2025 August - 5% Diary

It's a diary of my normal life, the 5%. Just posting my replies to the monthly newsletter questions between the family and cousins. Dragon comments are after, "In the record".  

 
Newsletter 198 - Washing/Dryer Machines, The Good, Bad, & Ugly Vacation, & Flower Gardens -
2025 August

David– Memory lane on washers and dryers is an excellent review on why I now have the ventless LG washer/dryer combo. Like Vince, I remember the wringer at Grandma Pavlovich’s garage. As a youngster, I looked at the machine and neighboring wash basins. The garage was dark and mysterious, with filter light from the window and wonder how did it all work. Let’s travel in time to Corona, I remember the clothesline in the backyard. I remember it rusting away and being replaced with a swing set which was most excellent. Jumping in time again to the UCSC dorm washers and dryers. I lived on the top floor and guess where the laundry room was…the basement. Thanks goodness I was fit and could walk up all 5 flights of stairs. Now let’s skip to Berkeley in the new house. Susan and I had a top washer and dryer to start with but replaced it with a stackable LG washer and dryer. The new space allowed us to hang clothes out of the dryer. Also, they were upstairs on the 2nd floor.

Let jump again to my being single. I again wanted a stackable washer/dryer. See pic. But it was never at the right height. The dryer controls were up high and the washer clothes were low. Also, the washer never drained completely and started to smell. I thought about getting a stackable ventless combo where the controls were in the middle, but then I saw reviews on the new LG combo and it was ventless. So I purchased from Costco the LG combo with bottom pull out tray.

 

The benefits are excellent. The drum is now dry because the drying process dries the drum. Goodbye lingering water smell. The lint trap is 100% in capturing lint. And it has to for the heat pump to work on both the wash and dry cycles. The trap is a breeze to clean. See video. The bottom tray has its own basket. See pic. I wash all my clothes in one load but dry them separately due to different materials in the tray basket. The spin cycles are amazing. The clothes feel almost dry before the dry cycle. The drum and controls are at the right height. It is quiet and does not vibrate. If I am doing a sheet load, I set it for a wash/dry cycle.

The only negative is no shoe drying rack but I can live without that. And I had to switch back to HE liquid detergent v. tablets.

Overall, the combo is an upgrade in my life. 

 

I going ventless on all home appliances for protection against firestorm. More on that in a future newsletter.

 

Running out of time here. Flowers. See the title page for the African Iris, a.k.a. Fortnight Lily. It is amazing that it was all in bloom. The next day I went out and they were all gone. The deer had a buffet that night.

On to the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly vacation.

- Family trips to Legoland were good to bad. The vacation spots of the San Diego Zoo, Wild Animal Park, Sea World, Old town, La Jolla beach walks, San Diego Botanic Garden were cool. The botanic garden had bamboo from small to monster size. And the food was excellent at Carlsbad. We tried to go cheap and stayed at various hotel and rental that had noise or maintenance issues. We finally wise up and stay in a nice hotel towards the end of our trips there. Also the beach in the marina were bad from sewage issues. You would see diapers washed up on the beach.

- All the open water swim camping trip were excellent. You drive to your campsite. Pitch the tent and throw your futon mattress in with bed sheet. The site by the bathroom were cool because you could plugin the microwave and make nachos for dinner. And the swims were good.

- The Japan trip was both good and ugly. I went to Japan with my friend Josh. The goal was to meet up with other there and vacation together and to spend time away from each other. Those people have no ideal on how to plan. We were running to a place to buy bullet train tickets before it close. Or we missed the last shuttle and had to walk up a huge hill with suitcase to get to the hotel. Or they would forget to tell us to locker our bags for the picnic in which we dragged the suitcase on dirt paths destroying them. When I finally got away from them I was able to enjoy the few day of me planning what I wanted to do.

- The trip to St. Louis to visit Dawna was an bad vacation. The heat and humidity was so hot that it cooked everyone else except me.

- The trip to Hawaii with Susan and the boys was an ugly vacation. On the first beach day, they all got sunburned which meant no more hikes. The only reason I was not sunburned is because I had to do multiple trips to the car to get stuff and the car was far away. We did get to drive all over the place which was nice and visit museums.

- The road trip with Rick, Pam, Dave Turner, and me was an ugly trip in a VW bug. It turned out the bug broke down and we spent a day at a gas station for the repair. At one point we meet up with someone and there was no room in the car for them. So I volunteered to scrunch up in the car hatch behind the back seats for the drive because I was the smallest of everyone there.

