So Nina finally took off. As dad said, Tony Blair blew it everywhere - internationally and at home, specially inside his own party, so now the English fear their own shadow. I said, only Blair's feet stick out of... as they said here on SNL, „congratulations to the TSA staff on all the terrorists they caught“. As if this will stop anyone... just torture the honest folks. Anyone wishing them serious harm will procure (produce) proper papers and will know all the ropes in advance. The agency was really efficient - we talked again yesterday morning, and they found a connection from Norfolk, over Atlanta and Zürich. The Norfolk airport is nearby, I know it by heart (flew thrice from it, and received and saw off David, so this is my sixth time there, I even know the better places to park).
I waited for 17:00, by which time she should leave Atlanta. It being already 19:00, and she didn't call, I concluded she must be over Atlantic by now. To add to the comedy, we saw the postman circling our parking as we were leaving, and didn't wait to see whether he had anything for us. When we came back, found Nina's green card in the mail... the one which she didn't have two days ago and couldn't fly for the lack of. Anyways, she's landing on Surčin tomorrow around 13:05, then pass the customs etc. Still faster than the original route, for even with two layovers, total travel time is drastically shorter - over London it was 4 hours drive to airport, 3 hours on the airport (check in, pass the antiterrorist check), then 8 hours in London and the flight itself. This way she had 20 minutes to the airport, 30 on the airport (her flight to Atlanta was late incoming, so they put her on an earlier flight), hour and a half in Atlanta and about two hours in Zürich.
Spent half an hour on formalities yesterday - called the CU, celled the agentulja, she sent me to someone for property insurance, and then this one dug through available insurers (the house estimate by market value is 102.000$, in case of total damage and replacement), then reported to me, then the agentulja called... and then I also paid the utilities for the months (phone, power, phone), and the day passed.
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While all five of us were here, we tried all possible sleeping arrangements. Nina was supposed to use the spare cot in Lena's room, Go the one in the living room, and they did so for a while. But then it happened that Go fell asleep on Lena's bed, so Lena took my place, and I took Go's. (... 46 words...) Another time Go stayed in the living room, playing (the Playstation is permanently on, hooked into the teevee), and fell asleep on the spot.
Yesterday we saw a racoon again, climbing a tree, and it was right. Forecasting rain.
More work for Gary ahead, but don't know how to contact him, he went on a trip, didn't say where. Just that there „they live in tents, ride horses and carry long knives“. Could be Mongolia, or Tibet again. He'll be back in august.
Go brought some disks, so I'm copying movies from home now. One evening we watched „War live“, they're good. Our movies are so fresh in comparison with hollywood rubberstamps - I've even seen one thing that I've never seen here: an explosion at real speed. In any american movie explosion, it's slowed down, and the two main heros jump to the camera, just as slowly. There's some variation but only in angles and number of repeats of the last.