December 31

4:20 One of the first pictures done with my new Kodak camera. f/3 0.038 4.9 mm ISO 400 WB Sunny. What do you know, it's a real (pocket) camera!

12:06 Here is the project i've been dreaming at for months and is the result of more than two years of thinking. It started when i bought the plug in USB adapter with digital voltmeter for the car. It was then when i started to understand how things work electrically.

The initial reason i bought it was to be able to play music in the parking lot without having to search for a jump start (later i bought a jump starter the size of a book for 40 dollars which is very good and only after that i realized the battery was too old and bought a new battery just before that accident in August 2021).

Then i saw. It's not a 12 volts system as many people say. It's a 14.5 volts system. This is what the digital voltmeter shows all the time while the engine is running, at both cars i used it on. 12.5 is the voltage before starting the car. Similar to this one but now i regret mine it doesn't have two decimals. BTW it shows 14.8 in the pictures which on a car means battery doesn't get charged. It has to be 14.5 or less.

Most people think batteries are only good for starting  the engine. But they also act in a way similar to a capacitor for filtering the pulsating DC that's coming out of the alternator diodes which again is 14.5 and not 12.5 as most people would think and for that is required very good contacts. If  you don't have a smooth voltage, all your electric systems and most importantly fuel pomp will not work properly.

Second, i noticed that when i freshly tighten the battery's connector the voltage goes down like 0.1, which means better contact and charging the battery. I also noticed, less vibration at the engine, improved driveability by several points on a scale of 1 to 10 but most importantly, improved mileage by at least 10%. But the contacts wouldn't stay long that way. The connectors are spring like devices and the terminal is soft lead, and after a while that usually was one trip the lead would give in and the contact force would settle to a value that is not sufficient.

And me could not settle for less mpg since i knew it can get better by one simple thing. For two years i tried different methods of securing those contacts, including drilling horizontal, vertical holes and threading in the lead terminas, with the same results.

Right now it drives so nice i regret a lot i didn't do it earlier. But couldn't have, it required lots of thinking to get at this point. Soldered bolts on top of connector and on car's chassis to double the car's original connectors.

It's copper connectors enlarged to 10 mm holes (3/8 whatever) sandwiched between two serrated nuts tightened against each other on the 3/8 bolts with two wrenches (for avoiding apply rotating momentum on the soldered bolts). In the right it's a similar bolt soldered on car's chassis.

Battery is a (not so) cheap 100 dollars Walmart one because i didn't know how the soldering of the bolts on top of terminal will end. They have cheaper ones (59) but not in the store i go to.

It involved filing the outer hex surface of the bolt until removing the stamped 3D marks, filing some more using flux on the file or sandpaper to keep the oxygen out of the metal surface, using clean flux on a paper towel to remove the flux with filings, heating the bolt set on a side on a red hot stove's coil and applying solder, filing some more while hot by holding the bolt using long nose pliers on sand paper covered with flux sitting on a flat surface, wiping against a paper towel again soaked with flux again sitting on a flat surface, repeating until the entire hex surface of the bolt is covered with shiny solder, adding some more solder to make a small round melted drop, heating some more and applying.

Prepping the target area in the same way, with flux on a piece of coarse sandpaper, cleaning the filings with flux on a piece of paper towel, applying the heated bolt with long nose pliers and cooling immediately with water from a glass.

In the second picture you can see shiny slightly irregular protruding solder at the joint, under the bolt's hex end that is darkened by the heating with flux.

15-30 minutes project for a bolt if you have the tools and everything ready. But it's worth it. You can save 10% of gas money. Drive better, have better acceleration, save engine's life by eliminating vibration.

Materials. Connectors. A 3/8 drill bit to enlarge those. 3 bolts 3/8 by 1/16 one inch long from Lowes or Home Depot. 6 serrated nuts. Electronics solder. Flux. One medium size file and a few pieces of coarse (80) sandpaper. A few paper towels. A plastic glass for water.

The idea came to me after i saw the marine type batteries (for starting boats engines) that have both bolts and terminals. But i couldn't use one of those because they have the terminals the other way (plus on the right). But now that i searched for those to put a link i think i found one that could have worked.

Already thinking on how to improve it. One version would be soldering copper bands or wires directly to terminals and chassis (with no bolts) with a big soldering iron that i can heat on the stove again with keeping in place the original system just in case. Have to do it fast and cool the terminals within one second of starting soldering. On the plus i will need a short copper band with a hole at one end and solder it directly on the terminal.

And here is a crop of the original picture yes done with my new camera.

2:26 One of the reasons they won't give us a yearly report on budget spending is because the fiscal year like the water year starts on October 1st. My bad (that doesn't mean they couldn't, even itemize a bit).

I once wrote a post containing comparisons of charts for spending budget for several years. 5 years later, the spendings budget grew by more than 20%, deficit (borrowing, red) now is 1.37 trillion or 21% of the same budget.

There are two things i don't understand. Where it fits the recent "anti shot down" 1.7 bill (trill whatever).

Is it on top of the budget, part of, increase of deficit for next fiscal year, whatever. Same with the infrastructure bill of which i don't see nothing going on yet. Still digging but i doubt i will find it.

Got it. Temporary continuing resolutions, omnibus spending bill. As for the infrastructure bill, i don't know yet.

3:00 Figured that one also. 1.2 T for 8 years, melting somewhere in the annual budgets or in parallel, it doesn't matter, seems insignificant over the 7 T yearly budgets in both cases.

An average of roughly 3 billion per year per state. California is spending that amount a each year for high speed rail projects. Yeah i believe Oregon could build a much needed freeway to the beaches.

4:31 It looks like they never thought of that. There are other priorities.

5:08 There was a large amount of microwave radiation on the top level at the new parking at Chinook, between 10 to 20, and i moved the car in  the other parking lot. Didn't look until i felt it though i heard the meter that beeps above 1 because i didn't believe it was much bigger than that. Much more than near the tower at Grocery Outlet.

The meter fully charged works for about 24 hours, i tried to measure something in the other room and i saw it shut down with 11% battery left (sometimes it shots at 20, i don't know why). The USB plug was half way pulled from the charger and not working, though yesterday it charged  the meter completely. In the same time i started to feel something in the known places like i was recently exposed (within the last hour). And that did not come from our apartment.

6:06 Cute weregirls for the New Year celebrations on the streets of Romania. 

7:23 The pain was quite intense, lasted for about 2 hours and now it's going away. Minutes earlier i said i wanted to go check at the car to see of the last nuts i added didn't get loose, like the first ones, they weren't however they waited for me outside with a scene, all they have to do is figure what i'm going to do next and wait for me in that point in space and time with something.

8:10 Iar văd o gură strâmbă și un nas pe partea de roșu a drapelului în mijloc, alta jos pe galben roșu, care pare să înghită soarbă stelele, un Z întors pe galben, etc.. Nu vă mai jucați cu drapelul României!

În Tratatul de la Amsterdam, 1997, implementat în 1999, toate țările care erau membre UE au devenit automat și membre Schengen iar lista a fost inclusă într-un protocol parte din Tratat. În 2007 sau după aderarea României la UE în Protocolul de mai sus al Tratatului, care a devenit Protocolul 19 al Tratatului UE a fost adăugat în listă și numele României și a celorlalte două țări, Bulgaria și Croația.

9:20 Maria Bateria, o altfel de știre de anul nou. În legătură cu ce postez de mai multe zile despre bateria de mașină.

