Thursday, June 6, 2013
JOB LIST
Never looked so carefully at this list before. (Can't remember where i got the list from, must have been Employment Office by the time there still was one in Beaverton.) Some of the pages are printed partially and at an angle. But don't understand why the second job in 96, that where i made 674 dollars was through Olsten since i know for sure i worked at Electronic Specialty through Interim Personnel, on Chkalov drive in Vancouver, WA which later changed its name to Spherion. Corporations games, changing corporation names.
That might explain why they have been so nice to me when i worked at Infocus as an auditor, then a technician, through them again, in the fall of 96 where i quit so i can go and work at Epson for less money, but with my wife so she can work too cause she kept complaining for siting home alone for almost a year back then. In the end, the irony is now she is working and me not for so long.
LOL i remember at Blount why they made me quit. I was working on a milling machine sharpening star(triangle) shaped rotors for mowers. There was a fixture and i was just changing the part and starting the cycle. I didn't understand how many i was supposed to do, but after a few days everybody was kinda angry with me until after about a week i understood why... I was doing double the amount of the other two shifts combined LOL. Same thing happened a few years later at Laughlin through Express, until they ran out of parts and they fired me... A Chinese woman called me a commie! Now i know it was all staged... Some of the coworkers, including my recruiter at Express were celebrities, the woman at Express (i first worked through them in early 96 at Credence) was looking a lot like Stevie Nicks...
LOL at Epson i was working on the world record line, doing frequently more than 500 printers per shift and my wife together with another Romanian, Dragoş Ţăvârlău, from Bucharest were both working on a similar line and doing less the 300..
In 98 i did not work for Softlink (although i've been told that the company was called Softlink before) but i knew the company name was Quadramed. Sir Frances Drake Blvd. In San Fancisco.
By the way, in autumn 97, after being laid off from Credence (Express) - Credence sold that part of the company, service for testers out of fabrication, to a startup in San Francisco, led by the brother of one of the Credence cofounders. I drove 700 miles in 13 hours in a car (white 89 Escort GT) that i bought from Insurance Auto Auction (during that job, summer 96) after being totaled and i fixed it myself, replacing the hood, radiator, a fender, the bumper and the mask. However, there was a problem with the body and every time i was accelerating, it was making a squeaking sound and pulling one way and when i was breaking, the other. And had a broken exhaust and made a terrible noise. My supervisor at Credence, Dino Gipaya from Hawaii was the nicest guy i met. Not like the other one i worked with at AVX. I fixed the exhaust one year after i bought it but in early 98 three months after i was laid off from Les Schwab and working at Credence we rolled over in a ditch (my wife was driving) at one mile near the Ocean and totaled it. Again. LOL.
Tuesday, September 12, 2017
Chevrolet S10
Some of the biggest and time consuming problems i ever had in US were with my vehicles.
In late April 98 May i had an accident with my 89 Ford Escort.
Got that Escort from Insurance Auto Auction in Sherwood while i was still working at Credence in 1996. I went to the auction with Lyle, my buddy at Credence (at one time i thought he was Sir Tim who invented internet, today i think he was just another actor). I was doing lots of overtime and had some money, but the auction was rigged. The moment i stopped bidding the car was sold to me though other guy bidded after so they made sure they got biggest priced i was decided to go with. 850 dollars. Car was 7 years old and was wrecked. I went to Lyle's place in Hillsboro i guess, tied the car with a cable from a tree and backed up until i straightened the frame enough so i can put a fender on. Got the fender don't remember from where. Bumper was still peeled of paint from the wreck. Threw in a radiator, painted the fender with a can and voila. However it had a problem somewhere under. Frame was broken and squeaking and every time i was accelerating it was pulling right and breaking left. 1.9 liter, for that size (it was GT figure), wide custom wheels with one bad tire and broken exhaust. It was making a terrible noise until Shawn Parker in 97 helped me fix it by simply pressing a new muffler after cutting the old corroded one.
It had a stick and Angela learned how to drive on a permit it but didn't pass the test twice, last time from a loose belt on the steering pump. I think she passed the test in 99 after we bought the Nissan that was also totalled and fixed by another "Romanian" guy, George, from Dallas, Oregon who was buying cars from insurance and fixing them for a living.
In that April we went at Tillamook and by the bay she lost control of the car, we rolled over but did not have a scratch. http://georgesblogforfriends.blogspot.com/2012/11/shawn-parker.html
The car was also driveable but the hood was 1 inch shorter on the right side i guess. I could have waited to get another totalled car from another auction (i was told all Romanians did that way) but i went to Russ Chevrolet in Tigard and got the S10. First on lease then after three month i bought it on a finance of 190 dollars a month. Then i was working at Credence as software engineer with two guys who now seem to had been again Shatner, Nimoy, Andy Carson, other celebrities in fact all Hungarians, declared or not and i was making 25000 a year.
Another episode with the Escort before the accident. I got a cell phone (Motorola, smallest in the world at that time, a flip phone like the size of most flip phones today). I was driving towards Corvallis, because i was curious to see how Michelle, the black woman i was in contact for my project was looking like (insurance eligibility through mainframe - PC connection for a hospital in Corvallis, working remotely that was too hard for my programming level which however i finished before leaving). It was not long before the shooting in Springfield and i stopped to eat at Subway http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/fourteen-years-later-looking-back-at-a-school-shooting/ where it thought i saw a couple of teenagers talking loud and drawing attention in the restaurant.
On my way there not long after leaving Portland there was a portion of I5 that had big grooves in it from being eroded from traffic. That day for some reason i could not figure i was extremely sleepy and at a certain time the phone ring (it was Angela's break at Sentrol i guess) and she called me from a payphone and i woke up in a different landscape. I must have fallen asleep but the car was kept on the road because of the grooves.
Michele was looking ok, she was almost as tall as me and she told me from the start about her two kids. Can't really remember her face.
So in May 1998 i bought the truck. Right from the start, two problems. It had an exhaust leak under hood that made a noise like a little flying bird i could not figure what it was and also pulling severely right, something i had not fixed until 2005.
