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Days in the life of a Curmudgeon...2008.
Velence...June 1st 2008. Daylight Savings time. 0534hts...A Cup. It’s going to be hazy and warm again. 0545hrs...STS-124 was to have launched last night at just after 2300hrs...local time. Wonder if it got off? I’d thought about getting up...since I figured that I should be able to see it. Will look for it this evening. 0941hrs...Showered. Need to hit the far store. 1020hrs...Have been online. STS-124 did launch. And I have Keplers. I think I’ll hit the store now. 1303hrs...Well...Looked across at Bela’s as left the store and spotted two of Bernadette’s girls...and was myself spotted...and just then Bela and company arrive by car...I ended up going over. So...where I would normally have been back here by 1030hrs...easy...it took a bit longer. Then the bridegroom’s parents arrived...more refreshments etc...more talk about the pending wedding etc. Bela had an operation on his neck...and hence not as mobile as he’s like to be given all the work that needs doing. Anyway...clouds a forming...and there could be some rain. Waiting. 1327hrs...Houston...we have lightning! Ok...so what’s the latest in my ongoing quest. Before I get into that I should like to reiterate the problem. What is the origin of my name..."Tuba"? So far...we have: Tuba means dove or pigeon...in Hungarian...I have been told...and had heard of it before...though I have yet to fine any reference to it specifically. Though I have found something from old German...post dated. Tuba in medieval Latin is a meter long horn...hence the word is found in early Latin transcriptions of the Bible. Tuba is the name of an old...(2300BC) "lost" city in northwest Syria. There are today cities in the same area with the same name. Tuba is the tree of life...among other meanings in the Qur’an. Tuba is the name of a number of towns/villages in Russia. Tuva...Tuba......is the name of a country bordering Russia and Mongolia. The capital is Kyzyl...made famous by Richard Feinman’s quest to go there prior to his death. Interestingly...he made a big deal about the word "Kyzyl"...which though I agree it has a ring to it...it’s just "red". Tuba is a language dialect. Tuba is a river in Russia...and a lake. Tuba is a feminine name in Arabic. Tuba...in one old reference is as yet just a name of an unknown...someone. Tuba is a tribe...hence(?) a dialect. Tuba is the name of an ancient King of Yemen. Tuba...I find in some references written as "Tubba"...and "Tubah"...though I have not used those references. Esoteric: Tuba stressed on the first syllable sound like Tubah in the Qur’an...which may come from the Aramaic word for "beatitude" (tuba) or the Hebrew word for prosperity (tobah) basically implying a state of having good things flow into one’s life and being happy. So far I have not been able to ascertain the antiquity of the word..."Tuba". 1701hrs...Just back. Istvan had called through the open balcony door...for dinner. I had just had something to eat here...but I went over anyway. Then Istvan and I retired outside...and a bit later Anci and Anita showed up to collect Cila for a meeting with Dori...wedding stuff! I hit Anci with my problem about having gotten the wrong ink...so it’s set for tomorrow 1000hrs. And we’ll see about my car too. There are dark clouds to the northeast along with distant thunder. There had been hail up in Budapest earlier. 1953hrs...It was about an hour ago that the phone rang. Anci wanting to know if they could borrow my paper cutters...yes...ok...Anita would come by bike to pick it up...two in fact. I waited...for Anita on a bike...but it was Anita driven over by Saci. Anita come up...and I ask her to come in since I wanted to show her how the paper cutters operated...but was soon joined by Saci...and did it all over again...they drove off. Velence...June 2nd 2008. Daylight Savings time. 0552hrs...Coffee. Cloudy...but may clear. Would rather that it stay that way...perhaps cool too. I’m set to go into Feharvar with Anci...1000hrs. I hit her with the coins status...for Steve Swift. So hope to knock that out too. And yesterday I may have found the power supply...to the laptop in UK Land. 0725hrs...I didn’t have the presence of mind to fire off the water heater...no hot water...hence a need to wait to shower. 0819hrs...Have sent an email to "A" re power supply. Looking for ink part numbers...list. It was here a few days ago. Got the number online. Done deal. I pulled a mailing address for Steve Swift too. 1059hrs...Waiting for Anci...Anita calls to say that she...Anci...would be late. I have copied over a number of photo files...onto the external drive...and the scanned frames as backup. I then went looking for folders that I will ultimately copy onto a flash drive...Anyway...I’m in there looking around when I happen onto photos that I took of a laptop...top and the labels on the bottom...THERE it was...the part number of the power supply in question...done deal. I’ve generated labels for both Steve and "A". 1929hrs...It’s all a done deal. We will go into Fehervar on Wednesday. The neighbors showed up today...so I expect to be called over for a photo show and tell...one of these days. 2100hrs...I’m set up to shoot the ISS/STS-124...hopefully in the same frame! This is a shoot I’ve been waiting for. Good pass and both close enough to get at once. It goes down in 1 hour 19 mins. 2226hrs...Done deal...and will now develop...figuratively speaking. Velence...June 3rd 2008. Daylight Savings time. 0919hrs...The usual...Sunny and bright. Running late this morning...don’t know why...though I did dream...and played it back a few times...mulling it. OH...at the end it was about how much money I was going to be paid for some...paparazzi shots that I lucked into shooting. It was of a second tier royal couple caught on a beach of sorts. I first noticed that someone else was taking frames...but just then they try to make a getaway and I’m in a better position to shoot them. I’ve got with me the D200 with the Nikon 300 2 8 mounted. Funny thing is that that’s not the combination that I end up using...but a camera I’ve never seen nor heard of before. It had a brightly colored body...bright red...with an old Nikon 50mm mounted. The camera was digital. The royals were for awhile running along a busy street...and eventually got into a car...bright red also. It was then that I was able to fire off a half dozen frames...as the car drove into the very building from which I was...by then...viewing the action. I framed the car...and hit the exposure button...and stood up...since I had had to bend over the railing to get the shots. I took a look at the few frame...and noted that they were good. It was then that a man appeared...identifying himself as being interested in buying any frames that were "good". I set the camera to show the frames...and pointed it such that he could see...and showed him how to look at the other frames...but as soon as he saw the first one...he stated that he would pay $30K for it.........(later).......I immediately counter with $40K. He doesn’t bat an eye. The figures are interesting. The son of a neighbor in UK Land was a budding paparazzi and he had mentioned that they would pay 50K GBP for a great shot. So since I was thinking USDs...I was cheap. 1107hrs...Out of the shower...Dressed...I took out the trash...and upon my return I went into the bathroom to dry my hair...and nothing happened when I turned on the dryer. Checked the plug...and then the light on the power strip...it was out. Came back here...and saw that the computer screen was dark...which was not a good indicator because I have the timeout set short...but noticed that the digital clock was showing blank. I had lost power...to the house as it would turn out. Went outside...opened the power/fuse/breaker/meters box. Nothing wrong...except that there was no power. Then the phone rang. I was just about to call over to Pityu’s...to ask if they had lost power too. SO...I thought that it would be really cleaver to beat who ever was calling me to find out if I had lost power...by answering the phone...with..."I lost power too"...a loose translation. The person on the other end of the line...was of course perplexed by my amazing power of telepathy...indicated by silence. My joy was not to last too long...as the party went on to ask to speak to Istvan...without missing a beat. 1132hrs...Have scanned a number of old photographs...which had been laying on my desk for some time. Done deal. Have yet to go online...I guess I could do that now...pardon my back. 1536hrs...Just back from the far store...took a swing by the lakeshore...NBD...And will now do some reading...the downloads from earlier. 1821hrs...Finished reading. Well...it’s not getting any easier. We now have a King of Yemen named TUBA(!)...that seems to predate the Qur’an. I also had an email from "A"...saying that if I had not sent the laptop power supply already...Melinda could bring it over to UK Land...the next time she goes. Just went back for a reread ... "...Melinda could collect it..." Well now...that’s an interesting scenario. I of course wrote back that I had in fact posted it the day before...as in yesterday. I admit to...what(?)...It’s like this..."collecting it" would mean meeting with Melinda...person to person...as in the flesh. It never occurred to me to even think of that scenario. Had I thought of it...I could have mentioned the problem to the clan...and it would have been arranged to get the power supply to Eva in Budapest...easy enough...and then she would have passed it on to Melinda...or whatever. Done deal...Something of the reverse of my paper and ink problem months ago. I can think of reasons to do it the way she suggested...but now...I even wonder if I had not as yet sent it...saying that I had...to prevent the meeting. I don’t like the idea of being "checked out"...nor...forced into pointless chit-chat! I’m not sure if this is the end of it. Time will tell. 1917hrs...I’ve opened a chilled bottle of Balaton-Boglar sweet sparkling wine. It was my birthday present...last month. I still have two outstanding emails to answer...one to Bill...the other to Rick. Tomorrow may resolve the one to Bill...since we are talking money. Last night shots of the ISS/STS-124 went well...though I was not able to see STS-124 at all. I now know that it had by that time joined with the ISS...but the photograph did not show it as such. My statrack program showed them separated...at the time and the Keplers were only 0.2 days old. It was nonetheless a good pass...about as good as it gets...with an elevation of over 63°...and the sky was clear enough...and the pass didn’t interfere with my watching NCIS...which was a real plus...let me tell you. Velence...June 4th 2008. Daylight Savings time. 0447hrs...Java...Eyes open...Woke up to thunder. Anci called last night...it’s on for 0700hrs...this morning. Fired off the water heater. 0457hrs...The alarm just went off. The clouds are from the east. No rain as yet...and I don’t see any on the horizon either. 0528hrs...It’s now raining...a bit. 0630hrs...It was about 15 mins ago that just as I finished drying my hair...the phone rang. I knew it would be Anci...it was. In light of the conditions...it was agreed that we would wait till 0830hrs...to go into Fehervar...either way. I guess I should mention that we were to go to an outside market...hence the concern for the weather. I heard the rain come before it got here...and then in came down in mass quantities. 0701hrs...DAMN...that was close! (Lightning). 1503hrs...Back from town. Did lots of stuff. The best news was that registering the car looks to be less than 1,000,000HUF. Bought a new mouse for the laptop too. Anci picked up Pityu’s analysis printout...we took a look. Some of the number were off the scale! Not a good deal. Postdated 17 December 2008: Pityu was in very bad shape by this time. The doctor taking a look at the data said nothing...and I think he knew that the outcome would be inevitable...and with extreme prejudice! Oh...bought a kettle...as in water. Took it for a spin. Slurp. It works faster than boiling water by gas. 1533hrs...I know I’m hungry...so I guess I should fix something to eat...huh? Turns out that the tech manual for the car is in fact not here...so I will need to go over to Anci’s....and look for it...though I think I left it out in plane view. Now for some lunch...BIAF. 1541hrs...About to eat same. Velence...June 5th 2008. Daylight Savings time. 0804hrs...Woke up around 0530hrs...It was overcast and showed signs of having rained...had a cup of Java and went back to bed. Have had breakfast...out on the balcony...and it’s now raining which is a good thing. Last night...it was just as HOUSE was in its last scenes that there was a knock on the door. Cila and Istvan...brought over some cherries. Cila said that we were on for a meeting with a relative...not sure who exactly...at 1330hrs today. 1258hrs...About ready to call Cila to confirm. 1310hrs...Done deal...She’s coming here in 30 mins. Velence...June 6th 2008. Daylight Savings time. 0759hrs...Java. On the cool side...which is good...sunny...with some high clouds...nice. Yesterday...Got back after 1900hrs... from visiting with a distant relative...a charming old lady of 88. She told stories...and we looked at photographs...sadly not old ones...which hopefully she’ll find someday. Once back here I stayed for dinner with Pityu, Cila and Istvan. Got a reply from Steve swift. It may be in the pipeline...for Pityu and I to go over to Jutka’s...and reconnoiter the shed roof situation...sometime this morning. 0925hrs...Phone...Cila...I have mail at the post office...I’m to go to Pityu’s (Cila)...in 30 mins...and wait for Anci...and then to the PO. I guess it’s no shower...for lack of hot water and time. 1004hrs...I think I’ll go over now...a bit early...but I want to talk to Cila...because from the sound of it....she’ll be going to her former place of work. I guess they called her in. Hence she won’t be available until who knows when. 1644hrs...I’m back...obviously. 1841hrs...It’s been a strange day. I get that call...I do in fact go over early...talk...Anci shows up...and off we go. First it’s to Cila’s former place of work...and it’s then that I figure it out that we are not dropping her off...we will be waiting instead. She’s there on personal business. Them it’s to the post office...because it closes for lunch at 1200hrs. Get to the post office...and find out that the mystery mail is in fact the coins that we’d sent out on Monday...returned. It went all the way to the states...and right back...something about the designation of same. The letter/package is surgically opened with a pair scissors...by the postal person...and we were give and envelope of exactly the same size that we’d stared with...and then filled out exactly the same forms...and at the end was given back something short of $2 equivalent...in change. Lost five days of transit time...thank you very much...and this after having sent that email to Steve...saying that it was on its way. Done deal...it’s off to the other side of the tracks...to see if the guy that Anci uses for car work can in fact perform the requisite tests on my car. He can...doesn’t like it for real...but will do it. Done deal. Then we went up the hill to look at houses...(?). Then on the way back I asked if we could stop at Anci’s so the I could locate the manual for my car. Done deal it’s then back here...OH...I also brought back Anci’s battery charger...and once here...hooked it up. The sun was in and out...but we gave Jimmy the Puli a much needed bath. Pityu had to fake out the Puli by the offer of food and that he...Pityu...would get in the tub also. I must state that Jimmy knew that something was up...could not be call close to said tub. But with the ploy...Jimmy finally approached the tub with food in mouth...which by the way stayed in his mouth the whole time...at which point Pityu picked up Jimmy the Puli and placed him in the tub of conditioned water...as in warm. Jimmy from that point on seemed to enjoy the ritual...shampoo and all. I helped only to the extent of offering encouragement to Jimmy the Puli...and taking photographs. Done deal...Jimmy ate the food that was there till the end...and then ran around looking for places to dry his coat. These included the grass...the gravel...the house...anything...that he thought appropriate...the sides of the house mostly...... Velence...June 7th 2008. Daylight Savings time. 0639hrs...Had my Java out on the balcony. Overcast...nice and cool...and a bit windy. 0905hrs...Have showered...and working on my second cup...and is progressing without drama...so far. After fixing Pityu’s car remote...I am now working on Anci’s. Yesterday I asked for batteries that she had said she had...and she came back with two...and...another unit. I took it apart and it has the same exact problem as the first. All I need now is my soldering iron. I will make one out of the two. Yesterday while I was at Pityu’s...Jutka showed up...and nagged Pityu as to when he would go over and repair the tarp over the shed...in light of the fact that the wind has blown it off a bit at one end...and the rain is leaking through. Pityu countered with his being in pain. Post dated 17 December 2008: I have qouted this event often to indicate that Pityu was in fact hurting. 0914hrs...I think I’ll get dressed. 0930hrs...Reading downloads..."Latin"...language and alphabet. Latin goes back to 700BC. After some thought...I discount the source of the name "Tuba" as having originated from Latin. In Latin...it was a shape...a horn shaped form...that was adapted to a meter long horn...and just became...a "tuba". Without looking it up...a bet that the root of the word "tube" is Latin. I do plan to locate and bring back my Websters unabridged dictionary...the big one. 1031hrs...The sun is making headway against the cloud cover. I’m thinking that I should go over to see about my car. 1359hrs...Done deal...with the car. There was no one there...just me and Jimmy the Puli...though he was of no help. 1520hrs...Just back from the far store and Anci’s. I drove the BatMobile...which really wanted to get out and about. So...with thunder and lightning...and Jimmy the Puli also out and about...I drove to the store...then Anci’s to locate and bring back a soldering iron. Jimmy went though the partially open gate...and he was "gone" by the time I got the car past the gate. I saw him up the block...and when I called...he did turn my way...but went right by...and when he disappeared up a block...I drove off. When I got back...he was inside the compound. Done deal. It's hot a muggy...hate it. Time to fire off the fan. 1648hrs...Forgot to tell about the drama. So I go over to check up on the car...and note that the charger is still attached...and plugged in to a different power cord. It had been charging all night. Good I thought. I then connected my voltmeter to the battery terminals and noted the voltage...because the meter on the charger was showing lower that the day before. My voltmeter indicated over 13 volts...good! I disconnected the two leads from the battery...and stowed it. I then undraped some more of the tarp to gain access to the driver side door...AND opened it! When I left the house I thought about taking the remote control...asking myself if I thought I’d need it. I had removed said remote from my key ring sometime back...and just never put it back. So...I open the door...and all hell broke loose. The alarm! Jimmy the Puli made it known that he was not amused in the least...and in dog talk said that I should turn it OFF...like NOW! Right...there was no one at the house...where there would have been the spare key and remote...which did me no good. So it was back to here through three gates past the chickens and geese...and then the reverse...as I push the button like mad...hoping to be in range. 0506hrs...I had called Anci’s a few mins ago to find out where the clan might be. They were there...heading for the wine cellar...and then back here...I’m heading over now. 1836hrs...Have come back...and gone back to retrieve a bag that I’d forgotten...hence back again. Brought a book over too. Hungarian history. I shall look at the pictures now. 1859hrs...Finished. Interesting. 