Building of Parque Las Casitas

Here are some of the pictures from my camera's card i took last year during the building of the park Las Casitas, formerly Stoneridge.

It has never been a purpose to build a timeline. I just took pictures in days when i was annoyed by noise, dust, etc.. I have no words to describe how inconvenience this whole think has been to me. Many hours a day, many days with noises over 60 dB outside and that was for a year. And when the main construction phase with noises ended or after pouring the concrete, they started the alley on the other side of the building, with an excavator excavating for more than 4 months.

At some moment in time they were three projects going simultaneously, uphill (pictures below), downhill and sewer. They were many times when i simply had to leave the apartment because of noise and dust (i believe the legal term is called loss of use).

Some of the following pictures have already been published in different blog posts of mine.

Last one is on July 1, i think i have some more after but there are irrelevant for the purpose right now, and that is trying to prove there was room for something underneath, construction lasted i think till December.

First, the notice. (Be aware, the logo of the City of Tualatin may contain sexual symbolism).


March 14 2025

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I believe the space underneath that zig-zagging walking path is empty. But i think there is a way to verify. I could stick a camera through that hole. Looking like the Great Wall of China. 

I measured the width of this ramp, at this point is 5'8 at base level (not including the curbs).

There is also concrete poured on several areas of the park itself including the half court. And yes, i don't see many people there.

Also i believe that if they dug a little and lowered that ramp in the ground here, extend the rails for safety of the players, they could had cut the cost and construction time by 1/3 or even 1/2, shortening the ramp, maybe not needing the zig-zag, an L shaped would had been enough. Thinking of the many tons of concrete they put there.

I always believed there is aesthetics in efficiency. The way it is right now it looks nice on the upper side but ugly when seen from inside the complex.

And hey! It's tax money.
The water fountain and the 5x5 square metal lid next to it (left in the picture).
I also believe there could be one guy in the whole complex who would climb there in a (electric) wheel chair to play basketball (yes all the Mexicans kids in the neighborhood forgot about soccer and now play basketball) and that could have been me if i had my leg amputated.

However, the name Tualatin does not come from Latino. It's just a coincidence and it also may be a recent fake.

So the name of Martinazzi street, where  the City Hall is located does not come from nazi, though the founder of the city is of German descent. He first claimed 320 acres of free land (taken from Tualatin Indians) and then sold or donated part of it to found the city.

However the last version of the young and energetic couple upstairs whose job is to perpetually drive us out of here or insane have Native American appearance. But so did the previous occupant, who had KKK signs at the door. And the previous ones and  the previous ones etc. all the way to Fifor and Pacepa în 2015. 

I believe their real purpose, like of the previous occupants is to keep us in a state of stupor, with few hours of sleep, wanting to leave in the weekend, etc..

But even that might not be real, cause they probably just climb upstairs and leave through the attic and robots take their job because nobody can really leave here because of overwhelming smell of dog poop and other garbage. It's all a show with actors and extras as it is this whole city and probably state etc..

3:05 PM I went and measured the ramp from the pictures in my post. Children were present in the park, but i never got close. However one of the maintenance guys came flying in a cart while i was leaving anyways.

They do this all the time, here, in stores, in casinos, everywhere i go. If i get close to someone, someone else comes and cuts my way. Even in the parking lot, if i walk past someone, a car comes always in between.

If i get at the trunk at the car to pick a thing, a car passes by, etc., but especially when i come home with groceries. In the past, kids would come and stare at me unloading those, until i complained here.

To me all these, the way the guys upstairs walk show a high level of coordination, only possible through AI.

Up until a few years ago kids would come to play for hours in the "back yard" while i was high on some smoke coming from the mole holes. As soon as Angela would fall asleep in the afternoon, they would come yelling and then Angela would open the bedroom window and yell at them too and at times they were leaving.

As i aggressively pursued the closing of the holes with concrete, complaining, they stopped, however i believe they built for me the image of a predatory pedofile, among the Latino undocumented population here.

As for my wound, it was all scheduled. On December 23 i went to dr. Bedolla's office (Legacy Bridgeport, yes, the heart of Tualatin). A masked Asian assistant came and said she would do a foot exam and asked me to close my eyes. I believe he used a concealed dental laser to open a blister i did not know i had on my heel (previously had several others) on my left foot.

