Monday, 12th July 1999 Week 28

Mon, 12 Jul 1999 - 04:55:24    Dream of deception. She remained in the city; did not leave; said it was legal business; I had only called to say that I was going to come the following week; did not want to go at all; now that was ever more the case; “want to pack”; reluctant to do anything; then I woke up; somewhere in this dream was one about in the hotel bar and trying to get a drink; there was nothing; I was going to leave when T agreed to come and I knew he would buy the drinks all night; I did not want to drink like that; only wanted one or two before leaving; felt trapped into it.  

Mon, 12 Jul 1999 - 04:59:46    Crouched into the bathroom for a pit stop; I made not a sound; there was a thud from above but not directly overhead; more toward the bedroom side; water started its throbbing noise in the pipes below; this was accompanied by some thuds (someone hitting or something being hit) in unison as I went to the small room for stats; heard a slight sound from the Walkway as I went into the small room; light switch on and off noise; scales made a small noise;

Mon, 12 Jul 1999 - 05:05:20    Wt 202; Elec 35,486.7; Gas 12.460

                back into the bathroom; water in pipes noise still throbbing or making a pulsating noise in the pipes below; put on trousers; ankle bone popped once but only slight noise; crouched back into the living room picking up the notebook from the bed; moved it soundlessly to the table;

Mon, 12 Jul 1999 - 05:05:15    Into the chair; deshrouded the monitor; did not activate because  too dark in here; overcast outside; very hot and humid again with not a breeze stirring at all; maybe the branches were moving last night because they climbed the trees?  

Edit/spell checked last night’s diary.  

Mon, 12 Jul 1999 - 05:26:22    Furn scrapes from below the small room/hall area.  

Mon, 12 Jul 1999 - 05:27:01    Finished edit/spell checking last night’s diary just as an auto went by outside.  

Mon, 12 Jul 1999 - 05:27:33    Crouched into the kitchen for grapefruit and oatmeal; got stuff from fridge; one measured cup of noiseless hot water into the oatmeal pot; on to boil and set aside while cutting grapefruit; put stuff back in fridge making a noise with the grapefruit in the plastic container; noise outside kitchen window followed by elec vehicle door lock beep; vehicle door slam; engine starts and idles; knocks like a diesel; drives away quietly; crouched back into the living room;

Mon, 12 Jul 1999 - 05:33:12    Back into chair; update; eating grapefruit.  

Mon, 12 Jul 1999 - 05:34:56    Truck goes by (Parcel Force(?))

Mon, 12 Jul 1999 - 05:36:49    Finished above update;  

Mon, 12 Jul 1999 - 05:38:54    Ignited the monitor despite the remaining darkness from the overcast;

Discovery    11/21:25:42 to 12/03:56:49; duration 06:31:07; words 386,325; items 182.  
Seti        Done 4.343%; CPU time 21:19:54.4
eSafe        Start 12/00:00:24; duration 02:03:12; files 54,228; 14 files skipped; 4,359,149k

Mon, 12 Jul 1999 - 05:40:29    Vehicle goes by;

Mon, 12 Jul 1999 - 05:44:45    Video on; picture perfect; blue truck still mid-way other side facing other way (from Sat pm); white square back wagon on this side opposite it facing other way too; dark auto just went by from other end heading this way: 071299_054619.mv2 (note parking too); MC parked by near wall stairs;

Mon, 12 Jul 1999 - 05:46:57    Very faint door noise from below; thud followed by bar/grate clank.  

Mon, 12 Jul 1999 - 05:48:36    Another dark auto goes by from the other end heading this way: 071299_054836.mv2 (check to see if this is the same auto as the one just above circling around)

Mon, 12 Jul 1999 - 05:49:00    White sun roofed auto goes from this end of the bldg to the other end of the road; 071299_054912.mv2; this is a routine departure; wonder if associated with slight noise I just heard(?)

Mon, 12 Jul 1999 - 05:52:29    Crouched into the kitchen to throw away grapefruit rind and get oatmeal w/ banana; filled oatmeal pot with noiseless hot water; sliced banana on top of oatmeal; rinsed fingers in noiseless hot water; crouched back into the living room;

Mon, 12 Jul 1999 - 05:54:55    Back into chair; update; eating oatmeal w/ b

Mon, 12 Jul 1999 - 05:58:18    Front door slam; thought I heard the barest of voices outside almost directly underneath the front window.  

Mon, 12 Jul 1999 - 05:59:10    Guy at square back white wagon; puts something in back; gets in drivers side; wearing dark blue shirt; engine starts; gets out and retrieves something from right front wheel area; back in with door slam; guns engine; drives away toward the other end; 071299_060101.mv2

Edit daily Times URLs for d/ld

Mon, 12 Jul 1999 - 06:03:26    White top arrives driving past toward the other end; 071299_060339.mv2;

Mon, 12 Jul 1999 - 06:09:05    Rebooting to restore ISDN; all progs reloaded OK;

Mon, 12 Jul 1999 - 06:14:44    Reset video; picture perfect.  

Mon, 12 Jul 1999 - 06:15:14    0845 764 0000 64k BT Internet(07:49): SB3: Times (n/a); Tele (n/a);  OE5: Email: nil: too many probs and hung up: 06:23:05

Mon, 12 Jul 1999 - 06:23:16    Door slam below; front door slam; [very vehicle sound at end of bldg; could this have been it?]

Mon, 12 Jul 1999 - 06:27:17    Reset video; looked like frame was frozen but maybe not; the Blue Truck still there;

Mon, 12 Jul 1999 - 06:31:33    Shutdown but cannot get past the Rnaapp error msg which will not close; had to press reset; beep; scandisk;

Mon, 12 Jul 1999 - 06:36:30    Crouched into the kitchen to rinse the oatmeal dish and pot in noiseless hot water; crouched back into the living room;

Mon, 12 Jul 1999 - 06:38:22    Back to chair; reload had just finished reloading all progs; heard noises in road; switched on NetMeet video and saw Land Rover square back (dark green) facing this way in road by cab of Blue Truck; immediately turned on Gotcha and just saw it drive this way;

Mon, 12 Jul 1999 - 06:39:42    Square back, Land Rover type vehicle with Blue Truck twice; had been facing this way by it; then drove to end of bldg here; turned around out of sight; drove back to it next to cab; sitting there; 071299_064131.mv2 then drives away 06:41:38 Vehicle door slams follow that might below to Blue Truck.  

Mon, 12 Jul 1999 - 06:42:50    Blue Truck departs (did not capture) after small red truck goes by from this end to the other end;

Mon, 12 Jul 1999 - 06:44:53    Dark auto just came from other end heading this way.  