1916hrs...Just in from being out...listing (at ultrasonic frequencies) to some swallows...but the ones that I wanted were not out in great quantities. Will try again later. Velence...June 8th 2008. Daylight Savings time. 0854hrs...Doing a cup of Joe. Calm...thin overcast...mild. There is to be a gathering of the clan at 1400hrs...at Anci’s. I seem to remember the one from last year...I was staying at Jutka‘s at the time. It was cooler that day. 0935hrs...Phone...Anci...invited...1400hrs...ok. 1104hrs...Out of the shower. Something will happed sometime after 1200hrs...when Cila and company return from mass. Not sure if they/we will drive over or walk. I plan to spend some time in the garage looking for stuff. It’s not going to be any fun at all though...because of the humidity. Yesterday I started a spreadsheet to show the timeline for various known events in history. I don’t as yet have too many entries but I can see the value of it even now. Also I see that I will want to print it out on larger paper...as in A3. This will allow the span of dates that I’m interested in to fit on one page. 1155hrs...I’m dressed and ready for whatever comes. It started to drizzle...and not unexpected. Have not gone online...and won’t till I get back tonight...and may not then. Don’t want to ruin my day. 1955hrs...Just back...from the doings...at Anci’s...via Cila’s. I left just before the rain...along with Istvan. Pityu had left earlier. Cila was left behind...searching for her bag. I decided not to go around as I would have given that I had taken my bike. Instead I chickened out...and it was a good thing...because the rain came down in buckets. We waited for Cila...while watching the match between Croatia and Austria. With Cila back...we did some research...that had started at Anci’s...given that she...Anci had dug out a Bible. Velence...June 9th 2008. Daylight Savings time. 0723hrs...Had my coffee out on the balcony. 50% cloud cover. Mild. Velence...June 10th 2008. Daylight Savings time. 0904hrs...Doing breakfast. Have been up since 0734hrs...And have been reading some of yesterday’s printouts. 1445hrs...Reading today’s printouts. Two timelines among other pages. 1750hrs...Taking a break. I forgot to mention that I found the other video camera...the only one that works. The tapes were already here...and after getting things organized...a began to play some. Came across the IR video. The rest so far have been the ones from back in California...Janet etc. I just checked the back of my TV...and it has a SCART connector...so all I need is an SCART to phono adapter...provided that the TV is smart enough to handle NTSC format video. The ones that I have looked at are 12 years old! Damn. Most of it looks weird to me now. A bit strange...the video format on this camera show NTCS...or is that the other option? I see that I don’t have a battery for it either...and it’s different from the battery for the other camera...hence a no go. Velence...June 11th 2008. Daylight Savings time. 0740hrs...Took my coffee out on the balcony this morning. Sunny and clear. Swans with cygnets out on the lake. Seems like they were later last year. 0926hrs...Showered. Saw Pityu...I thought he’d be at work. The other day Pityu, Cila and Istvan went to Jutka’s....for dinner I guess...and they were dressed in class B’s...which I noted. Jutka has been very low profile since she got back...something’s up...I can feel it. 0957hrs...Reading...This is interesting..."After fighting in Syria and Iraq, many of these Yemenis and their families settled down in the newly conquered lands, lending their tribal names to more that one town."... emphasis is mine. This is...in my opinion...exactly how the towns named Tuba came in to existence...at least in mid Asia...along with the rivers and lakes. Hence there would have been tribes of that name as I’ve already surmised...and hence also a language/language dialect. From another reference...(The) Altay language has two dialects...(One) northern (with Tuba, Kumandy, and Chalkan varieties named after the main tribes)... Another reference..."In Mongolian mythology. A creature known in English as a tuba is rumored to live in the country’s mountains, and will bring good luck to those who witness it." 1032hrs...Phone...Jutka...Pityu is already there...said I’d come...Just as my water is boiling for a second cup. 1753hrs...Back from Cila’s ...having gone there to drop off some documents. Prior to that I was at Jutka’s with Pityu where we finished getting the sheet metal roof screwed down on the shed that I‘d brought over from UK Land. Just it time for a wind storm that’s about to hit us...soon. In Jutka’s post was my "Green Card"...I am now a number. After Jutka admonishing me to safeguard the card...Cila promptly took it from me. 1934hrs...Have done dinner...for what it’s worth. Waiting for the storm...I do see some clouds that are of the right type. Failed to mention that while engaged in securing the heavy gauge galvanizes sheets to the roof...I managed to strike my head into the sharp corner of one of said sheets. Jutka’s response was that I was tall...hence she will not suffer the same fate. I guess not! I now have a 25mm gash. Pardon my back as I go online. Velence...June 12th 2008. Daylight Savings time. 0623hrs...Woke up to the sound of rain in the drain pipes. Did my Java out on the balcony...and watched the rain. Yesterday’s storm never materialized. I really couldn’t see it in the satellite photos either...close but not close enough. 0945hrs...Doing a second cup of Joe. Not sure when Cila had planned on taking care of the business regarding my car...hence yesterday’s paperwork...after which she planned on dropping by here. The water heater needed to be fired off again...so I will be waiting some. I need to hit the far store and the PO to pay my internet bill...and then Jutka’s to pick up the D-70 which I’d left there yesterday. It’s stopped raining. I have yet to go online. Velence...June 13th 2008. Daylight Savings time. 0806hrs...Slurp. Overcast and calm. Yesterday Cila and I went to her former place of work...and spent over an hour there shuffling papers. Back here she discovered that a needed document is now out of date...hence it will require a trip into Feharvar. Nothing on the books for today. OH...yesterday at Jutka’s...to pick up my camera...went well enough...but then Jutka started up a subject that she’d hit me with the last time I was there for lunch. It started at her back door...and ended up out in the street as to tried to make my "getaway". It’s like Pityu says..."You’re not my wife...and you’re not my mother!" 1305hrs...Just offline. Prior to that I was studying maps of Asia. 1324hrs...The winds are picking up. Doing lunch. The storm warning strobes are running at max repetition rates. Velence...June 14th 2008. Daylight Savings time. 0852hrs...Slurp...out on the balcony...sunny and hot. I was up at 0200hrs this morning...for the second time in two days...wide awake! 1011hrs...Lost power at 1006hrs...back on in a minute. 1048hrs...Have showered. 1054hrs...Dressed. 1132hrs...Emergency phone call...I’m off to Bela’s. 1242hrs...I was instructed by Agnes to go to Bela’s and alert him to the fact that she needed to talk to him but was unable to do so because he was probably out in the workshop and didn’t hear the phone ringing in the house. Have been back for about 20 minutes...via the far store. The emergency has to do with Dori’s car...belching blue smoke...and the rest. Anci will attempt to tow the car...to what turns out to be a repair place close to the scene. Done deal. Now reading...and finishing the now cold coffee that I’d made just prior to the call. Velence...June 15th 2008. Daylight Savings time. 0840hrs...Have been up since 0730hrs...when I awoke to the sound of my laser printer rebooting. I surmised correctly that I had had a power outage. It rained last night and is now overcast and cool. I have been reading yesterday’s printouts...R1a1 stuff. It’s interesting to see how everyone wants to find their origins...but...JKTD...BUT...at the same time they want to be at the apex to the exclusion of ALL other genetic input. You can’t have it both ways...it seems to me. Everybody came from somewhere...so now they want to exclude any...(now seen as derogatory)...external genes. "We are REALLY...REALLY an old peoples...and have always been so." YEAH right! India and China have been hit with the "results" of the latest gene research. I’ve come the conclusion that I should be thinking in terms of what I will never find out...no matter what is found. Go back far enough and one finds that it’s really immaterial...a point of diminishing returns. 1037hrs...Showered. Second cup?... 1130hrs...Did the second cup outside...while reading...something that I had downloaded long ago...but just couldn’t bring myself to read. It was long...and small type. But now that I’ve started it...I shall continue...and it’s not that bad...in fact very interesting. 1140hrs...Failed to mention that while out...Cila appeared heading to Bela’s to help Dori. Laughed about yesterdays happenings with the car. Postdated 17 December 2008: The joke was that I no sooner got to Bela's...the phone rang. In retelling the story...they had figured that I should have left here right away...as I said I would...and they mentaly calculated that I should have just gotten there...hence the timing of their call. Friday ST2004 was at +$10,409.17...that’s +81.21%....with FE up 112.38%. 1220hrs...We had another power glitch at 1212hrs. Well the reading has taken a turn. That which I’m reading is a forum/blog...hence its length...60 plus pages...not one article. 1839hrs...Reading and downloading more articles...R1a1 stuff mostly. Waiting to get the call...from Cila...for dinner. If it gets any later...I’ll have to fix my own...which is no big deal...but I didn’t have a proper lunch. 1900hrs...This whole DNA thing has if anything made matters worse than one might suspect. Instead of clearing up the picture...it has distorted it beyond recognition. There are now cases of fraud...misrepresentations...lies...counter lies...and the list is growing each day. Some of the most venomous writings I’ve seen are all the same issues...but now rehashed under the guise of scientific study...DNA...results...that "prove" such and such to one side...and just the opposite to the other. It’s really quite bloodthirsty. Velence...June 16th 2008. Daylight Savings time. 0922hrs...Up at 0630hrs...Did my coffee while reading outside. It’s now mostly high clouds. The call never came yesterday. I stepped out the side door...and noticed that Istvan was out tending the crops...and then he went back into the compound without having seen me. But then returned quite quickly...at which time he did. I went out to meet him halfway and talked. Then a bit later I hear Jimmy the Puli barking...and the sound of gate four opening. It was Pityu with a plate in his handss that I’d guessed to be something for me. I was right. Some of Cila’s and Jutka’s baking. We then talked some more...when I hear the sound of gate four again...this time it’s Lajos. The four of us stand around for another 20 minutes talking. I finally pulled the plug...and with plate in hand retired back inside...and proceed to consume same. About that time I start to feel a bit strange. A bit later while watching the start of the Czech/Turkey soccer match I hit it with some Nitro...three for the first shot...and then later with another one. Well that‘s when I began to feel really strange...and thought that that maybe it...was to be the big one. Then I remembered the last time in hospital in UK Land...I had the same reaction...almost knocked me out. And so it was this time. All was better after that. 1318hrs...Have just finished lunch...good even if I do say so myself. It’s cooler now with winds out of the west bringing clouds that may mean rain later. Have been online for some time...same stuff. 1330hrs...Just in from being out...and what do I see...but a deer...trucking west between Kemping and the fence. It was soon out of sight but then reappeared and crossed the road to this side. Earlier this morning while reading I thought I saw what I believe was just a big dog...could well have been the deer now that I think about it. I almost came in for the camera...don’t know why I didn’t. Today would have been a good day to do some work at Jutka’s but it looks like it’s about to rain. 1457hrs...Just in from out...Caught Cila on her way to her former place of work...gave her the MemStick to give to Erika the younger...with the photos that I took at distant relative Marie’s the other day. I had thought about adding more photos...but never got around to it...though I had given Erika my card...so she may have gotten onto my web site...she knows some English. 1856hrs...I took a break and for some reason my thoughts turned to my dismal TV reception. I may have thought about it for a few days...but it now came to a head. I pulled on the end of the coax cable that went to the TV to get as much cable as possible. Next I move the antenna out the door into the next room where I thought I’d have a better shot at the transmitter site...instead of a meter of concrete. There was one problem...the power cord was too short...so I took the extension in the kitchen that was being used for the microwave. Plugged it and readjusted the connection...and GADS!!!!...perfect images...and one other channel...but it was "just" there...and snowy. Why had I not done this long before? The logic was and has been the same...nothing new. Funny thing...the cable that I’d bought was long...as in way too long...but now it’s just what was needed. Makes my day! 0736hrs...Well...I’m now watching my Super8 videos. Just checking to see if the video was compatible...it is. Velence...June 17th 2008. Daylight Savings time. 0636hrs...Just in from out. Slurped out there too. There is a healthy wind from the west...so I didn’t finish it. Yesterday we had the deer...then I saw a Rigo (black bird) taking bugs out of the air...I’d not seen that before from a Rigo...then a hedgehog...and last...a fox...last seen heading for the chicken coop! 0816hrs...What to do? I’ve showered and shaved...I need to hit the far store...for sure. The weather is about right to do Jutka’s. It’s trash day...so it must be Tuesday. 0832hrs...Had a flash while drying my hair...Cila said yesterday that she had been out at the vineyard with Jutka...and that they had just started to do the trimming when the insecticide sprayer guy showed up and they had stop. This means that they may well be back there today...hence the obvious. Anyway...I’m dressed and heading out. Wish me luck. 0925hrs...Have been back for about 15 mins. Pardon my back as I go online. 1825hrs...The rain has arrived. I shall now go out for a closer look. 1830hrs...A couple of fishermen got caught in it...and are making their way back. Did a number of unsuccessful searches...NBD. I did download and print some text on Richard Feynman...the TUVA connection. And looked at a number of pages on Roy Schwitters...MIT...PhD...Franklin High School class of ‘62. 2001hrs...We now see distant lightning. Velence...June 18th 2008. Daylight Savings time. 0701hrs...Did the slurp routine outside...but was driven in by the rain. Reading Feynman’s "Plenty of Room at the Bottom". 1738hrs...Have been reading my web pages...and I will try to fix one...or more correctly now...build a page again that failed to work properly. Velence...June 19th 2008. Daylight Savings time. 0641hrs...Woke up before 0630hrs...and it looked as though the sun was up and clear. It was not until I was in the kitchen that I noticed that there was fog in the back yard. With my cup of Java in hand I went out onto the balcony at which time I saw the true extent. I could just make out the houses across the street. Late yesterday I managed to recopy the first half of this document...and edited out the redundant spaces. I had been underlining and changing the color of the datelines...but then just the spaces...so this morning I’m left with picking up where I’d left off. It will take at least two hours work. Damn! That was a close call. I took a look at the file I have been working and...AND...I was right back where I was when I started. This is a mystery because the page looked ok...else I would not have spent time on it as I did. I decided to look at the page as HTML...and found a very long string of spaces....and then took then out in the original. Done deal...and the problem disappeared as expected. It now has to be seen that once saved and brought up again...whether the problem comes back or not. 0804hrs...The fog has blown away to the west. 0833hrs...Out of the shower. 1515hrs...It’s hot out there. Have been editing the two "blog" pages...though I’m not sure if I’m going in circles. 1541hrs...Playing tape 2...A wreck. Technically speaking...it sounds to me as though at one point that which was played on a flute of some sort...was later...as now...played on a violin. It sounds so old to me...ancient! I should get back to editing...OH...it was just coming up on 1100hrs...when I heard voices...and then a knock on the door. Sari and Bela...looking for Cila and company. Told them that I’d not seen anyone for the last few days. Have not been online either. Velence...June 20th 2008. Daylight Savings time. 0555hrs...The alarm went off at 0530hrs. Cila informed me yesterday that we would be going to her former place of work...for some more paperwork...at 0800hr...as in be there at that time. Did coffee outside. 0721hrs...Phone...Cila...sprained her ankle yesterday...still swollen this morning...Anci to have aided with transport for this morning...appointment...but since her return having transported Pityu to Fehervar...is an unknown variable...I thought that doing it all again on Monday would be the best option. Done deal. I will hit the far store this morning...and make a payment at the PO...which I would have had to do this morning anyway...prior to the appointment. Just realized that today is Friday. 0901hrs...Have been back for over ten mins...having gone to the far store...cash point and PO. Forgot to buy a lighter...distracted. Did buy a bottle of wine though. 0920hrs...It’s supposed to be a scorcher today...and from the look of it...it will. Seems that I’ve finished editing the second web page...but it seems short...as in stopped early...but as I think about now...it’s right...that was the page I’d load some time back...and need to add the rest of May...and all of June. 1335hrs...40°C in the sun. Relatively cool inside. Have just finished lunch. I’m not kidding. 1434hrs...Well damn...I’ve been going over the last two web pages...as a final check before I publish them...when I notice that on one...the width of a cell is not correct...but...YKTD...it reads right...and I can type in a new value...but it will not change! 1905hrs...About an hour ago there was a knock at the door...Istvan bringing me some of Anci’s cooking. Anci(!)...I said...yes says he. Anci was there to take Cila to see the doctor. Her ankle/foot...not sure exactly which...both(?)...had swollen up nicely...hence the need for another opinion. Where the food got into the picture I’m not at all sure. I had been online at the time...and guess what? I was GSing and for some reason typed in "Kathleen Peck". Got a hit...An obit dated 1997...September 10...the TIMES. She died at age 77 from complication from a fall. That meant that she was born in 1920. Gads! She’d have been 50 when I knew her. Interestingly...I now know more about her than I did when I knew her. It’s also interesting to note that one doesn’t find anything on the internet until you run across their obituary. AND...I doubt that there will ever be anything else written about her in the future. As I’ve written before..."Everyone has a story"...I guess it’s having someone to write it. I GSed Carolyn Hansen too...nothing. Velence...June 21st 2008. Daylight Savings time. 0554hrs...By the clock...I woke up at 0541hrs...That was exactly the same time I eventually got out of bed yesterday...having set the alarm for 0530hrs. Did my coffee outside...clear and calm...picturesque. Yesterday at something around 2000hrs...I went over to Pityu’s to check up on Cila...assuming that she and Anci were back. I was met by a happy Jimmy the Puli...and his barking brought Pityu to the door. No Cila. We talked some...and eventually called Anci’s number. Gads...they were in Fehervar...having been sent there by the local clinic doctor...and they would be heading back soon. Lajos showed up and we talked some more. Later yet Istvan shows up. And later still Anci and Cila arrived. Jimmy had to be restrained in order for me to open gate...and Pityu got him on his back...and I opened the gate. I expected to see Cila’s ankle in a cast...but that was not the case. It had been just a sprain. Turkey and Croatia were playing and I watched it to the bitter end. It had gone into double overtime...where Croatia scored in the last minuets. That should have been it...done deal. They should have gone into a totally defensive posture...but didn’t...and incredibly Turkey came back within seconds with a goal of their own. The game had obviously been scoreless for 90 minutes plus 15...and into the last 15. Turkey was stunned...but...just came back and did what had to be done. AND then...it came down to a shootout...and Croatia lost their cool...and missed the first shot...and then later again. Not missed as in the shot was defended...but MISSED the bloody goal completely if you can believe. That did it...the game was lost then and there. I eventually found the problem with my web page...and fixed it...and I even uploaded them. There is/was still another problem though...and that is that I was unable to link the pages to my menu. I’ve had this problem before...but don’t remember what the final solution was. So...while the menu choices are there...they are inop as of now...though one could I suppose get there from the link on the third page back where I have a link. I'll see once online. 