11:45 15 minute până la anul nou în Oregon. Am căutat sursa imaginii de mai sus și am văzut că este o imagine de stoc (site-uri unde fotografii își pun imagini la vânzare, nu știu de ce pentru că un drapel de țară este proprietatea statului respectiv). Toate imaginile cu steaguri care sunt în mod evident fotografii și nu photoshop sunt ok, cu excepția a încă două. În asta în care soarele bate din spate dintre nori dar steagul apare iluminat din partea opusă sau dinspre cameră, apare pe roșu jos ceva ca o tipă foarte tânără ce execută un dans sexy. Pe cealaltă, unde steagul este încrețit la partea albastră, pe galben apare o imagine greu de descris în cuvinte. Un șarpe care intră într-o peșteră?

2:26 There's hope for me in 2023. It's been maybe 20 years since i stopped hearing high frequencies with the right ear. How do i know. I check both ears by gently rubbing the same two dry fingers from right hand next to each of them. Yes i checked with frustration from time to time for all these years thinking on how my body betrayed me who i like listening to music so much. After a month of not using the cell phone today i started hearing those again. Not totally equal yet. It happened overnight cause a couple of days ago i still didn't hear them. Also pain in the fingers that i got so used to started to fade away. Balance problems are much smaller, almost gone.

Will my pancreas and colon heal as well?

Lucky to have right now an old cable modem with two Ethernet ports (and wi-fi) but i need one more port (i guess i could silence the wi-fi from its page, but not sure). Found a cable modem with no wi-fi on Amazon but it only has one Ethernet port (for a wi-fi router of course). Because people stopped using Ethernet long time ago.

So i guess i'll have to use one of these for the three devices i am moving on Ethernet and completely get rid of wi-fi with 60 dollars plus the cables and two adapters (another 50, the new TV has a port). Also stopped using the microwave except for absolutely necessary situations (5 meters distance for several minutes like a frozen dinner is still not enough, i can heat a burrito or a hot dog in a pan with a bit of water i guess). Maybe looking for a microwave with no stupid glass door (completely metal).

2:50 It never rains in Southern California.

December 15

12:00 Am postat acum câteva zile un link la o pagină în giganticul site al Uniunii Europene unde scrie negru pe mov că România este în Schengen din 2007. Doar cu câteva secunde înainte de a găsi fraza ajunsesem la aceeași concluzie, fiindcă Tratatul Schengen a fost încorporat în Tratatul UE încă din 1999.

Chiar căutam un prilej să reiterez asta, și l-am găsit. La o zi după ultima re-trimitere într-o nouă postare a mea la acel link a apărut faza cu site-uri clonate. CSALB, o organizație ne-guvernamentală spune că i s-au înmulțit plângerile legate de site-uri clonate. Aluzia este evidentă. Vreo dovadă "tare" (hard evidence) în legătură cu aceste clonări? Nu.

Eu folosesc internet din 1997 și nu mi s-a întâmplat niciodată. Unul din motive este că firmele mari ca de exemplu Amazon acum, dar și firmele mari echivalente din România nu tolerează aceste activități pentru că le-ar scădea vânzările. Nu poate încerca nimeni nimic fiindcă specialiștii lor detectează la timp.

În al doilea rând. Încercați dvs. să navigați prin site și să ajungeți la pagina asta care aparține unuia din site-urile UE, pornind de la o căutare google, independent de link-ul meu. Oare merită importanța informației atâta efort din partea dvs.?

În al treilea. Un calc care are Windows (sau Chrome în cazul meu) updated la zi, va ști să verifice certificatul de securitate al unui site. La adresa din browser în stânga sus veți vedea numele corporației sau firmei respective în verde. Dacă site-ul nu are certificat de securitate veți vedea ceva în roșu etc. iar browser-ul nu vă va permite accesul.

Al patrulea. Adresa web. Puteți verifica adresa web din căsuța din stânga sus a browser-ului, dacă o știți ca în exemplul Quora de mai sus. Site-ul europa.eu. Toate site-urile oficiale ale Uniunii Europene au fraza europa.eu undeva în adresă.

În link-ul meu, sufixul #:~:text=Bulgaria,area a fost adăugat pentru a sublinia (highlight) textul dorit (conținut între aceste cuvinte, se putea adăuga ca sufix și întreg textul).

Mai ușor link-ul se poate obține în browser prin selectarea unui text, click dreapta pe selecție și alegând Copy link to highlight (nu știu cum e în română, probabil Copiază link la highlight). Adresa astfel copiată cu sufixul conținând tot textul se poate paste oriunde, de exemplu într-un email, fb sau blogger. Doar cu selectarea unui text și câteva clicuri.

4:30 AM At this hour somebody just started a huge engine which vibrates the building to the point my ears hurt.

4:40 Austria nu are graniță cu România.

Singurul mod în care în Austria ar fi ajuns 20000 migranți ilegali care ar fi trecut prin România (nu se spune dacă pe an sau în total) este dacă după ce ar fi trecut mai întâi prin Grecia (țară Schengen), alte țări ne-Schengen ar fi ajuns în România, ar fi trecut apoi de vameșii unguri care verifică pașapoartele la granița cu România, adică granița Schengen a Greciei și Ungariei nu este securizată.

Două țări Schengen și nu una, nu și-au îndeplinit obligațiile Schengen. Însă Grecia a fost mustrată în 2015, Ungaria nu. Ungaria nu s-a plâns niciodată, ei se plângeau de Serbia, iar Austria vine cu aceste cifre abia acum, după atâția ani de când nu s-a plâns cu nimic. Dar de ce ar fi ocolit migranții prin România când puteau merge pe ruta cea mai scurtă? Ca să mai plătească șpagă încă o dată?

Tot ce spune Austria este că "sistemul nu funcționează", căci ei nu se vor plânge niciodată de Ungaria.

Toată lumea România știe, dacă vrei să treci ceva în Ungaria trebuie să plătești ceva la vameși. Eu am făcut-o în 2004 deși nu aveam nimic de trecut. Cred că am dat vreo 20-30 de euro la fiecare vamă. S-au strâns bani în autocar de la fiecare în mod egal probabil un total de 1000 euro. Dacă s-ar implementa Schengen, vameșii unguri și români ar pierde acest venit iar românii nu ar mai sta ore în șir ca să plătească șpagă la ambele vămi. (Și am înțeles în sfârșit metafora Mariei Zaharova).

În România se întâmplă sub ochii Ministrului de Interne, cel care votează în configurația JAI a Consiliului. Cel care a rupt ecusonul pe masă la fel cum a lovit Hrușciov podiumul cu pantoful la ONU.

Dacă s-ar implementa Schengen, s-ar duce dreq mafia vameșilor din România prezidată bineînțeles prin tradiție de Ministrul de Interne. Cât se strânge la un autocar, cât pe mașină? Care-i partea lui Ciucă din toată treaba asta? (Nu mă contrazic, ei sunt fake dar șpaga e reală, ca să dea tonul la corupție în România).

29 polițiști sârbi arestați pentru că au lăsat migranții în Ungaria, dar grănicerii unguri ce făceau?

Un mare număr de articole din media de azi reflectă indirect faptul că România nu ar fi în Schengen ca de exemplu plângerea lui Bode că România ar fi pierdut 25 miliarde euro (la fel nu se spune dacă pe an sau total). Vina este a lui Băsescu, și cel ce i-a urmat precum și a primilor miniștri anuali. Câte din aceste miliarde au luat calea Miniștrilor de Interne ca și contribuție de la vameși?

România este în Schengen, politicienii români nu s-au grăbit să implementeze legea UE votată în 14-18 decembrie 2007 din motive ca cele de mai sus. Între timp lumea a uitat, în 2022 au scos-o la suprafață, sub forma unui vot ne-necesar în Parlament și Consiliu, pe alt tip de procedură, ne-legislativă sau declarativă (nu puteau să voteze încă o dată ce au votat atunci, iar Schengen-ul nu se mai votează separat din 1999), doar pentru a-i da lui Nehammer mai întâi, apoi lui Ciucă în 2023 un impuls în alegeri. Apropo, vom avea un general președinte din 2024, ca să-i ațâțăm și mai mult pe ruși?

