20231031 ======== 7:30 ---- It's raining. In a radio I'm listening to the radio news about /Dziady/ [1]. It's pre Christian and Slavic rituals connected with souls of dead people. Tomorrow is the /All Saints' Day/. This day is a holiday in Poland. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dziady [1] 8:00 ----- There are many species of apples and pears here. Autumn is the best season for that fruits. A seller always asks if he can leave more on the scale than I asked for when he put it on. However, when it comes to apples and pears, in my house we eat any quantity. It's said that Poland is the biggest producer of apples in Europe and in the top producers on the world. 17:00 ----- I'm tired today. 21:00 ----- I was channel surfing on television. I'm watching /Donnie Brasco/. 20231030 ======== 7:10 ---- I'm on my way to the office. Because of a winter time I've got up earlier. This state won't last too long. 14:00 ----- I'm on a lunch. Sun is shining as it would be early autumn. The perfect moment for a city sunbathing, only if I could found a bench hidden from the wind and I wouldn't be in work. 16:00 ----- The sun is setting. The winter time gave a characteristic drawing in the sky inconsistent with the actual early hour. 17:00 ----- It's dark here. I'm at home and it's like a night outside. 20231029 ======== 9:00 ---- I've woken up and I start figuring out what time is it. This is the day when we are changing time to the winter one. So everyone must recall if one hour should be subtracted or added to every clock in the house. Today is a bit easier because mobiles have automatic time adjustment. So you can trust the time on your mobile to fight with rest of clocks and watches. 12:00 ----- Almost two hours of walk in the sun. It isn't often in the October. 15:00 ----- One of the birthday visit to my son. Every parent are happy when their child is like a young Einstein. So today we are proud. Guests are hearing his memories from holidays. They are watched two pictures, drawn with much patience by colored pencils. He got their gift and say "thank you". And he enjoyed the gift after all. Ufff. There are several next guests in the next days. 17:00 ----- I did a single-file-month-archive file for my /Soap Opera Phlog/ yesterday. So everyone could read the full month by one "click". What is more archive is properly folded to the 72 chars width. Today I've gave the third try to Offpunk. Every time I did it earlier I failed. I'd like to create an archive for my part (read by me) of small net. 18:30 ----- I'm cutting a paper piece of meat from cardboard, with characteristic bone as in every cartoon. The project is hard because it's in my son head. There was much pencil-eraser work here also. Also a glue. 20:00 ----- My Offpunk testing made me to know about Linux kernel ability of killing a process which is too resource-hungry. So the todays approach is also the failed one. 21:38 ----- The only thing which is good in the winter time change is that I can go to the bed before 23 as I always do. 20231028 ======== 10:00 ----- I thought about my yesterday entry here. I used a word "dancing" as a noun in English which I've found incorrect today. It should be "dance event" used. But one of the Polish old style word for that is a word "dancing", or sometimes “dansing” (the same pronunciation in Polish). But there are no "dancings” in Poland in these days, maybe for some old timers in a sanatorium or a nursing home. For me that Polish word has that foreign glamor of luxury. Polish words for a dance event were used for eg. to name ordinary school party, but a word "dancing" could be used for example in a five-star hotel or a restaurant with a dance hall. The way of thinking people in that depressive times were specific. *** And the real music theme for the described past times of Polish "luxury" then could be /David Bowie - Warszawa/. He visited the city in 1976 and then he described his later song as " is about Warsaw and the very bleak atmosphere I got from that city." [1] But it wasn’t only the Warsaw and the one city square where he was allowed to walk from waiting train during his journey. The bleak term could refer to the all of country. For example, the same year Bowie visited Poland in country ration stamp for sugar were introduced for people. The music on YT. [2] https://www.bowiebible.com/songs/warszawa/ [1] https://youtu.be/wdFZiVuOYJ0 [2] 14:00 ----- Today I visited a retro computer market. It's a side event to /Pixel Heaven/ which is usually held in Summer. /Pixel Heaven/ is famous for international guests connected with retro computer games. For example creators of /Prince of Persia/, /Dizzy series/ and so on. But today's event isn't the most successful and it was rather small. I've spent there less than hour. It was possible to buy for eg. /Nintendo SNES/ for about 75 euros. They were preparing the /River Raid/ competition for 10-20 computers. 