3:40 I once found a Japanese actor who resembled perfectly dr. Bedolla but i am too tired right now to search for him again. But when i googled the name today i got an European face forgotten in Google cache and when i click on that face i get the Asian face again. Not the first this has happened. I once went to see a dr.Bertani (urgent care, no appointment)  name and was seen instead by Lady Gaga.

3:46 PM Upstairs he was briefly gone, did not realize and someone else, heavier came instead.

A Theory on Mole Gas

At midnight i went and plugged 3 holes next to foundation, the 4th was not through. They were not visible holes, like rat holes, but more like bulges, with porous loose soil, for air exchange, with tunnel endings inches under.

I wanted to postpone that but the apartment was filled with a weird smoke. I believe someone must have put (again) inside the galleries one of those mole chaser cartridges, that puts out smoke inside the galleries. Though moles probably leave, they come back soon. I know this from experience, this repeated almost daily, for years.

There has been a break for the last couple of years but this spring the moles came back.

Due to the way these buildings are made and the so called "stack effect" the smell comming out of mole galleries that end near foundation is being drawn into the walls and inside. If you follow the arrows you can realize there is a low pressure area right next to the building, due to Bernoulli's effect, that sucks ''air" right from those "shallow ridges" near foundation that are actually build only around the end of tunnels.

The smoke from cartridges gets inside through the same mechanism mole gas does. This always happens when i post something they don't like.

I have been reading again, the mole researchers did not change much their point of view, but they now agree moles stink and confirm they keep up to 1000 worms alive in special "larders". But i think they are not eaten by cats or dogs because their build in venom might be toxic to them.

Besides the well known mounds which are actually nests build on higher ground where they keep their young, moles have to have breathing openings and the ideal place is near a building where it does not rain due to extension of roof. While the oxygen gets inside, also their "pungent odor" comes out.

While normal people who live in their own houses will not allow that, there are little choices when you live in a rented apartment.

So far i have tried many tricks available to me, the only one that seemed to work, but after a while, is repeatedly pouring cement mixed with soil in their breathing galleries and galleries under the mounds.

But wait to read more. Moles' main food is earthworms.

Though "researchers have dug out moles galleries", i believe they did not have a real interest in figuring how these animals really live.

First of all, unlike gophers which are herbivore or rats that are omnivores, they feed almost exclusively on worms and have to eat up to 200 of them a day, and most "larders" store about double that amount. That would not suffice for more than two days, not all winter or drought. Earthworms are available most of the time, even in drought or winter, though in lower numbers.

I do not believe moles catch the worms, bite their heads and move them into larders, one by one.

On a healthy, green lawn, there are hundreds of earthworms underground per square meter. To understand moles, we first have to understand earthworms, their main food source.

Earthworms themselves do some agricultural work.

This ensures a large number of worms in a lawn, up to hundreds or even thousands on a square meter.

And here comes my theory. After invading a lawn, moles dig a number of galleries to ensure they have access to earthworms on the whole surface. However, they do not actively chase them.

Once a worm wonders in one of those galleries, it is doomed. The so called pungent smell of moles contains an enzyme (venom) that is aerosolized and spread throughout the galleries. When earthworms come in contact with that enzymes, they get zombified and move by themselves throughout that galleries until they reach the larder, which is the lowest point of the network.

In there they await alive to be eaten by moles.

If the moles breathing galleries are near a house, especially the light construction type, with empty walls and siding, due to natural thermal flow, which goes upward, gets inside the walls and ultimately rooms of the house, and the people living in there are affected.

Symptoms from breathing "mole gas" include sleepiness, lethargy, slow thinking, feeling like you're not yourself, carelessness, etc..  And like from every toxin, a certain high. 

This post might not be written in the best of styles and that is i am pretty dizzy because of the combined influence of what i believe is mole gas, smoke from a cartridge, etc.. This morning feeling indeed like a zombie.

November 5

1:10 AM I smell Japanese. Tomorrow, now i have a movie to watch.

10:16 Kalimbaum. I've been fighting for a long time with "the news the day after", usually allegories with much emotional impact that are trying to cancel in people's memory what i post. Here is one classic example, after my post with Kalimba de Luna and Mick Jagger apparently worshiping goddess Kali.

This could not have been done without her participation (lack of security, lack of her reaction). It all prove the existence of a world wide coordination and... conspiracy.