0839hrs...Out of the shower and doing a second cup of Mud. Istvan came and went...having gone into the garage for whatever. Cila’s doing ok. 1130hrs...Well...damn...NAILED it all. All three pages are now up and running. Happy camper...you know I am. It came down to basic stuff that I’d forgotten...and something new. In the end I edited the HTML file in Notepad...and once saved...reloaded...and the rest was history...done deal. It was my famous three dots that made it angry. Now all I have to do is pick up the last of this page...from sometime in May till now...and add it to the web page. Yesterday while trying to solve my problems...I came across an old webpage...and there I found the password/user name for my Genographic results. I took it for a spin...and this morning went back and printed it out again. Reading it now. 1233hrs...Interesting again! Yesterday I ate half of Anci’s food...and I will eat the rest soon...for lunch. 1243hrs...I should be thinking about getting at least some of my Sepia images onto my web site. And I suppose I should straighten out that which is there now. 1248hrs...Looking a the map...depicting the path taken by my lineage starting in Africa. Reading the text...and looking at the map...I’m frankly confused. The last marker is M17 (R1a1)...which the map shows to have split out of marker M173...at a location between modern day Leningrad and Moscow...nowhere near "Ukraine or southern Russia" as stated in the text! On the other hand...the line for M17 has been drawn to end east of the Caspian Sea in modern Kazakhstan...which is a stones throw from Kyrgyzstan...which is close to TUVA...aka Tuba. Speaking of which...tuba...lowercase...The other day Pityu dropped by and immediately launched into telling me about an article in one of the papers...about a funnel shaped atmospheric phenomenon that in the article was called tuba...there was a photo also. A day or two later we found the paper and Anci read it out loud. The word was used repeatedly. I told them that I totally understood the context in which it was used...and was not surprised in the least. IMHO...it’s just another case of the Latin "tuba"...a long funnel shaped horn...and here the funnel shape described the phenomenon spot on. End of story. Except to say that "we" are not related...tuba...Tuba. 1807hrs...For whatever reason I thought I’d take a look at my images...(which I have not done in weeks now) and Jan M. came up. I stepped through the frames...and even did a quickie on a few frames that looked promising...and then I thought...Jan...Jan...Jan...you vixen you! And I’m not even close to half way. 1912hrs...Just in from being out. I’d heard a lot of bird chatter...usually a cat...and sure enough that was the case...and then I heard Jimmy barking and noticed that someone was coming through the gate...and then who ever it was disappeared from sight. I then noticed a hot air balloon...so I stayed out. Then I heard voices...Pityu and Lajos coming my way...Pityu holding something in his hands. Cutting to the chase...it was a baby Rigo...(Black bird)...which I then later photographed. We placed the chick in a safe place on the ground. The wisdom is that once a chick is out of the nest...it becomes a ground dweller forthwith. Velence...June 22nd 2008. Daylight Savings time. 0736hrs...Up for an hour...coffee outside in the relatively cool of the morning....reading yesterday’s downloaded pages. I had found a very interesting web site...old photos. Because saving the images was not possible I took photos of the screen...but later tried printing the page...which worked...and went back to print them all that way. Very interesting photos. Lots of Dose related photos...Mt. Baker area. Franklin High school...John Muir...etc. Will go back for more as time permits. There was more to the whole story of the Mt. Baker district. This was not some ordinary development...but planned community. And the Dose’s played a major role. 1043hrs...And it’s bloody hot out there and most likely get hotter yet. So there I had been...searching a photograph database...for relevant photos...and having exhausted most if not all the obvious key words...I typed in Malden avenue. The significance of Malden avenue is that it was on that street we first lived once in Seattle...back in 1952. It was a two story corner house located on Capital Hill...a residential district. There were some interesting house in the area...and so looking was a no brainer. Done deal...wait...Gads...only one result came back. Looked at the photograph...and then read the caption...blah...blah...blah...some names...and dates...the usual. Well shoot...I though...that was anticlimactic. My eyes went back and forth between the photo and the text. Subliminally...I must have seen something that kept bringing me back. On the very top line of the page...above the photograph was written..."532 Malden Avenue, Seattle, Home of Alfred and Lucy Schillestad, ca. 1908." It still had not hit me. For whatever reason I didn’t put down the photo...Then I looked at the top line of text below the photo...and there again was...532...532...532 Malden! Then it struck me...GADS(!)...it was the significance of the number 5...which was the first number of our address...and then I remembered that the other two numbers were in fact a 2 and a 3...YES...but not in that order...but 532...MALDEN Avenue. I now took a closer look at the photograph. The photograph was taken in 1908 and the house looked so isolated. Granted it’s on a corner...but there was no other house next to it...though there were in the background. And the photo was taken from an angle that was different from the one in my minds eye...which was looking south...from the north. This photo was from the west looking east. I looked at the windows...Damn(!)...that matched my memory...yes...the front door is in the right place...an architectural feature in the form of an oval window didn’t help matters because had you asked me about...I would have missed it...but...there it was...our house...no mistaking it. What are the odds I ask you...one hit returned and there it is. The house was not "our" house as such...we were at the time renting the upper floor...though...having said that I can not say for sure what the actual arrangements were. And as of right now...I will never know...since all the principles are dead and gone. The Caption: Among the earliest Norwegian immigrants to the Seattle are, Ole and Regina Schillestad arrived around 1875. Their son, Alfred Schillestad(1869-1942) and Lucy Brown(1876-1960) married in 1903, and the couple moved into a new home on Malden Avenue, probably built by Ole Schillestad, and stayed there until Alfred’s death in 1942 when Lucy moved to Bothell. Alfred and Lucy had one daughter, Gladys, who married Charles Kaysner, a mayor of Bothell. Alfred was 34 and Lucy was 27 when they married in 1903. Alfred died at 73...and Lucy at 84. Change of subject: Back to Kathleen Peck...only because my printout was just there. Anyway...as I reread it...the obit...I picked up on the fact that there is no mention of her husband(s?)...none! 1513hrs...Hot as hell out there. Have just finished lunch. I have a TA...which will need to be looked at...and soon. If it were not having to go with Cila...tomorrow would do nicely. Have been thinking about one of my unfinished stories. It’s the one about the guy that I planted on a newly discovered island continent...with a challenge. So far so good...but I stopped because I knew that as set up...he would not succeed. My story has an ulterior motive...which for now I will not relate as such. Suffice to say that my character needs help...lots of it. So I thought...ok...I’ll give him some...and this suits my hidden agenda nicely...but what(?)...do I give him. I thought first I’d give him some workers...knowing full well that there would have to be many...and if so...then they would need females...and drink...not to mention food...and shelter...at one point clothing...HELL...I need an entire "civilized" infrastructure...a society with all the trimmings...law and order...farmers...schools...all kinds of supplies...stores...the list would have no end. It would be a whole lot easier to take a large group of volunteer "pioneers"...adventurers...and plant them on "my" island....and wait. Wait for what I hear you ask? Backing up a bit...I could not afford to prescreen for every possible skill...talent...contingency...conceivable...so these pioneers would for the most part be...what(?)...average. The wait would be for...wait for it...(pardon the pun)...for the population to "evolve" the skills necessary to evolve the...necessary TECHNOLOGY...to fulfill the challenge. Of necessity I have as yet not fully defined the challenge but will do so soon. I realized that my hero...alone could not succeed. Ok...two...no...4...no...8...no...etc...until we get to 256...512...1024...2048...etc...let’s settle on 16,384...plus one...the hero. Ok...16,384 plus one. Problem...what do I give this group in the way of tools/supplies etc? I can’t just toss them overboard and have them swim for shore...now can I? At the same time...I can’t just give them the "technology" to survive. What to do? I’m stuck. It turns out that human survival is not a simple nor trivial matter! Too many people all at once and you‘ve got a problem. Too may mouths to feed...needing more shelter than there is available...leading to lawlessness etc. Let’s not even mention sanitation, medical facilities...the whole nine yards of problems. Societies started with small groups...just able to survive. As their (technological) skills advanced...it was possible to increase the size of said society. And in fact there would have come the time when more was better. More workers you see. The young could help produce or procure more disproportionate to their consumption. 1608hrs...Phone...Cila...come eat...yes. 2017hrs...Back for about ten mins...and going online for a GS...on Seuso. Velence...June 23rd 2008. Daylight Savings time. 0625hrs...The alarm went off at 0530hrs. Coffee as I write. We didn’t talk about today’s schedule so I’m not even sure that it will go down as planed Friday...but I’ll be ready nonetheless. 0731hrs...I’m all set. I heard Jimmy the Puli barking...but saw no activity. 0827hrs...Have not heard from Cila...so I guess it was not on for today after all. 1952hrs...I’m just back from what was to have been and in and out...that turned into something longer. John...Yurt John I call him...showed up looking to do some fishing with Pityu...but the longer he talked...the longer it took to getting around to the question of fishing...which turned out to be contingent on Anci showing up...and the three of them heading up into the hills to cut down the natural growth...of now tall grasses. They all packed up at the same time...and John left also...not a hope of any fishing today. Cila and I continued to talk...for a bit longer. Velence...June 24th 2008. Daylight Savings time. 0546hrs...Up since 0500hrs...Did my coffee outside...It’s overcast...but with features. It’s on for today...Anci will drive. I’m going to the dentist’s first thing this morning. 0644hrs...Out of the shower. It’s clearing from the west. 0843hrs...Back from what turned out to be the far store only...because it was another dumb day in HU Land. I went straight to the Dentist’s office...getting there at exactly the same time as the last time...and waited. Then for some reason I walked around to the front of the building to look at the posted schedule. There it was...plain as day...not open till 1100hrs! 1517hrs...I’m back...having spent the last hour talking with Cila. She’d called earlier and gathered up my papers and went over. We piled into Anci’s car and headed for Cila’s office...and found 5 people ahead of me. Then things went down hill. 1914hrs...The winds have arrived! Lightning...thunder...COOL! And all this while I try to consume my dinner! Running back and forth...outside to take a few frames...back for a bite! 1930hrs...Major lightning! 1950hrs...The winds have abated. The lightning continues in the distance. The crew working at the Boathouse house have cleared out the grounds and have moved a shack from there to a new site about a 100 meters this way...along with some scrap lumber...AND a whole stack of white Polystyrene sheets. Well you guessed it...the wind tore open the wrappings and the sheets went flying. Film at 11. 1954hrs...It’s clearing from the west...and sun will just have a chance to show through. I have all doors open to what’s left of the cool wind. When outside...and then coming back in...the heat in here was massive. Better now. 1957hrs...Have been online...and the first thing was an email from...wait for it...the former K7LPZ...the little pink zebra...at the time Miss Donna G. Brewer. Way Cool! The sun’s out so... 2006hrs...Back in...duh! Got a few frames...there was a rainbow too...full semicircle! Didn’t go out into the street to see all of...plus it would have meant switching to the Sigma 10 20. 2106hrs...We have CP at this time. It came out of nowhere. Thinking of hitting it with some Nitro. Velence...June 25th 2008. Daylight Savings time. 0709hrs...Up since 0641hrs...Coffee outside. A guy walked out to where the Polystyrene sheets were stored...and I thought he would survey the damage...but no...he pulled two sheet out of one stack and one out of another stack...they were different sizes...and left the scene. I didn’t crash until after midnight. CP kept me awake. 0942hrs...Read some and had breakfast outside. It’s going to be another hot day...for sure. Yesterday’s storm was nice and cooling. 1220hrs...It’s hot...but I’m heading for the Dentist’s office...wish me luck. 1249hrs...Well...there was one man ahead of me...and I had taken another look at the schedule...which looked freaky to me...in as much as there were two schedules...and I almost gave it up then and there...but decide to go and wait anyway. Well...not for long...it was just too hot waiting...and I was not sure of what would happen...so I packed it in. They open tomorrow at 0700hrs. I’ll be there. 1337hrs... I see that they cleaned up the disaster area across the way. 1429hrs...Heading over to see Cila...etc. 1942hrs...I didn’t note that time of my return...but close to two hours I reckon. I did get dinner out of my stay...and I now remember that Istvan showed up at 1600hrs. Velence...June 26th 2008. Daylight Savings time. 0707hrs...I woke up to the sound of thunder at 0214hrs...and went outside to check it out. When the lightning struck...the whole sky lit up. It was raining nicely...no wind. It’s overcast...but the sun will burn it off. 0902hrs...Just about to head for the Dentist’s office...again! It’s cooler right now...and there is some wind. 1021hrs...Welcome to Disenchantment Land boys and girls. First..."my" dentist won’t be in until 1400hrs. Second my "card" is not enough. I forgot to pull out my EU card which was all I had the last time. And ok fine...I paid...but that was not a big deal. I’ll have to ask Cila about all of this. It’s a bloody good thing that I’m not in 24/7 pain. It’s manageable. I just wanted to take care of it...NOW! 1247hrs...Heading back to Cila’s...with the laptop. 1825hrs...Back from Cila’s and dinner. Had to go to Anci’s to help out with her auto repair relative the keyless remote...which went AWOL. Velence...June 27th 2008. Daylight Savings time. 0730hrs...Overcast...Coffee outside. 0827hrs...Will need to hit the far store sometime today. It’s still overcast...and hence cool. Yesterday’s internet activities at Cila’s was not successful. Then as I mentioned...Anci called here...but I was at Cila’s...where she finally tracked me down...looking for the remote. I came back here...twice...looking for it without luck. I then went over...knowing that I could make the spare work. There were other problems with the car...and I told the guy that it could well be a fuse...but we had no luck getting at them. He took the car to another place not far away...and they managed to gain access...and when he returned...Anci asked the usual question..."what was wrong"...the answer was a fuse! Though he added that there was a disconnected wire also...which I’m not sure if that was the case...because he had jerked on some while I was there. Anyway...I then asked if we should try the remote...to which he said...nervously...no. I guess he had enough for one day...since he’d not gotten anywhere on his own...and didn’t want another...problem on his hands...though that was the original problem. 1034hrs...About ready to go...far store. 1108hrs...Done deal. "Wake up Little Susie"....S&G version...which is better than the E brother’s original. 1538hrs...Doing lunch. And just back from the other house. I had gone over to give Cila some printouts...in Hungarian(Magyar)...that I’d printed last night. The phone rang...it was Dori...asking Cila to go with her for another look at a wedding dress. Cila asked if I wanted to attend...I answered in the negative. Though I did offer her the use of the D70. I gave her a quick course and off they went...but not before I was asked to wait for Istvan’s to arrive. OK say’s I...thinking that it would be a relatively short wait...given that Dori was running late...and if things were normal...Istvan should be just "rounding the bend"...as it were. WELL...nearly two hours later Pityu arrives. Backing up a bit. As soon as I realized that Istvan was in fact not even close to the "bend"...I decided to return here and collect some reading material...and once back inside the compound...(It was a bitch trying to keep the Puli from following me through the last gate...and that required a wait.)...I settled down out on the veranda to read...and there I stayed. At one point I could have sworn that I heard the creak of a gate...but thought that if that was in fact the case...Istvan would see me...and once I’d passed on the 23 ½ (single spaced) pages of instructions...which I was required to commit to memory I might add...that Cila had left me with...I would be free to leave. But as it was I continued to read...oblivious to the fact that Istvan had in fact arrived and went happily inside...having not noticed me. No surprising since I was not expected to be there...AND I suppose that I was no help at all...in as much as I didn’t look up! Duh! Anyway...Pityu arrives...the Puli barks...and once inside the compound via gate #1...we talk in front of the open kitchen door...where I begin to relate said pages (from memory)...and then I say in passing that Istvan has to yet arrived...to which Pityu says that..."No...he is here"...and just then Istvan appears from the gloom of the kitchen. Well damn...I thought...I did in fact hear a gate squeak after all. Done deal...I return here as noted above. 2006hrs...Have not heard from Cila "the photographer"...as yet. There was to have been fish soup...for dinner...which was one of the things I was to relate to Istvan...to the effect that he was to turn off the heat...and "we" were to have some...BUT when Cila said that he was to strain it...and there was talk of fish heads...I beat a hasty retreat...without a word about it. What if it looks back at me? No really...thanks anyway. Velence...June 28th 2008. Daylight Savings time. 0607hrs...Started my Java outside. Nice morning...clear and the light is good. It’s going to be a scorcher. Cila finally arrived back...and while I was talking with Istvan...she rang...and came over with my camera in hand. We took a look at the photographs she’d taken...and later talked about the wedding shoot. 