More than thirteen years back Sharmila and I moved the daughters and ourselves from Dallas, Texas to Milton, Georgia. While parts of Milton has seen a lot of development after that, certain other parts still retains the semi-rural style of living. You know … like dirt roads, well water, septic tanks and internet thru DSL.

We have absolutely loved living in the privacy and beauty of quiet solitude of nature. It used to be that if some farm or neighbor lost a cat or dog, they used to staple the picture on those wooden electric posts and we used to read them up.

Lately, we have had technology like “Nextdoor” apps. But I promise you, you can bring in technology to us, you cannot take away our pastoral living though. Check out some snippets of lost pets in our neighborhood from Nextdoor… goats, pigs, ducks, horses and what have you!!!

… has to be a good cappuccino brewed by Sarah Lovelady at The Land of Thousand Hills at Halcyon. This has become a near daily routine for me. The staff is extremely friendly and always helpful.

Today, Sharmila joined us too! Great evening. One of the lines that came up during the discussions – “You cannot argue somebody out of something they have not been argued in to”. Recently heard this in a Covid related podcast.

… read this and this before this.

… as seen today together with a team that has scaled much bigger heights… always pulling each other up… Chris, Matt, Karthik, Sunjay, Garry, Jemin… and many that did not make it today…

Many could not make it but the ones who did was enough to remind me how many strong shoulders I have had the fortune of getting support from in my professional life. One afternoon is too short to say Thank You to Matt and Chris who had welcomed me to Equifax on my first day, Sunjay – who started almost on the same day as me, Karthik – who moved to Atlanta to help me after we had worked together for quite some time in Dallas, Jemin – the ever smiling face that simply seem to get things done without too much fanfare and Garry – my ultimate friend, philosopher and guide!

Thanks to Chris who had picked the place and time. It was a great day to be out and about with some of the best executives I have had a chance to work with.

P.S. It was a great day to motorbike too 🙂

I think they decided that the next meeting will be in our cigar bar – but this time with Cuban food. This, I gotta see!!

You might remember a few months back, The Roam-ers and I had an Indian lunch together. Given the wonderful support and service the Roam staff give us (it almost sounds strange to call them Roam staff… after these many years, we are more friends than customers), Sharmila and I thought we should treat them to another Indian lunch. It is like Thanksgiving came early. From the “Indian” side 🙂

Seriously though, nothing gets me started on an office day better than a friendly banter with Zach, Katie or Micalah first thing as I get thru that glass door upstairs every single morning. Nothing keeps the day going as well as the two cappuccinos they make everyday either!

Katie’s favorite is still the “Pappadam” and apologies to the terrible papal reference in the post title 🙂 Could not help with the name being Roam… Italy…

In any case, Sunjay and I had a great time sitting down and sharing lunch with Zach, Katie, Micalah, Erin and Juan. (Coincidentally, we had the good luck of somebody from corporate Roam that day join us too, but I never caught her name!).