Writing to dad
Nina arrived, all in order. Her plane was late from Prague an hour and then some, almost two, but it didn't matter, because then in Newark she waited two hours and some instead of four. And it was also late from Newark, just twenty minutes.
At the Richmond airport they have some new sinemaskop monitors, displaying the air company's logo instead of their abbr. as they previously did, and as the airplane nears, so it keeps updating its distance in miles, so you know when to hope to see it.
There was no congestion, this late at night they have perhaps one flight every fifteen minutes, and hers had a capacity of an ordinary bus, judging by the number of bags. And they got the bags outt really fast, we didn't have to wait at all.
The street was quite congested, late sunday night and all the students have arrived, I had to park in the garage, two blocks away, so I rolled the suitcase while she took the things out from her bag and backpack. Missed most of the unpacking.
We arrived home around two in the morning, me having driven the first half of the trip slower, as the snow began. It thawed right away and didn't even stick to the windshield. The road was sort of moist, looked more greasy, and while I didn't feel any slipping, slowed down just in case. The other half was dry, and now in the morning it's full tilt sunshine.
We tried a chug each of your fire water of „voda VODA“ brand, and - all kudos, majstor. The apricot and quince that Nina brought last summer are still sitting out their while (we have a „secret safe“ - one of the kitchen cabinets' bottom drawer is about 15cm shorter than it can be, so the space behind is it), when we tasted it we felt the extra tasted have still not left it, but this now (was it the 2002 loza, is that what you said?) worked its course out and has a nice smack.
Today David is still in Newyork, needs to run the update of the books after the inventoried amounts, which is a tricky business, because this inventory that we do is extensively away from sane mind. We have all inventoried our workplaces at times, and it was always that the amounts as of a determined date that were taken for granted, and the discrepancies were reported.
But no, in this one they take the differences against the time of inventory, wich they add or subtract from the amounts at closing times - which means that between the start of inventory, moment of tallying an item, and the time of closing it in the books, anything can happen (though they sort of try to touch the amounts as little as possible), so there will always be some discrepancies. It seems that they don't need the situation to be ship shape, just to bring th books to 99% resemblance of real state, and they don't care about the one percent. This isn't accounting anyway, this is just warehousing. Accounting... they can fix any way they like, as for most of the goods the price is a matter of inspiration :).
It seems that the mentioned walk with a suitcase was a good exercise before Newyork, and as if I spoke it out loud, it was heard where it should be. I'm going to NYC tonight, coming back tomorrow, and then may go for the whole next week again. This inventory is more for them to know what's where, i.e. to have an eye on the real situation. All the missing stuff I „moved“ into the work unit named „not found“... and they don't care, they keep pulling goods from it. My first task for tomorrow is to kill that „unit“.