16:30 ----- I've sat with my son to play in /Super Bomberman/. It's the first part, not the fourth one we played some time ago. This is probably less complicated and a bit easier. Or my son has gain experience with SNES controllers. We've got the second world without too many nerves of my son. He learned how to calm himself and after every mistake he want to play again. 20231027 ======== 20:50 ----- I'm feeling better but I'm not full healed. Yesterday I'm watched /The Movies That Made Us/ documentary on Netflix [1]. The episode about /Ghostbusters/ and the second one about /Dirty Dancing/. That inspired me to watch a part of /Dirty Dancing/ which is on the Netflix. I'm not a great fan of these films but I can recommend the documentary and after all I enjoyed the movie, which documentary was based on. https://m.imdb.com/title/tt10681222/ [1] The interesting fact about the movie is the overall atmosphere of holiday camp built around central restaurant and several bungalows. The movie is about the USA and it's showing the local society of that time, but it could be a connection between the way of thinking people then. There are a similarity to the Soviet-like-company vacations in Poland. I am not old enough to remember 1970's but my-childish remembers of 1980's is that warm night and alleys marked by small lamps in darkness. The society arranged around noble people (the doctor in USA and probably some Socialist party's kingpin in Poland). People were polite and want to be a part of that hierarchy. Any young people who tried their fools would be hailed as hooligans. There are so many incidents todays and nobody call it hooliganism today. There are no such places for holidays anymore. Everybody want to be on holiday on their own. Everybody want to pay to act as be the only VIP even if people can't afford for that for real. So I don't know any doctor's crystal perfect family with polite daughters who are growing up under the golden cage. Nobody pretends to be so. I like movies which are showing that accents of passed times. The key element of that was a dancing. The polite and polished version of my-childish remembers is not a dirty dancing but an only adult thing which is behind of possibility to watch. A pier on the lake and lanterns, as well as live music. Of course, times back then allowed for less polite entertainment, which I didn't know about. 20231026 ======== 18:00 ----- Yesterday I had a slight sore throat and a slight runny nose. However, we had to go to the office because there was a special meeting. Today, of course, it is not better, only worse. Headache, fever around 38 degrees. I also spent the first half of the day under a blanket. I don't want to eat. I took one aspirin. Around 4 p.m. a call from work and a "very important" problem. A person turns out to be irreplaceable when he is gone for one day. Previously, when the problem was explained, others believed that I would save the situation by being there. Taking advantage of the progress in medicine, I made an appointment for a teleconsultation and I hope that I will get sick leave for tomorrow to complete the treatment. 20231025 ======== 7:10 ---- I'm on my way. I've renewed 90 days travel card. It will be the January until I will buy new one. 22:30 ----- I'm on my way back to the home from a pub. So it won't be any longer notes here. I have been on a company dinner. Earlier there were 3 hours company meeting with all department. The work day as usual once a quarter. 20231024 ======== 16:00 ----- This was tough day. The next day of home office work. -- Dad, are you working in a pajamas? It was true in the Morning. It was a sunny day today. Tomorrow I will be at the office. It will be raining all day of course. 20:00 ----- I've realized that I didn't give URLs to the soap operas mentioned yesterday. For formalities, the intro of The Dynasty. [1] For comparison, a coarse view of the 1990s in Poland in the opening sequence of W Labiryncie [2]. It's interesting that despite this audio-video asceticism, this series has as much emotion for me as the previous one, dripping with gold. The last opening from the Klan series. [3] The later years on television were a bit lackluster. https://youtu.be/MijaRcVaRK0 [1] https://youtu.be/W-1JBE3hKEY [2] https://youtu.be/MVDWP5BuEJs [3] The topic of soap operas leads to my little guilty pleasure - during the pandemic, with Netflix and HBO available, I watched almost 100 episodes of W Labiryncie. 