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Friday, December 16, 2022

December 16

12:42 Spanac, spagă, Austr(al)ia.

1:02 Pope Malone. He's good. What would you expect from a theological seminary graduate where they teach serious vocals, the guys have to sing all alone in a church, and that reflects in his style though somehow upside down, turned opera singer after probably more training, like maybe ten years in total?

As from where he's getting his inspiration. From the eyes of his lover an obscure very popular in the 90s in Romania (definitely not a stoic) now expired singer who in turn is probably another opera singer, but believe me, i had enough of those matches. Feels like a ran a marathon on the endless web every day, for years now. I apologize for the language, this is him, he has to curse at almost every other word, won't hear it if you stop the video before the song ends, had to put the live version because the movie like video is too distracting. 

1:34 Decembrie vine iar cu o sută de lei în plus de la Nicolae Ciucă. Vrea să spună... cardurile sărăciei? Ca să te umilească o lume întreagă mai întâi trebuie să te umilească proprii guvernanți. Din ce a avut la dispoziție? Vaste sume din bugetul de stat și celelalte bugete, de ordinul a zeci de miliarde de euro în fiecare an dispar pur și simplu. Ați auzit vreodată de la un prim ministru o dare de seamă pe buget la sfârșit de an?

2:40 About one hour after i posted the two videos with circles.

Earlier today. At a certain point my monitor displayed a number of vertical bars similar to prison bars. Had to reset the laptop and then it worked fine. After that i saw the kid running around the bushes.

For the last hour or so all i can think of is what i've done today. Just before Angela came the man upstairs started a load of laundry, but he never put it in the drier (though later as i was working at the car two of the neighbors, nr.2 and 4 did it, engulfing me in bad, perfumed smells.

I was under the influence of some sort of smoke or mold coming from outside. About two weeks ago i discovered mold on one of the newly installed window frame in the kitchen area. This could only happen if there's a leak of cold air from outside into the wall, cools the frame which in turn gets condensation. Then i remembered how they did it last summer, with gaps in the flashing and gaps between the plank in scale like configuration. I had a tube of silicone barely used and went outside and filled those gaps.

Clear silicone, done professionally, you wouldn't see it unless from close and that only for a few days before it looses its initial shine. After that, is invisible. But they are painting all the buildings they worked on last summer and they're gonna paint over it anyway. More than that, is removable.

Now i'm worried about the kid running in circles around the bushes could have been a subconscious enticement to do something i usually don't. In the past i only done those when there is no maintenance people here. But in December at 5 is dark and should have used a flash light which would have drawn more attention. Or do it in the dark and make a mess. Also under the pressure he is going to start do dry laundry. But i believe the smoke was more than the kid but who knows how the subconscious works. Maybe the shinobi. Anyways.

15 minutes later when i had  three or four more planks to go, i heard a maintenance cart hitting the bumps. I was doing the last planks close to ground level so he could not have seen me from behind the parked cars and when he stopped, facing the other way i was standing and i left. He went into the building across the alley and 5 minutes later he left and i went to finish all the planks to the ground.

Here's a picture i took last summer because of the dust left on building for more than a month (which i later removed with a brush, the whole building). The yellow horizontal planks under my kitchen window (at lower level, on the right, not in this picture) have gaps between which i filled with clear invisible silicon. In this image you can see the gaps are filled with white caulking on the sides only but not in between. Obviously rain can't get between those but cold air can. Also smoke, laundry vapor, etc..
Then when i was done i heard another maintenance cart hitting the bumps but this time it was the handywoman (a tall, manlike person) herself. She had two toolboxes and entered in one of the apartments 1 to 4. She was here for about half hour then she left and i went to remove the old battery and because of the adhesive i poured on top of nuts and bolts and again being under the influence of smoke it took me a lot of time. I was done with replacing the battery around 10 PM but after i also resoldered a bolt and learned lots of stuff in the process.

Now that i'm done i really believe the gaps in the planks where the route not only for cold air but smoke from outside. It is warmer here then yesterday at similar outside temperatures and no smoke. I also never stopped believing the team of fake Mexicans working last summer here were lead by a guy who looked like the Emperor of Japan himself who in turn is an actor. They made my life almost impossible for several months with the noise and dust at this building and the others around. They also left a few "improvements" like the gaps.

‘be careful of gaps in your defence and of the shinobi’ Quote from Bansenshukai, the Book of Ninja.

6:07 Ce am găsit în Tratatul UE actualizat, în legătură cu admisia de noi membri în UE și Schengen. Atenție la articolul 1 și 2.

Consolidated version of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union. PROTOCOL (No 19) ON THE SCHENGEN ACQUIS INTEGRATED INTO THE FRAMEWORK OF THE EUROPEAN UNION. 

12:52 Au găsit ei ceva ca să introducă termenul de protocol într-un context super-negativ. Multe alte știri pe invers semantic (aluzii contra, washups, covers, etc.). Prietenii lui Nicușor Da. Câte și mai câte (o expresie bucovineană).

