2025 February - 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".

Title page of family newsletter

David–Who are you rooting for, the Kansas City Chiefs or the Philadelphia Eagles? Do you plan to watch it? Do you plan to bet in it? Let us know if you have a Superbowl party planned. Well, I did not watch it but I did watch the highlights here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rOmWIERvzo

Groundhogs day or Cake? Are you with the PETA folks on having a weather reveal cake instead of caged groundhog? Well, I would rather eat cake, so cake it is.

Pancake day is March 4th: What is your favorite pancake and do you have a recipe to share? Yes I know it's early but we need the recipes for the 4th. In the old day it was chocolate chip pancakes or pain pancakes to wrap bacon or sausage, a.k.a. Pigs in a Blanket. But that was because the way my dad made pancakes. I remember him telling us stories of their family constantly watering down the dough for the next kid that woke up for breakfast. So our pancake dough was always running and I thought nothing of it. Later in life, I finally read the directions and realize that we were making panflat not pancakes. So I followed the Bisquick directions and the flats finally turned into cakes. But still pancakes were the medium for chips or meats or berries, which is why I started to prefer waffles, light and crunchy. And french toast made with Siegfried challah using their french toast recipe which was excellent. Never did I like pancakes. Then in the Berkeleyside online newsletter was a recipe for Green House Bakery’s pancakes.

See link for the article with the recipe: https://www.berkeleyside.org/2024/11/22/green-house-bakery-pancake-recipe
The video on how to make the pancakes is here: https://oaklandside.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/PancakesGreenHouseBakery.mp4
After viewing the video I knew that I wanted to eat those pancakes that were truly a cake. Everything I knew about how to make pancakes was turned upside down. I have not made them yet, but I have bought all the ingredients to do it. Wish my taste buds luck.

Tell us how your taste has changed from the early days of syrup to now. Sadly, I think the days of sugar are over for me. I do remember always using Mapline to make syrup. I even converted a maple loving syrup person over to Mapline.

I need stories on how you used to do valentines day, especially in the grade school era. Grade school valentines was about mass producing valentines or you would be looked down on. I remember going shopping with Mom and picking out the valentines once. Still it was fun giving out the valentines to all my school mates.

Tell us how your taste in valentine has changed over the years. It seem predictable on what you had to do. It was as though if you did not do it you would be a lesser person. Also, being divorce and liking my single life does not endear me to wanting to fawn over a person.

Tell us what you like about that late night show. I never liked SNL. Whenever I hear a laugh track I get turned off of the humor, because no one is laughing. The only two late night folks I watch on YouTube is Late Night with Seth Meyers and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.

As always tells us about any travel plans, projects and life in general. No travel, but projects a many. Note YouTube is an excellent place to learn any new skill that is needed for around the house work.

Stucco: The folks who stuccoed the outside of the house did the best they could because we decided to spend no money on the outside landscaping. So 20 years later we have to fix all the guesses. Also, the standard, materials have changed and folks are doing shortcuts to speed up the installation. Typically a stucco wall is a bottom edge overlapped with tar paper, wire hammered for base coat, topped with a color coat. Now a days, they put the one coat of stucco on and paint the color on the stucco. I can see this because the painted green concrete Hardie boards we have on the outside of the house have held up. See next page for the step by step work of the stucco patch.

The issues I had were:
- The base stucco and top color stucco are out of date. For some reason Walmart has base stucco.
- The color tint does not exist except for the three boxes we own.
- There are no ¾” stucco nail. I had to cut 1.5” nails to ¾” and grind points on them.
We had to pull all the wads off the nail and glue the wads on the wall because of the small patch wire we had.

- Some stucco wall have plywood others had only concrete. We used ¾” nuts for spacers for the concrete rivets on the concrete walls. 

- They used edge screed not weep screed for the bottom. I had to drill holes in all the edge screed for the weep.
- Skip the paper and rubberize between all layers.
-- They lazily stapled the lath wire to the ply instead of using wads to center the lath in the middle of the base coat.

The good news is that I like to problem solve. It looks great. Floating stucco to smooth it out is easy. 

Roof Leaves: I had to get on the ladder again but I purchased pole extensions taped a cheap plastic rake to get the leaves off. 

