Tuesday, July 23, 2024

6:20 Dancing, painting elephant. Curves are also geometry, aren't they and elephants have very good memory. 

7:00 Don't know if i made myself clear but around 4th of July i got the broken pin of a pushpin into one of my toes. For some reason i can't explain i did not feel it. It started to hurt, swell and become red and i put on it a finger from a rubber glove with some antibiotic dust and the symptoms were almost gone the next couple of days.

However i asked Angela to look on the other side i could not see and she saw the pin and removed it. The finger also looked soak with perspiration and i did not put the rubber finger no more. In a few days it went back red and swollen and i started to have pain and stiffness in the leg, calf, big muscles above knees, that in the next days started to spread in my whole body.

I kept putting antibiotics patches everywhere it was hurting or it waw becoming stiff and that kept the symptoms mild however in the 5th day after puncture i guess i went to Walgreens for a shot. Too late, but i wanted to make sure it won't happen again to me. 

Though there are questions. If you develop TT do you become immune after or it is only the shot that gives you 5-10 years immunity.

However the injection site started to hurt more than the puncture at the toe and pain started to spread to the back and shoulder, really scary. In that day i think i put ten patches around it. That pain started to subside after a week or so.

Ever since i put patches and i am getting close to the 21 day (max period of incubation for TT), and after that the disease subsides in a month or so. About 10 days ago i drove behind a pickup that had uncovered construction materials, that were exposed to mineral dust.

That gave me pain and inflammation throughout my body on top of what i had. I told Angela, we should again replace the cabin filter that got contaminated with it. That stuff is so fine it goes through any filter and is better to wash the car and replace the filter if that happen.

In the past week i washed the carpet in the living twice and once in the bedroom and it was very dirty, i got to smell the smell after, one million droplets all over my body, kept patching myself fighting the infection etc.. I was so busy i forgot about and Angela drove the car like that for another week and Thursday i guess we went to Spirit Mountain and got again chills all over and again i forgot about.

Yesterday at Lincoln City i went in an Autozone store there to buy a filter. The guy in the store kept asking me the same questions over and over, like he was not paying attention (a form of bullying) and in the end he asked me "по русски?" which is the short form of "а ты говоришь по русски" and told him "no" cause i don't speak Russian but i know this much, for being so closed to the Soviet Union until 89 and sometimes watching Russian TV cause our TV was only 2 hours a day and those mostly showing Ceaușescu.

Then he said  he took Russian in high school.

And the night before. Checked in the hotel, it looks like they fixed the sewer behind it, i went to buy cigarettes (on foot, not to loose my spot) cause i sat on my pack in the and broke most of them (i only had a few) and went in the back of the hotel (it's more like a motel) to smoke wondering why they don't have cigarette disposals in the parking lot or near the entrances.

Reminiscing of the other weekend when i found two green bags at the corner of the building (got again a room at one end) that were picked by Trevor Horn (who was dressed like a maintenance guy) after i had a conversation with him.

So Saturday when i was smoking i saw a small dog coming to pee at a sign near me that was again at the corner of the building, in wind's direction and was wondering again what else he did, and then the dog ran to a woman at the entrance facing the ocean of a room at ground level who looked vaguely familiar, from more than 100 ft while blinded by the sunset.

So i went and looked and what did i see. The biggest dog poop ever, bigger than a human's. Or was it. Maybe it was from a bear. I don't know, never seen anything quite like that (yeah i know i keep repeating it, cause it's true every time). Under it, the grass started to become yellow so it's been in there for quite some time. I went in the room to grab a bag, anything, and i took it to a dog waste disposal box in the parking lot (the nearest, they were several).
But there, what do i see. I could almost not push the thing inside because it was full. I mean, could have been up to 50 pounds of dog waste in there. Wondering how well it was sealed and looking at wind's direction.

Then i went in the room and was sitting/laying in bed, tired, with pains all over from the dust in the car, chills and getting kinda depressed, for several hours, No TV, no nothing. Staring at the wall, just listening to the therapeutic sound of the ocean. Could have napped for a few minutes, i don't know. At times i went at the table near the window to eat and drink. An older once good looking woman put up a show at the entrance of the woman with the dog i guess.

Present. Went to the kitchen area, cooked some breakfast, had fries in the oven, made some omelet, put a hot dog in the microwave, started to eat (yea i agree, in a hurry), came back at the computer, saw the image above thinking i have to go and dispose of the new ones (last night i found quite a few when i got back home) when a dysphagia episode hit me. Did not wait a lot, went and vomited, here i am back at the computer, eating again.