I went back to the dealer and different mechanics and one of them created a new problem, a coolant leak by loosening the coolant temperature sensor and telling me something else (thermostat housing and heater pipe) and the leak was not big enough to worry etc.. Strangely enough the reservoir was never getting empty. I replaced the thermostat housing with the heater pipe 3 times before i gave up not knowing the leak was actually at the temperature sensor.
http://georgesblogforfriends.blogspot.com/2012/09/computer-age-auto-service.html
In October or November that year i quit at Quadramed (the software engineer job) because after lunch i had so big stomach pains i could not do anything. My next job was at AVX between August 99 and August 2010 working with probably Axl Rose, Don Henley, Victor Orban and others.
Job was swing shift and i was coming after midnight home, Angela was not sleeping more than several hours at night, etc..
I was commuting about 30 miles i guess and truck was using about 15 gallons for 400 miles on freeway and 23 mpg in town.
In 2004 i went for three months to Romania. When i came back the truck was totally different. Exhaust pipe and catalytic was heating the floor (and transmission). Fuel consumption went about 15% higher. So i tried to do the things i could. I replaced first spark plug wires, than spark plugs, put back the original, replaced coolant and put green one not knowing it was more toxic (that in shop at Macavei, the guy who looked like Leo Iorga, the Romanian rock singer from Compact), i replaced the ignition coils. Replaced the fuel filter myself in the parking lot and made a big smell.
Can't remember when first clutch failed. Maybe 2006 or 2007. I went to Macavei in Oregon City and he replaced the master cylinder. That day i got so sick in his shop i thought i was going to die. Waited for hours in a parking lot for a towing cause i could not drive anymore. The engine was stinking due to coolant being spilled on or oil leaking from the gasket cover.
However the next day all the brake fluid from the clutch leaked on the parking lot again. It was not the master but the slave cylinder that needed to be replaced and i think it was the first job i done at Steve (I went once before 2004 in there when it was a guy who Steve said it was his father, Chang, who passed away in the mean time, to replace the heating hose on Angela's car cause i kept adding coolant and finally figured it was a hidden hole that looked like a screwdriver hole in the heating hose while Angela was sicker and sicker. By that time Steve's English was much worse than now).
Don't know how many times i went to Steve to complain about the exhaust leak and bad mileage. He said the same as Macavei, not to worry and especially not to spend more money since gas was cheaper than repairs.
It was after the clutch failed too more times and the catalytic 3 times i started to try to figure out why. The same problems i could not figure after i returned from Romania in 2005. A bad fuel pressure regulator. An intermittent signal from computer to fuel pump relay. Leaking coolant sensor. Numerous vacuum leaks. Oxygen sensors. The extra fuel was burning in the exhaust and catalytic also heating the transmission that boiled and some 1/3 of the transmission oil was missing, also Juan, the only mechanic at Steve pulled shavings of metal from transmission with a magnet.
http://georgesblogforfriends.blogspot.com/2015/11/grommet-vs-connector-in-power-brake.html
http://georgesblogforfriends.blogspot.com/2012/07/fuel-pump-relay.html
In total for both vehicles i spent maybe 3 times the amount of money one would normally spend for car maintenance.
On @ September 1st my truck stopped in the middle of the road because i stalled the engine (it happens to me every once in a while). But i could not restart it. Maybe because i forgot to put fuel in it. Mileage on the trip odometer was 400 miles and the total capacity of the tank is 17 gallons. It is possible the fuel pump being old it failed while overheating because of trying to start it for so long.
I towed the truck back home and i though i saw the driver's face in the news the next day. He looked like English football player Wayne Rooney. In the same evening i saw one more guy in the news, an American football player who looked like the second towing driver, i forgot his name.
I tried to crank it more and wouldn't start. I looked in the fuse box and saw the fuse for the fuel pump was burnt and replaced it and it burnt again. Then i looked at the trip odometer and gauge an finally realized i had no fuel. I walked to a gas station nearby and bough 2 gallons of gas and added and after it sputtered a few times it burned the fuse again.
The truck is at Steve's shop, Lucky Autobody and they cannot figure what happened. Last time this afternoon they told me they have to replace the ignition module with the coils (the ones i replaced myself in 2005) before they can test the fuel pump and that was the drop that filled the glass. I don't believe fuel pump cannot be tested directly with simply applying voltage with a fuse somewhere on the circuit.
Also i read on forums that if you run out of fuel the pump needs to be primed before being able to use it. However i remember i ran out of fuel once in Lake Oswego and i called a towing truck and they added some gas and it started and did not burn fuses.
Today i talked to several shops around and i found a mechanic who agreed to test the fuel pump before anything else. Had to explain him the fuel pump relay signal is hard wired to the ignition switch (not module, semantic coincidence).
Also i found the email address of a guy at Carr Chevrolet in Beaverton who agreed to bring the truck there, pending finding a time in their schedule. Have not decided yet where to go.
How big of coincidence could be this. Stalling, running out of fuel, breaking the fuel pump and ignition module in the same time?
Sunday, February 23, 2014
Credence
After my hospitalization in early 1996 we were living in Vancouver, WA. Things got better in the way i wasn't thinking of anything anymore. I was on Navane from a prescription given by doctor Proano Augusto of Vancouver that was my doctor at SW Washington Memorial, Vancouver, WA.
One day i saw an add from Express Personnel in the Oregonian, i guess. On Apple Way, off Beaverton Hilssdale Ave, in Portland. We both signed up for a 2 days training course in soldering with them.
We spent that weekend at the Marts in Salem. My ex-collegue from Bacău. Monday it was snowing and on I5 i stopped once to check tires i guess. A policeman stopped and offered his help but we were ok. So we went in Portland and at Express right in time for the course. I think Julian Mart managed to take me off Navane that weekend too.
They weren't many people in there. Can't remember exactly the names. The recruiter, a younger guy, brunet, with moustache. The instructor, Mary? Or something like that, a short and very common name. Students, besides me, Angela and a Mexican woman, i don't think there was nobody else.
Now, that i think, the instructor also reminds me of a celebrity. Always reading from a note book.
I remember her repeating as she was going through the material. "For soldering you need solder, flux and heat".
At the end of the two days course, since i scored high at tests, the recruiter and her decided to give me an electronics technician test. Since i went to a specialty electrotechnical high school and because of one semester of electronics in faculty, i did 3/4 of the test, perfectly. For the rest i ran out of time and i checked random answers.
In a couple of weeks i had an interview at Credence, onNimbus Ave, Beaverton building. Now there's some religious center in there http://goo.gl/maps/qyX37.