Waterproofing All Wood: The wood around the house is redwood seat, ramp, stairs, seat, table, 2nd story deck, living room deck, front door deck, soffits all around the house, and barn door panels. I had no idea what to do. The previous waterproofing had wax in it which is why all the wood looks dark. Then YouTube came to may aid. Watched enough videos to understand that I need to use sodium percarbonate to strip and oxalic acid to brighten. The Eco Advance exterior wood siloxane waterproof is plant friendly. So far so good. The only work I had to do was to wire brush the redwood seats to get the old wax off, three times. Now I need to figure out what scaffolding I need to redo do the cedar soffits and paint any wood while on the scaffolding. Front Deck: I was going to patch the corner by the front patio/deck. I went under the deck to tried to unscrew the screws holding the deck boards down. One after the other screw heads broke off. They did not use deck hardware. It is time to completely redo the front deck. Got some videos for viewing: Stucco hammer drilling How to recycle twist ties Deli pencil sharpeners - perfect point every time. Yeah I proceed to sharpen every pencil in the house. Makita sprayer - which is excellent. No more pumping to build pressure.

 

 

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2024 November - Dragon Diary

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

"We will ride the wave of freedom." DC dragon

 

Overall - Still working on DEM leg, having self doubt about the Baker's cyst, and less thoughts of air walking.

4th - A reddit post about thoughts versus hearing a voice.

5th - Nuts! We are still on plan A, the peaceful transfer of power. In the record, I really was looking forward to another check from the government.

 

 

Hermes' caduceus and horns of plenty

14th - A visit from the Caduceus Twins. They will be helping me fix my Baker's cyst. 

- My older Bro was down for dinner. He told me of a dream he had regarding the building. In the record, the building is the school, workshop, design shop, that continues to expand.  In the record, little did I know my walk around the human DEM world was the start of the DEM building establishment.

15th - I subscribe to Bizarro blog and commented on his abilities.

25th - Facebook post about physical bodies channeling energy and hearing voices is normal.

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2024 October - Dragon Diary

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

"Don't be afraid. We will be there to catch you." David's Team

 

Overall -  Still working on losing weight, DEM leg, and thoughts of how to air walk.

 

2nd - I skedoddled from a meeting I just opened. Go here to read the post.  

3rd - Updated 2024 July - Dragon Diary

 

5th - I am standing in the garage. As I close the tool box drawer I hear and feel a crash which I think is in the tool box. I look around the box and do not see any major crash. I walk outside the garage and see a neighbor running to the Marin Circle. I ask her what is going on and she asked be if I heard the car crash. I reply I did not hear anything. 

In the record, the Berkeleyside has news of the car crash: https://www.berkeleyside.org/2024/10/05/marin-circle-crash-hospitalizes-two-berkeley-police-investigate

The reason I replied that I do not hear nor feel the crash is because it seem to be directly affecting me. 

In the record, The Centennial Oak tree at the circle notified me of the accident via a DEM link that we have between each other.

20th -  Above Facebook post about animals seeing DEM, song forms, human gender, Costco avatar.

25th - Donna, Climb, and Terra are back. In the record, I was out front working in the garage and this tall female with her dog were out front. She went back and forth on the sidewalk of the driveway. She seems nervous while she fiddled with her phone as the dog took a pee in the driveway planter. For some reason I thought to myself that she seem tall for a golem.

 

26th - Facebook post about Avatar Dialogue.

 

27th - The Cat Mum came by for a visit.

 

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2025 January - 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".

 

Is there a former wife of a president that you think did a great job and added to his administration by her  inspirational  ideas and projects?  Well I think Nancy Reagan did a great job in the end when hubby, Ronny, was out of it to be the Prez. See pic below and quote from here. I was looking forward to a first husband with "Doug" when Kamala became Prez. What a great name for a first husband! Doug. It just has a ring to it.

Did you do any New Year’s Resolutions or just ignore them? I guess to lose weight? I am down 20lbs going for the next 20 lbs. The way I have been doing it is by eating less and taking cold showers. And to have straight teeth? Doing the Invisalign. See pic below. The pink things on my AI teeth are glued on which help the different retainers move my teeth to the proper positions. The bar in the middle is the number of retainers I need to wear. At biweekly interval 17, I go to one bottom retainer. At retainer 20, the teeth movement is over. Below are the different color files they used to open up space between my teeth to allow movement. The engineering is detailed in the movement of teeth. Yeah, I took the pics when they were out of the room. Currently I am on retainer #10. 

