October 2

6:16 Woke up at 3 AM after 6 hours of sleep. Thought i felt the smell of ozone coming from the Ionic Pro electrostatic filter, not anymore. Which means they were not "active" dog poos at the time, usually ozone smell is covered by that smell. I remember yesterday when i went to Copart, i drove for about half, been there in the lot for an hour, the nausea subsided, like when i go at Casinos. When i got back in the truck, i felt the smell.

Could not sleep, came at the computer to do some searches, smoke came in. Went and found a hole next to a gutter to the closest garages, plugged it with soil, smoke subsided. There are a couple of lights on building D that go off every time i get close.

At 4:45 went to take Angela to work, nobody on the streets Saturday at 5 AM except a jogger. When i got back and shut the engine and i looked briefly on the plug in voltmeter and first it showed 12.4 than 12.1. Which means battery isn't charging. I went and checked the connectors and they were both loose. Besides a possibility of not being able to start the car next time (got the jumpstarter, but not in the car), the problem is emissions. Without well connected battery to stabilize the voltage coming from alternator, voltage is fluctuating at sensors and everywhere and creates an emissions nightmare. For one second after i wrote here i felt like cursing in my mind, the adrenaline rush, and a car alarm beeped a couple of times in the parking lot, like every time when i do that. As i said, they got to maintain my reputation.

1:09 Got to run to pick Angela. Since i woke up this morning, until now when i shut the door but maybe after all "people" on a perceptible radius are evolving around me like that DJ and others around Bruce Willis in the 5th element when he was walking to take his seat at the theatre in that space station.Three pictures. One showing a Tualatin Fire engine, it was idling next to a Police SUV and an ambulance. The noise from those two vehicles cover the noise of a huge black F150 coming from behind with maybe 20 mph that almost run over me. I stopped to take a picture of the emergency vehicles and turned around when i saw that guy, too fast, to close. The very beautiful Hungarian woman a the wheel gave me an smile and then put an intrigued expression oh her face like... What do you want, sorry i didn't do it. Currently, kids playing dangerously on the stairs on building D. Got to go, start the truck and leave. Mouse wheel click to enlarge.

1:57 Went to pick Angela. At Boones Ferry i had to make a right turn on Avery. This is the second time in one month and a half when i saw a pedestrian in may way crossing Avery. Trouble is i only saw that young red headed woman one second before she climbed on the sidewalk because of the Sun coming from her direction. I was pretty far but still unsettling, after. Didn't have time to forget about when i saw a (red) squirrel that just cleared my path, 1/10 of a second before i could have hit it. (It is a doubling or ingannare for what i said in the previous paragraph. They wouldn't let any story of mine without some sort of addressing, if only for creating confusion). To me it all seems alien like and taken from Sci-Fi movies, because i see it first hand over and over and over. Picked Angela, came home and they were playing on the radio "or else forget about it" (Santana). Got here, i saw my car is leaking coolant big time. A hole in the top of the radiator that i patched with putty. Half gallon of coolant is missing from the huge reservoir, good thing is very diluted. Last time i did it, it lasted almost two years. Done it a couple of times lately, now it won't last even weeks. The kids playing dangerously on the stairs moved to next building (right of D). The space between rail bars is too big, they fit in between. I wanted to take off from here, but now i have to wait for the truck to cool so i can patch it again and then wait some more for the putty to cure.

Good news. My blood sugar is 190 and i'm not crashed yet. I only ate 10 grams of carbs today, i had some V8 juice, however i think it's something else. Both times when it went that low i had my Columbia sportswear rain coat which heats me pretty good for hours, especially while driving in the hot cabin.

Bad news. The car i wanted badly at Copart is damaged (47 k, 2 liter engine, 190 hp, 40 mpg in the city heavy built Hyundai Sonata). I looked really careful at the pictures i've done yesterday when i went the second time with Angela. Did i tell that the car was not on the "selling lot" they had to bring it when i asked for it. Hood is locked, can't see much, car has been hit only on the left headlight and fender and bent the hood. However pieces of debris or the bent hood touched the motor control unit, which besides being very expensive (2000 dollars), cary hundreds of amps, maybe thousands. Yesterday i could not start the car because the (conventional) battery (never knew hybrids use conventional batteries as well and probably a starter) which is drained is in the trunk and trunk opens only with the keys and the keys where tied to the steering wheel. It was minutes to 5 when we left, the Japanese guy with the forklift who jump started another car for us the other day came smiling, but i passed. Should i have stayed over 5 and jump started that car, it could have blown. After 5, when nobody was in the office. I could still buy the car if it doesn't go high at the auction, buy that module and replace it but who knows if anything else is bad, without starting it. And that, i won't anymore.

There is one thing i don't understand though. Why they put that module with those thick orange hundreds amps wires) way up front where it is among first things to be hit in case of accident (under the white reservoir (yes for cooling the module) on the right)?

(Just cursed in my mind, an alarm went off in the parking lot). 3:37 One after another, all combined in a continuous of fakerey. There is some food giveaway outside the complex, on the hill in the little park that is visible from my windows. The car was leaking for days and i planed to fix it today. The red headed woman earlier, kids with plates of food passing by me while i was working on it. Boomerang thrower has to anticipate the movement of their targets.