- The road trip with Judy and her Spanish friends was an ugly vacation. We had a choice between Canada or Mexico. I pleaded with them to go to Canada, but no, they wanted to see Mexico. I have nothing against Mexico other than they have no services to keep their country clean. So we saw bus high piles of trash on a beach. A pile of cars driven off the cliff. People driving insane. I forgot and ate a salad and got food poisoning. The rush hour of traffic in LA was horrendous. There was nothing redeemable about the trip. 

 

- The trips to Switzerland with the family were mostly good. I got to hike around the hommel, a.k.a. the farm visitors house. We went to several museums. There is a walking museum on the culture of Switzerland at Ballenberg. Lucerne was interesting with the history and museums. Since Susan’s father was with us, hiking was out except on my own. We did drive through the Alps.

The best consistent vacations I had were day trips from Sacramento to the snow.

It is hard to beat the weather in the Bay Area and the variety of things to do here in the Bay.

Stay safe everyone. Wear clean clothes. Keep on reading. 

 

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2025 July - 5% Diary

It's a diary of my normal life, the 5%. Just posting my replies to the monthly newsletter questions between the family and cousins. Dragon comments are after, "In the record".  

 

 

National Simplicity Day on July 12th is my day all year 24/7. I am always thinking of a better way of doing stuff. And it took hold of my life at work when they asked me to be the continuous improvement facilitator at work. After reading and doing several projects, I remember going to the prez of the company and telling him that continuous improvement is a completely different way of running a business. It moves the business from a top-down silo structure to a bottom-up flat structure.
The amazing thing is that once you do it you can never stop doing it, because it improves your life every time you do it. To start on the path of continuous improvement you need to 5S something simple. Below are before and after pics of drawers, kitchen cabinets, and a lego video explaining 5S. In short, 5S is a visual way to store stuff.
Here are pics of before and after 5S of a kitchen drawer.
Here is a 5S of a drawer before and after pics.

Here is a simple 5S of a kitchen cabinet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_BcJrbLA_E&t=70s
Here is a good video on explaining 5S. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnRHMErFUY8&t=497s
There is more to continuous improvement than 5S. There are the 7 waste, just-in-time, and leader standard work to mention a few.

Here is a good video on explaining the 7 forms of waste. https://www.lean.org/lexicon-terms/seven-wastes/
Once you do continuous improvement, your life is better, which makes you want to do it again and again.
I need to mention one more 5S story I did at work, which was my email. Everyone everywhere is in email hell. Folks, email if for sending, not to store stuff. At work, all my work was by projects. I would sort my email on the hard drive by project folders. This means that I had no email at the end of the week. In fact, I deleted all my email folders and continued to sort all the email on the hard drive by project folder. Two things came out of this. Once the project was done, I did a PDCA (plan do check adjust) summary of the work. I published the PDCA online for all to see. I deleted that project folder. Yes, all of the project folder and emails. Gone. Yes, gone. The other gain was I had no email at the start of the week, which made me feel most excellent because my email hell never existed. I tried to get others at work to do the same but they could not break from hoarding email. 


List it all. I make a daily to-do list before Ben and I go to work. I use a You ask, "How did you start on doing a list?" Again it started at work. The RMA department (RMA = return material authorization) would meet weekly and sit in a meeting room and go over the work we needed to do. It was boring and non productive. I moved the meeting from weekly to daily where we met in front of a big daily stand up board that listed all the returns we needed to repair. The most important part was it involved the whole RMA team in the design of the board. We moved the boring weekly hour meeting to a daily 10 minute standup meeting where everyone was on the same page doing the work that the manager wanted done. It was genius. I remember the big wigs from Chicago would come out to Alameda to watch us conduct a daily stand up meeting.
How to get started. I use a quarter sheet of paper for my todo list. See pic. The quarter is the backside of paper that I would recycle. I write "To Do" and date it. (Yes I did not date this one.). I keep it until I make a new to-do list and transfer the uncompleted items to the new list.
The Andronico's shopping list is a quarter of a spreadsheet. Before I go shopping I review the list and cross out any items. At the store, once I have the item in the shopping cart I take the list out of my pocket and tear the paper by the item to signify that I got that item. What is important about the list is that it is not on my Iphone. Everytime you take out the $1000 Iphone list, there is a chance you can drop it. Now times that by the number of items and and there is a reason why most people have a broken screen on their Iphone. I am proud to say that I have never had a broken screen and I own 5 phones. (4 are for playing Pokemon Go.)
The space program is interesting but not necessary. Even prior to my clairvoyance I was never interested in space stuff. Dr. Who was cool but that is about timelines. When the human race finally gets on the DEM path (Dark Energy & Matter) all of our lives will be better. Instead of looking at the stars, we will be talking to the star's avatars.

