28-VI-2008.

Today IV_5pp met at Bajče's. Later, during the summer, the shots reached me somehow - now whether Bajlo sent them to Bilja in duplicate so she later forwarded one to me, or did she (and her daughter) stay long enough to pick them, or did he leave them at my dad's and then whoever went there picked them... guess the second variant is the one. From the shots, they were all there - Tejka, Mandža, Žara, Jasmina, Baki, Staša, Dragana, Mima, Vasilija. Okay, almost all, we seem to have a heap of those who don't quite show for each parastos.

What Craig did last winter turned out to have, ahem, a minor bug. The part which overlaps Juliška's roof wrapped back onto itself, guess there happened to be some wind when it was made soft enough by the heat. The boys, it seems, meant to cut off the extra width so didn't nail it down. I sent this shot to Craig, and a couple of days later he came alone with a ladder, climbed up and... now whether he trimmed it or nailed the excess, I don't remember, not that it matters. Problem solved.

(with Škrba about „when transfer reaches 100$ and then freezes)

Just a few minutes ago I hooked up to a server in, I guess, Toronto, and sent a 26 megs zip from it to Holland. Of course, user's machine over remote connection... Terminal Services (so gravediggingly it sounds) doesn't see my disks, so push it via FTP into the hrhkrhrspl... or whatever Jan's village is pronounced. It starts with „just ten minutes left“, in a couple of minutes pushes it to 15, then a minute later it falls down to „just five left“ and then a minute later it gets stuck on „five seconds mored much longer than the expected three minutes. Everything normal, just as silly as any m$'s time estimate from thirteen years ago. Except it stayed on the „5s left“ until I exterminated it. Just now I dragged the zip from Holland and there's nothing wrong with it.

So, errm, maybe it's something with your server, eh? Though, I doubt it, here the FTP is on the Windows Waiter 2003, and if we excuse this kind of stupidity (I mean with both Les and IE), it works normally.

On first we went to Sandbridge again, and along the way stopped so I'd make shots of some pond with lotuses, because I noticed some memorial stone with a plaque. Turns out there was some lady, Crezia (Creezia) Covington Reed, to whom the plaque was posted and dedicated for her efforts in preservation of that species of american lotus which grows in that pond, which she was, as it were, doing since 1955. The plaque was posted by Cape Henry womens' club in 1975.

Few things don't add up here. Where's the cape? The coastline is as straight as a pipeline. But okay, that's regular, there's a Something Quay street in our end, whereby there's no quay within a ten kilometer radius. And what's the Crezia name? Then my lightbulb lit... Lucretia, spellt with t in english (which then reads as a sh), and with z in italian (where it reads az a tz, but let's not get the Amers confused) got abbr'd.

At least nobody had to get shot to get a plaque.

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Mentions: Biljana Lajković (Bilja), Branislav Bačikin (Bajče), Branislav Rade (Baki), Dragana Vitas (Dragana), Gradivoj Raža (Žara), Gradivoj Škrbić (Škrba), IV_5pp, Jan Brenkelen, Jasmina Vlajin, Juliška, Les Paul, Majkrosoft (m$), maturski parastos (parastos), Merima Tabarski (Mima), Nenad Bajlo (Bajlo), Slavica Tejin (Tejka), Slavoljub Mandić (Mandža), Stanoje Serdarević (Staša), Vasilija Zajić, in serbian

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