December 18

2:01/12:01 Second hand country... La mintea Cațavencilor... Da, bine, dacă ne mai plângem fraților, poate nu le iau oamenii nici pe astea... Sau poate a fost doar așa o declarație ca să-i enerveze și să le dea apă la moară la fino-ugrici ca să vadă și Europa și lumea ce fac ei dacă se enervează. A doua zi Finlanda a zis că-și ia 64 de F35, cu care țin lejer în șah jumătate de Rusie și jumătate de Europă... Sau poate nu vrem să-i enervăm prea tare pe ruși (în afară de înjurăturile zilnice din media)... Finlandezii sunt și ei în graniță cu rușii.

Au mai discutat ai noștri vreo 6 ani până au luat primele F16. Câte avem acum, 14? Au pornit tot așa, de la vreo 48 iar 6 ani mai târziu au luat primele 9 din Portugalia, în timp ce au lăsat 24 de Mig 29 să ruginească la Constanța sau le-au dat ca piese de schimb polonezilor în timp ce nemții și polonezii le foloseau, "trista moștenire". Eu zic să ne căutăm și un guvern pe net, de la vreo firmă ceva. Cu garanție și manual de utilizare. Poate ne pune cârlanul ăsta tânăr Geoană o pilă la Aspen Institute.

Chiar pe bune, am căutat, n-am găsit guvern de vânzare sau de închiriat (care ar fi oricum ar fi mai bun decât cel de împrumut de acum), dar nu am găsit decât asta... Cum cine să caute guvern pe net? We the people!

Who can tell which is F15 and which is Mig 29?

Two engines, next generation. F22, Typhoon and Rafale. Pyhisical stealth of F22 (and F35) or low radar signature is given by the surfaces that are never perpendicular on radar's direction, reflecting it away (up and down) from emitter (though it becomes vulnerable if enemy "sees" it at certain angles, where it can brieffly "flash" with more radar signature than "clasical" design). Also weapons are kept in a bay, for stealth and aerodynamic reasons giving it supercruise (supersonic flight without afterburners) capabilities at 1.8 mach, vs 1.4, for Rafale giving it more range) and speeds above mach 2 with afterburners (vs 1.8 Rafale).

10:40 There is a thick smoke outside with an pine resin component to mask the smell, an animal droppings component probably other things that makes me tired, nauseated dizzy and will-less. I tried to cover the holes, now the smoke comes from further away. 

10:38 (19) And it wouldn't be fair if i didn't add this. For those who didn't know, built with a fraction of the budget for F22, despite all economic sanctions,

December 17

6:15 Last time i went to Jiffy Lube to change oil or first time i ever i did it on this car (after i attempted myself with the pump through the dipstick hole an failed, could only pull half of the oil, because i forgot the engine had to be warmed up to thin the oil) i asked them if they could check the fluid level in my automatic transmission. The guy there told me that i should go to the dealer because the car does not have a dipstick for transmission, "they have a special gauge for it they stick through the fill hole".

Another mechanic told me i should go and ask a mechanic who has "the expensive scanner" cause they can read the level with those.

None of these is true, i found out two days ago that on newer "sealed" transmissions ("newer" is one way to say it, my old Elantra was a 2013 and i was convinced you cannot check ATF level on those) with no dipstick hole there is a hole on the side of the transmission (actually close to front of the car, kinda hard to reach if you don't raise the car) that is at the exact level of transmission fluid when the car is sitting on a flat (level) area like on concrete in a shop, called overfill hole. You clean and remove the plug on that hole like you would with the drain plug and watch what happens. If it flows, barrely, it means the fluid is at the right level. If it doesn't flow, it means you have to add until it flows (barely), etc..

It seems no mechanic i know knows about or is willing to do it and i am just perplexed cause these have been around since at least 2013. I checked videos on youtube and some came with crazy ways to do it. One guy who drained it all (it would not come out all however, because there is some in the torque converter, you have to hook the tranny to a special machine only dealers have) measured it and put back in the same amount, after filing the head of the fill plug until will come out (3 times, after which 90% of the fluid is changed). So today i will attempt to do it myself (again in a shop where i know the owner and he said he would let me do it, it's a 5 minutes job, that to me could be half hour because when i do something i always stop and think of the other things i see around when i looked into an area for the first time). It's even more complicated than that, because at my car the fill hole for the tranny is under some part (flange under shifter lever) that you have to remove first, and if it's low, i will attempt to fill through the same overfill hole with a special funnel i just invented. That is if i can reach to the overflow plug without raising the car. And for some reason i don't understand, i have a gut feeling that i will run into some surprise if i do it.

