30-VI-2010.
On 28th, the Firriver gang reported from Rome, putting up the stand on Eshre. Laura has some family emergency, so Norman and Hana need to hold up the fort when Das ends his shift (he's eight and a half hours ahead anyway). Jan's uncle died, fell through the roof of a shed. David: „what a day... let's not cross any more black cats“.
On 29th, oldwave:
> I lost count of how many times I underlined this, but here's one more: those like you, who stayed and built something amidst chaos, are the brave ones. Not the ones who ran away, like me ;)
Stayed, in Virginia? :)
Though, I somewhat count as an aborigine already. I know the better shortcuts with less congestion, and the somewhat hidden parking places.
Marinko tries to insert a thermometer into a longish SQL select, to notify the user that the app is not dead, just busy. I told him that „"progress bar" sounds so socrealistically... it's a place where the most progressive elements of a society sit and drink, the essence of avantgarde comes to this watering hole... And that's near impossible to implement, when it runs a select it's gone far and you got to wait until it comes back. And if you insert some function, even an empty one, it will be called for each record, making it take even longer“.
From my folks:
we expect the wedding pictures tomorrow already. All the best.
Those from the morning I already saw, but I'll have to wait to get them. I carried the shooter but left it in the car, I had the official duty to escort the bride on the sand, wouldn't look right dangling on my shoulder. Go was shooting, and also a friend of Ender's, who used to be a CNN reporter, so we had an official shooter too. Those, when I get them.
There was a party at his folks' place in the afternoon. Little drinks, lots of food, hellish swelter outside, sufficiently cool inside, mixed company, english, serbian, tagalog and russian were spoken :).
Here's a few pics (...)
The maam behind the kid is Fayes. Folks are still amazed how such a small woman could have born such a huge guy.
We spent most of the afternoon (after my work - dunno what others did) completing the huge, over half the table, jigsaw puzzle on „Gone with the wind“, of about 1700 pieces. We completed it the same afternoon. Did another one yesterday, just as large.
Moved 50 grand to Nina's account - as the wedding gift and to get that house. With a big enough down payment it becomes a lot cheaper - the loan conditions are more favorable, they don't ask to pay extra loan insurance (!) (typical bankster outrage, if you don't have the money they charge you extra). Now it's up to her to get that loan from VACU.
Girls (all three), Ender and Eleese had a tour of Williamsburg (fonetikali :), Viljemzbrg) and had fun on rollercoasters, carousels etc. I made a short video of the rabbit frequenting the backalley these days.
In the backalley, behind the house, today I shot some footage of the rabbit which frequents the area for weeks. The clunker road cruiser that the previous tennants of #2 left behind is still there, the front bumper still didn't fall off. And it still seems to serve as a dead call box... one of them comes by, checks that the door is still unlocked and there's nothing under the shotgun seat; then half an hour later someone else comes by and does the same, then again the first guy comes and repeats the check. We kept seeing this during our nightly smoke breaks by the back door. The place is a bit raised so we see above the neighbor's fence, and the light on that pole exactly shows everything.
I don't think they dealt anything stronger than marijuana. Or at least that's the smell I recognize, hints mildly of fresh chicken shit.
Mentions: David Berton, Eleese Aquila (Eleese), Ender Aquila (Ender), Firriver Fertility (Firriver), Gorana Sredljević (Go), Hana Burberry, Jan Brenkelen, Laura O'Hare, Marinko Protić, Mohandas Raj (Das), Nevena Sredljević (Nina), Norman Shen, oldwave, Rosanda Aquilla (Fayes), in serbian