Mon, 12 Jul 1999 - 06:46:42    Crouched into the bathroom for a dump; made scarcely a noise; did not top up the hot water in the tub; much too hot for that; water was running constantly and loudly in the wall pipes until I got into the tub; the one below went out and came back at an interval; two door slams followed by bar/grate clanking; front door slams on once after the first set of these; either walking the dog (which barked inside a couple  times) or to get someone; then there followed what sounded like an exit from below with its door noises;

                sat in the tub, rested and relaxed; even dozed off for a bit; there were noises below; thumping around; then the sound of a voice as I woke from my dozing having made a small noise that might have been a very small snore; believe the voice below was commenting on that;

                washed hair, door slam in Walkway and someone departed; believe this could have been next door and might have been just before 0730; shaved for a very long time (definitely have to get razor blades); washed; dog barked again one time in the middle of this; drained tub while still in it; more water sounds in the wall pipes below toward the end and while I was draining the tub; dried; into bedroom for clean underwear; back to bathroom to put on trousers; girls talking in Walkway; someone came down from above going down the stairs; the very slightest of bar/grate noises and door squeak sound; believe that this was from below trying to disguise any noise; out prowling about or letting a fellow observer go?  crouched back into the living room with a detour to the kitchen to put laundry in bucket;

Mon, 12 Jul 1999 - 08:06:51    Back to chair; rebooting sys that crashed while in tub; all progs load OK; NetMeet video all right; work has resumed outside on construction;

Mon, 12 Jul 1999 - 08:13:13    Gotcha would not load properly; black screen each time for several tries; again it blew on initial load which is most likely the problem.

Mon, 12 Jul 1999 - 08:14:52    Rebooting sys again to restore video; all progs OK and Gotcha fine; working away below on the road construction; down in the hole with more air hammer sounds; silver wagon is back where Blue Truck was parked; MC still parked by near wall stairs.  

Mon, 12 Jul 1999 - 08:25:13    Air hammer and crane hard at work below.  

Mon, 12 Jul 1999 - 08:32:11    System blew up as I was working in Quicken and PC Bank to complete update (Quicken is flaky since it is Win95); rebooted itself; beep; scandisk; all progs reloaded OK.

PC Bank and Quicken OK; backed up each.  

Mon, 12 Jul 1999 - 08:40    Post (about this time; too much construction noise; thought I heard something; found it later): RedLeaf (ColdFusion); IP Centa (2 Mps for 20k pa);

Mon, 12 Jul 1999 - 08:43:55    Video reset; picture perfect if a bit the worse for the glare from the sun this am.  

Reading Electronics Times: BT protests timing; leave it to BT to mess it up; watch this space.

Mon, 12 Jul 1999 - 09:01:31    Crouched into the kitchen to fix lunch; got stuff from fridge; construction noise drowns everything else out; two measured cups of noiseless hot water into brown rice and green lentils pot; sliced chilli pepper, ginger, garlic; curry powder; sliced onion (rinsed it and plate in noiseless hot water);

Mon, 12 Jul 1999 - 09:18:24    Simmer.

                sliced potato, carrot, ½ broccoli; put stuff away in fridge; crouched into the bathroom with new roll of toilet paper; brushed hair; picked up mail which had come through earlier unnoticed due to the construction outside; crouched back to the chair;

Mon, 12 Jul 1999 - 09:23:46    Back in chair; update;

Mon, 12 Jul 1999 - 09:31:28    Finished above update;

Sorting and reviewing post; reading Electronics Times; d/ld Sun pubs: Times; Tele; FT.  

Mon, 12 Jul 1999 - 10:04:05    Crouched into the kitchen to get lunch filled pot with noiseless hot water; filled water bottle with cold water that made not a sound in the water pipes in the wall; construction break time; singing voices coming from school; crouched back into the living room;

Mon, 12 Jul 1999 - 10:08:00    Back in chair; update.

Brown rice and green lentils; potato, carrot, ½ broccoli, onion, chilli pepper, ginger, garlic, curry powder.  

Mon, 12 Jul 1999 - 10:13:09    Air hammers and construction resumes after morning break.  

Mon, 12 Jul 1999 - 10:40:58    Into kitchen to rinse lunch plate and pot in noiseless hot water and a bit of cold water that made nary a sound in the water pipes in the wall; crouched to the bathroom to brush my hair; crouched back into the living room;

Mon, 12 Jul 1999 - 10:44:10    Back in chair; update.  Sweating away again in this incredible heat and humidity; don’t know who those guys can work outside.  

Mon, 12 Jul 1999 - 10:45:52    Furn scrape (cannot pinpoint whether above or below; from the hall/bedroom  area and could be either).

Dozed off for a bit; woke up and went back to sleep for a longer bit; finally construction air hammer and activity woke me (slept through it all for awhile though; says something doesn’t it?)

Mon, 12 Jul 1999 - 12:09:08    Crouched into the bathroom for a pit stop; I made not a sound nor heard any from elsewhere; brushed hair; crouched back into the living room;

Mon, 12 Jul 1999 - 12:12:28    Back into the chair; update.  

Mon, 12 Jul 1999 - 12:19:46    Video reset; picture perfect; no end to the digging that they can get up to outside is there? 071299_122144.mv2 shows crane that just swooped back with bucket lowering it into the middle pit; they are down there working standing up completely invisible it is so deep; convenient place to put me when they are filling in?  The crane lifts the dirt in a large bucket from the hole and puts it behind itself on the road inside the barrier by the kerb as can be seen in: 071299_122716.mv2.

Mon, 12 Jul 1999 - 12:28:14    Open back dump truck just pulled up to scoop up the removed soil in its giant claws attached to a crane on its back: 071299_123039.mv2; construction noises abound drowning out everything else.  

Mon, 12 Jul 1999 - 12:34:28    Thought I heard something come through the mail flap; crouched over to the door an peeked into the hall; nope nothing; crouched back to the chair.

So why isn’t the nut case below out on the balcony yelling “stop that loud noise” at the construction workers?  

Mon, 12 Jul 1999 - 12:47:16    Self shifting dump truck departs with full load.  

Mon, 12 Jul 1999 - 12:48:16    Fat SCD guy in full clothes just came down to look down into the pit from the fence by the kerb then walked slowly off to the near wall stairs looking back in this direction as he did so; white shirt and dark (brown?) trousers.  

Reading NG: BT Internet:

Mon, 12 Jul 1999 - 13:21:03    Door slam below.  

Mon, 12 Jul 1999 - 13:47:45    Air hammer back at work again; they started to work again only just a little while ago; not long to quittin’ time.  

Mon, 12 Jul 1999 - 13:56:14    Video reset; beautiful day outside; yup, still at work; no bench warmers; driven away by the sound of it all no doubt.

Mon, 12 Jul 1999 - 13:56:56    Crouched into the kitchen to fix spag; got stuff from fridge; filled pot with noiseless hot water and brought to boil; mixed two heaping tspns of tom puree with a small bit of noiseless hot water  in a coffee cup;

                crouched into bathroom for a pit stop noting a bench warmer now in place on my way; I made not a sound and noted no other sounds from anywhere else; crouched back into the living room;

Mon, 12 Jul 1999 - 14:07:36    Back in chair; update; bench warmer keeps looking up to the left (her right); seeking directions?;

Mon, 12 Jul 1999 - 14:11:25    Mail flap noise: Post(?): nil there when I check later.  