20231023 ======== 8:00 ---- I'm working from home today. I prefer to work at the office. 16:30 ----- I don't like work at home because a working day is looking like today. Many calls through all day and until 16:00 I'm sitting at desk. I can't work at home in such way to achieve work life balance. 17:00 ----- Unexpectedly, my son wanted to go for an afternoon after-home-office walk with me. He usually doesn't like to go out when it's getting dark. We've done 3,5km. 18:00 ----- -- I can't be the Batman. I don't know how to open a door to the roof. Batman is jumping between roofs. Suddenly my son reported an opinion about the superhero during a walk. Possibly because it's getting dark. 20:15 ----- Today's also the second month of everyday phlogging. My workflow worked perfectly. I haven't been burdened with additional responsibility. I can write my thoughts on a mobile with a swift like keyboard and words prediction mechanism. I can transfer them to a Gopherhole from the golden cage of iOS without leaving the second one. I moved almost my all activity from Mastodon to Phlog. I had been thinking about it and it's probably the best solution for me. I don't have to put my content on someone else server. I am putting it on my server and I am doing it without so enormous power which I must have to run a full activity pub instance. For now, I don't see any major losses due to this. I don't get instant notifications from people who follow me, but my writing isn't aimed at that. In the background I'm polishing my English. It will be a long process. For the future goals: - I'm still thinking about a proper line breaks. I have an approach for this. But the base SDF account don't have a crontab command. I will be thinking on work around. - The nature of my notes is that they are short and I save them in separate files. I want not to change the modification date. So that the original files are more authentic. However, I am thinking about putting them together over weeks or months into a more easy-to-read arrangement. - I will focus on everyday topics, weather observations, observations of life in the city and what my son says. These seem to be natural topics for soap operas. P.S. There are probably three most important soap operas in Poland. The first one is /Dynasty/. Shown on TV around the turn of the 1980s and 1990s. The fall of communism in Poland and the splendor of Blake Carrington. I still remember the opening credits even though I was a child. Interesting information is the fact that two horses from Janów Podlaski played on the film set in the Carrington stable. The world-famous stud farm of Arabian horses. I heard this from a guide at the stud farm. The second tapeworm was the Polish production /W Labiryncie/ (translated as being in a labyrinth). Many very good Polish actors probably made a fortune from this not very outstanding, low-budget but popular production from the beginning of 1990s. Again, as a child who was not interested in the affairs of adults in the labyrinth of life, I remember the opening sequence very well. The third one is the longest series of Polish production entitled /Klan/ (Clan in English). I was already a teenager, but I remember the first episode like it is today. The series is still being filmed today. From the above you can see that my life is connected with soap operas. If it weren't for the fact that I've never watched /The Bold and the Beautiful/, I could enter a competition on this topic. 20231022 ======== 11:00 ----- We've played the /Star Wars Escape From Death Star/ reprint of 1977 board game. The perfect game for children. Not so complicated and nicely done in the Star Wars world. 11:30 ----- The game cards are inspiration for a new drawing. My drawing - a stormtrooper with blaster in a corridor. My son's one - the Darth Vader with light saber from behind. 12:00 ----- The first auction of baby stuff which I mentioned earlier was finalized. Buyer's own collection. 13:00 ----- The Internet meme: "[...] Tell me I'm forty *years* old, and you'll be an ordinary person. Tell me I have forty *winters*, and you'll be a mysterious wanderer who has seen much. [...]" 14:25 ----- We watched /High Score/ documentary film on Netflix. It was the part about the Sega and the Sonic. Now my son is sketching a game project with a pen and paper. He got know about the game designer profession. 16:00 ----- It was raining all night. Flower pots on a balcony are full of water. Now it's also drizzle weather. But we managed to do a 4km walk with umbrellas. 