A doua zi după ce am descris situația cu votul inutil a urmat actul de teatru cu arestarea unui Vice-Președinte al Parlamentului UE, saci de bani, valiză cu bani. Deci au sacrificat-o pe ea ca lumea să uite scandalul mult mai mare a votului inutil, ne-implementării unei legi timp de 15 ani.

7:12 Cred că ăsta ar fi un subiect bun de votat în Consiliu (configurația JAI), în cadrul unei proceduri legislative. Sau poate ar necesita amendarea Tratatului UE. Austria vrea ajutor de la UE, de ce nu inițiază o asemenea procedură sau orice demers legal în loc să se plângă în fiecare zi în media?

7:45 Pe liste mai există un actor ungur care seamănă cu Iohannis, era o diferență la urechi însă între timp am aflat că urechile mai cresc cu vârsta în jos, datorită gravitației LOL. Născut în Brașov în 1967, ar fi cu 8 ani mai tânăr. Premiat de Uniter. Vă las pe dvs.. să decideți, eu m-am săturat să închid ochii și să cresc urechi în imaginația mea la fețele de pe ecran.

7:58 La fel ca ultima miercuri, au lăsat în mijlocul aleii frunzele pe care le-au suflat de prin colțuri iar azi dimineață au venit la 7:40 (ore de liniște până la 8) cu un aspirator de 10 tone pe roți și fac 20 de metri de frunze în 20 de minute. Dacă mergeam eu cu doi saci și o greblă aș fi făcut, o singură persoană, același lucru în același timp fără zgomot de cel puțin 100 dB afară și consum de carburant. Ei sunt cel puțin doi, un șofer și un manipulator în spate + costul mașinii, carburantului și zgomotul.

12:53 Subliminala zilei. András Hatházi + Andreas Huber. De fapt, această subliminală lucrează demult, a fost gândită de la început ca o acoperire. Consul onorific al cui? Confirmă ipoteza blatului cu Nehammer pentru alegeri-alegeri. Confirmă ipoteza că Iohannis este el, Hatházi.

2:22 Just wanted to go outside to get some air. Went in the yard and felt smoke enough to discourage me. Looked at the "fire dashboard", IQA site. No reason for that. Hotspots also reduces in number and sizes. Fire names (or places) chosen for symbolism?

2:56 Ok l-am făcut tot eu. Să fie primit!

3:12 I read the news oh boy. They re-freshened my memory. So it was him the guy who rushed me into getting the battery with the positive on the right side last night at Walmart. They caged those batteries there since the day i said i wanted to do it (experiment with soldering bolts on terminals on a cheap battery from Walmart) Also most of them were of this type, which is rare. Most batteries sold are like these. Got something here, gotta rework, recheck. As he's getting older, he becomes more of what he really is, a slick high breed Hungarian actor.

3:17 If i look above the monitor i see in the backyard a 3 years old (by height) running around the bushes, the 4th time now.

10:04 Had trouble removing the old battery. Spent all evening outside. The almost one year worth of modifications with lots of steel reinforced JB weld on top. It took me a couple of hours to get those out. Then one of my unbeatable be newly soldered bolts broke. I know why but i figured only after i re-soldered it. Next time if one of those break and i fix it they will be unbreakable.

Make no mistake. My system with bolts soldered on top of connectors in today's configuration doubles the original one. If one system fails, the other one will be backup.

First hours were ok. Then they started doing laundry. Perfume smell mixed with s...t. One small car with big speakers was beating the base for more than an hour in a way was interfering my heart beating. Then they started a party. From 3 years to 20 years old, about then of them around that small car.

Had trouble securing the new battery in place. The original flange isn't fitting perfectly with the non OEM battery. Went again outside, now it's laundry vapor with tons of mold sucked out and expelled probably from upstairs or Nr.4 apartment. Got it on my clothes and in my lungs.

10:15 Scurtcircuit în UE. Țări ca Austria, Olanda, bully în media țări ca România, Bulgaria, impun reguli pe baza unui veto imaginar la o procedură ne-legislativă, fără să țină cont că UE are de fapt o Comisie, un Parlament, un Consiliu care iau decizii în ceea ce privește toate țările UE pe baza Tratatului și legilor.

Posibilă încălcare a Tratatului. Chiar voi studia asta zilele viitoare. Aceste considerații trebuie ridicate în forumurile UE, supuse la vot, nu sancționate direct pe unele țări. Cred că ar fi momentul ca și Comisia să sancționeze aceste ieșiri care iată, se eternizează.

February 17

12:53 Still chasing the flickering voltage. Drilled a hole in the battery's terminal and put a screw. Always wanted to to this. Ever wondered. Why didn't they do it a long time ago. Why the battery terminals are round and not square (rectangular, cubic, whatever) with a hole in the middle so you can tighten them decently with a flat connector?

If this doesn't fix it, i was thinking, maybe the chassis connection to negative, cause every time i tighten the connector, i move that thick cable a bit around. In a hard to reach place, only one 5 mm screw and they didn't even remove the paint.

I always see better when i take pictures and watch them on the computer, now i see i haven't put a washer on the left side. Just figured why they made the clamp at an angle, so you don't bump with your tool on the fuse box when you want to replace battery, which is a very bad idea.

When i got the car from the auction, had to replace the left headlight. Fond an aftermarket one (nowadays with my searching exprience on car parts i could probably find an OEM one at the same price). Trouble is at this car the inner parking ligths are combied with turn signals, the OEM has a two way bulb, and the one i bought is only one. So i have on the right two parking lights left and right of headlights and on the left only one with the inner missing. Tonight i tried to do some external wiring to bring volgate to the inner parking light however. The OEM socket i tried to put in there that can hold a two way bulb is not compatible with non OEM headlight, doesn't work at all. So i realized should add two external wires and possibly the ground also. So i just downgraded the right one, with some electrical tape on one terminal of the bulb, so now i don't have inner parking light anymore, only outer and it's symmetrical.

Also re-tighten the nuts on ball joints with my new tools (extra long set, 6 pieces, metric, with 44 bucks on Amazon). These three projects took me way more than it should have because of smoke. Smoke inside, from a hole right on the other side of the "wall" where my computer is. Smoke outside, all the time. People moving around me making it look like something else. Basically i was wasted all the time, kept "loosing tools", forgetting what i wanted to do, things like that. People always getting away when i step out, and planes and noisy cars jut before i leave, so it looks like i'm hiding when they come.

7:10 First i could read the article. Then Financial Times asked for a subscription. Mainly the article has been quoting some experts from Ukraine, questioning the constitutionality of dissolving the Parliament, months before scheduled elections. More on that from Euronews

9:01 I tried to move the desk further away from "the wall" where smoke is coming from under and when i plugged in the computer in a different outlet the power supply flashed the fuse at me. Yes i spilled a glass with some wine from last night on it when moving but it did not reach the computer or keyboard or anything. Angela's W10 computer is very slow though much newer. I was running a version of Linux on mine which was 13 years old.

9:33 Did i just commented about snap elections? After pulling the lead off the power supply too, i went back outside and blew with the reverted vacuum the dust that it was full. But this time they were ready with a couple of kids that i know here at the window where Angela's computer is.

10:04 Ok i dusted for the last time that piece of equipment and soldered a piece of thin copper wire on top of fuse and it blew on my again. That thing is done. I will never ever again buy any device with a fan in it (that accumulates dust that is).

7:20 Posting from Chromebook 4 with the old keyboard hooked to it. Tomorrow i'll get some sort of hub that will also connect the mouse and the old monitor (USBC to HDMI). One thing i noticed, it's faster than my old computer, with no lag on typing.

