Windows to Russia

Just thoughts for today…

Need to install a couple of windows in the village home, mow the grass, tend to the garden plants and get some fresh air. Going to be warm and sunny the whole time and we can get lots done. Maybe, I can go fishing. Some river perch sound really good right now…

We are still struggling with an oil leak on Sammy the Volga, but it only uses a liter per 1000 kilometers (620 miles.) I think I will try to drop the oil pan and install a new gasket with a new front seal for the crankshaft. Maybe that will do it…

But it is Sunday today and Sveta has gone to work. She gets to use her extra days for days off next week and not use vacation days for village trips. Svetochka and I are looking at trying to get to Egypt this year. It has been awhile and we miss having the Red Sea to swim and snorkel in…

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Gotta dream and then do it…

114 kilos is what I weigh. I know way to heavy, but I am working slowly down to that dream of 100 kilos. (114 kilos is 250 pounds and 100 kilos is 220 pounds. 30 pounds to go…) But when you realize that 4 to 5 years ago I weighed 320 ponds and more. I have come a long ways…

I have lost 70 pounds and that my friend is helping me live longer…

Still though, yesterday, Svetochka and I were riding bikes. We had gone down a huge hill, very steep, and I was sure we would walk back up it. But I took off and started to try to pedal up the hill. I made it, but almost saw stars and started to feel the heavy breathing coming on. Still not in good enough shape…

I get near the top and stop to wait for Svetochka and she passed me by. That little Russian girl cruised on by me as if she did not have a care in the world. Of course I blamed it on the fact she has a better bike and lots of gears. I have three gears and she has (?) a bunch, for lack of other words…

I saw this image as she went by…

Okay so I have a bunch, lot, much and more than that work to do, to get in shape, to keep up with my sweet pea… 🙂

But I made it up the hill and did not die, so I guess that is good…

And we had lots of fun…

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I have finally started to work on my novels that I have written. I had lots of thinking to do and when the realization that I had wrote one novel so big, that I have to break it up into three different novels. There is so much that goes into putting out a book and getting someone to publish it, that I am not sure if it is all worth it. But I have about six novels total that I need to get published. Therefore, book one is being worked over now and hopefully by next spring, I will have a book published…

Probably not…

But like I said, “Gotta dream and then do it…”

WtR

Ecuador is close to withdrawing asylum for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and evicting him from the Ecuadorian embassy in London where he has been living for six years, journalist Glenn Greenwald reported Saturday.

Source: Report: Ecuador close to evicting Julian Assange from London embassy | National | heraldmailmedia.com

I know right and wrong when I see it and Assange is being hung out to dry. But he has to have known that this is what ultimately would happen. He is not guilty of what he has been suppressed with, but after he is forced out, you will see what the truth is…

Assange, why did you not come to Russia? (What the crap? UK??? and when did anyone benefit from running from America in the UK? You had a choice and I remember it well….you knew they were after you, way before they were officially after you…)

In Russia: None of this would be happening right now and you would have been free to walk around…

The Persecution of Julian Assange, Snowden and the Persecuted Manning…

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Somewhere between when I was a little tyke playing army in the backyard with my GI Joe gun and grenades and as I write this post a whole bunch of years later; Someone decided that infinite growth through unlimited debt was the answer to all the worlds problems…

It is like another ponzi scheme and or pyramid scheme. The first few get all the wealth…

Don’t get me wrong, it would really be cool to just get a million dollars from the bank and when you spend that, you go get another million and keep doing that indefinitely….maybe only paying the interest if you feel like it….and hoping that one day you owe so much money to the bank that they cannot tell you to go away….

If you owe the bank $100 that’s your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that’s the bank’s problem. – J. Paul Getty

And that is the biggest issue. They decided to call it, “Too Big To Fail!”

And the world thinks that all is good with unlimited debt?

My money is on the fact that this is a bad thing in the long run…

WtR

How dare they try to drain the ponds we have to walk and drive through…

I have been stunned by the appearance of road drainage…

This is not a common thing. Yes, Russia has drainage on a few selected big highways, but for the most part, you never see road water drainage anywhere and will encounter huge ponds to drive/walk through…

But…

I am seeing that the infrastructure is actually under the roads and all of a sudden after 12 years of me walking around and driving Russia, we have drainage grates being installed…

Do I look happy?