1049hrs...Up again...having gone back to bed. And had another "Lost" dream. Camera again. BUT...this time I worked the problem...and found it. 1125hrs...Dressed...Laundry in the machine...which is more like an event...or happening...in as much as the machine is cantankerous. There is probably a spring missing because when it goes into the spin cycle...it jumps around like one of those earth compactors...but more so. The problem then is to stop it...and now that I think about it...I will just pull the plug...while my original method had an element of danger there was always the question of it being successful...before the machine self-destructed. 1151hrs...Have disassembled the 950 and it’s not looking good. It went well at the beginning in as much as I found the way to remove the ON/OFF switch entirely...making it a simpler task to repair...BUT...of the three wiping contacts...one was bent in two dimensions...and now that I’ve straightened it looks to be on the verge of breaking off. I had brought up the subject of yet another camera...the 950...for Cila to use...knowing that I would need to fix the switch...hence there now. 1332hrs...It’s worse than that yet...the stationary part of the switch is also broken! So...I think I’ll leave it apart...and put it in a box. Done deal...lost cause. One last word though...the damn camera cost me 850GBPs...which is a lot of money...down the drain...because of bad design...thanks NIKON! 1913hrs...The other day when I had taken the laptop over...Cila said that it was more than likely that there is currently a mistake in the FamTree. This mistake is in the form of a few ancestors that are not in a direct line...but by simply moving one block and swapping it with another...we should be ok. The new path still leads to the same Tuba Samu...1687-1769. Still waiting for the bloody ink to arrive...though I think it will be this coming week sometime. Got an email from Steve Swift telling me that the coins arrived...(at last!)...and how it was a close call...since it had in fact arrived on the 19th...but he didn’t get notified...properly...and when he was...it was in the form of a FINAL Notice(!)...thank you very much. The PO had misdirected the notices. I still have an outstanding email to answer...LPZ. May write tomorrow. The research continues...though bogged down a bit. New items...(of knowledge) The fact that there was a date before which you only had one name. After that date...roughly...you had a surname too. So far so good. Another one is the fact that during those same times...roughly...the most popular instruments when played were the trumpets...(with drum)...hence the Latin "tuba" again rears it’s head. These tuba players were a big deal...and were used to herald royalty...and were also used as tower guards. I assume that it was because they would not just "blow the horn" as it were...but were able to send vital information...just as was done for centuries there after. Watch any America western...particularly the ones about Cavalry...and you’ll see what I mean. Taking the name of what you did I’ve covered earlier. I now don’t discount the possibility that Tuba came from Latin tuba...or one that played a "trumpet"...in effect. This dose not preclude the other possibilities...as yet. Velence...June 29th 2008. Daylight Savings time. 0554hrs...Coffee outside. Clear...The start of another hot day. 0939hrs...Reading. There is one problem that keeps coming up. After all...words are in the end just sounds. Hence the word "tuba" seems to me to be a fairly simple sound to produce...and is found...relatively speaking...all over the place. Certain "core" places, tribal names and dialects keep cropping up historically...that is...repeated by many authors...though I’m not sure how much of it is now circular. Authors now quoting each other...without great diligence is common. None the less...if I allow myself the same freedoms...I can make "logical" connections also. The places seem right...Asia...Central Asia...Siberia...the Tuba River..."On the banks of the Tuba River is the TUBALAI tribe."...is one example of what has been written. Is it too great a stretch to assume that there were those that referred to themselves ...after a time...or other place simply as "TUBA"...as in tribe...and language? This if allowed...would require that at least some of those tribal members kept the name "Tuba"...and perhaps some referred to themselves individually as "Tuba"...such that it survived to this day...or more accurately...into the mid 1300s. The big question for me is...could it be that simple? They...the tribe...did name places after themselves. They eventually reach the Carpathian Basin...and some times...I’ll find my reference...in the mid 1300s...when the population was required to "come up with" a surname...did they...and in my case...use "Tuba". The problem is of course...time! It’s been pointed out to me...correctly...that the name that these individuals chose...was already in use...though it’s not clear to me exactly how that came to be. If it was "Tuba" the tribal name...then that would have required the maintenance of the name for at least a 500 years...which is about 20 generations at 25 years per...or 17 generations at 30 years per. That’s a lot of generations in my mind...to keep it "alive". 1046hrs...Phone...Jutka...invitation for lunch...OK...1300hrs. There will be another call from Cila later in the day...for dinner...hope I’m back be then. Continuing...I don’t know what if any "convention" was in popular use at the time regarding surnames. How did they come up with them. There are some clues though. Some people used names like: Horvath...a Croat Nemeth...a German Orosz...a Russian Magyar...a Hungarian (interesting choice) Olah...a Rumanian Toth...a Slovak Racz...a Serbian Torok...a Turk It can be seen that it did not bother them in the least to use what must have been their ethnic origins as their surnames...even though it must have occurred to them that others most likely did the same. Hence the loss of true lineage. And...it also demonstrates that their choice was to "go with" their ethnic origin name as opposed to what they may have been...popularly called...even over what they may have had as their work...which in one sense is interesting...because then the choice would have been between that in Hungarian...or in their ethnic language. If they chose Hungarian...then they would have lost the connection to their ethnicity. So they chose to "hang on to it"...interesting...no? This would have been a conscious decision...and I presume it was not without debate...as it would have been a "now and forever" kind of thing. I think that for the non Hungarian "ethnics"...it may have been a "no brainer"...but for the rest...some thought must have gone into it. Those names that were derived from what they did for a living...may also have been straight forward...given that there was at least some convention in place...and possibly for some time. The rest...I’m not sure how it went...for them. Then we have the problem of the historical...(church) records. On the Catholic side they go back to the year 1000AD...while on the Evangelical side it’s somewhat less...but should span the 1300’s. Well and good...but in theory we could reach that point in time when we will not have a reference to surnames. Then what? 1230hrs...Call...looking for Istvan. 1249hrs...Time to go... Velence...June 30th 2008. Daylight Savings time. 0442hrs...Up since 0422hrs...Java out on the deck. Clear. Got back yesterday at 2030hrs...in time for the start of the match between Germany and Spain. Spain scored first...but as of right now I don’t know the final score. Pityu thought that Spain would win...Istvan thought Germany...I thought nothing. Spain played a better game for the first half. I’d set the timer for one hour...and heard no other goals before I crashed. Jutka had given me some scraps for the chickens...so after coming back here...I went over...with it. They were all there but it was Cila that greeted me. She had just returned herself...so food was still in works. Pityu and Istvan were watching a flick on the TV...I told them not to tell me the location...that I would guess...at first saying that it was Mexico...but changed it to Australia...which was right. Had I waited just a few more scenes...I would have nailed it right off...and it would have been down right obvious had I waited yet a few more...but that would have rendered a guess redundant in as much as the films stars were on screen. Crocodile Dundee! Duh! Oh...at one point Pityu came out...and showed me his latest captured insect...a large beetle. I came back here and swapped out lenses...and fitted a flash...and thus armed...headed back for a bug shoot. It went well...film at 11. 0946hrs...Up again...having gone back to bed...had a dream...but not a long one. I had wondered about Sari’s two of three girls...by a previous marriage. One of the three is married and has three girls. Her husband is the son of Agnes (Tuba) Balint...my next door neighbor. The other two are unmarried and are not in any relationships...though one did at one time...and is still pining of the loss thereof...even though he is married with children. The third one is not actively searching as such. This all from talking with Jutka yesterday...in passing. Agnes and I share a common great, great, great, great grandfather...Tuba Janos born 1816. 1234hrs...Just off line...and downloaded more to read. I need to hit the far store I think...and will check out the dentist’s schedule again...while in the area. 1315hrs...Done deal. 1334hrs...WELL now! Of the four articles that I’d printed...three are tangential to my research...BUT...one is most interesting in deed. It’s just over half a page...from The Mongolian Academy of Science. Mostly it is a description of their work...and one example...is most intriguing. The question that came to mind as I read and reread the line of text was...why anyone would want to know...wait for it..."The Ethnography of Tuba"? Mmmmmm! 1620hrs...I have since done a GS on the line above...which promptly brought back only that same line of text...another...for now...dead-end. I think that I’m getting closer to some kind of unifying answer. I know that I will not find an ultimate answer because there is for now not enough resolution...broad strokes of the brush yes...but no fine detail. I have just finished reading a piece about the Altai region's population...and conclude that while it is said that some were able to remember back for seven generation...as normal...and in some cases eleven generations...and I myself have records back for seven...it is too short a time. 2014hrs...Have spent over an hour printing maps. Having read thousands of pages...it’s still been difficult to grasp the big picture...as it were...given that there was so much flux...at any given time span...and the name changes etc...but having found these maps make the task hence forth much easier. The maps span from 1300BC to 1500AD. I’ve just finished reading a page that...as is the case now...I printed and read months ago...and still conclude that it is just so much tripe...and given the maps...much more so. This...tripe...was written by a self-proclaimed Hungarian...but don’t hold that against me. "Where do they find’m?" 2037hrs...I think...therefore I must be hungry. To be...or what to eat...that is the question. Time and tide wait for no...mere sandwich. A stitch in time...would have saved that penny found. The last time I saw Paris...was on TV. Velence...July 1st 2008. Daylight Savings time. 0520hrs...Up since 0500hrs...Coffee outside...Sun’s up...clear. Last night about 2100hrs...Sari and Agnes brought Cila home by car. Sari also had some food and pastry for me. 1007hrs...It’s too bright and hot to read outside...hence I’m in. Reading about the Celts. I shall now consult my new maps...to find a starting point...though I already think that it will be with the Sorbs. Having just bloody said that...I must point out that in 220BC the Celts were in the Carpathian Basin (present day Hungary) at their center...spanning from the Black Sea to the east...all the way to the Atlantic Ocean to the west...including England and Ireland. The history is scant at best...regarding the Celts...though there seems to be concurrence that they had some major effects in their territories. For me...and others...the problem is one of definition...Where do you want to be begin? Is it the place...the land...or the people and language? Pick any one and you run into the time axis problem...as in "OK fine...how far do you want to go back?’ How far back do you want to claim kinship? For how long must "your" claimed ancestors been "in country" for it to be a valid claim. What portion of the ancestral population had to be totally "in country" lest they be claimed totally by others...or at least shared? Which "borders" in time do you plan to use? I consider myself to be in the unique position of not having grown up under the dogma of historical biases. Though Hungarian by birth...and now Hungarian by DNA analysis(?)...(R1a1)...I do not have any problems with where the "chips fall"...though admittedly I feel somewhat "safe" knowing the rough details...only. At it’s worst...the "story" would be...just less interesting. Interestingly...as I may have stated...there are today some 13,000,000...dependence of Chingiz Khan. I’m not sure that knowing that I was just one of 13.000,000 would bring me any joy...given that that figure...13,000,000 is about the entire Hungarian population...and I already know that I am one. Ok...not all "Hungarians" are Hungarians...but you get my point. And of course Hungarians do not call themselves that but...Magyar...and that goes for the language too. Interestingly...there are some here that want to connect the two...the Huns and Magyars in some fashion. The following data points are derived from maps created by Thomas A. Lessman...(TAL) and as for now...there a some crucial dates missing. Circa 2300BC Not from TAL maps. This is supposedly the date that the Finn and Magyar language was to have separated! Personally...I have a problem with this. Circa 1300BC The "usual suspects"...in place at this time. The Proto-Altaic Pastoralists...Mongolia/China area. Finno-Ugrian Taiga Hunter-Gatherers...Finland and east. The Hittite Empire...The Urnfield Culture...The Teutonic Cultures...The Baltic Peoples. Carpathian occupier: The Tumulus. Circa 1000BC Same as above...and the first mention of the Scythian Tribes. The proto Slaves...The Samoyed People. Carpathian occupiers: The Urnfield Culture. 625BC The Teutonic Cultures are now Germanic Tribes. The Proto Altaic. Pastoralists are replaced by The Turko-Mongolian Pastoralists. The Finnish Tribes appear. The Assyrian Empire appears. Carpathian occupiers: Illyrian Tribes...overlain by The Celtic Hallstatt Culture. 600BC The eastern Scythians become the Sarmatians north of the Aral Sea. Greek City States. Carpathian occupiers: Stationary...Illyrian Tribes...overlain buy The Celtic Hallstatt Culture. 550BC Carpathian 527BC Carpathian 500BC Carpathian 400BC Carpathian 335BC Carpathian 323BC Carpathian 200BC Carpathian 100BC Carpathian 050BC Carpathian 001AD Carpathian 050AD Carpathian 100AD Carpathian 200AD Carpathian 300AD Carpathian 400AD Carpathian 476AD Carpathian So...there we are...477AD...there are no Sorabi yet...There are Huns northwest...north...and northeast of the Caspian Sea. The Magyars are north of the Aral Sea...putting them east of the Huns. The Ostrogoths occupy the western half (west of the Danube) of the Carpathian Basin. By 480AD...We find the first mention of the Sorabi just north of the Carpathian Basin...modern Hungary. The Huns and Magyars are for the most part static. The Ostrogoths occupy the western half (west of the Danube) of the Carpathian Basin. In 486AD...Changes have taken place elsewhere but the principles are stationary. The Ostrogoths occupy the western half (west of the Danube) of the Carpathian Basin. 500AD...The Magyar have moved west...north between the Caspian Sea and the Aral Sea. Part of the Hun have also move but only regionally. The Ostrogoths occupy the western half (west of the Danube) of the Carpathian Basin...and have increased to include modern Italy. 565AD...The Sorabi are now called the Sorbs...and will remain so into the present! The Ostrogoths have disappeared and replacing them are the Lombards and occupy the western half (west of the Danube) of the Carpathian Basin. The Magyar are still in place as in 500AD. The Huns have vanished. TAL dates missing for the Hun invasions. I will pick it up later. 1319hrs...When I was at Jutka’s last...She had the radio...the one I bought for her...on and the music I heard was Hungarian folk/ethnic...and I asked her the station. She told me...and just about 10 mins ago...there was news at the time...but I kept it there...waiting. Then the news ended and I picked up on the fact there was to be a story...and it was some time before I began to catch a phrase here and there...and then I nailed it. Gads...they were reading Catch 22! 1329hrs...Phone...Jutka...misdialed. Velence...July 2nd 2008. Daylight Savings time. 0614hrs...Up at 0600hrs...The usual. Clear...calm. Dentist this morning...plan to the get there sometime after 0800hrs. 0752hrs...Ready to go...for what it’s worth. I hope that things go smoothly...no hitch. 0932hrs...DONE DEAL! And there was no charge! I got there first...but then after an interval...two others showed up. They both had appointments. I was taken in first...shot up...and while I waited for it to take effect...one went in. I went back in...after he came out. It was interesting...in that I thought that there was some difficulty...but then the doctor told me to close my mouth with a wad of gauze in place. I was surprised...didn’t feel it being pulled. He had given me an option...root canal...or to pull it. The later was my immediate answer...not because of any fear...but that it would take too long to do. 1145hrs...Have taken a sleepless nap. Doing a second cup of Joe. Face is still dumb...duh. 1315hrs...Well...another mystery has gone down for the count. A flower pronounced "Tubarosa" here in HU Land and as part of lyrics in song...are in fact not named after anyone at all...but...again...just Latin. In this case...even the spelling is not correct as it should be written as "tuberose"...the ‘tube" part is Latin for tube as we know it in English...in this case the shape of the flower. Interestingly...even if it were written as "tuba" it would/could have made sense because as I’ve written before..."tuba" is a long war horn in Latin...and could describe the shape of the flower. A GS shows both spellings...one is not correct. 1422hrs...Well now...The plot thickens. One source dealing with the History of Language. Specifically with the pre-Hungarian age...(Hungarian/Magyar)...states...commonly...that Hungarian belongs to the Finno-Ugric language family. Ok for now. And shows an even earlier relationship with Samoyed family of languages. The interesting aspect of that statement...is that the "Samoyeds" were located...according to other sources...TAL included...roughly between the Ob and Jenisej rivers (various spellings) though closer to the Ob River. (This area is east of the Ural Mountains.) The significance of that is that the Proto-Magyars first appeared due south of that general location....and it could be argued that the Samoyeds traveled the length of the river...north to south...to an area that is the convergence of the headwaters of both rivers...near present day Novokuzneck. Just east is the city of Abakan and is located on the Yenisey River (a tributary of the Jenisej River)...and there is very near, a tributary named Tuba...the Tuba River. Less than 600 miles (700 km) to the northeast is a small town...at the junction of the Anarara River and its tributary the llim. The Anarara river is a tributary of the Jenisej and joins the Yenisey...at that point. It should be possible to navigate between that small town and the Tuba River. I guess it would be more proper to state that following the river is closer to realty as the river may well not be navigable over its length. The name of the town...is Tuba. There are a few more towns named Tuba...in the general area and I will need to locate then again. Another source says..."There is also the tribe of Tubalai who live on the banks of the Tuba River and although (they) speak Turkic are perhaps Samoyed. They may have acquired their name from Tubal." According to The Genographic Project map the end point of Haplogroup R1a1...M17...is arguably very near to present day Abakan...a geographical stones throw. The best part of all this...300km to the southeast is...wait for it(!)