Anyways. On April 14 i started working there. Swing shift, 11 dollars an hour (double minimal wage at the time), in the same time with two other guys. Robert "Bob" James, a Mormon (big Bob as Dino called him, cause he was like... 300 pounds, blue eyes, in his 50s), Lyle Hall, fired from Intel an me. There was another guy in that shift, Bill Appel or something driving and old Nissan Z with a hole in the floor and a guy... can't remember, another Bob, from Colorado, who had a car with a windsurfing bord on top and everyday was bragging about coming directly from Hood River and in the weekends was remodeling houses he bought for resale, with a green license plate that started with the word SEX. I think swing shift was partially overlapping with day. Dale, a blonde guy who set on fire a few racks when he left one day and forgot something and i saw the smoke coming out. And a few others.
As usually with all of my jobs in the US i had several bosses.
First month they trained me on power supplies. Got shocked a few times.
Then i started testing boards for test heads on a minicomputer. I was packing and shipping the good ones. The other guy working at those, Eugene from the day shift was fixing them. Later, i got trained by Eugene and started fixing those myself. Can't remember who was doing the final tests, but i was doing huge amounts, good quality (no returns or complaints from field techs like from Eugene's), lots of overtime and my day shift supervisor was overjoyed. Credence was charging companies that were using their testers around the world with $700 a board and i was fixing at least 10 every day. Didn't know exactly what i was doing, just putting the board in a fixture tied to a minicomputer, running tests and replacing parts accordingly. Those were highly precise, ultra fast, nanoseconds circuits. Lyle, who knew electronics, told me that nobody understood those circuits made of Schottky diodes anyways except for maybe the designer, "they were too weird".
My buddy Lyle. We were together all the time. Many time he was just pulling me from the bench for long cigarette and hot chocolate breaks. He was coming to me smiling and braking an imaginary stick in front of my eyes: "Brake" time!
Together we went to Insurance Auto Auction and bought cars. I had this old Fairmont and he did not have a car so he bought him an old Chevy Cavalier or something for 100 bucks (nobody else bid) (he was smart, that car was not wrecked and he just started to use it, after going to the most praised by him Les Schwab (for whom i worked next year) to balance tires, that were still under warranty) and i bought an 89 white Escort GT that was hit in the front for 900 bucks. His car was ready and running but mine needed a radiator, hood, bumper, fender and some... frame straightening, which i did at Lyle's apartment. Using a cable, i tied the frame to a tree and backed up until i straightened the body enough to be able to put those parts on. One problem though. Unibody type frame was broken some place and every time i was pushing the gas pedal was going... right i guess, a little bit, and every time i pushed the brake, it was going left or something like this. But not much. To me, it was good, and the 1.9 liter engine on a small car like that seemed good enough.
Many other things happened in there. I am both nostalgic and sick when i remember.
But the main reason i dig through this stuff is this.
One summer day, before i bought the Escort, or maybe after and i was just still driving the Fairmont that day, i don't know, in the afternoon it was very nice and warm. Only Lyle and me on the floor. All the walls surrounding the ground level floor had big windows made of dark glass and we could see outside.
Maybe a dozens of police like cars marked ATF surrounded the building. One of them parked in the back of my Fairmont, blocking it. But they did not come into the building and proceeded in the bushes behind it, towards the Fanno Creek. Lyle pulled me in the middle of the floor.
A few minutes later they came out of the bushes with an Asian looking guy. Very thin, dressed in a dark-gray, very simple, sports like suite. A very strange face like i never saw before. Not Chinese. He was not agitated, barely moving, but looking upset. Nothing in his hands.
Later Lyle and i saw a small, old car with a blue static coat and a badge like ours inside parked nearby, but we knew it was only us in the building. Lyle said maybe it was the janitor or something. I was kinda shook for the rest of the day.
Later that summer they started laying out everybody in that building. My part of the job was sold to a start-up in Milpitas, California. So one day in a very beautiful September i drove 700 miles in my new Escort over there for an interview. But this is another story.
Wednesday, May 24, 2023
May 24
2:14 Lately i have listened more and more to songs with humanly not possible tremolos like this one. Are these designed by AI to induce fibrillation?
8:25 Dharmachakra, Sanskrit for Wheel of Law, Roata legii, dharma is also the cycle of death/rebirth, destruction/reonstrucion, chakra, wheel.
10:05 Between September 97 and January 98 i had a job at Les Schwab Tire Center in Aloha (a suburb of Beaverton which is a suburb of Portland). Among others i had a colleague who looked like the vocalist from Credence (BTW i had a job at Credence before that). Wouldn't have mentioned it now if i didn't see a link. Wheels, tires. I was in the back in the brakes department. Taking apart lots of brakes from older cars that could have had asbestos in them.
Other colleagues there. The bassist and the guitarist from No Doubt. Gwen Stefani herself came one day as customer. Damn she looked good, much better than on screen. Two guys, the colonel and the general from Stargate, original series. Others. Bob Dylan? van Morrison?
10:45 Poate așa veți înțelege cât de avansați sunt ăștia. Dacă nu pot face altceva și a ajuns în public o infromație într-un context care nu prea le place, vin imediat cu măsuri de combatere. Una din ele este o poveste țesută în jurul unui cuvânt cheie comun cu informația inițială.
Friday, May 20, 2022
May 20
3:00 A couple of weeks ago i filled a hole behind fridge with ready made joint compound from Home Depot. Did it in two steps, cause i knew it was going to shrink. But it didn't act like the powder compound i used before, which was actually mostly gypsum, and it shrank more. I didn't check after filling it the second stage and though the hole was completely covered after the first, it looks like it shrank after the second, and a hole appeared in the middle of it. But i covered the whole section of the wall with a plastic foil just to be sure. However tonight when i came home sitting here on the couch trying to figure who the guy at the bar was (where i ordered burgers) when the fridge started i felt the specific smell of th`e wall insides. So i plugged the hole, cleaned the floor under, didn't want to make much noise, Angela's sleeping and removed the now contaminated plastic foil. Tomorrow i'll check again, wash that foil and put it back.
