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was getting too cold and was on my way to
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So I calculated that I don't have enough cash to make it
reliably to
I may stay here for about a month, after which the options are as follows: (1) I've saved up enough gas cash and barrel down to the warmth in southern Italy; (2) I work out a deal with a friend in eatern Bulgaria, using his address I get high speed and cheap internet through my mobile, stay in his house over the winter once he leaves after Christmas, perhaps help him with a bit of reconstruction in exchange for some exercise, food and a bit of cash, and then during the summer I have the option to take my highspeed internet and cruise up the Black Sea coast. Of course, based on how things have been fluctuating recently, an intriguing (3) is certainly also possible!
Happy living like a king, and keeping it crisp, heh heh.
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not sure if I wrote to you yet? He doesn't necessarily pay much. YOu got any previous construction skills?
I met Charles Dow Thomson
(Charlie) in the apartment I am staying in. My name is John Ovesen, 28 years
old, Swedish and Norwegian (father) and Polish (Mother) but I am a born American
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so you're building
camper vans in
Yah, Misha was in
Roger will be back in about a week and then we'll talk, but I already wrote him that I don't hold anything against him. I understand his situation, but he should reprimand or scold him in some way, cause as a foreman he has to accept more responsibility and cant get stupid aggressive drunk like that with his coworkers.
Sends some pics of your vans! k
Hey Karel - damn, I was
wondering if you drove off the face of the earth there, your website was getting
patchy - good to see you are still rolling! I subscribed to the updated latest
generation online newsletter so I can see where you are and what's been going
on. You and Birds Eye still on talking terms after the issue with the foreman?
Cool villages and scenery for sure. Looking forward to the update chock full of
pictures. Is your
Czech friend, her name I forget sorry, still living in LA? I
remember all of us drinking a few
beers on Hermosa Pier and then she was going
to sell your van for you or something. Sounded like you hooked up over the
summer so it can't have been too bad visiting Praha.
Anyway, usual shit here,
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So here's a twist of events. Know Nicholas? The other
drunken dude that would hang with Ken a lot? Now I'm staying at his aunt's
pension for 10 lev a day. Calculated that I don't have enough gas cash yet to
make it to
Lazer is cool guy...He has many
horses,,ask him to show u them,,,he knows George...George did not give me his
email...his phone is...0359 887,,,he is waiting for my email address,,u can call
him and just say that I asked u to give it to him,,,and them mention u would
like 2 meet him,,,or not if u dont feel comfotrtable...also why not go up to
Music school and offer english speaking chat,,,many there have <english but need
practise,,,lotsa bnice students I go
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Yah, checked out
Roger should be back in about a week. Enjoying my stay here for the time being. k
as Iif I knew what you two are
talking about., but thank you for including me in your correspondence . Karel!!!
did you check up economy at
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Good luck Kajinku, youseem to be in good spirit, I hope all will be well and you happy. That is all I care about. If they want you back you can reconsider and maybe put little brakes on your pride and go half way. Up to you. I am sure they all will miss you a lot. So have a safe trip take care of yourself and your car/home (we call it now "byteckove auticko") and we all wish you al the best. xxxxxoooomamamamma
heh heh, that's a cute name.
Not sure if I'd be willing to go half way. As a foreman he has to learn some degree of responsibility, and as a "subordinate" I should not have to tolerate certain behaviour. He was totally out of line and has to realise he has an alcohol problem. Roger should tell him as well. it is not a laughing matter.
Anyway, things are nice now and we'll see what Roger says when he gets back. He's a good broker type. k
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figured as much. you gonna get
roger involved? i think you should if you want to stay. then maybe you two
meatheads can shake hands and buy each other a beer. whatever you decide, good
luck with your shit. get back to you on this other thing when i get settled in
in
A day after I sent it I realised I forgot the super synopsis - human greed will always create these bubbles, and governments will never be able to regulate enough and keep up with the multitudes who are always looking for a better life. Or the governments are bribed and in on it. Will have to write that up later when I get the time.
Wrote Roger a long email with my point of view, and in about a week he is supposed to get back and wants to sit down with me and talk about it. We'll see how that goes, but for now I've moved into a pension with toasty wooden fireplace for 5 Euro a day and I'm fairly happy. Picked up a bunch of work so things should hopefully pan out by the end of the month. latergator
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> yeh,,where punch???they are all aregent english, good riddens
ken told me later that he came back to their place, after the incident and after he trashed the truck in a horrible way. He rang their door and Ken said he looked like he just got in a mad scruffle with ten crazed and drugged up mob, with blood all over his face. Wish I would have scene it. My fat lip wasn't very visible but hung around for about a week and irritated me. When I saw him later looked like he had a decent scar under his eye. Makes me giggle, hee hee. Roger back in about a week and wants to buy me steak dinner and talk about it. Right now in this toasty pension and not complaining too much. Have a good speech prepared for Roger and something like this should not be tolerated. We'll see.
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Well, the toncilitis thing I caught in Prague was because I was drinking fairly heavily every day, the air in Prague is revolting, my immunity was therefore down, and the area is somewhat notorious for the crazy viruses that develop as a result of all the antibiotics the people there readily use. Horrible viruses all through the air. Otherwise I'd say I'm pretty resilient against the cold.
But it is sure nice to live in comfort. At least I'm maintaining my promise to myself to stay in warmth. It's a two minute walk from the pension so I'm avoiding the cold outside (still nice though), but I don't think I'll mind endulging in a bit of fluffy snow, if there's a warm stove to go to. Part of the adventure and I like the variety. k
soooooo glad yu are out of cold and maybe close to Roger when he comes back, who knows. Your own bed, that is something and warm on top of it. I was very worried about your nights in the cold, you remember your nasty cold and laringites or what it was in Praha??? you ended up at the emergency and yuo were in such pain and very sad. So glad you are sleeping in the room. How simple things make one happy. So good luck and keep writing.
