August 19

11:53 Motive șerpești, lingamuri. Practic, lucrarea apare ca un templu al lui Shiva, iertătorul de datorii LOL. Dar Buda acela îmbrăcat pe banii dvs. care apare printre muncitori cine-i, a ok Artilla.

1:45 Fascinating. Extreme mechanics resurfacing parts, modifying, rebuilding a transmission with a few tools with methods that at first seem chaotic and a speed that defies imagination. No, it's not on fast forward, this is how some people work. Is it going to work after? Most likely, cause they would go out of business if not. Thinking of scratching of head, bolts and nuts and parts i would misplace if i tried. Most likely, skills gained after doing it daily for a lifetime. My favorite part. Minute 13, turning without cooling, red hot temperatures, that cutting tip must be Swedish. But was thinking. Is the movement of the hands of a woman cleaning and preparing meals for a family for a lifetime less precise or important? Don't think so.


4:17 Some fog lifted of my brain. Where did i know this guy where did i know this guy. The supervisor of the team working at my windows, and BTW the firm is not SAGE anymore but BZ Construction looks like Emperor Naruhito himself. BTW just got another entry notice extending the presence of construction workers through Thursday next week.

4:15 120, 160, 200.

5:05 Amadani

5:10 Up until today i thought Russians were the most isolated people on Earth, but i changed my mind, it's the Japanese. Of course their emperor is working, he's not real, he's a ninja, since before Edo period.

7:30 Generalized pain made me go outside and hose the AC. However that was not the problem. The problem was in the back they unnecessarily gutted the siding to the point they exposed the insulation under. They put some tape over that twisted. Was thinking. Even if they put a piece of siding to match the whole, it will never be sealed. Let's say i can seal it at my level with silicon, but what about the level above? How about the other apartments?

It was a trap. they put that flashing over insulation and a few hanging pieces of bituminated paper which had no chance to hold and they left a huge amount of dust on the wall, that came from cutting the siding.

Tonight i went and hosed the AC, balcony floor, screen, and saw the dust and directed the hose towards it. On the upper side flashing have been stretched when it was applied (that became apparent only after i taped it to the edge with duck tape, lower image) which made it twist, not being taped to anything (or loose insulation). Again, flashing cut too short or too much of the siding have been cut. I looked carefully and i'm not sure if the insulation is mineral or not. Most likely not. The dust and pain came from somewhere else. Ironically, they left this time the flashing falling from above too long.

On the right side there is a 5 mm edge that allowed taping the self adhesive flashing. On the left side i put some duck tape over it to get to the edge of the siding so i can seal the hole with insulation exposed, until Monday when they can decide what to do. I would have been a genius if i took a picture before hosing, but 4 days of hammering thin wood got to my head.

9:22 Few people ever took the time to think, thinking it does not concern them, or it's fantasy or a "tradition" and it doesn't signify anything to them. About being a god, like the emperor of Japan.

First thing. A god is not human and can be benevolent or malevolent. Being a descendant of Amaterasu, who hid in a cave and took the daylight with her, gods can be moody or even egotistical.

A person's will, including his/her servants, will pale when compared to a God's will. In fact, nobody can have a will except him/her.

Whoever serves a god on this Earth can't be friends with other humans. Or they can but at a lesser degree. Definitely not friends with those who don't serve their god. But some do their best.

9:35 I knew about the significance of self scarring for aboriginal Australians (and yes, the famous American "blinds" design might also have something to do with). Yesterday i discovered something that may prove the Australian descendance of Hungarians. Ornaments on military closing resembling that type of body self mutilation. However today i've been forced to think and discovered something else that may also be related to body scarring of those people.

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September 19

5:18 Oricât am căutat, nu am găsit nici o știre în New York Times despre România, după 24 August. În schimb am găsit știrea respectivă pe un site unguresc, care citează New York Times.

11:24

Don't know if the holes in the gates' "attic"are made for birds but i guess nobody would stop them from nesting there.

2:45 Nepal, Nippon.

3:15 Russians' dilemma.

4:35 What do you know. They never finished working at this building. I came from my walk was really hot, AC is not working for reasons of dust, was sitting at the computer in underwear, but there is too much light outside for someone to see me. A couple of them passed by the sliding windows. Then in retaliation they brought a diesel generator not far from the door, for charging the batteries at their tools and a compressor next to it and the exhaust is making its way here, giving me a headache. In other words, the are now playing Holy Mexicans gassing the "gay". Though they are all Japanese.

4:59 Maximum dust. I really don't understand, i thought i saw all windows and sliding doors finished in the back. Now they pulled another old one?