...Kyzyl(!) the capital of Tuva...aka Tuba. The R1a1 M17 marker arose between 10,000 and 15,000 years ago. 2000hrs...Have popped another Paracetamol...to knock down the residual pain. Hope it’s gone by tomorrow. Got an email from Bill...forcing me to think about stuff I don’t really want to deal with...right now...but will have to...soon. That make three "outstanding" as of now. No word on the bloody ink. Have not talked to anyone today except for the DDS and his nurse. Jutka is keeping an amazingly low profile...it seems to me...wonder what’s up. The thirteenth will make it one year that I’m here in this house. And I ended up here because Jutka needed her house for the summer’s guests. Later this month is Dori’s wedding...and she indicated that she will come by this week sometime. Hope she calls first. I need to clean the sensor on the D200...before I do any serious blasting. I did develop the shots I took of Pityu’s beetle. I will make a small print for him once I’m inked up. I also think I will try to use more diffusion for the flash next time...the light is just too hot. 2022hrs...Well that’s timing...Phone...Anci...we have ink! Tomorrow...0930hrs...we head for Feharvar. Velence...July 3rd 2008. Daylight Savings time. 0710hrs...Up with the alarm at 0700hrs. Not a good night. Woke up at odd times. 0753hrs...Showered and dressed. I plan to hit the cash point...and the far store before Anci arrives. Reading SJG’s book and there are some potentially useful insights that may apply to language...Creole/Magyar. 0929hrs...Ready and waiting for Anci and company to arrive. One of the girls is coming also...to look for clothing. 0950 hrs...Out the door. 1345hrs...And after all of that! NO BLOODY INK! It’s enough to POTP! Just wasted three weeks for nothing! Score another one for HU Land. I looked on the UK Land web site...but while they would send it...they will only send it to the card holders address...so out of luck there too. My cards are UK Land cards...still. 1730hrs...I had bought an Oregon Scientific remote thermometer/Radio Clock. Once I got all the batteries in place etc...the clock locked on in a few minutes...and shows the correct time. All my other clocks think they’re in UK Land. I also bought a 4 port USB hub. I almost bought a Sky TV satellite receiver set up...but I would have needed someone to explain a few details...and since there was no one around I let it lie. Also bought three old issues of NGM...for 1000HUF. Velence...July 4th 2008. Daylight Savings time. 0604hrs...Up for 30 minutes. Overcast and cool. Was up around midnight...and there was lightning to the southwest...over Balaton. The storm warning strobes are at max rep rate. Just at the very moment that my kettle was about to shut off...I lost power...to the kitchen as it turned out. A breaker...but it was the last one I found tripped...out of four. Another rough night. Hope it goes away. 0651hrs...If Jutka was on the ball...she could call this morning. 1238hrs...Have been to the far store. The wind was treacherous coming back...nearly stopped me cold. Online...I downloaded a few more pages...and read them. Blood types...for one. Just for the record...I’m A+. 2020hrs...Have spent most of the day online. Velence...July 5th 2008. Daylight Savings time. 0718hrs...The same as most days. Partly cloudy. Had another fitful night. 0849hrs...In from out. Caught Pityu heading for Bela’s...chatted a bit. Velence...July 6th 2008. Daylight Savings time. 0813hrs...Second cup of Java outside. Second because I was up at 0334hrs...for my first. I had stepped outside...and heard voices next door. Turned out to be two boys...one on the deck and the other up on the balcony. The one below was trying to talk the one above into climbing down...without success. I can only guess that they had managed to lock themselves out...and one had climbed up to the balcony in the hope of finding a door unlocked...the then was unable to get back down. I heard half of a cell phone conversation...to the effect that someone would be coming in an hour. I went back to bed. Velence...July 7th 2008. Daylight Savings time. 0715hrs...Up for 30 mins. Overcast and it rained overnight...a good thing...more to day. Got the call yesterday for dinner...and I was there till well past 2100hrs. 1026hrs...Wish I was..."Homeward Bound.........."...over and over again. Need to hit the doctor’s office...and then the chemist...and perhaps the store too. Hate it. The sun has broken through...and it’s not hot out there. Hate it. Spent some time this morning picking up...generally. Stacking all my printouts...and not being able to not read some in the process. 1057hrs...I’m a wreck...but it’s time to go... 1133hrs...It figures...the place was full up. Hit the store...and will do it again tomorrow morning. Damn. Yesterday while at Pityu’s...he drug out a gas detector...two in fact...and we measured the leak in the incoming gas line. I had wanted to see if I could detect a leak with my ultra-sonic detector...so I came back for it. The test show nothing...the hole must have been too large...and it was at low pressure. Later I thought I saw a bat...and fired off the unit...but again no bats...but...there were now a number of strong sounds in various locations. So...just now I went out to see if the phenomenon was diurnal. It is. Heard nothing at all...so I will try again this evening. The signals were very strong and seemed to be located in the trees. Should get closer next time...so...it’s..... Wish I was..."Homeward Bound.........."...over and over again. 1903hrs...Have been online most of the day...after taking a stab at clearing up the area. Maps again today. More printouts. There are some interesting clouds out there. It had rained a bit...but I didn’t know until it was over. I heard distant thunder...and it may well return. 2029hrs...At about 1910hrs...Caught Cila and Istvan heading out...on their bikes. They didn’t say where they were going. I was outside checking out the clouds. I indicated that "it" was coming this way. They asked when...and I said an hour. And so it came to pass. Lightning...thunder...and rain. I can hear it now...and it’s dark out there...the clouds. The rain was good...the plants needed it. I also lost power...as in just long enough to reboot this computer. Have given up with the papers...and just tossed them in a heap. "Homeward bound..." Wish I was... The lightning continues... I shall now go out for a closer look...you know I will... 2041hrs...Gads...I looked up at the clouds and saw what looked to be more rain coming...then out onto the lake...and saw "the line"...moving this way...fast...and then I heard it...and then it hit...hail. Not 100%...which is good. 2053hrs...The rain has stopped...but the lightning continues all around in the distance. Velence...July 8th 2008. Daylight Savings time. 0833hrs...Have been to the doctor’s office...getting there around 0740hrs...and found that the gates were open. There were no patients but there were two women that worked there...and as it worked out...there were able to provide me with the prescriptions that I needed...more in fact. I had been told that the doctor would not be in until 0900hrs. One of them had a small supply of singed forms...that we then used up. I now wait for the chemist’s to open...at 0900hrs. Read a very interest download from yesterday...relative the origins of the Magyars of the Basin. It makes a good case for a long history...(old)...without over stating it. 0854hrs...Out the door...back when I am. 0910hrs...Done deal. It’s overcast and cool. Jutka should call. 1029hrs...Just back from the close store...needed some Vodka. Drinking it is like a soft drink compared to Hungarian Palinka...kids stuff. "Homeward Bound"...you know I wish I was... 1820hrs...It’s been a slow day in the neighborhood boys and girls. It’s been overcast all day...and raining now. No complaints as such. Did some more rereading. Interesting. Thinking about getting a email back to Donna...aka the LPZ. I think it was having to hit the doctors early...then back here...then to the chemists...then back here...then the close store...back again. The only good thing is that it’s been cool. Oh...I need to renew my US Passport...and I’m thinking that since I will need to go into Budapest...I will then also look for ink...making the trip a bit more interesting...if successful. 1851hrs...The demons are here...waiting. Wish I was... 2009hrs...Did Donna! Two more to go...but not right now. Velence...July 9th 2008. Daylight Savings time. 0801hrs...Was up at 0500hrs...and had a cup outside....then back to bed. It’s partly cloudy...the suns up...and the light is crisp. 1033hrs...Have policed the kitchen... Earlier while online I heard what I thought to be Cila calling out...hello. I answered back...hello...hello...but heard nothing back...but then again...what sounded like Cila calling out...hello...to which I responded. THEN after a period of silence...I again heard...hello...and see a shadow across the door. Cila...! She was heading over to Istvan’s mother...for what I believe will soon become a death watch...adding that Jutka had been looking for her...so I guess I was to pass the message as to her whereabouts. 1211hrs...Cila returned at 1130hrs...and things are not great with the old lady. Have spent time...and still at it...locating images that I will then copy onto a memory stick...which I’ll the handover to Anci. Velence...July 10th 2008. Daylight Savings time. 0643hrs...Coffee outside...Overcast. Velence...July 11th 2008. Daylight Savings time. 0628hrs...Coffee outside...Mostly clear...and it’s to be a hot one today. It’s on for Saturday...Jutka’s tree cutting. Pityu dropped by last night...chatted a bit. 1125hrs...Showered and dressed. Yesterday I was out on the deck...reading. The traffic on Kemping is of some interest...now and then...but while reading I don’t always see what I see. So it was...I hear voices and the see two girls waking west. At first they're hidden by trees...so I just get a gimps now and then...so I just look down to read. A bit later they are in full view...and I make note of the fact that one is taller than the other...and that she has a different hair style. Read a bit more...look up again as they continue to chatter. By then they are past me so now I’m looking at their backs...more or less. It’s then that I say to myself that the one closer to me...the shorter of the two...sure looks like Dori. It’s the old "out of context"...thing. I don’t expect it to be Dori...OH...and they never did look up at me...that I noticed...but it could have been just when I was looking down...anyway...she’s walking...here...why...and with another person that I don’t recognize...etc. At one point...though I don’t notice it...they turned around...and were now heading east. As they came abreast...the smaller one calls out. IT‘S DORI! Later Istvan arrives by bike...and relates that he ran into Dori. I tell my version of events...and after I grilled him...it turns out that Dori had a close friend visiting from Budapest...and had "shown" her Velence...hence the stroll on Kemping. 1329hrs...Reading. Reference to the fact that "common" (personal) names appear as having been taken from a location. Not unusual. Velence...July 12th 2008. Daylight Savings time. 0526hrs...Up with the alarm set for 0500hrs. I went over to talk to Pityu yesterday. I asked when we would be going to Jutka’s today. He said 0700hrs. Then Bela called and it was changed to 1500hrs...and I left thinking that that was the last word. Back here...the phone rang. Cila saying that Pityu has now said 0700hrs. And so it is. 0623hrs...Ready...to go. Istvan’s out there sorting rope. I’m taking two cameras...and the small Slik. 0641hrs...Damn...Can’t find a printout that I’d wanted to show Jutka. I wait for the crew to arrive. 0645hrs...Shutting down...now. 1524hrs...I have returned to clean the 10-20 lens. The sun is at its worst and the sunshine is right on the tree...so I’ve passed the word that I will be back in about an hour...and hence let Pityu continues his needed nap. Though I was the first one up the tree...Pityu has been doing the heavy lifting. 1603hrs...Time to hit the road... 1930hrs...I had an IA of sorts...and thought it best to return. Lajos showed up so there are still three to help. There is probably three sections left to do. They should manage just fine. Velence...July 13th 2008. Daylight Savings time. 0741hrs...One Year! 0914hrs...While taking a shower...I thought I’d heard the phone. The sound was weak because I had moved it from its normal position...closer to the bed...and the sure enough I heard it again...Jutka checking up on me. The lads are there to cut down some pine trees...having finished the big Birch yesterday. The plan is to cut down three of the pines...that will take awhile...and may go over...later. It’s to be a real scorcher today...but it’s hazy right now. 1926hrs...Just back from the close store...for some needed items! Caught Istvan and Cila coming home...Cila says dinner in an hour...that was at 1900hrs. Velence...July 14th 2008. Daylight Savings time. 0750hrs...Up for over an hour. 0934hrs...I had been outside reading...when the sky started to darken with lightning strikes to the southwest. Later they moved to the south...and then southeast. Later still...lightning to the west. The winds picked up...and now Kemping is awash...though the winds have abated. I will go online to see the satellite images. I didn’t get the call till 2100hrs...but by that time I’d resigned...and had my own dinner. Poor Cila was not happy about the situation...rightfully...but as I told her...I was hungry. I guess I’m not used to one hour meaning two hours. Had she called to say the she was delayed...then I still may have opted out...not sure. 1112hrs...Since the last entry another wave came through. Interestingly...ALL my radio controlled clocks have lost not just "lock"...but show no signal. And...it’s both signals...UK and GR. I shall now hit the shower. Have been reading of course. THE CASE: "In Southern Siberia there are Shors, Altay Kiji, Telengit, Teleut, TUBA...(my caps)...Kumandi, Chalkandu, Khakas. Tyvans, Tofa, Tsengel, Tuvans and the Dukha." This from a web site dealing with the Turks. This is most interesting in that the TUBA and Tuvans are listed separately...even though any reference to Tuva leads to an alternative name Tuba. What does it mean? Under the heading of..."Other Turkic Groups"...from "Popular Improvised Poetry of Ancient China"...we have a line: "The only other Turkish group I have been able to get information on is the Black Tatars, who call themselves Tuba-Kizhi...‘people of the Tuba region‘..." Where is the Tuba region? Under "All Empires History Forum: Huns"...A line... "Huihe (Uyghur), their ancestors were Xiongnu (Hun), they used high carts... "Their tribes are: Yuan he (Oghuz), Xueyantuo (Sirtardush), Qiebiyu (Chibni), Dubo (Tuba?), Guligan (Gulghan,... Posted dated July 15th ...The list continues with more names...fifteen total...including Hun (Hun). Velence...July 15th 2008. Daylight Savings time. 0831hrs...Was up at 0600hrs...had a cup...and went back to bed. 1220hrs...Reading. THE CASE: Continued. Under Turks and Kayilar.../Language... "Radlov divides the Turkish language or dialects into four groups, according to their phonetic system. (1) Eastern: Altai, Baraba, Lebed, Tuba, Abakan, Kiidrik, Soyon, Karagass and Uighur." I can make a connections between most of these names and locations between the Ob and Jenisej Rivers...and for all practical proposes the (with only a slight adjustment to the east) end point indicated by my NGM Genographic Project map...for my Haplogroup R1a1 (M17). 2035hrs...I’d gotten the call for dinner yesterday at 1830hrs. I didn’t expect it...but it worked for me. A came back just before 2100hrs. Have spent most of today reading and downloading pages. Jutka called to remind me that it was on for tomorrow...and that she would be here at 0915hrs. I never did go to the far store as I would like to have done...don’t really know why not. I guess I pay the price in a few mins. Velence...July 16th 2008. Daylight Savings time. 0654hrs...Did my cup outside. Overcast...cool. 1150hrs. Did the thing with Jutka...official papers...etc...then hit Spar...back to her place...picked up my internet bill...and am now back from the post office. Done deal. 1656hrs...I’d seen Pityu outside working on a chest for Dori...so after I’d gone to the close store...I went over. Took a few frames. He was having some difficulty with the screws that he was using...with a non-matching screwdriver...so I came back with a set that I knew would work. Istvan got home about that time. Talked to the Puli. He was happy to see me. Otherwise it’s been a lazy day in the neighborhood boys and girls. Velence...July 17th 2008. Daylight Savings time. 0756hrs...I was up at around 0500hrs...did a cup...and went back to bed. It’s clear...and will be hot today. 1000hrs... THE CASE: Continued. While the above is just peachy...we now have to factor in some specifics regarding Marker 17. According to The Genographic Project...M17 emerged between 15,000 and 10,000 years ago. That would make it 13,000BC to 8,000BC...in or around the present day Ukraine or southern Russia. The estimated population of Homo sapiens at that time was "A few million." Further...at between 8,000BC and 3,000BC Proto-Indo-European language emerged. I have to remember to keep separate the question of language/ethnic origin...(Magyar)...and name origin...(Tuba). At this stage I have no problem with the name "Tuba" having a non-identified origin...or putting it differently...the name "Tuba" having a Turkic origin. This does no refer to the Country Turkey of today...but the Turkic tribes that permeated much of the areas in question. Nor with finding a definite connection to the Magyar Tribes...since it and other tribes were just in the early stages of development. The ultimate antiquity of the word that became a name is of course a mystery. 1404hrs...There is rain coming...and I can hear distant thunder. I have an inch stack of printouts to read. This is good. Velence...July 18th 2008. Daylight Savings time. 0805hrs...Did coffee outside...100% overcast...and cool. It rained last night. Today we do Dori...sometime after noon I figure. 