I knew there was going to be  some trouble when i went in the bedroom this morning after Angela left. Since Angela can't tolerate the noise and airflow from a filter, even at lowest level, it was smelling like dirty socks. Marijuana, i figured. So i called her when she got there and she seemed ok, but i didn't tell her about the smell, cause i told her one million times and she doesn't believe me.

Soon after, the lead, Steve Eaton (coincidence with the name of the company) who does the scheduling, kinda jumped the turns and put Angela to do again too soon after last time the physically hardest job (boxes, or inverters) which involves unpacking, packing and lifting 20 pounds items for hundreds of times a day. She told him that she could only do it for 4 hours today, and then she was under the impression he went to HR and the supervisor (paranoia due to all kinda smokes we inhaled yesterday, it took me a long time to understand the mechanism, but that won't probably prevent me for quitting again a job at first trouble when under influence, if i could get one right now) who doesn't get involved too much, let Steve do most of his jobs, and he knew and escalated. So it turns on us. Angela got mad and went to the supervisor and complained about everything she could remember, including the fact she works there for 6 years and gets one dollar more than the temps. In the end she told him she can't lift that much (62 years old) because of back pain, hernia surgery (because she had to have too more surgeries after open heart to have 4 forgotten wires removed), and she said she will talk to the doctor when she goes for the appointment on March 1st (that was scheduled since last year) and the supervisor said, let us know. But now it's not like yesterday. That combined with the computer breaking down will slow me down me a little. I was even thinking today. To what good it serves all i do. Cause if people believe me, the market will start to go down and i will get in all sorts of problems. Cause i live in their simulation, but one or more levels deeper than everybody else. Though i can make some decisions, they have enough leverage on me to stop me if they wanted and now they want it.

One thing that gets both of us mad is the car. In pretty bad shape, misfiring (better said, severe engine imbalance and noises when we got it), we were happy when during the weekend, i would re-tighten the battery connectors before living and like magic the car would start to work so fine you wouldn't even hear the engine, and with mileages constantly above 40 on freeways. So i figured, probably low voltage at the fuel pump which leads to dripping of injectors, not washing the valves that become sticky (due to oil coming from intake from condensation of PCV gases). 

I said it many times before, during the 70s they figured a way to recirculate blow by gasses that pressurize the engine back in the intake, but with a side effect. Blow by gasses contain oil mist that condensates in the intake, a problem that becomes much more serious with the newer design with intakes underneath the engine head and in front of the engine where they get cooled.

I myself never quite understood for a long time why some gas sellers advertise their gas as engine cleaning. But this is the reasons. In gasoline injected cars injectors are upstream valves and the gas sprayed by those clean the valves, especially if it has good additives in. But the injectors themselves are sometimes affected by the oil from blow by, especially if the voltage at the fuel pump is not alternator voltage (14.5 for this car) but battery voltage (@12.5), which sometimes happens when the contact at the battery connectors is not perfect and battery is near full. One of the last things i've done at the other car was removing the paint under the ground (chassis) connector and saw that made a difference. At the old car though i had a catch can that would reduce the amount of oil that condensates in the intake, by "catching" it in a can. I was actually getting ready to install one on this car also (got the can from Amazon) but i didn't, because the car was running so fine after each re-tightening of the negative connector. The problem of dirty valve is much more serious at GDI (Gasoline Direct Injected) where the injectors are inside the cylinder, thus downstream valves.

But last night after i finished drilling the hole and tightened the connector again (with again 14.5 volts at the lighter plug measured with a digital charger) i remembered about the chassis connector. So i removed the adhesive i put on top of the screw (mostly to see that it doesn't get loose), took it apart (which involved removing the battery, the computer), cleaning those etc.. They were 4 ground connectors, and when i removed the (self tapping screws) i brought at the surface dirt from the other side, so i had to clean everything and torque those again. Can't tell how i felt every time i was using the little spray bottle with alcohol and young boys where dispatched to pass near me. But i remember when one of the passed and went to the grass area, where the moles are, i felt smoke, and went and took pictures of what appeared to be holes in the ground made with special shoes.

9:00 Found and ordered on ebay a ball joint from the car, OEM with... 15 dollars, however the shipping was 17. Box damaged (like many shipments with parts lately) and i think the main upper nut was missing. Two others where though enough to realize they are they type "toplock" that is the diameter of the thread is smaller at the top of the nut, to prevent from un-tightening. Those nuts are not to be reused of course and had to remove and reinstall some of those several times when i did struts and shafts.

Also got the box with 6 extra long wrenches, and i used one of them to tighten the same nuts on the car. If freshly tightened, the car is driving perfectly, so that was the problem. Got to order some of those, was thinking returning the ball joint, however, i will probably pay for the shipping and loose some more money, cause the part itself is only 15 dollars.

Had to remove some of those nuts several times when i did struts and shafts.

9:32 Today when i went outside at the car i saw again this guy. Dressed very poorly, looking of Ukrainian origin, with possible Ukrainian name, a Romanian orthodox bishop from the county where i am in Romania which borders with Ukraine, he went to the mail boxes and then searching something in some cardboard boxes and then he left (maybe he got those delivered, i didn't see). For a moment i was tempted to go and see what he was doing there.

Was thinking earlier of Angela's job. I remembered mines. Always with actors. In 1998 at Quadramed the supervisor manager was Andy Carson. Cameron Diaz, his secretary. Receptionist was one of those women from SNL. After that, at AVX, Axle Rose. Always living with fear  terror of loosing a job and everything, not caring to much who hour colleagues were (not that i knew) or Angela's are right now. I think i identified at least 3 of them until now. One left. One is the Japanese actress who acted as Pamela in Dallas movie, also as Transportation Secretary. The other one a Hungarian actor, forgot his name.  Him maybe? A bit of smoke through walls at home would make us happy, a bit more, mad. They were times when i thought Steve was this guy.

10:50 Angela now remembers she also told the supervisor (don't know the name, i know the previous one looked like Brad Pitt and Steve was doing the scheduling that is assigning daily tasks for all team members during all three in the past 6 years, none of them did much) that she was never trained to do the easy jobs, and Steve (with latest example, today) assigns to others tasks that she already done the day before. What she didn't tell was Steve was/is assigning easiness tasks for himself, with lots of overtimes and high pay of course.

Angela's main competitors there are relatives (the two "Chinese" sisters, girlfriend and boyfriend etc..

June 26

9:30 Got awaken after 5 hours of sleep (same like the last two nights) around 8 by big noises (like a garbage truck though it's Monday) and then the woman next door was talking yelling on the phone for one hour (yes in Spanish though she is Japanese, i know ninja can do that. Learn foreign languages so well you wouldn't know).

I started to remember what i've done last night. Last passing area before Chevron on 26 when going west towards Mt Hood. There was this semi i was following for at least 15 minutes that was going uphill under speed limit though i think it was empty. Those guys even if the are well maintained, put a lot of carbon dioxide behind especially when going uphill, that usually makes me sleepy.

There were two more vehicles behind it. Those and myself started to pass the truck which went onto the right lane. However instead of slowing down it sped up like they usually do to maybe 65 or more. (Had 75 or when i last looked at speedometer while trying to pass it but was held by the other two).

I know when i started to pass my speed was about 65 with the shifter on automatic, at about 4500 rpm and probably in 4th gear. I don't know exactly why but the truck accelerated after those two guys ahead of me passed it and when passing area ended i was parallel with it and i continued to accelerate until i finally passed it too though it was ft behind me and flashing lights instead of slowing down and when i looked at the speedometer and i was doing 80, uphill.

I read on sites and forums last night that my car has a rpm soft limiter at 6000 rpm when you are in sequential mode, when it shifts gears down automatically (and you loose power when uphill of course) and one at 6500 when you are in automated mode, like i was, when it cuts power to the engine. If that had happened he would have hit me from behind for sure cause it was only ft behind me until i slowly accelerated to 90 and put some distance in between.