Also this news appeared around the time i posted the above referred entry yesterday (10 hours ago) when i was complaining to Angela about my mind wondering after i have been exposed to some sort of yeast coming from a mat left in the rain near the dumpster combined with dog poop and smoke from the ground mole and/or rat holes near the building while i was very tired and excited after seeing tens of thousands of pictures for more than 10 hours while searching for the recent matches while the guy upstairs won't stop creaking and stumping, for hours.

It is consuming much of my mental energy for so many hours, with brain being probably depleted of some neurotransmitters or overly excited by dog poop parasites, hormones or pheromones transmitted through aerosols. People have no sympathy (or knowledge) for how much effort i'm putting in my posts for so many hours a day  even though it excites me which is some sort of reward i guess.

It was one of those impossible to escape day dreams about time traveling in the past trying to share current knowledge while i was trying to relax my mind, of which i commented aloud (i call it the Connecticut Yankee syndrome). Does that mean everything i'm talking is listened to, and then responded in the news through allegories?

BTW woke up with a taste of s...t in my mouth and i'm belching like it.

BTW four F15 fighters already passed above in the last two minutes with afterburners in full creating sinister whistles and yes i forgot what i had in mind and wanted to write next. Two more in the distance. Now creak, creak, creak, vroom (dragging a chair).

11:00 I was looking for some guidance, but the goddess is angry today (throwing a tantrum)... Because of comparing her to a panther (an oversimplification i guess)... ...Cheating? 

10:58 The two Alphabets are up over 5%, Tesla  almost four. Strangely how, just in time to fix the market after yesterday's 1% fall...

Yeah but the dividends per share and owners are still negligible because of the huge over-evaluation...

Just for increased resale value i guess...

11:20 It's just the script, for need of distraction and diversification (diverting).

12:00 PM


12:40 Flebotomy, at a time blood was just another humor. You could save one from an imminent heart attack or stroke by letting (not too much) blood, decreasing blood volume and pressure and give it time to recover, if the underlying conditions are removed (by chance).

7:25 From Reagan to the Bushes, from Clinton to Trump II, America is on its way with a Muslim mayor of New York. Was thinking maybe it's a consequence of the recent war in Gaza, but then i remembered it's a dejavu. 

November 27

1:15 Just came from outside. Stupid Windows changed the time i took the picture (that came out blurry, not posting quality i'm used to) to last accessed time so i don't know when i went, maybe 11:30. To pick the rotting leaves.

After the wind shifted from that direction, when we got back tonight the smell in here was unbearable even with ozone generator at a higher setting for hours. After two days ago i picked the ones in the back, i thought i was happily done but today i had to tackle the ones in front. First i grabbed the ones around the hydrant where it stinks like used oil from the leaky Chrysler. I now believe it was meant to cover all the other smells including rotting leaves.

Then i tried next to it and the more i went towards the end of the building the more i picked. They were dried at the surface but wet and stinky under. Stinkier than in the back i thing because wind is blowing more from that direction. I lost count of how many laundry baskets but again i think more than twenty. So i went and picked and picked for almost two hours.

BTW the laundry basket is way stinkier now than after i picked those in the back. Though i washed it. It smells like a swamp.

When i thought i was finally done i glimpsed some more under the laundry vents. So i went there with the basket and when i grabbed a pile with my right hand to push them into the basket (they were 2 ft tall there) what did i touch. The rat bait box. Right under the vent.

And it was warm to the touch. Somebody's been drying laundry all the time i was outside but i went first in other areas and did not inhaled much except at the end.

Being heated by the vapor every time they were doing laundry and most likely releasing bait vapor that i was breathing. And it's been like that for at least six months. God knows if they were refreshing the bait or not but i saw the guys with the green pickup (forgot the name) several different times, last time recently maybe a month ago.

No it's been more than 6 months ago. It's been more than one year ago cause i remember when they first installed them i picked like 6 rats from the back rotting in the hot summer Sun. Nevermind it was in  September. Not long after i complained about seeing rats entering under the other building.

Wondering. But i think i now i know what possessed me i did not recognize the problem with the vents washing those boxes. I was under the influence of smoke coming from mole holes.

The were literally gassing us here since September 2022. Mostly me cause i stay here all the time. Maybe the reasons my hands are nowadays shaky and have palpitations.

The reason the woman at 4 was staying in the balcony talking on the phone for hours, probably while and after drying laundry.

