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Hi Everyone, The blog is about my adventures in the avatar world that surrounds us. Hopefully, there are take away for you in reading the blog. Enjoy! David Alan Bartholomew Phillip Hallsted
Friday, July 26, 2024
The task is not complete: Taking down American Fascism
Sunday, June 23, 2024
2024 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".
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My Mom read this story to me all the time. In the record, The Lord of Flames read Ibol the story to help her overcome the trails of this human existence. When I look at the timeline of the story reading I see both of them in a third person perspective. The reason I do not remember the story was because my soul was still growing. See human development chart. |
Flag day is June 14th do you do anything special on that day? Don't even have a USA flag.
Father’s Day, June 16th, do you have any special stories to share? I told my Kids what I wanted. I am hoping that they will get it for me. We will need to celebrate it on the 15th though. I guess we could do take out from Zachery's Pizza. (If you folks ever come to Berkeley, you must try out Zachery's Pizza.)
First day of summer, June 20th, do anything special on that day? It's my day off. Perhaps I will go for a walk.
People even came the night before to camp out so they could be first in line. Did you ever do that for any event? Nope. I like my bed.
Are you having any trouble getting any special brand you like? I stopped buying eggs because of the cost. So I switched from my egg and potato burrito to a smoked chicken, potato, and stir fried green beans and onions. Most delicious.
Holiday countdown to Independence Day? I am more interested in the 4th of July, which is 27 days away from this typing. The 4th lands on a Friday. So I am not sure what day the Hallsteds are going to do the 4th on. Ben, Jon and I will be coming up to Sacramento for the fun and B-day.
And as always, how is your life going and any special travel plans? Three stories: 1. Somehow I paid 2024 taxes with the 2023 tax money. I am not sure how I did that, but now I have interest and penalties to pay. So I called them up to see what I could get cleared up. It took me a half hour to figure out how to talk to someone from the IRS to explain that I did a mistake. Then another 2.5 hours on the phone while they moved my 2024 money to the 2023 payment. I have also petitioned to have the penalties erased. So, maybe it will be cleared before the June 24 due date? It was not so bad waiting on the phone because I was working on the computer while it happened.
2. Time for a story about a nightmare delivery. So, I ordered a rebar bending tool from Home Depot. I often have it free delivered due to the cost of gas and Home Depot is warehousing many of their tools in a central location. The tool is in Raleigh, NC, on May 21st, which is okay. The tool finally arrived at San Pablo which is north of Berkeley. Then it was sent to Oakland, which is south of Berkeley. I am thinking, "What is going on?". All of a sudden, it is shipped to central CA to Lathrop. I am thinking that maybe they are centralizing the shipment with other stuff that is now in Lathrop. Then I get this email that says it is delivered. Ben and I look everywhere and cannot find it at the house. I called them up, but in looking at the delivery email I see that it was delivered to 912 Shattuck in Emeryville which does not exist. When I purchased the tool, I used the pre-existing shipping address which is Berkeley. Both the Home Depot person and I do not understand what happened, so I ordered the tool again but to the correct address. Then a thought comes to me that no human could screw that delivery up that bad. So I type on Google, "does Home Depot rely on AI for shipping and handling". Yes! See pic. AI can only do what it is programmed to do. All a human would have done was checked previous orders for the correct address, but not an AI. As for how Emeryville got into the shipping address, I do not know.
3. Last news letter I added a retaining wall at the bottom of your fence. It was genius to do that. After seeing the wall I said to Ben, "I am putting a garden in." Here are the steps to putting the fence garden in: Dig out extra gravel. Rubberized wall. Cut fabric to extra long. Rubberized the fabric to the wall. Go to Berkeley Marina to pick up free soil from the City. Add dirt to weigh down fabric. Cut fabric to wood steps. Stainless Steel staple fabric to wood. Cut off extra fabric. Cut wood 1x2 furring to cover fabric end. Drill out nail holes in furring to avoid wood splitting. Use 2" roof nails to nail furring. Pressure treated the furring 2 times. Route a 45 degree bevel furring edge, see video below.
Black caulk gap between furring and wood. Pressure treated it all again. Time to make an inexpensive trellis with 1" roofing nails and #30 twine. Tie a knot around a nail. Hammer nail into top fence rail. Start a nail in the bottom rail. Wrap twine around the nail three times and pull tight. Hammer bottom nail. Extend twine until it is several inches in the dirt. Cut twine. Repeat stringing every 3rd picket. Fill with dirt. Transplant all the free nasturtium from the side yard into the planter. Water daily for a week. Have the deer walk up and down the garden to tamp the soil down. Done. Yeah I keep seeing deer tracks in the garden. I am okay with it. I expect the deer to eat the nasturtium.
Well, that is it from me.
Stay safe and cool everyone.
Thursday, June 6, 2024
What Percentage are you?
Wednesday, June 5, 2024
2024 May - Dragon Diary
It is a diary of my daily experiences. If an event is important, it will have its own post...
