Monday, August 9, 2021

Have You Ever Been Grilled?

Before last weekend i went to wash the car, knowing it had accumulated some invisible dust on it. I assumed the dust went with the water, in the grill and then in the drain under the car. However, it settled there and dried.
In my way to Spirit Mountain, Lincoln City i noticed some shortness of breath. Symptom that has accompanied me for a long time in the last 30 years or so, on an off with times when it lead me to... mental hospitals (cause it was all in my mind, they said). Like the LPN on the SUB Я U in the picture below.
From Lincoln City to Florence i started to feel weird while driving, had some mild hallucinations (i called them fantasies) in a parallel process in my brain. I thought i was under the influence of dog poo at home, tired, because i didn't sleep enough the night before. In Florence it woke me up a fire engine flashing and sirening and everything. I pulled on the right in a pile of broken glass i failed to see. When i got at the casino, no matter how tired i was, i checked the tires, then i went inside. After seeing all kinda weird scenes, including the digital guy with a hamster on his hat who died the next day in the news, i went back in the car and tried to get some sleep. I was awakened about ten times, like in the second i fell asleep, someone put the headlights in my eyes, walked by, looked at me to see if i'm dead, etc., yelling, trumpetting exhausts. Then i called Angela and told her i wanted to go home. To my surprise she came right away and we left.

However the car started to make the sound that i now associate with gasoline contaminated with water. Water in gas clogs the fuel filter, reducing pressure at the injectors, which in turn don't get enough gas to wash the valves that get blow-by-oil from the PCV and the valves start to stick, squishing the lifters, foaming the oil and giving you bad emissions which translates in vibrations, poor driveability and temporary pulsating opening at the exhaust manifold seal, which may end in the cabin through leaks by the grille and seal.

All these made possible by lower than normal voltage at the fuel pump, due to a badly designed battery connector.

On the road, on a hunch i stopped to check the cabin filter and besides being dirty and stinky, it had some engine oil on it. Which i have no idea how could had gotten in there. Removing that one but mostly driving with the windows open got me to Lincoln City. On the right, the previous filter which i saved with the box to find a new one easier in the store. However i started to order it on Amazon, and i already got it, because there you can know when you bought it last time.
Angela said she wanted to go to the restroom, it was half hour before closing time, however she went in and played and lost a couple of hundred dollars (my estimate). Then she drove to Spirit Mountain. Then she went inside, lost some more money and i slept in the car for 4 hours. It's been two days and i still feel weird. Today i found an almost microscopic piece of wood in an invisible area of my belly skin that i extracted with some tweezers using some old lens as magnifying glass. The infection around it started to subside.

Tonight i remembered about the hole in the grill with the missing retainer i saw yesterday when i finally washed the dust on the grill last night. I saw it before and ignored it. Went outside to put some tape on it, checked the symmetric area of the grill and what do i see.

The plastic grill is interrupted, and there is some sort of lid that allows you to feel the master cylinder brake reservoir (When i did brakes, i added some fluid, from under the grille, no problem, didn't even notice that lid). Dust around it, the foam seal has melted long time ago allowing the area from under the hood to communicate with the cabin through the grill. The whole plastic grill is brittle because of heat, i broke a retainer when i tried to close that lid but that doesn't make a difference (foam seal melted anyways, thing was leaking), especially for the 2+2 miles Angela drives to work and back. Tomorrow i need to study the whole area and add some silicone, but that grille is toasted, needs replacement.
What else do i need to say. The engine filter that was changed in the same time with cabin or before, looks like new.

Day after. The thing has a foam seal but it does not seal by design and/or installation. You open it and  you're done. How can you prove it wasn't you who caught that foam in the edge when putting it back? Can see in the left the heat shield of the exhaust. Heat radiated by that side of the engine will ensure cooking of the grill.

