Holidays in Russia (with no Kennedys)
by mike/zeroteam
translation by alff/cpu
20.7.2011
Last day before vacation. Work went on as usual, but I felt deep satisfaction scored on her and pulled the Cheshire genetos, and the last For 2 hours I generally stared at the clock like a gopnik at the new nine. Finally I waited! After work I headed to the store to stock up on small items junk, then grabbed some clothes and took the train to the town of Novoe A place above Vakh, where a packed bag with love and care was already waiting for me clothes. The rain stopped falling on my head, which in turn caused me a clear insight that the weather is going to be great.
Probably an elk or some other hoofed animal lay back somewhere on the tracks, and the train I was 20 minutes late for Bratislava, but in general this is normal. After Arriving at the Bratislava station, I changed the train carriage to my other favorite one type of transport - tram. The ride on it was a little annoying for me. Arriving at the flat I brushed my teeth with Ellvis and went to visit Morpheus.
21.7.2011
The alarm clock brutally woke us up in the morning, and outside it was pouring like buckets. I rearranged alarm clock for 5 minutes in advance, but this only slightly delayed the rushing half asleep fever. Finally, we quickly jumped out of bed and went out onto the street. I haveIt was vacation, but Ellvis went to work. I think the difference is in our attitude was striking.
While we were walking to the bus stop, we got thoroughly wet, despite the fact that Ellvis had an umbrella. We sat down at the bus stop, waiting for our steel friend about four rubber feet. And when he appeared, we found the standard Bratislava picture (Although I myself do not live there, but always when I visit this city - this remains unchanged). The bus was packed like a construction site trailer by Tajiks. But overall we had a blast, I even managed to hang out on the seat about halfway. Ellvis went to Evion shopping park, and I went through got off at the Aerovokzal stop for a while.
Despite the fact that the robot girl had already announced through the loudspeaker about the possibility check in for my flight, I decided to dry off a little. Everything is at registration the period of troubles passed and I became the happy owner of two airline tickets: the first to Prague and the second to the Capital of all Raska - Moscow City. After being meticulous the guards carefully examined my athletic body, checked for explosives in my boots and shampoo in my bag, I proceeded to the boarding lounge. Without thinking twice, I filled myself with Bonaqua for 1.59 euros and continued trying to dry myself.
The plane was excellent (propeller, ATR 42-500), they even took us to land at bus. But we probably could have walked 10 meters ourselves. Armchairsenough large and the noise was comparable to jet aircraft of a similar category. to me they brought cake and tea, which for me, as a cheap airline passenger, was quite surprising. The hour-long flight went by unnoticed. In Prague I'm very I was worried about the wild Russian bureaucracy, which scared me. But that's it it worked out. Further on the plane (Airbus A320) I was served lunch, juice, tea and immigration card. The flight attendants were very nice.
Disembarkation has begun and its main exciting action is passport control. But that's it Chiki-moni passed and within a few minutes I saw Unbeliever’s shining face. We lightly rubbed for life, Unbeliever brought me a beer and he continued drink wine, by this time he had about 1/3 liter left. Next we we stomped towards the train to Moscow. The train was comfortable, and on the way I even learned some areas of Moscow that I saw during our trip in 2003.
The train brought our bodies to the Belorusskaya metro station, where we waited MacBuster and PheeL. MacBuster came first and gave me gifts: a notepad and a pen with the Kaspersky logo (he worked in this joke). We made a couple of jokes in his direction about his work.
After waiting for PheeL, we moved to the nearest cafe to sharpen food. The food wasn't bad and we had a good chat in between. Then PheeL got out, and we decided to go get Unbeliever's junk. Next we moved torailway station. There was little time left and we settled in the nearest station bistro, where I tried local beer (Yarpivo). After the female robot announced that our locomotive was tired of waiting for us, we exploded towards him. But to our surprise, the carriage was closed. And they opened it just before departure. We said a tearful goodbye to MacBuster and passed out in peace of mind on the train.
22.7.2011
Overall the train journey was ok, but I woke up a few times, after which I could not sleep for a long time. The new carriage and compartment with air conditioning were left pleasant impression. In the morning we sprinkled water on the places that needed careful hygienic care, drank tea and got off at Nizhny station Novgorod. For a morning snack we visited McDonald's. While we were drinking hamburgers, two more sceners appeared in the space we were observing, were moving towards DiHalt. After breakfast, Unbeliever and I went to Kremlin. We won a taxi and the boss put a price tag of 500 rubles, which I seemed a little expensive.
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After visiting the Kremlin we went to some nearby university, where Unbeliever tried to sell the local employees of Microsoft products, of which he was an employee. It was enough it's fun to play around with Windows for a Linux freak,this is probably only possible in Russia.
After university, we ate at a nearby cafe and went to the hotel. The hotel was not bad, the receptionist was polite, and then I got my The main document during your stay in Russia is registration from the Federal Migration Service.
