October 25

12:01 Is this guy again Tom Cruise? Raising his visible hand for balance because he's got something heavy in the other?
On my way to Lincoln City i stopped to get gas at Spirit Mountain. Mileeage was 23, after i found what i found loose and fixed again the battery connectors. A few miles after, i had this paranoya about not closing the gas cap, so i stopped to check but guess what. On the left side, there was this fire like ten others i encountered before, filling the whole road from Tualatin to the beaches with smoke on almost all 80 miles trip. I lowered the window and grabbed the phone to take a picture, but this angry guy, together with another one not caught in the picture carryin a chain saw started to walk towards me and when he crossed the road i gave him the finger (for polluting) and then i took off.

Here are some other pictures i took on the beach today, during a large storm.

4:39 In California, when it rains, it pours...

Picture from Depoe Bay, Oregon.
6:43 The guy upstairs is back and doing laundry at 6 AM... 6:45 Walking, smoking, editing, influencing what i'm thinking, what ninja did best in the last 1000 years...

7:23 Was thinking. The man upstairs maybe "was in rehab" or something and now "he relapsed". Right now there is so much smoke in here i opened all windows and it's still too much. Maybe he's pumping smoke in the basement with the drier. Leaving in the park and coming back later when he's done with drying, but "the drier doesn't work" and he will keep doing this all day...

7:57 Smoke was off for a while and it came back though i have three filters on in the living and both windows open.

8:18 During the peak of the smoke, it was quiet upstairs. Now it started to squeek again. Outside now it smells like garden smoke so i shut all windows and put a mask on and now trying to get more sleep.

11:32 Was flooded with his laundry vapor and woke up after half hour of sleep. Got a bitter taste in my mouth, probably from the smoke that was coming actually from a hole near the living wall outside (under the siding). Have to drive 20 miles to take a complete set of pictures under the car.

11:36/9:36 Ultima dată când România a avut prim ministru general (mareșal, whatever, altul decât interimatul lui Ciucă 7-23 decembrie 2020) a fost pe timpul lui Antonescu. Cine nu cunoaște istoria, riscă să o repete. A și a mai fost unul, dar nu prim ministru ci președinte. Timp de 24 de ani.

2:09 Here at the apartment there was so much smoke today even the squirels got high and lost their fear to humans... 

6:51 I believe kids outside are yelling because they're high from smoke... Can barely breath in here. Interestingly, when there's smoke, there's no walking upstairs and when there isn't, there's squeaks.

6:57 It rained in California ok, but not nearly enough. Average yearly rainfall in California is 21 inches, in some places this storm alone brought half of it. But let's hope, the rain season is only at its beginning.

9:11 Went outside and stepped on the numerous soft areas and the smoke subsided.

10:31 Just figured something. The 600 pounds rated fishing magnet that i just bought hoping is going to help me fix the dents in the car is dangerous.

10:40 Noi în anul 2000...

October 24

1:00/3:00 Singurul motiv pentru care l-au băgat pe ăsta în știri (deja vu de atâtea ori) este că aduce cu primul nostru înotător nominalizat. Niște pixeli care spală alți pixeli, asta e. Însă... nu cumva... Otoniel, Ionel?...

1:07/3:07 Dacia a parcurs un drum lung până aici, dar în final au făcut-o prea bună și nu mai ajunge și la români.

3:13 Buzzers kinda work, moles don't come too much near the building, however, i see small areas with wet soil and when i step on those the smoke (or mold smell) inside subsides. There is at least one new dog poo, i can smell it. This stuff is evolutionary, is so powerful that it stinks even when it rains like right now.

3:17 Someone is definitely upstairs, though stuff in the car at that spot has not been touched yet...

3:28 Analysis of drive axle tells failure didn't happen very long ago. It was the little the car was driven by me and by the towing guy, at most one quart of a mile that created a small abrasion that has no depth, from the axle that was wobling and hitting something. 3:55/5:55 Situația cu profesorii mei din liceu e probabil generalizată în România și nu numai, în mediul universitar probabil toți din vârfuri sunt din ăștia, doctori, ingineri, profesori, decani etc.. Asta ar explica stagnarea, de decenii, din toate domeniile.