If i panicked when i saw it close behind and then flashing, and hit the gas pedal to the floor the car would have shifted back to 3rd, the rpm increasing maybe over 6500 at 90 and the engine would have stopped at that rpm.

How would a semi do 80 uphill, that is another question.

Have no idea what marks that truck had on it, but i'm sure it was caught on the cameras on the freeway and/or seen by other drivers. Or maybe he veered right towards Hood River before reaching the Government Camp area. It was all done intentionally, like so many times recently in all kind of situations, in cooperation with the two other drivers and these guys are criminals that should spend time behind bars.

Similar things happen to me in almost all my trips.

9:58 Saturday night after passing Newberg going east again i was going uphill at 65, passed one guy (a white SUV) that was slower in the right lane when i saw something crossing the street, from the left.

It would have taken too long to lift my foot from gas pedal and hit the breaks so i just veered left in the median lane trying to get behind it which i did, maybe except for its tail, don't know if the guy right and behind me hit it. Seconds later i realized by the white stripes on its back that imprinted on my retina that it was a skunk, the first time ever i saw one. It was pretty big, about the size of a raccoon, but faster.

I apologize for modifying the gear numbers so many times in this post, it was all based on guessing (can't see the gear you're in on the dashboard, only the letter D when in automatic).

12:00 This video shows 4500 rpm at 85 mph in 3rd but it's a different type of Elantra. However if you press on gas hard enough you can very easily downshift one ore two gears and reach 6500 when the the fuel to the engine is cut off. BTW this guy is crazy, he does 170 mph with a flat tire warning on the dashboard. I personally never went over 100 with any vehicle.

12:37 I know what happened back in August 20 2021. The driver who hit me could have pretended i again lost engine power when accelerating over 6500 or whatever rpm, but in that night i was going with speed limit on cruise control on a flat or even a bit downhill area on I5 in 6th gear (fuel efficiency gear) per reason of driving with a spare (right rear).

Only when i saw him very close behind i might have tried to accelerate but it was too late as it would have taken several seconds to shift from 6th to let's say 2nd and even in the 2nd gear could still go faster than 60 which i was going when he hit me (that Elantra was 1.8 engine but was rated at the same 150 hp).

One more thing. The cop called a towing company that refused to tow us for reason of distance (22 miles, wondering why the cop wouldn't tell them on the phone, when he called them, where to). Could one of those two towing guys i talked to while the cop was skillfully recording it audio and video to have been actually the driver of the truck who hit me, pretending he didn't run after all. So i actually i might have talked without knowing, with the help complicity of the cop with my ex would be killer.

3:10 No i didn't. Only now i know what happened, a walk through the relatively clean air also cleared my mind. BTW when i left i poured some more vinegar in the old rusted dog feces contaminated pan under the new water heater and the child actors came and started to yell like swallowed whole by giant serpents. So they did when i passed the camp (the children camp in the park, less than one mile away from down town Tulatin and Martinazi street) they enact every summer.

The mods at the battery. In that day in August 2021 i had poured from days before some JB weld steel reinforced adhesive on top of the nuts of the connectors to prevent them from getting loose, not on the connectors themselves. In fact, during engine running the vehicle is powered by the alternator (and not the battery that acts only as a filter) of which connectors runs through a series of plates on the positive with the negative doubled directly on the body. There was adhesive on the nut of the plates too, but not on or between the contacting plates under.

In that night after the accident and pulling on a street nearby i was casually talking in front of the open hood to the second cop and the driver of the towing truck that refused towing, about those mods.

The current configuration has modifications too, only there is no adhesive involved but only a second system doubling the stock con_nec_tors, actually a redundancy with bypassing and an extra connection to the ground on the negative and again bypassing the stock connector to the plates on the positive, with bolts soldered on top of poles. It is true, i saw yesterday one of the battery poles was a little bent, i don't know why, there is no extra weight on it.

Besides i never had problems with it, on the opposite, it improved vehicle's operation by increasing driveability, mileage and decreasing vibration. I have digital a voltmeter inserted in one of the plugs. Never lost power in years of experimenting with those, then why in that day?

The taillights on every car are build to reflect light and they would have been very visible in the dark when lit with headlights from behind, even if i lost power which i didn't.

In fact on another recent occasion i used the horn as last defense against an attempt of being again hit from behind and the other driver fell back. Now i know why. Horn was showing i had electric power.

But if i accidentally (mis)maneuvered and hit the gas pedal to the floor and hit the 6500 rev limit in 1st gear uphill, it could have looked like i lost electric power. I'm wondering what would have happened if i was wounded in an accident near Mt.Hood, far away from any hospital and ambulance services.

August 23 was only 2 days away and in that day at Les Schwab in Lake Owego i was assisted by a Les Schwab employee that looked like a right wing minister from one of the numerous Iohannis governments, Dan Vilceanu. It is rumored Iohannis has ties with the extreme right in Romania. He told me the tire with the flat i had earlier that day before the accident was unfixable as per a previous defective installation (done at the same shop). He insisted he took the tire in the trunk, where i was hit in that night.

What happens is though they are doing symbolic gestures trying to take credit of what followed that night in front of their right wing audience while the others don't care.

I think it was on May 2020 when driving with the same car, the first day a casino ever opened (Little Creek) after pandemics closure, when i went over a wheel (whole wheel, not shredded tire) exactly in that area, in the middle of the lane. Thing is i did not panic and hit the brakes, the car would have lowered its front (nose dive) and hit it and it barely touched it with some part (cross member i think).

After, i pulled from freeway in the area where she was missing from (not knowing at the time) to check for damages under the car.

In that night at the casino i went to the car several times (to drink of course) and last time i sat in line behind a woman, not unattractive but looking vulnerable, thin and not tall, who kept telling everybody she lost her purse and kept getting out and back in line (for temperature checking) to get in, and she didn't know why. I saw her later in the casino talking with two cops, then why the search that kept going for days?

4:49 This 2019 Elantra is closer to mine. You can realize it's a decent car. As for style, Koreans have a sense for a an elegant minimalism, beating classical Japanese basic pragmatism though lately they all started to look the same.

I think the man was doing 110 on a German autobahn in 5th gear at 6500 rpm (minute 1:58) right before car automatically shifted to 6th. In the US you can see this road quality only on recently paved freeways. Never seen continuous or interrupted lines so straight though confusing at 3:00 due to construction work. Crooked lane lines get you tired, fast. Good thing they also keep you challenged (and alert).

This, at 4:00. They do this to me a lot, slower cars changing lanes when i'm about to pass them. Good thing they didn't do it when he was passing them going 120 mph (193 kmh). And a stinking classic that fills your cabin (and filter) with smoke for the next 5 minutes. I see they're universal.

5:00 Christmass 2019 and 2020. It always happens around anniversaries and holidays. Today was my birthday.

6:30 Never new what steemit was until today when i was searching for his face.

January 2

5:00 Ok deci cine spunea că Nehammer nu tratează cu românii ci doar cu bulgarii?

Lăsând gluma la o parte. Căutam pe imagini în lista cu actorii unguri în anul 61 și am dat de un regizor plecat de mult în Germania, care avea două poze, din care una cu ochelari, cu nasul diferit (mai rotund la vârf).  Prima poză și a treia aici. Dar pe lângă el pe același nume mi-a ieșit și un român (în orice caz concurează ca român la... aruncat săgeți (darts)) cu nume unguresc cu șase ani mai tânăr (ar fi 53) dacă nu are și ăla identitate falsă și e 56 sau doar cu trei mai tânăr decât Rumen, cu nas de rață așa cum căutam .