Carbon monoxide from tiniest exhaust leak, oil and dust burning on the exhaust would have you daydream from Portland to Coos Bay and back.
Here it is visible it wasn't done recently. I didn't know of when i've done brakes, and i was the first to do it at this car. Design. The small area by the retainers is not sealed because of the shape of the retainers, not being solid. Why use two different materials, foam and rubber to seal the same area?
The day after i complained about dust they started the work across the street from the parking lot at Eaton which continues to this day. Don't know what that soil is but try to imagine what it does when it burns on the exhaust.

A Recipe From the Ninja House

Today, my way of cooking brisket. 15-30 minutes hands on time. It started with a coupon before a St.Patrick's day. Angela bought some beef with spices in a bag. Of those, the bigger balls of allspice. Bigger than pepper, similar look, heavenly aroma. 

First. Angela's got the meat at Safeway. Not on sale, it's just their marketing strategy. Put in front a huge price to make your jaw drop and then the "sale" price to have you swallow it. Do theses things work for them?

Wash it. Don't care what they say. I wash it like my mother in law would. 3 times to remove the bacterial film on top and/or the water comes clear. In the same blue bowl we have for more than 20 years.
Spices. Sweet red pepper (paprika), curry, pepper, garlic powder (a very interesting new item for us), brisket spices, salt. Grind the big all spice balls and the rest.
Rinse with apple vinegar.
Sprinkle with olive oil.
Wrap in spices

Arange in glass pans. Red cabbage is of course for KGB. Glass pans are easy to clean, do not rust, etc..
Wrap tight in foils. Almost forgot. Do not disturb for the whole cooking time.
400 degrees, two hours later you can eat it without dentures (which i did cause i can't find them). A nice surprise. The cabbage absorbed the rest of the vinegar i could not squeeze by gravity and became something like... sour cabbage, very nice.

Those are the beans that were soaked for almost 24  hours (cause i didn't have the water until Angela came) then boiled at low setting for 2 and a half hours. Added some celery, tomato paste, soft tomatoes that are almost bad, sitting there for days, lots of fine chopped onion, no oil, no fat no nothing (i was also out of carrots).
Of course when i was done, the current ninja master, like all the ninja masters before him, came upstairs and started to squeak and stomp on top of the kitchen area, almost made me have another dysphagia because of unquenchable rage.

Wednesday, August 4, 2021

Johnny Cash and the Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta

Every single American that possesses a radio knows about Johnny Cash and his most famous song, Ring of Fire. I bet there are numerous attempts to explain what's behind the poetry of the lyrics, here's one more. But this one's based on the real name of the singer and its meaning in Hungarian.
Johnny Cash seems to have been an influent Hungarian poet named Istvan Domonkos (Domon kos, pronounced cosh) also singer and guitar player.

Domonkos in Hungarian means Dominican. For those who don't know, Dominicans is one out of many religious orders that branched out of catholicism sometimein 12 century. An important one since many popes and most Grand Inquisitors where along centuries part of the order.

Istvan is a combination of Ivan which means John in several slavic languages and Isten which means God in Hungarian, and comes most likely from Ishtar. The complicated Hungarian ethno-genesis which might include Serbs fropm a more recent migration (One of first Hungarian kings is named Ladislav), the old Sumerians who in turn... etc....

Interesting part is St.Dominic's head is partly shaven, and he also introduced the rosary in catholicism which is of Buddhist and Hindu origin. St.Dominic mother had a dream about giving birth to a dog that would set the world on fire. In some depictions St.Dominic is shown with a dog. Literally setting the world on fire.
If Buddha's first sermon is called like in the title, Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta (Magadhan or Pali) or Dharmacakrapravartana Sūtra in Sanskrit meaning The Setting in Motion of the Wheel of the Dharma Sutta or Promulgation of the Law Sutta, his third one was about fire. Domonkos, a common Hungarian family name could have this etymology.

Budapest was named for at least 500 years until the 19 century Buda and Buddha's favorite language was Magadha Prakrit, while Hungarians today call themselves Magyars, suggesting Magar people of Nepal.

Buddha was born in Lumbini, Nepal, the heartland of several related people including Magars. Magars could have remained stranded in Europe in the 9th century as being guardians of silk road caravans when silk road was cut by a sultan. Or simply came over in their mission to spread buddhism to the world.