1200hrs...I’m about as ready as I’m going to be for Dori’s shoot. The one thing I don’t like is the sunshine. The cloud cover is still here...so it may work out in the end. Not only would it be too hot for me but the light would compete with my flash. Random thought: If your language...and for that matter the other...consisted of only a few hundred words...how hard could it possibly be to learn a new one? Which then raises an interesting question...if the incoming language had less word...would you not think that they would opt to convert to the language with the greater vocabulary? From the readings...The Turks seem to want it all. Everybody is a Turk...AND they are Sumerians! Cool...huh? Heads I win...tales you lose. 1302hrs...As I wait. 1427hrs...WELL DAMN! Phone...Dori...was not able to make the 1000hrs appointment...so now it’s 1700hrs. As in when did she know? I mean she would have known before 1000hrs...no? So why do I just find out now? I must now invoke the S. Pempe truism...a Piece of Shit. So it’s now on for sometime after 1900hrs...and she asks if that’s ok. I get the feeling that it may not go down at all. I could have gone to the stores easily...had I known...so I will do it now. 2037hrs...Had a call about hour ago...Sari...telling me that Dori is still at the hair solon...and that it would be some time that she will get here. Well...I’ve said it before...DAMN! I asked her to call Dori to nail down a time. She calls back to say the she was unable to get Dori to pick up the phone. Then I ask what it was about these supposedly scheduled times...etc...but I didn’t get a straight answer. I explained that I wanted to do the shoot outside...and that 2100hrs was not cutting it. So...here I am...a day wasted. It’s now 2045hrs...and it will take her 15 mins or so to get here...making it past 2100hrs. Not my idea of fun. Velence...July 19th 2008. Daylight Savings time. 0806hrs...Just in from out...coffee. Clear...and will be hot today from the look of it. It was 2133hrs yesterday that Dori called. What is there to say? 1306hrs...I have been in constant pain since the last "tooth extraction"...so called! I say so called because that was what it was supposed to have be...BUT. I remember being surprised that "it" came out so easily. I felt nothing. It was...just...out...just like that. WELL NOW...I now see that it must have just broken off...and not pulled! I also remember thinking that I’d like to have had the tooth. Looking at it now...it would have been interesting to see what would have happened. The bastard said nothing about it...at all. So...I’m looking at going back on Wednesday. I have to hit Anci up for a ride into Pest...on official business and to look for ink. She works on Wednesdays...so there should not be a conflict. The reading is finished as per the last inch of papers. Have to think about what to search on now. The picture has gotten larger...but not necessarily clearer. Lot of holes and total blanks. Velence...July 20th 2008. Daylight Savings time. 0848hrs...Up since 0800hrs...having been up at 0600hrs...did a cup and went back to bed. It’s partly cloudy...and cool. 1647hrs...It’s clouding up...and there may be some rain...I’m guessing. I was looking outside and I saw Dori and groom heading west on Kemping. I continue to read. I came across a web page which I printed. It was about Chinese history...specifically about non-Chinese peoples...a list. I’d read some other pages where I found references to names that I thought were provocative...and since those names appeared on this one I printed it. Well now...When I first came across the name "Gaoche"...I remember thinking that it sure looked to be a close match for the Magyar word "Kocsi"...for a wagon...from which is derived the English word "Coach" as in stagecoach...a coach...a carriage. Interestingly it is one of the few Magyar/Hungarian words to make it into English vocabulary. Gaoche: A nomadic people roaming the area of modern Inner and Outer Mongolia. Gaoche meant "High Carriages" because the wheels of the carriages were very large. Interesting that a peoples would take/get a name based on their mode of transport. In 487 Afuzhiluo founded the Gaoche empire around Turfan/Xinjiang that lasted until 541. The Gaoche controlled the silk roads until it was destroyed by the Rouran federation. The other name was "Hu". Velence...July 21st 2008. Daylight Savings time. 0957hrs...Bad night...up at odd hours. 1204hrs...Just out of the shower. I will hit the dentist at 1300hrs. Went back to the 2nd to check the date for when I had been to the dentist. AND...sure as hell...I wrote that it seemed that there was some difficulty...and that it didn’t feel like it was pulled! RIGHT...the difficulty was that it broke...I now know. Last night a thunderstorm came through. I watched it. Oh...there I was watching...and then I felt a few drops of rain. I remembered the last time...and thought about the fact that I’d heard the rain coming...but that I had also seen the line of rain approaching on the lake. So...I then heard something...getting loader...but was confused by the direction from which it...the sound...was coming. It was from the southeast. At one point I said...well...it sure sounds like a line of rain heading toward...me...and it was. 1249hrs...About ready to leave. 1412hrs...Back since 1400hrs. He pulled out a chunk of bone...I nearly ripped his arm off during the procedure. Was given a prescription...which I’ve picked up...3x...so that’s for 5 days...ok. Stopped at the (far) store...too...for bread. 1955hrs...It was about an hour ago that I’d stepped outside for a break when a dark green car drove by...heading west on Kemping. The face in the back seat waved. It happened so fast that the little gray cells were not able to do two things at once....namely the identification of the face...and the wave. I know it’s a trivial matter...but now I will be thinking about it all night. OH...I did manage to do the third thing though...the face was female. Two out of three is not all that bad. Since the list of people that would recognize my on sight is very short...it should be just a matter of thinking. Who would wave? There are a few on the list that I’d think would not. OH...I guess I should add a forth thing that I noticed...and that was the vigorousness of the wave. It was not a simple wave. It was not a royal wave. It had the quality of...what(?)...wait for it...enthusiasm...as in surprise perhaps. The face wanted me to notice...not just a wave in passing...more like..."Hey...it’s me." I’ll get to the bottom of this...waving business...given time...rest assured...no really...I’m not kidding here! I mean this could well be the highlight of the week...here in the village. Yesterday I saw two dogs...and that‘s right up there. The last time there were two dogs running around...they were shot. The dog were taking people off their bikes...I kid you not. And the day or so before I heard the sound of aircraft...jets...and I literally leaped outside. By that time the source of the sound turned multiple and I soon found the second one...closer. I reached inside and grabbed the D200 with the 300 2 8 attached. Got off a few frame. I found out yesterday that they were part of an air show down in Fehervar. On the day that we...the crew and I...were cutting down Jutka’s trees...there was activity here...that last year I saw. It was no big deal...no really...but it’s fun to watch. Of course I’m talking about the grass cutting...the entire field across Kemping. It’s an all day job...and I saw none of it. The reading is now focused on Chinese sources. Interesting. It may fill in some gaps. The TV programs are on summer schedule. There is now in place of NCIS...a cop show that I’ve not bothered to learn the name thereof. They have taken the "HOUSE" character...and made him a cop with a sort of handicap. AND there is always the gratuitous scene of...wait for it...taking while eating...something. In place of HOUSE...there is now another doctor show. This one does brain surgery only. And there is this other character that seems to do all the talking...explaining things. I guess someone has to do it...right? I think that there may be a pilot in works for next year...the premise is a one armed, apple chomping veterinarian doing lobotomies only on deranged killer dogs...in a small village...location not known. The opening credits list Lobbi...the vets first (successful) case...and it does all the talking...to the patients. Since it’s mostly barking...and most people don’t understand "Bark"...subtitles will be used extensively. There is also a quirky dogcatcher who always gives the vet his diagnoses...knowing full well that the operation will always be the same one...in the end. Velence...July 21st 2008. Daylight Savings time. 0733hrs...I was up at 0400hrs...bed...up at 0430hrs...and made a cup. Outside...I surveyed the scene. Rigo’s (Blackbird’s that act like American Robins)...were the early birds. The sky was overcast and it was on the cool side. At 0445hrs two of the birds were having a fight over territory...when I saw a cat furtively lope into the yard. I thought at first that it had been attracted by said fight...but it nervously left...the Rigo’s having flown to safety. It was then that I saw the real reason...the two dogs that I mentioned the other day. The German Shepard and a non-descript smaller whitish dog. It was as I watched and thought about whether they were able to jump up onto the deck or not when they spotted me. I looked straight into their eyes...(one at a time)...and then asked what they were doing...in Magyar...and then told them to leave. The whitish dog seemed to be the leader...the Shepard ready to do whatever the whitish dog wanted to do. The whitish dog decided to leave the area...the Shepard...followed...back in the direction from which they had come. I think that they had come in hopes of getting a part in my TV pilot. OK fine...I said it...I’m writing the pilot...I'll call you. 1806hrs...Have been reading the Chinese account of the Huns. Good stuff. It’s long...and it’s like alphabet soup. 2036hrs...Well...it happened again. It was 1935hrs...precisely that I heard and the saw a white vehicle pulling a small trailer...come into view. I remember thinking that earlier today I had seen what I now believe to be that same vehicle...and that the trailer contained household items...heading west. Then...I saw a face...this time male...and it waved...not the face...but the arm that was attached to the face...you know what I mean. Now about a week or so ago...Cila had said that I may not know the villagers on sight...but they know me. Small place...word gets around fast. She was right about the first part for sure. But now in two days...two waves. I think that there must be a connection between the two events. Damn...I caught Istvan coming home...but I was in the middle of my readings...and forgot to ask him. There is storm coming...100km winds predicted. The clouds look angry right now. Velence...July 23rd 2008. Daylight Savings time. 0653hrs...Just in from out...coffee. Overcast, raining...and windy. It’s a Seattle kind of day... 1136hrs...Doing second cup of Mud. I had gone back to bed. It was good. I had a dream...in color it was...I was in a paradise like garden. There were people that seemed to know me...(a reference to the people in the village)...and the they were showing me some of the animals. There were these birds that were the size of doves...but fat...and they flew on silent wings effortlessly. They would land on me and soon I was covered with them. I moved off...to look at other birds...and slowly rid myself of then. There was a sort of pool...with very clear water...and I could see a large bulging snake...it had eaten something...swimming toward the other shore...and once it was partly out of the water...it caught something. It was then that I saw other animals swimming in the pool...and thought that I should take a photograph. Here it comes. I knew that I had a camera when I first "arrived...and was playing with the friendly fat birds...but where was it now. 1235hrs...Out of the shower...I may not get dressed today. Back to reading alphabet soup. 1605hrs...Have download a number of new pages...and now reading same. Got an email from "A"...asking if I have any (old) paper dealing with car insurance for the Chrysler. I looked...none...answered same. The rain continues. The sat photo shows a huge cloud system over the area. 1747hrs...Well...hells bells. Jutka...mail...car stuff...more bloody paperwork...no end to it. 1859hrs...Well...hells bells. Anci...Dori stuff...more bloody complications...no end to it. Dori is now...as I write...on her way to have her hair done...and unbeknownst to her...Anci has called to see if I would be in position to take photos...when Dori was finished. I ask when. At least two hour. I go through the whole thing about what I had in mind re taking photos of Dori...that it was not the shots themselves that were the object...but for me to nail down lighting and lenses. And that I wanted to do it outside if possible...given a choice. I’ve left it at that... Anci is to call me when she gets the word that Dori is done...Anci will be picking her up...and I will then make a decision. My bet is that I’ll get the call closer to 2100hrs or after. Damn! 2049hrs...No call as yet. 2105hrs...The call. Done deal. Velence...July 24th 2008. Daylight Savings time. 0834hrs...It was 0245hrs this morning that I was outside. I surveyed the scene. At one point I noticed that there was a light showing from within the house house. As I continued to look...the light began to move around...and looked to me to be the beam of a strong flashlight. Few times the beam shown directly in my direction...and I could then see that it was one of those multi LED lights. At one point the light went off. I thought about calling the constabulary...but in the end...didn’t. Back to bed. 0630hrs...I’m up and about...and am soon outside again. There was a slight drizzle...as I looked up and down the street...Kemping...and at the Boathouse house...thinking about what I’d seen earlier...and wondering if I should have called it in. With my mind thus occupied...I heard the sound of a car approaching from the west...and because I have a good view in that direction...I see the car...driving very...very...slowly...in the distance. Strange I thought...as I continued to watch it approach. It was in fact a police car...two occupants...both male...in front. I convinced myself that they were looking for something. Eventually the car passed in front of me and disappeared to the east. I thought that one of the occupants looked in my direction...but I could have been mistaken. I mentally connected the two events...that light in the night...and the car. It was just as I was clearing my mind...that I notice an odd shape on the grass close to the fence of the inner compound...near the shed that had been moved from the site of the Boathouse house about a month ago. As I continued to look...the shape moved...and I made it out to be that of a large brown dog. The odd thing was that it had been raining a bit...and the dog was out in the open. Ok...fine. I then thought back to the slow moving police car...and thought that it made more sense if they had been looking for a dog. Call it in or not...was the question again? I came inside and made the call. They would look into it...ok. I go back outside to see how things develop...thinking...wrongly...that it should not be that long a wait. Time passes...and I rehearse my story. The decision to make the call was made easier in that I would have the opportunity to mention the light in the night also. I know that for most of you...this is no big deal...but here in the village this is gripping stuff....gripping I say. 0912hrs...Phone...looking for Istvan. 0913hrs...Phone...same as above...par. I am expecting a call from Jutka...though. Anyway...there I was...thinking...when the dog gets up...and moves off. I notice that it is limping slightly...but heads west and eventually takes a left turn around the last house of three and disappears from view. Gads...I now have to revise my rehearsed story...ending with the fact the that dog is...no longer in sight. Time passes. Then...just about the same time that someone is exiting the last house...I get a glimpse of the dog. Ok...back on track...or so I thought...because just then I spot two other dogs! These are the same ones...the German Shepard and the NDWD...the pals. The person drives off...and the brown dog now seeing the other two...wants to make friends with them. It’s seems to be no big deal...and soon the three head for the greater perimeter fence...though as I watch I think that there will be a problem for them getting out. The brown dog keeps its distance but the others are not threatening. I lost sight of the NDWD...but soon I see that it’s managed to get through...or more like under the fence...and looks back to see if the Shepard is following or not. The next one to get out is the brown dog...interesting I thought. Soon the Shepard is out also...and three buddies are heading west...where I again lost sight of them. Damn...a whole new story. I failed to mention that I had taken photos. Time passes. I decide to hit the shower. Later I’m back out there again...and soon spot the three dogs on this side of the street. More photo...and another change in the story as to where last seen. A bit later...I hear a car approaching from the east...a police car...wow...and it turns right into the main gate. I mean it turned left to get to where it was going...but right as in straight away...no...not straight as in straight...straight as in now...no delay. I remember thinking...ok...this is regarding the lights in the night...and the car will stop just there...not. The car kept going and was out of sight. Later I spot the constable by the far house...the Mediterranean... 0947hrs...Phone...Anci...misdialed. ...now thinking that he was looking for "my" dog. About ten minutes later the cars drives out the gate and turns right...east...where I’d just seen the NDWD...alone. I didn’t mean to say that the car drove out the gate by itself...it was being driven...as in there was a driver behind the wheel...though having said that...I didn’t actually see a driver. So there we have it...the start of another thrilling day in the village. 1002hrs...It’s overcast. I have been putting bread out for the birds. 1010hrs...I was about to get more bread and as I passed the phone it rang...Cila...papers for car...will give to Jutka...is coming...now. Just enough time to get dressed...just. Here and gone...She’d had her hair done. So I will not get a call from Jutka after all...I guess. Have done the bread thing. Lots of new mouths to feed I see. 1951hrs...Have been reading online stuff. DNA migrations etc. 1958hrs...Phone Anci. Coming here. 2112hrs...Anci has just left. Velence...July 25th 2008. Daylight Savings time. 0740hrs...Up since 0700hrs...Rough night. Istvan’s out there unloading the trailer of birch wood... 0820hrs...Well...it’s on for today...not Saturday and Sunday as I’d thought. So I will be picked up by Anci around noon or a bit earlier and taken to Bela/Sari’s...to await Dori. Take a few frames...and then later...off for the civil ceremony with perhaps thirty in attendance subject to upward adjustment for those officially uninvited onlookers. It’s not raining now...but I will have a better idea once I look at the sat shots. 1203hrs...I had to call Anci to bring over two suitcases from her garage. She finally arrived...after I’d hear from Istvan that she was at Cila’s. I did in fact find cloths to wear. As it now stands...I will be waiting for Pityu to call...and then he will bring the car around. This will be sometime just before 1500hrs. My gear is all ready to go. The sun has been out...but based on the sat photos...it will become overcast again...and there is now wind out of the northeast. It’s an anticyclone. And from the look of it...there may be rain. I may still be here at 1430hrs...so I can take another look at the sat shots. Rather academic...given that there is no backup plan for anything. If it rains...it rains. 1412hrs...Call...Cila...Pityu on his way....It’s show time. 1935hrs...Back since before 1800hrs. 2102hrs...Well...that figures...either it was decided that they should leave the poor photographer in peace...Or the phone will ring about now...in which case I will not be happy...or they will just show up...and ditto the last. I told Dori...no go after 2100hrs. Tomorrow will be the real ordeal. The wedding. We were lucky today with the weather...though it was muggy. Tomorrow things will take a whole lot longer...most of it inside...ending in the early morning. Not my idea of a good time. Velence...July 26th 2008. Daylight Savings time. 0608hrs...Up for 30 mins. Coffee outside. Some blue sky...but I will need to look at the sat shots later. 1202hrs...Dori and crew have just left. At 1130hrs I had called over to Cila’s to find out what the status was. She said that Dori had just called and that Pityu was to go there right then...and that they would be coming to see yesterdays photos. As usual...I was the last to know. They got here and I did a show and tell...it went well. They are now going back to change...and should be back here in about 35 mins I figure...perhaps later. Then we will go to a village over...(better location) to take more photos this time in full wedding gear. As of right now it’s overcast...which is fine by me. I took some time earlier to nail down my flash setting for both cameras...which I should have done long before...duh. Done deal...I hope. Dori had in fact called Cila last night about coming here...but considering the time...Cila told her...NO WAY. Thanks. 1240hrs... Velence...July 27th 2008. Daylight Savings time. 0301hrs...Back for a bit but not more. Long day. Close to 900 frames shot. I will not down load them now....better believe it! More later. 