We left after several hours of base played over any known limit (to me) during some sort of celebration at the park. It was 10 times louder that what i heard so far in the neighborhood, but somehow not that unpleasant. In the afternoon Angela managed to sleep (after the TDAP vaccine booster at Walmart) and even i fell asleep briefly (only 4 hours the night before).
I accidentally overinflated my front wheels. Not necessarily the absolute truth. They were 37 at 60 degrees but became 39 while running at 70 degrees on I5 on my way to Lucky Eagle casino (a temptation) and for the first time i noticed a consumption of 48 mpg over many miles. But that was only happening at 65 and under. At 70 the mpg was dramatically lowered to 39.
But then i was going most of the time with 80. The reported mpg for the whole trip was 39 (which included Fridays drive at Spirit Mountain, with abysmal mpg because of a technical problem) and the calculated mpg one at pump was 37.
On my way back the best mileage under 65 was 44, most likely due to low temperature at night, with tire pressure at 36.
So yes for this car, with a drag coefficient of 0.27, the mpg changes dramatically by 10% between 65 and 70, staying constant until 65. So you trade 7% of travel time for 10% fuel consumption.
12:12 Coming back. Right on the Marquam bridge got squeezed behind a black SUV that was going 50 (speed limit) and a crazy semi driver behind, who at some time was one meter behind me and one SUV with boat on right. Was thinking to jump in the left lanes (which meant going off the freeway) but somehow i managed to shift lane behind the guy with the boat only to watch the semi marked YELLOW now pushing the black SUV from one or two meters behind. @2:20 AM. I believe they can identify the guy in the semi by the videos and throw him in jail for that.
12:20 At Lucky Eagle was playing one of my favorite games, Wolf Run and then Seasons, for about an hour. Was not winning or losing. Somehow, somebody with a phone was near me, and started to feel the well known burning sensation in the soles of my feet and than ankle. Somehow this time the microwaves concentrated in the lower part of my legs and feet. Could it had been a directed 5G beam. Also i might have lost some of my "radio sensitivity" after 3 months of taking antibiotics, other things.
However i got pissed and left soon after.
12:22 A few days ago i was so desperate of not having something to watch on any of the streaming services (Amazon, Netflix, Paramount) i can access and i was just staring at the PC with the Paramount main interface on the screen when a playful tricksy face of a small rodent with a exotic haircut caught my eye.
I suddenly fell attracted by it and went and clicked on that image. It was Star Trek Strange New Worlds which i chose not to see a long time ago.
Anything that is not the classic series, including Original, TNG, etc.. is not watchable to me. For one, i somehow made in my mind a time and logical model with the series and episodes and nothing can fit in between. Call it psychological inertia related to age, nostalgy, whatever.
The belief that anything in that direction would be only patches on the Star Trek space time canvas.
With the face and voice of Christopher Pike and name of Spoke reminding of Captain Kirk and Spock.
But the character. Nurse Christine Chapelm replacing the good old doctor dressed in blue. An exotic face from Australia, played by an actress by the name... Bush. Wondering.
How my life and everybody's life would have been if i wasn't that stubborn not wanting to see these later series of never ending self inventing Star Trek Saga which were available since when, 2022?
1:33 After i took a shower and got rid of the smoke smell in my hair since yesterday in the smoker's room in the casino, i realized the whole place now smells like sulfur that came from walls after the base yesterday.
8:48 Just got back from Chinook Winds. Not sure about the combination of the two bottles at the door. Met with the guys upstairs who were living. The man seem different, more muscular. I said thought the other day a voice i heard before upstairs, that of Kacem Zhougari. Again more likely on a diplomatic passport.
My wound is doing well (no pain whatsoever at 12 hours after i put the bandage and ointments this morning. Got a stomach pain, probably from breathing the s...t that came out the walls after the base yesterday. Came early from Chinook Winds after i won 400 bucks which makes for this weekend's looses and the rent money Angela borrowed from our account which means no need to pull money from a credit card.
Let me see if i remember some of the many mishaps from the road. Mileage was good though i had Sinclair gas from Lucky Eagle. Which remembers me of the Lord Sinclair, the creator of the Sinclair PC around a Z80 processor, probably one of the first PC ever.
However the man told me "he made a mistake" and charged the guy in front of me with that 10 bucks something figuring my order and gave me the receipt saying the food was free at which i got mad, because of the drive and waiting and went around, trying to get in line ore more time so i can order it one more time. However somebody closed one lane by adding cones and it was only one lane with more than 5 cars in line so i turned around one more time and went inside and asked to speak with the manager.
There was a tall young woman behind me i did not get to see her face (who in the end wanted to take my credit card in her hands to show me where it goes).
The manager came, it was a she, short one, Latina appearance, very much self confidence, she pretended she did not understand what happened, took my money but did not get me the food. I think it was her, age and hair and all.
There was this car behind me with protection bars added in front full of women and children. A red headed woman did a 15 minutes show in my left mirror. At some point somebody sprayed the red headed woman's face with sunscreen spray while she had her eyes closed, figuring, i don't know, gassing? Where that car brand, her gestures threats? This is how i felt. Lincoln City Police?
Inside the casino. I went to play at Wolf Run in the smoking area cause they removed one of the newer poker machines at the wall and i don't like to sit next to someone. If someone comes and sits next to me, i usually leave withing seconds, that is if i am not in the middle of free games.
Somebody came and sat next to me and i left, and the scene repeated several times until one blonde woman resembling singer Sia came and sat two seats away and asked me for a light. Her cigarette was halfway spent.
I extended my hand with the lighter, she tried to grab it, but i just started it and then it stopped cause it was out of gas (almost, works intermittently) but she had time to light it up. I went back to my game, lighted one for me, kept turning my head to better look at her for a minute, got up, went around, kept staring to get a better look but she would never move her head which was very close to the screen. So i just got pissed and left.
I won up to 130 bucks in there and then i moved in the high limit area where i played at one dollar a hand, lost 30 and then won one hand of 320 (two double diamonds and a 7).
These are just examples, never encountered so many aggressive drivers during one trip in 30 years since i drive around here. Mostly tailgating and blinding.
Temperature at the beach when we left was 62 degrees but here in Portland it was 82, some two hours later. First day of summer?, having to use AC most of the time.
At the window (at McDonalds). Must have been him. Lincoln City Police? (stalking). When i wrote this, the guys from upstairs just climbed the stairs by our window.
And BTW. If i called Lincoln City Police who was going to show? Christopher Pike? Cause Shatner once tried to run me over while towing my truck for God's sake. Tualatin City Police?














