28-XII-2005.
On twentyforth we went to Richmond to see the girls again. By rare coincidence we met Jose there, which almost never happens. There's just one shot of that, others are partly of plants around the house, even one tiny mosquito eater (in a plastic box, though), but mostly of Lena and her new garments. She finds inspiration in manga and anime, and then mom sews it as per her instructions. In the end it actually looks great.
Škrba posted on communal FTP the translation of TotalCmd, done by him and banem (also of sezam).
Finally extracted the sound from „Bugs in the head“, and now it neads to be cut and cleaned up. And they passed me the Sound Forget too (I know it's Forge, but we decline (oops, declense! - declination is a false friend, I've added it to sGradlj.com as I wrote this) it so, as with Prače, Pračeta... which began as Pratchett), but now it's head scratching time, I wasn't using the thing for six years.
Harry, pearl of the week: "War is God's way of teaching Americans geography".
Last day of the year we finally laid down the carpet in that curved hall upstairs, from the staircase to Lena's room, and then also in the closet next to the bathroom in the big room. On first of january I was laying it on the stairs. It's an american thing, it'd never cross my mind to have carpet on a staircase. A staircase, in my head, was always an outside thing, connecting apartments across floors, having lots of foot traffic and there's no carpet which can endure so much. But I got used to that here, and actually learned to like it. I even practiced and perfected the technique whereby I'd turn halfway to the right, put my left foot one step lower, and practically slide all the way down.
The worse part was, actually, ripping out the old carpet. It was some piece of shit, something like the tread between beds in a barracks (yes, it's a singular, plural is barrackses), just thinner and no sponge below. It was easy to take out, because we had the knee-kicker, which is a tool specially designed for that, with a palm-sized plate studded with nails on one end, and a rounded plate on the other, designed, you guessed it, to be kicked with a knee. It's a crawling operation, no other way. The narrow slats with same kind of nails pointing to the nearest wall, on which the carpet gets hooked, already existed. They are put there by whoever lays the first carpet.
Whoa... no matter how many times we vacuumed that staircase, there's still much more dust which stayed under the carpet. I was collecting it into a plastic bag, and weighed it in the end. Kilo and a half.
For doček it was all four of us, had russian salad, and a rolat (a ground meat loaf with whole boiled eggs inside), and since Nina had trouble digesting that roll, she also made onigiri, so both forks and chopsticks were used. Lena specially put on another set from them japanese cartoons, so to keep in style.
The „Hey, Joe“ and „Down by the river“ projects are at large or small (and will be for a couple of months more). It was interesting when I remembered, from left field, that there's a version of the former by „Marmalade“. Nowhere to be... found, or other verbs. I asked Grumpy, from whose website I downloaded a lot of stuff so far, mostly the british invasion, if anyone has that. He replied in person, to say „such a thing doesn't exist, and if it does, I'm a Chinaman!“. Two days later someone uploaded it, and now we all have it.
Mentions: doček, Gradivoj Škrbić (Škrba), Harry McDouglas, Jelena Sredljević (Lena), Jose Bariero, Nevena Sredljević (Nina), sezam, sGradlj.com, TotalCmd, in serbian
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