On sezam, someone heard a rumor that soon the bread may be rationed. The milk was hard to find already (we actually had a subscription with Milka, she'd bring a couple of canisters of raw milk weekly). This reminded me that just last week I saw a bunch of trucks with bosnian plates and uniformed crews in LebarProm.
We were using HIMEM v2.78 to be able to use the UMB... the 368 kilobytes between the 640K and one megabyte on 286 boxes. There were actually other drivers for extended XOR expanded memory (not both at the same time!... and it was the same memory anyway), and this one was a third way, but now done by m$ itself, and of course it had to have a different name, so upper memory blocks.
I downloaded NRoff for PC att whopping 33k of size, already tried one for atarist, and neither one of those came even close to RunOff on Vaha.
Lena is growing nicely. We are already back in the routine with her baths, diaper changes etc. Though, a few days ago it happened that both tits have develeped mastitis, just like thirteen years ago. Again, the massage, the extraction of milk into a bottle, same old and we know the ropes, but that doesn't make it any easier.
Same evening they came to invite me to a military exercise. This time I met them at the gate and told them that they didn't find me, or to write down that they didn't. Said are you nuts, I have a two week old baby in the house, my reserve unit was disbanded two years ago, I have no assigned position for the case of war, our country is not in a war, and I'm a bit too old for that, so long and we haven't met.
Around 15th, Sloba was visiting. The regular lunch was at the hotel. The sanitary inspection checks on their kitchen more or less once a year, but now it's the same protocol as when Milanko Renovica* (I guess the last prime minister of SFRY who did) was visiting: at least two sanitary inspectors are invited as guests. Pretty much to try out the dishes first, so if there's any poisoning... Such special checks accidentally overlap with visits of bigwigs.
She wasn't in any danger of being a candidate for this, didn't even have to invent an excuse - the maternity leave for the third kid is two years. (... 58 words...)
One of these years so it happened that Tereza had a war with the cafe below (they are almost right beneath her windows), because of course they'd turn the narodnjaci to eleven until late, or until early morning. She pestered inspections, various city hall luminaries, but no can do, the guy has a back and nobody can touch him. When her tape broke, she took the sound boxes to her terrace (which must be something fierce, her husband teaches in the musical high), lined up a set of LPs with the complete Ring of Nibelungs, locked the house and left.
When I told this to Grgi, his only comment was „classics... alright, but Nibelungs... that's a bit cruel“.
For some reason I needed a certificate of citizenship, I see on 26th I announced on sezam that I'm going for it. There was dispute there on whether the country was always your own republic alone, or „... and SFRY“. The carousel described under 17-IV-1996. was actually now.
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* the news reading personnel had such an accent that we firmly held his name to be Milan Korenovica (koren = root). Vlastimir even asked "when is that Korenović coming?".
14-VI-2021 - 5-VII-2026