Days are just slipping by me !!!! it is already nigh about end of July and there are still a lot of pending issues to complete. You must have gone thru this phase, lots of small, niggling items that need your attention, almost crying to get your attention and you just simply don't have either the patience or time to address them. I have got almost 15 such items on my plate and I need at least 2 full days to complete them. Am targeting this weekend (there goes my quiet time...)
Last Friday, after almost willfully forcing myself to abstain from alcohol, I went to a hotel with Sachin and had 4 beers. Great Beer !!! Taste was exquisite. Original idea was to down a quick one and go home but after 3 hours and 4 beers, I still wanted more :-) Thankfully had the sense to stop and to drive carefully home. made it safe that night although had some motorists honking madly at me on the Ashram flyover. must have done something crazy although can't remember it now :-)
On Saturday, played a Wolverine game MRD escape and wow, that game is addicting!!!! My son and i have almost completed the game and we had a lot of fun out of it. That made me think about quality time to be spent with children. I mean, honestly, is playing an online game with your son a good way to spend time? The only rationalization I can proffer is that we both had tonnes of fun and I guess that part is important too.
On Sunday, I downloaded a pirated version of a new movie (won't tell you which one) from a brand new site (won't tell you about it either LOL). I ran into a problem immediately. It was an avi file and quick time won't run it citing lack of some codec and realplayer will run it but won't play sound. So, I started looking for ways to make it run. I downloaded xvid codec for quicktime. Video started running, but no sound. Downloaded audio codec for quicktime, but no luck. Then I ran into www.perian.org. Wow !!! great job and that too done as open source. I don't know why but I have lot of trust in these open source software. It is my dearest wish to somehow contribute to open source with something, I will find a way to do that. And after I installed everything, well, the movie started playing with proper sound and all. The quality of movie sucks but what else was to be expected. I still have to watch the movie though :-)
Delhi had lots of rain on Monday 27th of July. It was enough to flood the roads, break apart the roads, fell down the trees and create traffic snarls. I was stuck for about an hour before I could find my way home. A 1/2 an hour journey turned into 1 and 1/2 hour nightmare :-(
On Tuesday morning, saw news report that there was a huge huge jam near Ashram flyover and I immeditely dropped any plan to drive to office. Did e-commuting. When Kush came from school, he was pleasantly surprised to see me home so we had an impromptu pillow fight before he was sent to take a bath. Well, he didn't disturb me much in my work, he is a nice obedient kid :-)
There is a timer ticking for me. I can't say much right now, but the winds of change are blowing and clarion calls have been sounded. I will come back to this in another post.
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