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