0909hrs...Up an’ at ‘um. Doing a cup. It’s sunny...blue sky. 1406hrs...Just finished transferring all 958 frames onto this machine...and have turned all the vertical shots. Tossed a number of frames as out of focus...or otherwise defective. I will now set it aside...having looked at then. Some really nice shots. I need to add the frames taken the day before for a final total frame count. I’d gone back to bed...and got up at 1200hrs. It’s sunny and HOT! 1735hrs...Have been picking up. Camera’s on the rights lenses...finding lens caps. 1756hrs..."Getting hungry out." Don’t know if there will be a call today or not. There was plenty of food last night/morning...but I hardly ate. As it was...one of my favorites was on the menu...BUT...before it arrived I was called into action...as CAMERAMAN...and did the deed...and by the time I got back it was cold...but I partook of it anyway. Would have been great had it been hot...anyway...while thus engaged...and just before that last bit...I was called away again. I was there for the next course...but had only a small amount. Ok fine...Jagger has not called me to direct him onstage...you know...a few new moves as it were. I had taken a look at the noon sat shot...and said to myself that...it didn’t look too bad...scattered clouds...in an even pattern...nothing to get excited about. I was back in bed at the time when I thought I’d heard thunder. When it rains...there is a distinctive sound that it make as it falls down the large drain pipes...AND I was hearing that too....gads. I looked through gaps in the curtains...and could see a hell of a wind blowing. Up...I stepped outside. Sure as hell...high winds...rain. There were boats out on the lake...and wondered how they were making out. But...the show was short lived. I thought that it was good thing I didn’t tell anyone about my analysis of the weather...as in no big deal. 1817hrs...No call yet. 1825hrs...THE CALL! 1002hrs...I’m back. More later. Velence...July 28th 2008. Daylight Savings time. 0541hrs...Did coffee out on the balcony. Caught Istvan heading for work. Told me that Pityu was getting ready to do some fishing. A bit later an old man came by on a bike...with fishing gear. Parked the bike...and introduced himself...a name that Pityu had mentioned yesterday...as a relative. We chatted while waiting for Pityu...finally he went back to see if in fact Pityu was ready to go...and a few minutes later they reappeared...and headed for the lake shore. There is color in this morning sunrise. Last night I got the call...as I mentioned above...and had dinner....it was good. Went outside and chatted. Mostly it had to do with replaying the wedding...expressing opinions about it. Pityu and Istvan had a number of complaints...and Cila for that matter...too. Then Sari showed up with three of her girls. They’d brought over the leftover pastries and I was given two containers...which I brought back here right away. I sprayed myself with insect repellant and went back. By the time I got there...they had moved inside. The hot opinions continued. It was an interesting scene. A call came...and Sari and crew had to leave...and did. We moved back outside...and continued the discussion. Got back here about 2200hrs. I am to do a show and tell later today of the photos...for them. 0948hrs...Have copied onto a PenDrive all the photos...and am now creating thumbnails on the laptop. From the look of it...this may take some time. Gads...it now at a blistering 20%...takes my breath away. Picking up...roughly where I left the "Test". I stopped when I realized that having gotten to that point...I was already proving my ultimate hypothesis...which I have not divulged as yet. Our "Hero" might just as well give up...because he would not be able to "complete" the "Mission"! So...I need to give him some help. Ok fine...but how and how much...and over what time? As I see it now...the "Test" needs to be...in a lifetime...our "Heroes". Strong stuff...I know! Ok fine...I thought about just tossing a whole bunch of people overboard and letting them swim for shore. But then I ask...how many...and what range of ages? I mean...will I be including children? Or...just singles? Then there is the question of whether they know the "Mission"...or not. They would be volunteers...I’m pretty sure of that...what do I tell them? The "Island" will be without infrastructure...hence what can they bring with them? No use bringing your VCR...cell phone...dishwasher...etc. The main thrust of my hypothetical scenario is one of technology...not social engineering. But...interestingly it’s a part of my "proof". I just don’t want to deal with it. The big question is whether a bunch of people can produce a technology sufficient to fulfill my mission goal in a life time? I would be giving them a huge head start by virtue of the fact that they already know that "things" CAN be done. They would just not have the tools (technology) necessary to do so. This would in some sense be like Robinson Caruso...not the one on the island and Friday...but like Robinson Caruso on Mars...the SF book I read. He knew technology...and just had to use that knowledge to in effect get off the planet. I will need to find another book...which I think was titled "Deathworld"...wherein the hero finds himself on a planet that has some knowledge of technology...and in the end uses it to send an SOS...which is then detected...and is in the end saved. This would also be similar to events at Pellucidar. 1109hrs...The last of it is now at 93%...and when it’s done I will head for the far store...just to get it out of the way. 1256hrs...Back from the chemists and the store. On my way out...I ran into Ildiko...chatted about the wedding...gossip stuff mostly. Saved by the bell...her phone went off...and she had to go. Where were we? In the story lines above...it was technology that won the day. And it’s also a fact that the requisite technology was not too advanced...but just enough...and the stories could have been written any number of ways...depending on the writers knowledge. It could be argued that high school physics and chemistry might have been enough...not much more. In my scenario...I need much more technology...and a developed infrastructure...which takes time...yes...but as I would like to demonstrate...that there has to be...motive. Why develop technology at all? Arguably...the animal life...not counting man...here on Earth has not. No need. At the same time I would say that even if one of the primates thought about life on other worlds...ah...but wait...how would it even know that there were other world...without technology? My main issue has to do with the question of the development of technology. In our case...presently the only case we can make...is one of the evolutionary progress of technology. A big deal is made of De Vinci’s insights and visions about possible applications of technology. But...they were not realized in any practical sense in his lifetime. And I would even go far as to say that he would be flabbergasted by our present technology. I mean it’s one thing to think about flight...but he didn’t really know what he was doing...IMHO! Just prior to the Wright brothers...500 years after De Vinci...powered flight...there were other that said that it could not be done...and others yet that thought it possible...but...and there is that word again...failed miserably trying. The later lacked knowledge...pure and simple...as they wallowed in self delusional empirical thinking...and experiments. 1634hrs...I wait for the call. Are there intelligent civilizations on other worlds that are not evolutionary? Are all biological entities evolutionary? Are they living in an environment that forces them to compete for limited resources? Survival of the fittest...is it? Do these entities posses enough diversity that permits a range of capabilities? Or...are they all the same...at any given time. Do they question...wonder...about their creation? Do they eventually arrive at a believe in a supreme creator entity...that also made the entire universe? Hence the question of others like themselves on other worlds...oh...there we are again...assuming sufficient technology to determine that these other worlds even exist. Are these entities fear based? Are they predatory? Can one entity do something that most of the others can not? Do they need shelter...clothing of some sort? Is their world climate such that there is not a great degree of variation? The list goes on. The point I’m trying to make is to in some way compare their world to ours. I would make a case for...if it were not for most of the above question answered...yes they do...or are...that then there would be no need for technology as we know it. No reason to develop one if there is no advantage gained. No competition. The other extreme case would be a "civilaization" that developed a mind of such magnitude...and very rapidly...that it was able to "understand it all" and made decisions that took it to whatever technology was the "known" best. I mean that there would not have the need to discover anything...no evolution was necessary as we did...stumbling along looking for what we thought "might" be there. Humorously...they would have had Polytetraflouroethylene...(PTFE)...day one! They would have gone to fiber optics...right out of the box. The meaning of life! The meaning of life as we know is nothing more than sex! Reproduction...with a few provisos. You have to be able to find a mate. Do the deed. Wait for progeny. And if needed...stay alive long enough for that progeny to survive long enough to do it all over again...in sufficient numbers. That’s it. In a semi-malevolent environment...this may or may not be a simple task...but it seems that it can be done...the proof being...us...and all the rest. So...now what? Oh...PTFE is commonly known by the trade name TEFLON. 1846hrs...And I wait for the call. This is not looking good. I want to be back here by 2100hrs...period. Cila was to have called when she’d returned from wherever it was she’d gone...but as of yet nothing...much less a time to appear. At 1000 frame at 3 seconds per...50 minutes. 1905hrs...I’ve called over...and went over...and am now taking the laptop. It’s showtime. Velence...July 29th 2008. Daylight Savings time. 0637hrs...Did coffee on the balcony. Start of a nice day. The lake is like a mirror. 1241hrs...I’m heading for the chemist’s...and the store. It’s 41°C in the sun. Velence...July 30th 2008. Daylight Savings time. 1042hrs... Up since 0500hrs. I set up my "tent" to shield me from the morning sun...but have now come inside...and will later reposition it as the sun moves...or more correctly...the earth turns. Well...I think I am close to a possible scenario regarding the origin of "Tuba"...the name. Yes...I know what you’re all thinking..."there he goes again"...but one has to start somewhere...and then try to shoot it down. 2055hrs...Have been online reading most of the afternoon. Velence...July 31st 2008. Daylight Savings time. 0555hrs...Up since 0500hrs. The usual. 1234hrs...Have been back for a bit. Jutka had call just as I was shaving...store...ok...15 mins...ok. Done deal. It's hot out there. Had an interesting dream this morning. I was up at 0500hrs...coffee etc...and then went back to bed. The dream...I not don’t remember the details...but I was awake...and went over it a few times. Yesterday...Istvan was out there whacking the grass...when Judit arrived with Bernadette’s girls on their way back from swimming. Passed the word that the photos were now viewable. The ball is in their court as to day and time. 1724hrs...More readings. Time to go online methinks. Pardon my back. Velence...August 1st 2008. Daylight Savings time. 1035hrs...Yesterday just before 1800hrs...Cila drops in. Soon Istvan is here too. The word was that I should be expecting one of Anci’s girls to pick me up for another show and tell. Ok I says...but are we absolutely sure of this...since I had not heard a word of it till then? Cila volunteered to call over to get the straight dope...and so it came to pass. It went well and I was back here by 2100hrs. I had them transfer all the photos onto their machine...so I will not have to do an S&T again. It’s mostly cloudy as I write. There will be a partial solar eclipse starting in 30 mins. If the cloud cover persists I may get a shot off without filters. More reading this morning. My thoughts are again back to the question of how a language originates. 1054hrs...I’ve mounted the MTO1000mm onto the big Slik...and attached the D200. ISO it set at 100. I wait. 1116hrs...Corrected UTC...The eclipse has stared...but I will wait. 1134hrs...No go...on the photo. Gads...it rhymes! Too bright though I did take a now dismounted red and blue filter from a stereo viewer that knocked the light down far enough to see with my eyes. No big deal. Velence...August 2nd 2008 Daylight Savings time. 1019hrs...Last night was a good pass for the ISS...and at 2117hrs...I blasted away at it. Not bad...but looking at the images this morning...I think I have better ones. Got an email from Bill...yesterday...and I answered it. About my "stuff". This whole matter pisses me off in as much as having lost control. Another case of no real good options. 1942hrs...The winds have picked up! Been reading mostly...and thinking. I have also looked at the photos taken in Seattle of my gear...and from the look of it...there are but a few items that I would...given a choice...like to have shipped over. There are at Bill’s a number of boxes also that I will need to have him go through. Velence...August 3rd 2008. Daylight Savings time. 1216hrs...Just back from the far store. Earlier I had a call from Jutka...lunch...ok...1300hrs...ok...show and tell re the wedding photos...ok. It’s hot out there! Early this morning I read outside when it was still cool...and later built a solar blast shield to increase my time out there...but now it’s useless. 1817hrs...Have been back for some time. As soon as I was back from Jutka’s...I took the bike over to Pityu’s. Cila and Istvan are gone for a week...so it’s just Pityu and I...and the Puli...Jimmy. I was there to inflate the tires. Niki showed up and Pityu and took her up to the Tuba Cellar. I stayed behind saving Pityu having to lockup. Jutka says that she is...just plain A...blood type...and Pityu doesn’t know his...by heart. That leaves Cila and Bela...and Anci. I was hoping to hit A+ on all of them...so unless Jutka is wrong...I may be heading nowhere...with this line of attack. Velence...August 4th 2008. Daylight Savings time. 1233hrs...I’d left my blast shield up overnight...and used it to effect this morning...reading SciAm...1956. I was up early enough but it went down hill after the winds picked up out there...forcing me to stop my readings. I am now going online to send an email to Steve Swift and company for help if possible re my stuff in Oregon. Velence...August 5th 2008. Daylight Savings time. 0737hrs...Last night we had high winds, rain and lightning. Jutka had called as planned from Pityu’s...and took over some papers regarding my car. Dark clouds were already visible...and she soon took off for home to beat the storm. Pityu and I stayed outside by gate one with Jimmy...and watched the show. When it started to rain I came back here...and watched the lightning from the balcony. 1310hrs...Have spent most of my time outside reading. It’s rained a bit...now and then...but I stayed. 2034hrs...I’ve finished reading SciAm...but I may go back to pick up some subjects that I’d passed over the first time through. It’s fascinating to see what was "hot" and what was not in 1956. Names that I recognized. Subject that were now "old technologies". Some discoveries that I’d not know about at the time. 1956...I would have been in the sixth grade...the last year of grade school...John Muir it was. The next year...Sputnik would be launched...and the world changed forever. In 1956...there was a revolution here in HU Land...and many left the country...and would be called ’56ers thereafter. Forty-two years ago...gads...a veritable lifetime. Jutka had called earlier...about tomorrows schedule. But it would turn out that because of her oppointment time...and the fact that I was not really needed there...to submit a document for translation...it was decided that I would not be going to Fehervar with her. Velence...August 6th 2008. Daylight Savings time. 1246hrs...Was up at 0300hrs. I stepped out for the usual...and noted the clear sky...filled with stars. I came in but soon went out the side door...and out into the yard...where there was no extraneous light. All the stars were where they should have been. At one point I saw a satelitte...then a meteor...then another satelitte...and then a third...but this one was different in that it was brighter than the others...and then it flared! I chuckled...it was an Iridium flare. I then decided to do some astrophotography. I mounted the D 200 onto the small Slik...spelled Slick at the time...and mounted my Nikkor 50 1 4 onto the D 200. Back outside I blasted a few frames. I came back in at 0410hrs and went to bed. I was back up at 0630hrs...and after reading outside over coffee I hit the shower. I had planned to hit the doctors office to get a perscription...like the last time...but it was no joy. I was told to come back later...which I did...and took it right over to the chemists. I hit the store...(far)...and as I was coming out...I saw Agnes across the street watering the grass. I crossed over...with the intent of explaining a few details about the layout of the folders that contained my photos of the wedding. Then while I was still outside the compound...Bela appeared. Well...that did it...I was invited in. Yesterday around 1830hrs...caught Istvan returning from his (ailing) mothers house...pulling a lawn mower. We chatted...and he asked if I had noticed a couple heading for Pityu’s. No...I hadn’t...but I was not out there that often...hence could have missed them. A bit later I notice a young couple crossing the street...Kemping. The next thing I know...I’m doing a show and tell with my photographs...at Istvan’s urging. Done deal. Velence...August 14th 2008. Daylight Savings time. 0856hrs...Up at 0630hrs...back to bed. It was overcast and cool...but now it’s clearing and getting warmer. I had thought about hitting Anci’s ...do a little searching...then Jutka for my Internet bill...and the far store...and the chemist’s...all while it was cool. Last night I took out the Celestron C8...mounted on the big Slik. Took some test shots...the Moon and Jupiter...using "mirror lockup". 1655hrs...Back for some time...Ended up getting lunch at Jutka’s...making me late to pay the bill...will do so tomorrow. Velence...August 15th 2008. Daylight Savings time. 0847hrs...Up at 0800hrs. It’s hazy...and I think that it will be another hot day. 1552hrs...Did my bill and the store. Hot as hell out there. On the big "O" front...the Magyar women’s handball is not going well against the Russians...now 30-20! Damn...I say as of now...it’s over for the girls. Too many errors...now 31-21...5 mins left. 32-22...ok...32-23...3 mins...time called. The Russian coach yells at his team. 2 mins...33-23...not good...33-24...1 min...30 seconds...DONE DEAL. 1937hrs...Waiting for the winds to come. The strobes are at max rate...and there is a small spider madly making a web...which I will need to destroy if I’m to bring in my solar blast shield...the blanket that I had draped across two poles that are tied to the rails. I will wait until it starts to rain. 2018hrs...Houston...we have wind! Now we wait for the rain. The wind saved me from destroying the spider’s wed...it was gone with the first strong gust. 2032hrs...The wind continues nicely...but "where’s the beef?". 2106hrs...Still no major action. But it’s on the strange side. The clouds are wrong...the Moon is showing...some stars too. Not good...plus no lightning as yet. Velence...August 16th 2008. Daylight Savings time. 0806hrs...I was up at 0508hrs...and checked out the weather situation over coffee out on the balcony. It was overcast and windy...but nothing exciting. 0913hrs...A few drops of rain. I will now head over to Anci’s for a bit of scrounging. 