1:25 AM Minciună cosmică la Antena 3 CNN. Novele nu sunt bombe cu hidrogen, în nove se produce o reacție de fuziune similară cu cea din miezul unei stele, dar este mai mult o expansiune decât o explozie. De aceea durează mai multe zile, până la consumarea materialului furnizat de steaua companion și/sau epuizarea condițiilor de criticalitate, similare cu cele din miezul stelelor.
Dacă nova ar fi o explozie, steaua respectivă dar și companioana s-ar distruge în proces și nu ar mai fi ciclicitate (de 80 de ani în cazul discutat).
Explozii sau mai bine spus implozii ale unor stele sunt cauza așa numitelor gamma ray bursts, cele mai energetice fenomene din univers, când o stea se prăbușește în sine însăși și formează o gaură neagră, în timp de câteva ore.
Exploziile de orice fel se produc numai la ruperea unui compartiment închis (carcasă, obuz) prin creșterea presiunii datorită arderii în interior unor chimicale numite explozibili.
3:05 Never looked into this! The man looks like Bill, the manager of the brake department at Les Schwab Aloha (Next to the old Intel factory Nr.9) where i worked between September 97 - January 98. Hungarian, what else.
Some of the colleagues were a couple of guys from the band No Doubt, the general from Stargate (forgot the actor name). The singer from CCR. Van Morisson. Bob Dylan.
Was looking at the design. An uncontained or soft recipient, the whole thing relied on the inertia of the main (secondary) fuel case "to compress the spark plug". What would prevent the secondary fuel case to be blown by the first stage before it reached chained reaction?
What happens when the fast neutrons released by the first stage hit the U238 shell of the second? Do they pass through it?
Yeah the physics behind it may be very simple (E=mc2), but to build a practical one, i think it still has to be done.
5:43 I was a bit drunk last night but i swear i saw on several sites that Don Felder is dead. Should have doublechecked. I don't really know why sites like this should exist. I saw him at Les Schwab coming with a black Porsche SUV and he looked upset. Many apologies.
Really weird coincidence. I said about Glen Frey acting as a tires salesman at Sears sometimes before 2014 and i interacted with him for about one hour. I was stoned pretty much like right now.
These days at the same truck with BTW new tires i had a tire that kept getting flat for about 2 months now but today it suddenly went almost to the ground (didn't drive it like that). So i said this is it, i grabbed the wheel and went to Les Schwab in Lake Oswego.
There i was given one hour to wait and went in the park.
While putting the wheel back the three Japanese kids acting like Latinos came nearby while in a speaker at their apartment was playing really loud really annoying song in Spanish from which some of the words i could understand where...
Believe it or not, the whole town was soaked in some sort of smoke, i believe crack, starting when i pulled the tire of the truck, at Les Schwab, in the park, here when i got back, everywhere.
Thing is. I don't have to roll any joint, it's all in the air, free, for me and the whole town including kids.
6:36 Once again they are trying to prove the world is run by Joes.
7:00 There is little doubt to me the Mayor of San Francisco, London Breed, is Japanese. All i have to figure now is who exactly.
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.
2:14 Lately i have listened more and more to songs with humanly not possible tremolos like this one. Are these designed by AI to induce fibrillation?
8:25 Dharmachakra, Sanskrit for Wheel of Law, Roata legii, dharma is also the cycle of death/rebirth, destruction/reonstrucion, chakra, wheel.
10:05 Between September 97 and January 98 i had a job at Les Schwab Tire Center in Aloha (a suburb of Beaverton which is a suburb of Portland). Among others i had a colleague who looked like the vocalist from Credence (BTW i had a job at Credence before that). Wouldn't have mentioned it now if i didn't see a link. Wheels, tires. I was in the back in the brakes department. Taking apart lots of brakes from older cars that could have had asbestos in them.
Other colleagues there. The bassist and the guitarist from No Doubt. Gwen Stefani herself came one day as customer. Damn she looked good, much better than on screen. Two guys, the colonel and the general from Stargate, original series. Others. Bob Dylan? van Morrison?
10:45 Poate așa veți înțelege cât de avansați sunt ăștia. Dacă nu pot face altceva și a ajuns în public o infromație într-un context care nu prea le place, vin imediat cu măsuri de combatere. Una din ele este o poveste țesută în jurul unui cuvânt cheie comun cu informația inițială.
2:45 Slept most day yesterday. We left at 6 PM. Drove like in slo-mo. Though i slept, still had so much alcohol in my system. Went only briefly inside, only watched the shows around the car in the lot. Because of getting mad, got so drunk, Angela had to drive 80 miles back home. 40 mph behind some crazy SOB for about 20 miles. I was so sick i thought i will give my soul away.
Finally she had this idea. Get some baking soda! Which i did and felt so much better. But when i got home i remembered the resolution. Had to finish pulling the leaves from under the bushes. So i will breath better tomorrow. Ok so i went at 2 AM when everything is quiet, stumbling, and pulled 5 laundry baskets topped of heavy wet leaves or the equivalent of 10 more 13 gallons kitchen sacks and lived to tell about. The leaves are gone for the season.
4:45 Mda au retras-o fiindcă seamănă cu ea. Nu știu cine e și nici nu am chef s-o caut acum.
Am primit coletul cu lampa UV și am pus-o în debara. Între timp au venit și cu isterii (istorii) pe măsură. Din debara vine acum miros puternic de ozon. Amestecat cu vechea putoare. Nu pot să cred că ozonul nu o poate neutraliza.
Vă spun eu cine e de vină. Nicușor Dan, Ciucă, Greblă, Iohannis și Viktor Orban (director în engleză înseamnă regizor). Unde pot să mă duc să încasez 12 milioane?
11:50 Nu pot să-mi fac curaj să postez despre minunățiile de știri din România. Mă blochez de fiecare dată când văd că majoritatea "știrilor" par legate de ce am scris eu ultima dată. Totuși, trebuie.