3:05 Yeah i found the man (Amber was there too with several women, one partially dressed as a bride of whom i mostly seen the back, all besieging the soda machine), was thinking all night of how much damage did to me the artist known to all us as David Copperfield (old style post). I wrote a lot in a post about my experience in Italy, when i lived in an apartment with two students and a violin player, Davide from Bari. One night i organized a party, like we did a lot when we were students, the Italian students seemed clueless though they were attending discotheques, where i once was invited by thought i was too old and bald to go (33). Now i know what they did, Davide did not participate, don't know if he was in his room, but i think he made it all look like some sort of ventriloquist trick, with me playing the guitar and speaking Italian almost seamlessly. Have to explain this. Speaking Romanian and French makes you learn Italian very quickly especially since i had on cable all the major Italian channels, for two years before that with all movies dobbed in Italian etc.. He tried some more, and actually this is how i figured (now). He acted like he didn't have a job when he moved and invited me to go and play together on the streets, he with his violin and me with the accordion which i was very good at and probably told him.
But that's not all. After i came in the US, at my second or third job 1996 (if i count the one with the accidental exposure, at Electronic Specialty in Vancouver) there was also a guy called David... Cooper, who my supervisor, others, didn't like and he didn't stay long. But there also was present... the artist known to us all as Prince, Maurice Gibb (like from the Bee Gees), Sir Tim Berners-Lee, others. It doesn't surprise me now since two of my neighbors in Romania where Robin Gibb (acting as a piano player) who was married to Whitney Houston, acting as a judge.
Ever since people believe i can't speak or read English, or maybe can't read at all, and it's all a trick when i start speaking English. The man at the bar tonight was implying just that, he would not listen to me but only to Angela, when we made the order.
Just read "David's Wikipedia page" and found his "mother's maiden name was Gispan", which corresponds to the name Gipaya (Dino) of the Hawaiian supervisor at Credence so he could have been him as well. As i once explained, the building where i worked at Credence was on Nimbus alright but at the end next to... Fanno Creek. Latabar, (Davide) di Bari, also in this look, the Albanian male prostitute i met at the shelter or Caritas. He made one attempt to drag me into his business.
12:23 He worked really hard to ruin my whole morning and when he finally succeeded and i grabbed my laptop to document it he ran into his car and started the engine but waiting there for something, maybe for me to finish writing. He was here at least the last 10 days, with only one day break. This morning he woke me up at 10, (i went to bed at 6) after doing Johnny Depp and Copperfield, on a wave of irritation, i wanted to sleep some more by he started doing laundry which he didn't for weeks. I was half asleep and the other half of my brain was wondering about what i done and post it lately, but now i'm just mad. Imagine someone walking on top of you, catching your most tender morning thoughts like with an antenna (or maybe shin shin shin gan) and then walking on top of you in the rhythm of those. Of course making you breath some fresh dust from the ceiling.
12:28 Just looked through window, he's gone, the washer keeps running, now the guys next door took over and started hitting the wall again in most critical moments of your thinking processes. When they're done, some will start shutting the doors of a car like maybe 10 times for each car, a siren's already been on, but then they will start over with their mind torturing tools. As i prooved unintentionally the other day, there is no one really living here in the complex. When i go outside, the guests are ready and pop from their holes, walking in front of me, simulating all kinda things, for show, but when i took the pictures they all ran inside, not to be seen in those.
9:33 Just remembered something. The names of the owner of Tormar (Torrenova, Marmi) was Ventrella, like from ventriloquist.
Tuesday, February 23, 2016
Actors and Me
1995:
Ahmet Ertegun as pastor Aurel Popescu (there are other two Aurel Popescu in the US).
Van Morrison (i forgot the Romanian name, at Aurel Popescu's Church) Might have been my classmate in Romania at Tehnoton HS, 75-78 and as Mihai and in college as Mihai Ursachi. .
Malin Bergrren as Mălina Mladin
John F Kennedy Jr. as Tom Barwik (My boss at Sheridan Fruit September 1995 - January 1996)
Liviu Dragnea as Liviu Gorea also my boss at Sheridan (every body was my boss in there and any other job)
Robin Williams as Mircea (Adrian's father) at Sheridan
Mary Sladek from NASA, wife of Vladimir Tismăneanu, as the "tall californian blonde".
Dennis Weaver (Sherrif McCloud) as Sandy, the security guy at Sheridan
many others.
1996
Prince, as Bill Apel at Credence (now LTX, in a building separated from the others).
Sir Tim Berners-Lee as Lyle Hall, at Credence.
others
1997
Sinéad O'Connor as Holly at Epson Portland Incorporated (i might have met her in Romania at Tehnoton High Shcool in Iasi). Worked 5 months next to her on a printers' assembly line.
Tom Cruise as David Higgins at Beaverton Nazarene Church across the street from Sussex, Beaverton, my mechanic until 2002
Meatloaf as pastor Dennis Swift, the same church
Leslie Nielsen (Naked Gun) as Ron Boger, the church
Don S. Davies, (Lieutenant General George Hammond, Stargate Atlantis) at Les Schwab Aloha.
Van Morrison again as assistant manager McCracken.
Jason Donovan as Jason.
Still don't know who was Bill the manager but he was also looking like a classmate from Tehnoton, Viorel Rusu.
Iulian's father (still can't decide who Iulian is, possibly Bill Gates or a lookalike), Richard Rockefeller. I might have met him in Romania, at a wedding in 1980, in Roman, Romania, (with Monica Belluci and Joan Jett, my ex HS classmates) at the Liberal Party in Bacău as Popescu in early 90s, just before i left, when i got from him Iulian's address, and also here, once in Salem at Iulian's house and this year at the Exhaust Specialties & Brakes in Tualatin, together with David Bowie though in different days.
1998
Andy Carson, channel 12 anchor, as my manager at Softlink (Qaudramed).
Tina Fey, as one of the secretaries, the same job.
Cameron Diaz, yet another secretary.
Macy Gray, yet another secretary (she got the name of her hit Try from my first programs in Delphi and also me complaining of breathing problems).
Peter O'Tool as another manager, Tom Allen.
1999
Axl Rose, as my manager at AVX, Orvile Oster (note that Oster is an anagram of Roset)
Omar Sharif, as Pat Shaffer, another tech there.
A couple of guys from the military, now dead.
Don Henley, as tech Dan Lumbert.
Nino d'Angelo as Tudor Toader.