Mon, 12 Jul 1999 - 14:12:02    Crouched into the kitchen to get spag; stirred and broke apart clumps; put a small bit of curry powder in reconstituted tom puree;  drained spag; mixed in recon and flavoured tom puree; dumped on plate and filled pot and coffee cup with noiseless hot water; crouched back into the living room;

Mon, 12 Jul 1999 - 14:19:38    Back to chair; bench warmer still there facing this way on other end of the bench; update.

Spaghetti w/ re-constituted tom puree and a bit of curry powder (try chilli powder next week).

Mon, 12 Jul 1999 - 14:21:06    Bench warmer now gone; only there for the duration of the cooking; could not see me from there as I was completely crouched over at all times;

Mon, 12 Jul 1999 - 14:23:14    Finished update for above; eating spag.  

Mon, 12 Jul 1999 - 14:34:11    Covering the hole below; must be ending work for today; put the crane’s bucket on the wooden “plates” covering the hole; engines off; all quiet for a change.  

Mon, 12 Jul 1999 - 14:36:42    Crouched into the kitchen to rinse the spag plate, pot and cup in noiseless hot water and cold water which made not a sound in the water pipes in the wall; crouched into the hall to see if the sound I heard was the pm post; nope it wasn’t; sounded very much like the mail flap dropped as I opened the door just a bit to look; crouched back into the living room;

Mon, 12 Jul 1999 - 14:39:05    Back to chair; update.  Spag was very good;

Still reading NG: BT Internet: try this news server: news0.optus.net.au

Mon, 12 Jul 1999 - 15:41:05    Dog is barking below.  

Mon, 12 Jul 1999 - 15:44:42    Door mail flap noise again: N Ken Opp Centre Job Fair.

Mon, 12 Jul 1999 - 16:00:37    Crouched into the hall to check on most recent mail flap noise; yup, there was something there; crouched back into the living room;  

Mon, 12 Jul 1999 - 16:01:34    Back in chair; update.  

Finished reading BT Internet for now; had another nice snooze with the sound of kids playing in the background.  

Mon, 12 Jul 1999 - 17:26:14    Awake again; all is quiet.  

Reading a few Corel NG msgs.

Mon, 12 Jul 1999 - 17:29:32    Loud and long chair scrape below; ooooops.  Followed on after a minor noise I made.  

Mon, 12 Jul 1999 - 17:42:07    Door slam below.  

Mon, 12 Jul 1999 - 17:48:53    Door slam below.  Sounds of thudding foot stomps (very faint) before and after below the bedroom/small room areas.

Mon, 12 Jul 1999 - 17:51:59    Furn scrapes and clunks below in the same area as foot stomps.  

Mon, 12 Jul 1999 - 18:00:12    0845 764 0000 64k BT Internet(58:07): OE5: Synch All: Email: FS 3: Free Pint Bar (251-267); SuperSonic v4.46 (beta) released; NewsScan (quoted me again); NG: BT Internet; Corel; Intel; SB3: Times (n/a); Tele; FT; Guar; Times (again OK this time): 18:58:20

Mon, 12 Jul 1999 - 18:13:17    Back from a quick crouched (each way) round trip into the bathroom for a pit stop; I made not a bit of noise nor heard any from elsewhere;  

Mon, 12 Jul 1999 - 18:20:50    Dog barking below followed by door noises and slamming below.  

Mon, 12 Jul 1999 - 18:31:27    Dog barking away below; someone from the road yells “shut up”; the Screamer comes out from below talking with someone outside; the dog comes out for a bit whining in recognition then continues barking inside.  

Mon, 12 Jul 1999 - 18:33:11    Dog barking away below.  

Mon, 12 Jul 1999 - 18:34:12    Now it is back out on the balcony barking away at people in the road whining in recognition; voices come from there.  

Mon, 12 Jul 1999 - 18:45:34    Door slam below with double hit.

Mon, 12 Jul 1999 - 18:47:07    Dog barking below;

Mon, 12 Jul 1999 - 18:48:27    Dog barking below again.

Mon, 12 Jul 1999 - 18:54:37    Dog barking below again.  

Reading d/ld & pubs: Tele;

Mon, 12 Jul 1999 - 19:08:55    Kitchen hit;

Mon, 12 Jul 1999 - 19:10:40    Honker outside honks lightly a few times.  

Mon, 12 Jul 1999 - 19:12:54    Kitchen hit.  

Mon, 12 Jul 1999 - 19:18:18    Kitchen hit.  

Mon, 12 Jul 1999 - 19:24:25    Furn scrape below.  

Mon, 12 Jul 1999 - 19:46:28    Voices outside to the left and have been there for some time.

Mon, 12 Jul 1999 - 19:50:29    Furn scrape below.

Mon, 12 Jul 1999 - 19:51:06    0845 764 0000 64k BT Internet(07:34): SuperSonic v4.46 (beta) download; ssbeta.zip; 1,126k: 19:58:41

Discovery indexing starting.

Mon, 12 Jul 1999 - 20:10:26    Hit directly below as I scratch my side; what’s with these people.

Mon, 12 Jul 1999 - 20:11:47    Shrouded monitor as the voices to the left continue.  

Mon, 12 Jul 1999 - 20:12:48    Slight noises from above now; the night gets underway.  The slight noises are growing in volume followed by stomping feet overhead.  These are directly overhead.  

Eagles Greatest Hits: Side A

Mon, 12 Jul 1999 - 20:26:19    Thud from below in the area of the back living room wall vibrates the chair.  

Mon, 12 Jul 1999 - 21:04:24    The Eagles Greatest Hits: Side B.  

Mon, 12 Jul 1999 - 21:31:07    Took earphones off for a min; female yelling outside over to the left: “yes” she shouted.

Mon, 12 Jul 1999 - 21:51:32    The Carpenters Greatest Hits; the voices outside over to the left continue.

Mon, 12 Jul 1999 - 22:36:39    Carpenters Greatest Hits other side.  No more voices outside

Mon, 12 Jul 1999 - 22:39:03    Loud and specific taps on the floor directly above by hard soled shoes; definitely intentional to disturb

Mon, 12 Jul 1999 - 22:40:37    More noises coming through from above  penetrating the earphones followed by loud scrapes above; now he is scraping something across the floor directly above me; that is nothing but deliberate.

Mon, 12 Jul 1999 - 23:12:14    Crouched into the bathroom for a pit stop; I made not a bit of noise; voices in Walkway down by the rubbish area as I entered; front door slams; silence; no other sounds noticeable from anywhere; crouched back into the living room;

Mon, 12 Jul 1999 - 23:15:01    Back into chair; update.  

Mon, 12 Jul 1999 - 23:21:57    The music ends and so does the night

Mon, 12 Jul 1999 - 23:22:59    Moved soundlessly and safely over to the bed with the notebook just as the front door slams very hard

Auto door slammed and vehicle left from end of bldg pulling up to middle of road outside; invisible.

Mon, 12 Jul 1999 - 23:33:37    Door lock snap in Walkway; sounds like below.  