Cât despre execuții greșite eu cred că sunt o metodă de intimidare. În fiecare zi în SUA se execută mii de proceduri chirurgicale sub anestezie generală și nu am auzit până acum de vreun pacient care să se trezească în timp ce-i tăia sternul în două pe lungime cu un fierăstrău pentru a-i deschide pieptul (metoda cea mai puțin invazivă pentru alte țesuturi) pentru operațiile pe inimă.

12:43 It's not that i have anything with the stocks. But i realized years ago the movements are synchronized somehow with what i do. Usually if i go to WinCo or in the kitchen area to cook somehting stocks go up. Every time the market is down, the guy upstairs stays home. Today he took a shower in the same time with me while the market climbed etc. etc..

2:24 Went for a walk. Smoke index shown was 20 when i left, 24 when i came in, perceived was above 50 which forced me to open my mouth for the whole 3 miles walk. Felt stiff and had a bit of chills from staying  yesterday for hours outside in the cold.

Pictures. First, a KJV van in the always empty lot. At the parade on Borland where every person driving were looking at me including some that were clearly not driving, but just looking at me (self driving retrofitted cars, some probably bought during Obama's cash for clunkers program).

Some were mad, some were sad and some seemed to approve what i'm doing.

Symbolism packed in legitimate actions, like drilling the ground, orange fiber optics figuring the orange glowing stove coils where i heated my bolts to solder, oxigen or other gas bottles figuring rocket launchers, Integrity Infrastructure.

They came out of nowhere when i tried to take a picture of the "device" that was sitting in this unnatural position, pushing forward a thick black cable into the ground and completely blocked the road, making me nervous and missing the most suggestive front part. But you can see the driver of the truck looking Japanese trying to figure Latino.

When i got at the kindergarten a tall Arian blond with professional muscles on his legs was running on that side of the road kinda like protecting it and making loud sounds with his shoes like soldiers marching would. Shortly after that, from the construction site a trailer came carrying some construction vehicle by the brand PAPE (păpa în Romanian means eat for children) that clearly reminded me of the hipo in the news with folded supporting legs figuring giant teeth. (Not very clear, picture taken against the low December Sun).

Altogether they got me so mad.

BTW i'm returning the camera, it has no optical zoom and the pictures are less sharp than my now parked cell phone camera.

See what i'm talking about?

8:55 Am scris (nu direct) că România dacă ar vrea să intre în rândul țărilor civilizate ar trebui să renunțe la tradiția șpăgii la vamă (și fiindcă ar fi ușor, vameșii sunt angajați ai Ministerului de Interne, nu? sau poate și-au crescut un cap și o voință a lor proprie) și dacă ar renunța România, normal ar renunța și Ungaria fiindcă ar fi prea de tot, a doua zi însă a apărut știrea asta. Oare când vor renunța șerpii la tradiția distrugerii informației prin dublare (îngânare)?

9:22 De ce nu se mai termină ziua asta, vreau să încep alta fiindcă asta a fost nașpa.

11:00 Consiliul (configurațiile, nu Consiliul mare la care participă Iohannis care nu face nimic) este singurul legislator din UE, iar din configurații, JAI (fosta JHA, Justice and  Home affairs) unde participă miniștrii de interne este de departe cea mai importantă. Ăia trebuie căutați de bani. Restul sunt baliverne stilate, PE nu poate face nimic fără JAI, toată lumea spune, este doar un organ consultativ, partea inutilă dar decorativă pentru aparența de democrație din UE.

11:47 Pe faza cu autocarele din vamă.

12:10 Pope Malone, tatuaje.

12:14 "Realitatea TV" are o "știre" uitată pe site de vreo lună-două.

Tuesday, August 30, 2022

August 30

12:30 Yesterday morning around 11:15 before they came to finish the sliding door i noticed the motorcycle was moved again, with the cover removed, and i remembered he came home late last night and also saw for the first time what appeared to be a puddle of gasoline that has dissolved some of the asphalt and then dried, showing a different color on the pavement. I was intrigued and took a picture of it but never had time to follow up or write about.

Last night after i slept (passed out) i woke and was ready to go for a walk and was fiddling with the phones trying to make a working connection (they have compatibility issues, as i said, don't always work or ring) before i left when someone knocked at my door around 8:30. I looked through the window and i saw it was the man upstairs and was thinking maybe i forgot something outside whatever but he first started to ask me questions as why the motorcycle was moved, why the construction guys made a mess in his balcony and didn't installed back the AC after they replaced  the sliding door. (Didn't know he had an AC could be a new type, i don't know). I told him the motorcycle was moved several times by the construction guys during last week when he was missing, and they shouldn't have done it without permission.

