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Sunday, 3 November 2002
Finally getting around to writing a little. Unfortunately, the Win32 client doesn't seem to work too well at home, often appearing to hang when it's trying to post, so this goes through the web interface. (No preview -- ick.)
Friday evening, Stella and I went out to a restaurant with Schlüters. At first we weren't sure whether they would be able to keep the appointment, because Harald had had a car accident the day before, but he was fine (the traffic was moving very slowly because it was in the middle of a traffic jam) and they had borrowed Anika's father's car.
We went to a Yugoslav (or something) place called Bei Domo's in Fleestedt. I liked it there, and also the menu. Rather a lot of meat for my liking (which also made it difficult for Stella to pick out a meal since she's more-or-less vegetarian), but a fairly wide variety, and the food wasn't bad, either. We also had an enjoyable conversation.
So enjoyable to them also, apparently -- today, Harald asked me whether we would go out on the 29th to celebrate his birthday (which is on the 27th). Wow, a private invitation for a "birthday party" with just the two couples :) But I must say, the past few times we've gone out with them have been very enjoyable as well.
I'm glad we have this friendship that we do.
Friday evening, Stella and I went out to a restaurant with Schlüters. At first we weren't sure whether they would be able to keep the appointment, because Harald had had a car accident the day before, but he was fine (the traffic was moving very slowly because it was in the middle of a traffic jam) and they had borrowed Anika's father's car.
We went to a Yugoslav (or something) place called Bei Domo's in Fleestedt. I liked it there, and also the menu. Rather a lot of meat for my liking (which also made it difficult for Stella to pick out a meal since she's more-or-less vegetarian), but a fairly wide variety, and the food wasn't bad, either. We also had an enjoyable conversation.
So enjoyable to them also, apparently -- today, Harald asked me whether we would go out on the 29th to celebrate his birthday (which is on the 27th). Wow, a private invitation for a "birthday party" with just the two couples :) But I must say, the past few times we've gone out with them have been very enjoyable as well.
I'm glad we have this friendship that we do.
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Sunday, 3 November 2002 17:41The dial-up connection I use to connect on Sundays was busy the whole time... my little app that dials the connection got up to 500 attempts before I gave up and went to read something. When I tried again, it got to about 500 attempts again -- always busy.
(We get free phone calls on Sundays but only to "normal" numbers, not service numbers, which most Internet connections use. But some ISPs also have normal numbers and they make money from the interconnection charges that our phone company pays them for the connection.)
Also, I guess that the dialing program leaks memory when connecting over and over again -- at any rate, some of the fonts were gone and the system said it didn't have enough memory to start new processes.
I finally dialled in with the number I use during the week and checked a web site which lists some publicly accessible local numbers. Tried a bunch of them but kept getting "No-one answers", until I finally hit one that worked (which I'm using now). Well, at least I'm in now, but I'm still a bit annoyed that it took so long.
(We get free phone calls on Sundays but only to "normal" numbers, not service numbers, which most Internet connections use. But some ISPs also have normal numbers and they make money from the interconnection charges that our phone company pays them for the connection.)
Also, I guess that the dialing program leaks memory when connecting over and over again -- at any rate, some of the fonts were gone and the system said it didn't have enough memory to start new processes.
I finally dialled in with the number I use during the week and checked a web site which lists some publicly accessible local numbers. Tried a bunch of them but kept getting "No-one answers", until I finally hit one that worked (which I'm using now). Well, at least I'm in now, but I'm still a bit annoyed that it took so long.