[Must have dropped off to sleep immediately but woken up within 30 mins from an external source of disturbance; it’s the only way I would have woken up since I was so tired.]

    Tuesday, 13th July 1999

Tue, 13 Jul 1999 - 00:08:38    Voices directly out front; front door slam; woke up from a dream about the futility of trying to get things done; busy day and forgot paper for what had to be done at night; skipped eating; first asked A to go to the cinema at 1300, but I got caught up with something else; the afternoon’s activity turned into evening and I was told to get some stuff from an address either at 2100 or before; I could not remember; by the time I got things done the stores and places to eat were closed; I had left the address in my shirt pocket; and changed to a another shirt; I could not do anything so I just gave up; then I woke up. There was no talking or any attempt to talk in the dream; do not think that I made any noises at all; [woken up by noises outside and most likely constructed a dream around them as I was waking up]

Tue, 13 Jul 1999 - 00:10:18    Loud noise outside sounded like either a subdued horn or someone making a voice beep sound;

Tue, 13 Jul 1999 - 00:12:49    Vehicle traffic continuous outside as I finished writing the above; voices are continuing up the road; faint but noticeable in a steady stream of chatter; had been waiting, listening and watching.  

Tue, 13 Jul 1999 - 00:18:08    Laughter and voices continue outside up the road; they got loud with laughter; another vehicle pulls up and remains up there  idling; still another just went by from Bramley to the other end; I keep smelling instant coffee; must be drinking this outside

Tue, 13 Jul 1999 - 00:19:05    Now they are arguing it sounds like; women (black women); couple blasts from a horn that sounds like it might be the idling auto; arguing now stops and the voices are silent; they cannot get it together;

Tue, 13 Jul 1999 - 00:19:55    Whoops; the loud voices resume; arguing about something; other voices in foreground nearer.

[About 3 hours sleep before waking up for an unknown reason]

Tue, 13 Jul 1999 - 02:52:37    [Time check only after waking up to complete silence; do not recall a dream either]

[Went back to sleep for about 1.5 hours a REM cycle]

Tue, 13 Jul 1999 - 04:23:44    Finished second part of the pol comm dream.  

[This was a very strange dream that was in two parts but the first part was not before the previously noted time check; it was in a fragment that occurred, stopped then resumed; had to do with trying to convince about a problem; finally met with him and his three children in his office to try to explain; was never going to get through]

Tue, 13 Jul 1999 - 04:40:20    Crouched into the bathroom for a pit stop; I made not a sound; as I entered there was a clear lock snap in the Walkway below; believe it to be from the flat below; went to peephole but could see nothing; went into the small room for stats; light switch on and off noise; scales made a we but of noise;

Tue, 13 Jul 1999 - 04:40:20    Wt 203; Elec 35,492.5; Gas 12.473

                back to the bathroom; hard front door slam; went to peephole to look; again saw nothing but heard something moving close by; back into bathroom to put on trousers; noise from water running in the pipes below; heard another noise that sounded like a door below; crouched into the living room picking up notebook from the bed moving it to the table noiselessly and myself to the chair;

Tue, 13 Jul 1999 - 04:47:38    Back to chair; update.  

Tue, 13 Jul 1999 - 04:48:32    Front door slam;

Discover    12/20:01:12 to 13/03:30:27; elapsed 07:29:15; words 113,602; item 44
Seti        Done 9.777%; CPU time 44:06:12.0
eSafe        Start 00:00:40; elapsed 02:23:00; files 54,500 (10 skipped); 4,366,277k

Tue, 13 Jul 1999 - 04:58:08    Rebooting sys to restore video that won’t “catch”; all progs reloaded OK;

Tue, 13 Jul 1999 - 05:05:07    Video reset; picture perfect if a bit dark in the overcast early light again this am.  

Tue, 13 Jul 1999 - 05:10:46    Police car tears by heading the other direction from Bramley to the bend: 071399_051049.mv2; followed by elec auto lock beep toward the other end of the road  immediately after it went by.

Edit/spell checked last night’s diary.

Tue, 13 Jul 1999 - 05:18:43    Dark auto goes by from other end; window is fogging up; did not capture.  

Tue, 13 Jul 1999 - 05:21:12    Bldg door slam.  

Tue, 13 Jul 1999 - 05:31:04    Finished edit/spell checking last night’s diary; noises from below (two thuds with a very slight vibration in the floor) just now as I wrote this.  

Tue, 13 Jul 1999 - 05:33:13    Video reset; fogging a bit;

Tue, 13 Jul 1999 - 05:33:33    Crouched into the kitchen for grapefruit and oatmeal; with the noises I’ve heard so far I felt there was someone outside and made virtually no noise in kitchen while preparing food; got stuff from fridge; one measured cup of noiseless hot water into oatmeal pot; brought to boil while slicing grapefruit; set aside; put stuff back in fridge; rinsed fingers in noiseless hot water; the sound of the water on my fingers and falling into the sink was the loudest sound I made during this whole activity; as soon as I was exiting the door there was an elec lock beep outside under the kitchen window; there was someone out there; at the very least passing by to the auto; how long he might have been there I do not know; turned out to be the silver wagon that departed; crouched back into the living room;

Tue, 13 Jul 1999 - 05:38:17    Back to chair just as elec auto lock beeps outside kitchen window; deshrouded monitor; update; eating grapefruit.  

Tue, 13 Jul 1999 - 05:39:09    Silver wagon starts from this end and goes to the other end; saw in video.  

Tue, 13 Jul 1999 - 05:44:55    Vehicle goes by; looks like the silver wagon but only caught a glimpse of it at the edge of the screen; could have been a large silver auto.

Tue, 13 Jul 1999 - 05:50:13    Crouched into the kitchen to throw away grapefruit and get oatmeal with banana; got full bottle of water from fridge to replace empty one by chair; filled oatmeal pot with noiseless hot water; sliced banana onto the oatmeal; crouched back into the living room;

Tue, 13 Jul 1999 - 05:52:56    Back in chair; update; eating oatmeal w/ banana.  

Tue, 13 Jul 1999 - 05:55:44    Red car goes by from Bramley to other end; sounds like it turned off Bramley accelerating after doing so.  

Edit daily Times URLs for d/ld.  

Tue, 13 Jul 1999 - 06:00:26    Door slam below followed by bar/grate clanking just as I reset the video; fog clearing from window; MC by near wall stairs.  

Tue, 13 Jul 1999 - 06:02:54    White top returns driving the length of the road from here to the bend; there was a parking place up the other side; but not taken by him; 071399_060312.mv2

Tue, 13 Jul 1999 - 06:08:28    Door slam below with its double hit.  

Tue, 13 Jul 1999 - 06:09:09    0845 764 0000 64k BT Internet(09:55): OE5: Synch All 106: Email: FS 3: TourBus; Silicon (x2); BT 2: Hushmail re registration; Bob joke; NG: BT Internet; system blew up with an auto restart: 06:19:04

Tue, 13 Jul 1999 - 06:18:40    Door noises below with bar/grate clanking (all very muffled though).  

