Going home alone, because I wanted to be there on 19th, when the st Nikola is celebrated, as the patron saint of the family. Being not religious didn't matter, I took it as a family celebration, specially with me being a gastarbajter, the more the reason to get all of us around the table.
I hitchhiked, as the guys would stay for a week longer and then be absent for their christmas (even though I know they aren't particularly religious either, specially Joška with his marxist education). Took a bus to Délkút rather early in the morning, knowing that the day is short and that the south end of Gemenc is rather far and there's no good spot. Once there, I easily hitched someone to the border - no problem there, and perhaps I could hitch the same guy further, but the wait was rather long, and I just walked over and crossed on foot.
I gave up on hitching at the border itself, what with the guards looking at me the wrong way, so I walked the 200m to Bački Breg, just about the place where they were selling stuff (crosses, pictures of bosnian generals, šajkača, brandy, narodnjaci on CDs...) and found a spot. The next leg of the way took me to Bezdan, then to Kolut or some such place nearby, where I sort of got lucky with the next guy who took me all the way to Sombor, but it was already afternoon, perhaps around 14:00. I tried to hitch further, but the sun was at a bad angle, and nobody was leaving anyway. Gasoline was scarce, the smugglers were getting rich, and nobody was driving much. So I took a bus.
Fell asleep soon, got thoroughly confused. Hearing radio, some official state drone, and wondering how I can't understand a word. Because I was listening in hungarian, and it was serbian.
Accidentally, the Dayton agreement was signed that day, ending the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and lifting the sanctions off the FRY. Which should mean all this insane gas smuggling will just stop.
Four days ago I last logged in into old sezam. I know it's an international call from Szoftex's line, but considering how much the other guys call home, this is short - the process is automated anyway, calls are batch jobs, so who cares.
The standard BBS software they used has somehow managed to import the old messages, but was otherwise harder to use than ZŽ's homemade app - which he took away when he made SezamPro with Dejran and whoever was the third guy. They also made their own magazine, which left the position of the glodur (glavni i odgovorni urednik - editor-in-chief, similar to glodar, i.e. rodent) in the old Računari magazine vacant, which fell on young Stinge to fill.