2:09 Wandering. If an inhaled toxin that went into your bloodstream passes through intestinal wall into the intestine. Cause if so, taking activated charcoal could be helpful, by removing the toxin at intestines' level thus attracting more from the blood stream through osmosis/reverse osmosis whatever. BTW could this work for kidney failure? It all depends if activated charcoal can absorb urea or uric acid and of course if those pass the intestinal wall inside the intestine. Yes it can!

2:35 I think it works a little. Feeling better after half hour i took 2400 mg (two 1200 mg capsules) of those. Was  thinking the give Angela some but she fell back asleep until i grabbed one and some water. BTW when i opened bedrooms' window was smelling badly like mold from before and even after i picked the leaves cause the ground is wet and full of it.

Air in the living is much cleaner because of the ozone and the activated carbon filter so i let the door open and can hear her snoring lightly. Don't know what to do, she is supposed to wake up at 4:30 to go to work. What if i wake her and then she cannot fall back asleep? But i was outside and exposed a lot to the "laundry" vapor and inside there is the carbon filter i just replaced the elements and bedroom is less exposed to that stuff being on the other side of the building.

Yeah i'm much better 45 minutes after i took those. I gave her one then she fell back asleep. But i figured something else. The capsules i bought on  Amazon are not created equal. I mean some of them have twice the amount inside than others. Which indicates cheating.

Never saw capsules of something half full except for all charcoal i ever bought. Walmart charcoal capsules are half full but they are 300 something mg. Grocery Outlet capsules are 600 (if i did not switch them in my mind) but have the same degree of fulness (when gently squeezed with two fingers). Of these, only a few are full, most are more than half empty. And the charcoal does not seem so black.

BTW i bought from Amazon spark plugs for Elantra. OEM bla bla. 66 bucks for 4 seemed a good deal. They are packed in the same type of cardboard all Hyundai parts are and have the Hyunda/Kia logos in the ceramic part and cardboard box. However they have so many irregularities in shape and color i'm thinking or returning them.

3:25 Ok the pink discoloration seem to come from the laser welding of iridium tips. Cause it does look like laser welding. However the hook electrode is not aligned with the center one. And i'm afraid to bend it cause i may break the welding. But isn't that iridium layer shorting it? Could there be some are selling parts scrapped by Hyundai?

3:33 Yeah very interesting. They are not squeaking upstairs when/after she dries laundry.

4:57 Ok i woke up this morning after about 5 hours of sleep, really groggy. Though i haven't been drinking much last night and none last two days. They have not come back upstairs until 2 PM. I would think this is what it took for the stuff to clear the walls. But when they came they came with a vengeance.

I say they but i think there's really only one person. Haven't hear so much squeaking or stomping in a long time. While i was trying to figure the exact location of the incident Saturday night. Here's what i did.

I figured the event must have taken place @11:13 since the clock showed 11:11 but the clock was 2-3 minutes slow. I separated data from the gpx file downloaded from the GPS between 11:09 and 11:16 and loaded it into a spreadsheet. Since i was driving North South and had latitudes for every second, i plotted a chart with differences between two adjacent latitudes which gave me the speed in degrees of latitude per second.

There are several spikes in the graph but i think the first is the one. It looks like i slowed down a bit, (never under 70 as i remember), probably because of denser fog or a hill. I know i was on cruise control most of the time, close to 75. Then something made me accelerate, and shutting the cruise control before i slowed down. Then i saw it in the mirror, started to accelerate, at one time i hesitated when Angela started to yell at me not seeing what i was seeing in the mirror, then accelerated again until break out.

And then the other business with the tan car in my blind spot matching speed that exited at first exit after changing mind, twice.

It all happened between Grand Mound and Centralia at 11:09 + 180 seconds that is 11:12 or 36 minutes into the trip. First some event made me shut the cruise control and also accelerate. I think the loss of speed prior to that was due to a sudden increase in elevation without cruse control.

I think the moment was chosen because of a downslope that helped the big vehicle with only one headlight accelerate. The graph shows a period of 7 minutes.

Upstairs. After they squeezed everything they could from the space between mirror and ceiling, they left.

6:15 Last night at Spirit Mountain. I was at one of the entrances (the one closest to the highway) drinking a can of soda i brought from the car and started to talk to a short blond guy dressed funny (something i haven't done in long time). While i was talking to him the woman from Apt.4, though with blue eyes came from inside and stood next to him like they were together, and was staring at me, looking worried and she didn't say a word and they left one minute later.