Tue, 13 Jul 1999 - 06:19:04    System blew up; I’ll bet it was Talking Box or the Gremlin (most likely the latter); auto restart with beep and scandisk; all progs reloaded OK; video reset; picture perfect;

Tue, 13 Jul 1999 - 06:28:16    Believe the Blue Truck just went by but obscured by OE5 loading;

Tue, 13 Jul 1999 - 06:30:55    0845 764 0000 64k BT Internet(43:57): OE5: Synch All 106 (again): Email: nil; NG: BT Internet; Intel; Corel; SB3: Times; Tele (Eyes Wide Shut); FT; Guar; 07:14:51

Tue, 13 Jul 1999 - 06:32:14    BT box clicks; each click separated by a very brief interval;

Tue, 13 Jul 1999 - 06:33:13    Auto starts outside; red car drives away very quietly heading toward the other end: 071399_063447

Tue, 13 Jul 1999 - 06:37:41    Crouched into the kitchen to rinse the oatmeal dish and pot in noiseless hot water; crouched into the bathroom for a dump; I made just a small couple noises; hardly audible; first there was a click from below followed by two thuds; a noise later too; flushed toilet but not successful; crouched back into living room noting that the OE5 Synch had finished;

Tue, 13 Jul 1999 - 06:50:12    Back to chair; NG d/ld finished on return; closed OE5 and opened SB3; update;

Tue, 13 Jul 1999 - 06:52:11    Door slam below;  

Tue, 13 Jul 1999 - 06:55:30    Door slam below with its double hit.

Tue, 13 Jul 1999 - 06:55:43    Crouched into kitchen to wash hands in noiseless hot water and a bit of cold water (not a sound in the wall water pipes did it make); crouched back into the living room;

Tue, 13 Jul 1999 - 06:56:45    Back to chair; update.  

Tue, 13 Jul 1999 - 07:04:48    Door slam below.

Tue, 13 Jul 1999 - 07:08:54    Loud hit from below.  

Tue, 13 Jul 1999 - 07:12:09    Dog barking away below; thud from above.  

Tue, 13 Jul 1999 - 07:13:17    Door slam below with double hit.  

Tue, 13 Jul 1999 - 07:13:40    Another door slam below with double hit.  

Tue, 13 Jul 1999 - 07:14:18    Voices out front.  

Tue, 13 Jul 1999 - 07:18:17    0171 490 2200 Barc PC Bank Upd(02:04): PCUR 19.64 RBK&C rent bill pmt for 15.07 OK IA8V02209194; 18.34 BT Internet Svcs Ref 189 7338609620 & -36.68  BT Internet Svcs refund posted; 9.33 Sains cleared; 1.00 unaccountable showing cleared (is this interest or error?); Bank not responding to “waiting for commit response” canceled by bank: 07:20:31

PC Bank reconciliation and Quicken update;

Tue, 13 Jul 1999 - 07:18:49    Very weird scream outside; repeated but less loud; sounded like a bird crowing but a human female this time;

Tue, 13 Jul 1999 - 07:27:02    Door slam below.  

Tue, 13 Jul 1999 - 07:33:21    Dog barking below;  

Tue, 13 Jul 1999 - 07:35:04    Gotcha closing locked out the system; had to reset; scandisk; blue error screen while running eSafe at beginning; locked out again; needed to reset again; CAD would not get it back;

Tue, 13 Jul 1999 - 07:42:36    2nd reset; scandisk; all progs reloaded OK this time;

Tue, 13 Jul 1999 - 07:50:13    0171 490 2200 Barc PC Bank Upd(02:16); Synch and full bank update; still shows 1.00 extra debit in cleared funds; wait until tmrw to see if error or poss interest;  hung on connection closed due to RcvMgr: 07:52:29

Tue, 13 Jul 1999 - 07:57:44    Sounds of construction starting up again outside.  Crane engine comes on after a min.  

PC Bank and Quick reconciliation: each show -59.43 balance as of today; accounts shows -60.43; the 1.00 is either an error or interest; backed up each.  

Tue, 13 Jul 1999 - 08:04:57    Video reset; OK except for the sun’s glare.  

Tue, 13 Jul 1999 - 08:05:17    Crouched into the bathroom for a pit stop; took two flushes to finish the earlier flushing problem; put limescale remover in bowl; crouched into kitchen to wash hands; crouched back into the living room;  

Tue, 13 Jul 1999 - 08:13:49    Back into the chair; update as construction gets underway outside.

Reading d/ld pubs: Guar (Eyes Wide Shut);

Tue, 13 Jul 1999 - 08:37:09    Dog barking away below.  

Tue, 13 Jul 1999 - 08:38:22    Post: The Associates Visa Gold Card mailing.

Tue, 13 Jul 1999 - 08:39:11    Back into chair from a crouched (each way) round trip to the hall to fetch the post.

Reviewing post.  

Tue, 13 Jul 1999 - 08:52:28    Door slam below.  

Tue, 13 Jul 1999 - 08:59:42    Video reset; glare perfect.  

Tue, 13 Jul 1999 - 08:59:53    Crouched into the kitchen to fix lunch to the continuous air hammers and machine noise from outside; there were female voices talking out there through the din for awhile but disappeared eventually;

                got stuff from fridge; two measured cups of noiseless hot water into the brown rice and green lentils pot; sliced chilli pepper, ginger, garlic; curry powder; onion (rinsed it and plate in noiseless hot water;

Tue, 13 Jul 1999 - 09:13:34    Simmer

                sliced potato, carrot, ½ broccoli; rinsed plate and hands in noiseless hot water; put stuff away;

                crouched into the bathroom for a pit stop; scrubbed toilet bowl a  bit; otherwise made absolutely no noise; thuds and thumps began below as I was leaving; crouched back into the living room;

Tue, 13 Jul 1999 - 09:22:27    Back to chair; update.  

Tue, 13 Jul 1999 - 09:28:39    Finished above update;

Dozed off for a bit; nice snoozed but only half asleep with all the noise going on below.

Tue, 13 Jul 1999 - 09:48:23    Disturbed enough to get up quickly fearing that the food had over cooked; nope; break time for construction as all gets silent and truck disappears.  

Reading d/ld pubs again.

Tue, 13 Jul 1999 - 09:59:39    Crouched into the kitchen for lunch; filled pot with noiseless how water; crouched back into the living room;

Tue, 13 Jul 1999 - 10:02:58    Back into chair; update; voices outside and gate clanking at school across the street.  

Brown rice and green lentils; potato, carrot, ½ broccoli, onion, chilli pepper, ginger, garlic, curry powder.  

Tue, 13 Jul 1999 - 10:12:55    Door slam below (following voices outside a min ago?).  

Tue, 13 Jul 1999 - 10:33:55    Air hammer and machine noises resume after construction break ends (evidently).  

Tue, 13 Jul 1999 - 10:41:31    Crouched into the kitchen to rinse lunch dish and pot in noiseless hot water and some cold water that made nary a sound in the water pipes in the wall; crouched back into the living room;

Tue, 13 Jul 1999 - 10:44:01    Back to chair; update.  