19:00 ----- I've been browsing an auction website. There are many board games which are worth insane 500 euro. For example Talisman in both Polish and English version. In 90s there was the Polish edition of Talisman called /Magiczny Miecz/. It isn't a pirate version of the original game, as it could be supposed because in Poland then copyright wasn't fully regulated yet. This version was issued with the original publisher's knowledge and with fully redesigned graphics on the board and on all cards. It is said that Polish graphics and art works are superior than original ones. 20231021 ======== 11:00 ----- I've published several announcements on auction website. So many things for newborn babies are stuck in my house. Maybe somebody will need, and use them. For me will be more space in the house. 13:00 ----- The time for the SNES. Today the /Super Bomberman 4/. We are playing in cooperative mode. There are several breakthroughs. My son has more patience and he isn't nervous after failure. He started to explore game for his own. And we've met the boys on 1-8 level. Password 6722. 14:00 ----- The cooking time. Chef's dish - spaghetti with tomatoes. Version for my son's tastes. 17:00 ----- Overdue walk. Sometimes you need good arguments to encourage Junior to march. We walked 3 km around the area. 21:00 ----- I've done more than 6km today. It's time for a shower. Today without a beer. The metabolism is slower at this age and you need to be careful not to gain belly fat. 20231020 ======== 7:50 ---- It's wet everywhere. There was raining through all night. Autumn is coming more and more. The worst is that the sun raised at 7:10 today. When I woke up there were dark and foggy. It won't be much better in the upcoming weeks. On the last weekend of October there will be winter time shift, but it won't fixed the length of the sun exposure at all. 8:10 ---- Yesterday I was much to do at my work. I never had thought at the school that one of the key abilities in my future career will be writing. I never liked the Polish language lessons and I had the worst grades for writing. The breakthrough happened in the last class of high school. I started to write freely and I have the fun of writing. I am writing my Polish blog for almost 20 years. It is showing my writing improvement. I am not a writer of course. I am doing many mistakes, especially in English. But I am able to sit, and to write all page without an effort. So I'm doing technical job and I'm able to produce a neat output for business. I'm observing many people who have much problem with that. 20:07 ----- I've got from the depths of my head the /Bomfunk MC's Freestyler/. I haven't heard this for probably 20 years. 20:21 ----- We continue the trail of the most embarrassing electronic music from our teenage years. Bach, Vivaldi, Mozart, Chopin - I like it, but for now: /La Passion Gigi D'Agostino/. 20:30 ----- A bit more serious and a bit earlier years but the same esthetic. /Alphaville Forefer Young/ and /Ultravox Lament/. 22:59 ----- I've watched the last episode of the Sopranos. It was another time, I can't count which one. 20231019 ======== 20:30 ----- Today was full of routine. Everything that happened was like any other day of the year. One strange thing happened yesterday. Once again, the neighbor came to complain about wild birds flying onto the balcony. He had previously complained that sparrows and tits made noise when they hit the feeder. But that was last winter. But the feeder is no longer on the balcony because there is no winter. This time he complained about crows scattering dirt from flower pots. I live in an area where there are a lot of wild birds, so my neighbor's fixation can continue to develop freely. Every cloud has a silver lining. My wife packed up most of the potted flowers that had already faded and cleaned up the pots. Meanwhile, my day was boring. Maybe it's worth writing about it, though, that not every day is like a flight to the moon. 20231018 ======== 7:45 ---- Today there is frost on the roof for the first time. 16:00 ----- The afternoon is very clear and the sun is shining brightly. Starlings sit on high-voltage poles and lamps. You can see that the warm rays of the sun give them a lot of fun. They squawk loudly and flap their wings. I've never seen them here before. This is a large intersection with two lanes in each direction right next to the highway exit. 17:00 ----- The Titanic obsession of my son isn't passed. He wants to watch a documentary film about how the Titanic sank. He doesn't quite believe that no one took a photo or has a video during hitting an iceberg. YouTube is serving documentary about scanning a seabed and the wreck. He watched about 30 minutes. 17:30 ----- Crayons and paper are required. A shipwreck is drawn. Finally hailed as Titanic. 20231017 ======== 8:03 ---- The sun is shining. 