At the building D they stripped siding from around windows and cut siding under a couple of windows exposing 6 inches of insulation under each. Are they going to tape the Forte flashing on the insulation? Hammering, vibration already brought the painful dust inside though i heated coconut oil a couple of hours ago.

6:05 Breaking all patterns, after Kay another storm is sweeping through Northern California. I don't think it will make its way here, pressure is said to be increasing by tomorrow.

6:09 They just finished outside for the day, the disguised Japanese Olympic swimmer came, stopped his bike with a backfire and started its work.

6:56 Ok my phone was completely discharged when i tried to take a better picture. They left insulation exposed at the first windows and a pile of garbage, boards full of insulation dust from all windows between buildings.

They did that at our bedroom window, they left it like that over the weekend. It will be a few more days of hell. I put the coconut oil on lowest setting on continuous heating and can still feel the stings.

7:55 Și din banii restituiți de la goți hoți, huni, vandali, magari și secui să facă guvernul României, împreună cu toate guvernele lumii, o autostradă specială, subterană, cu două benzi într-un singur sens, până în Șambala, unde să plece drect în p... mamei lor originale adică Buda cei pe care lumea nu poate să-i mai încapă și care nu au minte, inimă și în general nimic omenesc.

(Câteva ore mai târziu. Eram beat când am scris asta și am uitat. Nu se poate fiindcă guvernele sunt tot ei.)


8:11 The dust today here is overwhelming so i came up with a little strategy, i grabbed four beef patios (a bit brown, just bought from WinCo) and the electric pan and went outside on the patio to do those hoping the beef fat will interfere with the dust. Exactly wen i was supposed to go back outside (the sliding door is blocked with the AC) on the main door to flip them, the woman upstairs went and started her motorcycle but didn't leave, waited until i got out and the white car from the garages slid between me and her like protecting her and then she left. Similar episodes during all my walks.

Tar Balls

Not from Linux...

In these sunny days in the attic it gets like 120F. In Oregon. (I have one of the weather station's sensors in there. I wonder how it is in hotter states). The tiles of the roof are made of bitumen and tiny pieces of it break and fall through the cracks of the plywood underneath the tiles and mix with the insulation and start decomposing. The more volatile components go first and smell bad but the big problem is the nutrients that are coming from the barbecues. They rot in there and mix with the smell of tar and make a stink that combined with other stinks i described here earlier make your life very hard in a place like this. Tar is antibacterial but i think it favors some yeasts. When i opened the attic this morning to take a sample of the insulation that contains these (actually the tiny tar balls separated from the wool rock in the bottom of the bag i used and when shaken make a sound like they're already dried, the volatile components evaporated but they still smell) there was a back flow from the attic inside the apartment. That's because my next door neighbor has a window opened in the direction where the wind is coming from or the two fans in the window are working creating pressure that goes through the cracks or by the lid into the attic and make that smell to back flow into my apartment or through the intake above the kitchen window or through the vents. And because she/he had the fans started yesterday, the temperature in the attic didn't go that high at the expense of the back flow above the kitchen window. But yesterday morning when i had breakfast i had the kitchen window opened then i got really really sick, almost...

To take the macro below i used one more 55 mm fixed length camera lens held by hand at about one inch in front of my 70-105 equivalent Sony/Minolta lens with the zoom at maximum. First i put the focus on automatic and it did focus but for more precise focus i put the focus on manual ant then moved around until i got it. You may click or middle click on it to better view.

The distance between two graduations on the tape measure below is 1/32 inches. The tar samples have been shaken out of a small insulation sample that could been caught between two fingers but these are only a small part. The total amount is probably in the order of 1/10-1/100 of the total mass of the mineral fiber insulation.

(Macro photographs done with one extra 55 mm lens held by hand at one inch in front of the 28-105 mm stock lens of my Sony DSLR-300 set at maximum or 105 mm. The distance between the out of focus ruler divisions is 1/32 inch. Can click to enlarge)

Although it does not look like asbestos to me (in the picture looks more like it but in reality not, these fibers a lot shinier and more regulated) when i manipulated the sample that's already been shaken to extract the above sub-sample in the sunlight near the window i saw one million shiny sparkles that dissipated in a few seconds i don't know where, and i also felt the smell and the sting in my throat.