Tentația e prea mare și din cauza numelui. Rumen, iar Kadar inversat iese Radak. Ar fi o coincidență foarte rară totuși. Aștept reacții. De obicei când îl ghicesc pe câte unul, tot ce se întâmplă e că îl retrag din știri, pentru un timp. Dacă îl greșesc, îl bagă în viteză și mai tare.

5:55 Poate fiindcă nu mai e nevoie de un bau bau universal opozant izolat de restul lumii prin limbă, alfabet, propagandă, geografie, pentru că le-au venit de hac la tot restul lumii cu celularele, drogurile, sexul, pandemia, entertainment, s-au dat toți la cale?

6:00 Cam aiurea poza asta de stoc ca ilustrație la un articol probabil fake. Am văzut de multe ori dar numai în România. Cine ar mai pune așa ceva?

4:47 Believe me or not, it's a big relief i get to write here about my problems. Last one. The first bolt which i soldered about a week ago and i bragged about yesterday came out. I have to admit. The first time i tightened the nut again with two wrenches, i tightened only one nut against the hex end of the screw. Which bent the hex end and half hour later when i double checked it was already loose and probably the soft electronics solder came apart in the middle. I did tighten it again and  this time it lasted.

But when i tightened the one in the right, nut against nut, i did loose the left and did it the same so it was not tightened against the hex end of the bold no more. Actually a bit separated by it.

Yesterday i noticed the voltage went to 14.7 but when the car and battery heated up a little, it went down to 14.5 and i said it must be the battery 's resistance. But today when i started the car, engine was vibrating like crazy. We went in a couple of places to buy things and in the last one i tried and saw both right and left where completely loose, and the left (positive) lower nut was again tightened against the bolt. I tried to loosen it and the solder broke. Here is the picture of the breakage. One can see it was not cold solder joint but the solder actually broke. Probably in stages.

Now i plan to solder it again but only by prepping a little, the surfaces are already tinted, heating the bolt and applying with the battery in place. It's gonna be a 5 minutes job.

What else. I tried to avoid the freeway area with high signal and took Hall Blvd. However when i crossed the freeway, in other places, got it big time. Now what it hurts is the thyroid area. When we came back i took I5 and signal in the same area as yesterday was now moderate.

What else. Angela wanted to go to Red Wings shoes to buy shoes of course, they were three sales people inside, no customers. Next to a Taekwondo dojang in Beaverton. I waited in the car trying to figure what was the warning signal on the dashboard by looking at the window of the dojang and outside the car there was this black guy with some stuff on the sidewalk walking around, asking me for money. He was looking like the man/woman upstairs, in black face.

Next we went at NAPA across the street trying to troubleshoot the turn signal. I asked the guy for a meter, i checked the bulb, was showing something, not open so i left without buying a bulb. I think the guy whom i talked to was one of the last matches. When in the store i realized how hard was to concentrate because of the smoke at the apartment i was fighting all morning (by plugging the holes in the ground). In fact even right now i have trouble typing.

June 9

11:15 Iar îmi risc contul de blogger postând link-ul acesta. Înțeleg că pe tipul ăsta îl cheamă aproape la fel cum era poreclit fostul președinte de o lună al României, de pe vremurile fabuloase când Băsescu cel suspendat nu trăia într-o vilă de protocol, nici într-un apartament modest de jumătate de milion ci într-un garaj, înțeleg că a fost șef de filială AUR, ce nu înțeleg este cum și-a putut face cont de fb, pe care postează tot felul de chestii religioase.

6:02 Da miroase nașpa aici în apartament. Hainele miros predominant a combinație mucegai/kk. Mereu altceva. Azi și în ultimele zile miroase a canal de WC. Într-o zi, acum vreo săptămână ceva i s-a cășunat tipului de deasupra. A început să izbească cu un ciocan peretele dintre baie și bucătărie chiar deasupra podelei și de atunci miroase tot așa. Nu știu exact ce este, anul trecut a avut o scurgere de la scaunului lui de WC, scurgerea a fost reparată dar nimeni nu a curățat zona. Un timp am tot pus niște recipiente cu clor care corespundeau în zona respectivă, după care am uitat sau renunțat. Sunt mai multe posibilități. Chestia s-a transformat în praf și când a izbit s-a desprins și a început să circule prin podeaua goală pe dinăuntru, înaltă aproape jumătate de metru. Sau a creat o scurgere nouă, numai de gaz de canal. Sau mirosul venea pe la mașina de spălat rufe, când s-a golit complet și am uitat să pună niște apă care să umple supapa aia în formă de S. Ieri am spălat și uscat rufe toată ziua, s-a făcut foarte cald de la mașina de uscat rufe, am avut geamul deschis și am dormit așa din greșeală. M-am trezit mult mai odihnit decât de obicei, dar cu un gust nașpa în gură, iar în zona bucătăriei tot așa miroase a canal. Am pus niște apă în mașina de spălat (ieri am uitat când am spălat ultima dată) și pare că e mai bine.

Eu sunt sigur că diabetul are legătură cu locuințele acestea. Miroase pereții de ghips a bioxid de sulf, instalațiile sanitare sunt vechi de 40 de ani. Când mă plimb prin complex simt mirosul de kk și sulf cum emană din clădirile de lemn cu instalații vechi, mai ales acum, cu încălzirea (în sfârșit) a vremii foarte întârziate. Prin colțurile mai reci se formează mucegai. Și fiindcă nu era destul, au pus rumeguș de lemn roșu cu un mare conținut de tanin. Dacă aruncă cineva o bucățică de ambalaj contaminată cu alimente, totul începe să miroase, fiindcă taninul fiind antimicrobian selectează tulpini de mucegai și bacterii foarte nașpa etc.. În ultimele zile am luat acasă de două ori chicken teriyacki iar cineva a aruncat un grătar folosit pe rumegușul de lemn de sequoia. Totdeauna aruncă chestii legate de ce mănânc sau beau ultima dată. Un fel de vrăji zic eu. Se face o floră intestinală foarte proastă, cu eliberarea de toxine. Organismul încearcă să scoată tot zahărul din intestin pentru a nu mai alimenta acea floră și îl depozitează în țesuturi, prin creșterea concentrației în sânge. De aceea încerc să mai ies dar ultima dată a fost fum pe stradă, atât de mult încât a trebuit să-mi spăl toate hainele și tot ce am atins în casă când am venit. Cred că m-au pedepsit fiindcă puțeam. Da puțeam dar nu e vina mea, de data asta s-a deranjat ceva la WC-ul de deasupra, etc.. Pe cine deranja, nu erau alți pietoni pe stradă. Acum mă tem să mai ies.

Mă gândesc dacă nu era așa și în România. "Coloanele" de țevi din baie. Dar pe atunci fumam, și asta acoperea multe mirosuri.

8:03 Iată în sfârșit un mic răspuns despre unde se duc banii bugetului Ministerului Dezvoltării. Un buget "variabil" (cu "credite de angajament") care pentru 2022 este între 8 și 57 miliarde

8:28 Alta acum. După ce am recitit ultimele postări (m-am trezit după 4 ore de somn în condițiile de mai sus și aștept să mi se facă iar somn, ascultând televizorului și scârțâiala de sus, am găsit cea de-a treia modificare sau revenire la o versiune anterioară, timp de 24 de ore în blog. Cineva îmi are parola, intră și schimbă chestii. Cred că trebuie să o schimb dar nu știu cât de multe chestii vor fi afectate, pentru că parola asta o am la mai multe chestii.

3:05 Realimentarea în ciudă. Un delir. Când au completat formularul pentru planul de zbor (care nu a fost aprobat) bănuiesc că au dat ID-ul avionului. Numele celor doi, țara. Pașaport, viză, ștampilă dacă nu erau din UE. Poate când le-au făcut plinul i-a zărit cineva? Au plătit cu VISA? Le-au dat chitanță? Poate își amintește cineva din aeroport, controlorii de zbor care au aprobat și dirijat aterizarea ce număr avea avionul pe coadă? Piloții români și americani de F16 de asemenea au văzut avionul și numărul de pe el.