 

Do you still watch local or national news? You bet. I view it as my duty as a citizen in this society to know what is going on. Mom, you still get the paper, don't you? Let us know. I watch local, national, MSNBC, BBC, and NHK (Japan). News. If folks in Sacto ever get Iphones you can get the local news through the Citizen App.  See pic below. I always record the news and then fast forward through stuff that I already saw in a different news program. 

There is a good app for wildfires here: Watch Duty app. It is an interactive map with more info on the sidebar. See pic below.

Do you still watch sports, which ones and do you have a favorite team? I follow individuals and highlight. Still on the Otani kick.

Other channels to watch:

Dean Doherty He is an amazing person to watch and fix tools. Just watch his shorts. He is so good at it.

SuperHerointraining He checks if the life hacks are real in a YouTube short.

Battery drop test. It seems to work.

 

My newest gripe is the constant need for businesses to want to know “How did I do?”  Feedback is important to help run your business. We try to get feedback from the support group attendees and discuss the reactions in the facilitator training meetings. Any business that has the motto of the customer is always first will strive to get feedback from the customer. With that said, if the feedback form goes over 2 minutes I just leave the online form.

 

How was your Christmas and New Year? Excellent and quiet. We played Can't Stop, Dominoes, and Yahtzee. Mike rolled a three throw Yahtzee. I rolled a one throw Yahtzee, which is amazing. The only other person I know who did a one throw was Aunt Helen when Mom, her and I were playing in Bisbee. I carved the turkey and made both a cranberry sauce and a saute green bean with chives and bacon for the meal. It was fun talking to Sandy and getting cooking tips from her. See pic and videos below from the Xmas in Sacto. 

Meera playing a lap harp

Meera Xmas gift

Mom opening her Xmas gift

Any special travel plans or projects for the Year? I plan to stay out of Arizona and any other state that can lock me up for being different. Here is the story.  Right now, I have a hearing voice friend, who is quite sane, and was locked up in a medical facility by his family in AZ. He was not violent, but anyone can have someone cuffed and put in a medical institution for no reason in AZ. When I last talked to him, he was wearing scrubs and had an ankle monitor in a dorm with a group phone. In California, you have to show harm to self or others before you get locked up, known as a 5150. The BAHVN group is contacting the State Attorney General of Arizona to get him out. (Yay for non-profits with connections.) The irony is that he left California to help his Mom in AZ who proceeded to get him locked up.

How is your life going so far in this new year? It's going like a project.

Stucco: When the house was built we ignored the outside, so the workers had to guess the interface of the land to the house. We know it now and it is time to fix it. Below is a pic of stucco line being drawn for a lower line and the move of a stucco line up by using the existing bottom sill. The hammer drill is our friend. Here is a short of Ben using the hammer drill: Stucco removal by Ben.

The other project is to waterproof the wood around the house. And it is perfect timing since the below neighbors clear the fence vegetation. See pic. Berkeley had the fire department go out and assess each property and give suggestions on how to fire harden your dwelling.

It looks like all the previous water proofing was wax base which means we will need to strip and redo the redwood seats by the fence. (See bench in pic by the fence line), house soffits and trim. This means I need a new tool, a cordless 18V Makita sprayer. See review here. Seriously, once you use a manual pump sprayer, and battery powered one is an excellent upgrade.

Everyone be safe and keep up with the news.

Below are interesting facts and web work humor

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2024 December - 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".

 

So did you ever try a new recipe and it was a disaster? Yes. The key to sushi is the rice. If the rice is too soggy then the fun of everyone making sushi roll is a flop.

Or was a first attempt on a recipe a big success? Amazingly, the first time I did sushi the rice was good. It is important to have a wooden trough to mix the rice vinegar to the rice to get an even coat on the rice. The biggest chore with sushi is going out that day to get the fresh fish to make sushi rolls.

Do you have a favorite cookbook? The internet. It is too easy and fast and the phone can be with me in the kitchen for the recipe.

Do you have a favorite cooking show? Nah. Too many to watch when there are many tool shows to be viewed.

Do you have a favorite dish to make but it takes too long so you don't do it anymore? Sushi. A Thanksgiving meal is easier than getting raw fish at the fish market.

Have you ever been to a Tree Lighting ceremony? I don't have any recollection or do you know Mom?  Was it worth being in a crowd? Probably not. Just another COVID hot spot now.