Or maybe... from here? http://www.flickr.com/photos/39325385@N07/7686495606/in/photostream Or here? http://www.flickr.com/photos/39325385@N07/9472963275/

The Curse of the Open Plan Kitchen

George Ion

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"Open plan kitchen design is the concept of joining the kitchen and the living room into a single area to create a continuous functional dialogue. This is no longer a trend; it's become the way of approaching kitchen design"

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  George Ion It started i think in 1933 and was done by Wright himself, the master of American architecture.
  
  https://franklloydwright.org/willey-house-stories-part-1.../

  

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  Willey House Stories Part 1 – The Open Plan Kitchen | Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation

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  George Ion Some beg to differ from "the way of approaching kitchen design".
  
  "Well, people cook in kitchens, and when they cook in kitchens, they make messes, and then, to make matters worse, if their kitchen is in full view from the rest of the house—as many today are—their mess is out in the open visible as they eat their meals, hang out with their families, entertain their guests, and go about their lives."
  
  https://www.theatlantic.com/.../the-curse-of-an.../560561/

  

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  The Curse of an Open Floor Plan

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  George Ion Yes, people do cook in kitchen. Some, like me, almost every day. And use the stove maybe once or twice a week.
  
  Even in a tiny 600 sqft (50 square meter) apartment like this, they do have giant stoves. How giant? Just measured mine. 2 ft (60 cm) wide inside. Enough to accommodate to 10 inch pizzas, two 15 pounds turkey, one small pig, one... you name it.

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  George Ion Up until yesterday i was complaining almost daily of smell of smoke. Marijuana from neighbors, i thought. No, i was wrong for years. I stuck a large plate with baking soda inside the stove and voila! No more smoke.
  
  High was i think from mold which i found a way to get rid of i will talk later.
  
  So it's not only the mess but the smell some like me would be against having a functional kitchen with a large stove inside living. And a bedroom next to it with a door that is open almost all the time. With one inch walls around the stove full of mineral insulation which gets contaminated with backing and cooking fumes.

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  George Ion But wait. This is just the beginning. They came a couple of decades ago with refrigerators with hidden outer (hot) coils. Right under it. The reason still eludes me. And because they were smaller, they added a fan that blows only when compressor is on. On top of the collecting pan for de-freezing. Fan blows out through some holes in a cardboard cover (that also has the role of protecting you from ultrasound creating by the hissing freon through a valve) and pulls from under, cooling the coils. Coils are half inch above floor. You can imagine that all the dust and dirt from kitchen floor being pulled by the fan and recirculated. But wait. Behind the fridge is the plug which communicates with the inside of the wall. If the wall is outer, is full of mineral insulation.
  
  The flow of that fan is times bigger than any of the filters i have.
  
  Due to same class of architects represented by great Lloyd, namely Levy, the "inner" wall (drywall, Sheetrock, whatever) does not touch the floor. There is an "airing" opening about half inch which will not allow sulfur dioxide from decomposing calcium sulfate (drywall) to accumulate inside wall. Let it flow inside at low "not dangerous" concentrations. Kitchens usually have some vinyl cover on top of that opening (Or wall-floor joint) but that is not sealed. More stuff (insulation, sulfured paper dust from drywall, electrified mineral insulation breakage) falling by the vinyl band will get blown by the output of that fan. Other stuff like food crumbles inevitability will get inside the wall, accumulate sulfur, and who can describe all the processes that could happen inside that alien environment which is the empty walls of Levy style american current house design and then get out back at you, blown by the fan and then recirculated. Some will end in the pan for collecting de-freezing water which gets wet every 8 hours or so and turn into mold.
  
  But the whole process can be intensified 10 to 100 times by a modified exhaust car outside with bursts of totally unnecessary pollutants inside your breathing space. That is if you spend lots of all of your time in the "living" area like i do. Then you will wake up in the morning with something that feels like sand on your teeth. Guaranteed diabetes in ten years and who knows what else after 40 or when you're not protected by youth hormones anymore.
  
  Dirtiest place in hour home? Maybe not. Dirtier than this is inside "walls".
  
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  George Ion I admit i was full of rage when i wrote this. Just finished cleaning mine. I do it once a month and by far is not enough.
  
  I take 4 screws out of the cardboard cover in the back and tilt and lean the whole fridge in a stable position against the wall (this can be dangerous) to expose the coils under. Better done with two persons, one just to hold the fridge.
  
  I use a garden sprayer with a pump, sort of like a pressure washer and run one gallon of water through the coils, fan case, fan, back case. I collect the water from vynil floor with a rag and mop the floor. Collect the water from the pan with same rag. Water leaves a whitish residue in a plastic tube i use to rinse the rag. Imagine all that dust blown by the fan in your living area.
  
  And yes from time to time you have to also clean the can shaped pipe that allows water from de-freezing to flow in the pan because it catches dirt (food crumbles from the fridge) and mold. With a wire and a small piece of cloth.

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