02-V-2009.
We made a real mayday uranak (from 'uraniti' - to get up early, it's a tradition).
Bought two bundles of green onions at the Koreans. I got up at 9:15 (I usually get up at 8:45, but she didn't want to wake me until Nina freed the bathroom - she worked from home today, yesterday went to the office unti lunch only). I worked maybe an hour and a half, then we went off to buy krmenadla (cut of meat from pig's back) and chicken thigs (no bones no skin). For firing up the barbecue I used the gas burner, left from doing the bathroom and replacement of the water heater, and to fan the fire the special gear Nina brought from Japan, a plastic fan.
For Lena we put mushrooms, peppers and zucchini on skewers. In the previous years I kept working through all the holidays, ours and theirs, so this time we decided to celebrate. Lena didn't go to school, she had some backlogged homework - all of them education folks suffer from the same malady, they expect the best kids to become famous under exactly their guidance, and everyone wants to kidnap the same kids for their own subject, so we told her to better do that at home than to waste time at school.
She's attending some advanced yoga course, if everything goes as intended she'll be an instructor. Last evening we were her guinea pigs. Rolled out the thin rubber mats in the kitchen and began bending out. My belly got in the way, else I'd be able to do all of it... I'll see tomorrow which muscles will hurt. Some of it did hurt right away but wasn't horrible, and we did feel better right away. At the same time we decided that this is not for us.
The space is becoming tight, Ender and Nina in the orange room, sometimes with Eleese as well, and that room is barely three by four, also loaded with yarn and materials (aka cloth by yard, didn't mean materials for a session :)). And we two spend the day downstairs, we only sleep up in the big bedroom... so we came to the decision to swap rooms. We two are taking the orange, and let them two spread a bit in the blue, it's almost six by four and a half plus two larger closets.
This is where we came to the idea to get rid of the surplus hardware. Both my monitors are now splatters, and the girls switched to such as well, so we put the old ones to lay on someone. There's some charity which collects them and gives to a prison workshop where the inmates would learn to fix them. There's accumulation of it.
Looking at what machinery is in use, ouch... Okay the zmajček and what's plugged into it (Logitech's speakers, Bro's printer, network). There's the television set and the video recorder still plugged into it, even though nobody even looked at it for at least three years, and probably one of consoles, I'm sure it was a Playstation but not sure whether it was already a model three or still the two from student's years. On the jerky 20$ table there's the nezavisni, stubbornly turned on despite being completely inaccessible in this layout, and the fan mentioned above. In the boxes there's Nina's spare printer she got from the office (with more gear, don't know what else) now that they mostly work from home. She still didn't unpack it, doesn't need it. In a few years, when she finally opens it, we'll gain yet another piece of evidence that the Aitchpee is a bunch of thieves, cutbags and road brigands.
They two bought some handy bits of furniture - the shelf and soon another one. Later they also got a larger desk with a glass desktop. It looked good, and amazingly held throughout. Then later there was a larger monitor as well, something sized 24" or bigger, so we'd watch a movie on it once in a while. They played „Guitar hero“ with genuine fake guitars and drumkit and a real microphone (Lena sings really well). The current chair and desk are the sudents model, what we got in the fall of 1999.
I seem to recollect that the nightlight, so nondescript, was bought on the same day.
The top of the bit of fence between us and Juliška, in the part from the house wall and [her remaining half of the] shed, with slats nailed on both sides, there was a room for a dove to nest. I shot maybe twenty times from the window of Lena's room, but didn't get lucky. The shots were either shaken or the dove was hidden behind the slat tips. In the exhaust of the kitchen aspirator for the 2nd apartmen there's another birdnest, an old one which now serves probably the tenth generation. Don't know what they are, seem like crows but are about half their size (learned later that these were the starlings; their young must be starlinglings). They actually attack crows, in groups of two to four, and pluck them in flight. We first thought they were defending their territory, but then saw the male bringing small black feathers for the nest. The crows are their lumberyard.
Ricardo's first contract is about to expire soon (he's such a temp) at m$. With Go everything's normal, which means that the Warner bros are a customer and bargaining is taking its course, so no details to publish presently.
This is about the fourth time when I got thinking of a change of horses soon, and then some bit gets replaced and fixed and we decide to keep the Corolla for as long as it goes. This is now 218000 without the general [refurbishing], and I'm still the fastest at the traffic light (because they're napping, talking into their mobiles and don't pay attention*).
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* choose: attend to it yourself, or pay attention
Mentions: Eleese Aquila (Eleese), Ender Aquila (Ender), Gorana Sredljević (Go), Jelena Sredljević (Lena), Juliška, Majkrosoft (m$), Nevena Sredljević (Nina), nezavisni, Ricardo Manuel Bariero (Ricardo), zmajček, in serbian
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