14-XI-2016.
The sixth version of conversion of legacy data (semen freeze only in this batch) for Kraków clinic. It's all mostly routine now, it's possibly my fifteenth, it's just that now it's time to make my own life more comfortable. Judging by the screenshot, we did this somewhere on their server, not on zmajček, (I'd never have my code anywhere in m$ territory, like below „c:\Program Files“, which is a dead giveaway), so I guess this was one of those cases when I wrote it at home, tested on the sample they provided, then Suez ran it over there and of course the sample wasn't representative. It will take a few more clinics until I had the conversion engine impervious to most of those bumps. But you never know - they'll invent something new the n+1st time. So this time I got only a screenshot of the error and now I'm looking at it and trying to sherlock out what the fuck was going on there.
Half of the problem with Kraków was that it was a polish expositure of a british clinic, or rather a conglomerate of clinics, so it had to be run almost like a franchise, where they didn't quite give a rat's piss about local specific stuff, we had to do that for them. So the database they set up had UK collation, wasn't even Unicode, the workstations were set as British where provided by the principal (local ones were fine, all in polish) etc etc.
Took Nina and Ender to Belgrade, to see dr. Vukosavanović (or some other wolfish surname*) about a surgery. It's somewhere on Dedinje, above Autokomanda, where I never have been (unless we count Stinge, two streets down, but it wasn't me driving), so she navigated by her google/gps. We laughed our asses out over the voice's pronunciation of street names ("Oslobođenja" came out as oslo-boden-jah instea of oslo-bo-dyenyah, and Ljutice Bogdana as gibberish), came 5 minutes ahead. Even though it got us through the old town and not via highway, which passes within a kilometer away. It alleged that the highway was congested, which it was, but in the other direction.
The surgery will cost about 5600€, which is roughly the amount they'd charge one day stay to just do diagnostics back in the US - the overall cost would surely be over 50000$. He'd do it on his day job, at the IKVB on Dedinje (few blocks away - actually we passed it because of the roundabout way we reached the destination), in a week.
Shot this with nokla while I was waiting in the car. There's some interesting cat life going around this solitaire (yup, soliter is our name for standalone high-rises, specially when residential), but there just wasn't enough life for the wee camera in the phone do do it justice.
It was already decently cold, but the new jacket warms me up excellently. Last time, when I was pacing the VMA terrace for hour and a half, the weather was slightly warmer, no wind just like now, but I froze my ass off in that čoja** jacket of three years ago. So around the beginning of month I just went downtown and bought this. It's made by some crew who bought off some machinery after „Kluz“ went apart, and started on their own. They're already some brand, they do them right, almost a proper pilot's jacket.
This is not the only high profile doctor who runs a small clinic from the ground floor of such a building. We've seen dozens of those in Novi Beograd too. They either bought the apartment (or two) on time and adapted them into offices, or bought them later when they were rich enough.
Trip was otherwise uneventful. She stayed with the kids, who were behaving just fine.
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* I made a whole branch of sGradlj.com where I collected those surnames derived from beasts and greenery, starting with the 69 surnames with 'vuk' - wolf.
** the cloth used to cover pool tables. Couldn't find translation and... who cares.
Mentions: Ender Aquila (Ender), Majkrosoft (m$), Nevena Sredljević (Nina), nokla, sGradlj.com, solitaire, Stinge, Suez Lima, zmajček, in serbian