1509hrs...Damn bizaar! I got back and fired off this computer...and it failed to boot. Why it’s working now I don’t know. Anyway...I found the "missing" negatives...or at least some of them. Also a lens I was looking for. 2120hrs...Set up for the lunar eclipse. Velence...August 17th 2008. Daylight Savings time. 0800hrs...The eclipse shots went well. Yesterday I also found the third 1.4X extender...and I took a few test shots...and also this morning...with mirror lock-up. It’s mostly clear and cool. Phelps got his 8th Gold. I have not gotten a response from Steve Swift! I should answer Rick Chinn’s...perhaps he would be interested in making a run to Portland. For that matter have not heard the latest from Bill. The real-estate market is massively down...good if you’re buying...but Bill and Mary Lou will be doing both. Velence...August 18th 2008. Daylight Savings time. 1545hrs...Have been scanning 35mm negatives that I’d found the other day. I had another major glitch with this computer...yesterday while scanning...and I did some backups this morning. It seems to be working right now. Velence...August 19th 2008. Daylight Savings time. 1051hrs...Still a bit gun shy about this machine...expecting it to fail any time. 1724hrs...It’s been another slow day in the neighborhood boys and girls. Velence...August 20th 2008. Daylight Savings time. 1214hrs...Up and outside with a cup at 0500hrs. Heard a noise at the side of the house...and the sound of clawed feet in the rain gutter. When I looked up...it looked to be the tail of a squirrel. It had what looked to be a walnut in its mouth. A bit later I finally decided that I should grab a camera and did. Prior to waking up this computer I thought about the squirrel when it dawned on me to see when it was last year that I saw a squirrel. WELL NOW...WAIT for IT...It was on the 19th of August 2007! Had a call this morning...Jutka...lunch...1330hrs...ok. Cila and Istvan...and Pityu invited also. I’m taking Jutka ten glass jars...and returning a few items that had contained food at one time. Today is celebration day...Hungary’s birthday. Watching the big "O". Get this. Ping-pong...HU verses USA...fair enough...but...the US player is Chinese. Who to root for? Who do the Chinese root for? 1236hrs...USA took the match. Velence...August 21st 2008. Daylight Savings time. 0853hrs...Up at 0400hrs. 1945hrs...Ok fine! I’m burned out scanning...as in all day! Time to go online. Pardon my back. The "squirrel" turns out not to be one...based on two photos. 2014hrs...Done deal re internet. Velence...August 22nd 2008. Daylight Savings time. 1056hrs...Up at 0500hrs...but went back to bed. It’s now clouding up. Back to scanning negatives. 1221hrs...Hungary verses Montenegro in Men’s Water Polo...just started...1...1...now 2...1...us. 1322hrs...Less than two mins to go...10...9...HU! WOW!!!!! 1 min...11...9!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Time out! 1 min...4 seconds. 54 sec...we have the ball...40...34...shoot miss...25...we have the ball...and now ...5...3...GAME...HU WINS! It’s now Serbia or USA in the final for the gold! 1613hrs...Calling it a day...scanning...but I’m at the end of this last find. There are still some negatives missing. 1618hrs...USA verses Serbia is now...with 6 mins left...at 7...5...USA. At 4 mins...8...5...USA. At 3 mins...9...5...USA. At 2 mins...10...5...USA. At 1 min...10...5...USA. Done deal at zero! Hungary verses USA it is...tomorrow I guess. 1711hrs...No...it’s on Sunday...along with Basketball. 1958hrs...It was a month or two ago that I was on a web site that had photographs of some of the house from the old neighborhood...Mt. Baker area. I was looking through some of my downloaded images and came across one of a house on the southwest corner of Walker and 31st Avenue South. The east of 31st South, Walker becomes Dose Terrace. This house is interesting...in that it is not there now. Another house is in it’s place. The most interesting thing about the house is that it looks very similar to our house on 32nd Avenue. How can that be? Well...given that I only have that one photograph to go with...and a bit of thinking...the story might be this...or at least the way I think it went. Houses were being built on Dose Terrace...one would become the Dose house...and a house was built for another member of the Dose family on 31st Avenue South. That house was just across the street...kitty-corner actually...from the Dose sales office...and would have been handy as a "show and tell"...for prospective buyers. But...my guess is that since that location offered no view...another location needed to be found. It then follows that one house was dismantled...and with a bit of redesign...reconstructed as "our" house. Later...another house would be built on the old lot...but nothing as grand as the original. Velence...August 22nd 2008. Daylight Savings time. 0737hrs...Up since 0700hrs...Did the usual outside. In 6 mins of play...HU over Korea in Women’s Handball...6...2. 0757hrs...At 24 mins...12...11...HU. The girls are playing well. At 27 mins...14...12...HU. At the half...15...13...HU! 0836hrs...At 19 mins into the second half...26...26! This is for the Bronze Medal. 0843hrs...The Russian officiating is despicable! This is no longer "sport"! At 27 mins...I say it’s over! A real piece of shit! Two mins to go! 33...27...Korea. One min...33...28...Time out. OVER! Sad...really. 1014hrs...Out of the shower. It’s an overcast day so far. The temperature is comfortable...and windy. Thinking about my latest scanned negatives. Samantha, Debbie, Jan, Perk, Glenda, Denise, Dorle, Maloney, Bonnie, Morlene, Carol, Sandi, Katy, Linda, Alexandra and even frames of Carolyn B. Interestingly...I was not able to ID her from just looking at the negatives. 1044hrs...Phone...Anci...grub...1500hrs...ok. Now...this will be a chance to do some digging through my stuff while there...and it’s cool...so that will be good too. Velence...August 24th 2008. Daylight Savings time. 1043hrs...Up at 0700hrs...USA verses HU...Men’s Water Polo in the fourth quarter...13...9...HU! At two mins 16 seconds...HU leads by six goals...14...9! 1048hrs...14...10...At one min...time out. HU team playing very well...the US team is not. HU with the ball...Lost the ball against the clock...24 seconds....HU WINS the Olympic GOLD! USA basketball...results not know...for the gold...as yet. Yesterday I arrived at Anci’s about 1400hrs...against an "eat" at 1500hrs. This was not to be the case...and ended up closer to 1700hrs. There were about 25 guests. There was a lot of heated talk about placement of tables...in or out of the sun...etc. There was more about the cooking. In the end the sun was a moot point...since the clouds thickened up....and in fact it became quite cool...such that sweaters appeared...including one for myself. The tables had been set up in such a way that at one place there was a tight spot between them and a water facet...such that anyone...trying to squeeze through...stood a 100% chance of turning the facet lever to the full open position...AND getting drenched in the process. Istvan was first...fallowed by two more. I made a note of this...for all the good it would do me. Hence some time later...I became the fourth! I took a bow...and my...now...three equally talented compatriots came forward and shook my hand. I decided to forgo an acceptance sheech. Then the wind picked up massively. The clan pulled together...and the set was torn down...and we retired inside. Then while upstairs watching Dori’s honeymoon photos...the lightning started. I went down stairs to bring in a bag that contained four boxes of my photographs so as not to get wet. I discovered that it had been rescued earlier...and was safe. It was then that the rain hit hard. It was close to 2100hrs that there was a gap in the downpour...that I made my break. My timing was good and I got back here without drama. Soon I was out on the balcony taking photos of the lightning...and some looked good. 1203hrs...Phone...Cila...lunch at Anci’s...ok...ten mins. 1530hrs...Back since 1500hrs. We had yesterdays leftover stew. It was not ten mins but longer as I watched the USA verses Spain basketball...though I knew that the USA won. Tight game it was. Just looked at my lightning shots from last night. Velence...August 25th 2008. Daylight Savings time. 0711hrs...Did a cup outside. Today I will be going to Fehervar with Jutka...around 1330hrs. 1106hrs...Just out of the shower. 1321hrs...I’m ready to go...and I wait for Jutka to call...assuming that she will in fact do so. Oh...the word is that we will be harvesting the grapes in three weeks. This years crop is expected to be large...and hence I’m pushing for an early start. It will be on a Saturday...making it the 13th of September. 1839hrs...Back since about 1800hrs. Still need to go back to yet an other place Wednesday. We ended up doing some shopping also...which went well enough but then went downhill. I ended up waiting for her for what must have been 30 mins...given that she walked through the bloody store...TWICE...looking for me...this being the first time ever that she was done shopping before me. I told her to never try to find me again...since the odds were well against success. She can get lost in no time flat...so how could she possible think that she could have found me...plus the fact that if she...just missed me...I could have checked out long before she ever started the second round. Then...backing up...There we were done doing the paperwork...but not before I went to check to ask if we were still in the system...and found that we were not. Later...we headed back to her car. She wanted to use the "ladies" and wanted to give me the keys to her car. We stood there for an eternity as she searched her purse. NOT THERE! Backing up some more. When we arrived at the rooftop parking floor...she found a place about as far as one could from the main entry to the mall below. Fair enough...because I thought it logical given that we didn’t want to go to the mall...but in the opposite direction. Good so far...but she determined that there was in fact no way down to the street...we hence had to walk to the far end...having park the as far as possible you must remember...down the escalator...walk the full length of the mall...and into daylight at last. It’s then that I make a note of the fact that there were in fact two elevators placed there on purpose so that people could get to said street level...and get this...without having to walk all over the parking lot and then the full length of the aforementioned mall! I point out their existence to Jutka. So there we...that is to say I watched with ever growing realization that we may well end up walking all the way back here (Velence)...making the mall excursion seem like a lark. So it was...I headed for the aforementioned elevators and hit the button with every expectation of its swift arrival. I was not disappointed. As the door closed...on the OTIS...I tried to picture in my mind...arriving at her parked car...and finding the key still dangling from the door lock. This turned out not to be the case. Noting for it but to wait for Jutka to arrive...having left her on the street rummaging her purse. I wait. I look in both direction...no not at the same time...but alternately...you know...first one way...and then the other. I wait...and I wait...I mean how long could it have taken her to get from where I’d left her...and the two elevators mentioned above. WELL forever...if you don’t take said elevator...but walk the full length of the mall...up the escalator...out the door...and walk back as far as it was possible to park a car. I was able to see her hands at one point...no not where her hands were at one point...but...that I was able to see them...as in clear of obstructions...yes that point...anyway...I saw nothing in her right hand...and NO indication of forlorn on her face. Once she was close enough, reality struck. She’d found her keys...like so, so many other times...in the last place she looked. I never asked as to why she didn’t use the you know what. Velence...August 26th 2008. Daylight Savings time. 0756hrs...Up since before 0700hrs...coffee out on the balcony. My adopted kitten showed up...fed same. 1848hrs...Lajos has just left. He was here to return my vegetable peeler...and to show me an article about the culling of Mustangs in America. He felt sorry for the horses...fair enough. My "kitten"...without a name...is getting quite friendly...and now purrs when I feed it. I say it...because I have as yet not sexed it. Velence...August 27th 2008. Daylight Savings time. 0850hrs...Woke up at 0500hrs...did a cup outside, came in...set the alarm for 0830hrs and went back to bed. Woke again at 0730hrs. Just showered. Called Jutka last night...we’re on for 1030hrs...for another trip into Fehervar. 2046hrs...The last two days have not been Jutka’s best. The other day we went into Fehervar to pick up a translated document. She was the one that took the document there in the first place...hence she had some idea as to the additional monies that were to be pay on receipt. We arrived at the place...and she went in alone because I was not really needed. So I waited...and waited. I could not imagine what could be taking so long...so I went in...to find Jutka...restating for what I was sure for the tenth time...the outrageous fee (5,000HUF.) given that the original document was in fact quite short...(less than a quarter page) but they managed to stretch it out to page and a quarter...naturally double spaced...and charged accordingly. I had given Jutka 10,000HUF...as "gas" money...which she staved off...but took it...stating that she would pay the bill from it...(keeping the rest). The bill came to 5,000HUF...taking more than half of what she expected to retain. Then today...we took a document to another place...and parked the car. There were 20 people ahead of us...so time dragged. At one point Jutka decided to hit the "ladies"...and when she returned...indicated that the parking area we had parked in was metered...and we had not seen the pay in terminal. She rushed out...but it was too late. Once done...we head out to the car...and I handed her 5,000HUF...against the 2,000-3,000HUF she figured it would cost. Cutting to the chase...the citation amounted to...you guessed it...5,000HUF...which she thought was in fact highway robbery. Velence...August 28th 2008. Daylight Savings time. 1030hrs...I was up at 0430hrs...did a cup outside...and back to bed. Woke up at 0730hrs. Tried to fire off this computer but it failed. I just now pulled the plug on it...and seems to be working again. Not a good sign. 1119hrs...The research and readings continue. It’s becoming clear that there is not an easy nor simple answer to my questions. There is no such thing as ethnic purity...nor an origin of language. This in the sense that one can trace back to a time and place where "a" given language started. Again...it’s just not that simple. I must then ask..."What is it that I had hoped to find?" Well...exactly as stated above...origin and ethnicity. Most writers on the subject show a bias. Much of what is written...on the internet...is loaded with nationalistic fervor...and for the most part totally useless...in as much as the parties take sides on all issues...and in some cases...given time...they freely state their case differently...without conscience...nor consequence. Some serious writers spend some of their energy haranguing other authors. I must continue to remember that it is now...most probably...not possible to separate ethnicity...language...and the DNA evidence in order to create a clear enough picture...to everyone’s satisfaction. 1446hrs...I now have two kittens without names. Velence...August 29th 2008. Daylight Savings time. 0810hrs...Up at 0400hrs...Coffee...the usual...and back to bed. Up again at 0732hrs. Fed both kittens. 0929hrs...Well now...Mom comes to eat here too! 1556hrs...Just back from the close store. Have spent the last four hours online reading. When I first got here I needed some UK to Continent power plug adapters. I had bought four while in UK Land...knowing that I would need them. I remember packing them in a small box. Needless to say...I was unable to locate them at the time...and had to buy some here. Time passes...like over a year. I was at Anci’s garage the other day...as I stated above...and found a lens I’d wanted...and in the same box found my Sigma APO 1.4X extender in a pouch...and brought it back also. Above I stated that I had found a "third" extender...meaning the Sigma...but not matching it up with the box that had been here for some time. I had mounted up the Sigma to my Nikkor 300 2 8 and had been using it! I thought nothing of it at the time...but the other day I decided to open the box..."the" small box! You guessed it...there they were...four adapters...just where I’d put them over a year ago. I’m still looking for the power cube for the AOR-3000. 1812hrs...As of the other day...I now have three official documents...in the form of cards. Who I am...Where I am...and a Tax ID. That leaves the car registration...of which the last translated document was mailed in. I have a feeling though...that I have not heard the end of it. Then there will be the matter of insurance. Velence...August 30th 2008. Daylight Savings time. 0802hrs...Up before 0400hrs...did half the cup on the balcony...and the rest out back looking at the stars. They were all there. I saw two satellites...and a meteor. Went back to bed at 0421hrs...woke up at 0700hrs. Have fed the first kitten without a name...which I think is a female. Yesterday while sitting on the lowest step...she caught her reflection in the garage window...and seemed stupefied by it. 1657hrs...Have been online and reading all day. Getting close! Random thought: Re the Khazars: It would be like saying that at the height of the Roman Empire..."they"...some of the ruling class...converted to Ferengi...and hence now referred to as the great Ferengi Empire. Chicken and egg kind of deal if you ask me. But seems to suite the Ferengi just fine. Anyway...About 8000BC marker M17...the infamous mutation R1a1 appeared in the Y chromosome...in or about the area of present day Moscow, Russia...and seems to have headed east...toward Abakan! Some 1500-5000 years later...a language appeared...Turkic. This happens to be about the same time as the emergence of Magyar. Turkic and Magyar being part of the same source language group. Those Turkic speaking peoples spread throughout Asia...and over time...morphed into a number of tribes with their own dialects...which indicates a period of time during which they were in relative isolation. One such tribe/dialect was TUBA. This tribe had roots in the area of the Ob River...in central Asia. As I’ve state earlier...there are rivers and villages with the name TUBA within the logical area. My hypothesis is that my surname came from that tribe/dialect...known as TUBA. That was the easy part! I must now attempt to get my Turkic speaking ancestor from the Ob River all the way to present day Hungary...and teach him the Magyar language along the way. One hypothesis...is that he made his way into Khazar territory...AND...was in one of a group of Khazar (Turkic speaker)...that joined with Arpad and his Magyars heading for the Carpathian Basin. Second hypothesis...is that he was swept up by the Magyars...and in the process became a Magyar...but kept his tribal name TUBA in memory...and went with Arpad and his Magyars heading for the Carpathian Basin. Third hypothesis...is that he was swept up by Genghis Khan’s hoard...as a "Turk"...reached the Basin...and remained in the Carpathian Basin when the hoard retreated...in...1242AD...and took up life as a Magyar...and again kept his tribal name TUBA in memory. This last scenario is most interesting because there is one problem that has had me pondering. How long is it possible to "remember" an old tribal name? If there were some scenario that shortened the time to a handful of generation only...then I see no problems...AND coming with Genghis Khan’s hoard as late as he did...takes care of that also. In about 1350AD citizens of Hungary were required to indicate a surname...hence the need to remember. There is also the fact that there is a reference to to a TUBA dated 1224AD...which is prior to the Mongol invasion! There is another problem! Khazars and for that matter Arpad are surmised to have been...M17 (R1a1)! What this means is that I don’t need to worry about get M17 (R1a1) to Hungary. Break...Break. When I first researched R1a1 I was heartened to see in print that some 60% of Hungarians had it. Then I came across another source that stated the figure was only(!) 20%. I thought about this for a long time...and came to the conclusion that the discrepancy must have to do with sample size and selection. I was right as it turns out. Interestingly...I was happy about the 60%...for awhile...But now...if the last figure is in fact closer to reality...the 20% should make my happier yet...I think. Velence...August 31st 2008. Daylight Savings time. 0509hrs...I woke up about an hour ago to the sounds of many voices outside on Kemping...but I didn’t bother to take a look. Now of course the voices are gone. 0547hrs...Going back to bed. 1037hrs...Got up at 0900hrs. Have showered and shaved. Found a few pages floating about and read them outside...though I had to erect my solar blast shield. It’s on the cool side but hot in the sun. Oh...I had found my high density filter that I use for looking at the sun...and select out two number 12’s to keep at hand should the need arise. There are currently no sunspots. Oh...I did take a few frames with one. Not bad. I plan to do a major cleanup of the area today. The place looks like a disaster.
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