Accidentul din Italia. Mă uit la poza asta și nu-mi vine să cred. Poza a fost făcută în asemena fel încât să nu înțelegi nimic. Din austostradă se vede doar un panou. Există încă o balustrada în dreapta care pare intactă. E acolo un elicopter, dar unde sunt pasagerii? Cum a ajuns autocarul acolo? Poza pare să semene mult cu poza făcută de mine ieri în grădină.
Dintr-o dată, miroase la toată lumea. Lui Budea și altora.
Mai multe legate de jidanul Dracula. Două persoane cu capul zdrobit la Bran, Netflix.
Tortul de pe cireașă, Dan Vîlceanu. Și pentru că seamănă puțin cu actorul acela din Back to the Future. Și pentru că l-am greșit puțin pe deplin în asemănare. Și pentru că în 20 August 2021 a fost un element cheie în accidentul meu. Ce vrea de fapt? Să fie în știri.
A doua zi am primit cauciucuri pentru roțile din spate. Mi le-a așezat Amazon la ușă. Dar mașina era acordeon.
Pe 20 2021 August cineva mi-a spart în parcare cauciucul dreapta spate. Am pus rezerva și m-am dus la Les Schwab. Acolo m-a luat în primire Vîlceanu care mi-a arătat cauciucul nu numai spart dar distrus în interior (ceea ce acum nu cred). Și eu nebun, am mers cu rezerva 40 mile la Ilani și înapoi. Din cauză că mergeam încet (de fapt limita de viteză pe autostradă) un nebun cu camionetă supraînălțată, cu pinten în fața barei din față, m-a lovit din spate pretinzând că nu m-a văzut. Dar era parte dintr-un grup în care doi m-au flancat, iar după, l-au acoperit ca să nu-i văd numărul și au fugit toți.
Exista video de pe camerele de autostradă dar Poliția Statului Washington a acoperit totul. Există video pe camerele de supraveghere de la Les Schwab.
Câte ilegalități s-au comis în ziua aceea? Zilnic și în fiecare oră? Tipul care mergea ieri cu 40 mph în fața noastră, ca eu să scriu și să șterg singur informația că mașina făcea 40 mpg. Cine a pornit chiar acum o mașină cu eșapament modificat în parcare care parcă îmi sparge timpanele ca să nu mai scriu?
Voi nu vedeți că ăștia vă dau știri doar ca să vă umple timpul și capul?
Ăsta e cumva? Poate ăsta... Ăsta nu are nici o legătură (ancoră) pe nume... Nici ăsta... Nu dau eu de el... Un criteriu bun de căutare. Are sprâncenele groase și lăsate. Bine și dacă dau de el ce se va întâmpla? Mai nimic, ca la atâția alții. A nu, el a demisionat nu mult timp după. Dar din cauză că știau mulți ce a făcut, asemănarea cred că i-am greșit-o. Sau poate că din cauză că nu i-a ieșit... Nu le-au ieșit ce au vrut să facă atunci cu mine, cu noi. Să rezolve adică toate problemele României dintr-o lovitură. Problemele însă sunt chiar ei iar eu am devenit o problemă pentru ei cu ce postez pe bloguri.
Sprâncenele cele mai groase și lăsate le are ăsta dar nu e destul de chel... Sau poate poza e prea veche. E foarte de aproape și de aceea nasul pare mai gros. Nu găsesc alta mai nouă sau mai bună.
Cu Petre Roman a fost o excepție, el a fost demis la câteva zile după ce l-am găsit. Nașpa că foarte mulți actori din Ungaria de aceeași vârstă seamănă fantastic între ei. Ca și cum ar fi mai mult decât conaționali, ca și cum ar fi frați vitregi. Poate sunt și nu știu ei, poate au avut un program, gen ca Hitler dar secret.
1:57 Man. Iar am uitat și am trecut pe lângă cuptorul cu microunde în timp ce mergea. M-am energizat din cap până în picioare și acum simt o urmă de durere ca o usturime adânc în șoldul drept. Am ținut telefonul mulți ani de zile în buzunarul din dreapta față sau spate de la blugi. Mi-am făcut curaj să mănânc ceva. Am băut ieri ca un disperat, să nu mai știu de nimic, la 12 ore încă am mult alcool în sistem.
Nu mi s-a făcut greață. Semn că lampa nouă de UV cu ozon din debaraua cu boilerul face ceva. Au încercat ăștia, au scuturat clădirea cu motoare și au dat drumul la apă să fâsâie țevile la mine, dar nu a mai ieșit mai nimic de acolo.
2:36 Deputy. Ce deputy, în engleză deputy se spune numai la ajutor de șerif, la parlamentari se spune MP adică Member of Parliament. Așa vreți voi să fiți în Europa? Tot eu sunt de vină și pentru asta? Da bine se spune că termenul este echivalent, însă eu nu am auzit niciodată de când citesc news-urile la englezi, tocmai ca să nu se confunde iar la americani se spune congresman.
11:55 Are you ready for this? Not yet? BTW the guy behind all these. I know what he's been through. I think him, like Norah Jones, others, intentionally ate like a sumo wrestler when in public so he can escape. However they found another job for him.
2:38 Acești obstinați, se vor opri vreodată? Care dumnezeu, cel cu șarpe la gât care l-au târât pe drumul mătăsii din străfundurile Asiei până la noi?
8:54 Some people threw garbage on the ground next to the bin though there is still some room in the bin after i put those mats. There are three other bins nearby.
9:40 Man am i happy to see the garbage recycle guy today. Was annoyed by the noise in the past, throwing items in his truck, but today he came and picked those mats and cleaned the area around the bin.
9:45 Wondering how the 2 million people in Portland can still take it. Smoke index is 80. Coming from an "unevaluated" fire near or around Prineville (capital of the Les Schwab country) called the BLOCK fire. Can't go for a walk. Could there be a subliminal link to the fact Romania's access in Schengen is blocked by Austria?
