Reflections After One Year

[Mr.G]

11 hours ago, Bullwinkle said:

 

I don't have a smart lock, but wouldn't an app also be able to tell you when the door gets locked and unlocked, and its current state? That would seem useful.

Yes. My Hafele lets me know when the door handle gets opened, and which account did it. One of the doors is BT (not WiFi) so I can unlock it locally, but not remotely. I have to be within BT range for the app to be able to connect to the door lock. That's fixable if I get a bridge to go between BT and WiFi, but I don't have that yet.

[Mr.G]

39 minutes ago, Jeffinak said:

A smart wallet lock (Bluetooth to your phone of course) is what you need!

I kinda-sorta have something like that ... I do not like to carry any large amount of cash with me. Within Thailand, I normally pay for things with PromptPay (even little friend visits). There is no point in someone raiding my wallet, since my wallet rarely has any baht. (And I have not carried an actual wallet since about 2012.)

[dragonrider]

Modeling

Just puttering around waiting for Sunny to wake up. Might as well watch the Monday night wresting show now. It very nice of Netflix to edit out all of the commercials. Very repetitive and boring. There is debate within the Internet Wrestling Community as to if they are using AI to help create the shows. I've been using AI for the last few months and I am sure it would do a better job than these doofuses. 

Sunny finally emerges about 2:30. She points to the outfit. We do tonight. Sigh. Back to listening to reviews of what I just watched. About an hour later, she comes over and picks up the outfit. I go shower. Ok. Not tonight then. Not a very realistic school girl outfit. Once I had Sa at Excite Club buy a real outfit. Well, the got the top right but wore some kind of hot pants instead of a skirt which spoiled the whole thing. Not realistic but sexy as hell.

Our best session in years. Solid breaks to rest. Some pictures and videos taken. Her perfunctory mopping is not enough. As I was standing, my feet were slipping on the tiles as I tried to push into her. Need to do a real mopping with detergent. A half point deduction because the finish was a bit muted but not complaining in the least. No money changed hands as she is happy with the 1000 baht I gave her yesterday.

[Mr.G]

6 hours ago, dragonrider said:

Not realistic but sexy as hell.

Yes, to me, that outfit looks like a Windmill uniform. :-) I've thought about the school girl bit, but never really had it happen for me, so you're one up on me. Since you know Sunny's general size, what about picking up a realistic school girl outfit from Lotus or Big C when school season starts? 

[dragonrider]

She's Back

So actually left the condo. Want to make a large batch of bagels and need flour. Went to Friendship about 8:30am. Moving much better these days. Toe is healed. Back is fine, more or less. Still not a super fluid gate but have upped my speed from 1 kph up to maybe 2. No shooting pain on every step is nice.

Not sure what time she goes to bed but Sunny does not emerge from the bedroom until about 2:30pm. I play with my new key lock box. Change the pass code. It will contain keys for the bike lock, the condo door and the ebike key. Hooked to the front basket maybe but I need to see where would be best. 

Look around again and there is nothing similar but with a fingerprint sensor. I sent an email to an American company suggesting they make one.

Spend an hour trying to sort out the keys. Each lock came with 2. I labelled one and that one works but am not sure about the 2nd one. I hope it works as they are weird keys and cost 2-300 baht to make. 

The floor is greasy. Sunny's just wiping it down with a wet mop isn't doing the job. So I pull out the power mop and clean the floors and then mop with the spin mop. Use the mops as I crutch to not slip on the floor. Much better now.

Changed the lock last night to the same one I bought originally and gave to @expatdude, Not 10 minutes as I have trouble lining up the screwed connecting the inside piece to the outside piece. Get the app to see the lock but this BLE is Bluetooth Low Energy which means low range. You have to be within a few feet for it to work. Have a gateway box on order but am not sure that will fix the issue. We will see. No battery level shown in the app. Stupid. That would be helpful. 

On one of Sunny's exits from the room, I motion her over. Boom boom in the evening. You want now? No, just chuck wow. I thought I would stop her but ended up finishing. A mistake as you will soon see.

About 6:30 I am making dinner. Trying to wing something. Took out a piece of the Char Siu pork and fry up some cut up chicken breast. Before I could start, the doorbell rings. Hmm. Well well well. The prodigal gogo girl has reappeared. If this was a normal relationship, I would have told her to come back tomorrow but one you open the door, it's game over.

