02-IX-2011.
After fifty years, a rerun: our street (different street now) is getting asphalt. This time we paid for it, back in 1986. Well, they took their time. At least, some lady engineer in the city's urban development insisted that we get proper width, not the garden path barely sufficient for one vehicle, like the neighboring streets got (for 1996 elections). And the manholes are flat with the blacktop. The main street which connects all ten of sidestreets is a slalom course - very few manholes are at proper heights, and most of them are pot-like, where the middle is supposed to be filled with asphalt. They initially were, but it gradually wore out, so now they're pots again. Anywhere else on the planet the drunk drivers are zig-zagging and sober drivers drive straight. Here it's the opposite.
In other pictures, Go and Stanley are in California, somewhere on the coast, driving around. Sleeping in a beemer station wagon.
At Firriver there's a brief fashion of trying to „tweet your activities“, i.e. just write a sentence into the communal chat about what you're doing at the moment. However it's not in the whole communal chat, it's jst Jan, Norman, David and me. Me being there twice, once with -ic and once with -ić. My contribution this morning is that I was trying to catch why some controls on the Belrap page don't get focus when the user clicks on lstErrors. That list has all the validation errors, and clicking on any error should bring up the page (the page has its own set of pages, actually) and focus on the control which has the bad value. Norman was on TDL (whatever that was, I think some analyzer machine attached to a PC) and compatibility of bMx (BioMerieux, yet another analyzer) with SQL server. David was doing more paperwork for the clinics in Cairo (yes, Egypt) and Atlanta. Jan was on Crystal Reports preview window, which was floating over the Feds main window, while the toolbar with controls for it was still on that main window and so frequently hidden behind. Moving the toolbar to preview window. Still waiting for sample data and data dictionary for the „redcap stuff we talked about with SFBC“. Probably another attempt to get the patients do the data entry, not nurses nor doctors.
For family chats, we were trying to get rid of skype and switch to ooVoo. Worked swimmingly for a couple of weeks, but then they wanted money or had privacy issues or forced ads on us, so we gave up on it.
On 4th, went with Lena to Kikinda, to visit Škrba. All regular - coffee and a drink at their home, dinner in a restaurant, coffee and cakes in a cafe on the main square. Their daughter is same age as Lena, just a couple of months younger. Both are college students real soon now, just waiting to pass qualifications. They seemed to have made contact, but then never met again - not studying in the same city.
On fifth johana had a litter of eight - two black ones, two dark gray ones, two medium gray ones, two light gray ones.
Mentions: David Berton, Feds, Firriver Fertility (Firriver), Gorana Sredljević (Go), Gradivoj Škrbić (Škrba), Jan Brenkelen, Jelena Sredljević (Lena), Johana, Norman Shen, SFBC, Stanley Berger, in serbian