When we settled into the hotel, it was time to come to the party place and show to the stagers what they have long been afraid to ask. And again we won the tachila, and the boss took us through half the city, although the navigator showed that the place was only 7 km away.
Patiplace was located in the forest next to the lake, which made me happy. Overall it was classic party with tents, but with Demopati as a bonus.
When we arrived, the place was being prepared for the event. The trash was neat cleared, the organizers' area was getting ready for the start. Meanwhile, people are slowly gathered at the party place.
Basically, the Russian-speaking public was a little weak in English, and I greeted the gathering people with the phrases: “Privyet” and “Kak u tebya.” This went with a bang. Later in the evening I called my friend and congratulated him on his the birth of a daughter. A little later I had a normal drink with the Russians, so I'm more than I'm sure she will be fine.
At 11 pm sq/skrju arrived at the station and Jtn and I got into the car and went to meet him. SQ's rosy cheeks appeared at the station on time. Sq and JtN went to partyplace, and me and Unbelieverwent to the hotel.
23.7.2011
D-Day for Dyhalt. In the morning, for about half an hour, we ignored the screaming throat alarm clock. When we finally got up and went down for breakfast, we We found mmcm and ZS already gobbling up food. After feeding our carbon shells, we packed some junk and got into a taxi, which rushed us to partyplace.
When we arrived at the place, I realized that the number of people had seriously increased. I greeted the people who had known him since yesterday, and slowly began to get acquainted with new people. Because I started drinking vodka at the same time, it’s hard for me to organize facts in chronological order, so I'll just tell you how it's all in my head it fit.
To begin with, I rammed a few T-shirts with the Sinclair logo as gifts for the mob. K unfortunately, the number of T-shirts was limited, so not everyone got them, but the main thing for me was extremely intoxicating to see so many Spectrum fans in one place.
Next, I will try to structure my narrative, because... there was a lot to do things to do and freaks to hang out with.
Crowd: People on partyplace, and indeed in Russia in general, were quite sociable and cheerful. But, of course, the Slegonets were upset by the fact that the majority of Russians were not a boom in English, and I, in turn, did not know Russian. I tried use your two-phrase method that you invented the previous day,but with Over time it stopped working. I was crazy about the topic that one little guy from the Chunin party knew Slovak language! It was extremely useful in the future for communicating with others people. And most importantly, now I know that the father of the Russian demoscene and chairman The first State Duma of the Russian Empire was RST7. I was also pleased that many recognized me as a figure in the imported demoscene, but to be honest, I’m not that deeply familiar with all this demoscene junk and more Moreover, to my shame, until that day I had not even seen a single demo from Dichalta.
Havka: Overall the food was delicious. In general, I liked everything I ate in Russia, except okroshka. The food served on dihalta was called Shashlik. After I sharpened this very kebab immeasurably, I was a little afraid what would happen to my stomach after all this. But everything worked out. To the credit of the organizers it is necessary to say that they prepared an excellent soup, I wanted to ask for more but The demosceners have already devoured everything.
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Water procedures: Around the party place there was a body of water called the Lake. And for my part I I want to note that anyone who has not taken a swim at least once is a real Smesharik. I'm here dived every 30 minutes. And everyone around me constantly called me to swim. I'm here I just didn’t understand one thing, the Russians jump into the water, mess around there for about 2 minutes, and they get out.It's strange...
Booze: Oh yes! He was there - Alcohol! Quite quickly I realized that Russian beer is soft to say the least, but Vodchilla delivered. I will remember the surprised face for a long time sq/skrju after he noticed that I didn’t drink vodka. I also remembered Horseradish, which, although it seemed strange to me, was still delicious. I remember how I drank with different people, and I clearly remember the abundance of vodka on the Mayhem table. Then there was nothing...
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Later in the evening the music compo started. Not many people voted, but I want to note that the music was good. The organizers launched each track approximately for 30 seconds, and therefore the compo was peppy, but still some tracks for development took a little longer. Everyone was waiting for the moment when it got dark. The organizers have already prepared computers and a projector for visual components. I recommend read someone's report about a night out, but obviously not mine. Good night.
24.7.2011
I woke up somewhere in a tent. After my body has loaded the necessary modules and classes for work, I crawled out of the tent and discovered that the owner of the tent was Organism. Thanks to him for a place to sleep. Then I tried to restore by bits of the events of the previous night and soon realized that this was probably not the main thing.
I spent all my Russian money on YM chips that I ordered from Roman Chunin,in I got a load of tea and TurboSoundFM. This made me happy because I recently heard it for the first time at the last Sindikat meeting, after which I asked to drive it for zOOm/TGC, and now we are all waiting for new good music. Also this a good purchase for Forever.
Due to the fact that Diehalt was my starting point on a trip to Russia, I JtN's company left the event early and missed the distribution of elephants to the prize-winners.
Thanks everyone for a great party and hope to see you soon in the future. ... well, I’ll try to tell the story about how I had fun in Perm another time.
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Holidays in Russia - adventures of Mike/Zeroteam at DiHalt'2011.
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