She points to the girls shoes all over the hallway. Yes. She is still here. Her original excuse for disappearing was she was sick. Now, it's her daughters been sick. She go Korat tomorrow. I have no money. What a shock. I knew even though I have already overpaid, that when she came back, it would cost me more. Another $20 isn't going to kill me.

We go into the small bedroom. Only had a girl in there a handful of times. I remember once taking a girl in there because a bird has made a nest and laid an egg in the aircon unit outside. So I didn't want to disturb it. However, it wasn't even the bedroom aircon unit she was in so my trying to be nice didn't work at all. A different type of body than Sunny or Fa. A kind of change of pace after a month. Of course I couldn't finish as I had just cum 3 hours previously. I came real close 3 or 4 times. Ended up having to take matters into my own hands. She didn't like being showered. Too bad. I ended up giving her another 700 baht. So 2350 in total I believe. Not the end of the world. 

She leaves and it's back to cooking. Only found a tiny container of teryaki sauce in the freezer. Not enough to even coat the chicken. Was not my best effort. Didn't even finish it and didn't save the leftovers.

[Frosty]

Hope @dragonrider didn't get locked out of his place.  It's been a few days now since we've heard from him.

His game can't be that absorbing.

[dragonrider]

57 minutes ago, Frosty said:

Hope @dragonrider didn't get locked out of his place.  It's been a few days now since we've heard from him.

His game can't be that absorbing.

No. Still alive and well. Actually very well physically. The toe is healed and all of that running around I did for my ex-wife's mortgage and renewing the passport loosened up the back so that is all sorted as well. Started going to the pool for a half an hour or so to keep it that way. 

My harem remains undependable. SG says she won't return for a couple of weeks. Fa keeps running back to Buriram and Sunny is on her period. 

Yesterday, I did the books and discovered I was 10,000 baht short of where I wanted to be in my savings. I could figure out why but does it really matter? The bike was an unexpected 20K purchase but I thought there was more in there. After topping that up and paying a ridiculous electric bill, I am extremely short on funds for the remainder of the month. Add to that the cost of the new passport and I might actually carry a balance on my credit card for the 1st time in years. 

A lot of online shopping but all for little things like door locks, bike locks, kitchen gadgets. However a lot of little things can add up to a real number so no more of that. 

After consulting with ChatGPT including uploading the scans of my eyes, the doctor's proposed wait of 4 months between eye injections is just not a good idea. Three months is the best that can be expected. I liked 4 months as the cost came down from 9500 baht/month to 7500 baht but risking my vision to save 2000 baht a month is just not worth it to me. Need to reschedule the next appointment. 

Made a large batch of bagels. Gave one to @cartoonmanand am waiting to give some to @expatdudeand @article22. Came out ok but I added 50g of maple syrup and I can't taste it so that's a bit disappointing. Now it's saying I should have used 100g. Typical AI. Once you point out it's mistake, it comes back with a different answer than originally. Which begs the question of why you didn't say that in the beginning.

[palmtree]

6 hours ago, dragonrider said:

No. Still alive and well. Actually very well physically. The toe is healed and all of that running around I did for my ex-wife's mortgage and renewing the passport loosened up the back so that is all sorted as well. Started going to the pool for a half an hour or so to keep it that way. 

My harem remains undependable. SG says she won't return for a couple of weeks. Fa keeps running back to Buriram and Sunny is on her period. 

Yesterday, I did the books and discovered I was 10,000 baht short of where I wanted to be in my savings. I could figure out why but does it really matter? The bike was an unexpected 20K purchase but I thought there was more in there. After topping that up and paying a ridiculous electric bill, I am extremely short on funds for the remainder of the month. Add to that the cost of the new passport and I might actually carry a balance on my credit card for the 1st time in years. 

A lot of online shopping but all for little things like door locks, bike locks, kitchen gadgets. However a lot of little things can add up to a real number so no more of that. 

After consulting with ChatGPT including uploading the scans of my eyes, the doctor's proposed wait of 4 months between eye injections is just not a good idea. Three months is the best that can be expected. I liked 4 months as the cost came down from 9500 baht/month to 7500 baht but risking my vision to save 2000 baht a month is just not worth it to me. Need to reschedule the next appointment. 

Made a large batch of bagels. Gave one to @cartoonmanand am waiting to give some to @expatdudeand @article22. Came out ok but I added 50g of maple syrup and I can't taste it so that's a bit disappointing. Now it's saying I should have used 100g. Typical AI. Once you point out it's mistake, it comes back with a different answer than originally. Which begs the question of why you didn't say that in the beginning.