He then asked me if i knew anything about the puddle of oil in the parking lot and i told him, if that was oil it wouldn't have dried. He told me that the oil cap was ok and i told him i don't know if that motorcycle has an oil pan (with a cap). I asked him how much gas is in the tank and he shook the motorcycle and he said there was none and he also told me he had also worked recently at the fuel line.

Hours later i realized he possibly being new to motorcycles could not know that some motorcycles need a little oil added in the gasoline, as that is the only lubrication provided to the engine. If you fail to do so, the engine may seize and that oil might have accounted for the color of the puddle). So i just went and put a sticky note on his car. I hope i can contact him tomorrow before he goes to fill that tank as i really don't want to knock on his door at this  hour. I would assume he would try to check the fuel line first, and i would see him doing that and talk to him.

I didn't follow on this or other things as all morning and well into the evening, when he came, i was groggy, exactly when they came to work inside the first time. In both cases i fell asleep with all the noise just before they came. In both cases there was something outside putting out fumes, like a diesel generator in the first case and potentially an unused compressor with a tank sitting there all day in second (next to the hydrant in the picture). Wondering how much gas was in that tank and how those vapors influenced me as well earlier. When he came inside again like last time i felt like sleeping while standing and watching him.

8:32 One second he was upstairs, when i looked both car and motorcycle were gone. Then i heard a door and when i looked the car was here, and he was walking away very fast. I went and grabbed the truck and caught with him at the end of the alley, leaving on his bike. Apparently he didn't take my advice to put oil in gas. I told him not to drive like that cause the engine may seize. He asked me how much should he add and what type, like maybe 10W30? and i told him again to google. Then i drove back towards the apartment but remembered i had to buy something and left and saw him taking a turn at the gas station, maybe to buy oil. I went to buy my stuff and when i came back finally had a chance and motivation to google everything.

Oil is added only in 2 stroke engines, which went of the market around 2008 and now are coming back. Oil to be added in gas in a proportion of 50:1 is a special type of oil. Apparently by the shape of the engine of his bike he's got a 4 stroke engine which does not require oil in gas. What happens if you don't add oil in gas in a 2 stroke and if you add in a 4 stroke. So not knowing, risk of something happening is higher if you don't add oil in a 2 stroke.

But there weird parts in this whole story.  First of all, the gas leak which is now covered by his car. He usually went to work on car not on bike. He not knowing if he needs oil in gas. The lyrics of a song i complained about with porn going mainstream. Here's the copy of the note i wrote and attached to the window of his car last night and he confirmed he found it.

O poză din Gardianul îl înfățișează însă mai mult ca... Țepeș.

6:41 I looked at the kitchen window and all the flashing they put moved because of too much tension, leaving big cracks and that explains the "feel" of the day. Even after i did 2 more burgers on the elctric pan, i was still feeling stingy dust so i went and added some clear silicon (that's all i got) so the cracks are still visible. While working at the window, i saw the guy from upstairs coming.

I went and spoke with the guy upstairs. Motorcycle is definitely a four stroke. I think the guys with the van stole his gasoline through the line (he's got a locked cap) and emptied the tank when his bike was in a different position in the parking lot. When he came and moved it, kinda with the front wheel on a higher position than rear, the remaining gas ran on the pavement. In the meantime, the tank was putting out fumes through the open lines, possibly for days. I think they are stealing my gas too but in my case is most for decreasing my mileage performance, even after i put a locked cap on. While i was talking with him, the veteran (a different actor now) and his wife (a writer) came with the dog and were listening.

10:21 When i saw Gorbachev the first time i knew there was hope. He was  the first communist leader i saw smiling, ever. What did i know.

Wednesday, July 13, 2022

July 13

9:21 Ghespre cum lucră ei cu simbolismul în mintea dvs.. O biată știre dezolantă care arată un schimb de replici de actori scrise de scriitori, despre starea aproape zero în care se află acest proiect. Multă lume citește fiindcă toți speră. Dar în această știre există deasemenea capcane pentru subconștientul dvs..

Nord-sud. Așa veneau mașinile care urmau să mă calce la Naiba cu 65, așa mergeam și eu. Bacău, zece km de plimbare cu o domnișoară blondă care s-a întâmplat în anul criminal 95. Domnule Ghrindeanu, nu mai mințiți! Coloana vertebrală e un simbol masonic, fiindcă are 32 de vertebre.

Too many messes.

Din aceeași categorie fac parte relevantele știri despre Emilia Șercan, fiindcă numele ei conține rădăcina șer, de la șerpi.

9:45 Bogdan Aurescu.

9:55 Aș fi dorit să fi avut mai mult timp să descos acest articol. Cu un titlu care îmi place, ceea ce îl face rar și prețios, o dă în bară în primul paragraf sau subtitlu, "simțea că poate", ca motivație, ea nu simțea nimic, totul era o alegorie, iar ea o actriță din specia șerpi australieni, după cum o arată și locul ei de naștere, o alegorie menită să întrâte ireconcilialitea claselor statului francez ultracentralizat și stratificat). Este, dacă vreți, mitul Cenușăresei, întors pe dos.