8:15 ---- I'm sitting in a bus. On a sunny day there are always two sides of bus seats. Seats on one side are exposed to the sun through my all route. It's a worse side during the summer, even with the air conditioning turned on. My route is oriented in such direction that in the morning the sun is shining right into your eyes. But in a cold day it's my favorite seats. I'm sitting there squinting my eyes. It's so needed exposition to the sun. And it's warm and comfortable. Sunbathing in a bus. I've realized that in English the /sunbathing/ expression has a more positive and correct for that situation meaning. To have a bath in the sun rays. Polish expression is /opalać się/ which means to burn myself, like to burn myself with fire. Or maybe it's more correct in Polish, because lying on the beach for a long time is unhealthy for the skin. 14:00 ----- I'm on a lunch with my colleague. He is always talking about his wife. It's hard to say why he always talks about it. It's rather unusual to keep sweetening it like that. It should be added that I don't know her and we probably won't meet. 19:30 ----- My son is asking about /RMS Titanic/. They talked about it in a kindergartner. 20231016 ======== 8:15 ---- I'm going to the office. On a wall there are homemade posters with yesterday date and a caption - the silent disco. It seems to be about yesterday election. 8:30 ---- It's probably the first day of cold autumn. I've sat in the office feeling a comfort from warm clothes, a Merino sweater and Gortex-leather shoes. It was several days ago when we were looking for a cool breeze or a shade of tree. It probably won't come this year anymore. 13:00 ----- I was thinking that the weather forecast about around 5 degrees perceptible temperature won't come true. I wasn't right. It's windy and it's a really cold. 18:00 ----- In news only one topic - the election. In Warsaw there was 85-90% voter turnout, depends on city district. It's unbelievable that for example from 67 000 people in all city district entitled to vote 60 000 voted. It's easy to visualize that. 20:30 ----- My son is singing song about couple in love kissing. He isn't singing too often. But this is an underground song taught by his girl colleagues. Kindergarten teacher won't have such skill of fast lyrics teaching. But this grassroots teaching needs only one day and it was enough for several verses. 20231015 ======== 8:19 ---- I am woken up. There was a serious issue in LEGO construction. Small Yoda didn't fit the space ship. The sun is shining. Today is the Election Day. 12:00 ----- I put my ballot in the box. I waited in line for a good three quarters of an hour. 21:00 ----- According to the exit poll, turnout was 72.9%. The three opposition parties look to have 248 MPs compared to the current ruling party, which will have 200 MPs. Large urban centers were characterized by queues to electoral committees, where people waited up to 1-2 hours to vote. A historically high number of voters cast their ballots. Poles should be proud that democratic parties have mobilized the electorate and the current populist governments will change. It was not obvious, especially after the latest information from Slovakia. I'm also happy. I'm aware that they are many points of view but last two elections turned Poland to the area totally not of my expectations. So it will be probably better. 20231014 ======== 9:15 ---- If you have a small child, the time while he has woken up at seven o'clock, and he has been playing with himself to nine o'clock without any disturbances, is the rarest thing in the world. So I've woke up late today after enough time of sleep. It's Saturday. It isn't necessary to hurry. I'm listening to the radio. 13:00 ----- I'm still around the radio. I'm listening to the morning radio program. I did several telephone talks. I prepared some food. My child is still playing (the most LEGO bricks and building own project starships). The radio is in the background for last four hours. I have television set but I'm watching only occasionally things from VOD and probably the radio is my number one mass media (I'm listening to independent crowdfunded Internet radio station). I try to note things which could be uncommon for my readers so I must write that in Poland two crowdfunded radio stations RNŚ [1], and 357 [2] were created in last years. Both have a professional radio presenters and go far beyond a hobbyists activity. It was connected with a problems of popular third public radio program. Patrons gave more than 9 million USD to them two in last three years. It's said it's the most successful crowdfunding campaign in the world for setting a radio station. http://stream.rcs.revma.com/ypqt40u0x1zuv [1] https://stream.rcs.revma.com/an1ugyygzk8uv [2] 16:30 ----- It's raining. I was on a walk with my child and the rain got us wet. 17:00 ----- We tried /Super Star Wars/ on SNES again. The game is too hard for casual and beginner players. I used level code from the Internet and we played several stages. So there is a platform stage, there is a space fighter level, and so on. Many different mechanics. Games from 90's are real gems. 20:30 ----- I'm reading about SNES and 0-6 modes and, the pure magic of the 90's, mode 7. [3] https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/365095/snes-mode-7-what-are-m ode-1-through-6 [3] 20231013 ======== 8:04 ---- Today's Friday the 13th [1]. From Wikipedia: "[...] According to the Stress Management Center and Phobia Institute in Asheville, North Carolina), an estimated 17-21 million people in the United States are affected by a fear of this day, making it the most feared day and date in history. Some people are so paralyzed by fear that they avoid their normal routines in doing business, taking flights or even getting out of bed. It's been estimated that US$800-900 million is lost in business on this day. [...]" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friday_the_13th [1] 21:56 ----- I'm not superstitious. However, I always note for myself that it is Friday the 13th. Today, however, nothing like that happened. The day passed as usual. Since I've been giving links to music recently, today's song is about Friday the 13th. https://youtu.be/1oLtZncTFcc?si=E9zeRreJjOQeVCGI But this song has a positive meaning, and the first two verses could be translated as: "[...] On the thirteenth! Even in December, it's spring, On the thirteenth! Every road is straight [...]" 20231012 -------- 7:50 ---- I saw a group of people standing front to a lawn with shrubs. They were equipped with telephoto lens, binoculars, military colors jackets, and they looked like on a safari in Africa. People who were going to their work were passing them on the road to an escalator. Wild life inside the city center. Article from web: "[...] The news that electrified the world of Polish nature enthusiasts over the weekend was the appearance of a male sardinian warbler in the heart of Warsaw. This is an incredibly rare bird guest that arrived from the south, from the Mediterranean region. Until now, this species had been observed in our country only three times. Therefore, the excitement among bird lovers and the crowds of people wanting to photograph this extraordinary guest is not surprising. [...]" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sardinian_warbler I was surprised the morning crowds, even that according to the news I shouldn't be. 19:20 ----- I'm watching /Boney M - Rasputin/ music video on /Apple Music/. It was recorded in Poland on /Sopot Festival/ in 1979. It's interesting that the best/featured music video was taken here. It's probably not the most obvious country for the Boney M esthetic. It's worth to remember that Poland then was under Soviet influence and such music band on Polish festival was a big thing for people. It was like crumbs of West Europe luxuries. /Boney M/ was a guest only, the /Grand Prix/ award won /Czesław Niemen - Nim przyjdzie wiosna/. The music video of that song from the 1980, also from /Sopot Festival/, is available on YT [1]. https://youtu.be/RSTc3EJzr6E?si=7xLfZPOMfF_HERwS [1] 20231011 ======== 8:09 ---- The day started from a subway ride. It's rather empty today. 8:20 ---- I've spotted a snail on a path. I was surprised because yesterday was almost 0 degrees in the Morning. 13:15 ----- The snail knows what it have to know. Its morning race through the path wasn't a suicidal march to death by freezing. Now it's about 20 degrees. The overall feeling is like in the first days of the spring. The smell of warm and humid air after cold days. Sun is shining and the grass is covered by dew. Greens are juicy and bright. The snails heaven. 20231010 ======== 7:50 ---- It's 3 degrees in the morning again. 13:00 ----- I'm eating a lunch. Today I've ordered a pierogi. During eating I've heard someone did the same saying pierogi with a foreign accent. It was a group of three people probably from Spain. I didn't get the whole conversation but they said pierogi several times. Maybe they asked for a full menu. Some time ago I got to know that a word pierogi is the same word in English. That these are not "dumplings" anymore. That there are worldwide obsession for the pierogi. Now I'm googling for the pierogi and I got the"Authentic Polish Pierogi Recipe". So the pierogi is like a Italian pasta or a Japanese sushi. So we (I and that three foreigners) were eating the pierogi. "Pierogi" in Polish is an express in plural, because "pieróg" is a singular. The English pierogi is probably a singular and we must say pierogis for a plural expression what make me smiling. So we were eating pierogis. I am always ordering a sweet version with a cream and white cheese inside. On the summer months I like also strawberries inside. I don't like not sweet recipes but there are many variations. 