9:54 A very annoying continuous vibration that sounds like a city sweeper, but it does not move, stay in one place for half hour now?
10:12 During my 62 years life i heard much music, starting when i was around 4. But i never heard a song so anti-american than Austrian Falco's Der Kommissar that was aired to the max back in the day.
English band After The Fire tried to fix it somehow with the video in their cover. In Europe, at least me had no idea (not good enough English or any German at the time). I remember i was dancing in discos on Jeanny, another weird song that was actually about a serial killer. There was nobody there tell us.
However Americans rewarded him with a Nr.1 Billboard position in following years for Rock Me Amadeus which was unheard for a non English musician which song again is an allusion to the "Jews" (read Hungarians) dominated rock music which again prove they don't care much for lyrics. Secret to his success? Imitating Anglo/American rock music style with a bit of nostalgic lied poured in. Yeah i know Joe and Jill come right in place, could it be part of a long planned silver streak?
1:49 A vorbit și Charles Michel, cel mai necunoscut până acum cap al Uniunii Europene, un fost prim ministru belgian (o țară mică de 11.6 milioane locuitori) care acum e Președintele Consiliului Uniunii Europene. Cu cât am săpat mai adânc în subsolurile Uniunii Europene, cu atât mai mult începe să mi se pară o bătaie de joc. Există trei consilii. Consiliul Miniștrilor sau Consiliul Uniunii Europene sau pe scurt Consiliul, unde au loc faimoasele voturi unanime de 27 miniștri în diverse "configurații", deci și cel de pe 8, Există Consiliul Europei, o organizație mai veche care nu are treabă cu UE și mai Există Consiliul European (al doilea pe listă, site-ul nu merge acum la momentul redactării), partea reprezentativă sau politică, aflăm acum.
E ușor de spus a nu se confunda, eu cel puțin m-am încurcat de mai multe ori și studiez chestia de când au început scandalurile cu admiterea României în Schengen. Consiliul Uniunii Europene, Consiliul European, Consiliul Europei. Charles Michel nu are nici o treabă cu voturile din Consiliu (de Miniștri) pe 8 decembrie dar iată, poate influența opinia publică necunoscătoare.
Oare de ce s-a trezit vorbind acum în contradicție cu Vicepreședintele Comisiei (un corp executiv, permanent) invocând un nou argument, proximitatea războiul? Este probabil părerea sa personală, Consiliul pe care îl prezidează nu a avut nici o întrunire recentă. Este puțin probabil ca în România să vină alți ucraineni pe lângă celelalte milioane care au trecut deja parțial prin România cu binecuvântarea UE.
3:26 Poate cancelarul nu a mințit când a spus că în Austria se află 100000 mii de aplicanți, probabil majoritatea ucraineni. Probabil toți provenind din fosta Galicia, care a fost parte din Austria.
9:32 "On 12 February 2016, the Council adopted a recommendation on addressing serious deficiencies identified during an evaluation of Greece's application of the Schengen acquis..." that needed to be carried out within 3 months.
On March 3 of the same year Charles Michael tweeted. (Earlier i thought the statement refers to accession of Greece in Schengen in that year, which actually happened in 1992 though here it says 2000).
Don't know yet why he said Greece needed not to be excluded from Schengen, but clearly there was no reference to the war in the neighboring countries or the report back to the Commission and Council after February recommendations to which obviously Greece did not oppose its veto.
I can't find through google searches the results of that 3 months improvement program reported back to the Commission and the Council (should they have done another evaluation?)
Situation changed to 180 degrees though when Greece started to toughen its borders also as a result of those recommendations and fear of being excluded from Schengen.
But i came again to the same bitter conclusion i keep coming within the last days. The whole European Union is just a facade or mockery of democracy. The only real power seems to be within the Council (of Ministers) and the Council can be controlled through veto by one single country, big or small. The President substitutes himself for the Commission and Council with a tweet.
Imagine a situation when you need to exclude a EU member from Schengen that has to be taken with unanimity in the Council. Like the decision of trying to get rid of veto that also needs an unanimity.
11:52 Another proof that Romania is not the migration route.
3:04 Câmpulung, Copou, Coposu. A song to cope with anything. Cage, son of Coppola. Etc.
2:08 When i got the car from the auction and paint shop i found. One bent drive axle (right). The other was severely rusted with a play. Two cracked struts. I replaced them all but never touched the big ball joint nut.
I instead removed the three smaller ones at the control arm. Cause i knew the ball joint conic bolt maybe stuck in the steering knuckle. However somehow they got loose on both sides. Kept tightening them. Before i figured i needed single use nuts i bought a whole assembly (ball joint, cheap, OEM, 30 bucks) on ebay on February 17 which i tried to unnecessarily replace (being constantly under influence from smoke from mole holes which has ceased after i finally plugged all holes with added borax). I put some WD40, untigthened the nut to bolt level and hammered them together but not a lot since i had no room to do it. Tightened the nut back by hand and with a new wrench i bought especially for this. I did not strip the nut, no way. I think that 12 mm bolt can take safely up to 100 pounds. Then i bought a tool on Amazon which didn't work. When i went to Reno i stopped once on the freeway and tried to tighten the nut again but was turning continuously and i figured maybe the conic joint got loose because of the WD40 i put in. Today i went in to see what's happening and found the nut and bolt are stripped period.
While i was weighing my options in disbelief and was ready to put it together (got the parts, but can't remove the old joint) the read head woman, the mother of veteran's daughter passed by and never came back. I figured she went to the office like she threatened once, because i was working on the car. But at the garages there's a guy who also works on a vehicle and he does it everyday like a business. Closest.
