January 15

12:51 I just finished watching browsing, can't stand some of the melodramatic longer scenes, a few episodes of sci-fi series Pandora, first aired December 2020. Yes with Priscilla Ann Quintana in the role of Jax, Jacqueline, "Pandora". It's about how the last Pandora, the one who believes in the future of this Universe and tries to save it from destruction by the Ancients.

1:50  The reason i stopped watching was got my nose congested by some sort of pungent air born mold that was coming from outside. I think what happened is wind breeze shifted and i went and picked that empty soda can in front of one of the patios here in the building.

9:33 Was doing dishes using blue nitrile gloves (my hands dry a lot after i soak them in water for a long time) after i soaked using the same gloves the always wet in the winter aluminum windows' frames with borax (don't really know if it's going to stick there), second most powerful antifungal after chlorine (borax is not toxic to humans, it is used to preserve caviar). Don't use dishwasher anymore since i last cleaned it. That thing will get contaminated after one use only. I had my main door open to air the room when somebody came at the door. A USPS guy looking like dr. Fauci? (only saw his face with my peripheral view, was embarrassed of wearing gloves full of grease) gave me my new phone, a Moto e7i Power and then asked for my name. Didn't have a mask on. Last time i looked on Amazon yesterday and there was no estimate delivery date for the phone just the range, 14-19. First i thought it was a part for my car i bought from ebay that comes with "free fast DHL" from Korea, estimated 19, Amazon puts stuff usually in the locker next to office. Curiously enough, got the same type of phone i ordered from newegg about a week ago and they did put it in the Amazon locker. Got me thinking. Should i now open this Pandora's box?

BTW i wasn't wearing a mask. Got so mad i ruined my omelet. Was thinking. It is not the first time when i brush with this clown. Last summer at Liquor store in Tualatin (yes, Oregon is one of the few states that sells liquor in separate stores, owned by "state accredited operators") he was acting as a sales person, wouldn't handle my bottle (after i touched it and took it to the register) after i briefly removed my mask he gave me (i forgot mine in the car) to leak my fingers cause i could not remove my card with my dry hands from my wallet.

Something i never wrote since yesterday. I came from my walk, relaxing, getting drunk, i put some videos with Sade trying to refresh the times and places i met with Anca Parghel. First in a camp for kids, Bucșoaia, not far from Câmpulung, for a few minutes only. She was one year older than me, but taller which i could not stand. I think she said she was attending the music school in Suceava. At the sea side at the end of HS in Mamaia in 1979. I was in the last days of my stay in a tent there, had no money, not even for cigarettes.

That summer i first worked, then a couple of school mates and neighbors came to me and asked me to go with them in a trip by train around the country  (one cheap long distance "loop" ticket). After i nearly drowned at Sulina, swam too far in the sea and had a cramp at one my legs, we went in a camp with tents in Mamaia. Here she came and told me in English she was Arab from Iraq, and had a brother at Tehnoton, she had a sports coat over her white flax dress saying Tehnoton on it, never knew there was an arab guy at my HS, or maybe i heard, vaguely from Caleap (the nick name of my classmate that looked like Freddy Mercury), i think she gave me a cigarette and said and she would give me money to take her to a restaurant which at first shocked me (was a very very naive and shy kid). She had a wallet full of hundreds, expensive cigarettes. After much hesitations of my part, we went to a restaurant and after drinking a few glasses of wine, she swept the table with her hand, then we danced and she kept falling on the floor. We walked, drunk, all night in Mamaia from one end to the other, while she was yelling all the time "I don't like Nicolae Ceaușescu!", especially when a street cop was nearby and i felt like i wanted the ground to open for me to fall in and hide. For some reason i don't understand to this day, she was shaking every time i kissed her. At dawn we found ourselves sitting in the sand next to the camp where my tent was and she left, after she wrote my address in a card (Yeah, since i first heart Norah Jones song i thought it was about that). Third time. In the bar at Lucky Eagle on New Year's eve, two or three years ago, her, the bartender, me, the only customer. None of those times i knew who she was.

