06-II-1997.
The opislt.dbf table (as described under 19-VIII-1998.) was added to genhlp, ed_help.prg, ed_hlps.prg and other variants.
The simple version was more oriented to work with FPD; the hlps version used edMemo.prg instead of the upitig2.prg generated dialog and had some options to include gifs (screenshots of pieces of app described here and there) so to make the generated html help look better.
There's also a lt.prg (generated by catal6.prg) which would aid the insertion of standard pieces of text into the help.
Also this is when the main screen for assets was generated. Don't know who did that, perhaps Joška or that girl who was doing a kind of fellowship. Nope, she was here last year, while Avai was still in Bangro's smaller building.
We didn't go for The Walk anymore, Sloba has signed the lex specialis, ceded the authority in all the contested cities. Go had, just in case, bought us whistles, when she was in Belgrade, to protest the opening of Fest. They succeeded in interrupting it, the protest was really massive. I kept the whistle in my winter jacket for at least two more winters. Who knows, may still be good to have it at hand.
We somehow preferred to, of the whole big living room, sit around this table by the back wall. For lunch, as I see, we had „real soup“, i.e. not something out of a cube but straight from meat, fried potatoes, pohovano ham salami, pickled cucumbers. Now looking at it we remember how that was still the proper good ham salami, with exactly the meat the recipe calls for. The only thing they, like, fumbled with (from what dad heard in the mess hall in the factory), was to replace the gelatine (which they had to buy) with something their engineers came up with, boiled pig heads and selected offal which was previously dumped to kafilerija (qv) and got something even better yet cheaper.
Of vessels, ths glassware is still from the first batch we bought when we got mirko, east german, not the smoothest but practically indestructible (a couple of them were dropped and shattered over the ensuing decades, but most of them are still in use, in 2024 now). Of other tidbits, the shiny brass ashtray in shape of half an apple (disappeared or discarded later, metal ashtray simply condenses tar and can't ever be scrubbed clean enough), the kinder egg yolk, Kotányi's curry and the maggi spice from Hungary, probably from that c++ shop. Maggi didn't matter much, it's more a placebo of a spice, just acts as a sign of living better off. There, she smoked Lord (and maybe so did I, seeing how there are two open packs and two lighters, probably couldn't find rolling tobacco again).
Today I can't believe that I was able to frame a scene with absolutely no gray discoloured garments. This is all in blues and greens, including the future sweater being knitted at the time.
The fridge is still wrapped in sticker foil. After twelve years in the humid kitchen, its box began to rust, but everything else just worked. The breadbox is on top of it, and, if I see it well, a liter bottle of ketchup, with the novelty trick called wide stopper, so it can sit upside down and doesn't have to be shaken to be poured out. That was always a problem with ketchup, specially with those glass bottles, numerous american comedies had gags based on that trouble.
On this shot I can't make heads nor tails, what was it, when and why. Having two computers on the coffee table and even doing something on one of them is okay, it was entirely possible that I was packing them for a customer, installing what they bought. My computer is in the regal, I see we already had speakers around it, something made for a car actually but obviously working when plugged into the sound card (how? did Branko have to solder another jack?). There's some fisix seedees stacked on the side. At its helm is probably Nina - Lena's head wouldn't top the backrest. Her tricycle is parked right there on the right.
The chair is from the spare set (which we bought when Višnja sold the furniture she inherited when someone died, what with table, chairs, couches, armchairs, ottoman, coffee table and the regal). It's already reupholstered, the black skaj (fake leather) was still whole but would stick to skin when shorts are worn. The cloth is the same one from which she sewn me bermudas (the famous „lo, Paće's pants!“). On it is our wee television set from 1988 (second hand), and kvin meri on it.
What I can't possibly explain is the other television set on the floor, [the one] on which the other monitor stands. How did it get there and who could have needed it at all? Was it that I was taking dad's to be repaired? Looks similar, but then I can't really remember any of this. Neither can she.
On the floor I see an end of a coaxial cable, ending in a terminator. Hmmmm... didn't we already switch to UTP? Or was this some equipment for zzzzz or CD, they were the last with the old type of networking, and I think we switched the latter on the fly, inserted a router so we could extend the network to upstairs. Who'll remember that nowadays.
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