22-I-2020.

Took the twins, on bicycles, to the Fabrika station. Didn't take the regular eos70, made some shots with my old nokla E5, still good for pics. Burned the sunlit sides of their pink jackets (they call them "hat" because the hood is the most important part of it). The station master and his assistant (both fresh grandparents) didn't come out to admire the twins this time. We walked down the track for a few hundred meters, but not far enough to see the tower which I see every evening from my simpić chair. I did see it a few times - with the new 60x telescope I got from Lidl, or now when Sanda and I went a couple of blocks straight before taking a turn to the station. Looks like an oil rig, just unclear on the color - in dusk it looks white; now it looked dark, probably because of brighter sky behind.

I just went upstairs for a smoke, and amazingly the skype in the little cimet was on, so it blinked on the toolbar... and guess what, Bilja is in town. Came to visit her mom. She wanted to have a coffee down there in the gimnazija street, in the Kafemat. Well, too late and actually having some trouble with my machine (the regular update of Kubuntu went south when it was updating Chromium browser, and I was looking for ways to recover from the situation). So I wasn't quite in the mood for going out. She actually works from here, not on vacation. "Boss let you do that?" "No boss, I'm solo, my own boss." "That's the worst boss there is, been there done that."

So the plan is that she'll come with us to Dragana on friday, which I won't announce, make it a surprise. And yes, we'll have to pick her up, because she's completely lost. She had to use GPS heavily to find the nursing home where her mom is, even though it's just one straight street from the 2nd main square. So OK, Lesnina is even simpler and pretty much similar distance, but she claims that everything's changed... Well, then, sure, she's been gone since eighties and only passed through the town when she was visiting - the main stay being in her village. OK, we'll pick you up.

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Mentions: Biljana Lajković (Bilja), cimet, Dragana Vitas (Dragana), eos70, Fabrika station, gimnazija, Lesnina, nokla, Sanda Sredljević Aquilla (Sanda), in serbian

24-I-2020 - 10-XI-2025