20 August
2018
20 August
2018
One of the more interesting LinkedIn invites…
Check out the invite I got. I thought the role this lady plays – elegant and upscale social events for single Ladies and Gentlemen in Metro Atlanta – was pretty intriguing. I blurred the picture and redacted some of the info to maintain privacy.
But I have noted down the names of the 11 friends that I have who are connected to her. I have a few interesting phone calls to make today 🙂 🙂
19 August
2018
And with that… we reached the 4000 mile mark
Sharmila was out for five days. I could not take the motorcycle out. Well, I could have but was too scared to. The first thought that always went thru my mind was “What if something happens to me? Who is going to pick Nikita up from school?” 🙂
Well, she came back last night (actually early this morning – that too without her suitcase but that is a different story altogether). This morning took the bike out for a spin and came back home totally drenched in the rains.
But reached the 4000 mile mark, nonetheless!!
18 August
2018
A weekend puzzle
In a class there were 40 students with roll numbers 1 thru 40. One day, the teacher got them all to sit around in a circle sequentially in the order of their roll numbers (1 thru 40). (Of course 40 sat next to 39 on one side and 1 on the other). She then gave a wand to student number 1. What the student had to do is turn towards the next student (which would be #2) and tag him/her with the wand. Upon tagging, the tagged student steps back and is out of the game and the wand is then handed to the next student – which would be student #3 in this case
Now student #3 does the same thing – tags student #4 who steps back and is out of the game and then the wand is handed to #5.
This keeps going on and on (in circles) till only one student is left.
Can you figure out which student was the last one left?
18 August
2018
5K run while waiting for Niki to finish her dance class
17 August
2018
Friday evening decompression…Faysal’s poetry
“Jo bhi dukh yaad na tha, yaad aaya
Aaj kya jaane, kya yaad aaya
Yaad aaya tha bichhadna tera
Phir nahin yaad ke kya yaad aaya.”
Roughly translated…(Avinash, care to take an alternate crack?)…
“All the forgotten sorrows, came back to me today
Who knows what all I remembered today
Memories flooded of your separation from me
I can’t remember what all I remembered after that”
17 August
2018
From the bartender’s corner: Challa-Days
17 August
2018
BBC headline: “Lost gold ring found on carrot dug up for dinner”
16 August
2018
Some interesting and uncommon measurement units.
How many of these do you know? Google up the ones you did not know. It is a lot of fun to learn about about the names came about. If you are too lazy, I will post the answers tomorrow…
What do the following measure and how are they defined?
1. Donkey Power
2. Wheaton
3. Helen
4. Garn
5. Hobo Power
6. Mickey
7. Dol
8. Crab
9. Beard-second
10. Barn
Adding a bonus question – What is a New York Second?(remembered that after reading Narayan’s comment about cab rate)
15 August
2018
Got stuck on a sticky note
Normally, when she goes out of town, she stacks up the refrigerator with all sorts of food cooked for the week with sticky notes on each container declaring the contents. Without those sticky notes, I kind of have a reputation for “depth first search”. Which means, I will take the nearest container and eat whatever it has – whether it was meant for me or not – for every single meal, till it finishes. Then I would move to the container behind it.
This time has not been any different. All those delicious dishes she has cooked for Nikita and I are all cleanly stacked and marked with post its inside the refrigerator.
That being said, I have to admit that the salmon this time has been a little drier than usual. Try as I might, it just “wooden” go down well 🙂