2002
Harrison Ford as dr.Kenneth Erickson (psychiatry) at Woodland Park Hospital. The hospital closed in
2004 for many years and reopened under different name and ownership
2003 Tudor Aaron Istodor as Cristi Aniței, in Portland and his apartment in Seattle.
2004
John Travolta? or a lookalike as Timotei Mitrofan, my ex HS class mate, now director of Bible League, on Luigi Cazzavillan str, Bucharest (not sure about the address).
Roger Vadim, as ing.geolog Emil Rusu, i knew him since Câmpulung.
Can't remember exactly when Christine McVie from Fleetwood Mac became manager at Sussex Village Apts @2000. Together with Carole King, both under their real name, Christine and Caroline, Caroline being there until i left in 2010. I was seing them almost daily from my kitchen window doing their job duties. Time period for both corresponds with their carriers' hiatuses.
Servando "La Tuta" Gomez, one of my neighbors. He had a red Toyota parked next to our place in the covered car ports.
Maya Morgenstern, as Cristina Botez. Probably my condo neighbor Violeta in Bacău, Romania. Met her on and off until i started to realize who she might be @2008.
Iceland born actor and producer Sigurjón Sighvatsson as dr.Sigurtson (psychiatry) at Providence St.Vincent.
2005 was the year she moved from next door at Sussex? Winona Rider, who is actually blonde.
It was around that time i met Cornelia, the new wife of Tudor Toader. I saw them both at both Romanian Churches in Portland, she might have been Angela Gheorghiu or Elena Udrea.
Richard Branson as Richard Breunissen, counselor at OVRS (Oregon Vocational Rehabilitation then located acrross the street from Harley Davidson dealership and Washington Square Mall in Tigard Oregon).
Jorge Mario Bergoglio aka Pope Francis as David Hitt, also a psychologist at OVRS. He once insisted we met in public in the newer library in Beaverton.
2010
Kelly Clarkson as Ana, my next door neighbor (Apt.9) at 47 Eagle Crest Lake Oswego, with sometimes doubles, until i left in 2015
Not sure yet who her boyfriend was, maybe David Lynch.
2013
Kanye West, my down stairs neighbor? Actually saw him once or twice.
T'Pau from Heart and Soul, my down stairs neighbor. Doubles, sometimes only one person was "manning either Apt.9 next door or six below).
Phil Knight as officer Norbert, at Lake Oswego Police department and different name at Multnomah County Sherif Department?
Nicușor Constantinescu, downstairs. He and others let the bathroom fan running for 2 years making me really sick from vibration and dust shaken from walls. There was a pipe leaking in one of the walls from my apartment and probably the one downstairs was stinking like mold. Vibration was making the leak worse, in a cycle.
2014, Petre Mircea, sound engineer, Mădălina Manole's husband? For a couple of years all the white guys living (coming and going downstairs) where using the same car and clothes, but probably totally different persons pretending to be the same.
2015.
While Angela was in Romania for a month in May-June one night i met with Taylor Swift and her really sick looking mother, not sicker than me that night, at the Walgreens store in Lake Oswego near I5. I also saw her before, sometime @ her album Red at Tryon in the parking lot and then on the trail. I also saw her mother on numerous occasions working at the self checking registers at Home Depot.
The more recent period is harder to remember as, especially at Eagle Crest, i was permanently under influence of intoxicants of all kind, starting with cat and dog poo, cantharide dust and all kinda of drugs under the form of smoke coming through walls from downstairs and next door. Sometimes to the point of passing out. There are also a lot of persons i hesitate to name because i have no choice but to interact with them.
others
Friday, January 26, 2024
Naturalization. Why Not?
However i was denyied the app though in September i was called for an interview in the evening which i missed becasue i was working swing shift at Sheridan that day.
Around Christmass time there has been a shooting at the 7-11 on our street.
In January Dan Costan took me to an Interim agency (now Shperion) who hired me to work for Electronic Specialty. He was kinda sarcastic and he told me after on several occasions that he was a right extremists while being very offensive, if not threatening.
So i went to work there. Since the first day, a woman named Merry (resembling my grade school chemistry teacher) asked to work at a drilling press passing a tool through ferrite relay armatures used in a military application. As i said in the linked post above, i got sick and ended up in jail and then hospital.
I figured the smartest way to describe what happened is to link to other posts. But the short story is i got gassed with 1,1,1 trichloroethane, awake and without water for a week, pepper sprayed, beaten, arrested by a couple of police women, booked, jailed and had a trial date set for a couple of misdemeanors.
But i didn't know about the trial until a few days before when i got the "invitation" in the mail. I think i was already working at Credence and had 800 dollars in my checking. So i grabbed the yellow pages and found an attorney by the name James Mayhew. He agreed to see me right away and acted as a gentleman, the kinda i never saw before or after in the US. He took my money, copies from all the documents and said he will go to trial.
However in the evening before the trial date (i think it was May 3rd, my mother's birthday) got a message on the answering machine (digital, a novelty, had only 30 seconds recording time for one message) this message from Janet Anderson, the court appointed attorney, the one who represented me in the day after the arrest in front of the judge.
It was only in the last years that i realized her voice is Hilary Clinton's. The physical appearance as i remember (height, weight, face) also matches her.
So all of a sudden i found myself the next day in Vancouver Municipal Court's hallway having two lawyers, arguing with each other. The calm and nice gentlemen i saw in the office the other day turned into a small man all perspiring in front of her.
However he managed to tell me that if i take that offer it means i plea guilty to the offenses (a couple of misdemeanors), that would eventually be dismissed after 2 years but forever in my record and i will have problems with my citizenship. He also told me not to sign the agreement because it was never signed by the judge Stocker.
I those moments i had to make a decision and going in that courtroom with the perspiring guy seemed to risky to me. So i signed the papers and then the next days i did something i will be ashamed forever. I went and asked him the money back and he gave it to me.
Years have passed and time to apply for the citizenship. However i stopped with filling the application when i got to the question "Have you ever been arrested". So i passed.
A few more years have passed and i got so sick in 2004 (unbearable upper abdominal pain) i decided to go to Romania to see some doctors there. And there i got another option. Since they would not let you enter EU without a health insurance, i bought one real cheap for a few months traveling there and went to France where i hopped i could see real doctors. But that is another story.