The weather from the Midwest to the east coast is devastating. I saw this video that explained why this part of the US is being devastated weekly. It seems that you need a mountain range to break up the weather and there is none from the Rockies to the East coast. And climate change is fueling the extreme weather.

The United States Postal Service under Postmaster DeJoy was a mess. Finally he left. Even a 2nd Trump term was too much for him.

The 4th was most excellent. Good food. Games. Mom's B-day. Fireworks. What else could you want for an excellent day. See pic.
 

What made you smile today? I have purchased more tools.
Before the tool talk there are before and after pics of the pavers we placed. We are working on cutting the existing walkway to continue the sloped walkway all the way to the end of the backyard. The 9" saw came with 40V 5A batteries, which don't last long. Time to buy the 40V 8A batteries, whciih come tomorrow. Also, I used the 5" saw on a track to cut a straight line for the 9" saw to follow on the walkway.
Below are shorts for concrete saws.
Youtube short of the 9" Makita concrete saw. https://youtube.com/shorts/gxb3EBr13ds?si=5gcCk6ecW6UyQBEq
Youtube short of the 5" Makita concrete saw on a track. https://youtube.com/shorts/hh7d2lxq5Aw?si=bOE3o-6NcjwWZ0_c
More construction shorts here: https://www.youtube.com/@HallstedDavid/shorts

Stay safe and always get better.  

 

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2025 June - 5% Diary

 It's a diary of my normal life, the 5%. Just posting my replies to the monthly newsletter questions between the family and cousins. Dragon comments are after, "In the record".  

 

If you were able to travel into the past, where and when would you like to go? About 4 years in the past. Why just 4? Someone needs to tell my past me not to buy LED bulbs for my fluorescent light fixtures. You know, the ones with ballast that are about to expire like this week. And when you want to go and replace the fluorescent fixture they literally don't exist. Which means you are stuck with long lasting LED bulbs for your fluorescent fixture that you can hopefully repair because you spend $100 on bulbs. But you feel even more stupid because you already went through this same exercise 4 years ago and forgot. So you hung on to the 4 year old LED tubes for your non existing fluorescent fixture to remind your future self to travel back in time to undo the money hole of bulbs. LOL...that is the plan at least. 

The other past time travel would be to visit a bank vault that is about to be destroyed. Just need to make a quick trip inside the vault and borrow money that is about to disappear in the explosion. 

How about the future? Would you travel ahead? What do you think you will see or what would you like to see? Just here. The future will look sort of backwards. A lot of the tech we believed in will be gone. Things will be basic. My hope is that the human race will finally be on the DEM path, instead of the path of the 5%, physical matter. (FYI: DEM is Dark Energy & Matter See CERN link here: https://www.home.cern/science/physics/dark-matter) And the planet will be very crowded. All those DEM beings will be with us. Any person who has passed away along with other races we have yet to meet and greet. The future looks bright.

In the record, when I say "bright" it is referencing the fact that when the human race makes physical matter it tends to not be imbued with DEM. From a clairvoyance sight, those physical items are all gray color because they lack any aspect of DEM. 
Do you think that time travel would be a bad idea or are you OK with it? What could go wrong? Why nothing could go wrong, except altered timelines. Now if I only had the Google app to navigate those lines. 

Did you ever make any predictions in the past that came true? No, or I would be $100 richer now.  

Are you an optimist or a pessimist? I am an OP person in many ways. 
Do you have any favorite books, movies or TV shows about time? I like to watch anime. It is the genre that is close to what my life is like. 

Are there any trends or favorite things either from your youth or from the present that you would consider putting into a time capsule? Yeah, my coin, stamp, and 1st day letter collection. When they open that vault in a 100 years from now they may be worth something. 