What i don't understand is why yesterday or any time before i retigthened the nut it was making a noise at the bumps and had problems steering at high speed which means the conic bolt is loose but every time i tried to remove it it was stuck. Right now since it's stuck i think i can drive it safely even without a nut on it. The nut is stripped but is very hard to remove and i don't think the bolt would pop up so i may just drive it like this for a few more days (Angela's got Monday off).
3:38 A drive to Les Schwab turned into a whole new adventure. I stopped at Jiffy Lube where they replaced my filter last time. They said they can't do it without an alignement. There is nothing to align at this car except for toe but that one wouldn't change with ball joint replacement. Nothing will change. Anyways, i know when a car is out of alignment. He gave me the "if you want to argue, i do this for..." (he's like 30).
At Les Schwab. Blake Shelton as customer, a kid that seemed familiar came when i was leaving, but i passed.
Some other mechanic told me what to do. A wedge, but that will destroy the old part in the process. Not so absolutely sure i got the right part on ebay. Though mine is stripped, it still works and if i do this i have to be ready to give up the car for a few days in case it goes wrong.
Now that is stuck (as for today) i don't hear any noises at the bumps.
Risking children's lives. When i came back, a grey silver Audi was coming real close, threatening to hit me from behind. I was braking slowly watching him in the mirror and pulled real fast in the alley, stopped and honked, without realizing there was a car trying to leave the alley with a kid in the back sit staring at me.
5:26 Laptop powered off by itself while on charger with 94% battery while editing last paragraph which i kept on yesterday's post. Awake since 2:40 AM with 6 hours of sleep. Last night i ran into some news about CCR. Not this CCR. I had no idea they sold more albums than Beatles in 69-71 or before breakup, but remembered the first waiter at Stix restaurant, who looked like their drummer, though without beard or mustache. Talking and moving very slowly possibly with an ascites belly.
In 97 at my Les Schwab job there was a guy looking in his early 30s named Jason who started to jump for joy every time they were playing Looking out my back door on then Portland Oldies on a boombox in the shop who looked like Fogerty himself though he would have been 52 at that time. The guy on the Harley with goggles at Castella gas station? Born on the Bayou? Also in Hungary Csaba Ötvös is the husband of Csilla Ötvös.
7:19 Keep thinking. Can't remember exactly but i think yesterday after all that driving i could have gotten confused and tried to extra tighten the filter instead of unscrewing it. Especially because of vertical position of the filter and doing it blindly with the car not raised. After i tried a lot with a 6 inch ratchet i grabbed the torque wrench and i it was then when they started the alarm.
7:48 Minutes after i mentioned CCR. (Constitutional Court of Romania).
9:02 Went back to Jiffy Lube where i've been last night and got to speak to the guy who did the filter last night though he seemed younger. Huge noise from the carwash and a dog barking on the other side of the fence prevented a meaningful conversation but basically what he said was he has to remove the valve cover to see and that would be hours of labor at 120/an hour. In the meantime i went to Fred Meyer to buy some Crystal Geyzer spring water and there in the parking lot i opened the oil cap and looked and i saw what i thought it was a bubble in the oil. No drive or turn i make is unexploited, meet with again barrel like objects on the freeway and a van that said Xeno or Xenx clear, which are Scientology terms.
9:21 There was also a guy at Jiffy Lube who reminded me of David Copperfield.
12:06 I've been thinking. I tried to unscrew the filter the right way. Somebody else overtigthened it.
Kalama, Cowlitz, Kalapuya, Camas, Clackamas, Klamath. All ancient Native American toponyms on US west Coast with an indisputable link with the root Kala or Kali. That may come from the Sanskrit name Kali or from Australian aboriginal word kylie, the name for the tool known as boomerang.
Klamath river is home of the California most populous tribe Karuk. Karu in Sanskrit means among others artisan, but we also have Kalika and Chamunda, other names of goddess Kali. And Kauravas.
Some Karuk women wear a tattoo or make up that looks like a hanging tongue. In this picture the three young adults' appearance is Hungarian, who are a mix of Ancient Australia Noongars and North Eastern Indian Magars. The woman with face decoration looks Asian.
Some women wear a shells necklace that look like Kali little skulls necklace.
There are boomerang like stone tools at the Museum in Oregon City. Oldest known boomerang was found in Poland and was made of a mammoth tusk, but in India boomerangs were made of... iron.
Crescent is one of the attributes of Lord Shiva, as he is known also as god of time, with Moon being the oldest measure of time known to man. However Kali stepped on Shiva's chest and thus took this attribute from him. As the trident.
In 1997 while working at Epson i started to have breathing trouble, severe insomnia and in the end hallucinations. After several attempts at other hospitals, due to my insurance from Epson i was taken to a place called Pacific Gateway. I was so dehydrated that when i peed in a jar half of it precipitated as salts. They gave me to drink some water and asked for another sample. Finally they gave me a pill, got to sleep, eat and drink. But the biggest problem of them all. Could not fall asleep in the evening because i felt like chocking. Problem was given simply by a congested nose and me not being able to breath on my mouth because i forgot how to since i was in grade school and my teacher was punishing me if she was catching me breathing on my mouth.
After i got out of Pacific Gateway was better but still the same problem. Finally got better after working 4 months at Les Schwab in open air. Problem was caused by indoor pollution and me not breathing on my mouth when could not on my nose but could not figure that for the next 15 years. Pacific Gateway was specialized in treating drug addicts.
Pacific Gateway was closed @year 2000 and demolished after the doctors and nurses there called Police because they could not control a Mexican patient who was threatening them with a pen. So Police came and shot him once in head and once in chest. A similar situation happened in 2002-2003 at Woodland Park Hospital where i called 911 (112) from a payphone because i had difficulties breathing. In there, one of my doctors' name was Collier but my first doctor there was plainly Harrison Ford (together with his assistant, therapist Carrie Fisher). In January 13 2004 i went again to that hospital for one night and i was the only patient there. The hospital was closed in 2004 after doctors again called 911 to transfer a patient. It's been re-opened many years after, under a different name and ownership.