Tue, 13 Jul 1999 - 10:50:01    Finished reading d/ld pubs for now.  

Tue, 13 Jul 1999 - 10:50:17    Honker gives it numerous blasts outside;

Tue, 13 Jul 1999 - 11:04:08    Installed SuperSonic upgrade; no problems and very nice; restored some of the missing items (volume control w/ %).  

Listening to SS: sounds very nice; reading and replying to Email: replies to SuperSonic and Hush mail; reading: TourBus; Bob’s jokes; NG: BT; Freeserve;

Tue, 13 Jul 1999 - 11:29:02    Into the bathroom for a pit stop; heard not a sound nor made any; brushed hair; crouched back into the living room;

Tue, 13 Jul 1999 - 11:32:09    Back to chair; update.  

Tue, 13 Jul 1999 - 11:57:45    Crouched into the bathroom for a dump; I made not a single sound; mail flap knock below at the beginning; door squeak and evident exit but male and little girl (prob next door) in the middle; voice door squeak; male voice dog bark and slam below at the end; will flush later; crouched back into living room;

Tue, 13 Jul 1999 - 12:04:52    Back in chair; update.  

Tue, 13 Jul 1999 - 12:42:33    Rebooting to restore progs after SuperSonic upgrade; all progs reloaded OK; NetMeet video OK; no bench warmers;

Tue, 13 Jul 1999 - 12:51:16    0845 764 0000 64k BT Internet(01:00): Email(all but Screaming and Telinco): sent 2: Hush mail reply; SuperSonic good job: 12:52:17

Listening to the SuperSonic wave files; beautiful.  

Tue, 13 Jul 1999 - 13:21:16    Crouched into the bathroom for a pit stop; immediate front door slam followed by light footsteps coming to this end; keys unlock door; squeak and slam below; could be either 503 or 504; I made not a sound; couple more front door slams as left the bathroom to come back; crouched into living room; male voice yells “Dad” pauses then “Dad” again; first heard from kitchen window as I crouched back into living room then out front as I sat down in chair; voices talking; must be the “Dad” in 503;  

Tue, 13 Jul 1999 - 13:23:20    Back in chair; update;

Tue, 13 Jul 1999 - 13:27:15    Voices still talking out front; sounds like the guy who yelled “Dad” talking below to whoever is in the flat below; cannot hear the responses from below though.  

Tue, 13 Jul 1999 - 13:28:24    Turned off music for another time.  

Tue, 13 Jul 1999 - 13:33:32    Sounds like the Screamer is talking below.  

Tue, 13 Jul 1999 - 13:35:05    Construction crane engine starts again along with air hammer; lunch time over.  

Reading NG: BT Internet;

Tue, 13 Jul 1999 - 13:56:27    Crouched into the kitchen to fix spag; got stuff from fridge; new pkg of spag; filled pot with noiseless hot water; put on stove to boil; tom puree in cup and mixed with noiseless hot water; separated spag and broke half into fridge container; other half into  boiling pot; simmer and lid;

                crouched into bathroom to flush toilet; propped open both doors so I could see; did not get it all down in the first try; have to come back in a min;

                crouched back to the kitchen; stirred the spag; added some curry powder to tom puree; waited a bit then crouched back to the bathroom for a second flush; success; put limescale remover into the bowl;

                crouched back into kitchen closing both doors behind me; drained spag; poured tom puree on spag and mixed; filled pot with noiseless hot water; crouched into the living room;

Tue, 13 Jul 1999 - 14:16:42    Back into chair; turned on SS music; noted absence of water and

Tue, 13 Jul 1999 - 14:18:54    Crouched back into the kitchen; filled water bottle with cold water making no noise whatsoever in the water pipes in the wall; crouched back into the living room one more time (and the last I hope for awhile);

Tue, 13 Jul 1999 - 14:20:59    Back into chair; update; eating spag; listening to SS music.  

Tue, 13 Jul 1999 - 14:39:54    Finished above update; sounds like the construction has ended for the day; probably too hot to work out there.  

Tue, 13 Jul 1999 - 14:45:40    Crouched into the kitchen to rinse the spag plate and pot with noiseless hot water; cold water too as the hot water is too hot these days; cold water made nary a sound in the water pipes in the wall; crouched back into the living room;

Tue, 13 Jul 1999 - 14:47:53    Back into chair; update;

Back to reading NG: BT Internet;

Tue, 13 Jul 1999 - 15:02:58    Sounds like the post finally arrived: no, it did not.  

Dozed off again for a bit of a snooze filled with spag; zonked out with music on in my ear.  

Tue, 13 Jul 1999 - 15:50:17    Female shouts “Oi” then “Ollis” (or was it “Oie”?); no noticeable reply as much children chatter noise outside the kitchen window follows;  

Tue, 13 Jul 1999 - 15:55:22    Crouched into the bathroom for a pit stop; kids talking in Walkway then go inside; banging on wall from next door (kitchen); I made not a sound; crouched back into the living room;

Tue, 13 Jul 1999 - 15:58:25    Back into chair; update; sweltering hot again today and sweating like yesterday;

Listening to music and testing jukebox; works as it should; very nicely.

Tue, 13 Jul 1999 - 16:12:08    Door slam in Walkway.  

Tue, 13 Jul 1999 - 16:24:20    Dog barking away below.  

Tue, 13 Jul 1999 - 16:26:02    Hit on the floor above; out on the balcony above.  

Tue, 13 Jul 1999 - 17:36:43    Rebooting to restore sound card that went away for SS and Winamp; all progs reloaded OK; NetMeet video OK; no bench warmers; const is building something out there;

Restored sound card music OK; listening to SS DJ.  Edit a bit of NJ song but still very slow going; need to unload all other progs when working with it.  

Tue, 13 Jul 1999 - 17:51:37    Noise from below in the rear living wall.  

Tue, 13 Jul 1999 - 18:18:33    0845 764 0000 64k BT Internet(01:35): OE5: BT 1: fm BT Internet (processing Plan 180 bills resumes;  FS 1: NewsScan: 18:20:07

Reading Email: NewsScan and BT Internet’s 2+ months lapse in process Plan 180 bills.  

Tue, 13 Jul 1999 - 18:34:23    Door slam below.  

Tue, 13 Jul 1999 - 18:35:34    0845 764 0000 64k BT Internet(01:15): Tele (Eyes Wide Shut); Times (Shumacher explains accident): 18:36:50

Reading pubs articles; started Pop Tape One A:

Carpenters - I’m Caught Between Goodbye and I Love You
Carpenters - We’ve Only Just Begun
(?Bass?) - Zing Went the Strings of My Heart
(?Cherelles?) - Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow
Beatles - Let It Be
Everly Brothers - Let It Be Me
(?Billy Joel?) - Met My Old Lover in the Grocery Store
(?) - There’s Someone Walking Behind You
Gordon Lightfoot - Sundown
(?) - I’ve Had It
Fleetwoods - Come Softly With Me
Bread - I Want to Make it With You
Simon & Garfunkel - 59th Street Bridge Song
The Platters - Only You
(?) - Georgie Girl
(?) - Summer of 42

Tue, 13 Jul 1999 - 18:48:46    Crouched into the bathroom for a pit stop; noises in Walkway with door squeak and double hit door slam below; I made not a sound; crouched back into the living room;

Tue, 13 Jul 1999 - 18:50:57    Back in the chair; update.  

