24 June 2023

I think I might be know somebody famous!

We were walking in downtown Alpharetta when I spotted something in the newspaper dispenser on a busy street. The local newspaper – Alpharetta Roswell Herald was on full display. And right on the top in the middle of the newspaper, I thought I recognized something. Stepping in closer, I thought I saw a horse painting that looked like one that Sharmila had done.

Stepping in even closer, I noticed that even she is there in the picture. (sitting in the front row to your left).

Jay Jay was remarkably uninterested in my find!

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24 June 2023

A very talented guy – Geno

We were walking in downtown Alpharetta when we came across one more of those live music going on. This was at the intersection of Canton and Academy in front of Coalition.

This gentleman – Geno – is really talented. He was certainly singing and playing the guitar as many do. Simultaneously, he was playing the bass with his two feet on that instrument you can see. I was impressed enough that I waited for him to finish his song and then chatted him up.

Apparently he has been doing this for 30 years!!

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23 June 2023

Should be an unique experience

After being away from the airport for 9 days – in what must be some sort of a record for me – here I am, on a flight again. This time headed to Denver. For something I don’t usually do.

During my never ending travels, I do take the opportunity to meet friends and folks from my past who might be living nearby. Almost always one on one. But I never make it to any of the reunions that are organized by folks from my past. Partly because these are invariably during weekends and my weekends are usually jam packed with all sorts of stuff.

In the recent past there has been a couple of exceptions. It is related to the fact that I do not work any more. In fact, on my first day of stepping out of work this year, I showed up in San Diego with Sharmila for a reunion of my year dorm folks from my engineering college.

A few days back, Srini called me up and said – “Hey the CPC gang is getting together. Do you want to come?”. Apparently many of the folks that were in my first project in my first job in Mumbai – who are now in the USA – had had some extensive discussions on Whatsapp groups to arrange for a get together. The problem is I do not participate in any Whatsapp groups either and was completely oblivious of this.

Figuring I did not have anything else going on and that these days I cannot differentiate which is a weekend day and which is a weekday anyways, I signed up!!

And here I am … going to meet those folks that I started working with in 1991 and some that I have not seen since 1993. But we were all part of what most of us consider to be one of the best projects of our lives!!

Shoutout to Srini for bringing my attention to this.

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21 June 2023

Taking laziness to another level

I had barely settled down in the balcony with my drink and my book when Jay Jay decided to join me. He realized that the swing was a bit too high for him. Undeterred, he backed up a few steps and then with a running start jumped up – startling me (I was not expecting it) as well as almost spilling my drink.

As if his good deed of the day was done, he promptly snuggled himself in the space next to me and went off to sleep.

If I do not keep a watch, I am afraid he might try this all by himself when we are not around. He is that addicted to laziness.

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