But there was this picture reproduction on the wall outside my room at Pacific Gateway of a serigraph by painter Thomas McNight. It was representing what i thought it was a mythical place called Crescent Bay, with a fish in a basket hit by a trident and still trying to breath next to a breathing apparatus in form of infinity sign, and on the picture lower it was written with big letters Chalk and Vermillion (an art reproduction firm) New York. Every time i was reading that and obviously feeling like chocking all the time, i thought of how the word Vermillion means in Romanian viermele (the worm) and the name Ion, my last name.
21 years after, can't remember how, i figured Crescent Bay existed and at first opportunity i went to California, South of LA, a 1000 miles drive to see it. In that day water was warm and people were bathing in the bay, and we went and grabbed some bathing suits and went into the water. I had a body wide infection starting from teeth, and as soon as i got in the water i started to shiver. Then i saw this guy who looked familiar (Angela was binge watching the movie those days on Netflix or something), asked him a question, went into a conversation and told him the purpose of me being there. Then he told me to go in the water.
In the bay there were even two scuba divers, like in the painting, and on shore, about where that pool should have been, a woman was reading a book. A group of what i thought then were Arabs, though could have been Indians were watching something carefully, maybe counting waves.
Angela was sitting there in the shallow water on her knees, some 30 ft away from the shore when a freak wave came and pushed her 30 ft towards the shore in one second, leaving her with some wounds that turned into scars on her knees from rubbing against the sand for all that distance.
There must have been a reason when they came here Europeans called them Indians.
10:30 Are you ready for another one? I knew bacteria can live in the gas tank. But believe it or not, my car's having mold inside the AC pipes. Neither the refrigerant nor the oil is anti-fungal enough to prevent it and R134a refrigerant that my car uses is far less toxic to both humans and mold than previous types "that were harmful to the ozone". Though the system is pressurized, when enough leaks occur, there is an exchange of gases with exterior. That is for every 1 million molecules of refrigerant escaped, one molecule of water from ambient gets in. For that, it has by design a can hooked on refrigerant's circuit with desiccant material, like beads of silicon. The way silicon deals with humidity, is it absorbs it, being porous. However, the water stays in there.
The car has been sitting in a puddle of water for weeks, though AC was not completely depressurized, building karma before they started to work on it at the shop and it was then where it got contaminated.
When i refilled it i accidentally released in the air some refrigerant and felt it was smelling like mold, but i thought that is the "normal" smell of the used oil and refrigerant. Now that it has been refilled to specs has more pressure and tiny leaks like any AC (pressure on the low side is actually higher when the AC is off), (mostly from being dry after loosing most oil), every time i drive that car (and sleep in it like i did Saturday) my tonsils get bigger to the point now i almost can't talk. I think this happens on any AC system, on bigger or smaller scales and that is the reason many people get sick by those. I'm also exploring the possibility that the PAG oil i added as per manufacturer's recommendation may be a not anti-fungal but a nutrient for the mold.
12:12 It is not the first time i think when he squeaks upstairs he's synchronizing his brain waves with mine, something that can happen when people have sex. Anyways, i finished the posts for this morning, wanted to write about he being here for now three days in a row, go for a walk and he just left before me. So it can further create the appearance of living together.
Also a video was playing in a different tab, continuing with Robert Magyar. Now i understand that people in Romania did not recognize the Hungarian actors, writers and singers leading the Romanian high life because they were not known in Romania before that, but this in case of Hungarians seem inexcusable. Unless the're all in some sort of trance, like watching them from a baby's cradle.
12:28 Din în când în când tot ei, ne vin și ne dau drumul la presiune pasiune ca să nu se ridice prea mult.
12:32 He's back, was wearing a red and blue cap. Got back out the door and back in.
12:48 Now this is a bit too much for my intuition. A faster jet stream on top of the already faster than normal one that brought us the storm?
3:00 Is Zelensky growing a goatee as well as biceps? These two pictures are taken a month apart. The only way he could do this is if going to gym (or digging trenches which is more likely).
4:41 Fast jet stream today. Close to max or 250 mph, average being 100.
4:32 Just went and plugged a few holes. Seems like there was a very... bad smell in here, not the usual, maybe cocaine.
5:38 There is cigarette smell coming from the apartment upstairs and there are mole holes in the ground at the apartment down stairs, both around the corner. I went again to plug the holes and now they brought in a scooter, right next to where the holes are. I remember i had a plywood box with two tires on the balcony, last spring when they gave me a notice to move them. As i did, i threw them away. One of them was unfixable, one was still good. If i had that tire when i got the flat in August, would have just replaced it at Les Schwab in the same day (new tires were ordered and came Saturday, after the accident). In that night i drove at Ilani with a spare (40 miles, crazy, i recon) and when i got back i was doing 60 in a 60 area, however he came and rammed me from behind, but i saw him approaching for several seconds, he couldn't say he didn't see me and then he got surrounded by the rest of the pack and left, without giving me a chance to see the LPN.
5:55 Another smart mole threw some of the pieces of onion out and there was this guy (again around the corner) who was coughing. So i went and took those and found two more holes again under their wall but much closer to our bedroom (on my side of the corner). It was those who filled the apartment. They have a few kids ready and send them either if i work in car or in other situation. Right now i had those 3 pieces of onion i buried around the corner in my hand when he passed. Onion, to stun them.
6:03 Kids running and yelling under our window as Angela is trying to fall asleep.
9:37 Yesterday i was thinking. Haven't seen the handywoman around here for a month or so. Actually, i know she's a man, an opera singer from Hungary, but i forgot which. Think i wrote on fb once, i will try to find out. Woke this morning about 15 minutes ago in a choking smell. Went to check. Everything i've done yesterday was in place. Stepped around the corner, in front of the sliding doors. I saw a mound right under the bedroom's window where i was sleeping. Blinds were closed. It would have taken me 2-3 minutes to flat level all the mounds but lately i decided to document every mound that i see so i turned around to get the phone. One ft away from the 7 stairs at the entrance, with a phone in one hand, a blue hoodie and jeans, was the silhouetto of the handywoman. Back turned on me, she looked up at the apartment above and then she left, never letting me to see her face. Went and took the pictures. They were actually 4 mounds.