In those moments i started to hear a big commotion outside. First, wasn't paying much attention, in my drunk daydreaming youtube party while Angela was sleeping. However it got louder and louder, like thundering (comparable if not louder than the 20 ton garbage trucks shaking the bins on Thursdays) and started to feel dust in my eyes and throat. A guy with a big truck and heavy trailer was driving around the complex, making a very big loud noise every time he was hitting one of the numerous speed bumps and shaking the buildings. He went like that until it got me mad, more than 20 minutes i guess until Angela woke up and asked what's happening. I was thinking to go outside to confront him, call the Police, whatever. In the end he stopped, i put back the wet towels on top of filters, mopped the floor, but the harm was already done. In the next hours, whole body inflammation set in. First i was nauseated then i started to eat like crazy, to calm my stomach. I tried to open Pandora on Amazon but after a few seconds i remembered the unusually body shaped young woman walking and jogging next to me on the street just before i came home and spent the rest of the evening until 2:30 doing searches, with some success. I woke up this morning after 5 and a half hours of sleep, groggy with pains everywhere, while Angela is at work (happy to make some extra money). And then, "dr.Fauci" at my door. Isn't this already enough for one guy's beginning of the weekend?

5:56 There are two ways that i know of to return to Amazon. One, with code, no box, no label, at the UPS store in Lake Oswego, one mile or one freeway exit away. The other with box and printed label (actually i had to attach three of them) at the Whole Foods Market Amazon Hub in Lake Oswego some 6 miles away on a narrow winding road and inconfortable road through the hills (Main label is minimalist, with Whole Market address and a code). And that because i was inspired enough to use google maps. The other way that i knew, I5, Kruse way, Country Rd and downtown LO is probably more than twice the distance. However, had to pass through McVey Ave. Me spelling in my mind. McVey, McVey, McVey while returning a phone that has a warning label about the half charged lithium battery inside.

Don't know the exact criteria, but these are the options you're given. Could be the price. The more expensive items you return with box and label at the Whole Foods. I only returned once there, the new tires i didn't needed no more, the day after the accident. The tires came without a box, and i put the label on top of the old label, in there, they found a box for me, but it was a favor. This time it was the Moto e6. Because after, i found an e7, cheaper, newer and better, first on newegg and then also on Amazon. Big difference in latency. BTW, not all searches are obvious on Amazon. I did google searches after i searched on Amazon and didn't find items and found them at... Amazon. This time, i searched for the exact type, letter by letter and found it after i knew of it.

Nobody was asking for receipts, i didn't ask for one, they didn't offer, i came back home and checked the status of the return on Amazon and was unchanged (no return initiated). Tried chatting with the reps at Amazon, they were clueless, without even looking at the order and return, had to give them the detail i was returning to an Amazon hub. They said i should have asked for a receipt, so i rushed back there and asked for one. There they said they "could not print one there", should look in the email. I bought on Angela's account, didn't have her email on my phone. Went back home, found the email. If i looked, i would have spared one trip. Or if the Amazon guys told me to look.

BTW, just went outside, the space between buildings is flooded with smoke, could not find an obvious source, but noticed one thing, one more time out of 1000. When there's much smoke outside, and i go like a crazy and step on soft areas of the soil, nobody else is outside. Though the next building is all lit up, can't see no one moving, like they usually so do when i go outside. Not even the retired police dog at second floor which use to watch me from above and sometimes barking at me. Nobody passing. Not even modified exhaust cars. Just an airliner flying very low, kinda quiet. I guess they protect their own.

8:53/6:53 Postarea aceasta și efortul de a o realiza sunt dedicate tuturor celor care și-a pierdut locul de muncă în România, familiilor lor, din cauza acestor shinobi.

12:57/10:57 Closed captions. Un nume ciudat pentru ceva foarte practic. Toate televizoarele americane, chiar și cele mai ieftine aveau această setare, chiar de acum 26 de ani când am venit în SUA. Dacă le activezi, îți apare în partea de jos a ecranului, pe o bandă, textul rostit în scris. Tot în engleză, dar scris. Pentru cei care nu aud. Este mult mult mai ușor să înțelegi un film, dacă ai făcut ceva engleză la școală decât dacă numai auzi. Și pentru faptul că majoritatea toți actorii de pe ecran nu sunt de fapt vorbitori de limbă engleză. Sunt unguri, cu identități engleze, americane, etc., învață și ei fonetic frazele pe care le rostesc, dar nu sună natural, deși uneori se străduiesc să imite chiar accentele locale, în afară de puține cazuri, mai mult cântăreți, când sunt japonezi. Deci căutați această opțiune și activați-o, dacă nu înțelegeți filmele.

2:16 The smoke in the space between buildings yesterday had an animal dung component. I can feel the effects (smell) now.