Thursday, April 17, 2025

12:40 Coming back home. In the last 5 minutes of the 300+miles drive today exhaust came in the cabin, from somewhere. There was a semi unloading at the 7 eleven in the corner with engine running and the stop light kept us there for 5 minutes.

The purpose was for us not to feel the smell here which BTW is terrible though the ozone was on for the whole time. This happens when they throw stuff on the red dust. They were cat poops under the door and dog (a lot) in an open bag in the bin. I removed the two plants and put it on the patio and started an UV light. The mold smell is so strong there is no effect even after 5 minutes.

I moved the truck at the street.

7:10 AM I know who he is. Can y'all contact me the old fashion way?

7:30 She upstairs started, on a different story now. The place just filled with mold from the space between ceiling and floor, like it was last night.

I think she was Gabi Rafailă, (undergraduate, Mechanical Engineering), my colleauge and subordinate at IMU. I think she was dispatched there by then Romanian Army, she was singing for them. I think she wanted to have a baby with me.

And if this one ends as well, they will be several more cause its THEM who writes them. Cause it's THEM who run the show and upstairs it's a ninja who walks, not those heavy weight lifters. It's always the same step.

7:42 Ok i am currently searching in a list of villages around Focșani, Vrancea.

After i done the exhausting task of build a salary app from scratch back in 92 (i guess) i made a firm with the accountant in chief of that firm, Angheluță, back then Direcția Autonomă Apele Române and he found me a contract at Canalul Sireg Bărăgan în Focșani. Name of director was Dobrovolshi, contabil in chief Linescu.

It was my first (and last) salary app done on a PC. They gave me e person to work with, Alice (forgot last name). Chief of IT department was a short guy i think blue or green eyes, totally German looking, named... Adrian Ion. Same last name as me.

He was commuting from a nearby place (could have been Golești) as i was commuting from  Bacău. We went both to Bucharest (at MBL Computerland), a firm and bough two PCs. One of them ended in director' office who was playing 3D Tetris all day long on it.

He made a good impression at first. At some time he got kicked (again, 30 years old memories) by his father, probably because of drinking and started to sleep at the office (and was rarely taking showers and stuff).

At some point (way before that) i expressed my... crush towards Alice. In exchange she invited me to her place to meet her husband and two boys so i chilled out.

However her husband left to work in Italy (i think he was an engineer in furniture manufacturing) and she kept telling me i should go to.

Towards the end (and i think it was early 93) she introduced me to a friend who was accountant at a construction firm across the street. I simply installed the app on their computer and she gave me a load of money and i was supposed to give some to Alice which i did. (Yeah i knew it would not work in a month or two without maintenance due to extraordinary inflation rate and ever changing legislation and i knew they might never use it).

As her husband was away for several months at that time, a week before she kept telling me she had the key to her mother's apartment, but i have this bad habit. I never liked soups reheated. I ignored her. But i would like if i said she was a nice woman who helped me with the app.

In that day i had like a load of cash in my hard shell suitcase (mostly because the money had no value in Romania back then again due to triple digits inflation). So i went to her mother's apartment that was not far from there and gave her about 25% of that money which was a few months salaries. She kept inviting me inside but did not have the courage to go in there with all that cash in my briefcase.

End of story.

I think everybody wanted that to happen because they wanted to end the story of the man who would not give his favors to women.

Yes i went to Rome, Italy in the spring of 93. I bought a ticket from Commercial Chamber in Bacău for an IT expo in Wien. Then i left the bus and took a train to the border. I was planning to cross border in  the forrest on foot. However i met a guy at a gas station/convenience store named Angel.

I knew some Italian from TV, there was this guy who had a satellite antenna in our building who was sharing the Italian TV channels with the rest of us for money.

To this day i believe it was all arranged and he was waiting for me there. At the check point he jerked the car's clutch when the custom guy tried to cross in front of it to check me and the custom guy gave up. As we entered that little city, someone told him his nephew just got in a motorcycle accident.

I made it all the way to Rome where i met with Alice's husband. He was working at a small furniture shop and was sleeping in a shelter. One night i went to his place and took a shower, but a guy from the shelter who followed me kicked me out. Finally i got a place of my own in a shelter under the Rome Termini (main train station) where i could sleep and take showers.

They gave me some clothes, among them a silk shirt. I found work in an office at a small firm (data entry) but that is another story.

8:40 So yeah, go to Golești and search for relatives there.

9:00 Yeah. You are a funny girl. But now i need some sleep. So is Angela but she needs to work. Cause officially i have to be a bum.

10:15 Went outside to move the truck on a visitor spot. When i started it, a short Philippine woman that keeps coming around with her tiny dog got near the back of the truck and she (or her dog) would not move from there and i could not wait no more and started it.

Found a place (barely). It was stinking, so i went and found one so huge i almost couldn't pick it all in one bag with one hand. No way could have slept with that in place. When i got back, a plane started to make a huge noise.

10:30 I know it sounds stupid but when i heard it first time (81, 82) (yes i was doing organ for a little while in a reggae parallel band with guys students in Iași from Africa - rege in Romanian means king) i kept asking myself. The reason was, well, simple.

