02-II-2012.
No snow, perhaps tomorrow. David wants to schedule a web demo with someone for next week.
We went to visit Škrba. We did see some snow, stuck on the back of a greek truck we trailed for a while. Apart from that, full sunshine, everything's dry. Got there before dark.
They are still in the parental house, his brother and mom downstairs, them upstairs, winding staircase. All neatly done and tucked in, just a tad small. We sat, of course, in that same kitchen as we did seven and a half years ago, nibbling and sipping (Ender drives, we all take pictures). Ender got somewhat bored because we didn't speak english much, so he mostly stuck his nose into his phone and played something. The missus can't take eyes off Raja, she's such an obvious wannabe grandmother, but it's still a long shot.
They took us to a tavern for dinner, somewhere by the exit to Mokrin. Škrba explained to me that now I have to keep headlights on even in town, the law changed. Well all the better, this now becomes just something to add to the checklist when starting, and not anymore a thing you have to remember every now and then, and risk to forget and get fined. Less stuff to remember.
The tavern is at about hotel level, slightly sterile despite a valiant effort to pull on some village touch - a built furnace, horns hung in the anteroom. Grub good. All the ladies in turn hold Raja and walk him around the room. He's almost walking, just needs a hand to keep steady. At some point Škrba asked Ender something car related, and then got a long informative speech, the cue he was waiting for. Škrba was really impressed and years later remembered and recounted this.
The pearl from the menu: „Pomfrit / FRANCH FRIZE“ (pomfrit is pommes frittes without the superfluous characters). I have a shot, of course. Eating out almost doesn't make sense if you return without such a trophy.
On the way back, shot this, while waiting at the light. This is the frontside of the house, the špiritana is in the back of the yard. There was some sort of the night club in the basement, though one would never know, the windows were blinded, as they'd have too much of headlight beams every two minutes. Never been there, even when it worked.
The next day we had big snow, like 20cm or so. Nina took Raja out, in a scafander suit, just to learn the snow. Bunch of good shots, both of us. On one of the shots I see that the old turkish crapper is still there. But it will vanish one day, I think the guy who did our roof in november 2010 eventually took it and installed it somewhere. I never liked the thing, its tunnel is too narrow, it clogs easily with our production. I'd never have thought that the Turks crap thin.
Made this shot of Donald, the sad prince.
At work, the mess with the page in Feds where it should export the appointment schedule into the doctor's Outlook (why do we assume all doctors use everything m$?). To test the fix, I had to... „Universe is a bitch. It's not fair. I spent two hours creating an email account (on my website) for info@sGradlj.com, then configuring Outlook 2010 to connect to it... and now it just works, with 5.3.3.41“. And then it turned out I could test it only on one of our virtual machines, but not at SFBC, because they installed m$ office on production server, but not on test. Of course, they are still on 5.3.3.19, and perhaps just installing 5.3.3.20 would solve their problem? It's been like this hundreds of times, when they're umpteen versions behind and complain of a problem we solved six versions ago.
Mentions: 23-V-1975., David Berton, Donald, Ender Aquila (Ender), Feds, Gradivoj Škrbić (Škrba), Majkrosoft (m$), Nevena Sredljević (Nina), Ryu (Raja), SFBC, sGradlj.com, špiritana, in serbian
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