June 28

2:17 I woke up at 1 AM with digestive pains. Today i installed the AC and forgot to clean the screens from dust and the AC blows (and aspires) through the sliding door screen and i've been breathing the irritant dust (redwood, granite from the screen which of course ends up in stomach when it clears the lungs). I stayed awake for two hours and i had no smoke problems at all. It looks like they have an algorithm, as soon as i started to post, the room filled with cigarette smoke from my neighbor who smokes on the patio of Apt. Nr.2.

I am very satisfied with my Samsung Chromebook. It charges in one hour, lasts up to ten. It is very fast, it loads Chrome browser in one second, plays videos seamlessly, no lag when typing, etc.. However i was complaining of pains in my legs and belly especially after i went at Indian Head casino where they have a very strong wi-fi that can be used from the parking lot. And the signal has to be strong both ways since the laptop sends requests or the text you are typing etc. back to the router.

After my PC went out (power supply) and i didn't want to fix it, i bought a USB hub that allows me to use the chromebook as a PC, by connecting a monitor, keyboard and mouse to it. I was keeping it under desk at my left foot and it is there where i started to have burning pains. Then, i started to have pains in different spots of my legs, belly, etc..

Today i was tuning my guitar with an online in browser tuner from a site and i accidentally put the laptop of top of the guitar and i noticed a weird sound in the amplifier. Yes i know the amplifier cannot amplify those frequencies but sub-harmonics and modulations. Then i tried with the phone but the sound was much less. For now i found a tray (the kind for baking turkeys in the oven) and i use it like that. Thing is the wi-fi which basically uses microwaves at a frequency close to microwave ovens, has automatic settings depending on the distance and if the thing gets hacked the setting can stay permanent at highest. I don't know exactly how much power a wi-fi is supposed to use or what is the hardware limitation though i suspect is specific to brands and manufacturers. Most sites say 100 mW but some go as high as 6 watts. We can fairly assume the emitter in the phone is punctiform.

However the limitations imposed for leaks at microwave ovens go much lower than that. Does that make any sense to anybody who reads this?

4:22 Black face. Still don't know who Frank Farian is. Ran into this picture where i suspect the 4 of them all have fake noses. Until now i only now who Bobby Farrell was, i had an idea about Marcia Barrett (first, left), but there is only one picture. As for color.

5:00 Yeah man. Much better with the tray! Pain in legs is fading, there is still some in the hands, maybe face.

8:08 Bobby. Că nu ieste alta şi mai bună, şi mai eficientă metodă de sucit mințile în toată viiaţa omului decât simbolismul ascuns cu legături peste timp și spațiu.


Cazacu

11:21 Metsubushi. Today after i washed the building with a hose i crashed, due to lack of irritating dust. Sleepy, lethargic. After i reposted the video with the barrels, some crazy with a modified exhaust drove around the building at 11:15 PM until enough mineral fiber dust probably from the attic came inside through open windows.

Earlier i saw the guy with the huge van he parks for years on a compact spot that has INSULATION written on with red letters causally stopping at mailboxes.

11:48 He started back on when i started to type. Ran outside to see who it is, an ambulance siren went off on deserted streets, i think it's the guy with a dark silver Audi with tinted windows who parks at the end of the lower alley. I was ready to write about a very difficult subject, the news with 50 Mexicans dead in a hot truck. This can't be happening, for of a number of reasons, one of them, nobody is that stupid, and i think they could have done something to get out. It's part of the same type of mass killings, when we can't see in the news images with blood on the streets or dead bodies which means it only happens in the media. It looks similar with the recent Ukrainian mall bombing and many other news brought to us by CNN or Fox from Ukraine. Now the guy upstairs started the TV very loud which cancels my thoughts, yelled in Spanish etc., cause i always think of the new paragraph when i write one. Ok i remembered. The reason this popped in the news right now is because of me saying the West Coast of the US is basically occupied by Japanese disguised in Mexicans who by my estimates are in the millions while Mexico itself is kept in a state of terror with the so called drug wars so they can't say nothing (and nobody cares in the US like about Ukraine which is well presented in media).

A Trip to Reno

June 27

1:07 Just came inside after searching for the source of the dung smell. Didn't find anything. Today i intentionally left all windows open at 100 degrees to both dry any trace of water from the carpet (not that there was any left) and also "cook the smells" or let the heat deal with whatever bacteria left behind by washing. The result is it's 81 degrees inside at 1 AM while outside is 75.

I got gas at Grande Ronde (the cheapest) but when i got home i realized i forgot to put the cap on. I called them immediately to ask if i didn't pull the nozzle too, and they first said it doesn't matter, the nozzle are designed so they come apart when pulled hard, preventing someone to drag the hole pump, and when i asked him to look, he went out and then said "nothing out of the ordinary" and then i remembered i had the option to print a receipt which means i put the nozzle back. No receipt came out though.

Two distractions and me being tired (haven't been drinking in several hours) lead to forgetting to put the cap. Some guy dressed in leather on a motorcycle with no muffler started his bike exactly when my pump stopped. The guy on the other side at the other pump coughed loudly and then i looked down and i saw i was standing on a pile of absorbent material, the kind i hate most. Micro-porous calcined silica. So i took of my shoes and put them in a bag and drove barefoot. There is always one of those piles at one pump at that station but tonight i forgot to look. Yes Frank Farian and Boney M where on my mind too (i think it was him, not Jon Andreson i saw tonight at McDonalds),

Tonight i am happy that in Oregon they have attendants at gas stations, with me being distracted and until recently involuntarily high all the time, i would have certainly done it. Drag the nozzle.