How to change a trauma, a DEM form: destroy, change, color. |
Remember your voice is a being of pure energy. |
Once touched always in touch = quantum entanglement |
Voice world science meeting. A unique voice. My CV. |
Depression has a DEM form. |
12th - Trauma, DEM forms, DEM beings are pure energy, Voice world science meeting,
A unique voice, quantum entanglement, UFOs. |
Working as a team, your voice will lend you their abilities. |
The most common interaction with your voice is avatar dialogue. |
A voice not clear on the concept. |
I need to do a post on what % you are regarding DEM and physical matter. |
Walking outside is good to replenish your outer energy layer. |
UFOs maybe DEM ships but still need a physical shell so us human don't run into them. |
Try to help someone from letting their voice control what they say. |
Microchips are easily damaged by ESD, Electrostatic Discharge. |
Using only 5%, physical matter, is guessing. |
The physical setup of the viewing room and side rooms. |
How human soul development works. |
A traumatic event occurs in time and space which creates a form with substance. |
Trying to solve something with only 5% is guessing. |
Basic physics to prove a unique voice belongs to a person. |
Voice are supposed to help not traumatize. |
Monday, May 20, 2024
2024 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".
The World Baseball Classic is huge. It happened in March of 2023 and one of the game sites was Phoenix. Here is an explanation about the WBC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXhsA5fpaXw&t=372s
What is your opinion of the WBC? This is how baseball should be. Fan being excited versus stuffing their face. And now they have speed up the game. Yes it is even better now.
Why are the USA fans so quiet compared to the other fan base? Well it hard to hold an beer and jump up and down and shout.
Here is a video of the Dominican fans cheering for their team.
Should baseball be a part of the Olympics? I don’t know. As long as there is a world competition like the World Cup, I could do with it being out.
Why do you think that Japan is now making the best baseball players now? We Americans forgot to appreciate baseball. An example of what I mean is in manufacturing. During WW2, the USA was a power house in manufacturing supplying ⅔ off the weapons used by the allies to defeat German. To help Japan rebuild the USA sent Dr Deming to rebuild the Japanese industry. Meanwhile the USA gradually forgot how to build stuff, to the point we stop building stuff and let other nations do it. Now move forward to the year 2000 where my last job at work was to be the continuous improvement facilitator at S&C Electric. My job was to bring the manufacturing excellence of Japanese industry to our company. The very manufacturing processes that we taught Japan and the USA forgot. The irony of it all has never been lost on me.Spring is here. What is your favorite flower to look at? Oxalis pes-caprae, a.k.a. Sour grass. See short video.
What is your favorite flower to smell? It has to be roses and all of their different scents.
If you are a garden person, what is your favorite flower to plant? None. I let nature do that work. I tend to kill plants.
Is spring cleaning a thing that you do, what is it that you do? De-mold that place. Mold grow on metal furniture in a basement.
What would it take for you to give up your car? As mentioned in the last newsletter, make transportation free. I want my electric cart or bike to get around. For long trips give me the train or plane.
Could you give up grocery shopping if the delivery was free? Yeah, I think I could. I tend to want to shop for sales but it would be listed online.
Berkeley has a tool lending library, could you give up owning tools if you could borrow them for free? Yes, but it needs to be closer to me.
Could you give up owning paint at your home if you could borrow the paint tools and be able to return the leftover paint to the store for a refund? This is yet another thing that has advanced. There are better less lethal paints now available. And the brushes and roller have improved. Yay, I don’t need to own paint or paint supplies. And it is easy to recycle. See pic.
I have been to the sister house in Missouri several times and there are no fences to divide up the backyards. Would you give up your backyard if it became a common space for a community garden or walking path or dog park ? Any suggestions for the common space? We have the 900 Shattuck block earthquake shed in our backyard.
And I have lots of walking path around me. I used to take the kids on walks around the neighborhood all the time. See pic.
Other “do I need to own it”: The little free library is an excellent end use of books, which have loss all their value once you have it. And it is local. There is one two houses down from my house. The science mag I get as a gift goes into the little library after I read them. Why I don’t want to own anything: Technology keeps improving things. I don’t have to own it, but I would like to have access to the latest and greatest. Perhaps if there was a tool lending library on the 900 Shattuck block, sure I would give up my tools. But only if it had the latest and greatest tools. Technology improvements are insane. There are tools I just bought that are now out of date.
Let us know what is happening in your life? Fences. One side of the yard has a fence while the other has a common walkway between the houses. Fences are a pain. A fence with your neighbors brick stairs that are falling apart and they are blaming you for it is a test of patience. A fence that is now causing you to fight with your neighbor to bring you to the point of building a retaining wall at the bottom to solve both of your problems. Yay, I had to let it go and go back to the problem solving which is what I do best. You see, the neighbor needed a edge to build his brick steps against and I needed the lower fence gone to plant a vine to grow on the fence. Problem solved. Now to do the work.
Sunday, May 5, 2024
2024 April - Dragon Diary
It is a diary of my daily experiences. If an event is important, it will have its own post...
Okay, they made me a group expert. Finally a group that has not throw me out of their Facebook group. |
ECT or electroconvulsive therapy is as bad as it sounds. |
The voices are trying to help, which is a good sign. |
This was the beginning of Ibol suspecting that what she was taught in the voice world did not coincide with the human world. |
The good news is that we have DEM in us, on us, all around us. |
TMS, transcranial magnetic stimulation, is a local event. |
How to make a safe area. |
10th - Facebook comments made 10th.
Since they made me a group expert I posted my CV for others to read. |
Explaining how a view stand works. |
The Facebook question was, "Reasons to stay alive?" |
So there was this other Facebook post which talked about the Star of David. |
28th - Someone at the Facebook group posted a "CIA" document which is below: