@Tod ********
Yes, i have used those 2 30 days and 1 tourist visa. My exact reasons are in the original post so i wont repeat. But, i had intended to only take some time off...and then return to find new work. I thought i was ok doing visas the way i had done them based on all the info i had found and the visa businesses advice as well as border IO never acting like anything was wrong or warning me with stamp or verbally. Well, this wasnt exactly true.... it can be a problem as i found out. Perhaps my problem was that they thought i didnt have sufficient funds as i only had about 8k baht in my pocket which they asked to see. Had they asked about my Kasikorn accnt...that would have been easy to show as i had my bank book with me...but they didnt ask.
I know there is an influx of S African people coming and working internet teaching and doing the visa runs (i ran into many many doing Savannakhet visa)...and they maybe thought i was working online as well. idk, but they came down hard on me