Since i did not know if i will return, or what will happen to me there, just before i left in April 2004 i filled the application for Angela since she had a clean record. When i came back in September i found Angela with a chemo pump on her shoulder, and after her "cancer" (we did not know of before i left) surgery in September (and one more stay at psychiatry for me in the same hospital, where she came to see me the day after surgery) she was granted citizenship. But i did not want to take a chance for myself, and will try to explain why.
But for that i will have to bring here the USCIS Naturalization Application form N400. At page 14 of the file there are some questions starting with "Have you ever been...?"
A few days ago i decided to fill the app to see what happens, cause i have been without a passport either Romanian or American or whatever for too long and the application for Green Card renewal is getting more expensive (fees) than Naturalization itself which does nor require renewal every five or ten years and you cannot travel with a Green Card only.
There is very little chance that two misdemeanors i pleaded guilty though never been convicted 27 years ago to cause any trouble with the application (where a couple of things can go wrong, the least, being denied, the second, deported for omitting crimes as a non-citizen). Though there are a few observations here to be made. Those records do not exist anymore at the Vancouver Court, they have been destroyed like any others after a number of years.
The app does not tell you what to do when records were destroyed (though expunged mentioned there also involves destroying though at your request). By forcing you to disclose an expunged record and eventually suffer the consequences, they are sanctioning you again for the same violation you may have been convicted in the past (NON BIS IN IDEM).
There is also a problem with what they call "deferred prosecution" (the agreement i made with the prosecutor though never signed by the judge) where you agree to the crimes you have committed or not to spare yourself the troubles of a trial (waving the presumption of innocence) where the prosecutors know you may have committed crimes and become your accomplices if you are never tried.
The prosecutor cannot grant amnesty to a non conviction and generally a prosecutor cannot grant amnesty (extra judicial or acts of justice outside courts).
Also when i looked at i saw more questions in that area than i remember from past versions, and also, because i have become more aware of laws and US Constitution and my English has improved, today it suddenly occurred to me the application itself may be unconstitutional.
One of the things is they force you to answer questions "even if a lawyer told you not to", that may incriminate yourself thus breaking the 5th Amendment of US Constitution, one time for each applicant.
And last but not least. Why would someone want to disclose a record that does not exist anymore with no way for USCIS to verify.
Welcome to my nightmare that lasted 27 years. To this moment i feel the touch of that baton she put in my hands to get my fingerprints while i was cuffed with my hands behind my back, pushed against the car and yelling with pain from pepper spraying. The episode got imprinted in my memory because until i saw the report i thought it was a gun.
Am ambulance came and theatrically treated one of them but not me. BTW when i got back from the hospital i saw under a bush next to the apartment a VCR tape but i was afraid to pick it thinking it might have been a trick. Did anybody filmed everything and wanted me to see it? How many times and hours i thought about and could never find a solution to all these? Thousands?
I think i read somewhere that statutes of limitations (prescriptions) do not apply to torture, attempted murder. It started with me being literally gassed at Electronic Specialty, driving under the influence of that gas, not sleeping, eating or drinking water for a week, beaten by the Police, threatened in jail, etc.. Hilary Clinton was accomplice to all these.
Bill Clinton himself was in Portland during those days.
Wednesday, November 30, 2022
November 30
E prea departe în timp pentru a afla alte detalii de pe internet. Doar că unele publicații spun transplant de ficat, altele insuficiență hepatică, hepatită virală în timp ce altele spun varice pe esofag, sângerare. Nu cred că un spital ca acela nu putea să oprească o sângerare de la varice pe esofag. Apropo, eu la o endoscopie din 2002 am simțit și numărat 16 ciupituri pe care doctorul Joseph Parent de aici din Portland mi le-a făcut și a spus că sunt biopsii. Dar de ce 16? Am mai avut parte de o endoscopie, la Cluj în 2004 când era acolo o grupă întreagă de studenți care probabil au văzut cicatricele. Doctorul Gomboșiu care m-a internat acolo cred că era Caramitru.
Deci m-am apucat să o caut pe însăși zeița, Nadia Comaneci, piesa centrală în toată povestea, care a apărut într-o tabără la Costinești în 73 (în care învățătoarea Mihalea, aia care semăna cu Claudia Cardinale m-a obligat să merg, fiindcă tata nu m-a lăsat) ca Nadia din Vatra Dornei. Pe atunci la 13 ani eram aproape la fel de înalt ca acum, dar un copchil tare tare prost și cam retard. Era o apariție de care m-am îndrăgostit temporar. I-am făcut și niște poze, pe furiș, dar ea nu s-a supărat, chiar a zâmbit însă nu am avut curajul să-i cer adresa sau să vorbesc cu ea. Părea altă clasă.
Ce am găsit. O gimnastă olimpică din Ungaria care are doar două poze. Locul 87 la Seul în 88. Însă anul nașterii este 71. Asemănarea însă e prea izbitoare, deși ar fi primul caz pe care-l întâlnesc când data nașterii la cel/cea din dreapta asemănării, adică cel/cea din Ungaria ar fi falsificată.
De ce era nevoie să participe la Seul unde din video se vede că face totul la mișto, deși e stilul Nadiei? Ca să justifice existența ei ca gimnastă în Ungaria, fără a fi totuși recunoscută. O pun cu aceste rezerve, aștept să văd reacțiile. (Și abia postă bătrânul, ce mai freamăt, ce mai zbucium).
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2:02 Alegoria continuă în Ucraina. Rușii pregătesc ceva în sud. Situația pe front e dificilă. Care front, nu am văzut nici o poză. Austro înseamnă sud, nu est. A și faza cu Insula Șerpilor. Când scriu despre șerpi, se mai întâmplă ceva pe acolo.
3:44 După ce am scris despre evaziuna fiscală din UE estimată la 1000 miliarde de euro (normal, anual).
4:30 Scriam ieri despre soluții de încălzire pentru români. Astăzi am dat peste ceva gândindu-mă la altceva (ăsta e internetul, o entitate care îți schimbă gândurile tot timpul). Și o întrebare despre încălzirea globală. Dacă un asemenea dispozitiv îți poate da câteva ore de gaz de gătit pe zi (metan + hidrogen sulfurat), ce se întâmplă de fapt cu gunoaiele noastre care se duc la groapa de gunoi? Cât metan emit ele în atmosferă? Ca să nu mai vorbim de metanul care iese din canalizări. Și ajung mereu la aceeași concluzie. Unicul scop al existenței noastre mizere e să încălzim planeta, sub atenta supraveghere a șerpilor.
