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Sucker Spoon Sucks Sympathetically!

That was still happening,  at least until recently,  at LHR. Several times I had the letters SSS on my boarding pass, and I had to go through another check at the gate. They said it was random.....

Yes, indeed, people like me! I used them in pre Internet days.

I hope you can snap out of that melancholy feeling quickly. Retirement should be a time when life not only becomes easier, it should actually become more interesting. I'm a lot older than you but I certainly know the problems of tighter budgets. Coming from the UK, my pension (that sounds as though it might be a decent sum of money - it's actually little more than beer money, or in my case vodka money!) was frozen the moment I started taking it. I knew this would be the case and had been saving up what I believed would be a considerable sum to see me through retirement. Of course I failed to factor in the dot.com bubble, the 2003 SARS crisis, the 2008 financial meltdown and interest rates plunging to little more than 1% for 15 years or so when I had reckoned on 5%. But since I was running my own little company as all this financial mayhem was going on around me, I loved my work and was happy to continue beyond normal retirement age.  Thereafter, I kind of just fell into another part time job - unpaid to start with but hopefully generating some income eventually. At the urging of friends, including one of many decades' standing who was both a newspaper critic and author, I started writing. At first it was one book. Then another on a similar subject followed. The problem with all books by unknown authors is actually getting work publlished. Publishers will not look at you, so you have to go through the dreaded literary agents. Checking the websites of the 200 or more in the UK, each one wants different formal Proposals that can each take up to 8 hours to write. But then having got two published, the third published last summer was a whole lot easier. Having now finished a fourth, I am stuck for a good subject for the next. I do enjoy writing and do want to continue. It fills in a lot of time that otherwise might turn me into the lazy slob I always thought I'd become. Over a very drunken lunch last year, an old university friend very seriously suggested I should pen "The History of A Sex Tourist in Asia." That actually became incredibly tempting until I realised I'd have to change the names of so many people and places, partly to protect their identities and, as importantly, my own! But do think about doing something once you have decided on where you will end up living - a part-time job via the internet, a hobby a . . . whatever.  That surprises me, if only because you look far from fat in the photos you posted earlier. I reckon I have a few more kilos and the young man I met in Danang had absolutely no hang up about it at all! (I'm sending you a pm with a little more detail). Sadly this does not surprise me. We really should recall that the Thai people voted in the largest numbers in 2023 for change - change through the new party run by Pita Limjaroenrat. But the elites almost always get their way in Thailand. They were not going to put up with the sort of changes he wanted and manufactured a means both to ban him as an MP and then disband his party. It's not the first time that has happened and I am sure it will not be the last. Young people have no reason to push for change as long as they know they are up against both a brick wall and an iron fence they can never break through. Hopefully Khun Pita and the people around him will make sure he runs in the next election and he is this time so squeaky clean that there can be no grounds for banning him. Then change may come. But it's merely a hope.