02-XI-2017.
Wrote a little cryo tank conversion for, of all places, THC. This time not a customer of the late Zero, but of Firriver. World is just a village.
OTOH, there was yet another change request meeting in the afternoon, and I got heavily criticized for fixing CR-103 prematurely, because it still didn’t go through a sprint (weekly batch approved on a change request meeting), wasn’t assigned to me, Inge already tested it (how, if there wasn’t a build? - well, this was on time for the previous build). Laura gave me a little oration which, with other discussion, took longer than the fix took.
This is such bullshit.
Couple of days later we made, which we rarely do, a party for her birthday. With Dragan, Silvija and the kids, Boba, Milena and Arpi. We drank, of course, the apricot (probably decided to hit on the vintage 2014, as this year we finally had a crop of our own and made a lot of rakija). (... 22 words...) Arpi was also somewhat celebrating, as his birthday is the next day by administrative snafu, should have been the same day.
All in all, one good evening.
Third.
The black currants that we planted five years ago have mostly dried, and the remaining two bore lots of fruit. But they're puny, I managed to pick just one glass, and then nobody would eat that, so eventually she decided to make a liquor of it. She poured a liter of tutifruti, put the currants in and then started adding honey. Which does ooze, but so slowly... She tried to push it through the funnel with a chopstick, which eventually worked, after half an hour.
Few weeks later she tried to measure the alcohol in that. Turned out negative, i.e. less than zero. Because the alcoholometer doesn't really measure alcohol in the solution, it measures density. With the three spoons of honey it was denser than water.
In the end nobody wanted to drink that. Few had sampled a small shot, nobody went for seconds. We redistilled with something else three years later.
Mentions: Arpad Gunaroši (Arpi), Dobrivoj Gunaroši (Boba), Dragan Umljanić, Firriver Fertility (Firriver), Inge Brandlicht, Laura O'Hare, Milena Požarić, rakija, Silvija Umljanić, THC, tutifruti, Zero Distance (Zero), in serbian
3-XII-2017 - 31-X-2025