22:00 ----- I'm watching the Sopranos season sixth. I watched it several times. Probably more than five times. Every time I am watching the Sopranos I have a different feeling about it. 10-20 years ago I was enjoying the story of Christopher Moltisanti the most, the young gangster who is climbing up in crime world. Now I am looking at Tony Soprano and how he tries to maintain primacy in the family. It seems to be all about mafia but sometimes the story is more about average family who don’t have to be in conflict with the law and the mafia theme is only a scenery. 20231009 ======== 7:30 ---- It's 3 degrees outside. 10:30 ----- Sometimes, seemingly trivial situations can really piss you off. I had to eat lunch to get over it and get back to my conceptual work. 16:00 ----- It's an interesting idea of how Japan society behaving in public transport. They try to not disturb other passengers. Meanwhile in Poland I'm looking at the man and woman in their 40s acting like on-bus lovers who would like to manifest their strong feelings. So I'm like an old man watching Winds of Passion scenes. It isn't that it outrageous me but it probably isn't necessary. 19:30 ----- As an old man I sat to watch so called election debate. It's organized in Polish public TV where government can employ journalist who not only tells questions but during it are simultaneously able to explain merits of the ruling party. I have always been curious about such clear decisions regarding people further career in the profession. Everything indicates that the opposition has a chance to win after all. 20231008 ======== 10:20 ----- I've looked at #phloggersgarage and I've read messages from my readers. I didn't notice that earlier. I will try to be more responsive. I've been idle 27 days 12 hours 1 mins 31 secs. 10:30 ----- Yesterday I made several comments in response to question about the small web. 12:00 ----- I'm on a picnic. It's a birthday party of one child from the kindergarten. It's sunny but it's cold in the shadow of trees. 16:00 ----- I've ordered a TAXI. I'm using a mobile application for that with the payment in advance. It's more clear when you are known how much the course will be cost. 20231007 ======== 10:20 ----- Its time for the espresso. 13:20 ----- It's time for the second espresso. I'm usually drinking coffee once a day but I'm in a coffee shop. 14:00 ----- I'm going back home with a new winter clothes. I haven't had time to do shopping earlier and Saturday is the only day. It's the five year since shops are closed on Sundays in Poland. I am not the person who was spending all days in a shopping centre before, but the ban is sometimes very burdensome also for me. If the election on the next weekend will change the government, ban would be removed or relaxed. 22:30 ----- I'm rewatching the Sopranos. This series has not aged at all. 20231006 ======== 14:00 ----- We were discussing at work whether Thursday could be considered the new Friday. There were noticeably fewer people on the streets on Fridays, as many of them were heading to their parents' cities or weekend homes outside the city. Opinions on this matter were divided. Personally, I found that I could travel faster in the morning, but there were also reports of the usual traffic jams on main streets from some of my colleagues. *** The next topic is fool examples from Chat GPT. There were reported the first business example in my company where instead of manual search by a traditional search engine the results were got from GPT. It was something like a postal address for a package. It was looking alright at the first glance of rather clever man and then it was rejected by other parties. Finally it caused more time being wasted compared to a manual search for a data. 17:00 ----- It's the weekend! Today I'm feeling exhausted. 