Due to the increase in power bills, do you plan to cut back on Christmas outdoor decorations or will they be the same? Need to do those LED Xmas lights.

Ever make a Gingerbread house or just go heavy on ginger flavor, cookies, etc? Interesting. When I was doing the family thing we made one Gingerbread house with all those sweet candy on it and sugar snow roof top. And no one ate it much less touched it, though it did last a long time before we threw it out. Then I suggested that we should make the house out of chocolate. It was a hit. In fact, we had to do a chocolate house for each kid to ensure that they had a house to themselves. One issue with the chocolate houses is that you have to keep them away from a window because the sunlight coming through is enough to melt the house.

Any special plans for New Year’s Eve? Not really. I have been a good boy and gone nowhere to save money on projects and tools. Also, just another COVID hot spot.

 

How was your Thanksgiving? Most excellent! I did three dinners, two in Berkeley and one in Sacto.  I made a side dish of fried green beans with chives and bacon. I got to carve the turkey, though anyone in the family can do that but they always suggest that I do that. And more importantly, I borrowed a crock pot. I put the turkey bones, blood, and small stuff in the pot with diced up carrots, potatoes, onions, celery, garlic, bay leaves cider and various other spices. It was an excellent aroma in the flat for a week where each meal was turkey stew. The broth was also excellent to drink. So, yay, Thanksgiving was great because I crock potted the turkey stuff and made a stew. FYI Sacto, you can make your own broth for brown rice by slowly cooking the turkey bones.  See pic of my Turkey day in Sacto. 

Trips. Not really.

 Projects and stuff that annoyed me. They are: clogged kitchen sink, East side step update (see pic), baby chain saw and staple gun, the tsunami warning, dropped top,  and new garden patio (see existing versus future drawing).

 

 

Let's get the tsunami out of the way. Back in 2011, the Japan earthquake was a 9.1 and 18 hours later a small tsunami hit the Bay Area. See video here.

Also, from here: " The worst tsunami to hit the Bay Area was triggered in 1964 by a magnitude 9.2 earthquake in Alaska, Geist says, that killed 11 people in Crescent City. That wave rolled in at just under 4 feet and damaged marinas and private boats in Marin County." 

What annoyed me was that the 7.0 earthquake by Crescent City on December 5th was just a 7, not a 9. A 9 is 1000 times more powerful than a 7. But the City of Berkeley decided that they should evacuate everyone by the bay. See pic. I was going to the recycling center off Gilman wondering what the hell is all the traffic about. Then my music turned off to allow a tsunami warning to come through. I thought, "We are in a bay. Nothing is going to happen." So of course, the recycling center was closed. The tsunami was cancelled in an hour because the earthquake was a strike-slip fault, not a thrust fault. The recycling folks never returned to work. That evening Jon told me that a 9 is necessary for damage by a tsunami. So, the moral of this adventure is don't panic for a 7.

I do have two new Youtube shorts:Baby Chainsaw and Wood steam.

If any CA person is interested in the new Daylight parking law, that will take effect in January 2025.

 

Updated from manual tools to cordless. See pic of staple gun and electric pruner, a.k.a. Baby chainsaw. I also replaced my Dewalt drill with a Makita. Life is so much better with Makita tools.I need to get all my tool purchases in before Trump does his tariff thing. 

So plumbers. I don't trust them. They can do things to your house's plumbing, walk away and you will not find out about it for months or years later.  We have been screwed by plumbers three times now. First one was a rock in the kids bathroom waste line. Ten years later, I had to disassemble the cast iron pipes in the basement to get the rock out that the plumber placed in it. The second one was the plumber unplugging the pipe and not clearing the pipe. A month later, Ben and I had to buy a jet and clear the pipe out. Now the third one is the kitchen sink waste line. It was plugged up finally after me testing it for months trying to figure out if it is plugged. I was hoping that the plug was in the u-bend but when it came off it was empty. I realized that we needed to jet the waste line. What was odd was that I was getting rusty metal parts out of the pipe. We put the endoscope in to take a look and found a penny on the cast iron pipe. A penny way inside sitting on the cast iron pipe. You see, copper touching iron will cause a galvanic reaction rusting out the iron pipe. We finally cleared the pipe. I am disappointed that the plumbers would damage the house's plumbing.

