June 6

10:25 I found a way to use my laptop in a hotel room (and even at home) without exposing myself. Very cheap and very easy. A wi-fi dongle at the end of a longer usb cable. Looking for a similar device for a phone.

So far the only solution i found is a signal booster. Being close in your home will require little power to be used by (the automated settings on) your phone and will handle the high power needed to connect to a distant tower, away from your persona.

Of course much better would be to use the first device hooked to the USBC port of your phone but for that you would need that option from the provider (wi-fi calls).

12:54 They reverted to the older practice from Lake Oswego of flying small planes in circles above where i'm at, making big noises. For the last part of my walk (11 to 12, i wish i recorded the time) a small plane flew above in circles, at high rpm and small speed, probably under 5000 ft., making most possible noise and is still does to this moment. With the transponder off, it does not show on this web site linked on Port of Portland Noise Management Office page. In the past i tried and contacted them in similar situations with much waste of time.

1:08 Nu rezolvă și mai rămân!

2:45 Not extraordinarily nostalgic but sill. Some 20 years ago we stopped at this restaurant. As the name suggests, it is on a hill (back then the hill seemed like a mountain, nowadays everything gets smaller) with an extraordinary view over Newport (where i avoided a number of ready made accidents, Sunday).

When we got back from Florence i wanted to go there one more time. Angela was driving cause i was really wasted from the rum i had before.

Nothing has changed. No even the sanitary installations in the toilet where Angela went and said haven't seen anything like this in the entire stay in the US. Stinking, moving seat, black mold, etc.. She said... If the kitchen looks the same...

But i didn't know that when i payed 18 bucks up front. Self serve. Pizzas were the first. So i filled half plate with different small pizza slices of different types made with self raising dough (not with yeast). Some were burnt, some under-cooked. A few other items to fill my plate including chicken bbq. It was only after i saw someone i realized they had salad bar too. So i ate salad after meats and pizzas.

But first. When we got there in the same time with us came in the parking lot two big vans full of Asian people in a tour or something. Though they were made to look Chinese, i realized later that something was off. Probably the old hikikomori. So we filled our plates, no need for an attendant, but when we got at the table, an older woman kept buzzing us with questions. She had a voice (or  better said, way of talking) similar to that of Fran from The Nanny. But much older. So old actually, i was afraid to look at her, as i told Angela later. Born 1934, almost 90 years old.

That side of the restaurant was empty but a family chose to sit next to us. But who was the woman sitting next to us and talking so much with the girl from Ipanema? ("Possibly preventing us from talking to the Chinese").

3:00 Saw the news oh boy. The Ukraine dam. When this happened? Biggest trouble with searching news on Google is figuring the time of the event.

Cause on Sunday the 4th or two days ago i drove towards the beaches. In Sherwood there was a detour, but still got to pass the intersection with the red light cameras, though from a different direction when i saw two KGB LPNs. Though very usual (to me, it happens constantly either i'm on foot or driving) this time i had the time to take the picture before light turned green in the intersection. Now i know why the detour. So the boat would show like at an angle.

Then Monday morning (the 5th). I went for a walk at the beach while Angela was in the shower. 25+ mph wind from North. I walked a mile in the wind direction and came back with wind on my back. Can't remember seeing the ocean so low in 28 years. It so happened i caught a very low tide. Rocks that were usually covered by water now were visible.
 
9:55 Mintea dvs., un teren de fotbal dintr-un meci aranjat, semantic. Rum, Romaian, Bacău. Ghe. Ion

June 4th

9:00 AM PDT. Ne place nu ne place unul din efectele secundare ale grevei cauzată de mulți ani de neglijare a măririi salariilor și al căror moment a fost ales sunt sigur de liderii sindicali exact în momentul când trebuia să se facă rotația este prelungirea prezenței PNL la guvernare. Sunt sigur că PSD ar fi început să slăbească din măsurile PNL în legătură cu războiul din Ucraina, ceea ce ar însemna mai puține riscuri pentru noi.

9:24 Sunt sigur că ceea ce îngroașă arterele inclusiv cele ale inimii sunt inflamații cauzate de infecții de natură bacteriană. Am aproape 3 săptămâni de disconfort în zona inimii, palpitații, dureri suportabile în umărul, brațul stâng, care au apărut după ce am întrerupt un tratament cu antibiotice.