11:10 Just came back, i didn't even open the plug, just by loosening it i saw fluid coming out, put it back. The gentleman at the shop help me confirm a diagnosis i once had in a transmission shop. Soft transmission mount which i could probably replace myself. Looking for an OEM part(s) online, and i need a full transmission flush, 10 qts, because fluid is kinda brown, consistent with the mileage, which at the dealer cost 210 for the fluid only. OEM Hyundai.

5:37/3:37 Ler

7:22/5:22

December 16

7:53 Living with the ninja, in ninjaland. As i said, they blew dust yesterday. Though i wiped clean the deck, the sill, area above door, dust was still present inside this morning. Unlike yesterday, not much smoke. At 1 AM i plugged with soil mixed with cement two more "mole holes" before i went to sleep. My esophagus was hurting so i took some tea, coconut oil. As i was nauseated (from using the car yesterday, still stinks a bit like rotting bone meal, dog pooh), went for a breath of fresh air, around 6:30.  Also to pick the clamps from the locker. Working again at a catch can, this time won't take that long because i accumulated some expertise. Many "people" (read ninja) around here freshly started their cars in the alley, so i took the upper alley, where a guy was working at a car and started his didgeridoo right after i passed, waking up everybody who was not. I crossed the street, climbed the stairs at the hospital. Many cars coming at that hour. I walked a bit and came back, took the clamps from the locker. Inside i realized the clamps are not good. I just reordered the old ones but i forgot they came then by mistake two sizes smaller, however it was that mistake that allowed those to work. So i looked to return those and get a different size, however delivery date was now changed from next day to one month from now. The guy upstairs started to squeak  on my brain waves so i washed the towel i used last night and put it back wet on top of the filter, while washer would cover the noise of my thoughts. Ate half of ripe avocado to lube my irritated esophagus, made some broccoli (steam boiled with a bit of water on bottom of the ceramic pot for 5 minutes), eat with a bit of chicken and garlic, while eating i opened the door and there was this guy with a green truck in front of building D hitting the truck with something, making a big noise. That noise and irritation at my esophagus from dust, nausea, triggered a dysphagia episode. Felt like i was so full i could never eat again, though still hungry. I siped some tea, painfully, the food went down after about 10 attempts. Had the courage to finish eating.

Any other type of clamps failed. But i remember now, even these wouldn't work (hose would start to leak) unless i added a bit of JB Weld steel reinforced adhesive on the screw to prevent it from unscrewing "by itself". Maybe i should go back to regular clamps and use adhesive from the start.

December 15

1:11 Every once in a while i see in Romanian media informations of things i never knew. Trying to harness the energetic potential of a mountainous area in Romania while keeping the environmental impact to a minimum, they dug, over a 10  years period, 50 km of tunnels. Other similar works are well known to the public, like the 38 km tunnel under English Channel.

Nowadays they are building new galleries for Bucharest metro using autonomous machines.

All in a country with not so much financial and economical power, like today's and yesterday's Romania.

One could question himself, what if they already have tunnels covering most countries, made of course in secret.

We know that Musk, others are trying for years to build demo versions of a project called "hyperloop". Vehicles that could travel in vacuum tunnels at speeds greater than sound. But that project is not going anywhere fast enough. What if is kept in that stage intentionally, just to delay public's perception about the possibilities of those.

To be continued.

12:47 I just want you for my own...

4:44 I got my first smartphone very late... Call it paranoia, whatever. I know what computers can do. Smartphone are basically computers with towers connections, wi-fi, bluetooth, name it. A touch display, a mic and a speaker. Multi-core, fast processors. Android, which is a breed of Linux as operating system.

Had no choice given by Frontier, the provider at the new address, who was delaying installing a landline by 2 weeks after i moved in 2015. So i rushed to Best Buy and bought a couple of cheap, 4 GB prepaid HTC phones, powered by then Virgin Mobile. For convenience, went with them ever since. 35 dollars a months, unlimited talk and text, up to 6 Gigs of 4G data. Barely any room for any app.

How Virgin Mobile turned in the end to Boost Mobile, and Australian firm, it's a different story you can read it here.