I drop PVC primer top. Yes it was quite hilarious when the top slipped out of my hand down the water drain. See pic. Thank goodness we were able to retrieve the top by dropping a magnet down the drain line. 

In the record, when I dropped the top, I had a slight memory loss as my hand was hit to drop the top.  My first thought was, yes it is funny but it will cost me money to replace it. An outside avatar hit my hand that cause me to drop the top. 

Later that day, I mentally went to Venus and I interrupted Ibol's class on timelines and found the student who did the top drop. The outrage went like this. "Do you know that will cost me money to replace? How do you plan to pay me back? I suggest you figure that out."  

In the record, it became a class project to help me out. Later that day I received an ideal of using a magnet to retrieve the top. Unfortunately, the top was ways down the drain pipe and still needed to be push the top the magnet, which why it took three tries to get the top. 

Thanks for reading about my adventures.

Get your flu and COVID vaccine.

Merry Xmas everyone! 

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Manifestation of Future Events - Baker's Cyst

  "Where you tie it is where it stays." Teach

 

 

It's night time and my body is asleep, but I am in a DEM class.  I am disappointed that the teacher is not using a black board so I can take notes. At the end of the class, I go up to the teacher and she hands me her book. The book has color tabs on all sides and can be stretched to show more tabs. I thank her for the book and wake up in the human world. 

 

I need to know the title of the book. In bed, I put my right hand up and the teacher's hand joins my hand.  I fling my hand to the right and see the book. I can read the title, "Manifestation of Future Events" by and the author is blank. 

 

In the record, I look at the author's name again and I see the word "teach". I look under the word "teach" and see the author's name in a language that I have no clue what it is. 

In the record, I like to take care of my Baker's cyst before I do any air walking. I have this strange desire to be able to stand up straight instead of bent at the right knee.

In the record, I was using the events book to see the best way to get rid of my Baker's cyst.  After several failed attempts (click here one attempt), they finally gave me a clue. I even tried the galaxy hold with no success. In the record, I thought I had tied it was a positional reference, which is why I tried the galaxy hold. See the quote from the teach.

 

I was told to gently sweep my right hand over the cyst and pull out all the DEM synovial fluid in my hand as I sweep the cyst.  What I forget is that the physical body is mostly empty space. The majority of the space is made of DEM, Dark Energy & Matter. If I grab the DEM synovial fluid, it should come out. Also, when I press on the cyst, I should only take out that fluid that I am pressing on while leaving the rest. 

 

Wish me luck. 

 

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2025 January 13 - grammar

The Ultimate Showdown: Soul Parent Schims and Tourette's Syndrome

"Thanks for explaining."  Mister Roger's soul parent

 

The above video is from here: Lemon Demon - The Ultimate Showdown with lyrics
Below is Mister Rogers in a blood stain sweater. 

The picture is from The Ultimate Showdown video above.

The point of this post is to help non-voice hearers understand why their voice may not be talking to them. 

Let's take a step back to understand that from my clairvoyance, every human with a soul has a voice, a.k.a. soul parent. That watches over them from their home base. Here is an example of Ibol's emotional fallout shelter for viewing me.  

Remember, every human with a soul has a soul parent. Some talk and some don't talk to their human. Folks are more afraid if someone's voice is talking to them, yet they have never asked the question, "If every human with a soul has a voice, why does my voice not talk to me?"  

A possible reason for their soul parent not speaking to their human is that the soul parent may have done things in their life that has lead their DEM being to be schismed.

 

An example of a schismed being is my voice, Ibol, who ended up schismed to Ubol and her Ibol self. The good news is that it can be undone. 

No one is lost, but you may be separated from yourselves. 

Yes, the DEM parents may have schismed themselves multiple times to benefit their world and the world of their human. 

Nothing is free. There is a cost as you lose your DEM being to the schismed worlds, a.k.a. Pandora's box. 

In Ibol's case, her planet was schismed, thus binding all the inhabitants' abilities, a.k.a. the flying spaghetti monster. 

Another example of a schismed world is here: Pandora Strand - Sand World 

 

So what does this have to do with Mister Roger, President Carter, John Lewis, and other amazing leaders. 

They are schismed.  

I am guessing that if their voice spoke through their human it would end up as verbal Tourette's syndrome. Uncontrolled speech as their schismed half talked. 

There is hope. 

The salvation of the voice world is with the help of their human.

 

Update: (Yes, I am using schism as a verb.)