16-X-2014.

Last night, wasted some time trying to use the blogging software my old provider provides (i.e. the same guys who host my site since, I guess, 2003). It just doesn't work - the editor didn't load, so I was down to textareas which were invisible and I had to make them visible using Firebug; there I had to do all my html by hand. And then whenever I'd go through the process for another round, the text would wrap to a ridiculous width of about 20 characters. And I couldn't set the body font to anything but the hateful Arial and it wouldn't allow me to edit the css on my own and none of the files were visible via the ftp (probably not files at all, stored in a database - but then no way to edit the records there directly). Gave up.

This morning, looked at wordpress.com - the version with ads is free, ad-free is 100$ a year, which I can easily afford, but I wonder whether I want to do that. For the few articles a month that I may want to write, do I want to go through all the administration? I'd rather not.

I ended up having no blog(ue). If I feel like writing there's suština, there's Byo.

Ender remembered, delayedly, that he's running out of colchicine, didn't pack as much as he needed, or he thought he'd be disciplined enough with lower dose, but no, no go. No problem, we have a pharmacist.. so I got him and Raja into the saxo and took them to dad first, I guess to bring him lunch. It was seriously raining, made a bunch of good shots because I wasn't the driver.

Then went to Jasmina's shop. She was flabbergasted, and recounted the experience many times, how it was when I came in with them, so dark (tanned, and it may take them months to revert to white) and somewhat slant eyed. But she didn't have colchicine, it's unlisted, she sticks to the state listed meds, but here, I'll ask my friend... yes she has it. Turns out it's smack in the middle of my old street, I knew the shop. And the lady knew me (I her not, perhaps superficially but without context). She had some, but not the amount we needed, plus there was another medication, not one third of the price like colchicin, actually still expensive but can do without prescription here, which is impossible in the US. Didn't need much of that other one. We took a few packs that she had at hand, and some six days later she called, the rest had arrived. The bill was 700€, so I paid part plastic part paper. Now he's got an annual supply. (didn't last, though, used them up by summer, when it hurts he must, then it fucks up his digestion, then he's unusable for three days because of the runs)

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Mentions: Byo (Byo), Ender Aquila (Ender), Jasmina Vlajin, Ryu (Raja), saxo, suština, in serbian

16-X-2014 - 15-XII-2025