It was a cold day but with bright sunshine. And I woke up at 9:30 AM – a clear 5 hours after what I am used to. That is because I did something I have not done in a long time – stayed up till 1AM with our neighbors over some lovely food and wine the previous night.

Since my morning routine was shot, decided to completely throw caution to the winds and do nothing that I am supposed to do on a Sunday per my crop circles.

Picked up Dipanjan and Parijat from their house and drove to Big Door Vineyards. After some great time there, we went to Black Rifle Coffee (one of my motorcycle route coffee shops) to wean off from the wine!!

Came home, skipped our daily evening bar routine and instead went off to sleep!!

Thanks to Lakshmi, had some great Tamizh food – uttapam with molagapodi and some deadly idlis!! The sambar was to die for. I did not realize this during my years in Chennai but apparently you garnish the sambar with finely diced onions (like you would do with a pav bhaji from Bombay). It tasted real good.

Of course, the Sivasubramaniams are always great company!

A couple of months back, I went to visit his parents in Chennai. This time he came to visit me at my house in Atlanta!
Ranga and I were very close in our engineering days!