7:25 About an our ago maybe later i heard a noise like a trailer hitting a bump. I was not worried cause they do it all the time here. But about half hour ago i started to here a noise like a towing truck was picking a car and after i wrote the entry above i said i better look and see. And what did i see. A guy with a truck backed up "not seeing" a smaller Dodge SUV was already parked in that spot.

It pushed the SUV into a pillar of the stairwell of the building and dislodged the stairs. Now the persons at the second floor there are being rescued by firefighters. Could this have anything to do with people gathering two days ago in the evening and watching in that direction. Maybe there was a fight within a couple. The woman with the Dodge is an Asian and i think the guy with the truck looks Latino.

7:40 Just opened the door again and saw a fat woman very excited hugging a firefighter.

8:00 Firefighters left, a towing truck came, two Police SUVs are on the scene, the truck that pushed the Dodge SUV is gone, the Dodge SUV itself is still riding the curb but slid one spot to the left (in the first picture) while was trying to get over the curve by its own power. People that supposedly came out of that building i haven't seen before, like the woman who was hugging the firefighter.

Inside the smell is almost unbearable. After i removed the leaves, the really bad stuff that was under is now stinking even after one (short, late November) sunny day with UV and stuff. I can barely breath after i had the ozone on for the whole day. Upstairs is like a continuous never ending waltz.

10:15 Ok. The soot coming from those Diesel engines calmed the stench from the ground that was under the rotting wet leaves for a month or more.

10:36 Realitatea paralelă. Apropo Dumitru Dragomir și el a încercat la rândul lui să dea cu SUV-ul peste mine (eram în truck parcă) la intersecția de la 7-11 din colț. Prin octombrie 2019, poate.

10:50 Just figured. The Nestle decaf instant coffee i bought last time at WinCo may contain an unusual amount of roasted grain like barley maybe.


11:08 Jurnalism pe cale de apariție. În sfârșit o deplasare a președintelui anunțată în media înainte de a se întâmpla.

Voiam și eu ca tot omul să citesc ceva funny înainte de a mă culca și peste ce dau în Cațavencii. (Da mi-am amintit fiindcă fraza cu jurnalismul le aparține). Cerneala simpatică. Gazul de sub casa scării. Așa-mi trebuie dacă le fur idei (meseria nu se învață, se fură, așa îmi spunea taică-meu întotdeauna).

Apropo conduceam, sâmbătă seara pe I5 spre nord și când am trecut podul acela înalt peste Columbia cu 4 benzi pe sens ce văd în punctul cel mai înalt. Un dulăpior îngust dar înalt care avusese sticlă (sau cristal) de jur împrejur care sticlă acum era spartă și împrăștiată pe porțiunea îngustă de lângă banda din stânga.

Dar de ce în picioare? Ca să se vadă mai bine? Kristallnacht? După multe faze nereușite, erau să ne căsăpească la venire, faza de mai sus.

November 18

1:00 România ar putea încheia acorduri bilaterale și cu alte țări din UE, mai ales cu acelea care și-a manifestat sprijinul, cel mai recent Franța și Germania. Astfel, Austria s-ar rușina.

7:42 This is about what i wrote yesterday about that motel in Florence.

I remember i worked one day only for a guy in Rome who was remodeling and apartment in historic Villa Borghese, carrying marble slabs upstairs for remodeling a 300 years old maybe apartment. The walls were one meter thick and the streets were really narrow. I think i heard them talking. The price tag was one million (euro, dollars, whatever).

This is where i lived in an area for working people. Yeah i know from the pictures you can't tell the difference. But inside, they were comfortable, quiet and had marble on the floors instead of wall to wall carpet nailed to the floor.

Absolutely no smells.

It is nostalgic to go to the same motel after 25 years. But motels in the US are not built with marble or even concrete. They are made of wood like most American buildings with inner "drywall" panels that bend and crack. Some have nail holes or even spaces from initial constructions like behind appliances and the interior communicates with the inside of the wall, which sometimes is better cause if air doesn't get in those insides, then it gets much worse.

In most places is Oregon nothing has been built since 1995 or when i came here. Same old same old everywhere. But Americans aren't worried because they don't want to travel to Europe to see and if they do they go to places like Rome or Paris where the buildings are even older (that was a joke).