They are very hard to capture on camera. First right under the left side of the window.
This image came blurry, i was anxious to finish to get back in line of sight (had the blinds open now, could see inside) and moved the phone.
This one is right lower side of the picture. Further away but still within the laminar thermal flow on the surface of soil and towards the building (now wind whatsover).
She was right at the begining of the stairs on the left of the picture.
12:27 Right extreme comes from the naive self righteous and tired from work "patriots" who delegate their "will" to always dubious leaders which always leads to most serious blunders. I can't believe those from Romania actually believe they can rent apartments here and act as they wish. It's all a trick, that beside proving their impotence, bothers me as well creating some more problems besides the problems i already have. I saw SSoaca endangering one of the feeble balconies a couple of times. There is a guy who talks aloud on the phone all day. A guy walking his white beard on the alleys. All fake, all meant to divert their efforts. My advice. Do something else right there, do not get involved in politics remotely, real politics requires rested, smart, desperate and comfortless people and most of all: do not delegate.
2:59 I know what "she" was looking at. The plastic foil i put under the stairs so red dust carried on his shoes won't fall on our deck and get carried inside by thermal flow under door. It was days before the guy upstairs disappeared, again. Or maybe at the dying plant, trying to suggest. All smells, smoke, mold and dust is coming from that plant. I was complaining of smoke and dust forever, the plant has been there only since last fall.
That has been there for weeks, i think it's retaliation because i took yesterday pictures on the streets and especially the bearded guy at the recyclables.
BTW, what's in that truck?
3:22 Today there was a choking smoke in the air. I thought it's only here around the building so i left for a walk but it lasted all the way until i reached the school on Borland. I knew about the shooting range nearby, but never heard anything like today. Semi automatic sequences, i think ten shots at half second interval, than 30 seconds silence, for about an hour. It was audible here, and one mile away basically all my 3 miles trip.
When i crossed the alley next to stairs from 65th at the hospital, they were a number of cars that stopped trying to let me pass. But every time a person was falsely signaling me to pass, there was a car coming from the opposite direction.
When i got back i saw 3 fighter jets flying above, rather quietly, at first one, then two others in close formation.
6:28 Wasting time, searching for fb posts. On March 4 last year @ the time the guy upstairs moved here i got on the door a notice saying that i have to remove the plywood box with two tires from the balcony. For weeks after, there was a piece of plywood in the street for everybody to drive over. Then i had the leak in the bathroom from upstairs and forgot bout. I threw the tires away because i had no room to keep them. One had an unfixable flat and one was still good, had like 20k more to go.
On August 19 i had again here in the parking lot a flat on the right rear. That tire was at the end of its life, and had the rim damaged (or so they showed me at les Schwab). There they couldn't find a similar tire in that day so they installed my spare. If i had that tire in the balcony, i would have used it and avoided the accident that happened 2 days later. The newly ordered tires arrived at my door the day after the accident. This was the guy who handled my tire that day at les Schwab.
It's been several hours after the irritating smoke that was on since i woke up stopped (BTW had a dysphagia episode because of it when i had breakfast) but i'm still incapacitated by it. My eyes hurt and can't think much.
8:21 Ok this is what "she" was looking at... I put some tape between beams so dust won't fall off every time he comes or leaves or the wind blows etc..
6:04 Can't sleep, woke up at 4, went and flatented some mounds, but i smell like camfor from some ointmennt i put on my right knee that hurts from who knows how i moved when i was stoned and worked on car Friday night. Which smell prevents me from sleeping, don't want to take a shower cause i will wake Angela. Also drank like 1.5 liter of water and i'm still thirsty, was dehidrated, i think my body is trying to flush that stuff that was in the air Friday night and alochol i drank last night.
So i just came and did a search because i wanted to post something. It's called air intake grill cowl panel. The panel between windshield and hood that i removed last night from car and washed with a brush, detergent and showerhead. Ever wondered what's under that panel, for a 4 year old car? This is what it is. Mud that after it dries turns into dust and gets into the filter that filter is not a HEPA filter and some will pass into the cabin.
Friday night i just removed one out of the 4 clips (2 broke today when i removed them all Saturday from being britle from being close to exhaust heatshield) and got to the three bolts of the strut on right (left in image), but i saw the dirt. Wiped as much as i could on top of that strut, it was much dirtier. That's what it takes, press with a small Philips on top center of the clips and the two nuts on windshield arms, to remove them. But that is a different story. For that i had to order a tool on Amazon (which BTW came in less that 24 hours), and even with that it was difficult, because only the driver of the windshield arm had splines. The arm itself was just instaled on the driver with conic shape and splines and the splines got indented on the arm. So it became stuck from the start. No chance to remove them without that tool without risking damage. It is true i took the panel (and ordered the tool) just to clean the dirt but now i saw i can get the top nut of the strut, the one i couldn't on the "bench" (kitchen floor that is), before even i remove the strut. Loosen it a bit that is. Cause there is no load on that nut when the vehicle doesn't move when the strut shaft moves up and down, right? Missing part on the air filter hole, most likely another grill that prevents stuff like leaves that pass the panel on the sides (so much for a "tight" design that alows air to get in the to the filter housing. I guess it was removed when they put in the dog food, didn't bother to put it back on). And yes, there is still bad smelling dog food yellow dust all over the engine compartment, after i cleaned with a brush, dry and wet, several times.