4:10 Just remembered something, Angela found in the mail today the missing bill from a credit card, the one that was supposed to be paid before 10th of this month. She figured this one in time, did not miss the payment, she's planning on following those more closely. Most likely, a doubling of the delayed delivery with FedEx (ingannare).

October 23

8:43 Got four hours of sleep, can't sleep anymore. Had this wet towel on top of the filter last night that was absorbing some of the fine particulates that got in here yesterday, but after it dried out, it actually started to put those back in the air and i woke up with this feeling of "dry air".

After staying inside for days waiting for deliveries and doing whatever at the computer and breathing air polluted with all kinda stuff, from near and far, last night i was happy i could go out for a few hours so we just drove to Spirit Mountain. In there, the same as usual, people getting in my way or popping out of nowhere when passing other people. Had one of their famous hot dogs, one sip of coffee, lost about 40 dollars and then went outside to get one more drink in the car.

When i stepped out, there was this blond woman, looking more like the one in the right in the link, about 30 feet ahead of me who turned around and started to yell at the casino. "I'm not going to give you any more money, b..."! but she was actually facing me. She continued doing that as i was getting too close to comfort to her and then i told her, cause now she was yelling in my face, "who are you calling b..." and she said "the casino" and i told her "the casino is an inanimate object, you're making it look like you're yelling at me", and then i tried to pull the phone to record what she was saying, and the guy next to her, who was looking exactly like the guy in this article said "you're not going to actually hit a girl, are you?" and i said "no, i'm just going to record her" and then i tried to bring the recording app and when i did she stopped calling me a b..., but then started to walk around me, like a satellite, but did not say much any more and then i broke free of those two and got into the truck. BTW the truck's got again a loose bolt on the control arm at driver's side and drifts on the road.

I remember vaguely this is not the first time when get to interact with people who just died in the news...

8:52 FedEx is crazy, Troutdale is like 27.5 miles away from Tualatin.

9:21 Wow never seen air moving so fast across the Pacific... Jet stream speed there must be something like 300 mph...

9:29/7:29 Bugetul (bugetele) pe anul acesta devenit lege în ianuarie este "croit" pe programul de guvernare al guvernului din acel moment (cine le mai ține minte, guvernul). Orice modificare la acel program de guvernare înseamnă modificarea bugetului, care însă este lege, care nu se respectă oricum niciodată... La ce bun un nou program de guvernare care posibil contrazice legea care oricum nu se respectă niciodată la fel cum nici un program de guvernare nu a fost respectat vreodată...? A și legea plafoanelor...

11:14/9:14 Ungurul care-l "joacă" pe generalul Ciucă este un înotător, a câștigat numeroase medalii la olimpiade pentru infirmi, paralympics cum le spune (chiar acum mi-a picat o fisă, însuși cuvântul olimpiadă, olympics în engleză conține rădăcina limp, scrisă puțin altfel dar pronunțată similar, care înseamnă a șchiopăta), unde se califică fiindcă are paralizie cerebrală. Omul este foarte inteligent, vorbește engleza ca unul care s-a născut sau a trăit mult timp într-o țară unde se vorbește această limbă. Însă dacă vă uitați cu atenție, veți vedea că are probleme de echilibru, de coordonare a mișcărilor, mai ales în timp ce vorbește.

3:26 Never had a chance to completely inspect the car after i bought it. Though still very tired, after worrying for about a week about what else it could be, today i finally went (and grabbed the parts that finally came, both with FedEx, after much complaining to customer service) and was determined to take pictures for most part underneath and outside though the car was in a puddle of water, no matter the distractions (like last time, the plane that was circling above with determination until i shot some video and uploaded it).

This is what i found. The fuel tank is possibly damaged. Possibly leaking gas already, but not enough to drip on the puddle underneath (gasoline is visible on water). I don't know yet how that is called, the suspension rail in the rear (rear axle). By the freshness of indentations in the axle, it seems that all damage was done with forklift after the auction. Still thinking if to keep the car and sue IAA or put it back in auction. I started the engine and saw no check engine lights (i didn't know about the possible gas leak until i got back home and saw the pictures done with the phone on the computer).

7:16 Anybody needs a job? FedEx (and everybody) is hiring.