But i could never imagine the housing situation in the US. I left everything, sold my concrete made apartment in Bacău, closed by business and i have no way to return, especially when i look at the stunning politicians there. At least here, there is a trace of freedom left. In there all you can do to survive is to get in league with THEM. Especially now after what i wrote on my blogs THEY will probably eat me alive. Like some here too.

Don't get me wrong. The reason i put videos with lyrics is sometimes i cannot understand what these guys are singing, probably because they are not native English speakers. Wake up or make up?

8:27 Yeah i know i spoke freely about all these before i moved here in Tualatin and that was after i fixed a leak in the wall that created mold for 7 years. BTW there is a hole in the siding and wall at the other end of the building told management about years ago and every time i tape it someone comes and removes the tape a bit, just enough for rain to get in. Trying to de-generalize my situation?

After last rains, mold grew inside and now when the crazy ninja at 4 with the stinking Chrysler hits the wall once, the place fills with mold smell.

First i thought this song was for encouraging me, but today i realize it is reverse psychology and bullying and a lesson to all who try to do what i did. And yeah the gyms stink also, mostly like rubber from all the treadmills or chlorine from pools.


8:55 I am really sick. I am wearing a mask and moved the ozone generator from bathroom to the living though my eyes already hurt. Slept five hours, i'm really sleepy but i also feel like fainting. Hungry and nauseated in the same time.

I realized what happens. Weird strains of mold bred inside the wall with sulfur dioxide extraterrestrial atmosphere gets out through that hole ands seeds the wet rotting leaves on the ground and the air is unbreathable as right now. You can't see it but the wall with the hole is on the left.

I sit here at the old PC next to kitchen window and i don't remember seeing any one in the last hour or so. Just a nervous Asian Japanese mailman who was hitting the doors of the mailbox seen in the picture linked above and more mold came inside.

Though yesterday when i was at the car breathing smoke from i don't know where that was getting me high within one hour i saw 100 hundred people and cars all making noises and distracting me. And BTW my oil doesn't smell a bit like the oil under the Chrysler, almost got no smell when compared to that one.

9:18 Yeah it worked this time. The browser didn't crash when i took the code with starting point for the embedded video below (using share under youtube player). And they started to drag furniture and stomp upstairs. Because i said there was no one here.



10:30 Effectively canceling my thoughts with squeaks from upstairs. I switched to html mode but forgot what i wanted to add. One thing i remember. My eyes weren't hurting from ozone, they were hurting from mold and dust. As soon as i started the ozone and ion generator i got much better.

10:55 On a second thought. She was here again yesterday after a few days missing with all that smoke while i was working at the car. Never leaving their balcony, with the two others. Just staring at me. Earlier i heard the boy yelling in an unseen place like a monkey being eating alive by a huge snake in the jungle. And in reality, she is older than Alexa.

4:28 Got a new PC. Yeah i know Bela (Lugosi) Rising. Amazon delivered it in about 12 hours from ordering. Which means they had it in a warehouse in Portland. As big as a small book.

"Overall pick", "best value for money". Got six cores and 12 threads (666). If i saw that @year 2000 would have freaked out and didn't buy it.

For reason of already installed Ethernet cables it ended at Angela's. Already up and running (with a monitor, keyboard and mouse from the closet). LOL one day when i was cleaning i was  thinking of throwing it up LOL. It seems much faster. Can even play games on it. With the newest updates of W11 and Chrome, i can do it with Lenovo. Blogging that is.

Can't work at her desk either. It is much more exposed to the "elements" coming from under the (hidden) door (but she's only there a couple of hours max a day). Here i am downstream from the filter of which carbon elements i just replaced.

I believe this is one of the three orders i've been thinking and talking about for days. Another one is coming, third i never made (did have not time). Now i'm thinking where from to get that game with Sarah Morgan so i cam marry her to se what happens (that was a joke).

November 2nd

12:10 Anybody knows what pizzicato is? It is a way of playing violin like a guitar, by picking chords with a nail, without using the bow. It is used a lot in Chinese and Japanese traditional music and one singer comes to mind... Rimi Natsukawa (not that i know so many), known to us all as Mariah Carey.

Synth pop era started triumphantly in Europe with Modern Talking and ended in the US with Madonna.

In the beginning, as the name clearly states, they were making heavy use of synthesizers and sequencers and stuff that just came on the scene from the labs and specialized companies. Monophonic, polyphonic, midi etc..