Adevărul că e foarte greu ca cei săraci să-i înțeleagă pe cei bogați și invers. Astăzi, elitele reale, adică cei cu facultăți în România, încearcă într-adevăr (să ia) ce e mai bun din cele două lumi, o tradiție moștenită din vremea comunistă când majoritatea lor erau fii de țărani sau muncitori. Celelalte elite nu există, fiindcă așa cum îi vedem (se arată, cu acte), nu sunt decât niște parveniți de la marginea categoriei de mai sus, ajunși în funcții, montecriști ce încă se răzbună pe soartă, ca Țiriac și Covaci, miliardari misterioși de carton cu origini obscure, în realiate ei sunt actori impostori veniți din altă lume și vorbesc pe scripte de scriitori măiestru ciniști, ideologii șerpilor. M-am oprit puțin mai jos unde nu am (mai) înțeles ce vrea să spună. Cât despre cum sunt americanii, mulți și-au bătut capul să înțeleagă, însă eu cred că fiecare este diferit în funcție de experiențele personale prin care a trecut, într-o țară cu vaste posibilități dar cu vieți (de succes) atât de stereotipice, cu un singur numitor comun. Pragmatismul, până în punctul când e orbit de diversele ideologii.

Într-un fel, ca atâtea alte capcane pseudo elitiste, articolul îmi amintește de spațiul cu n dimensiuni din matematică. Însă la fiecare paragraf din construcția din spațiul superfluu creat introduce o nouă și neașteptată dimensiune, bulindu-mă și în final forțându-mă să renunț.

Prince or vagabond. (Ce piane lungi are Elton John, o figură de șarpe împietrit).

10:29 Like during the other days, a number of people started to parade in front of my large windows under the pretext of walking their dogs, stopping, doing pirouettes and a variety of gestures, intruding.

11:08 Went and finished covering that hole but that is not the biggest problem. The ninja living appearing some times at Nr.3 for the first time installed an AC in his window. These buildings are not meant to install ACs on windows. I put mine on the concrete floor but his is on the feeble wall that vibrates and probably next to a crack by the window and pulls dust from the wall and blows it in the air on the outer or hot air circuit, taking advantage of wind's direction, the same way as it happened in the other years from the other building. BTW his van full of barrels with flammable liquid is still there, has not been moved in a week or since i took that picture.

12:46 July 13. 13 segmente ale autostrăzii imaginare a Moldovei. 13 secunde când treci pe roșu. Azi s-a repetat faza, cu un camion uriaș condus de un moș bătrân. I-am arătat semaforul dar el s-a uitat cu dispreț la mine. Atunci m-am dus să mă uit mai bine la semafor dar nu am înțeles pe moment. Am trecut înapoi strada, am apăsat pentru verde și am așteptat momentul când se schimbă. Verdele (e alb la pietoni) ține vreo 5 secunde (timp în care nu ai cum să treci) după care se transformă în numărătoare inversă, începând cu 13, moment în care se face verde pentru mașinile care o iau la stânga. Deci practic numărătoarea acea inversă e un fel de roșu? Mă duc înapoi să filmez video ca să arăt câte secunde ține verdele pentru pietoni, înainte de a începe numărătoare inversă.

2:17 Should have done it when i had a chance. Walked there, but the intersection was partially blocked by a guy who was doing... some measurments. Could not see his utility vehicle he came with. The only thing i could do was counting seconds for green. I was right, 5 seconds even.

3:30 Went back again. 5 seconds. The reason why they blocked the intersection, for the Sun to go down and make it hard to see but it's turning green on right when the croswalk light is turning red count down. I'm gonna have to do it tomorrow morning or later this evening again.

4:15 Sunt curios ce vor face când nemții, francezii, polonezii, sârbii, ucrainenii, rușii, italieniiromânii vor înțelege că ei sunt adevăratul dușman al tututor. Sper să prind ziua aceea. Voi merge să le privesc defilarea în cuști, pe Champs-Élysées.

8:42 There was a crack by the door were i installed the AC that i covered years ago, that is before SAGE came to fix the siding and that was in 2019. Can't remember how it was last year but the crack was open when i checked today. Could had been that my AC was spreading dust in the first place. They were other places where i put silicon back then and they painted over but i think they replaced the gray flashing around the door. But it will take at least one day until i figur that one out. Was thinking about going and hosing everything down when a group of kids came to play in the backyard. When i passed in the intersection above, the stop lights where off, they were flaggers and they started to dig a hole in the street (Nyberg).