9:47 Nu e glumă. Ioan Luchian Mihalea seamănă cu un tip, Sorin Mihalea, fiul învățătoarei mele 1-4, de care am scris puțin mai sus, cu câteva ore înainte de "știrea" asta, cu Sergiu Nicolaescu, dar mai seamănă și cu George Michael, care a apărut pe scenă cam după "moartea" lui Mihalea.
9:56 Mi se pare mie sau văd ceva recurență în acest deja vu peren? Hai să explic. Rata de refuz depinde și de ei, nu numai de aplicanți.
10:37 A venit Jerome Powell și a zis ceva, bursa a crescut într-un minut de la -0.15 la plus 0.40, după care a luat-o iar înapoi, iar în sus, etc..
10:40 Sunt curios cum reacționează la asta.
Cei mai mulți au votat împotrivă francezii și nemții, și fiindcă sunt foarte mulți (reprezentare proporțională, spre deosebire de Consiliu unde este câte un membru (ministru de specialitate pe această configurație, probabil interne) din fiecare țară (total 27) iar votul trebuie să fie unanim).
ECR: Fragkos (GR), Hoogeveen (NL), Lundgren (SE), Nissinen (SE), Ruissen (NL), Weimers (SE)
Cei care s-au abținut:
ECR: Bourgeois (BE), Kanko (BE), Van Overtveldt (BE)
Just started Angela's old phone LGK30 and put the meter on top of it. It says 800 mW per square meter. I don't know how to interpret that, the phone is too close to the meter to talk about a square meter. Anywas i proved to her and to me that the phones i bought on Amazon are actually putting less.
Also, 1.6 watts per kilogram. The signal decreases with the distance to the power of 2. At 3 ft i only have a fraction of the signal you have next to it. Or the signal on your skin and closest organs (your buttocks if you keep the phone in the rear pockets. Or your b...s if you keep in front. Will the signal would go far enough to expose your whole body? No, it will stop within inches. So it may not be your whole weight, but just the weight of those nearby tissues or organs within inches and that could make for one kilogram or a pound and the limit may be reached on closest tissues, if the phone's signal strength is close to 1000 mW (one full watt).
Today i went for a walk, could not find the umbrella, looked on the radar site, was showing no green patches approaching so i proceeded. In hospital's lot there was even sun. I wanted badly to look on a site, started the phone, put it on the curb and let it boot up while watching the signal with the meter 10 ft away not having anything better to do during that time.
Beam me up already (whether i want it or not). Just did a search. Google says 4G phones will work on 5G networks. That could only mean one thing. Tower is sending beams to you, your phone is responding the old homnidirectional way. But it looks like the 5G signal focused directly on your phone (watever, feet around it) by the phased array antenna on the tower is much stronger than old 4G signals (that's how they can increase data speed). Strong enough to trigger the alarm on your meter 1 or 2 miles away.
11:45 Luciditate. Cu alte cuvinte, trebuie să învățăm să facem aplicația, înainte de a o elimina.
8:45 Maia Sandu, Maria Zaharova
9:20 După încă un summit NATO la București, calculat să se termine cu parada militară de 1 Decembrie, la care au participat și alte țări, urmat de încă un refuz al ridicării vizelor și posibilitatea a încă unui refuz Schengen, a urmat "un atac la Maia Sandu" care și-a luat ostentativ cetățenia română încă înainte de a candida. În urma posibilității de a fi demascați și refuzului de a-i asculta pe vecie, șerpii care controlează toate țările pot recurge și la soluții mai tari, deși rușii minoritari din Moldova nu au avut niciodată problemele celor din Ucraina.
Monday, October 10, 2022
October 10
8:28 All that driving got me exhausted, yesterday i crashed and could not drive no more, Angela drove back from Lincoln City where there was almost no smoke. I saw the AQI prediction for today in Tualatin, was showing 20. Now it's 145 as "Cedar Creek fire escaped containment" and AQI index near fire is 585, with a maximum of 655? never seen that before. What she released last night from upstairs was used litter dust. At 5 i was stinking and was nauseated, took some charcoal, now i'm again.9:14 Angela at work. They were some boards with ICs with pads under instead of legs, that if they get shorted cannot be fixed manually because of impossibility of getting of a soldering iron under those ICs. Those boards came with defects from vendor with extra solder on those pads and are prone to shortening, after more soldering paste is added in SMT. A number of boards were basically scrapped, she raised the problem in an email, they answered saying that she might not be required to work in SMT again, which already happened as for today. Ironically, there's extra solder only on the pads that cannot be seen, being under the IC. It is my belief it was all arranged (how come they slipped from QC both on vendor and when received at Eaton) for them to make a point. Here is the section of the board with extra solder
And the ICs that go on top, with pads under instead of legs. I now remember that 25 years ago when i worked at Credence we had a machine with hot air that was able to unsolder one of these. They don't have it at Eaton. But what is the point of unsoldering them right after soldering just because the board was defective? To heat them up one more time, risking thermal damage? Sucking the extra solder from underneath with solder wick, again risking thermal damage and not being sure?
I bet most shortcuts logged by Angela while working there have similar causes, and the engineers there never realized it.
11:41 After being seeded with whatever parasites from the litter dust she sprinkled from upstairs early this morning, when i just ate i got sick (dizzy) and nauseated and somewhat high. Like almost always in the last years. It was so scary when i didn't know what was happening. It's still now because i have trouble walking. How many times got at the ER and in the hospital because of it? Took a charcoal, waiting to work its way out.
Yes i know before here i was living upstairs but in Lake Oswego they were holes in the walls corresponding to Apt.7 where they got huge dogs and at Sussex Village they had dryers under our windows where they were sometimes drying dog's laundry.
12:00 They came earlier again, like last year, to check the hydrant by opening it. Which means they "accidentally" spread the (redwood) mulch on the asphalt which means i have to go sweep it out if i don't want it to be spread by car's wheels and when it dries tomorrow to fly around. Or i can let it until Wednesday when they will blow it up in the sky anyways. Maybe i will since i don't air anyways because of smoke. Opening of hydrant could be related to wildfires and smoke i wrote about. This is what they did last year. Yeah i know it can also be a superseding of the information about the extra soldering above.