  

Are there any styles that are back in style now? I remember when I was young, my parents took us kids to the store to buy a down jacket for the snow. See pic. The jacket was horrible. The ends got wet. The down bunged to one end. and the jacket quilting was always cold. I guess the only benefit was that you could squeeze it into a small space for travel. But those feathers would poke out here and there and it would hurt, so you had to pull them out. And you had to keep the jacket away from heat because it would melt. 

So, the new down jackets have smaller quilted sections. I would imagine that all those quilted areas still lose heat. Been there, done that

 

Are there any out-of-business stores, restaurants or attractions that you wish you could go back and visit or prevent from closing? An old Thrifty Drug store not for the store but for the excitement of spending my allowance on stamps, coin collection, models or candy. I did not have much money so it was always a give and take on what I wanted to get. The Big Bag of Stamps was an excellent purchase for $1, now selling on EBay for $30. 

 

Rotaries, a.k.a. roundabouts are in vogue with transportation planners these days. Berkeley is doing the long term planning of getting everyone used to traffic circles. They are in all neighborhoods but with stop signs on all streets for now. The Gilman on/off ramp is an excellent example of a double roundabout that solved a congestion problem. See pic. 

  

Then there is the Marin Circle See pic and link to history.where the pic came from. 

Double Crossover Diamond Interchanges are also popping up around the country. Have you driven on one? Did you find it confusing? Did you get a little freaked by crossing over and seeing opposing traffic to your right? I see why they do it. It is about making travel safe, but if you put the freeway on a bridge over the street you just need a double roundabout. I was on one over in Missouri when I was visiting Dawna. It was confusing because it was new and I did not understand the purpose. 

 

Please describe any confusing roads. I remember being at an intersection and I could not make out where to go because it had just rained and for some reason the street lines all but vanished. If someone could make street paint that was iridescent when wet that would be a money maker. 

Also, the street markings in Berkeley have significantly increased. I like the visual but who is maintaining the paint? See pic. 

Can you sleep on a plane, train, bus or automobile? Could you sleep in a robot car? Nope. Nope, nope, and Nope. 
What are you up to these days? Zone 0 projects. The hardest part of Zone 0, a.k.a. hardening the house exterior, is saying goodbye to all the cool parts of the house. 

 

Moving the geraniums from the steel planter to ceramic post was okay but I spent time and money making the steel planter. See pic. Taking down all the trellises around the house and fence was not fun. See link here for before and after pics. 

 

Denuding the Westside walkway of plants is most disappointing. 

 

 

 

See pics for the transformation of the 908 side. 

But here is the thing, I did not understand how easy it was for the neighbors house fire to catch my house on fire. As I mentioned to the Berkeleyside reporter, "Zone 0 is fire prevention 101 to stop your neighbor's house fire from your home."  Here is the Assembly Bill 3074 going through the CA house now. 

Wish us luck on the journey to Zone 0 and beyond. 

 

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Knock, Knock...Avatar Hold

"Knock, knock."

"Who is there?"

"Avatar."

"Avatar who?"

"Avatar of the building, and you are not getting in." Avatar of the building

 

So I see timelines run through my head of people of power walking up to the department buildings that they are in charge of, except they can not enter the building. It is as though there is an invisible wall. Nothing they do can get them in the building. 

If you have to vote on bills or sign stuff and you can not get to your office or desk, it does not happen? 

It is a way of throwing humans out of their office if the building avatar does not want them in there.  

In the record, avatar hold is something you won't be able to undo. If you can not see the DEM being how are you going to stop it. 

 

It is possible to get in the building but you have to fess up to the building avatar outside of the building everything you have done. I know it sound ridiculous, but in the presence of a building avatar one may start talking non-stop until one has fessed up to everything. It is sort of like a truth serum being in front of these powerful avatars. Calm and relaxing, as one desires to cleanse your soul of the unwanted thoughts and emotions baggage of your actions. 

In the record, it is best to be honest in front of these beings. 

And good luck to all you folks going through this. 

 

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2025 May - Dragon Diary

It is a diary of my daily experiences. If an event is important, it will have its own post...

"Hopefully he will not be upset." Ibol, one of the avatar hack class teachers

 

Overall - Still working on the cyst fix. When I open the timeline book, thousands of line hit me and I quickly lose sight of the line I want. I am getting better on the focus. I can hold the line and see both bursea sacs on each leg and the extra that I want to get rid of. I am getting there...slowly...LOL.