Sunday morning, after i bought the filter, went south on 101, looking for a carwash. Found one in Newport i guess, semi-manual, two people were washing the car before and one was drying it after. I asked them to do the grill, the woman told me i should stay in the car, i think she was some sort of political figure whatever.

There is an intersection in Newport where you always have to wait for minutes (i mean on Sundays and stuff) right under a cell tower and the meter is always showing high signal there.

Then we drove south, it was ok for a while with the new filter and stuff, until we climbed a hill (when close to Florence) and i felt the smell of exhaust in the cabin and i realized we had a smoke ahead, for some time. So i pulled the filter, it was stinking and continued without one.

But then i realized all the cars that were ever in front of us and that continued to all the way home last night, or a couple of hundred miles, were dusty like have not been washed since last rain (a couple of months ago). As soon as i was passing one, another one was merging from a street, like they were scheduled or something. And every car that got behind was too close to comfort. (Never paid attention to this until you guessed, the accident on 20/21 2021 of whom driver i think i know).

And  here comes the interesting part. On our way back Angela wanted to stop at Chinook. Was very close to falling a sleep a few times, slept 15 minutes somewhere in a lot, with people parading and making shows in front of the car, tried to find a spot. All  spots seemed to be arranged and when we finally found one, a car with two women and a kid got there in the same time.

Tried to get in there (afternoon, about 5 PM) to go to the restroom. Went at the one near the entrance, a brown guy taller than me was following me so close behind i just turned around and he nearly bumped into me. Walked to the other restroom, all the people were bullying by getting in front of me like i was transparent, and in there saw a guy looking happy with the shirt pulled out of his shirts, showing skin while peeing. Another one nearly hit the ground (there was a puddle of water on the ground near the entrance).

A little bit later, there was another guy leaning against a machine right in front of me, again looking happy, ecstatic happy and with his shirt pulled out of his pants on a side showing skin.

80 more miles to home, again, people taking turns in dusting and smoking and from the rear, bullying.

This morning when i woke i was stiff, in the back, in the same areas where those guys had their skin exposed. Put some more patches, now i'm better but again got the chills. Put one the Zero Xposure winter jacket (with aluminum as insulation), in which i always perspire. In a few day i will be over the max incubation time (21 days) and hopefully into a one month remission.

11:25 Woke up. Better with stiffening on my back where i had new patches this morning (4x500 amoxi). The patches i had on the calves of my legs for days wore out and the my calves were stiff. Put new ones, was out of band aid 2x3 and simply used some white duct tape. If you wipe the place good with alcohol before that they won't infect your skin.

2:30 Unsupervised small children came to play in my sight, ft away from my patio.

6:55 Slept some. Woke up stiffer than ever. Applied two patches 500 mg each on the... sole of my feet. Tried to go smoke. In the back the woman at 4 talking at the phone on the balcony. Went in the front. In the same time i went down the 7 stairs a Filipino guy, shirtless, passed with his dog. When i was done, some people went down the stairs from the other entrance, at the car.

9:28 Her schedule upstairs was noon to ten-eleven but today she came early, like 5 and manifests ever since. To me it is pretty obvious, is a kind of synchronized heavy steps that follow and indiscriminately interferes with my thinking, reading, writing, etc..

10:15 Yeah i finally read the comments on the video with the 4 years old painting elephants. Some commenters who know stuff are talking about torture and the elephant actually crying while painting. I was thinking of anything from magnetic invisible traits on the white paper, attracting the brush to some special paint visible only to the elephant to chips implanted and nerve stimulation.

10:18 As for myself, i was enjoying some freedom here lately. Have not complained of noise from upstairs that only lasted half hour to one hour, usually just before noon. But that ended today with heavy stomping that continues after 10 PM (quiet hours). Can't do anything that requires some degree of mental concentration.

Was trying to say (now the heaviest stomp of all). Few people understand how disruptive could be the humble dust, when driving after dusty car like by example. Nothing out of the ordinary, but there can be dust particles smaller than the filter can catch. If a number of people really want to do you, they can drive on purpose with cars that haven't been washed in months in front of you.

Local people or cars going about their normal business.

Anything can happen, from simply changing of mood for the whole trip to pain and digestive symptoms. It will definitely influence you for the rest of the trip and day. Absolutely undetectable and definitely can't go complaining about to law enforcement.