Din motiv de aer condiționat zilele astea mi-a revenit o infecție (tot din zona expusă la laptop, mergeam prea des la baie) și am început să iau din nou antibiotice (metoda cutanată) și la 3 zile (ieri) am simțit brusc o ușurare, ca și cum cheagul de sânge de pe acea arteră "și-a dat brusc drumul".

Nu sunt refăcut 100%, cred că o porțiune din inimă a fost puțin "învinețită" și/sau părți din acel cheag s-au mutat "în aval" pe artere mai mici dar oricum e mult mai bine.

Singurul motiv pentru care nu o merlești într-o asemenea situație este faptul că în corpul omenesc toate țesuturile inclusiv mușchiul cardiac sunt irigate din mai multe direcții sau de mai multe artere mai mari, există deci o anume redundanță, astfel încât dacă o arteră se blochează, mai există alimentare cu sânge din altele, deși mai puțină.

Mai nașpa când ai o arteră blocată și mai apare încă una din aceeași zonă.

Este posibil ca fibrilația, palpitațiile să fie un răspuns natural al organismului care încearcă să se debaraseze de un cheag de sânge.

Nu vă mai mirați de ce spun. Medicina a stagnat de multe decenii, doctorii nu-și bat capul și mai ales nu gândesc ca inginerii. Cred că un curs de mecanica fluidelor ca la facultatea de mecanică ar fi mai mult decât necesar în curriculum-ul de la medicină.

De ce nu m-am dus la doctor. Sincer, nu-mi mai pasă.

12:30 I rotated the car's tires (front with rear). Quite a bit of work in the parking lot with no power tools. I thought i was going to have to put more air in the fronts as the rears had less before i did so. However i had the inspiration to measure them first. Guess what. The higher pressure stayed in the new fronts. That ca have only one explanation. 2/3 of the car's weight lays on the front wheels and because of that the pressure increases in tires when you move them from rear to front. Never new that.

June 3rd

12:34 I remember how frustrated i was 28 years ago (almost) when i came to the US. My English was pretty basic back then and because i couldn't speak my mind, people were showing faces at me that were telling: Idiot... Retard... Psychotic...

Nobody will ever know how painful it was to get here. To write a blog in English and say things that would never have crossed my mind if i didn't come here. I would have never known that a band like Oasis existed. Radio stations in Romania play mostly euro-dance to this day. Would have always got high drowned in sugar.

But always feel the same anxiety when i try to say things i haven't before. I wish i could find quickly the words to describe this band. After peeking in Wikipedia all i saw was... Britpop. Heavily influenced by Beatles. Influential.

What i would say. Same bpm as one song would start from another. Monotone sparkling guitar chords and a plain bold voice. Acceptable but never triggered in me the urge to look for their name. A counterbalance to Nirvana. Eye popping lyrics (One Headlight, where they become distinct and do i feel a bit of late modern new wave psychedelic in there). So to this day i never knew of Oasis, Liam and Noel Gallagher etc. by name. Though i have listened to their music probably as much as to Phil Collins and Sting. Safely blame it on (local) DJs for both.

What made me today. The weird coincidence of this article after me heavily criticizing both of the above.

Not the first time when i heard the phrase: Pill Collins is the must successful untalented guy. Insecure, shy, pretentious. Yes it's true.

But other than a guy named Noel cursing a guy named Phil, i don't really see any anti-racism.

And yes i wouldn't have known that walflowers do exist if i didn't google for the name of the song.

Sadly not the only coincidences in the news (should be getting used by now but it shocks me every time) with what i wrote lately. News about disasters from remote areas. But only by looking carefully, for more than a couple of seconds, you may be realizing those are fake.

1:53 The left front wheel nuts went loose in the same night i torqued them to 10 twice, like all the other wheels, after i went to WinCo. Forgot to re-torque them. Last night i had trouble driving because of those. I went outside to torque those and collect the oil from the catch can. I talked about aloud inside for at least one hour. But when i went i started with torquing and what did i see. The second or third veteran with his wife was returning from the mailboxes. Can't say they got in front of me. But they anticipated the moment i would go to do it.

She, playing victim, he the protector. She wouldn't go to pick the mail alone especially when she knows i'm about to do something at the car (the smallest thing involving oil). Starting to hear a bunch of Hareleys in the distance when i went the second time. Or a military plane on afterburner. Either ways.