10:00 Here are a couple of pictures taken from fb. First shows damage done by SAGE on top of the door, they fixed it with an iregular piece of siding, second, my attempts to fix it with tape. Second shows the hole in the siding next the door i just fixed with silicon. There are complaints of dust even back then, but don't remember to have been that bad. But then there was lots of smoke coming from outside (ash-mole holes i think)
Just went and checked. The tape is missing, probably i took it out when i took the plastic foil canopy in January 2021 that was full of magots, that lived on birdseeds from the feeder of the ladies of December that used to live there, but now i remember, i din't put silicon on it because siding is soft on the whole surface. They put a piece of rotten siding instead of the good one that used to be there and painted over. There are holes in it.
11:10 I remember how i got meingitis back in the summer of 73. Viral, they said. Got to sit two hours on my belly after they took a sample of spinal fluid. But the hell was yet to come. Alone in a room which is unusual in Romania. The only medicine they gave me was Polidin. 3 times a day. Besides the terrible headache that was more intense in the back of the head, got photophobia. At night could not stand the light from the pole close to window. Don't know why the wouldn't cover it. The window. Got better after a week or so.

From going at the river. Bathing all day and breaking rocks. I remember the smell of those black homogenous rounded most likely volcanic, basaltic lava. Smelled like sulfur. There was anohter kid i was playing with who got it exaclty like me. The same smell that sometimes comes from the walls. The plastic foil i covered the opened door with now smell like it. I put some towels above the filter to catch it. They were days where it was much worse, but it combined with something else.

Got wet from hosing the area, then i stood very close to the working AC. This morning after i done the same yesterday woke up with a pretty bad headake but went away with some campfor based balm and i forgot. Tonight it came back. I put on the Xenu jacket. Kidding. Brand is Zero Exposure. It is so warm i perspire right away. Together with the hoodie that came with it. Writing and perspiring. Took a multivitamin, a vitamin D. Ready with some antibiotics. Preventive or zero day treatement, i call it. But i'm actually in day one. I stopped many infections like this. Right at the beggining. Cause i don't believe in viruses. But i been breathing rocks all day, i feel it in my throat. I've been rocked, i reconn.

BTW am găsit cred etimologia unui cuvânt ciudat din niște versuri de Phoenix. Să mă uit totuși mai întâi în DEX să văd dacă nu-i acolo. Hm. Cred că a mea e mai bună, în contextul dat. Dar par convergente! Într-un fel are sens pentru că... Cât despre hărți de răspândire... Apropo, e un sfert de oră după miezul nopții (știu, trebuia să încep postarea de 14, dar mi-era lene și nu știu dacă mai scriu) m-am agitat puțin în sinea mea pentru așa descoperire, iar tipul de sus care era liniștit de ore în a simțit (shin shin shin gan) și s-a trezit și a început să scârțâie. Și întrebarea pentru google. Cât despre versuri, întrebați-l pe "Baniciu" și textierul (am uitat cum își spune, eu îi știam după alte nume) pentru cine au făcut melodia asta și ce îi rodea (așa de mult).

Thursday, July 7, 2022

July 7

8:52 Că mama v-aduce vouă: Frunze-n buze, Lapte-n țâțe, Drob de sare: În spinare, Mălăieș: În călcăieș, Smoc de flori: Pe subsuori. O ciucalată și un șobolan rozaliu.

12:40 They were a couple of garbage items on the ground, and the garbage truck was late (usually comes around 10 on Thursdays, blame it on holiday). I went to pick those when he was approaching the bin. Also the driver seems in training, it took him several moves to get there. I was looking at him and he stopped and thought he saw me and went to throw those bottles. However he restarted with a sharp right (instead of going straight to the bin as expected) and had to get out of the way. Left my mail on the stairs and went to picture the signs. When i came back, one guy again next to the floating van which i thought was gone. No need to say. In the park, people from my lists.

1:20 One of them snakes favorite method is ridiculing someone. That is they put you in such dilemmas and situations that you appear to others like making a fool of yourself. Another one have some of them publicly sympathizing with you while preparing you for the first. Then the effect is doubled.
Yesterday i accidentally removed the ground (wire) from the cooking tray with the laptop that went crazy on me and today my left foot were it was hurts, though the laptop is surrounded by it.

3:53 Because of the holiday landscape maintenance moved to Thursday. Before mowing there was trimming. The clearly Japanese looking (no disguise) trimming guy was doing fine until he got in front of the big window in the living. There, he stuck the trimmer all the way to the ground and raised a cloud of dust that went above the balcony upstairs. Got to go and hose down everything but the guy upstairs is home and can't hose his balcony. I was planning on starting the AC today as temperature inside is above 80.

4:00 Angela is exhausted. She told me yesterday she did 3 different boards. Today the lead, Steve Eaton (coincidence of name with the company) decided to slow her down a bit so he had her doing a board that had a missing part and Angela lost 4 hours because she first load the machine, realize there's a missing part, remove all the 100+ types of parts (because one of missing) and load new ones.