3:07 Umbra lui Umberto planează ca o orca peste câmpurile de aur ale Ucrainei și ecourile lui apar la orice scriu. Ce tip de semiotică neagră este aceasta, când la orice postez se caută, inventează sau chiar crează un eveniment alegoric pentru a distrage atenția de la orice informație utilă și reală? Astfel, știrile își pierd rolul informativ și devin un mijloc, cel mai eficient, de dezinformare.

Nu știu nu mă pricep la teoria informațiilor, comunicării decât din practică, dar s-ar părea că emotivul nu distinge între util și nesemnificativ, cauză și efect, atâta timp cât sunt prezentate în același spațiu virtual.

5:15 I was in a state of high anxiety, with difficulties breathing, overventilating because the man upstairs had walked on my brain waves all the time when i read the news, did searches and posted the entries above, that is most time (i go in and out of sleep these days), when Angela came and she had trouble at work.

Apparently someone messed overnight with one of her SMT machines and she had trouble so start it in the day when she had one of the most difficult boards so far. As a beginner, she made some mistakes (two parts on the board, out of over 600 of over 100 different types you feed the machine with, were upside down), mostly because of stress given by the above events and a modification of one of the machines, and had to do some manual rework with her trainer on a few boards (out of 95 or the whole work orders which were mostly ok, huge boards, hard to handle during rework, using for the first time at Eaton her resume stated SMT soldering skills from GE), but it will take weeks until the boards will be tested. Not a big deal, says Angela, it happened many times before to more experienced people (the woman who did that job before, for years, again left recently, like many others) but there is no repair tech as he is retiring again complaining of too much load. Though she re-soldered them all, last board was touched up again by her trainer after a tiny part was out of place).

After that she went to her (rented) "garden bed" and brought some fresh lettuce, radishes and three strawberries. When i tasted the mashed potatoes and when i grabbed my first mouthful of salad, and only in that very instant, when i closed my mouth, like many times before, kids started to yell desperately in the parking lot. Like a monster would Eat them, alive.

Now i remember, last night i went for a short walk and found on a parking spot (first next to red curb) a screwdriver and a pen next to it. And what Steve Eaton, Angela's lead (coincidence of name with the name of the company who again, came at 4, he does the scheduling, he always comes earlier, "mostly for overtime") said when she stared at SMT. "Some day you will screw up".

There are a couple of guys who provide extra noise, in case i complain about the guy upstairs. One in the next building, who speaks on the phone without pause for answers, nonsenses (cannot understand what he' saying, mostly words but with no sense in phrases) with window open, very loud, for hours, in English, and one (actually a woman) in our building who does the same thing, in Spanish. They rarely converge with guy upstairs, modified exhausts, kids, other guy on the phone.

Now that Angela went to bed, like yesterday and most days the man upstairs started the TV, loud.

8:37 After watching soccer matches for hours and yelling with the narrator, the man upstairs stopped and the woman in the balcony restarted. She also switched to a conversation, now there are pauses and another voice can be heard on the speakerphone but much fainter. As i said, they take turns.

December 14

8:43 I'm smart. I done soldering bolts on a battery terminals like i was thinking for months. Going over and over the procedure in my mind dozens of times but actually didn't have the time, guts and tools to do it. Last night again i was watching some guys doing all kinda stuff in minimalist shops at the other end of the world. Rebuilding batteries. One guy fixed the terminals by pouring red hot molten lead in a scaffolding done with a piece of sheet metal he cut with metal scissors on a live battery. Another one was using the graphite electrode from a AA battery tied to the other terminal using the battery itself as a power source.

But now the current battery is also leaking so i went to Walmart to buy this time the cheapest and replace it. But first i had to try to solder those.

Trouble at Walmart. Let's not talk about how many people with babies got in my way. Went to the batteries area in the farthest corner of the store and they were locked, like much of other stuff in a cage. Still too attractive because of the price. 59 bucks for a 65 amps regular battery though a bit oversized (physical).

But how to get it? I talked to a gal in a blue shirt and and she said something in a device. Went at the batteries, nobody was coming. I went and found another guy in a blue shirt. Amazing how clueless these young guys are. Making a great effort to say a few words. He mumbled something in a device. The third one asked me, did you hear the call on the interfon? Cause if you didn't nobody will hear it, but he himself did not call anyone. After asking 6 guys the same thing and more than a half hour, i went to CS and again they weren't paying attention to me and asked for the manager.

Ok here came the manager and she asked on the interfon "Who has the key to the battery cage?" and finally she figured it out. It was Joel, a red headed Hungarian acting like a Jew. He walked with me back in that corner, i asked him for a tape measure and he went and grabbed one and a woman and they both came and locked in a hurry, kinda like covering each other. After some negotiations and measurements i grabbed a battery and tried to put it in the cart but the guy wanted to take it to the front.

Could it be because i asked him earlier "why do you have them in cages, who would try and steal a 40 pounds battery?" but i insisted to put it in the cart but he walked with me all the way to the counter to make sure i will pay for it. I told him there are items smaller and more expensive in the store, but whatever. Why would people want to grab the heavy ones.

Payed (core charge was added) and went home. However at home i realized i took the wrong battery. I went back and returned the battery to customer service. She recognized me and asked for the guy with the key. Another guy came and i went and grabbed a more expensive one cause they didn't have most of the batteries they say they have on the site.

Went to Lowes and bought two bolts 3/8 1/16 (close to 10 mm 1.25) and came home.

Prepped the terminals with flux and sand paper (sanded first, then flux then sanded and flux again) so i made sure the lead had no oxide on it. Prepped the end of the bolts first removing the marks with sand paper, then heating them on the stove coil adding solder, soaking them in flux, sanding some more, repeating until the surface on the hex end was covered with shiny solder. Let it heat for a couple of minutes more and applied on the terminal. After two seconds, i poured some water to cool it. The terminal didn't have time to heat much. But as i said i saw last night videos with guys pouring molten lead on those and the plastic part of the battery did not melt. I guess it's nylon and nylon melts close to lead melting point. No it's propylene and it melts and 320F. But i don't believe i heated them above 150 F. For a couple of seconds.

So i used the bolt itself as a soldering tool, but "the tool" remained on the terminal.

Then i added a nut i and tried squeezing a couple of wrenches onto each other without applying torque on the terminal itself and i could tighten them to the maximum.

BTW Here is a picture with my new "camera".

I remember years ago i bought pocket cameras for under 100 with good results. Got some of them on flickr. The best was my 12 MP 70 dollars AGFA (a German brand made in China). Lacking some color depth but clear enough.

But those are gone now. Cell phone cameras eliminated the need for those and can't find them anymore. I mean, after so many years the best i found was a 110 dollars Cannon at Walmart.

So i bought this. a 53 dollars camera, no brand (Amazon's choice for the price though), that probably has inside the camera of a cheap cell phone. But i needed it so badly cause i can't use my cell phone anymore. Here is the fist picture i made with it. No flash cause i don't know yet how to turn it on.

The guy upstairs is again yelling violently, after i recorded him and uploaded he stopped but a trumpet car started and is idling for more than 15 minutes now. Yeah i know the negative is a bit off (learning curve, first one ever done) but all i can do right now is cut it with a saw and resolder it and i don't see the point.