Though they were perfected over the years, a few types of sounds stayed to the end. They faded in the 90s and lately they were surpassed by the AI and only retro bands still use them. AI was much more insidious to the point we listen today to music made entirely by AI including voices and we don't even notice it.

Though heavily influenced by the same current in Japan, some of them included Japanese tunes that at times sound like the (what is the name of the three strings instrument she plays in the video above).

Very obvious in many of Madonna's song but i have the feeling that Dieter Bohlen synths imitated a lot the pizzicato sound and far East melodies especially the instrument in the video above though less obvious for the untrained ear (check again the intro here). And after him, the whole cohort.

But that doesn't mean we don't have pure rock music, spiced maybe with a Moog from the beginning of the synth era (yes she lives in a bubble and steals people ('s hearts)).


6:00 Another one... Cum lași site-urile alea, te duci să ștergi toate video-urile sau doar nu mai încarci? Și totuși cred că am văzut-o (ieri) undeva...

6:45 During the 2000s more evolved synths were used in a whole new genre called electronica, based entirely on those with the subgenre house that originated in... Romania (Why Vika Jigulina in this live show looks like Morticia from Adams family).

6:55 Which reminds me. Now i know, the glass balls represent the sun. My woman from Tokyo? BTW, wanted to say this for several days now and keep forgetting. Is the Mercedes logo a solar symbol and Benz stands for Benzaiten? CDs?


1:10 Newsworthy (There's someone in my head and it's not me). A team of 3 female journalists from Business Insider chose to let the whole world know that NYC mayor killed gassed rats on a whole street in New York. But one newyorker begs to differ in a comment titled "It is not new" (second best in the list) in the original article from "Gothamist" (can't share the comment or link in text).

In one of the pictures is shown an obvious German looking guy pumping whatever in the ground next to a BMW parked on the street.

There are contradictions in the article. The real b...h behind it seem to be though...

The reason i resent is it comes after my complaints of gasoline smell, some coming from obvious puddles on the ground, burnt vegetable oil smell after me doing fries yesterday, that i can still feel it as i write now. The symbolism. The main picture in the article shows a rat and a woman that looks like taken from a tiktok twerking post.

1:45 But i bet nobody from Business Insider is going to explain people the "flat high" of the stock market today (official explanation, no FED hiking rates expected) and always under the rising Sun which is bad news for inflation, flat high that comes with a 2.55% hike rate in oil prices.

3:43 Though i was violently sick yesterday, after eating and drinking crazy things for about a month, finally all these got to my guts with a bile and intestinal blockage and ER level pain, but i don't think i'm gonna die right away.

I did not go to ER as pain seemed intermittent. (I think) i cured myself with omeprazole, glasses of water with backing soda, meditating, eating small amounts of bland food and sleeping in my pod (a sleeping bad made of industrial type 99% reflecting insulation). And of course washing my stinking comforter of which i completely forgot lately.

Also today after i figured i was chocking because of the mold smell, went outside and picked about 100 lbs of rotting leaves "forgotten" by the landscapers yesterday that were covering the wet soil after rain and smelling like outdoor mold.

3:51 Ideal for patching holes in the floor of heaven. Color is close to your ceiling paint (indistinguishable). Mix small amounts with water to the consistency of putty (you know how) and push immediately with a suitable size Philips screwdriver in each hole, several times, then wipe the excess. Can use a slightly bigger screwdriver if you can't find the right size. Should take about 5 to 10 minutes for a hole.

When using slightly bigger screwdrivers and that is most of the time, do not push the screwriver all the way through, cause it is so much easier to fill having a narrowing at the other end.

Do not use ready made mud or any store mix cause it shrinks upon curing leaving the hole visible and having to repeat the procedure.

To find holes, use a dental probe in suspected areas. Sometimes older holes are covered over the years by layers of paint that cracked and are not obvious.

The resulting patch using the material linked above is harder and made of the same material as the drywall itself and also fuses with it so it can be used for bigger holes up to a few inches diameter with a piece of cardboard on the other side kept in place with strings or wires.

There are numerous, clumsier and less effective ways to do it.

Another big source of dust in your apartment is your breakers box, which is as big as all plugs combined. To seal the space around it you need either plaster or clear removable silicone which does not work well on drywall.

Also check the space around door frames, AC vents, in wall  heaters. In wall heaters actually have holes in the box that allow "air" from inside wall to be sucked and pushed into the room. They also burn household and wall dust, like bar space heaters. Bar space heaters create an air flow that also sucks and burn dust from inside the wall through the floor to wall space.

