16-VIII-2010.

Went downtown with Lena, on bicycles. I guess another batch of checks was to be cashed. The shots we made came from her pocket Fujica, just showing how relaxed everything looked.

In Sugar, there's a Star Trek theme. Still doesn't work if I hover my hand over it. My nezavisni does that, and it's antique from 2007. Really, it had a row of fake keys, which were touch sensitive, and a bit too sensitive actually, so you didn't really have to touch them.

Lots of work on CAAR, SHET and rest of the bunch, automated filling of combos. For multiselect combos (and many are such, as in lists of previous diagnoses), the classic multiselect combo isn't big enough - no room on the page - so it's not only that the text to display may contain at least one item that's too long, it's that there's not enough vertical space either. On the page, I can maybe accommodate 3-4 rows, and there are lists with a dozen or more. So there'll be a dialog with a list of checkboxes - at least they stay checked. With multiselect combo, if your concentration slips and your ctrl button is released during a click, the previous selections are gone. So you finally find the sixth item on the list and lose the first five, frustrating.

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Go sent a screenshot of a four-way video conference - Lena from the yellow room, though, but still on her own gugolj, Nina from the big blue room upstairs.

On 20th we finally found peanuts as they should be - big bag, roasted dry, unshelled, unsalted. The maker's address puts them smack across the street from pinovavila. (... 4 words...)

About this time she went to get groceries and spotted a granny selling tomatoes in front of her gate, some four corners from here. That's the right stuff, tomatoes straight from her yard, not the hothouse plastic junk, which they spray with some shit to gain color, ripening optional, when you cut it you see the sinews, whole tree, and taste is sad, almost worse than american. This one was really good.

She stood there with the granny for perhaps fifteen minutes, and in that time the granny talked and talked, told her whole history and of her children, where they are, what they do, what houses they have and where. When she came home, she recounted the tale for at least half an hour. And then in the following weeks and months she'd remember more of it, that she didn't put in those thirty minutes.

The granny talks zipped.


Mentions: CAAR, Fujica, Gorana Sredljević (Go), gugolj, Jelena Sredljević (Lena), Nevena Sredljević (Nina), nezavisni, pinovavila, SHET, in serbian