7:24 Surprise! After missing for a month or so, the guy upstairs is back... (or so i heard for a minute or two).

October 22

3:46 I wanted to take a brake from posting but it looks like i have no choice and post one more. After delaying delivery from Tuesday to Friday, Fed X did not bring my fender yet. Around 1 PM i heard a FedEx truck in the ally, i went and opened the door, the driver was just leaving though he had trouble starting. Scheduled delivery this morning was 10 to 3, right now is by the end of the day. I bet the driver "could not find my apartment number". Here are the images with the dents of my "new" car. I found the fender locally, after i ordered it online and delivery date has changed, but it's more expensive, will have to return the one that's coming, it's red and he said we won't start working at my car until next week anyways.

Thought it rained and still rains throughout Oregon (rain season started) there was a pungent "wildfire" smoke all day, google says air quality is 35, the private site i'm usually looking at says 44, but here it feels way above 50.  But this reality has been much augmented by cigarette filters in the mulch, at least one dog poo, fresh mole galeries and smoking nearby. Had a very interesting day, with a hangover amplified to the max by environment, the the point of fibrillation, palpitations and near fainting.

Yesterday when they brought the headlight (Apparently Amazon is better controlled with deliveries), the Japanese looking driver, like never before, knocked at my door and asked for last  name. For that reason i stayed in here all day just not to miss it so i got to breath all that jazz.

4:17 Read the local news in search for clues for current pollution, many most of them are obviously (to me) invented, fake or chosen by their symbolism which however sometimes collides with reality; apparently, it takes opacity to recycle glass. But why not measure ppm, particulates (AQ Index) at or near source?

5:57 Really don't understand, why Monday?

6:10 Just spoke with a FedEx customer rep, (an actor's voice) and she said they cannot make a delivery tomorrow (a normal delivery day for FedEx) because they're having a "glitch" with the "system". When i asked if i could schedule a pickup she said  there is a restriction from the vendor on that. I knew about that and i tried to talk two days ago with the vendor (carparts.com) and he (phone answering person) seemed totally untrained, he couldn't do or answer anything without asking somebody else and in the end i gave up.

7:27 Up until recently blogger (google) was keeping the name of the uploaded picture, on top of which was adding some of its own weird random stuff (characters). In my blog's case, that uploaded picture's name containded (for at least the last 6+ months) information about cropping (total height, distance from top) that could have been used by anybdoy who wanted to reproduce what i did. Not anymore. Now it totally changes the name of the cropped uploaded picture with a long string of random letters, so the result cannot be reproduced easely. To cause doubt?

October 21

12:19 Is it just me or the visit of US Defense Secretary in Romania yesterday is the reason the President of Romania is nominating today a general as Prime Minister?

12:57 (One of the) stories of my life. Today, me unknowingly interacting with all kinda actors that do Romanian politicians that end up in high positions.

1:00 For a long time now Romania like everything is trying to build a fleet in the neighboring... Black Sea. However Ciucă begs to differ.

1:08 Good old Matt.

6:37/4:37 "L-am desemnat Prim Ministru pe..." A câta oară a rostit Klaus Iohannis fraza asta?

6:55/4:55 Veniți la mine cu "propunerea impusă... și cu aceasta merge PNL la Cotroceni".

iConsult: "Nicolae Ciucă is the proposition imposed to the liberals by Klaus Iohannis and with that proposition PNL (National Liberal Party) goes to the consultations (with Klaus Iohannis)".

1:30 AQI in Tualatin shows 7, the feel outside is 70. Garbage trucks just finished thundering but still caught 1 out of 4 bins when i got back here early, because of smoke. But rain will be here soon, to wash away the smoke.

Came home after i went to several places that i knew to inquire about dents' pulling electromagnets and other car related things. It seems nobody knows of those (magnets). When i got back the building was surrounded with smoke (feels around 70) and smoke was even thicker inside (don't know how that is possible). My clothes smell like smoke. All kinda "kids" real close, some in places with mole holes, can't go to step on those. Also radar again shows a big storm above, we're right in the middle of it, here it's just not raining. Got the headlight for the car, waiting for the fender tomorrow.

6:58/4:58 Se caută actori responsabili cu distrugerea poporului român.

9:04 FB?