Got used to have a regular car now.
Files incoming from Napster aren't just music now (or am I using something else? Did I already switch to WinMx?). I see I got John Varley's stories, some Asimov, Haldeman, Silverberg, Tiptree within a day or two. And bought a cake of 50 blank CDs to send to Škrba via whoever travels next.
Yesterday, then, Škrba reports to oldwave: „A pack of 14 CD-s of MRZ music that Žuca and I worked out for sGradlj was today given to Joška in Zrenjanin. Only late last night it was learned that there will occur a delay of two weeks in meeting of two teams in Hungary, when the transception of disks will take place. Too bad, because we hurried. Well, what's there is there, important [thing] is that it got done. I sent to neighbor a catalogue of their CD-s, let him fry for a while until he gets the material (:“.
Though it may take me a dozen years to actually read some of them. I even bought some, later, without checking whether I got them on disk or not.
Had some complicated emails with Leanne, she said it's too much for an email, we'd better talk. Škrba said he visited Avai and had Cica say "where do I put his coffee"... meaning me. "As far as I'm concerned, you're still there. They went loose." he says.
There's a triper going on between USquad and Ileš, whereby he'd provide transportation for them from Délkút to Budapest on their next trip here, or back, for some reason. They were supposed to rent a car today, stay in Hungary for a week (and then what, fly here to the US?), but the Amers (who, Greg and others, or Brlja and others?) had to reschedule to april 21st. Ileš is still supposed to help with the organization, and IIRC it did work out. Though I can't remember the details. Here:
Brlja reported too. All still OK by me. Let amers say when sould I wait for tem at the airport in pest. Tey need not rent a car. Tey can drive my Nissan as well. We'll see about te details wit Brlja. How many macines, network yes/no, tey can sleep at my place (just like You did wen you came to help me). I'm going to Zr tomorrow. If I agree with Brlja, I'm taking -- renting te summer residence of the mayor on te PETEFI sziget (island)*.
Also, this from Ford, most probably (but could be Pete or even Greg: "Brlja, I don't have any problem with this, but it makes me a little nervous. You and ~~~ are the programming wizards, and so I don't have any problem with ~~~ giving you any TECHNICAL ADVICE. But, so far the tasks we have discussed for your group (Features documentation, Fields documentation, Reports documentation) are not very technical, but I know you may be working on some programs to automate some of the process.
And, later, when we are able to use your team more extensively for more technical parts of Data Conversion, your technical advisor will more likely be Rick. ~~~ is not being used for Data Conversion at the moment** and maybe not in the future either.
Just keep me informed of your interactions with ~~~ or Rick. CC me on work-related emails you guys send back and forth. My job is to deal with the politics and organization of the projects, and to make sure that we all stay headed the right direction.
I suppose we should fedex the hard drives to you or something, right?"
Much later I'll realize that Brlja included this in his email to me unknowingly, but he did say "for your eyes only". This was among the moves to push me aside and have the connection between Zero and Avai bypass me. Didn't know yet about any plans to bypass Avai too.
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* the usual transcript of the haircut latin - whenever šđžčć are missing in serbian, I translate that by omitting each h after a consonant
** ahem, take a look at 06-III-2000.. Self explanatory.
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