4:11 Yesterday when i was under car removing the filter to look for debris i saw the handywoman (tech) passing by with a large smile. There is no doubt she is a man (height, body shape) and she coordinates everything around here, since the day we moved, but i'm  not 100% sure if she is this guy.

8:42 I finally figured how to cut the first filter (with the tools that i have, a small saw, a screwdriver that broke and some pliers). There is nothing in it whatsover (there is a reflection from an oil bubble and the flash) and/or maybe a piece of filing from cutting the filter.

There are lots of speculations on forums on what the differential pressure for the bypass valve to open is. To end this, i used a scale (that wasn't working, but tonight it did after i put a battery that was hanging on the desk for a longtime) and a screwdriver. The valve opens at about 0.8 kgf and has a surface of less than 1 square cm. It is safe to assume it opens at 1 kgf/sqcm which translated in psi is about 15. Again from forums i found the differential for the filter media at operating temperature, which is about 1-2 psi. So it would take 15 times the viscosity, assuming the media differential increases linearly with it to open it which is very possible when oil is cold, but don't know if at 70 degrees F. But even if it opens, only a percentage of the oil will pass through it.
9:20 I knew it was going to be trouble if i went outside to wash the dust on the screen (instread of hosing at this hour) to be able to start the AC (since they trimmed the lawn and stuck the trimmer in the ground raising a cloud of dust earlier today). Children and teens everywere, like in a carnival, looking Japanese, probably "attracted by the ice cream van" earlier. Two kids passed by and one of them dropped intentionally (i saw him) an unopened bag of some food between the cars. It was for this reason, too many people passing by that i blocked (glued with silicon, removable) the screen at the backdoor, and never use it, but i have to go around if i want to wash it.

9:27 Just opened the door and they are outside the door now.

9:58 Bullied by kids at your own place. Some of them where leaning on the rear of the car when i started to yell at them. Some looking Asian, some (the older one who spoke English, Hungarian). One of them was handling a long stick like in movies with martial arts. I told them to go at their apartments. All unsupervised minors out in the alley at 9:30 PM. Was thinking about calling security or the cops but for security i don't know the number and i was pretty sure they will leave until the cops came. They moved a few ft away and started to say something aboug 6ft.

Then i went and took the car and left and drove around for about 15 minutes. First they went up the lawn and then they moved next to garbage bin, hostensibly sitting on another car, watching me and yelling and laughing. Parked and armed car's alarm which i usually don't because of so many false alarms in the past (but those were due to an old battery). Never seen something like that here, or maybe since the beggining when they were playing and yelling in the lawn for hours, but those were different kids. Actually they are all always different.

As we're eating, i hear them again in the lawn in the back.

10:24 Read the news. Shinzo Abe. The only way to figure when exactly something happened:
How is that important to me. 4:58 in France is 5:58 in Romania which is 7:58 (PM) here. Around that time the gang of kids hit the rail at my door while i was cutting that filter and was dressed summarily because of the heat (85 inside) and had my hands were full of oil. This wouldn't have happened if they didn't raise the dust today and i could hose the screens and start the AC. But i'm pretty sure i was not visible from outside, they were objects in the way and only the small desk lamp on and there was still enough light outside. 

Just did something and remembered something else. Today in the park i passed through the cloud of smell of a big dog pooping and got to breath it and now i'm contaminated again with it.

11:02 Recolta de contre. Lapte-n țâțe. Trebuie că e adevărat, dacă e scris în Adevărul. Shell. Copilașii care au venit la ușă.

Ok got it. They came to make a point. They have been promoting for years this image with kids coming at my door. The verses from the first entry today are from the Goat with Three Kids, a very popular short story for children in Romania and were intended as a political satire with links to my blog with impostors.

It is told usually in kindergarten but now i see voices against it. Truth is it is unappropriate for children, because of violence and sexual allusions. It is in a way similar to Red Riding Hood or Three Little Pigs. The author, otherwise celebrated in Romania and taught in schools, has also written porn stories. Most likely another subversive Hungarian posing as Romanian. He is said to be born in... Humulești.

11:09 Sunteți siguri că asta e Simona Halep? Ce mult a îmbătrânit...

Thursday, May 12, 2022

Problems With the Newer Refrigerants

This is one of the most important posts ever. Another problem i ran into, caused by yet another monumental technical and commercial blunder. Replacement of R11, R12 and R22 refrigerants which are chlorinated and are using mineral oil as lubricant with R134a, R410a, R404A which do not have chlorine in their chemical formula and use synthetic glycol or PAG (Poly Alkyl Glycol), POE or PVE as lubricant. The commonly used lubricant/refrigerant ratio is 1/4 (one ounce lubricant to 4 ounces liquid refrigerant).

First. They are saying that chlorinated refrigerants like older R11, R12 and R22 deplete the protective ozone layer of the Earth (ionosphere) hence they needed to be phased out and replaced with non chlorinated ones but to me this is highly controversial, because freon is 4 times heavier than air and chlorine 3 times. Ionosphere is the outermost area of the upper atmosphere where oxygen is converted into ozone by solar radiation and is as thick as the radiation penetrates. It's a self regulated process and ionosphere will be there in the same thickness as long as there is oxgyen.