They continued like that until i went back inside. A van with White Shinto LPN made a turn using the next spot when i was leaving, getting real close to me. Inside two Japanese models made up almost blond staring at me with shown disgust. In that moment i felt like going and smashing the windows of that van. BTW there wasn't much oil in the can but a couple of onces of water mixed with oil.

To me it looked like this spring, all of a sudden, the car started to put lots of blow by mixture which prompted me to install it.

That emulsion is thin, not like oil and would bounce in the can and probably climb and part of it get inside the intake, defying its purpose. The can came with some sort of metal sponge that would prevent that but i'm afraid to put it in, on counts of what if some metal breaks from it and get in the engine. I'm thinking of using some absorbent material that can't break but that could get sucked into it.

3:13 Getting ready for vacation, got my new GPS. So far. Hard to input addresses. Not all places, like all casinos, are listed. Have to manually put in the current position at start? Truth is i didn't completely learn how to use it but pretty decent for 60 bucks. Choice from many other Chinese ones at the same price was battery (2500 mAh) and list of places. Nicest thing. It shows speed limit in any area and tells you if you are over it and after that one more time if you are over that +10. A half second delay in vocal turn announcement that may become critical at times.

Stuck with a suction cup on the windshield, same problem as with my dashcam that got destroyed by heat from sunlight. Tried and put a piece of aluminum foil in the back of it  to prevent this.

June 2nd

7:34 Elvis Presley

7:45

12:10 Bow Down Mister... Abia acum m-am prins de ce au scos-o la scenă pe dooamna... Sper că voi reuși cândva să înțeleg pe deplină această tehnică de confuzare a publicului prin maimuțăreli.

12:11 I secretly wish this friendship would bring us some help in the struggle with Austro (Hungary). Unless... Unless he's coming just to get the Russians mad with Romania...

Me personally i don't believe nuclear weapons, the kind they say they put on rockets do exist. Like in the case of conventional bombs, they need a shell to create pressure. Without a big steel shell all you will get from a "nuke" would be a fizz or a meltdown.

They could have some, encased, that need to be really big, in different locations in different countries and detonate those, and they claim they were sent by rockets. They could have giant planes loaded with shaped charged conventional explosives to simulate a small nuke.

Hiroshima etc. was a hoax enacted by the ninja using the Spruce Goose plane to give leverage to the world governments controlled by them for the next 100 years or so or until people will figure it out.

3:05

Deja vu

5:48 The sprinklers started. They came.

June 1st

3:23 No clear etymology is given in Wikipedia for the name Germania, given by Romans to the area north of Gaul. I was browsing for Roman emperors and i was searching and reading about the emperor nicknamed Caligula, who was the third emperor of the empire. His face reminds me of known Hungarian actors of today. However his inherited name, from his father, which was more like a title, given by the Senate to emperors or generals after acquiring new territories, comes after Germania and it made me curious and clicked on it and once again i was intrigued by the vagueness of possible etymologies.

Then i remembered i once found on a very nice and detailed map of Ancient Europe i can't find right now, something that caught my eye. But found another one that might be better... A tribe named... Cherusci (right above where it says GERMANY).

Then i remembered i once wrote... well, posted, some pictures with Cherokees, again intrigued by the fact they were wearing feathers on their shoulders (like another guy known to us from even more ancient times) and possible link with Bible's Cherubs.

A missing (internet address) link, by that time i was putting only links to the pictures, i gave up that habit after too many links broke. I don't care about restoring this post since, well, i think i've done enough volunteering already, but look... And think.

We should quit seeing history as about isolated countries or Bible only as a religious book. They were links in the past among all continents especially during Northern Ice Age and people might have wondered more than we know from history classes.

As for Germany. Why the name Deutsche or Dutch by which Germans call themselves nowadays was not mentioned by the Romans?

There is a possible explanation. They weren't there at that time. Due to abundance of metals, especially gold the area of Dacia later occupied by the Romans was quite a worry free, advanced civilization. History now tells us that the barbarian Romans wiped or voided  of people the entire densely populated area of the occupied part of Dacia, taking some 500 000 prisoners which were then turned into slaves.

Could some of the remaining others have become refugees in western Europe, notably the Ruhr area which was also rich in metals, though not so much gold that was already depleted and thus not of so much interest to Romans anymore so they could go on with their skills to this day?

This could explain the Romanians' attachment for Germans, choosing a German dynasty as their kings and now a German (looking) president? 

5:45 The moment Angela went to sleep, they came.

9:52 Severus Maximus