The AI didn’t say that in the beginning because it thought 50g was the answer.  Now it is trying to backtrack and say it meant 100g.  These things are notorious for iterating on answers until you agree with what they say.  It’s the sycophantic tendencies that are built in.

Which is why you should cross reference the eye question with another model like Claude or Gemini - though my impression is that they do better with finding visual patterns, like in your eye scans.

 

[dragonrider]

The Worst Ever

No. Not sex. Have several candidates for that but none recently luckily. So I was hoping to have a day long sex marathon yesterday. However, Sunny was still on her period. Hers lasts a day longer than most women I know. So no sex on Tuesday. But now it's Wednesday. Not sure when she goes to sleep but she rarely emerges from the room until after sundown. She also is dead to the world when I try to go in there before that. But I try again.

After the smashed toe has healed and the back is fine, today my big toe on the other foot is aching. A flare up of gout. How thrilling. One naproxin and it usually just goes away for a few months. Naproxin is very hard on my stomach. I take one and head into the bedroom to see if I can wake the dead. As I scoot up in bed to lie beside her, I start gagging and almost throwing up. Wow. That's never happened before. I scoot right back down and into the bathroom as it is considered bad form to throw up on a woman. I manage to settle the stomach down without hurling. That's good. I go to sit down on the couch and my entire body turns red and starts itching like a son of a bit. And when I say my entire body I mean my entire body except my ears and (luckily) dick. Not quite breaking out in hives but just on the verge below that. I take a Zyrtek. About 10 minutes later I add a Benadryl. Doubt you are supposed to take them together but it really really itches. I go into the shower and scrap my body with a washcloth. Probably got several layers of stuck on stuff off. It says not to scratch but that's not going to happen. Please make this stop. After about 20 more minutes, it is a little better. I lay down and sleep for like 4 hours. When I awake I am fine once again. That was very unpleasant.

When I wake, I lay without moving for another half hour. I am hungry and am out of cigarettes. So even though I don't feel like it, I get up and grab the backpack. Also out of every kind of juice and am down to the last Coke. So it's 10 pm before I get to Friendship. Lots of juice, a bag of chips. Smokes and Coke at the 7-11. I took out the last of pichana beef and was going to make shish kabobs but don't feel like cooking. So I stop at Lucky Panada and get the pepper chicken. 10 baht more than I thought it should be. Have to check the menu again next time. 

I get home and put on the finale of The Boys. Not feeling too horny but when Sunny comes out the other bathroom without pants, I say what the hell. I gave it the old college try but my dick would not stay hard. She is not super sexy enough to overcome my need for Kamagra it seems. Not if I want an extended session at least as opposed to letting her sit on my dick and bounce around for 3 or 4 minutes. Spent the last 5 minutes just holding her in my arms. Not erotic but nice. I tell her we'll finish later. She makes a gesture than means "come into the bedroom when you are ready". I fall back asleep. The events of the day have drained me (not literally I'm afraid). 

Didn't like the pepper chicken. Too...peppery. The name comes from the green peppers not adding tons of pepper. I guess they don't know that. Anyhow, it is much better a few hours later eating it cold. Not ordering that again.

Never do feel like going into the bedroom and finishing. It's been a stressful day. Now she is off her period, I can have her anytime. She asks for an advance on her 1000 baht/week allowance. About 10 days ago, she asked for an entire week in advance and I gave it to her. Today I tell her I will give her 500 now and 500 on Sunday. 

[roseram88]

Serious allergic reaction to medicine? Probably lucky it didn't lead to more. You might want to talk to your physician or a pharmacologist before taking the next dose. 

 

[forcebwithu]

Earlier this month in @LOTTELLEE WINNA's topic there were posts warning for those of us over age 60 to limit the use of naproxen, Ibuprofen and other NSAIDs. Something that I wasn't aware of, but good to know.

Edited Wednesday at 20:24 by forcebwithu

[Jeffinak]

My spine doc had me on that stuff. Was very effective, until my skin peeled off of my hands and face. All at the same time! Side effects, who knew.  That was the end of that shit. Sounds like you were headed for anaphylaxis.....or maybe just hives.

[Mr.G]

6 hours ago, dragonrider said:

No. Not sex. Have several candidates for that but none recently luckily. So I was hoping to have a day long sex marathon yesterday. However, Sunny was still on her period. Hers lasts a day longer than most women I know.