Dominicans have been always very influential within Catholic Church and from there over the whole world and this whole setup may had at some point tipped the fragile balance of direction of modern world development towards huge energy consumption, pollution, global devastating wars and global climate change. Deliberate.

Nowadays we all may see the Dominicans as a cult within Catholic Church which was or maybe still is influenced by some dramatically misunderstood buddhist teachings, like Buddha's third sermon.

Tuesday, August 3, 2021

Second coming of Trump and the Stumps of Robinho

With a failed attempt to debunk a false claim, you may actually spread it even further. Things have become so untangled and so Shogun (the book) like or Kafka like i can't even understand this title from Reuters.

"Here's a bizarre Fact Check-Claims Trump will be reinstated on August 13 stem from debunked conspiracy theories".

It's been so long i can't even remember the exact format, but i believe Oregonian once had some sort of version of rolling news, that is a stack like list of time stamped news that were moving up or down as new ones were added. I think it was before Beth Nakamura too over anyways. Now you can't even enter the site, thanks to those criminals at Admiral whatever blocking company. An online company that is specializing in blocking you from seeing a site unless you pay subscription or remove your blocking software. I don't have any blocking software. I have a black list inside the kernel of my Fedora.

That is how news should look like. A time stamped list as they happen. Without something like this, if you miss the first "trumpet" on a news, and you most likely will, you will think it happened when you  heard it, pretty much like it happened with War of the World by Orson Wells.

You hear about a shooting at the Pentagon, you may think Trump is already on its way.

One way to tell the exact moment is do a google search and scroll and look for earliest time stamp. Then you can look for a jolt in the market right before that. A moment when the market is suddenly going up or down, like more than a few tenth of a procent. Did that happened today. Yes it did.
There is one more civilized way to figure it out. Go to the French newspaper site LeFigaro flash actu. But you will have to translate time to US time in this case PDT which is 9 hours behind. 18:23 - 9 = 9:23 PDT or 12:23 Eastern. You may find out it happened before that time, but nothing is sure, not even this site.
Then of course you don't hear anything else on the subject until you google and find out that it was an "unrelated incident". Cause if it was, we will heave heard more as hours passed but we haven't.

"A Pentagon police officer died after being stabbed Tuesday during a burst of violence at a transit center outside the building, and a suspect was shot by law enforcement and died at the scene, officials said." But was it.

Why Robinho on the title.

I suspected since he moved here in March. The man upstairs may be Brazilian footballer Robinho who i turn was "played" or "acted" for a long time by a Japanese wrestler.

Since yesterday especially after my post with Duterte he started to act even weirder. Smoking like he did in the first day he moved here. Inside and this morning after i shot the AC cause smoke was leaking from the back and opened front window, he went at the car and smoke there, still filling the place with raw (untreated) tobacco, the stinkiest. It was within the same timeframe with the shooting.

Conclusion. They created a mass psychosis just to create a momentum when i could have bursted with rage and go and confront him. But i'm not match for him. He's much younger and masked by some fat he has muscles double the size of mine and has been in the ring and after that on the football field for too long.

Being tired, i just fell asleep, he woke me up several times, last stumping on the floor in a burst of rage that i managed to record. But i still did not react and went instead for a long walk. While approaching the office a bunch of sexualized little girls started to walk right ahead of me in that direction. Near the mailboxes, the same girl with sexy pants and t-shirt that was yesterday with a dog now taking the garbage. Further within the hospital alleys i met with yet another executioner, most likely, a boxer or some sort of fighter from Hungary.

When i came back, i drank one huge mug of water with a bit of grapefruit juice and took a shower and now i'm sick. Even as i write he still marches upstairs, like a wrestler would in a ring.

And then of course the question. Why would the market go up when a shooting occurs next to Pentagon?

Because of course the shooting was not real but fake news only meant to create a day long or several hours long psychosis need to build momentum so in the heat of the moment people will accept if something happened to me while confronting the ninja. And then going back flat when it was clear they were little chances this would happen.