Nobody wants an accountant with hair painted green career bum.

People of this world do love each other but they are experiencing times so difficult this may not look like a priority. And some people cannot react in real time as fast as you'll move around. Do you have some big speakers in your place? This piece like all Bob Marley pieces requires big base speakers. (Yeah i know Bob Marley was kind of a prophet in Rastafari religion). What do they mean, not explicit?

2:30 PM I slept. There has been one constant in my life, for years now. Every time i don't see a new post of yours i get worried. Does that mean i care?

3:05 Went outside to pick the mail, vaguely mad. Every time i hit a high note in my brain, somebody was pressing a car alarm button.

6:35 I went to WinCo. When i was loading my trunk there was this woman with two kids in the back and an open window and the little girl kept saying, with worry in her voice. Mom!... Mom... Mom...! Moooom!! every time i was grabbing something from the cart or moving something in the the trunk to make room. (BTW in WinCo when i was in the produce area, one baby was crying for like 15 minutes, until it reached the other side of the store or left).

In my way here, right in the middle of the I5 overpass i was stopped and i hear some knocks or from outside the car or from inside the trunk. I looked outside and saw no one but had numerous blind areas.

When i got here the mistery woman came from somewhere and needed to back up and came real close to my open trunk and then she said Hi (she only talks to me when she wants to) and i told her i heard the knocks, she acted like she did not unsestand and i repeated, annoyed and then i added: You weren't in their either, etc..

But i had this feeling she today was another one. There's a thin and older one, which reminds of current Kylie Minogue, today was a younger and thicker one. Same car, same makeup, same everything.


Was thinking all the way here. Alice reminded me of young Laura Pausini. No, the other way around. Laura Pausini when i first saw her here on TV (after 1995) reminded me of Alice. Let me take one more look. Maybe. But i though Alice was shorter. BTW a few years ago i found Alice on fb, looking pretty much the same, however, pissed or annoyed, now the account disappeared.

After i started that job in Rome, Marko, the son of the owner gave me a small radio with earphones. And she had that hit going, Non c'e. Unforgettable. Then one day the brother of one of the students who sublet me that room came to Rome, worried. He brought in a girl who also reminded of her (to test me?).

Short, a bit overweight, etc.. Every day in there was a story of course.

One of the other occupants, Davide, finally got a job, playing violin in a theather, and he looked exactly like David Copperfield, etc.. I think the student with the rented apartment looked like Dave Stuart. Yes, he had a guitar. With which i accidentally conquered his girlfriend (Monica Bellucci). The owner, Carol, like Mircea Lambrino. He was at times speaking Italian, Roman version, i could not understand a bit, i had to ask him to repeat the phrases in standard Italian.

What a weather, what a country, what a beautiful language. April, May June. In July they have what they call le ferie, when everybody takes vacation in the same time. Was eating at a place for immigrants, lost like 20 pounds.

Upstairs i think she just fell, butt first, on the floor. Or she sat on the couch whatever.

As for Al. I am worried about your popcorn ceiling, it may contain asbestos.

BTW there's no high like the high after driving in one day hundreds of miles and then you get enough sleep. Do not try this alone, i almost fell asleep several times. I almost feel happy.

Alice once joked. When i'm gonna loose enough weight. When you're gonna have your teeth done.

7:35 Ice cream van is here and annoying me. As i said before, is so much cheaper to buy ice cream at WinCo. Even at 7-11 at the corner.

7:45 Kilmar, Kilmer?

7:50 I am in real big trouble because i cannot smoke (anymore). Not entirely positive but the pain in the back may be kidneys and it intensifies in the days after i smoke. It makes sense cause kidneys have to filter the many toxins brought into my body by cigarettes. Probably my constant UTI in the last years that was caused also by wi-fi made its way there on top of diabetes.

10:10 And o still hear the echoes (echoes) ((echoes)). Yeah there was someone yet unaccounted for withing my acquaintances. The wife of a faculty group ex-colleague, Liviu Apostol. She once came to a party in T17 (i invited him mostly because of then fancy Czechoslovakia made Tesla brand tape recorder and loudspeakers. I remember then i heard Madonna, Like a Virgin, the first time. It still rings in my ears.

I have been once or twice in their home in Sărărie, where i saw for the first time a color TV. She finished Civil Engineering (Construction) faculty. We once met (me and Angela) with them at Costinești. I think she was rather tall. Alexa Crush is about 1.5 tall. The girl i saw yesterday at Three Rivers, directing a drawing event had shoes with soles at least 2 inches thick.

Her father was a fighter jet pilot, he once gave us (me and Paul) a ride from Sărărie to Tudor campus and he was driving like a crazy. Or trying to scare us not to come there again cause Paul was kinda bragging to me about...

10:20 Today she changed schedule. She left at 8 and came back before Angela (or somebody else came cause there was no car here). Ever since they are working the floor (8 hours with some pauses). In the end they started a laundry load (after 10 or during quiet hours).

And i still hear the echoes (echoes).

12:15 Already18 Bob Marley and The Whailers.