20:00 ----- I'm waiting my child will be sleeping. Then a bottle of IPA beer is waiting for me. 20231005 ======== 8:00 ---- While I'm traveling by bus I'm often looking at people mobile phones. What are they looking at? Mostly at short videos from TikTok and similar. So I'm also lurking at the worst jokes and memes put into a video clip. What a waste of time. I'm looking also at book readers. I'm trying to read a book page, even a part of paragraph. They are often so much focused on reading that my look is unnoticed. It isn't rare that they are reading erotic theme books like Fifty Shades of Grey or even less ambitious titles. I spotted a man in his forties once who was looking like he had been reading the most serious book on the world. I had done my secret mission to obtain the text probe. It was an adventure book for school children which I had read many years earlier. I smiled to myself when I figured out this. It's many things to look at the mass transport. But in today's times the most people try to separate from others inside their mobile screen. 20231004 ======== 7:49 ---- It's windy today. The most cold day of the past months. 16:45 ----- I was discussing hairdressers with a colleague, and he complained that his hairdresser talks too much. I once had a hairdresser who didn't talk at all, and it felt odd to sit in silence for about half an hour. This was the reason I decided to change hairdressers. 19:20 ----- My son is drawing a picture for kindergarten. He created a Star Wars-themed artwork featuring Lord Vader. It looked great, but his self-critical nature led him to tear it apart. The issue was with the letter "S" in the word "Star." 20231003 ======== 8:05 ---- My almost five years old son was playing LEGO on a carpet. In the background the news is on a radio. My son ran in the kitchen. -- Mammy, mammy! It's said on the radio that THEY have ROBED the Poland. ... So it's the time to explain what is an election campaign. 20:00 ----- There are several delivering companies here. The best in my area is the DPD. We know the delivery man. He also knows us. If he is hanging around the neighborhood he is always saying good morning. We don't need any tracking application because he is at the regular time at my house. If we aren't at home he is always phoning. Even in busy time for eg. weeks before Christmas he has a time to smile. And there is worldwide delivery company the UPS. When I see that package is sent by the UPS I know that it will be a problem. So my ordered shoes should be today from 10 to 14. And it isn't here to now. The tracking application is showing old data. Eh. 20231002 ======== 8:03 ---- In a bus. A teenager is calling his friend. -- Are you at school? -- Check where the P.E. lesson will be organized. Maybe in the small gym, or the big one, or the corridor, or maybe school playground? -- Tell the PE teacher that I'll be there - pause needed to check his watch - in about 5-10 minutes. -- Ask him not to write down the lateness. Just say that we've known each other for a while. Teenage organizer, I thought. 17:30 ----- Today is the first day after my vacation. It wasn't so bad at work. I had a good time on my mountain trekking and I'm fully rested. I'm happy that I managed to be offline then without checking my business e-mail and business mobile. Today in full strength I've filtered my pending e-mails. I've also done several meetings. The things has gone in a normal way during my absence. 20231001 ======== 9:00 ---- It's the first day of October. I don't like autumn months and unfortunately autumn is coming more and more. In Poland it is meaning that there will be dark whole days and there will be less and less sun light. [1] [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_in_Europe_by_sunshine_dur ation I've had a notification from my health app. I know that it isn't too serious to worry about pixel badges in a application but the truth is that it encourages activity. So I know what to do to win a week badge for today activity and the October badge for the upcoming month. Collecting badges is that one percent of a child inside us. 12:30 ----- I'm in a park to pick up chestnuts. It's a popular children activity here. Kindergartens are assembling a stick people from them. 17:20 ----- Yesterday evening I watched /Forgotten Love/ on Netflix. It's the widely commented film in Poland. It's based on a novel which has three film adaptations (2023, 1981 and 1937). Especially the 1981's adaptation is the famous film because it's directed by Jerzy Hoffman, who is the popular Polish director. Many of Netflix productions are distorted in a bad way and made films worse. People were ready to complain but fortunately the 2023's adaptation is good. Not great, but modernized and well crafted. It could make the original novel more popular outside the Poland. What's more the film title /Forgotten Love/ is different from Polish one. Maybe it's because the original title /Znachor/ is translated as "charlatan" which has a negative connotation. In Polish original meaning is more positive. People's doctor who is healing without education and qualifications is like a witch. Person who poses an experience and knowledge of herbalism.