Tue, 13 Jul 1999 - 19:37:59    Side A Pop Tape One done; started Side B Pop Tape One

Johnny Mathis - The Twelfth of Never
Carpenters - Yesterday Once More
Arlo Guthrie - City of New Orleans
Elvis Presley - Love Me Tender
Beatles - When I’m 64
(?) - San Francisco
Jane Olivor - He’s So Fine
(?) - Jean
Simon & Garfunkel - If I Could, I Surely Would
Elvis Presley - Are You Lonesome Tonight
The Platters - Twilight Time
Johnny Mathis - The Twelfth of Never
Charlene - I’ve Never Been to Me (Twice)
(?) - Sukiyaki (Instrumental).  
Charlene - I’ve Never Been to Me (Instrumental reprise)

Tue, 13 Jul 1999 - 20:25:43    Side B Pop Tape One ended; lots of voices and stick whacking over to the left out by the wall as they congregate; few mins ago the kids went on a screaming fit under the kitchen window then carried it around to the front before stopping;

Tue, 13 Jul 1999 - 20:28:26    Started Pop Tape Two Side A:

Beatles - Yesterday
(?) - The Race for the Roses
(?) - Don’t Let the Sun Catch You Crying
(?) - Baby I’m Yours
Tommy Edwards - It’s All in the Game (MP3)
(?) - Guantanamera
Gilbert O’Sullivan - Alone Again Naturally
Elton John - Your Song
Don McLean - Crying (MP3)
(?) - Tracks of My Tears
(?) - (?)
Anne Murray - I’m So In Love With You Honey
Fleetwoods - Mr Blue (MP3)
Bobby Darin - Dream Lover
(?) - Being With You
(?) - My Beautiful Balloon
Phyllis Ramirez; Arlene Vaughn; Elizabeth Lustgarten;
Herlihy’s; Flight; Simone;
                                    
Tue, 13 Jul 1999 - 20:47:52    Thumper arrives overhead stomping his feet all over above; and it was so nice and quiet in here. [End of meeting signal of triumph?]

Tue, 13 Jul 1999 - 21:14:26    Side A of Pop Tape Two done; time to relax and think for a bit; after the stomper returned above there were considerable noises outside of talking and general plunder; meeting broke up?; the whacker is still whacking over to the left.

Tue, 13 Jul 1999 - 21:19:49    BT box just clicked three times at intervals; someone just called to see if line was engaged, hear the ring, tried to access the computer or just closed out a connection; believe that it was a connection attempt; there was such a click alone just before these three, and I dismissed it as possible fridge noise but now it was just like these three very distinct sounds; there is no doubt they came from the BT box.

Tue, 13 Jul 1999 - 21:23:41    Door slam below.

Tue, 13 Jul 1999 - 21:42:50    Just got a noise overhead as I settled back in my chair to rest and think; before this some time ago there was a similar hit after I put my head back.

Tue, 13 Jul 1999 - 22:00:31    Furn scrape below.

Tue, 13 Jul 1999 - 22:04:37    There is a breeze starting up outside; will it break the swelter? Or is it someone in the trees again? There are also feet stomping in the hall small room area; is it above or below?

Tue, 13 Jul 1999 - 22:13:44    Here comes a helicopter; I can see its lights thru the top of the window; flew this way then off to the left.

Tue, 13 Jul 1999 - 22:35:08    Moved over to the bed noiselessly with the notebook; the voices are still coming from the left area in a steady murmur; we shall see what happens now.

[Slept for about an hour it appears]

Tue, 13 Jul 1999 - 23:32:34    [Just entered time check after waking up; all was very quiet; not sure what, if anything, happened]

[Went back to sleep immediately since I did not want to sit up and write; about 1.5 hour’s sleep; REM cycle with dream at end when woke up; sleeping light; do not recall anything waking me that was external; does not mean there wasn’t; just that I did not recall; total 2.5 hours so far]

    Wednesday, 14th July 1999

Wed, 14 Jul 1999 - 00:59:46    Just woke after a military dream of getting every thing organised and ready for the arrival of the general; went on for a while; not much talking; lot of activity; not any talking; USAFSS

[Back to sleep for another 1.5 hour’s sleep; another REM cycle; total 4 hours so far; Hawaiian dream as noted below; woke up after it; noise of someone leaving could have related to disturbance that cause dream and waking up; might have tried to talk in my sleep here as there was a “talking” episode in the dream before waking when complaining about trans circumstances]

Wed, 14 Jul 1999 - 02:40:20    Engine starts outside and vehicle departs noisily; just before that there was a front door slam; prob connected.

Wed, 14 Jul 1999 - 02:56:08    I was yelling in my Hawaiian dream about having to pay for my own trip to there to get a job done and the uncertainties and difficulties this caused in not being able to plan and pay for trans properly.

Wed, 14 Jul 1999 - 03:01:39    Very faint sound of a door shut below. [This is very revealing.]

Wed, 14 Jul 1999 - 03:01:57    Crouched into the bathroom for a pit stop; I made not a bit of noise or heard anything while in there; an auto started and departed from the end of the bldg just as I went through the living room door into the bathroom; looked back and did not see its lights against the front window so assumed that it was heading away from the bldg; crouched back into the living room to no further sounds or poss sights.

Wed, 14 Jul 1999 - 03:05:04    Back in bed; update;

Wed, 14 Jul 1999 - 03:43:01    To the chair to fetch my glasses left on table; noted they were gone when went into the bathroom;

Wed, 14 Jul 1999 - 03:44:17    Back from chair having gotten my glasses; no sounds of tracking and stalking outside (yet)

Wed, 14 Jul 1999 - 03:51:07    Very faint sound of an elec auto lock in the road outside. [There it is! The signal from above I believe.  Believe this to be the Silver Wagon that I heard again about 0530 when I believe it departed although I did see the vehicle departing; only heard it.]

Wed, 14 Jul 1999 - 04:09:44    Two dreams in quick succession as I dozed off; the first about driving a VW up a hill that finally would not take it; windy and rainy day with limbs on the road and wind slowing car to a stand still; backed around into a side road; B got out to drive; the second trying to find vending machine chips for auto refill that were miss installed in PCs

Wed, 14 Jul 1999 - 04:11:42    Time check

[The final hour of sleep in what turned out to be a much interrupted sleep night; total about 5 hours in what could have been an excellent night of sleep if left alone; believe I was disturbed at the beginning after an hour that carried on despite the apparent quiet at that time.]