It is controversial if to seal the space between walls and floor. Dust is usually heavier than air and does not climb except for the invisible, statically charged dust which may result from prolonged vibrations which flies in your rooms like crazy for hours (if you don't have an ionizer). (Any dust that passes through a fan like of the fridge becomes electrically charged). If air does not penetrate the space in the wall, it becomes even stinkier usually with sulfur dioxide. Use your rich imagination if or what to put in there.

(We'll talk after you're done with your home work).

10:02 Today's smoke comes from yet another fire that's right in wind's direction that apparently started after last rain? Or maybe the wind shifted, can't remember how it was yesterday. Found a site where you can find historical data for precipitations in different Oregon areas, it rained half inch in the area with the fire yesterday. More rain to come tomorrow.

The smoke doesn't help me. From lungs it eliminates in esophagus and then in the stomach (our own body filtration system, all dust and smoke particles we breath end up in your guts for elimination).

12:00 First i thought i heard someone climbing the stairs, after "he came home", but the sound continued beyond stairs length until i went and opened the door... I did not meet with anyone here tonight or anywhere else, ever, since i came in this country in 1995. I also figured another reason for the big work at the sewer...

If someone who can red this is ever invited here, they must know i will never invite anybody and should not come. And this is not a fake disclaimer.

October 31

12:54 Ok every time i strain my brain like to remember a detail from a video (like toes moving while reading a book) a squeak and a stomp come from upstairs and the big problem is they are waking Angela in the process... And then i forget my line of thoughts.

13:00 Ok good thing i realized it's the next day so i can turn the page like Bob Seger. Got to take a break until it's quiet upstairs.

2:52 See what i'm talking about? An apartment like this in SF area should cost @3k a month and it has holes and irregularities in the 3/8 drywall "popcorn" ceiling. If you can pass a needle through only one of those it means it can release enough dust from the attic to make you sick in the short and long term. Those holes should be filled ASAP. But there are bigger spaces around the plugs.

BTW my fridge has started (its fan and compressor) and there's dust in the air and i remembered i didn't clean the bottom coil in a long time. It usually involves turning the fridge on a side and that needs a strong person.

I bet the intense indoor pollution with dust and bacteria from these old dwellings is the subconscious drive behind so many people choosing to give it all up and live in the streets in the US and SF.

9:13 The gasoline vapor from the puddles in the parking lot mutated the bacteria and mold in the attic and made me very sick. Yesterday afternoon i drank and ate like a pig and woke up so bloated with gas and diarrhea my diaphragm muscle raised and twisted the heart and i woke up with palpitation, chest discomfort, breathing problems, chest discomfort. Two 1200 mg charcoal caps helped me.

Right now i took a shower and the fan started automatically and pushed air through a leak in the space between ceiling and floor above and now i feel the insulation dust in my throat and nose and the sewage smell coming from the attic. Trying to pump ozone in there right now.

AQI site is getting better, now it shows a smoke situation near Mollala but also here in Tualatin which must be something local.

9:40 Amazing how the perceived smoke is so low when index is so high (Tualatin, 97) confirming my theory smoke was coming from holes in the ground near the building when it was several times more intense than right now.

Humidity will go up, pressure will go down, same old story and we'll have a week of rain. The surface winds going against the high altitude ones.

11:13 So damn beautiful, with an attitude!

2:17 Lunar calendar is based on moon's rotation around Earth and not on Earth's rotation around Sun. It is not aligned with the seasons, because it starts every year in a different day of the solar calendar.

Strangely enough the biggest Shinto festival in Japan, of which the greatest kami is Amaterasu, a Sun goddess, starts, in the 10th day of the 10th month every year of the lunar calendar.

But if the festival was to be dated with the Sun calendar, it would have been October 10 and November would have been Kamiarizuki.

During the festival it is said all the kami in Japan come to Izumo Taisha, leaving the rest of Japan with no kami.

4:00 Tick Talk


5:22 Right. Imagining her dressed in houmongi kimono, doing the quick little steps and kneeling on the tatami, bowing and offering sake.

6:25 I would think one could use a special corset to make her butt look lower but why would she do that?

To make herself unrecognizable especially with no wearing the usual face smoothing makeup and with face partially covered by a hat on streets filled with weird smoke that can make people dizzy.