PanGalactic Gargleblaster? 'The effect of drinking a Pangalactic Gargleblaster is like having your brains smashed out with a slice of lemon, wrapped 'round a large gold brick" - Douglas Adams OK, our recipie is: El Jimador tequila, Absinthe & Goldshlager (gotta represent the gold brick somehow) Shaken on Ice, served in a Martini glass & garnished (of course) with a slice of lemon. Limit, 2 per customer...;-) -- Mathew Butler to 2 kittens: Chablis & Muscat En Vino Veritas |
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Mathew Kagis wrote:
Victor.... I've heard that Texas has an up & coming wine industry... Have yet to get my grubby little paws on any Texan wines, but I'm looking Some are really good. Our favorite vineyard is hands down Becker. Their best wines are viogner and red blends. Year before last they had an awesome zirah-cab blend, this year it's a zin-merlot that awesome. Their port is also very, very good. foreward to trying some. Penfolds does nice work....However, I simply MUST take issue with your Yelowtail reccomendation.... Popular stuff, without Hehehe... I thought you would. I mentioned it because it's very affordable and widely available. Mind you, I've only tasted it a couple of times and I've never actually bought a bottle. Residual Sugar, as the name suggests, refers to the sweetness level in a bottle of wine. Yellowtail boasts 11.5 grams per 750 ml bottle... More than most Rieslings & Gewerztraminers... Migt as well drink coolaid & vodka. Hmmm... I don't like sweet table wines in general, though I love dessert wines. I can't remember this wine being sweet, perhaps I need to taste it again. -- Victor M. Martinez Owned and operated by the Fantastic Seven (TM) Send your spam he Email me he |
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... "Victor Martinez" wrote in message ... jmcquown wrote: I'll help! And I promise not to spit the tastings on anyones shoes! Spit? Bad Jill, bad! Victor, who knows that's how it's supposed to be done, but who also thinks wasting alcohol is as close to a sin as he believes... I totally agree! I never spit. Dennis and I have had some great times touring the wineries in Margaret River (the town we're planning to move to). The best way to avoid getting too drunk is to eat some tim tams between tastings. Mmmm, wine and tim tams :-) SHHHHH! Aussie wine & tim tams are an Aussie secret. Be careful unless you want *everyone* to get the idea and then the price will sky rocket and the yumminess decrease as all the best stuff becomes marked for export. :-) Yowie |
"Victor Martinez" wrote in message ... Yowie wrote: I like Virgin Mary's *more* than Bloody Marys, really can't taste much of a difference between a non-alcoholic margarita and one with alcohol. In fact, What on earth do they make non-alcoholic margaritas with? My margarita recipe follows: 1 part freshly squeezed lime juice 2 parts cointreau 3 parts good tequila Shake and serve with ice on frosted glass. If people have a sweet tooth they can add some simple syrup to taste. I agree with the fresh lime juice (NO ROSES LIME JUICE!) but love a rich, gold margarita: 2 parts Grand Marnier 3 parts Cuervo Gold. (1800 is the best, but is so good, you really ought to drink it straight!) |
"Karen Chuplis" wrote in message
... I have a bachelor in music and an MFA in Theater (acting). Indeed, my day job uses every bit of what I learned in theater in handling people, improvising solutions, troubleshooting and much much more. Never a wasted effort. I agree with this statement. I have found the stage management training the best training for working in corporate America. Some idiot in the Missouri Job Placement department tried to tell me one time I wasn't qualified for anything. What a small minded fool he was. ;P Diane |
Howard Berkowitz wrote:
In article , Helen Wheels wrote: Tanada wrote: Ok, I'm curious. What does everyone in here do for tuna money? Well my job title is still "programmer", but I'm really more of a database person, working in public health/epidemiology research at a university. I work on several projects, but the one that takes up most of my time is maintaining followup data on people who've taken part in a rather long-running series of community health studies which started back in 1966. In a ghoulish mood I've been known to describe chronic disease research as "well we get all these people to fill in questionnaires and have their height, weight and blood pressure measured... then we wait patiently for them to die of something interesting." Is your project similar to the US Framingham or Nurses' studies, or does it have interesting differences? Framingham is probably the one we're most often compared to; our study is on a similar scale, but ours was originally intended as a series of cross-sectional surveys of a single town's population, whereas Framingham was always intended to collect data on the same original cohort over time. But since the numbers of people moving into and out of our town were relatively small, we ended up collecting data on many of the same people over the years anyway, and since our mortality and hospital admissions followup is no longer limited to residents of that town, we have become more of a cohort study like Framingham after all. I guess the one thing we have that the USA-based studies don't is that we're able to access full hospital admissions history data for all our subjects. It's mandatory for all hospitals in the state to provide that data to the state government health department, who do release the data to researchers. We are hoping that in the not-too-distant future it will be possible to get similar access to prescribed medications data for Australian cohort study participants. Technically it's quite easy, since almost all prescribed drugs used in Australia are provided through the national pharmaceutical benefits scheme. The ethical and privacy issues are, quite rightly, being debated at the moment. (and I'm only reluctant to name the actual study I work for because they probably don't want the world to know what a goofball they have managing their data!) |
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