2nd - I am out pulling up the weeds, Foxtail grass, and I start hearing this conversation about the grass being the enemy invading the other plants. Not missing a beat, I asked, "When did you (plant avatars) learn to speak." The plant avatars explain that their Mum tell them a story using words while presenting a visual depiction of the story. In the record, I had no idea that we had a class at the house teaching avatars a spoken language. 

 

3rd - Updated blog post: 2025 April - Dragon Diary 

 

16th - I walk into my bedroom and the letter "X" hits me. I think to myself that it must be the X servers  they are at.  Next I have clairvoyant presence of a timeline for someone from the Defense Department giving a lecture to an Admin of X. The Defense person tells the admin that all of their servers are contaminated. There is no way you will have any contact with our (defense) data. The Defense person leaves. The admin looks puzzled. As far as they are concerned, they saw nothing. They do not understand what the Defense person was talking about. 

In the record, I guess I now have access to any meeting in that building. I guess?

Later in the evening I am watching the Chris Hayes news show. Chris does a short segment on AI Grok and the bizarre answers Grok is sending to everyone. 

My first thought is that there is no way they can blame me for this. I mean, my people are in the building but I have no ideal what they are doing and I could careless. Think about it. They have classes on messing with any electronic I interface with. Try being a class guinea pig and not get upset. 

In the record, I suggest they look at this post Avatar Hack: BART Ticket Machine to get out of the predicament they are in. 

19th - I share with the support group my recent class in the Voice world, a.k.a. DEM world. I tend to not share my experience with the group because I think it is normal, yet compared to them they are barely dealing with the specific avatar assigned to them. My clairvoyance is really OP. 

 

28th -  I meet Banana slug and salamander avatars. 

- I am working with Ben and we are pulling brick when he pulled a brick with a banana slug on it. He knocked it off in the weeds and we go back to pulling brick. A minute or two later he looks for the slug in the weeds and it seems to have disappeared. Ben mentioned it to me and someone avatar speaks through me and says, "Just like Speedy Gonzales!" in a Mexican tone. In the record, It was not a slug. A slug avatar in a slug shell who wanted to meet me. 

- Blue presents herself at the door and I don't recognized her. More later.  

 

30th - Criminy! The avatar hack class decided to hack my credit card when I enter it into the online Home Depot checkout. The Home Depot person helping me do the online order over the phone noticed that when I typed in the first number, multiples of that number would appear. As she is telling me this I am thinking that I will go to that class and tell them what a wonderful hack that was. In the record, I am going to have to let it go.  On to the next hack. 

- in the record, I am now aware of the conversation the student who purposed the hack to Ibol. She said, "Yes, that is quite clever." Ibol knew she would have to make up with me because of the hack. 

- In the record, I would have to guess that they are in the Home Depot database because the keyboard and the phone could not have done the same error. 

- In the record, I forgot an online Chase bank issue that happened that I thought was bizarre but I forgot about it. I guess they are in the Chase bank database which is connected to other financial institution which means they are now in the all the financial institutions. 

- In the record, every business that I have done online purchase, they are in their database because of "once touched, always in touch". I swear, there is no way any of these institutions can pin it on me. I am not the one doing it.

- In the record, I am in the Social Security System, IRS, CA DMV, jury system,  any online payment, and so on. They have been busy looking at all these different databases. At this point, it is probably easier to list the databases I am not in versus all in.  

- in the record, they love my expression I make when I find out the shenanigan they are up to.

 

31st - Dang it! The Home Depot hack is still there. It is now an assignment for me. The goal is to secure the line to their server through AT&T server prior to typing in the credit card number.  In the record, I can see multiples of the first number typed in on the Home Depot server though it does not show up on my side.

- in the record, I think I have to make the white line all the way through in order for it to not be corrupted. Hopefully? 

 

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2025 May 31 - grammar, 31st

2025 June 25 - grammar

2025 May - 5% Diary

It's a diary of my normal life, the 5%. Just posting my replies to the monthly newsletter questions between the family and cousins. Dragon comments are after, "In the record". 

I included the title page that I made for the newsletter. In the page are pics of the newsletter subjects. Note that the new tech is an AI hand touching a human hand. As the pope is on the human hand spring, the blossoming tree branch, is on the new tech hand side. Nature is all about DEM, Dark Energy & Matter, which will be the new tech of the human race.