Second. Chlorinated refrigerants may be anti-fungal (because they contain chlorine).

Third. Glycols though they outperform mineral oil in many applications including refrigeration, are highly hygroscopic. Which means they have an affinity for water and will attract water inside the pipes though the pressure is 2-3 times atmospheric pressure (on the lower pressure side of the system or before the compressor when in use).

Fourth. Unlike window ACs which are completely sealed, cars and homes ACs have 2 servicing valves or the so called core valves which are similar to core valves at the tires though they work at higher pressure (up to 200 psi or 13 atm on the high pressure side of the circuit or right after the compressor). Valves are sealed with tiny soft pieces of rubber.

Fifth. Lubricant in AC applications contribute to sealing the areas that have rubber seals. When not in use, the lubricant gathers at the bottom of the circuit and the valves "dry". Them they start leaking, but not only inside out, though the pressure in a fully charged system when not in use (on both low and high pressure areas) is about 50 psi at 50 degrees, 70 and 70 etc., they also leak, though much less, the other way due to partial pressure phenomena. Though there is pressure inside the circuit, that is caused by freon. Water vapor partial pressure is smaller inside then outside and water molecules that are also smaller get can also get inside in very small amounts, where they meet the lubricant, get dissolved in it until saturation and some end up in the silicon beads of the desiccant bag that is present in any AC circuit. And in there, if  there is no anti-fungal agents or additives in the circuits, water and oxygen contribute to developing mold and/or bacteria.

My car has been sitting in auction sites and shop for months and the valves have dried and leaked most of the freon, pressure was so low it was not triggering the switch that starts the compressor). After i first accidentally released some freon and PAG oil when i tried to refill the AC (and then i brought the hoses inside) i got very sick for about a month and a half after. Kinda realized what happened and bought a vacuum pump that is meant to remove all moisture from inside the circuit by applying vacuum. In vacuum, water evaporates faster or boils and vapors are eliminated by the pump. It is hard to obtain a very high vacuum due to continuous evaporation, at least until you eliminate most of it and it's a long process that might take up to an hour. But in the end it worked and the needle of that gauge was not moving down visibly when the pump was stopped, and the vacuum was achieved much faster after letting air in than the first time when moisture was present (actually should have used a digital gauge for deep vacuum, which measures in (mercury height) microns instead of psi, one psi is about 50k microns and for boiling water you will need some 1500 microns, and don't know if that is visible on a gauge marked in psi. 1/40 of one line on the scale). I also tried to replace the core valves, but did not realize i have bought two different sizes for each valves (4 valves in total) and i replaced only the low pressure one. My mistake.

Anyways, i've done it, added the right amount of freon, checked for the right amount of oil with some indicators i bought on Amazon.

As for newer than R134a. R410a and R404A which are newer than R134a are even worse. POE used in R410a saturate with water at 0.2 to 0.3 percent while PAG saturates at 0.7 which means there will be more free water in the circuit and desiccant bag.

But the next day. All my symptoms came back, though not as intense (it may be my immune system adapted to the strains that grow inside those circuits). Including belly pains which i had for a year before the accident. Which means the other car had it also. Which means they most do. Here in this image the pump is connected to the low pressure valve. The high pressure one which to me seems useless is in the bottom middle of the image next to the alternator. BTW i just remember, my low pressure valve tip was touching the cap when tightened which contributed to the leak.
This image shows the "zero" position of the gauge, which is a bit off to the right.And this the ultimate vacuum i have achieved in about an hour or soAnd yes i believe it's a good idea to start the AC in winter time at least once a week, to wet the valves with oil (glycol whatever).

An idea just came to me and went and looked for what kinda AC (heat pump whatever) a Tesla has. Since it should be obviously electric, like the window ones, of comparable capacity (around 10k btu), i was hoping it is as compact and does not have servicing valves. But no, it's got the same type of huge compressor and clumsy plumbing with long pipes that loose heat (cold) all cars have, is spread all over the what used to be engine compartment and has at least one servicing valve (yellow cap in the image). Why not make a compact AC (heat pump) of comparable size and price with the window ones, that last maybe 10 years, and could be cheap enough to be replaced all together or as cheap as the cost of servicing the existing?

Monday, April 4, 2022

April 4

6:31/4:31. Iliberated again. Care e culmea conspirației? Să te conspiri singur (hush baby).

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.

Thursday, August 1, 2013

Mysteries Of The Attic, Revealed

Before picture date


After i discovered this i started working on. Damn thing was a trap. You touch it, it's your responsibility. Unnacceptable the way it looks, the smell from bathroom and kitchen coming back into the attic.

I though i was smart enough to mess with it. For about a year, several versions, unsuccesful.