On 5th i forgot to... re-boost (that's how it's called prepaying for the next month). Next day i went to the computer and tried to pay, but the bill was now 38. It was then when i got mad and decided it's time to look for a new provider, with an unlocked phone, after i saw commercials with plans starting at 15 dollars (Mint), others. First, i tried to unlock the phone with Boost, but they wouldn't cause the phone though it had more than 12 continuous months of service, had the service interrupted a few months, the number changed and they kept me asking for the old PIN "to prove" and i could not remember.

I don't need much data, just an occasional browsing for a site when i'm not home. So decided to start using (again) my Google Voice number at home on wi-fi and wait until i get something reasonable.

However, after a few searches, i found a plan again at... Boost, with 100 dollars a year (8.33 a months) and 1 gig of data. So i went back to my own vomit and ordered the plan. I said to myself. I won't have to deal with them for a year, if i succeed. But i didn't.

I don't deal with MEID or ICCID things very often so i'm not used to. Didn't realize they didn't check the MEID of my phone when i signed up, just paid and waited for the SIM card.

SIM card came yesterday with USPS (no tracking number though i asked for) and i put it in the new unlocked MOTO 7 i bought on Amazon for 150 bucks (a 2020 model) and tried to activate it on myAccount i created when i paid. However, after typing in lots of MEID and ICCID digits, a number of times, it would not activate. In the end it was Angela who realized there was a 5G mark on the SIM card. Then i remembered seeing something at Boost Mobile "the largest 5G network". (I hate 5G as i hate wi-fi, smartphones and the fact i have to use them). However, my phone was a 4G (within the last few month Boost kept warning about not supporting 3G anymore and customers should buy 5G instead. What happened to 4G? 4G LTE speeds satisfy my needs and both our phones where 4G capable).

So with money paid, i tried my options. There was nothing on MyAccount except my payment history.Live customer support was closed for the day. There was a chat option, not working on the computer (in the end, it worked on my phone today but it was just a bot). Left it for today. This morning i called their customer support number. First a female voice, trying to get my number. I don't have one. Forwarded to a male voice, which shut my conversation when i said i don't have one. Then i tried my old trick, pressing 0 until i hear a human voice. It worked, at first. A guy named Alex listened to my story, asked again for MEID and ICCID and said "Good news, your phone is compatible" and then, "Bad news, we don't have this SIM card in our system". The SIM card they shipped through USPS and came yesterday, without verifying phone's MEID and without a tracking number. In the end i forcibly gave Alex the order number (first screenshot), he asked for a valid calling number, he said he would "escalate" and that was the last i heard from him, just looked on Google Voice call history, there is no call back from him.

Then i tried to use menu options to try again and activate the phone first with the automated system, then with a person. After giving again the MEID number and ICCID number several times, one willing person told me that i should give up and try to dispute the amount with the bank, which seems to be the only valid option right now. They wouldn't spend as much as paying people to handle returns, let the banks do it. After waiting one week and wasting half day today. Crediting their business with 100 dollars for weeks which seems to be one of the purposes of the scam (fraud).

Today afternoon i went and tried to talk with a guy in a physical Boost store in Beaverton. The man who looked again like a Japanese chicano, "would not understand". First i asked for a SIM card compatible with my phone. 10 bucks. I said, ok, but will it work? Do you have a plan? he asked. I said yes, and he said, what's the number, and i said i don't  have one cause the phone is not activated (like i said when i asked for a SIM card), and we went like that for about half hour and i gave up and left. And at one moment, he grabbed my phone to look for the order number (first screenshot) and after handling my phone for while, he said We don't have anything to do with this.

5:19 It's not what they do, it's the synchronization. Today it was Wednesday and the blowers came and though it was raining for a century now, there are still dry areas under the stairs, and places like that and again they blew dust on the deck and sill of the door. So after i started to feel it in my eyes and throat, I went and wiped the dust, lots of red dust came in the water when i rinsed the rag, and exactly when i was done i heard the "man" upstairs climbing the stairs, coming back from his car, releasing more dust from the stairs. Like he did last time. Like he does when i go to cook something, he comes and squeaks the floor above, me, starts the washer, etc.. Wakes me up the second i fall asleep. Home for 5 days in a row as i can remember.

7:49 Numirea lui Florin Roman, o nouă stângăcie a unui președinte de dreapta. Să fie oare ultima?

Sugerat de cine. Oare în România toți miniștrii buni pleacă devreme iar numai cei care acceptă sugestiile rămân? De aia merg treburile așa?

De ce e bine ca în asemenea funcții să fie oameni impecabili, tocmai de asta, pentru a nu putea fi șantajați. O mică verificare, colegii de partid, înainte de numire?

10:57/8:57 Cineva pe fază? S-a oprit roata.

11:14 De fapt asta vroiam să spun mai devreme și n-am terminat. Mahabharata, poemul epic indian, descrie o serie de evenimente care sugerează un război global pe care mulți le consideră istorice (reale). Cu toate astea, încercările de demitizare și plasare în cronism istoric pe care le-am văzut până acum sunt de o naivitate dezarmantă. Există totuși niște elemente de la care se poate porni într-un studiu serios, făcute praf de niște neprofesioniști în diverse forumuri. Dintre, ele, aș vrea să amintesc.

Vimanele. Unele schițe rămase până la noi sugerează secțiuni prin rachete.  

Avioane de luptă hipersonice. Acest basorelief cu o vimana în mijloc arată un conflict între indo-europeni și o rasă cel mai probabil provenind din Australia, care a fost izolată de restul omenirii timp de zeci de mii de ani, numită în Mahabharata "șerpi".

Astika. Astika a fost un copil care a salvat rasa șerpilor de răzbunarea lui Janamejaya. Sunt opinii că ar fi la originea națiunii aztece din America de Sud.

Rețea globală de tuneluri. Rama a fost răpit și dus printr-un tunel în America de Sud.

Svarga loka. Loka în sanscrită înseamnă ceva similar cu loc în română sau location in engleză. Avalon (ava loka), un loc mitic, ava în sanscrită însemnând departe (away în engleză), un sufix găsit în multe toponime din România. Svarga loka în Mahabharata era un fel de rai, locul în care trăia zeul Indra, și se poate identifica cu Sverige (numele Suediei în suedeză).

Piramidele. Piramidele par a fi construite cam în perioada războiului de la Kurukshetra descris în Mahabharata, purtat cu tehnologii primitive. Piramidele par a fi ansambluri multifuncționale care pot fi și arme bazate pe manipularea ionosferei, a zonelor seismice, construite cu știință foarte avansată dar cu tehnologia epocii de piatră, ceea ce arată construcția lor în urma unui conflict devastator care a distrus tehnologia existentă.

Vârsta oamenilor. Și în Biblie, și în mitologia indiană se spune că oamenii, poate înaintea acelui conflict care a contaminat toată planeta, trăiau până la 1000 de ani.

Azi și de multe ori, m-am întrebat. Dacă a existat acea tehnologie avansată, unde sunt urmele? Cât timp durează până la dezintegrarea completă de exemplu a unui automobil? De ce multe din resursele minerale ale planetei sunt intacte? Poate că populația pământului în acea perioadă nu a fost așa de numeroasă ca acum. Poate că era o civilizație ecologică, bazată pe știință foarte avansată care nu folosea intensiv resursele și nu polua ca cea azi. Poate acea cutie neagră a fost plasată în piramidă după acel mare conflict de către șerpi care erau mai avansați și recuperată de Napoleon în timpul campaniei din Egipt, când piramidele erau în mare parte acoperite de nisip. Poate că rasa șerpilor era de fapt niște alieni (probabil condamnați trimiși în exil) care au venit să exploateze resursele pământului, trimițând de exemplu aurul înapoi pe planeta lor originară, folosind acceleratoare liniare de particule.

December 14

12:52


11:57 Today it was the peak of traffic incidents ever. An unusual number of people driving erratically in parking lots, backing up unexpectedly in my way, things like that. At home, i had 2 one gallon water bottles containing each ounces of oil and dirt mixed with CRC cleaner that i squeezed twice (with engine running) in a vacuum port and then in the throttle and then vacuumed from the bottom of the intake manifold of my "new" Elantra using a thin rubber hose attached to a pump and those are both gone and none of us remembers throwing them out. Had an appointment, went to DMV, finished the application for titling and registering the car, paid for custom plates because i don't wanna have problems like i had with the "sequence" plates with JKB. Got another temporary number, for 4 months, waiting for plates, but can't tape it on the rear windshield because of the radio antenna/heater printed on glass. Last time i put one of those there, when i peeled it out it came with pieces of the printed antenna. So i will put it as the current one on the left rear side windows, the next place recommended. I also ordered parts for a catch can, to prevent oil vapor from PCV getting in the intake.