 

The Pope? Good luck Leo. 

The NBA playoffs, who do you want to win? The Warriors…though they lost last night. 

Money: Who among us pays with cash or do you card everything? I card it, but I sort wish it was like Japan where everyone pays with cash which stop companies like VISA from taking a cut of the money. When possible I pay with a debit card to help out the merchant. 

What are your thoughts about the penny? Bye, bye Penny. 

What about the nickel? Bye, bye nickel. In fact, get rid of the quarter and round to a dime. The coinage for the US should be a dime, half dollar, One dollar, two dollar, and five dollar coins. But this will never happen because VISA is in the middle and will continue to have a piece of the action. 

What is the largest bill denomination that you have ever gotten? I recently sold some tools for $100 and got a $100 bill.  You can stake Ben and put him in the grill if you want. When I told folks you could stake Ben no one believed me.

Even if you are a card paying user, how much cash do you carry on you for emergencies? I now carry $140 on me. It use to be just two Andrews but Ben join the family. 

Do you use any online payment systems? I used the online Chase bill payment. It was great. One stop bill payment where the banks sends a check to the company I owe. Then Postmaster DeJoy showed up and killed the US excellent 1st class mail delivery.  

Two stories here. So I continue to use the Chase online bill paying when DeJoy becomes the Postmaster General. All of sudden I get hit with late fees for my monthly mortgage payments. This has never happened ever since I did online bill payment. I complain to the Snapfi mortgage company and they could care less. I come to the realization, that I now have to use each payment site that I owe money to now pay because of DeJoy.  They are PHH, Honda, EBMUD, PG&E, DMV, AAA, AT&T…all of them. The only joy I have is that DeJoy resigned in March from being the Postmaster General. Even he knows that the Trump Administration 2.0 is toxic. 

Here is the other story. I go into Chase to ask why the online bill payment system does not show the day the check is cashed. This is where everything in the bank gets weird. I end up talking to the new bank manager.  He tells me that the bank cannot know when it is cashed because it is a bill payment. I tell him that it is a check. It even has a name signed on the check. He repeats to me that it is a bill payment. I tell him it look like a check I would write. The manager starts to get angry. The nearby tellers are afraid. I am like, “Whatever.” I tell them that I will not be using their online bill payment system because it is unreliable and leave. I don’t think any of the tellers like the new manager which I will admit is no longer there. Chase now states a range of date the check will be delivered, but that is all to late for me. Think about it. Banks are all about transactions of money flow and they don’t know when something is cashed. Really.

How is online banking working for you? Check deposit are most excellent. It work best with a dark background behind the check. 

 

 

Spring is here, so what is your favorite flower? I will never grow tired of the Sour grass.  As for gardens and trees, none here.

  

New Technology: What new tech did you not see coming, but you are using? Ventless Appliances.  I am not using them now but I plan to soon. I had no ideal that the bathroom fan, stove, dryer, in floor heater, and the instant hot water heater could all be electric, which is ven.0tless, a.k.a. ductless. In the “what’s new”, I talk about Zone 0.  An important aspect of fire hardening your house, Zone 0, is to eliminate all vents on your house. I had no idea that heat pump dryers were a proven tech used in Korea, now coming to the US. Charcoal bathroom fans. Cool.  

 

What new tech do you wish would disappear? Carpets. I do not have carpets in my flat. I am amazed on the amount of dust bunnies that accumulate.  See pic. I can only assume that everyone who has carpet that the carpets are never 100% clean. How can they get clean unless you shampoo your carpet all the time.

 

What is new? Pesto Electric grill. Gave up on the cast iron on gas. The new Pesto grill makes perfect pancakes. 

 

What is new? My new smoker. I upgraded the smoker. What did not work out is the tray in front. It is in your way for the grill.

Also, the pit under the front deck is done. For more pics on the pit renovation go here. 

Here is a short of the pit at the start.

Here is a short of the pit completion.

 

 

Just got this email about a coyote on the block. 

Too many wild turkeys in the neighborhood.

 

What is new?   Zone 0 is the fire hardening of your home and property to survive a local fire to a firestorm. So I emailed my local council member that I will be chronicling the journey of 912 Shattuck to a Zone 0 house.   Below is the intro paragraph:

Zone 0: What the…?

