Yesterday we saw Nina to the airport, then went on to visit Burt. Lena was a bit sad, being without the sister now, but was astonished when she saw the house, said it's just missing Hansel, Gretel and the witch to be complete. Burt was starting a fire in some monumentous barbecue (round, with a lid) with the arsonist's starter, stinks like devil of various thinners and crude oil. He eventually roasted some ten pattes, not exactly pljeske, it's not patted flat, it's quite thick. Pure beef. It somewhat seems to me that they aren't in much love with pork around here, don't grok why, maybe because they're cowboys and not pigpen club.
Zyanna was given some of the jewelry - one choker, a bracelet and earrings, in full gothic dark red, with discrete shiny bits sewn in with black thread, she put them all on right away and gave us her latest demo disc with fresh songs. By then the mosquitos received the memo about the coming of summer. No photos, Nina took the Agfa.
The cigarette paper dad sent arrived right on time, I was running low, the postman met me on the parking when I was leaving for Harrisburg. Just when I pulled out my car key and ventured down the stairs, he stopped me, handed me the envelope and shoved the stevka (v. house dictionary) to me to sign the handover.
The next day, when Nina reported that she arrived, I barely managed to hook into the web, and the house network is still off. Lenny (the laptop from Berix) still doesn't see the zmajček, will need a few more reboots. At least I cleaned up zmajček's innards, so it doesn't crank up when turned on. We started using AOL's chatterbox, guess that's what the eHosp team uses.
Dad waited for her at the airport (with trabant? - nope, Vanji drove them). Everything okay, she's just lacking sleep, but wants to break the jet lag on day one and switch to mideuropean. Nina also brought some Fujica for Vanji's younger son, and being quite inexperienced as a smuggler, she declared it at the customs, so it's now written into her passport and it'll be either to pay the customs or to bring it back... this got complicated really fast. Fuckit, she never had to cross the border prepared to declare that she has no motherboard, and fuckit, they always catch the rookies.
Around ninth she was already at Danilo in Beglrade (ie. somewhere on Bežanija or Zemun), and she over redressed his website, made banner for each of the teams, it's a gaming thing.
Tenth. m$ is getting accustomed to the new rhythm - it's vacation time, she's got the room to herself. She was already considering what to do, her pal went to her granny for the vacation, and right there the pal comes in, with father in tow, to confirm that the sleepover is officially granted. They do that often here, kids night at each others, just as long as everyone concerned knows where the kids are, that it's agreed upon. They leaned on the sweets, whatever was left, turned out there was just one of each kind.
Berix is ironing out some stuff with Joe, about some report... and now haggling around the extra hours. Which was a big pile of bullshit, as in why is the height left aligned and the weight right aligned, why does it look better in lower resolution and other cosmetic issues. Well fuck that, the weight is a number (because it's in pounds) and aligns right by default; the height must contain the apostrophe (for feet) and quote (or thumbs aka inches) and is thus not a number but rather a strings, aligns left. Eventually she cut it short, we'll simply remove our attempts to make it look nice and leave it all at defaults, which looks equally bad at each resolution but just works, and if he pulls any more shit on the subject later, we'd charge him for widening the fields and whatever else he may demand, as long as we have the demand in written form.
On the north front, she reviewed my first batch of eHosp stuff, and said
In general - always remember the quality of your code will be immediately judged by the comments. You could have the most elegant and sophisticated piece of code in the world, but if your comments suck then within the first 5 seconds a pro glances at this the entire prg will be deemed to totally suck and your skills as a programmer will likewise be instantly assumed to suck without any technical evaluation whatsoever. So always make sure your comments are current and well thought out before checking new code into SOS.
Professional rule of thumb for comments - Don't tell me what your doing (I can see that from the code), Tell Me ** Why ** your doing it.
And also dont use comments as if you were talking somebody (namely yourself) thru the code. Another common sense rule of thumb here - If all the code is removed, and only the comments remain, is the meaning of a particular comment still sensibly? If the answer is "no" then that comment shouldnt be in there wasting space or should be rewritten more professionally.
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