1:58 Took a Zyrtec and slept a lot. When i woke up my pain in the knee was so great i could barely move around. Watched a movie which i haven't done in years. Smoke came in, now the pain is gone but i'm afraid to do anything cause if the smoke is kratom, that is a pin killer and by moving could damage the knee even further. Went outside, stepped on mounds.
4:34 I done it. With the monster tool i bought online. That thing is heavy and strong but it did the job. 78 bucks, 450 lbs, though corded. Trouble with smoke again. Alternating cigarette smoke with kratom. I don't feel nothing but a small sore at the knee. Hope i'm going to be able to walk after this. And one trick. When Angela came briefly outside there was this Asian woman with a dog accross the alley who didn't pick and Angela went off, being under smoke influence, without realizing i was working on car too. I think it was all a provocation.
Done it. One of the most anticipated events in the last week. I reviews in my mind over and over how i'll do it.
Installed the strut on the car, camber changed more than 2 degrees, looks like is around specs, did a test drive, don't hear that terrible tire noise anymore. The spring compression screws which i got for 26 on bucks on Amazon work. However, there's a very little window of positioning those at least for these struts. It took me 3 attempts in as many hours to assemble the new strut with the spring but in the end i did it. No surprises with fittment on the car. I was telling Angela. If i went to a dealer here, the only ones who got a strut of similar quality with this one, would have cost me 400 parts and 300 labor for one side or at least 500 at Les Schwab with their own brands and i've done it with 92 from Amazon with Monroe. Could have bought the OEM ones on the same site i got the CV shafts for 280 but what if they crack again being the same as originals. Plus the satisfacation and assurance that i've done it right. Bonus was opening the can of worms that was under the panel (first picture). The one on the right, though cracked, is not that critical because is not so much out of alignment. Got two in the locker today, ordered two by mistake thinking they fit both sides but i don't think i will do it in the next few days or until my knee heals.
No i was wrong. Last time when i saw a movie was at the end of the season of Expansy when i binged viewed them all. Needless to say. The next weekend i bumped into that actor, main character, Steven Strait. Did they restart with season VI or something?
April 2018. We bid on a car at Copart. Like IAA, it's a place where insurance companies sell the totaled cars after they pay their customers the market value. They usually specify the areas where the car was damaged. This one has been listed as "minor scratches and damages". We saw the car prior at the auction lot, together with one hundred others. Did not realize the car was actually in an accident, partially fixed and put back in auction and sold again at a higher price. I paid a total of 45 hundred dollars, including Copart fees.
When i went and picked it at the auction site, the car was driveable, but was making a weird noise at the engine. The mud cover on the right front was damaged, the fender was not holding in place, battery was almost dead and 5 years old. Serpentine belt was bent by a foreign object that gut between belt and pulleys at the time of the accident. When i got home i found in the trunk the broken windshield washer reservoir and the right headlight. Car was painted on the right side, with the right door and fender damaged. It was unclear if the right door airbag was still functional, though no dashboard light was on.
They were some sort of crystals on the windshield and hood, maybe from car being driven behind a de-icer that did not go away after a year or something, impairing visibility. Nr.1 and 2 cylinders had spark plug loose (0 torque) and there was oil in the cylinders and on the threads and inside the spark plug wheels. The shoulder at the bottom of the spark plug wheels where the washers of the spark plugs seal sit was damaged and it was impossible to seal the spark plug when torquing it. Exhaust was leaking by the spark plugs in the engine compartment. Hood was bent (never fixed) and was not touching the seal with exhaust coming through the air intake grill in the cabin. There was oil in the the cylinders and on the spark plug threads.
3 years of struggle followed, with me working at the cars for hours, several days a week.
First went to Beaverton Hyundai and bought a battery and had it installed. Bought there a serpentine belt and installed it. Bought on Amazon a 6 mm diameter camera (about 20 bucks) to look inside the cylinders where i did not see piston slap damage but oil.
I tried to wipe the spark plug threads with balls of cotton soaked in alcohol, but they were not holding.
Designed and build in a machine shop a tool to resurface the shoulders of the spark plug holes. Finally torqued the spark plugs. Ordered a mud cover for right front on ebay and installed it. Ordered a windshield washer reservoir and installed it. Straightened the hood by stepping on it while hood semi-open, several times over the years. Did not realize the plastic grill was still leaking in several places by design, until about a week before the accident. Over 3 years i drove the car from 35 k to almost 100, while breathing exhaust inside the cabin, though less and less.
Did not realize the battery connectors could not be tightened enough, and were constantly getting loose, again by design, with battery never fully charging, until i bought a plug in USB charger with a digital voltmeter and because of needing jump starts several times after exhausting the battery with radio and fan in parking lots i also bought a 40 dollars 10000 mah li-ion smart jump starter on Amazon.
There was foam in the oil indicating sticky valves and squishy lifters. Tried to use some valve cleaner for the noise and injector cleaner additive inside the tank. As that wasn't working, i tried to clean the throttle body when i saw the inside of the composite intake manifold, which was installed in front of the compartment, or the left side of the engine, which was oily.
I tried and used a 3/8 piece of vinyl tube connected to a vacuum cleaner and pulled from the intake ounces of oil. It was then when i realized that oil from the PCV was condensing inside the cold manifold that was installed in front of the engine compartment and pooling at the bottom of the intake which was installed upside down, by design, with the bottom bellow the runners, unlike any car i seen before. From there, oil was trickling up the runners, burning on valves and making them sticky, especially at number one cylinder. More oil was getting inside the cylinder, lubricating the piston rings unevenly, contaminating spark plugs, etc..
I pulled the injectors and tried to clean them applying voltage and some solvent from a spray can. Can had twice the pressure of the fuel and blew the injectors microfilters. I had to buy new injectors from dealer, for 400 bucks.
Over the years, i designed and installed several versions of catch cans on the PCV circuit, trying to minimize the amount of oil that gets in the intake which i was vacuuming "regularly" with a device i designed myself, made of a piece of tubing and a mat pump. With the last version of the catch can i could not vacuum oil from the intake anymore, there was none left.
