06-IV-2010.
Ender on the job.
He counts on the chance that one of the shops may need a boss soon... and as he knows the ropes from both sides of the barricade (as a customer of many years, and not the first time behind the counter), this is an exact fit. His first workday was on sunday, and it was „you've always been one of ours, we just didn't know how you looked until now“. And he's dealing again, just now he bought a Porsche, vintage eighty something, for 700$ because the owner thought the machine was fully dead. He paid, touched something under the hood, turned the key and drove away :). The former owner ate his balls, of course, but that's the tuition paid.
Truth be told, he drove it just around the corner, where his pal waited with a hauler, so he loaded it up and just transported it away. He could have driven it all the way, but didn't want to risk discovering that the loose cable, or whatever it was, was not the only malfunction.
Go arrived. We hit the airport at the exact time, down to the minute, weren't even charged for parking. Now the kitchen bacchanalia begin, we just acquired a proper ham. She did find a dalmatian pršut over there, translates into 70$/kg, while this ham cost 35$ and weighs at least 4kg. We drink a lot of water :).
During the day we're out in t-shirts, and in a couple of weeks we'd switch to shorts. In the evening the jacket is still needed, but buttoning up is no more.
At work, just finished testing some signature capturing add-on. Told Daniel that „they have an app which may work by itself, but the API, i..e the door that's open to programmers to use their engine inside other apps is clunky. As for Belfast, they may use it on the side; I don't know about that. I just couldn't make it work as a component in Feds.“
For the part of work involving George, I've refreshed my knowledge and learned a bunch of stuff about jQuery and weird ways of css manipulation... and relearned most of the .js... this will repeat. JavaScript is my dejavu amnesia, „I have a feeling I forgot this before“. Learned the beauty of Firebug, the js debuger for Firefox. How did the coders ever get anyhing done in javascript without this kind of tool?
The pines are shedding their pollen. Everything is sprayed yellow, and then a light drizzle comes and all the cars look like this. It was much worse back in those apartments, with the car parked under the pines. Here, it's about 100m to the Deer Park street (which we always called Beer Dark).
Dad asked about Lena's yoga classes - does she get paid, and does she pay when she attends? Well, the deal is tit for tat, aka nothing for nothing. She's not paid for classes she teaches, but then also not charged when she picks a session to attend, which she still does if she thinks they'll try something interesting.
Mentions: Daniel Berton, Ender Aquila (Ender), Feds, George Whiteley, Gorana Sredljević (Go), Jelena Sredljević (Lena), in serbian