How is this important. I once wrote, battery terminals as we know them are a 100 years old technology. They are only good for starting a car and charging the battery. New sensors and electronics and EPS on a car need DC not pulsating rectified DC. Battery is supposed to act as a giant capacitor to filter the peaks of the pulsating DC however for that you need soldered or tough metal on tough metal contact quality, not the old battery connectors on lead. No matter how big and strong and how much you tighten those, the lead being soft, the connection will loosen enough to create problems after only one trip, most important, lowering gas mileage by at least 10%, vibrations, trouble steering with EPS at high speed with EPS etc..

September 16

8:20 Space Opera. Mole chasers are vital to me. After only one day that i installed one at a gallery hub (had no idea there are hubs under mounds) air quality improved 50%. Rest of the problems are dust, dog poos and mold from the food wraps left on redwood mulch.

This morning i woke again nauseated, with lots of alcohol left in my system after 6 hours of sleep, a bit dehydrated i guess, went to look for poos to pour borax. Found a small one, not sure i didn't miss any, was pretty groggy. Then i checked the mole chaser. I heard a very faint noise, grabbed a screwdriver, dug a bit and found it but the sound is very fain. Those two D batteries in parallel should have lasted at least one month. I figured maybe i damaged the batteries when i soldered them following some uTube instructions. Not supposed to solder those i knew that. (Now looking for some rubber bands to attach the wires). Cause the chaser was acting as a battery holder, but now that i cut it in two, have to think of something else. So i just buried the chaser back, didn't take it inside.

Then i took Angela at work. At Sagert and Mohawk there was this cryogenic cistern stationed on the side of the road in the intersection, probably empty probably going to Praxair on a different route probably broken down, i don't know, it was there too when i came back. Now wondering, if they film me 24, how would have looked if i took that contraption looking like a pipe with two D size batteries and electronics inside from the ground, took it inside, took it apart to measure voltages etc.. then going there and meeting with that disabled cistern? At Praxair, now Linde, they separate and compress different atmospheric gasses like oxygen, nitrogen, rare gases including Xenon, which is special to Scientology i guess (how many time i got to drive next to those on  Tualatin-Sherwood Hwy cause they transport those on the streets, freeways, in cooled cisterns at atmospheric pressure, identical to the one in these movie scene). Cause Praxair is next to Teton St. I believe the spike in the global market whas when i checked the mole chaser. Wheel click to enlarge images.

2:06 Many Hungarians who served their country have statues... Tilted cross?

3:13 My phone is acting crazy, camera settings keep changing. Needs a reset but i can't because i have to keep some sensitive stuff in there, for a while.

Just came with Angela. They were some debris in the middle lane right in front of the complex entrance. I could not stop because Angela is very impatient at this hour. Instead, went on foot, a quart of mile to the entrance to see. On my own there, some people were moving right in front of me, getting in my way while a plane was whining in the sky. Same back, though a helicopter, kids playing hide and seek among cars and running with me for minutes. It was some broken ceramic. Showed it to Angela who was washing the plant, i threw it in the grass, it bounced and went under the wheels of a van here. I don't know if i ever enunciated this theory. Bullism propagates, also creates self destructive behavior.

I tried to fix a while ago the radiator of the car with epoxy putty. Last time it lasted almost 2 years. This time, i did it with the car hot and coolant under pressure and the putty looked old with crystalized stuff in it and then drove the car after one hour. Now it started a tiny leak, again.

Earlier. I did the whole 3 mile, did not realize school started. A tall woman limping accompanied me all the time in the hospital parking lot. Weird LPNs everywhere. Kids in the big field at the school yelling and screaming in English like in foreign language. Across the river in the park again at a construction site some power tool sounding like a machine gun. When i was about done, at the construction zone across from kindergarten. In a corner, a cistern was wetting the dusty soil. All of a sudden a bunch of  huge machines (like people here at the complex when i pass), bulldozers, trailers started to move but only where the soil was dry, filling the air with dust that was flying in my direction. Didn't have any choice but walk and breath through the dust for about 5 minutes.
I will repeat it over and over. Everybody who lives and acts in this area is foreigner, either from Japan or Hungary. While Romanians (and Bulgarians) are the only people from EU that can't get in the US without a visa, neighboring Hungarians can.

5:33 CFR Marfă, la fel ca și Călători este o societate comercială pe acțiuni, prestează servicii pentru care încasează bani, nu este subordonată Ministerului Transporturilor, nu primește subvenții de la stat și nu are nici o legătură cu bugetul Ministerului Transporturilor. Pe pagina Wikipedia chiar sunt afișate niște profituri, de ordinul milioanelor. Din când în când apar articole care implică aceasta (că ar aparține de MT) doar pentru a arăta ceva activitate sau treabă a ministrului (a-i da importanță). 90% din bugetul acestui minister, (variabil, de până la 30 miliarde de lei anual, sau 6 miliarde de euro, numai la un minister, pentru o sumă similară Ceaușescu ne-a făcut pe toți să răbdăm de foame 7 ani, un miliard=1000 milioane) dispare.

Situații similare și la alte ministere mari. Asta este miza schimbării atât de dese a guvernelor, distragerea, nebăgarea de seamă pentru furtul masiv la nivel de stat.

10:47 The great state of White Shinto

11:17 Citind știrile. Mergeam odată cu trenul de la Iași la Bacău. Îl căutam pe naș și nu-l găseam și am ajuns la primul vagon și unul din cei doi mecanici era coborât și m-a invitat să merg cu... locomotiva. Nu cred că a făcut-o pentru bani, cred că treaba a fost aranjată ca eu să văd, deși au acceptat bani, cam cât dădeam la naș (nu vreau să comentez că de ce nu aveau studenții reducere ca să nu se înroleze la cursul de corupție care însemna călătoria cu nașul). Și am văzut. Locomotivă diesel electrică (un fel de hibrid de azi, dar fără baterii). Nu uit fiindcă am trecut dintr-un capăt în altul printr-un culoar și am văzut cilindrii uriași cam de 1-2 metri diametru care parcă se agitau într-un zgomot infernal. Atunci am aflat prima dată că avea 4000 CP. Mai erau celelalte diesel hidraulice de 2400 CP. Alea erau pe trenul Iași Dorohoi. Iar cele electrice îmi amintesc vag că parcă erau de 7000 CP. Nu mai știu sigur dacă la Pașcani s-a schimbat locomotiva pe electric și m-au mutat ei tot în locomotivă dar îmi amintesc că de la Pașcani la Bacău, în afară de Roman, unde acceleratul oprea, viteza era de 120 kmh, am văzut tot timpul pe vitezometru în afară poate de unele restricții, puține. Nu părea. Nu aș fi știut niciodată. Cei doi vorbeau între ei. Când apărea un semafor, unul spunea verde, altul spunea "confirm verde", etc.. Frâna era pneumatică, "pe invers" adică dacă vroiau să frâneze, lăsau aer afară din sistem, astfel dacă se defecta compresorul nu rămâneau fără frână, etc..

Ca trenul să poată merge cu aceea viteză, este nevoie de întreținerea permanentă normală a șinelor și macazelor. Aliniere și compactare adică. Țin minte tot așa înainte de 89 am văzut utilaje, drezine, ceva (nu sunt inginer constructor) care răscoleau pietrele de granit cât oul, de sub șine, pe unde treceau, probabil ca să ridice sau să niveleze șinele. Dacă se putea face atunci, de ce nu se poate acum? La 10 mii de km de cale ferată cât are România, la 30 mii de euro/km, totul ar costa 300 milioane de euro și s-ar dubla sau tripla viteza medie de deplasare a mărfurilor și persoanelor. Dacă s-ar aloca de la Bugetul de Stat, normal, ar fi o mică fărâmă adică 5% din cei 6 miliarde de euro disponibili numai anul acesta la Transporturi, din care Drulă a cheltuit deja jumătate (3 miliarde de euro, pe ce), alte ministere ca Dezvoltare cu alte bugete care dispar, etc..