October 27

5:35 After i came from Eaton, i noticed everything smelling like fresh mold in here. I looked outside from the door, didn't see anything, took a walk, i found one empty beer can in a place nobody would throw one, and an energy drink empty can under a bush. My eyes then fell on the window upstairs, i saw the man fully dressed, at 5 AM, though he doesn't go anywhere. He even started a few squeaks when i got back inside.

2:12 Got a damaged alloy wheel on my "new" Elantra. After investigating, this is what i found out. 150-175 to fix it, 319 a new OEM one, 134 aftermarket, 159 remanufactured and 100 used from junkyard. I think a good used is my best option, as fixing, remanufactured or aftermarket may be potentially dangerous. Need to drive all the way to Hillsboro Auto Wrecking, some 25 miles.

7:48 Abbas the II of Egypt. Last ottoman ruler of post Mamluck Egypt.

8:47 Got to steal (in) your heart away...

10:53 I pursued and she withdrew,...

11:32 Mijloace militare...

October 26

5:10 Angela is doing overtime today, she went at 5. When i got back, though i didn't make any noise, he awoke and started the drier...

7:40 Back with a vengeance, keeping me awake since 5, second load of laundry, ignoring the fact the dryer is broken, doubled by a walking robot with a feedback on my brain, squeaking and stomping.

7:53 BTW Have you seen the latest from Boston Dynamics?

9:58 I thought it was condensation water in his dryer's exhaust pipe and tried to insert a piece of PCV tubing attached to a pump (i had it to vacuum the oil from old Elantra's manifold) through the vent, however i didn't pull any water. I remember the problem with his drier started in spring, not in winter. Most likely it's clogged with lint and there's nothing i can do about (or maybe vacuum it with a vacuum hose). I remember, after a couple of weeks i fixed  those pipes, like shown in the post linked, they came with some rotary tools and cleaned the pipes. By the end i was done i saw a "woman" climbing stairs in building D who from behind looked like the handy "woman".

10:55 She looks like a woman i see sometimes smoking on the alley here.

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).