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.

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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.

 

2025 April - 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". 

David--April Fool’s Day…did you ever do any tricks on that day, any age? Let's talk about April Fool life jokes. Since November 5th, that mad King has done April fools on our democracy. Everyday it is yet another bizarre proclamation from that wanna be autocrat. We still have 3.5 years to go with that crazed man. Another April fool's life joke is fire harden house changes. Climate change is making a change to the forest of the Berkeley hills. See picture from Marin Circle. That city is doing hardcore mandates on the people of the hill to harden 5' perimeter around the house. I know I am doing hardscape around the house but it is now 5'. And all those trees will have to go. Too bad. 

 

View of the Berkeley Hills from the Marin Circle

 

Do you have any funny or horror stories for April 15th? Thankfully no. I don't do my taxes anymore. I fill out the tax preparer's form and pay my taxes. One funny thing I did find out was that the penalty for not paying my taxes is less than the preparer's fee. It makes you think that the IRS should just send me a bill and I will pay it. .

In your day dreams is there any state or city that you would like to move to and what makes that place a fond wish for you? I rather like the climate of Northern California's Bay Area. Not moving anytime soon.
What made you smile today or this week or month? Climate change! Give me a minute to explain. You see, I like projects and fire hardening the house is a bunch of house projects. Projects like replacing wood railings with metal. Covering the cedar soffit and fascia with cement Hardie boards. Rerouting the fiber optic cable inside the house wall because we need to reduce the vent grids to 1/8" square mesh. Replace the roof with a metal one so we can mount the solar panels on the metal roof ridges. Replacing the redwood fence with something nonburnable? Yeah for projects!

Is there an age you reached or looking forward to that made you think differently about that point? You know, I sort of mindlessly meander through life doing the next thing without much thought. I went to UC Santa Cruz because? I dropped out and went back home to help us move up North? I went and stayed with my AZ relative to do what? I later came back to Walnut Creek to go to a junior college to get a Machinist/Welder certification, and stayed to get my pre-engineering classes? I went to UC Davis and got my Mechanical/ Material Science degree, but decided to dumpster dive and train for triathlons. Then Rick offered me a job out of the blue and I took it. I got married and raised kids, got divorced and I now live in the basement of my previous wife Susan. But now I have reached where I want to be. I am a high level clairvoyant who can see 100% of our universe. See link for the 100%, https://home.web.cern.ch/science/physics/dark-matter. But in a world of 5 percenters, it gets you nothing, though It still makes me happy knowing how everything works.

April 28th is Great Poetry Day. I have no logic why I like project? I still my will to always build. (In poetry, the grammar can take a back seat. LOL)

 
Any special plans for Easter? Going to Mom's to cook a green bean-onion with bacon. Here is a funny story regarding my side dish of stir fried green beans, onion, with bacon, GOB. We are all sitting at the Xmas dinner table and Meera asked me to pass her the GOB side dish. I looked at her holding the dish and said, "What is the password?" She stared at me wondering what my silly Uncle was up to now. Then I stated, "Bacon!". We both cracked up laughing. But the bacon makes the dish.

How is life going for you? Life is like a project. When one project is done you go to the next one. The current project is the pit under the front deck. See link: https://youtube.com/shorts/2Yuu8r98Q1k?si=92u5M2cKRdp3mU-f . Below are the plans for the pit. We are pouring the concrete pad this Tuesday. Wish Ben and me luck. 

 

Happy Easter everyone! 

 

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2025 January - Dragon Diary

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

"I help those who want democracy to thrive." US Congress Mace avatar

 

Overall -  Still working on my Baker's cyst. Trying to use chakras to wipe out the excess synovial fluid.

2nd - Facebook post replies on being open, trauma formation, Solar System council, zombies, what is you and what is not you, throat chakra, human soul development, voice origin.

17th - Redheaded avatar that guides congress.

 

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