Dream just before I woke up: leaving on the Expressway; found the right way; crossing the bridge; braking; other three lanes open; brakes failing; woke up;

Wed, 14 Jul 1999 - 05:17:37    Crouched into the bathroom for a pit stop; I made not a sound nor heard anything from anywhere else; no front door slam per usual; into small room for stats; light switch on and off; scales made a wee noise;

Wed, 14 Jul 1999 - 05:17:37    Wt 202; Elec 35,498.8; Gas 12.487

                back into bathroom to put on trousers; brushed hair; crouched into living room picking up notebook from bed; moved it soundlessly to the table; deshrouded monitor; sat down in chair quietly;

Wed, 14 Jul 1999 - 05:24:55    Into chair; sys on; update;

Discovery    13/20:01:09 to 14/02:57:40; duration 06:56:31; words 226,053, items 49.
Seti        Done 21.157%; CPU Time: 66:24:01.5
eSafe        Start 00:00:22; elapsed 02:24:00; files 54,708 (10 skipped); size 4,367,211k;

Wed, 14 Jul 1999 - 05:25:51    Auto pulls up/goes by outside from Bramley

Wed, 14 Jul 1999 - 05:26:45    Very faint elec auto lock again; [This sounded very similar to the signal last night at 0351 that I heard; believe this most likely to be the silver wagon departing this am but did not see it.]

Wed, 14 Jul 1999 - 05:28:02    Very faint vehicle departure from far other end of road

Wed, 14 Jul 1999 - 05:29:50    Video reset; picture perfect; bldg something in road; MC by near wall stairs; white square back wagon by near wall stairs this side facing other way;

Wed, 14 Jul 1999 - 05:39:12    Finished update above;

Edit/spell checked last night’s diary.

Wed, 14 Jul 1999 - 05:41:50    Auto just went by from other end; video frozen; did not see; reset video; OK now for the moment; trees moving a bit;

Wed, 14 Jul 1999 - 05:46:52    Reset video again after heard sounds from front door area; not sure if it is frozen or not;  

Wed, 14 Jul 1999 - 05:47:47    Rebooting sys to refresh resources; all progs loaded OK;

Wed, 14 Jul 1999 - 05:54:26    Video reset; picture perfect still; hope it is not “still”

Wed, 14 Jul 1999 - 05:56:38    Parcel Force truck goes by with back open; an old truck.  

Wed, 14 Jul 1999 - 06:04:06    Very faint vehicle door slam outside; very faint engine starting; sound of engine idling a bit louder;

Wed, 14 Jul 1999 - 06:10:48    The parker leaves below from the other side facing this way and driving this way; this must have been the vehicle noise above as noted;  

Wed, 14 Jul 1999 - 06:16:11    Finished edit/spell check for last night’s diary;

Wed, 14 Jul 1999 - 06:19:14    Crouched into the kitchen to get grapefruit and oatmeal; one cup measured noiseless hot water into the oatmeal pot; changed the paper rolls between the kitchen and chair; sliced the grapefruit (wrong angle) while bringing to boil and set aside; crouched back into the living room;

Wed, 14 Jul 1999 - 06:26:30    Back to chair; update; eating grapefruit;

Wed, 14 Jul 1999 - 06:29:29    Dark car goes by from this end to the other just after a noisy vehicle pulls up outside under the kitchen window;

Wed, 14 Jul 1999 - 06:30:36    Vehicle door slams outside; noise underneath in balcony area; something rattled too. [Passing stuff over the railing?]

Wed, 14 Jul 1999 - 06:32:02    Another vehicle door slam outside kitchen window; sounds like a truck; same engine that arrived started; diesel;

Wed, 14 Jul 1999 - 06:32:48    White truck heads down the road to the other end from under kitchen window; [Did this one pick up people/things from below?]

Wed, 14 Jul 1999 - 06:34:40    Silver sun roof wagon goes by heading this way.  

Wed, 14 Jul 1999 - 06:38:02    Dark auto just went by from here to there.  

Wed, 14 Jul 1999 - 06:38:17    Crouched into the kitchen to throw away the grapefruit rind and get the oatmeal w/ banana; filled oatmeal pot with noiseless hot water; sliced banana onto the oatmeal; crouched back into the living room;

Wed, 14 Jul 1999 - 06:41:01    Back into chair; update; eating oatmeal w/ banana

Wed, 14 Jul 1999 - 06:41:46    Thumping noises from below the small room area;  

Wed, 14 Jul 1999 - 06:45:16    Door slam below;  

Wed, 14 Jul 1999 - 06:47:48    Sounds like a vehicle departs from the other end;

Wed, 14 Jul 1999 - 06:50:04    White convertible (solid canvas top) goes by again today heading from here to there.  Wind is blowing now; hope it stays that way.

Wed, 14 Jul 1999 - 06:51:16    0171 490 2200 Barc PC Bank Upd(01:36): PCUR 9.33 Sains posted; 36.79 loan pmt cleared: 06:52:52 Backup.  

Wed, 14 Jul 1999 - 06:54:21    Door noises below with loud bar/grate clanking.  

Wed, 14 Jul 1999 - 06:57:02    Vehicle doors slam along with voices outside kitchen window;

Wed, 14 Jul 1999 - 06:59:17    Door slam below followed by a couple clunking noises.

Wed, 14 Jul 1999 - 07:00:40    Engine starts under kitchen window;

Wed, 14 Jul 1999 - 07:01:59    Door slam below with double hit.  

Wed, 14 Jul 1999 - 07:02:29    Milk van goes by 071499_070247.mv2; did this to note construction; MC parked by near wall stairs with sun reflecting from it; parking and square back white wagon still there.  

Wed, 14 Jul 1999 - 07:02:50    Dog barking away below; keeps at it; must be outside waiting and watching again.

Wed, 14 Jul 1999 - 07:05:04    Voices still outside kitchen window as dog continues to bark away; now there are two vehicle door slams below kitchen window.  

Wed, 14 Jul 1999 - 07:06:26    Dog is really at it this am;

Wed, 14 Jul 1999 - 07:07:29    Finally the vehicle starts and departs outside kitchen window but goes to Bramley and not from here to there;  followed some more dog barking;  

Edited daily Times URLs for d/ld

Wed, 14 Jul 1999 - 07:11:24    0845 764 0000 64k BT Internet(45:36): OE5 (Synch 106): Email: FS 2: WebMaster Bulletin; Free Pint Bar 268 - 281 ; BT 1: Young jokes;  NG: BT Internet; Intel; Corel; SB3: Times; Tele; FT; Guar; 07:57:00

Wed, 14 Jul 1999 - 07:18:11    Crouched into the bathroom for a dump; lots of noise from outside; someone left with door squeak and slamming door; also sounded like someone came downstairs too; interesting that they all came out after I went into the bathroom; water noise started in the pipes from below; reasonably loud; I made hardly a sound; could not have even been audible anywhere; set up tub to fill but decided to wait until water pipe noise in wall stopped;

                crouched into the kitchen to rinse the oatmeal dish and pot in noiseless hot water; the water sound in the wall pipes could still be heard in the kitchen from below that had started when I was in the bathroom;

            &nb