There was a lot of fuss here with insufficient supplies of vaccine... well not insufficient, a real shortage. The Bush got scrubbed seriously, and got away only with a lot of overtime work of his propaganda apparatus. The trick is that the production doesn't pay, and his guys made some regulation which makes it pay even less (the state doesn't finance the production anymore, it's the insurances now, who are of course skirting it), and yet any joe dick or harry who catches any sideeffects (as the vaccine is not 100% safe) may sue them and raise big money from them - with lawyers taking even more. So it came down from four companies to two, and there were queues, priority lists etc. I don't seem to catch news of the flu coming around and the data on number of cases... probably hushing it down. There aren't any real news here, I learn more about the US reading our newspaper.
It's kind of getting cold over here, even had some drizzle misting it yesterday. I wore an unbuttoned jeans jacket over the new sweater when we went for groceries - treated ourselves with a new „telegent“ battery operated bathroom scale. Uses a small nine volt one, has an elsydee display, easy to read, and can be switched to kilograms, so we don't have to mess wth them pounds. And it has some gadget to measure your percentage of fat. You need to step on it barefoot, with somewhat moist feet, type in your height, age and sex, and then it lets a bit of power through you, measures the resistance and capacitance, and calculates from there. It said we ain't slim but also aren't anywhere near the american standard.
Dad brags how he bought a new „mouseodrome“. Excellent expression :). We call it mouse podloška (something one inserts underneath), but this is better.
I reply to him: „If the mouse is with a ball, it needs to be taken out and the rollers which transfer the rotation of the ball need to be cleaned. It doesn't matter what the ball is made from (I've had all of metal, plastic and ceramic), they all catch lint. Which is why we switched to optical mice three years ago, the only reason.
Actually, we had an optical mouse as early as in Szoftex, some early model, which required a special glass pad with tiny pyramids inside, the kind used on catadiopters (official term in our traffic law, denotes the rear cat-eye reflexive bits on vehicles), and even so it was not really responsive and didn't slide too well.
Tomorrow the inventory taking should start in UniJewel, with the app I wrote for the last two months, and David already saddled me with writing an app for the fairs. He's in Newyork already, and since holding all strings in his hands is personal pet held closely to heart, he spoonfeeds me information, has is own policy and generally behaves somewhat as a man of mystery. On one hand it feels well, because he does wha once Radoja used to do in stour - filters rubbish coming from above and holds the programmers in a shelter. Which is good in yet another hand, I know he's working on strengthening our position in the firm and making us indispensable. The downside is that I mostly don't know what's going on around the office - which may not be that bad, actually :).
Go has fingerprinting scheduled for february - so she really got switched to the fast lane for the green card. If it goes at the same speed as they did for Nina, she'll get it by june, roughly.
Twelfth. The UniJewel inventory... chaos. „1061910 box #28 art 4000355 scanned with quantity zero“. Because there was a sticker with a barcode on an empty bag. In box #29 four items more than what access database expects. And eight other types of errors.
28-IV-2024 - 20-XI-2025