08-III-2014.
On 6th (... 3 words...) the wooden cage for the chickens. We subscribed to them in detelina, should arrive soon. She completed it the next day.
In CAAR, one clinic is exported as a different one, because nobody reads the documentation and they've set it up without changing their ID in the settings table. Heh. Took me half an hour with Laura to get that straightened out.
With the samurai of suština, about the recent mention of Đorđe Marjanović and how he was one of the great rock'n'roll con jobs (along with Zdravko Čolić and Bijelo Dugme), in my words „because he never did anything spontaneously, took acting lessons, for the microphones always spoke exactly the language of radio Belgrade first programme and because he was retrofitted as a forerunner of domestoc rokenrol which he never was. The labor medal he did deserve, though, he indeed was a worker.
On 7th I went to buy some stuff and, along the way, bought this headset for her - it's the day of international women, so there, it's appropriate. She can plug it into her laptop and play at any desired level, without interference from my speakers. The cage is that wooden crate behind the chair.
On skype with Lena:
she: I did some form validation for Zlija last night in angular. said I was a super genius :D
me: can we call you Wiley Coyote?
she: yes! also, said he'd praise me in his office, so if they need someone to do angular, may get a freelance gig :)
me: it's not a liberal spearing, it's that the firm, i.e. you(1), is acting on the market. Is he now less disappointed that you aren't a painter anymore?
she: or is he more pissed that I'm kicking his ass as a programmer
me: ey, sending you your final statement to sign and stamp in some twenty places, the accountant(2) has put checkmarks where, mostly on the line in the middle of sheet's bottom, there's a lot of it. and the tax decision, if the colleague would bother... but she said tough shit, in zrenjanin it's worse being a paušalac(3), the local tax office is exercising strictness(4), they always classify you into worse category. says in Novi the architects(5) can go paušal, not here.
she: ooggggggh, what's going on with zrenjanin, why are they so? I thought they'd be fine people...
me: belgrade puts such people here in the tax office as punishment. who knows how they came to be there, and with what task.
she: heh, I thought the businesses were clearly defined by groups and that it's clearly known how much tax each business owes. but there it's a no such thing, they can put them wherever they want, they'd put me into 5th group for sure. (5) group is: doctors, stomatologists, pharmacists, veterinarians, professors, translators, interpreters, engineers, architects, physiotherapeutists, dental technicians, lawyers and other similar professional businesses;). for the fifth group, they charges tax which is 120% of the average monthly salary in the municipality where the business is registered.
me: „we pay what you ask“ „price suits... but we'd also need some for expenses“.
(... 37 words...) She also put the tiles in the lobby, to cover the place we initially left bare, with the intention to screw a metal plate, to which one day we'll screw the metal beams to hold the staircase. Turns out we're doing it with wood instead, so why leave it like that - we still have some tiles from that batch left over. And cutting them is just a breeze with the big italian cutter we bought. In the end, nobody can notice that this patch of tiles was laid twenty years after the rest.
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(1) alluding to Brlja's „I, that is, the firm“, where he meant USquad. Apart from being nicknamed Crowd, he also earned the I The Firm.
(2) knjigovođa, literlly „bookductor“, but here I wrote it with a wrong female suffix, knjigovođica - vođica is any part of a mechanism used to make sure a moving part doesn't stray off its path, be it a chain, belt, cable, rope, thread.
(3) paušal - uncalculated, lump sum. Small enterprises can avoid the hassle of accounting if their annual income is below a certain limit, usually three or five times the average person's salary, in which cases they pay paušal tax, i.e. lump sum. There's still a lot of variation there.
(4) its boss is the wife of Eči, and that's the policy she's enforcing
(5) arhitekta, but I wrote arhitetka - tetka being the aunt.
Mentions: CAAR, detelina, Endre Felbab (Eči), Goran Staković (Brlja), Ilija Ćirilov (Zlija), Jelena Sredljević (Lena), Laura O'Hare, Novi Sad, suština, USquad, in serbian