The sound boxes and nanovo were ready, haven't unpacked them since last week, just added the bottle of tutifruti that wasn't touched then (the kruksovača was the soup of the day, and the apricot that Jozda brought) and a power strip, counting on the old building not having multiple outlets. I did announce this to Gavra, him being the host, he said bring whatever you want, they have their own music. Ah, yeah, I remember that each time when IV4 makes a maturski, it was Žuca's cranky boombox squealing and scraping, wound up to eleven.
Bajlo drawn himself right on time and spoiled my timing, I had thought I'd have just enough time to relieve myself in peace... No matter, he didn't wait long, then we picked Dragana and Borko and drew ourselves at the hunters' lodge (which is halfway between the city and our garden, been there on 03-IX-2016. already), and almost came first. Then the regulars came - Žuca, Milica, Gavra, Jozda, Vlada, L., Pasa (who came few hours later), the other Bajlo, J.B. and a few more faces... fifteen of us altogether. We drank Gavra's quince, Jozda's loza, the classic, and our tutifruti.
Gavra seems to have been the cook, the soup was proper Banat's domestic, with noodles three quarter meters long, gave us some trouble. The roast was good, pork a la some mode, good salad, dill sauce (mmmmm) and some strange mashed potatoes, some other stuff added but not just plain flour to make it thick, there was something else. Then there were two cakes, one sent by Jasmina via Dragana, the other by someone else for, probably, a similar reason.
While we sat inside, the music that I brought was on, and at some point it played Procol Harum, which made L. go all foggy-eyed, so we danced the rest of the song (enough for Bajlo to shoot five frames) and then she thanked me for the experience and ambience and reviving memories, extensively. So I sat the rest of the afternoon between her and Dragana, along the lines of my slogan „adolescence comes and goes and then you croak“, which didn't last too long, we split around 17 already.
News, what I gathered. Vladimira is not in that state because of any multiple sclerosis or whatever I thought, she had unhinged at some point, years ago, and is on colored pills since. And now she managed to fall in the bathroom, already had a hip replacement and now they're considering what to do with her shoulder, also broken. The other news is that Sarča has died, probably a couple of months ago, alegedly tongue cancer, he ended up practically jawless.
L., who was his girlfriend once upon a time (of which she reminded me) told me how she and her husband were vaccinated twice and still got it. She had it light, while he needed extra oxygen, they dragged him out of it but with help of who knows what kinds of meds, and now it's the side-effects that made it worse than the disease. Said his balls have swollen, and showed something coconut sized, ouch, that must hurt.
Bajlo drove us back the way he gathered us and that was it. I didn't get myself done, had one quince one loza before lunch, then stretched the three times half a shot of tutifruti till the end. I was just sleepy, which I managed to avoid, had just a few minutes and then the girls woke me up, with a gentle tap tap on my brow, which became wild jumping all over me in just a minute. How to wake up with a smile... :). I even did the photos before evening.
On sunday we made brandy all day, good run, got 10,8l of tutifruti, a bit stronger this time, 51%. In the breaks (for each batch there are two times when attention is needed, at the start of drip and when the average falls through lower fifties, rest of the time it can mostly run unattended), so I had the time to upload the photos to dropbox site, send a circular email with the link.
On monday Lena was here, conducting next phase of her name and address change, came to the city hall to push some paperwork in that sense, then attended two business meetings (from our bedroom). One meeting was about hiring, and while she isn't the HR, she's the one to check the knowledge of the candidates, riddle them with questions. The other was about making a new team, where she'd be the lead and... well, she doesn't feel they'd let her take two guys from her current team, perhaps one. Well what do you care, do you want to be burdened with guys they'd want to offload to you? Make your own list and present it, be one step ahead, create a new reality where the idea laid out in your list is in existence, and already distributed into their heads... Which gives it a lot of advantage over competing ideas. Hmmmmm.
On tuesday went with Nina to her dentist, took Raja again to try out the three dee gear in Delta Siti. I meant to try the new gps, but it arrived bare 30 minutes before we left. And it's not really new, I took it second hand from some guy from Pirot, it has buttons, said it should be vintage 2012 to 15. He added another one, a bit older, on top of it.
Raja and I didn't stay bored for too long in Arkadije (the cafe where I have a coffee and a sour* while I wait), and then we went to Lena's briefly - she has a new vacuum cleaner, something 800€, with the drill type rechargeable battery, says it stays up for some forty hours, and looks more like a kill-o-zap gun than an appliance. Bonus: Milan loves to play with it. The girl in Delta remembered Raja from two years ago. He played the same game, working the bar, photocopying cans of coke and pizza slices, drank coffee and had good fun in the VR.
Some drizzle was falling, so we delayed the next batch of brandy for the next day. It's gotten somewhat colder, +13, it won't hurt to sit for a day longer.