A few months ago i bought an Exide battery and installed it and the noise was gone for a few hours. That was until the nuts at the connectors got loose again. Weeks before the accident i degreased the connectors together with the 8 bolts and nuts that were around the battery connectors and sealed the nuts on top with some adhesive. The voltage on the plug in charger with digital voltmeter was finally showing 14.3 volts while driving, 14.1 while idling. In the day of the accident, the noise was almost gone.
The noise was coming from the nr.1 cylinder or the furthest on the fuel rail, where fuel had not enough pressure because of low voltage at the fuel pump and injector was dripping, causing uneven washing of the cylinder, with probably some slap while the engine cold, and not enough fuel washing the oil condensed on runner and trickling on valve, which was not getting washed enough because of low voltage at the fuel pump, making the valve stick and the lifer squish oil which was foamy. One cylinder working less than others meant vibration at the engine which meant poor driveability at high speed.
When i did rear brakes, a couple of years ago, i saw the indicators for pad wearing were bent and acting like springs, pushing the pads on the rotor, diminishing mileage.
Over the years, the car was doing an average of 35 mpg on the freeway and @20 in stop and go traffic. The car was quite comfortable to drive, due to soft suspension and many options, including working AC, bluetooth and satellite radio (which we did not subscribe for). In the days prior to the accident it was in its best shape ever, with smooth running engine, good driveability and almost no noise.
On August 19 Angela told me on the phone she had a flat. On the same tire there was another, several months ago when i got it fixed at Les Schwab in Lake Oswego. When she got home, i found low pressure in right rear, enough to trigger the sensor, put the tire in the tub full of water and didn't see any bubbles. I took the tire, for precaution, at the same Les Schwab shop in Lake Oswego.
There i spoke to a guy who resembled the current Finance Minister of Romania. Of course i didn't realize right away. Inside there was this Hungarian opera singer who acted like Phil Wick, Les Schwab's CEO after the death of Les Schwab.
The Romanian guy called me inside the shop which didn't happen in a long time, i went reluctantly after he called me a couple of times and showed me a tire similar to mine that had a damaged rim for about 1/6 length of the whole rim. He told me if it was from a previous installation which was in the same shop and asked me if wanted a new tire, i asked him if he had Michelin, the brand that was originally on car when i got it, he said no, if he can get it by tomorrow, he said we should talk in the morning, he had the number on my record, he then put the tire back on the wheel, inflated it and the wheel in the trunk. He insisted to put it there himself. This car doesn't come with a spare, though it has the space for it in the trunk. I found one at the junkyard, from a Ford that fitted. Though spare was new, the car was not driving the same as with the original wheel, especially at high speeds on the freeway. In the same evening i re-ordered a couple of tires similar to those in front which i changed more than a year ago, similar to the original ones. They were scheduled to arrive Monday, however they came Saturday morning or the day after the accident.
Friday evening i drove to Ilany, after both of us changed our mind, first Angela, then me, not to go that evening. 40 miles one way, had some difficulty driving, the car was drifting a bit, they were lots of drivers with weird LPN like KGB harassing us, as usually in the last few years. So i had to go with the speed limit.
In that day when she came from work she said she saw a light on the dashboard, it was the light showing something wrong with the airbags.
At midnight 20/21 i was coming back doing 60 in a 60 area on cruise control (which is kinda slow i recon). I was in the middle lane, because i was close to the interstate bridge where i don't want to drive on side lanes. Suddenly i noticed i was surrounded by a group of cars, left, right and behind. I saw in the mirror the lights from behind approaching at high speed, probably 20 over the speed limit. I could not change lanes, though the cars left and especially right might have slowed down in that moment, living me alone. Thing is i can't remember, because it all happened very fast. All i know is in my mind i had few options except to tell Angela to brace for impact and probably i accelerated in the last few seconds, reducing the difference in speed between the vehicles. For one second i thought he gave up then he accelerated too and i felt the impact. I was pushed forward at higher speed while all the other cars in the group fell behind. When i realized i still had control of the car i looked, the right lane was free, i veered right, stopped on the shoulder and tried to see his LPN. However when he passed he was surrounded by the other cars. All i could see was the tail of a huge white Ford pickup with the letters 4x4 on the tail. I took a picture of the car which was pretty damaged but still driveable (in the end, after talking to the cops who called a towing company who didn't want to go that far, calling our own towing that wasn't calling back, i drove the 22 miles from there to home, on right lane, and i had to pull over at least one time because of a truck that was coming again threatening from the rear).
The Washington State police came within 5 minutes. The cop looked bored and interested in a car that zoomed at high speed. He left the front lights on onto my car and i could not see his face. He said i should not drive the car back home cause it could not take another hit like that, which in the end almost happened. However, i do remember he looked like this guy.
He then agreed to drive before me (while another Police SUV came from behind, following me) and pilot me to a safe place. He exited the freeway than choose a street with poor illumination, near a property called G&G in the Minnehaha neighborhood of Vancouver, Washington, 2 miles away from Columbia river and Oregon.
There he asked me to write on a form called SUSPECT/WITNESS statement what happened and sign it. Then he asked me this question. What happened right after the impact? Because only those who survived such impact know what happens. The speed of your vehicle increases and that of the vehicles who hit you decreases. I think it was a test question. However, he did not write on the report "hit and run" which could have triggered a call for potential witnesses in the media.
Then he called their contracted towing company which came but refused to tow us "because of the distance". So i called the insurance, but the menus where such designed i had to file the claim first which meant an almost one hour conversation with the insurance claims rep. The cop left, the towing left and we were all alone on the dark street. I had to pee in a bottle i had in the thank that was crushed by the accident. The towing was not coming, i tried to call insurance again, got lost in menus and then i decided to drive back home. As i got on the freeway at around 2 AM, towing called saying they are within 10 minutes distance.
