7:07 Oricine locuiește în SUA de 30 de ani trebuie să meargă măcar o dată să vadă Las Vegas, nu? Așa că după ce ne-am luat prima Elantra (aia care în care eram când ne-au izbit ăia din spate, în ziua când am vorbit cu Vîlceanu care "lucra" la Les Schwab, un magazin în principal de cauciucuri), am purces la drum. Nu mai știu, a fost atunci când am fost și la Los Angeles și am făcut în total vreo 5000 de mile?

Da e foarte mișto să conduci vara prin California, vezi iarba aceea uscată galben aurie, unică în lume.

În Vegas am stat la Westgate Hotel, unde aveau la parter un bufet unde se stătea la coadă cam jumătate de oră și puteai să mănânci orice, cât puteai, inclus în prețul camerei de sub 100 dolari (se cheamă "all you can eat").

Am luat la rând cazinourile de pe Strip, erau cam aceleași mașini pe care le știam de acasă, la Venețian am câștigat normal la maimuță undea mi-a intrat un ecran plin de maimuțe, nu mai știu, 40 de dolari (jucam la 40 de cenți mâna) și când mi s-a făcut foame am intrat la un fast food unde am luat o porție de 4 burgeri mici (cât unul mare) la preț de McDonalds.

Adică nu spun că nu sunt restaurante cu chefi celebri sau spectacole cu Elton John sau whatever mai era pe atunci pe acolo, dar un om obișnuit poate să stea acolo câteva zile fără să-și rupă portofelul.

Ok bufetul acela s-a închis în 2025, ultimele prețuri (după pandemie și inflație) porneau de la 17 dolari.

Pe unde am mai fost. Pe bulevardul Hollywood, ăla cu stele pe trotuar, era un McDonalds cu prețuri de McDonalds, însă era coadă (știu că am vrut să merg că mi-era foame dar) nu aveam timp, aveam de condus înapoi în sudul LA, un drum de o oră cu schimbatul a 10 autostrăzi, ghidat normal de google maps (pe atunci nu aveam sensibilitate la microunde de la celular). Așa că am mâncat dintr-o conservă în camera de motel.

8:52 Chestii care mă sâcâie. Primul lucru pe care îl văd când deschid știrile este ceva legat de ce am postat eu ieri transformând munca mea în job-ul lui Sisif.

8:55 I had the AC on yesterday all day for the first time this year, the way it is setup it blows through the mosquito screen, which was not hosed in at least 6 months, is full of dust, some of it mineral insulation dust which today i feel it stinging all over my body and on my esophagus.

So i went outside and hosed everything, and while doing that,  somebody started a power blower and i am asking myself, was that to cover the ambient noise i was making with the hose, just to prove i am not capable of doing anything like this?

The i smoked a cigarette and spotted the poop that woman i saw an hour later made with her dog which i could not see earlier, i know every time i smoke i start to see those, i think my brain is unconsciously looking from the source of the stink (the cigarette). While i was doing so a van with this logo passed (among other vehicles) on the alley. Is this a warning? A threat?

Yeah ever since i started to use screenshot to share what AI gives me as first answer, google put that box in the bottom asking to ask anything and i bet is confusing for those who read while taking away precious space.

I guess everything including Scientology has to have some sort of secret police.

9:05 Nu spera și nu ai teamă.

2:40 PM If anybody would ask me what was the most signtificant and influential event today in my life i would say this one is. Went in the morning and knotted one. By noon i knew i would either have to go and knot another one or go for a walk which i was not ready. Didn't really want to leave, would have been the second in a row after a long pause (six months with an exception last week and i think one more time).

My leg muscles are full of lactic acid, i can barely move but yes, i knotted a few more. One when i left, two when i came back.

And the bearded guy. They were making a big noise with a blower somwehre in the complex though the landscape guy are not here yet. One guy started a noisy car and from behind a silent one was coming. As i said, i was a pedestrian for 35 years before i started to drive so i looked behind.

One bearded guy in a small car (don't know how it fit in it). Met with him again after i knotted these. He was kinda defiant, knowing that i know what he tried to do, maybe waiting for a confrontation. One head taller than me, one hunderd pounds heavier with most of it muslces.

It happened twice yesterday when i went to the bottle drop and liquor store. Silent cars trying to run me over in the lot that is. One of the driver was Japanese. 

Guys pretending to work on Borland, only to show me their butts. I usually get sick for hours after i see a scene like this.

But before this. I took the path on the back of the hospital (hospital property that is). I saw as usually several suspicious (fake) hospital "employees" walking their lunch break.

And then right at the  new back up generator installed outside hospital property there was a Japanese guy dressed in some sort of uniform who was speaking with a woman who was kinda of cheerfully yelling at him, than she walked towards me but on the other side of the alley. What i could see with the corner of my eye was the closest AlexCrush meme i ever saw, though a bit tall and too young.

From yesterday. The camp, Can you imagine, a summer camp in the park, next to the parking lot. With children cheering and yelling all the time when i pass buy. In the past they had a sort of emblem or log figuring a willow that was actually looking like a volcano. Question. For how long were they preparing all these?

The pond. Due to Tualatin river being full of nutrients (i guess fertilizers from the farms up stream) there are lots of what are these, nenufars or lotuses on the water. So many i would think the pond would start to stink really bade soon, like in did in the last years.

But the name of the park. Brown's Ferry of Tualatin Valley. I didn't know but once googled it and now every time i pass by i remember.

This guy was running up and down the street. It is a very rare occurrence, once in ten years. Right before he passed me the first time something got in my right eye but i avoided scratching and massaging until he passed however when i did it he turned around and was still in my line of site.

The two women in hospital uniform. I was walking on the other side from opposite direction and wanted to cross to avoid them. But the button of the cross signal wasn't working so i just crossed but i was so curious i pushed the button on the other side and the signal started to work just before they reached at. One of them smile at me in a certain way. Like i invited them to cross after me?

Scientology?

Wait a minute. I was complaining for a long time about the old CTL logo and then they changed it to an X made of lotus petals. But today i figured something else. Look at the first symbol (Scientology cross) above. Is Saint Dominic in the image wearing a Scientology (or Ishtar) cross on his forehead? 

5:05 Is anybody else as annoyed as me about pegging?