Entering Hungary again at Bački Breg... and that's the last time. I think I've helped Ileš as far as I could. This time it was about managing the files communicated to and from the PsionOrg handheld. The code in the .opl file was mentioned, and it seems to be the water meter reading.
Which is funny, though, because Szoftex had a water billing app, but as they have parted ways, he preferred to write and sell his own.
On 1st of december, started working on TaxiSys. Created the initial config files, metadata etc. By twelfth I had most of the forms. At some point, I guess these days when it was mostly ready, I went with Brlja to Novi to Bata's place, where we demoed it to him, and he demoed the sound recording to us. Went also (at another time?) to some cab union, the customer. There were about five such then. They were operating from a hotel room, where they had the computer and the transmitter, and where the dispatcher girls sat. All the calls were recorded by voice, and all the rides were (to be) recorded in my app. I also recorded the membership fees and when they expire, had not only a list of streets but also their intersections, so they'd know when, as it happened from time to time, a passenger states an address at the corner of two streets from opposite parts of town.
In parallel, we two had a few more tezgas, mostly various small fish and an occasional former customer of DBA, which didn't have the means to pay regularly through a bank account, which was blocked, but they somehow plodded through, and a couple hundred marons [or morons, whichever was the favored nickname for the german mark at the time] for us would be scraped. The wee TIK was on the list, they barely made ends meet, but weren't giving up, they found contracts to do, made money, managed to make it through month after mont. Of course, we'd be the last on the payout list, but I still went there to touch a few bits from time to time, at least because Vasilija was still the chief accountant there - shee too worked privately on the side, there's always a tezga for an accountant.
But, that candle burned down to the point where she told me, last visit, that they can't pay me. I said no need for money, give me this desk. Which desk? The one I'm sitting on. Deal. This time they needed something again, and I said okay, as soon as you fulfill your promise. What promise? Well... the desk. Within thirty minutes two guys came with a pickup truck, brought the desk in, even parked it where I told them to. I'm writing this sitting at that same desk, it's indestructible. We actually rearranged the furniture at this time, the bedroom wall was taken by the regal and now my desk leans on it with its right side, and the regal is by the long wall. I did need a long cable for the modem, and for the power I needed a sizable extension cord, but I wasn't in anyone's way. The doors to the bedroom and kids' room were right behind my back, but I didn't mind, that didn't bother me.
(ummm... I'm mentioning this table in early september, so this could have been earlier this year, maybe february-march)
6-XII-2013 - 25-III-2026