More work on trying to get a job. Sending emails, and exchanging private messages and emails with anyone I can catch. This from James:
My needs are really modest - a decent place to live, a boring car (you don't want to get me started on interesting cars... I've driven too many of those and spent countless hours talking with illiterate repairmen), good internet connection, and lack of major worries, including health system (as opposed to lack of system and abundance of various shops here) and affordable quality education for my kids. I can manage the rest myself.
Then Canada will be fine. One advantage of Montreal, at least for now, is that it has a lower cost of living than most major cities of Canada. While this is finally changing, it is a long-lasting holdover of separatism days. Ecomonies take much time to have trust reestablished. The major cost differences are in rent and food. Entertainment/booze/sports are priced as elsewhere.
As for our little campaign, I'll lay low today. It's a Labor Day over here, so most of the people are not online. I'll respond tonight, so that it gets them in the morning. Thanks for catching the Schlagwort (punchline?).
Well given that yesterday was sunday, I was reluctant to reply then. But I had hopes that the saturday outage might bring more traffic than normal, so I went ahead. I think your reply tomorrow, later in the morning, will be best. Keep the spirit up
And this to Škrba:
Holding my thumbs.
With some help of a pal from Canada (a foxer, and I supported him a few times when I thought he was right, though whole UA ran against him because he's a bit of a curmudgeon and gets into disputes easily) we're now launching a campaign to catch someone on UA to take me, because, as he says, "guarantee there's someone who needs you even when there's no vacancy, not to mention that someone surely thinks of taking someone", so we dropped the cue word today. I'll have to slow down the talk a bit, because here's a holiday (their Labor Day) so half [of them] won't read the messages.
music: well, working on it. I'm a bit behind with packing Boća's vinyls because of the vacation and other house activity, and I intentinally refuse to be spammed with disks, can't endure the input. Truth to say, I already have more than I can manage to listen out. Lena's mostly blasting Disney channel on weekends, and on the job I mostly don't remember to. Well, the latter is off now. At the moment, spinning Roger Waters, the other one of those two live albums. He's got a couple of old numbers phenomenally done, like "Set the controls for the heart of the Sun" with female voices as if he borrowed the singers from Đoka Who Cocks.
Only now I have for the first time read the "Rollerball" story, and opened my mouth so much that it still gapes. Ox, yes... only its name was "Harison Berdžeron". Rollerball was that movie, which I remember as "not bad enough", just where did they find Džems Kan, that [guy] never moves [his] face. I sometimes asked myself wether he has more than two and a half expressions on stock. There was one before him who did that well, but that was Baster Kiton.
P.S. America sux: you notice that only now?
Knowing, taking notice and swimming in it are three fundamentally different categories. The darkest of it is that this komissar (the manager set by investors three months ago) managed to keep 20 people a month longer than needed, and unpaid at that, and only now it was discovered that the health [insurance] wasn't paid with the previous month's (july) [salary]. A 200$ of bills waits for me (x-ray for the green card 35; Lena's ambulance when she slipped in the bathroom, 105; our and a half in the hospital, out of which 3x2 minutes in presence of a doctor, 60 - and at that the gulanfer put stetoscope over her t-shirt, and didn't even look at the hit spot, just palpitated it), and if I want any of that refunded (and partially at that, probably none of the first 35, 10 of the 60 and 55 of those 105), I should pay in some 450... don't know who's crazy there. Canadians sorta have some more honest laws and treat you as a citizen. If nothing else, for their 40% tax you get total health and whatnots more. And I think they are metric, and came to terms with the fact that the day has 24 hours.
I gathered the shots of 31-VIII-2001. and posted them on sGradlj.com (then still on Geocities, I guess), along with a navigation page generated in Aysedesee (Acdsee), or rather by one of its add-ons, and those add-ons could do miracles. Later I lost those add-ons, too bad, but then kept using Aysedesee until 2022, at least to quickly reorient the shots from Go's phone, which often came in wrong orientation.