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Cool truck modification action. Guess not as extensive and gumby as my home made job. Need any SEO help?
I stayed near
Yeah, right next to the kayaks
we build we build the fiberglass camper parts but we assemble them in my shop in
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Sure I'd be interested in reading the history. You can write in Czech without Czech characters and I'll translate it into English, or write it in Czechglish or how you want. Not sure if I'd be able to decipher your handwriting.
Really glad to get that first tree planting accounting software customer. Keta says I should raise my price to 2500cdn each. If I make it compatible with the industry standard, people may practically have to buy it from me against their will, cause the industry standard software charge 1500$ a year. Mine would be just a one-time charge, and it is much better for accounting purposes. What I will be offering will be very unique and useful in the industry, and it would be cool if I could sell at least ten of them. If so I would try to do the same for other industries. Much more intelligent and interesting work than translating - blah.
From Karel Gott I presume I need an official approval. Anyway, I doubt his organisation would ever stumble on my website, and if it did I could just remove it. Have done it before. Would be funny to incorporate it somewhere.
Getting colder but still lovely and sunny. Got the girl to
give me two deliveries of wood a day. Nice and toasty in there. :0) Think going
to my friend in eastern
I do not mind to be on your web
but Karel Gott may sue you. you can not pictures of famous people on diusplay
without asking. Be careful. I alse found your family history. You have things
wrong there. What "mala" Jana told you is right but you have dates and sometimes
people mixed up and sometimes wrong. If you are really interested in what was
going on I will one day when I calm down from all this mess we are in, write the
bund of stories, our very interesting runnig away from
Czech
Republic and others. People
keep asking me all the time, telling others "ask Vlasta about this and that" and
all want me to write it. Because I previously had no time and now I am our of
sorts and scared about the future I do not have piece I need for that, So just
in case yuo care to know how it went. And I do not mean how it went in
relationship wiht your father. that is nobody's business, but the trip out and
stay in
heh heh, cool pics. I suppose you would object if on my website somewhere I put the picture with you guys and Karel Gott, to show what famous parents I have? k
Ahoj just trying if I can do this. Your mama with Jana, Simona, Karel Gott, Ivo working and so on. let me know how you like it. Good luck and keep well. mamammamamamammamxxxooooo You have been sent 7 pictures.
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I tried this before but no Google Earth seems to be
working. I would suggest downloading that, and also the Google Chrome browser.
Really speeds up the internet and simplifies thing. LOVE google man. Really good
decisions they make and too bad they didn't hire me, as I applied to them in
Or you can go to Google Maps online and run a search for
Shiroka Laka
Vrbovo, where we were working on two of the projects, is
located a bit
Latitutde: 41°41'36.20"N
Longitude: 24°34'15.51"E
I gather you could punch these figures somewhere into google earth, maybe maps.
I just found a feature which said "view in google maps", and got the following web address:
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?ll=41.693388,24.570974&z=14&t=h&hl=en
Just experimenting with different ways to let you know where I am. I also have a GPS in my caravan truck, and now on my fancy mobile, so perhaps I could sms you those coordinates? Just experimenting.
I'm sitting in the pub now next to a full open window, the
sun is shining and I'm toasty warm. I like to use Yahoo Weather. The closes
large town to us is
http://weather.yahoo.com/Plovdiv-Bulgaria/BUXX0004/forecast.html
to see my temperature and weather any time you want.
It's healthy to catch a cold once a year - your body builds
up antibodies for the new viruses coming out. It's absolutely normal, although I
seem to get only weak ones once a year. No big deal. Also when you move far away
there are totally different viruses, so your body usually gets sick. No biggie.
While here in
Yah, that was funny at the bus stop and I can imagine what a typical freak I looked like! heh heh
So how cold does it get? What is the closest big city so I can watch it on internet. As for the snow.....are you equipped???? You were so flamboyant at Whistler in your shorts and sandals and took on your ears. Very funny also, I loved that site when we picked you up in the snowstorm at Whistler (on the wrong stop) and there was this figure under the bus sherlter in shorts, heavy socks up to knees, sandals, 3 sweaters and thin thin windbraker, holding one computer in front, another on the side, knapsack on the back and a violin. And a big happy smile on that handsome face. However even with your devouted mother's care you managed to come down with cold and sore throat. And it was extremely clen enviroment. So watch yourself.
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well, moved into this palace, with my toasty wooden stove, and thought it would be nice to warm the place up a bit. Even made my own plug-in the wall, low energy consuming lightbulb cord thing, which I could use in my caravan truck later - parts bought from the local hardware shop.
So I pulled out some candles from my
caravan truck and stumbled on
the fancy cinammon one you bought when you were in
So before I put on a movie now, just had to pass that sentimental snot on over to you and look forward to another tour. This time at least I wont be so miserably poor as to be forced to charge you for food and beers.
latergator
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> good luck with roger. what are you anticipating? where's your
> pension?
In the neighbouring town where we were working. I was there almost every day picking up food etc. The foreman saw me today on the street, I waved, and he just stared at me. WHat a doorknob. Guess he's shocked that I'm still here, and I think it would be beautiful justice if I ended up making more than before, and stayed in a fancy comfortable place. In any case, not sure I'd want to go back and work with such a moron. ALthough generally we got along, the poison that I had to absorb during his alcoholic rants kinda depresses me and I'd rather avoid it.
One potential option is to stay with a friend's on the east
part of
forgot to ask. was
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