Way back when my daughter was 14 or so, we had her go on Implanon. After my wife found out how it typically (but not always) reduced or eliminated period duration and discomfort, she went on it too. For my wife, it was only for the mensuration benefits since I got snipped in my 20's. It might be something worth while for Sunny to check out, particularly with her type of employment.

Implanon NXT is a single-rod, progestogen-only hormonal contraceptive implant containing etonogestrel, available in Thailand for up to 3 years of effective pregnancy prevention.  It is administered via subdermal insertion in the non-dominant upper arm and is marketed by Organon. 

Key aspects of Implanon NXT in Thailand include:

• Efficacy and Safety: Clinical studies in Thai women, including those over 35, demonstrate zero accidental pregnancies in short-term follow-ups and excellent long-term tolerance.  It is particularly suitable for women who have contraindications to estrogen-containing oral contraceptives.

• Side Effects: The most common side effect is irregular bleeding or spotting, while amenorrhea (absence of periods) occurs in approximately 24-39% of users during the first two years.  Headache is the most frequent drug-related adverse event.

• Availability: Services for insertion and removal are provided by various clinics, such as CM Mediclinic in Chiang Mai and Medconsult Clinic in Bangkok, which offer patient-centered care adhering to international guidelines.

• Contraindications: It is not indicated during pregnancy, for protection against HIV/STDs, or for women with a history of thromboembolic disorders, severe liver disease, or unexplained vaginal bleeding. 

[dragonrider]

4 hours ago, roseram88 said:

Serious allergic reaction to medicine? Probably lucky it didn't lead to more. You might want to talk to your physician or a pharmacologist before taking the next dose. 

 

I don't think it was the medicine I am allergic to. I've been taking it infrequently luckily for almost 10 years. I would have noticed the correlation by now if that was it. Really have no clue what it is I am allergic to but the onset this time was rapid and extreme. Right on the border of hives and my lips were a little swollen which is apparently a huge danger sign.

Both types of antihistamines take 15-30 minutes to kick in. Most unpleasant.

[ocka]

5 hours ago, dragonrider said:

Right on the border of hives and my lips were a little swollen which is apparently a huge danger sign.

That sounds dangerous. 

Maybe talk to a doctor about whether you should   carry an emergency adrenaline injector.

[palmtree]

8 hours ago, dragonrider said:

I don't think it was the medicine I am allergic to. I've been taking it infrequently luckily for almost 10 years. I would have noticed the correlation by now if that was it. Really have no clue what it is I am allergic to but the onset this time was rapid and extreme. Right on the border of hives and my lips were a little swollen which is apparently a huge danger sign.

Both types of antihistamines take 15-30 minutes to kick in. Most unpleasant.

That actually sounds a lot like scombroid fish poisoning.  Did you eat any fish close to that time?    It is very dangerous.

[dragonrider]

So a very uneventful day. After yesterday's medical scare, that is a good thing. Not much of note. I am out of Coke so I hop on the bike and head over to Royal Garden Plaza to that little Tops. Not open 24 hours as I thought. 7am-3am. Pretty close. Still don't like the place. 1/4 the size of a "real" one but they have Coke and my chocolate milk. Also get some fancy American cookies that @Brad Pittrecommended. Certainly not as convenient as going to the basement of Tukcom but not terrible. As their space is extremely limited, no Indian potato chips. Probably a good thing.

I want the "extra" money that I put away every month to pay my Canadian taxes. I got an email saying that there was a Notice of Assessment but I am unable to login to my account to read it. They sent me a new password in December and again in March and never received either of them. So I call them to ask. It seems their automated system is good for something as I can find out my balance without waiting an hour to talk to a person. Oh no. I owe them $2. Gee, I hope there are no penalties and interest. I send them $2. So now I can grab the 35K baht leftover. I have that money in a different bank than I normally use with Wise. Let's use that as it takes a day or 2 for the money to go from one Canadian bank to the other. Hmm. Wise says it will take a week? WTF. Today from my regular bank but a week from this one. I don't understand that. Anyway I've locked myself out of online access to that bank for god knows how long unless I want to change my password which I don't. You hit these stupid roadblocks once in a while with banks and just have to deal with it. No super hurry for the money anyway. Will get more in a week anyway. 