That image above is of a new drainage grate near our home. It is one of six I have found recently and I am just amazed. Seriously; I even took a picture of it. It just amazes me. When you thought that you would never see water drainage on a normal side road and drive these roads for years and years and look at roads being paved and they never care if the road has a crown or not to drain water and and and….then they put in water drainage for the roads…

I am one happy bear!

I guess you have to live in Russia to understand…

WtR

Since WtR is a little guy, with huge things to say. It is easy to shut down a site like WtR. It happens and yesterday again, either through a plugin and or through a weakness in the theme of the blog, WtR was torn to pieces…

You see the fact that they can mess up your template effects how Google, googles you. The site gets set back in search rankings for months. Yes it does and, “Oh well what can I do?”

Once again the attacks came from computers sitting in US based guard shacks and US based government offices. Located at military bases and even prisons located around America. I just shake my head when I see how DOD, DOJ, DHS and multiples of other IPs show up in the attack…

These three articles below were the brunt of the hate and vitriol tossed at WtR, either cyberly and or written word wise through emails and comments…

The US intelligence services hunt for Russian citizens…

No wait! Russia asked for what? Run puppy run…

Hotel Amerifornia…

And yes it is Department of Homeland Security, US

One of 15 different attack spots…

I feel good when I hit it on the nail head, but I do not appreciate the fact that because WtR is a little site with big big things to say, that we get attacked and attacked and attacked. Thus, we just take it and pick up the pieces after they are done. I am not a big news site and or a big powerful blog. Funds are limited, much more limited than all the things I have to say… 😉

Therefore, they attacked either through the template or a plugin (most likely both) that I removed. Either way, the back door is gone. For now! The DHS is able to attack WtR because I have no recourse against them…

I kind of look at attacking WtR like this:

Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae. – Kurt Vonnegut

I love Hot Fudge Sundaes!

Have a nice day and open your eyes and smell the coffee…

WtR

Just some images to show you around. Svetochka has family in from Great Britain and they went traipsing around the Kremlin in Moscow. Being an American, I seem to scare the rest of the family and they do better without me around… 😉

Little known fact in America. The Russians are much more comfortable around the British than Americans…

Sveta’s cousin (right), niece (left) and the British boyfriend (poor chap sandwiched in the middle)…

Just to let you see some pictures of Russia…

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VDNKh is launching a new summer project titled “Music on the Rooftop.” Between June 17 and August 26, Muscovites and tourists will be able to listen to live music on the roof of Worker and Kolkhozwoman Pavilion. The stage and the auditorium, with comfortable chairs and cushions, are located right at the base of the famous 24-metre-high sculpture. It can seat up to 300 people at a time. “Concerts will be held on Thursday and Sunday evenings. On Thursdays, there will be jazz and instrumental music for those

Source: Music on the rooftop: VDNKh gives live open-air concerts / News / Moscow City Web Site

I wanna go…

WtR

I hope the White House corrects the record and denounces in categorical terms this ridiculous request from Putin. Not doing so creates moral equivalency between a legitimacy US indictment of Russian intelligence officers and a crazy, completely fabricated story invented by Putin https://t.co/K1ZvrNwTu3

— Michael McFaul (@McFaul) July 18, 2018

Michael McFaul that ambassador that walked into his job and pissed Russia off from day one. He immediately ignored the Russian Government and went and played footsie with the 5th columns in Russia… (January 23, 2012 – I wrote the article below)

McFaul or is it McFart: Russia wants to know…

Hmm….looks like he was a very bad boy in Russia and tried to undermine the Russian Government…. But then I figured that out from day one and so did Russia…

Quote from article: McFart now hides in his Embassy downtown Moscow and tries to contemplate his next move. He sure was caught off guard by the Russian backlash when decided to forge ties with the opposition first and foremost before even unpacking his bags at his new home. Seems that the eagerness to perform his job for his bosses back home in the US clouded his vision and abilities to do his job…

I have said before, “Russians never forget!”

WtR

Trump is demonized by his own country (USA), more than they (USA) demonize Putin. Yet Putin is suppose to be the leader of the most evil country in the universe and Putin is the most brutal dictator who ever lived….and Trump is president of the most “special” country in the world…

Hmm….weird we have become…

Yes we are # 1…

WtR

Actually two water spouts….called one black and one white…

Mother Nature is so cool…

WtR