In McMinville i caught up with the guy stuntman on the motorcycle, when he did something that made have lead to an accident. He suddenly slowed down while buttoning the screens on his left handle or horn of his motorcycle or whatever is called. But it was the other cars in front of him that slowed down too though not as much. 4 or 5. They always to this. They act in gangs. First one slows and you can't possibly blame him in case of accident, also because he's not going be there anymore. Good thing my low beam is adjusted a bit low and i saw him when he entered the spot, approaching fast into the light. I was telling Angela. Should have been a car, you could realize the distance by the space between lights that appears bigger as you approach it. Also it was the first time in years when i saw a motorcycle on that route at that hour. Then i got mad, i passed him on the right together with several other cars that were going under speed limit, and i sped up, more than usual, following a fast vehicle. He caught up with me half hour later, in the city, right in time for the cameras in down town Tualatin, when he approached from behind and going parallel with my car, but on the right, on the other side where the gas door is, for the show. I didn't like him being on my blind spot so i accelerated and he went on I5.

It's not like the old cars. The newer have some anti-siphoning device (a lid with a spring and the nozzle stays 99% closed and it doesn't smell much expect for the gas that you just poured and is still drying. Just remembered something, i drove by some guy dressed in black, athletic, walking on the right side of the road with something in a bag that could have been an analyzer or gas sampling device but can't remember if it was before or after fill-up.

BTW i want to share something. Since i have this habit of always reading the instant average mpg (average fuel consumption since last reset) i realized something. Tonight right until the stop light at the overpass here on I5 i had a reading of 48 mpg since last fill-up in Grande Ronde. But they were times when on the same route (road quality, elevation difference) i had 40. Most difference is given by tire pressure which i also read constantly. Tonight it was 39 psi at an average of 70 F, but when i did 40 mpg it was 35 psi at 50 F. 20% fuel consumption difference given by 4 psi difference tire pressure and rain.

And yes the cap was hanging next to gas opening and when he approached me on the radio they were playing Keep Me Hanging On with Kim Wilde.

8:08 Bobby

June 25

1:00 Washing the carpet yesterday was a success. Water came out dirtier than expected. I think. One of the two resolution i made in Reno. The other one, changing oil, was a disaster, due to filter being stuck. I poured the new oil with the old filter and then i went to Jiffy Lube and the unstuck the old filter and put the new one, after. As a result oil is brown already, etc.. Also a fire alarm was triggered in the next building by kids playing around and i finished everything in a hurry without double checking.

The "sole" of the wet vacuum is clear and you can see instantly which areas are dirty and which are not by the color of water aspired through it. In dirtier areas i did it over and over until water came clean. In areas "unwalked" water was cleaner but also kinda white, milk like color.

It's not that i don't dry vacuum. I did 3 times this year but i had two holes by the in wall heaters. Also walking upstairs may dislodge paint from the ceiling. 

I  bought the vacuum at Best Buy i think 2 years ago with 180 dollars. I compared the price with the cost of a steam vacuuming. First couple of times it was awkward especially having to constantly feel the reservoir with water heated at 140 degrees. But yesterday i just poured hot water from the sink. I also insisted a lot without pressing the spray button, with vacuuming only, and as a result, the carpet was dry in a few hours, maybe faster than with steam. I think this type of vacuum is vital for American homes.

But it's hard work. 3 or 4 hours of hard labor for about 500 sqft. Also i did it with bare feet and i think my body absorbed some detergent through the skin of my feet and felt kinda sick for the rest of the day.

June 24

5:26 Laptop powered off by itself while on charger with 94% battery while editing last paragraph which i kept on yesterday's post. Awake since 2:40 AM with 6 hours of sleep. Last night i ran into some news about CCR. Not this CCR. I had no idea they sold more albums than Beatles in 69-71 or before breakup, but remembered the first waiter at Stix restaurant, who looked like their drummer, though without beard or mustache. Talking and moving very slowly possibly with an ascites belly.

In 97 at my Les Schwab job there was a guy looking in his early 30s named Jason who started to jump for joy every time they were playing Looking out my back door on then Portland Oldies on a boombox in the shop who looked like Fogerty himself though he would have been 52 at that time. The guy on the Harley with goggles at Castella gas station? Born on the Bayou? Also in Hungary Csaba Ötvös  is the husband of Csilla Ötvös.

7:19 Keep thinking. Can't remember exactly but i think yesterday after all that driving i could have gotten confused and tried to extra tighten the filter instead of unscrewing it. Especially because of vertical position of the filter and doing it blindly with the car not raised. After i tried a lot with a 6 inch ratchet i grabbed the torque wrench and i it was then when they started the alarm.

7:48 Minutes after i mentioned CCR. (Constitutional Court of Romania).

9:02 Went back to Jiffy Lube where i've been last night and got to speak to the guy who did the filter last night though he seemed younger. Huge noise from the carwash and a dog barking on the other side of the fence prevented a meaningful conversation but basically what he said was he has to remove the valve cover to see and that would be hours of labor at 120/an hour. In the meantime i went to Fred Meyer to buy some Crystal Geyzer spring water and there in the parking lot i opened the oil cap and looked and i saw what i thought it was a bubble in the oil. No drive or turn i make is unexploited, meet with again barrel like objects on the freeway and a van that said Xeno or Xenx clear, which are Scientology terms.

9:21 There was also a guy at Jiffy Lube who reminded me of David Copperfield.

12:06 I've been thinking. I tried to unscrew the filter the right way. Somebody else overtigthened it.