Saturday, June 14, 2025

2:00 AM Just got home comming from Lincoln City. Never seen so many noonja together and acting in one or two places (stopped by Spirit Mountain). Got some of the best mileage ever, because i used 89 gas. I figured that if i use 89 gas that is 2 dollars more per tank i make more extra miles that i can get if i buy more 87 for those 2 dollars. More miles for the same price that is.

First thing when i opened the car's door i noticed was the smell. I went to the dumpster.

Lately (the last month or so) i noticed it's getting more and more tricky to deal with the bags. One was on top of the dumpster caught by the lid that was opened and the content almost fell on me when i pulled with my hook tool. One was caught tight between other bags (and was knotted). One was knotted in such a way it came loose when i toughed it. A broken torn apart one with nothing in it (content fell earlier).

I knew there was one on the grass from earlier but i could not find it. I found a different one, bigger. I think the guy at E8 has a large dog that makes so much poop i cannot pick it with one bag/hand.

One guy in an old small pickup with bad exhaust smell passed by several times.

11:00 Last night when i got home at 2 AM first thing i done was to check by BG. It was 174 though i was three hours late with the insulin. So i said to myself, ok, let's eat something and then check again. So i eat and one more hour later it was 165. So i said again to myself, let's try something. Did not do the shot. In the morning i checked it again and it was 151 and then i did half of the dose.

Recent changes in my diet. Drinking for a couple of weeks now sports drinks from powder pouches with vitamin C. Regularly taking metformin besides insulin which cuts my appetite. Increasing self esteem after my last posts? (yes i used a 24 hours nose decongestant yesterday).

11:35 By the time i finished college the great Romanian "golden era" under Ceaușescu was melting down. Salaries were small even for an entry level engineer. Though they were 15 heavy machine tools company in the country, they were too many engineers coming from schools. Nothing to do so i started learning programming and implementing CAD more like volunteering and faced great opposition by the corrupt hierarchy who was paying overtime for bribes.

Could not buy furniture for the whole apartment. But also the stores were empty. Everything was going to export to accomplish Ceaușescu's foly of paying the externa balance which he finally succeeded in 89, months before his demise.

People were talking he did not know what was happening, being lied by the lower level nomenclaturist. 

Hardly found a fridge and a TV.

Then it came the revolution. For two weeks i stayed inside, not knowing what to do. Then i switched working at Angela's company, switching from CAD to accounting software. And then TV freedom came under the form of two songs, i call them the songs of the Revolution.

Before that we had every day 3 foreign melodies, taken from Billboard tops on the radio, between noon and 1 PM. While i still was a student, was sitting there, with the tape recorder hooked to the radio and hunting for those. So i had several tapes full of hits, for parties.

But then it came Lambada and Lily Was Here. And then a neighbor installed a satellite dish and all of a sudden heaven started to pour out from the little color TV i just bought. MTV and 5 Italian main channels among many others. Italian was so close to French that i knew and Romanian that i caught it in a few months from TV.

But the music. I think the 90s was the peak of music. R&B was maturing into bands like

Ok can't continue right now. Violent stumps upstairs scrambled my thoughts.

Then i trying to search the songs titles i listened to in the car went into the Downloads directory where i downloaded and unzipped the 6000 songs and they are all gone including the zip files. Then i went in Windows Media Player and they show as being still there. Got pissed off.

Yeah it was a long introduction to me trying to say that after listening that music of the early 90s in the car one more time i realized how all R&B music done at first by authentic black singers went to hell with stars like Alica Keys, Mariah Carey Michael Jackson, Snoop  and other rushed, undercooked, sad and weird, subversive lyrics singers.

Apparently if i go directly in file manager, i can't see them. But then if i go into WMP and choose "show file location" on any of the songs, WMP opens the file manager for me and then i can. But the zip file? What happened to the zip files? Yeah i know i don't need them anymore but why Windows decided to delete or hide them from me?

12:10 PM Just saw at my window a Japanese guy with baggy clothes and thick black framed glasses, middle age, with the largest dog i've seen so far, with whitish thick fur and now i start getting nauseated. Questioning self. Could he be the author of voluminous poops that i cannot pick in one move?

1:05 Here comes the Sun. Yeah i know horn is a tough instrument to play (jazz). 3 buttons (valve keys) and so many notes... But some dare! Is that a Jain hand on her dress? (Tiny) desk people.


3:15 Lately it has been wild. Not one in ten times we went there we won anything. Thinking maybe everybody is tight with the money. Saw a video, did a search, got an answer, now got another (rhetoric) question. If they can regulate return rates it means the slots machines which are pretty much the same (brands) everywhere have settings, right? Does this fit the definition of gambling?

More than that, this guy is saying the higher the limit of the machine, the better the percentage returns. In other words, should not throw hundreds of dollars in penny machines. Does this fit in the definition of gambling?


3:40 Got nauseated and went to check for poops. Could not find any. Was craving a cigarette since this morning but did not have time so smoke one so i went outside. Some kid yelled at me so i went more to the middle of the yard, facing east.

While i was smoking, i saw a maintenance cart pulling right in front of me and then i turned around. Like many times when smoking, a saw in the opposite direction in the distance a bag with poop, closer to the dumpster moved next to the construction site. Probably would not have seen it if it wasn't for that occurrence.

Went to throw it in the dumpster, but i saw it was well knotted. But that only after i picked it from the ground so i went anyways. In the dumpster there was one more, loosely knotted, out of reach. However near the dumpster there was a propane tank and some excavator cups from the construction area, now deserted (it's Saturday) which is now a common area between the construction site and the complex so i don't know if it's a garbage item or one of their equipments.

No, i could not see it, because of that truck, until i got there. (They call those trash bins also!) Now i see the reason they poured so much concrete. There is a 50 ft long ramp for accessibility in the artificially raised park (with gravel) and underneath they also installed a bunch of pipes, about 2 meters more under ground.

I believe one of the reasons was to picture me near that tank, so they can say i use it somehow to enhance the mileage at the car which last night, after i used better gas, was 46 mpg from the gas station at Grand Ronde and here And yes, it only happens when i get fresh gas from there, be it 87, which gets me 44 mpg or 89. After that it goes down still above 40 on highways. (yes it is true, there is no traffic at night, have to stop less at stop lights, etc. (yes i found my camera lost for days in a fold of the couch).