December 25

12:45 The man in Oh-hi-io hits again. Everybody was talking until recently about feminism, songs have been made, but nobody is trying to rescue the Princess from her skin, bones and big boobs syndrome. Her Highness people still like to see that for a second or two next to headlines, i guess. But at least for Christmas please let her them eat something for God's sake.

1:12 Rain was in the forecast for yesterday and today but didn't come. One of the major fires last summer in Oregon restarted and wind is blowing from that direction and the index is 100. Got delivered two units with permanent filters, both broken that need to be returned (Amazon). For that reason i didn't buy replacement elements for the other filters. In the living i run one of the old ones but when i opened the door in the bedroom where there's one of the broken one running in vain and Angela doesn't want the other old one (because is stinking) and there is thick smoke in there.

I already did laundry once after i cleaned the drums in the washer that were full with slime and... cinnamon, and once the slime and cinnamon was gone, the water heater insulation nearby being contaminated after years of exposure started to stink really badly. Maybe it was stinking before and didn't feel it because of the cinnamon. Don't know who put the cinnamon in the washer. Though i put in the closet an UV lamp and a bowl of chlorine bleach and even cinnamon rolls, and a blanket on the closet entrance the apartment smells strongly like dirty laundry that nauseates me and now smoke.

1:40 Now fireworks in the tiny park south of here, some 500 ft away.

2:35 What friends are good for. Like it happened many times to me when i was stumbling in the art of programming and got stuck somewhere i was telling the story to someone and while doing so i was able to organize my thoughts and figure it before i finished the story.

So it happened tonight. While i was writing the above i realized i never clean washed the floor after i rinsed the washer with the hose. I gathered the water with a rag and thought it was enough and never washed it. Because i was worried about putting the thing together and fast, cause i was ruining Angela's vacation which in the end i did.

So at 2 AM i grabbed the mop and mopped the vinyl floor around and under the washer and that involved moving the 500 pounds thing around (wetting the floor and sliding, no damage, not much noise, hope i'm not gonna develop an aneurysm from straining though) the ninja (not Angela who is very sensitives to noises at night, but not after the fireworks anyways) awoke and came above and made me nervous and i dropped something heavy on the floor but in the end, after i washed  the floor and walls like several times with detergent (really dirty water came out of the mop) i reduced the smell to 10% of what it was before and that with open entrance. Should have used some chlorine in the end but the smell is too strong to sleep here after.

I think i could have let the UV in there for a year and wouldn't stop that stink cause the floor was actually dirty.

As i write here they continue with assorted music on KGBON (on very low volume). Now Message in a Bottle with Stink. While i was cleaning was "I work hard (He works hard) every day of my life. I work till I ache my bones".

3:00 AM What stays in my mind at the end of the day. The film i partly saw this morning (was too much for Angela who left). While heating again my old bones at the wi-fi near me. 2022 Bullet Train with Brad Pitt. The sheer number of scenes that come one of another. The technological wonder that is Shinkansen. How much work was put in that film, and how much was CGI (which is still work but probably done by AI).

How about US? Trains in the US go with an average speed of 59 mph. What happened to Obama's dreams? What is happening to Biden's infrastructure, mid term elections have passed already. Biden spent already more money on Ukraine than the projected cost of high speed rail for ten years.

Needless to say. In China they already have a network of over 24000 miles of high speed rail. Some of it (the maglev lines) reach 400 kmh and are planed to go at 600. Most airliners go at 950.