Every once in a while me or Angela meet with the scores of kids that get out of the school bus at the entrance of the complex. From what i know, all kids around here go to school as they are good immigrants' kids (all Japanese trying to look Latinos). However, when i went to check for the result of hydrant being overflown on the mulch, there was a white van marked Tualatin Schools District that parked right on top of the red mulch river. Virtually flowing from my place to theirs.
12:27 I read a news on Angela's computer and as i couldn't find it (easy) on mine, i sent an email with a link from there to here, however, i first sent it at a wrong address, because of a synced noise (slammed door maybe) outside which created a sizeable, shameful gaffe.
I personally believe there is no pain when a person dies, but there almost always is, sometimes more or sometimes less, when your body reacts to the (irreversible) damage required for a person to die. It may take years, sometimes hours or minutes.
And this leads to the following question. Why people insist on bringing more people in the world (children) when they know everybody who ever lived on this Earth (except for maybe Jesus) ended like this. And on this i have to agree with Buddhists, who say non-existence (Nirvana) is better than existence, as what it is not cannot feel pain. Maybe the real reason true Buddhists become monks.
There are at least a couple of answers. Some simply don't think about and act on instinct (pleasure of making or having hids) alone. Some want the newcomers (suckers) to keep things going so they can live more at older age.
10:6 Îndemnul subliminal al acestei c...e MCV-iste "nu am pierdut controlul mașinii" (dar de ce era în afara carosabilului) m-a făcut, în combinație cu semnul de stop pentru care proprietarul acelei mașini ar fi trebuit arestat (folosire ilegală de semne rutiere), alte cauze printre care oboseala extremă, pe mine să pierd controlul (destinației, nu mașinii), Între timp, au inventat și în România o situație asemănătoare, tot pentru spălare de creier. Apropo, SUV-ul acela arată la fel ca cel filmat de mine în ziua când eram beat. M-am apropiat din aceeași direcție ca și motociclistul ca să vorbesc cu... c...a aia de Ioana Țiriac (nu am știut cine era).
1:30 A trebuit, pentru ca (unii) români să creadă zile, luni după, poate până azi, că poate au intervenit rușii. Sau poate faza nici nu s-a întâmplat, a fost doar o raportare falsă.
1:36 I tried to air the room and in a minute or two they started a couple of cars to vibrate the dust on the building so i had to shut back the window.
1:41 Apropo, azi dimineață iar a apărut c...a de Jaqueline Cristian (poate are pauză la turnee) executând niște piruete sexy la geamul meu. Păcat că nu eram atunci beat, chiar o invitam înăuntru. Acum 2 minute însă a apărut, tot cu un câine, și prietenul lu' tipa aia din Ungaria care o face pe Jaqueline Cristian.
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3:24 After i've shown here that the Parliament of EU is useless, because the Council votes after, more coincidences on the word. Which prompts me to go a bit further (though i didn't really wanted to stir more the storm in the glass of water). Is the Congress of US useful if the President can veto by not signing (except for the situations when Congress overrides a veto, with 2/3 of the members (or) when there's a strong bipartisan agreement which happens quite rarely).
4:47 Click on! (me).
9:39 What role can have media on... (a google question).
It is clear to me this days that media doesn't really work for us and there are too many people who act based on conclusions drawn after exposure to it. (I can't believe how wasted was the whole band during this concert).
Recently i had several dreams that were reminding me of people i haven't seen lately and inviting me to reminisce, maybe contact them. But sadly i cut contact with most people i knew after i discovered some had different identity and nationality. What remains is the feeling that those dreams might have been induced by some similar trick.
11:13 Bolsonaro eat indian. See you later!
Saturday, January 7, 2023
January 7
12:35 Vechea metodă, scandal peste scandal. Primul pas pentru realizarea unei centrale nucleare la 75 km nord de București. 6 module de 77 MW fiecare, un design "revoluționar" care nu a fost testat până acum nicăieri în lume, fără o cupolă de protecție (containment) și care nu a primit încă nici o aprobare de site în SUA, cu un total de 462 MW electric, în timp ce un reactor "clasic" de la Cernavodă are 650 MW electric.
Americanii de la NuScale, având sediul social un birou închiriat într-o clădire fără firmă la poartă, lângă un magazin mare de bricolaj unde am fost de zeci de ori, nu sunt însă chiar americani. Principalii investitori sunt coreeni, japonezi și suedezi dar pun pariu că în spatele acelei bănci suedeze sunt probabil finlandezi care sunt echivalentul ungurilor în Peninsula Scandinavică.
Cred că ar trebui strânse semnături pentru oprirea acestui proiect.
3:21 So was written (on the fly) but he will always speak with a subtle though detectable Hungarian accent.
3:24 The response at my claim that cell phones can hurt your inner/outer ear in self measurable ways. Also to Deja Cat video. I didn't want to say it but a wi-fi enabled laptop on your... lap for too many hours a day will also do it. If you don't believe me, you may choose to try. Too late? Impotence? Low sperm count at the latest exam?
But the Molaski building at the airport is a big leap forward. I once was at their headquarters in spring 1996 without knowing, with a doctor (Eusterman), in the lobby of a hotel on 3rd street i guess, and at the same place in 1997, where they seemed to occupy a few rooms at one floor and didn't talk to me, just gave me a number to call.
That day i was trying to report an attorney, Leo Berman, who tricked me to sign on a white piece of paper, "just to verify my signature".
One of the cars parked behind my old Fairment, to block it, when i almost s...t in my pants. But they were after somebody else and picked from the bushes between the building and Fanno Creek an Asian guy dressed in a dark gray sports like suite (yes like a modern ninja, without the face mask). From what i remember, could have been him, age adjusted.
2:20 From the park.
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8:55 I'm confused. Should have learned how to play them drums...
Thursday, March 28, 2013
AVX VANCOUVER WA
I've been looking both in Oregonian and Columbian Archives and i called Columbian in Vancouver. It was in one of the papers. But can't find it now.
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Fox Pointe Appartments
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Kyocera Ceramics, aka AVX Vancouver. I worked at AVX between August 12 1999 and August 22 2000.
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