I finally received my Bluetooth to Wifi gateway box. I hate vendors on Lazada who "handle their own shipping". Takes forever and you have no idea when your stuff will show up. Even though I said I would never use vendors like that, I have 3 orders currently (2 now) that do that. I hook it up. I have to touch the lock to turn it on to add it. Hmm. This could be an issue. It seems that these super cheap locks go into a deep sleep to conserve battery power. It stays active for a couple of minutes and then sleeps again. @Mr.G's fancy Hafele locks are able to keep a connection to their gateway. However his lock costs 10K and mine 500 baht and his gateway was 1000 baht and mine was 168 baht. You get what you pay for. So it is not totally useless. SG would touch the lock and it would then connect to the gateway and I could unlock it from the couch (or Excite Club for that matter). Found a spot right on top of the router that it is able to connect to the lock. So it works, sorta.

It's 4:30am. I should go to sleep in a bed. On the way, I make a detour to the master bedroom. Sunny is playing on her phone sitting in the armchair. You want boom boom? Yes. She has me lie down on the bed. A little sucking and she hops on top. I don't try to hold back and extend the session. That doesn't seem to work too well. So in and out in like 5 minutes. It takes me 20 minutes to fall asleep but I slept a solid 6 hours. Nice.

[forcebwithu]

9 minutes ago, dragonrider said:

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Sunny is playing on her phone sitting in the armchair. You want boom boom? Yes. She has me lie down on the bed. A little sucking and she hops on top. I don't try to hold back and extend the session. That doesn't seem to work too well. So in and out in like 5 minutes. It takes me 20 minutes to fall asleep but I slept a solid 6 hours. Nice.

This, "You want boom boom?" is what having a great sex partner is all about. I'm racking my brain, but I don't remember any of my three ex-wives ever asking me that question. 

[Mr.G]

1 hour ago, forcebwithu said:

This, "You want boom boom?" is what having a great sex partner is all about. I'm racking my brain, but I don't remember any of my three ex-wives ever asking me that question. 

Same for me with two ex's and one current. :-)  

[Phoenix Dave]

1 hour ago, forcebwithu said:

This, "You want boom boom?" is what having a great sex partner is all about. I'm racking my brain, but I don't remember any of my three ex-wives ever asking me that question. 

I've been asked a few times, but it was always from the negative direction. "You don't want boom-boom, do you?"

[mikey2410]

3 hours ago, Phoenix Dave said:

I've been asked a few times, but it was always from the negative direction. "You don't want boom-boom, do you?"

I think that is what's called a rhetorical question 😄

[Phoenix Dave]

7 hours ago, mikey2410 said:

I think that is what's called a rhetorical question 😄

The answer wasn't rhetorical.

[dragonrider]

A New Level

Got to sleep in the spare bedroom about 5am. At 9am, I am woken by the doorbell ringing. Too early in the day for SG. I stagger out of bed. Oh, it's Sunny. The door won't let her in. Well that is annoying. Certainly that was not enough sleep. After catching up on the pause in my game, I download the finale of Survivor 50. All I can say because @expatdudehas not caught up yet is that it was the best jury I have ever seen. The level of game play this season with some of the best all time players was fantastic. Surprised I didn't fall asleep half way thru.

@article22pops over and I give him a couple of bagels. He has gone all out and bought some smoked salmon. Hope he enjoys them. I see @cartoonmanman sitting in the lobby. I ask him how he liked his bagel. He enjoyed it. Put some cheese on it. He had never had a bagel before in his life. I think he liked the oatmeal cookies more but those take a whole package of butter to make so kinda expensive.

I start to fade. Time to go back to sleep. I go into the master bedroom and Sunny is in bed but awake. If she is sleeping it is impossible to wake her. I get in and start cuddling. Sleep or boom boom? Boom boom and then sleep. Again nothing epic but I do drain my balls. And fall asleep for 3 hours. An excellent sleep. I send Fa in Buriram another 500 baht because I am an idiot and she is my wife after all. After grabbing the excess tax money I have a bit of money at the end of the month.

Later in the evening, I see a Lazada package sitting on the freezer. It seems that after 7 weeks, the guards in the lobby are now used to Sunny and give her my packages. A full sized box grater. I had to grate some cheese last week for a Philly Cheesesteak and only had some block cheese. Didn't like the miniature grater I had so got a full sized one for 120 baht. 

Watch some more TV. A spinoff of the Spanish Money Heist series. Nowhere as good as the original. I cook a Thai t-bone steak and french fries. I now know how to cook this cut of beef to get the most out of it. 

Edited yesterday at 11:48 by dragonrider