I will be honest. I ignored all this stuff because I was busy being retired and doing home improvement projects. Then the LA fires happened. My immediate thought was that the Berkeley Hills was doomed. Then the news showed homes that survived the firestorm. I searched the internet and found more homes from other fires that survived their own firestorm because they were Zone 0 homes. Then it hit me, I live in a house with an outside exterior of stucco wall and cement boards. We are halfway there. But here is the thing, to be Zone 0, we will be faced with difficult decisions. 

On the next page are two pics listing the things to do for Zone 0.  I added two new intro categories: Home 0 and “The Day After”. What the fire department and the insurance do not tell you is that if your house is not ventless, you may survive the firestorm but the inside of your house is cover in toxic ash and smoke, thus Home 0. The Day After is your basic apocalyptic live after the storm.

Wish us luck on the journey. Be safe everyone.

 

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2025 April - Dragon Diary

It is a diary of my daily experiences. If an event is important, it will have its own post...

"Do not fear. We will watch out for you." Golem Mum

 

Overall -  Getting closer to figuring out the Baker cyst thing.  Still having difficulties with the DEM machines I have attached to my legs. Yay yay, I will get the other dragon diaries out soon.

 

4th - As I close my eyes, I see it. Perfect vision of me looking through a human at a group of 3 people and a suitcase leaving a doorway. It is as though I am on the stairs looking at them move out the doorway. 

In the record,  I have never experience that type of sight before.

 

I stand up at my desk, with my right hand out to open the record. I hear a voice say, "Are you sure you want to open the record?" 

I pause. 

It's a male voice. 

My first thought is that voice is me.

I put my hand on the vision and turn it 180 to see who the person is, which turn out to be me. 

I don't think the doorway event has happened yet, so...what was the point of it. 

I put my right hand out and open the event prior to the perfect sight event.

I fling my wrist as the teacher puts her hand my my hand, and I start to listen to the conversation between the teacher and me.  

"So show me something that is in the future." 

"Look into this time dot."

I quickly peer in and see the doorway event with Perfect sight. 

"That was cool and clarifying."

"Do you understand how the book can help you with your mission?"

"Yay, yay. It will allow me to take the path I need versus the path of deterrence."

"Is that enough for you to do the path?" 

"It's going to have to be, won't it?"

She nods.

"Right."  

In the record, I am not a very good student. Quite lazy in fact.

In the record, it is not laziness, but caution. 

In the record, there will be time, soon, when I need to be in my body 24/7. No more avatar substitution.

 

6th - Updated post: Venusian Law: Hands Off Human

- Cow Mums came by for a visit. 

 

It looks like there was a data dump of the blog.

 

27th - I check the blog stats when I am on the computer. I noticed a huge spike in hits.  It must be a dump of the blog. 

- In the record, these folks have no ideal how the DEM world works. At least these folks had a clue. 

I need to explain to them that in the DEM world, "Once touched, always in touch". Since I wrote the blog, I am in contact with that information no matter what format it is in. In physics term, it is quantum entanglement. The phenomenon of two particle touching each other and then drift apart. Whatever happens to one of the particle can happen to the other particle.

- In the record, I open the record of blog dump. I see two tables in an "L" shape with three computing machines run by one person. I see the data on each one being downloaded to a storage device. I see the person walking with the storage device in to a two door room. Once in, I see him plug in the device to download the files. The room has many servers. In fact, there are multiple floors with servers. 

- In the record, I don't care. But whatever I see, the rest of the avatar world sees. This means that my people now have access to all those wonderful servers and the data on them. In fact, my people have golems watching the building and the person who did the dump.  Also, it looks like there are no clairvoyants in the building because they are unaware that they are now under surveillance. In fact everyone going in and out of the building is now under surveillance. Well, have fun with that. 

Pic is from the anime Solo Leveling

30th - The above pic is from an YouTube video what is reading the Solo Leveling manga. The reason I took the pic is because Hunter Sung is being shown a image, a.k.a. timeline record, of the fight between his father and Hunter Huang. Hunter Sung even has access to the words used in the timeline. 

In the record, this is almost the same thing I experience. The only exception would be that for Hunter Sung to have access to records he was not present for, he would need to have that person give him access as he opens that record. 

- In the record, I watch anime because it is the closest depiction of the DEM world.

Update: 

2025 May 3 - grammar. LOL. My people keep closing me out of having sight of the building. It is best I know nothing of the building, location, or the people going in and out.