About a year ago it became what is seen in this picture below.



A piece of plywood covering the vent hole. A 12 V computer case fan right under the vent, encased in the 6 inch vent. 4 one way valves with three flexible pipes, two from neighbors and one from me (that is not shown in the first picture above because it was laying on the floor blowing the insulation through a hole right above my kitchen window) in the covering plywood. Three 4 to 3 inches reductions. All sealed with silicon and 3M quality tape.

I have a variable voltage power supply for the fan. When it's hot in the attic (it can reach 120 degrees) i turn it to the maximum ant it cools the attic at least 10 degrees. At 6 Volt works but if one the neighbors forgets the fan like it happened almost every day within last 10 days, it won't cool the attic.

The one way valve that opens in the attic has been modified (re-balanced for a much lower flow). The others are plain valves for dryers and they work the way the were designed.

When one or two of my neighbors uses the bathroom fan the one way valves close and don't allow back-flow on any vent. There is one more one way valve at the other end of each pipe near the fan in each bathroom. Enough redundancy here.

For the kitchen exhaust, i used a computer fan fed by a 5 V USB power supply right above the microwave. If i don't use that one after i cook and stop the main fan in a few hours everything around it in the kitchen starts to stink really bad. I tried with a one way valve and didn't work. So that fan runs all the time.

In the attic i replaced the end of the pipe that was damaged and surrounded with a piece of plywood like in the picture.


Yesterday i discovered that for the vent shown in this picture above part of the tape was taken or blown apart. A small percentage of the whole flow was back-flowing. The two pieces of plywood that surround the pipe are cut around the pipe real nice and there is no much play. However i put new 3M tape and pushpins to secure the tape in place.

I also found 4 or 5 leaks in the other joints of the vents shown in the other pictures and re-taped them all.

Very difficult to work because they were numerous vehicles and small planes making noises like for every move i made. At first there was a big truck with pneumatic brakes that was releasing air every time i was breathing. This makes me very nervous and i make mistakes. My ground level neighbor also turned on the fan for about half hour. This always happens when i start working on those things. But since i write in here everything is quiet except a car or two.



08/08/13 7:07 PM:


Last year i taped this piece of 7 inch flexible pipe only at the joins and where it was leaking through tiny wholes. At the picture date and time 08/08/2013 07:05:39 PM i discovered several leaks, only with the main fan on. The wires are from a 12 V computer fan that is powered by a 5 V USB charger. It works all the time to prevent back-flow from the wind and bad smell to accumulate in the 7 meter/6 inch exhaust that goes in the other side of the roof near the vent as shown in the first picture. So i covered it completely with tape, 3M, Tough, 7 dollars at Home Depot. The valve that shows open in the 2nd and 3rd picture was sticky and wouldn't open or close easy. I checked and find some chip of plastic (1 mm long) hanging from one of the side like it was trimmed with a knife but not completed. It was out of balance too. I re-balanced it and checked to see if there are leaks so i covered the valve's entrance with a piece of cardboard and set the fan on 12 V. As soon i was removing the cardboard, the fan was going maybe 30% faster and noisier. When i installed the whole thing more than a year ago i put 2 big tubes of GE II Silicone and sealed the space between the vent, shingles and plywood. I installed two hooks for the attic lid and replaced it with painted fiberboard when i moved here. The hooks have threads and are long and go over the sheet-rock and into the wood. Today i found one more hole one inch next to one of the hooks that was corresponding to the attic and one of the hooks was replaced with a shorter one and wasn't reaching the wood. Fixed everything.

Yesterday and today i found two more small holes near the bathtub, corresponding inside the wall and attic space. Covered them.

In the last few days there was "attic smell" inside. I'll see if it disappears after these fixes.

Saturday, August 11, 2012

High Windows

Today i cleaned the vaulted ceiling windows above the couch where i watch TV and sometimes i sleep. (The other day i went to bed in bedroom and woke up on the couch). Haven't done it yet, in a couple of years. (I painted that area with an extension for the brush, the ladder was too short. The only time when the handyman came, when i moved, he sealed the windows with the silicon i bought. But i was too sick to the stomach to get up there on his ladder.) Full of dead bugs, spiders and ceiling pop corn. It stank like the primordial stink in the apartment, when  i worked a month before i moved and continued until today. So now it all still stinks inside from disturbing that shit. First i tried with a duster, then the vacuum cleaner. They are at least 4 meters above the floor so i had to improvise an extension for the vacuum. After that i took pictures with a camera tied at the end of a pole because i don't have a ladder that long and i cannot see in there. This is the left one, the one above the couch where i watch TV and sleep, with the cracked window, after vacuuming. But there are a lot of people around making noises and trying to suggest i was doing something else in here. Never heard a single kid yelling at the neighbors' pool after 8 PM. Today it was until after 9 or more. Especially when i was taking pictures of the vaulted ceiling windows.