16 January
2023
15 January
2023
From the bartender’s corner: A Tasmanian gin!
Ever since I finished the “Great Gin Experiment” (some 42 gins from 15 different countries), I have mostly been staying out of the gin scene. Recently Matt Tebbe – my friend of 12 years or so – brought me a gin bottle from Tasmania. I opened it this evening.
Simply great gin!
The lavender notes are very soothing to the nose and the juniper leaves a fairly good effect on the palate. I used Fever Tree tonic water and used more ice than normal.
I could not find too much literature on this gin. In fact, I could not even locate the distillery’s website thru multiple Google searches. The only thing the bottle mentions is it uses copper stills for distilling. (which is fairly standard).
Thank you Matt! This was a great throwback to the years when I was experimenting with gin a lot!
15 January
2023
It was a bit cold, yes…
15 January
2023
Sunday morning 10K run
14 January
2023
Letter writing from my favorite bar
Since Sharmila was not at home, tried something new today. Grabbed my letter writing stuff and went to my favorite bar (Chiringa), found an empty table and started writing to two of my penpals while sipping some wine.
The environment is less Chiringa, more Cheers for me. Where everybody knows my name, And they are always glad I came …
Loved the white noise around me, the occasional chat with Lauren and Rebekah, the waving at Charlotte, Susan and Logan when they swung by while finishing some letters headed to Europe and Argentina.
14 January
2023
From the bartender’s corner – Kingston
14 January
2023
Rewind-Pause: Her “luchi” making skills have considerably improved!
This Christmas morning, the two girls made “luchi” for us. Today I dug up the original picture when Natasha first attempted to learn “luchi” making from my mom. If you have noticed flour strewn all over the floor, you probably also have gotten an idea – rather accurately, I must admit – that she was doing everything with the flour but make a “luchi“.
11 January
2023
Have you ever seen anything like this?
11 January
2023
Guess who gave me a ride to the airport today?
I had posted about the FAA computer glitch this morning and that I could see from my hotel window how the runways in SFO were totally empty. Somebody else also was looking at the empty runways from his hotel room a couple of miles away from me. That was Ranga my friend from college days – in fact, we were in the same hostel (dorm) during my engineering days and I had become fairly close to him and his parents and siblings who lived in Kolkata for some time.
“Rongoraajon”, as he would be called in Kolkata!!
He saw my FB post and we quickly realized that we were very close to each other. I was heading out for the airport in a few minutes. He had meetings during the day and was going to go back home (San Diego) in the evening.
It was a shame that we stayed this close to each other for a couple of days and did not get to see each other.
Not so fast.
From inside my hotel shuttle to the airport, we started texting and he offered to drop me at the airport on his way to the meetings. So, I got down from the shuttle, pulled out my suitcase and waited for him.
He showed up in 10 minutes.
That 8 minute ride to the airport was a big upgrade to my original plans.
Always good to see this old friend again!!
11 January
2023
Woke up to a big surprise
My flight is mid morning today. Woke up to the news that all flights across the country have been disallowed to take off due to FAA system glitches. My hotel room looks straight across to the SFO runway. The runaways are eerily empty. Usually, it is lined by a retinue of planes waiting to take off! Bracing for an interesting journey back home today. (or tomorrow? 🙂 )
