Random Musings

I’ve been home since the 9th of August, but I was working six days a week from the 11th of August to the 9th of October, so I barely had any time to rest and recuperate. For the past three weeks, however, I’ve been doing nothing.

Doing nothing is really boring, however, so I keep myself amused in various ways. Yesterday, I was crouched on a small ledge, ten feet above the ground, with a pipe wrench in hand, determined to fix the damn geysers.

I’ve also been fiddling about with Hyper-V 2008 R2 and VMWare ESXi. I spent some cash on upgrading the RAM in my desktop to 4 GB, cause DDR2 RAM is going to get pricier and pricier now. 4 GB should be enough for this box. The next one I get will have at least 8 GB of DDR3, and probably much more.

All this is fun, but the downside is that sitting at home is unfortunately not very lucrative. Financially, I’m up the creek. I’m not worried though, since I have one more month of idleness, and then I start working again, so it’s all good. Two months off are enough for anybody, especially when you can get cheese sandwiches made to order and delivered to your bedside (no, I’m not making my poor old mother run around, we have help).

I will fix some more things around the house before I leave. Windows Home Server is already running happily on my old machine, backing up my desktop and Mom’s laptop (she uses a Thinkpad T series.. she knows her hardware).

So that’s what I’m up to. What are all you corporate minions doing?

palms, that is. It’s one of those days, or evenings, rather. The road is quite beautiful, winding its way through hills, and then finding its way back onto the beach. It’s dark outside, naturally, but the moon is quite full. There seems to be some mist on the hills, just a tiny little bit.

I want to drive down this road in the daytime. It calls to me. Yesterday, we drove down the small roads in Goa. Avoiding the national highways, we chose instead to pick the smallest, narrowest, most winding, and probably the most beautiful roads. Helped a little by technology, we found palm shaded roads, and sandy beaches that were devoid of life.

It was a good trip.

Now, though, it is a most twenty nine palm evening. The lamp posts flash by like sentinels, but it is in the in-between spaces that the night is indigo. Crossing a port, there are gently rounded hills in the distance. I wish I was qualified to pilot a small plane. There is nothing quite so irritating as having to take the road more traveled, even as small forested lanes branch invitingly away. I am so sure that walking even a hundred feet along any of those lanes will lead me to a different time. Far away from the rumbling diesel engine I hear now as the driver changes gear to negotiate a steep gradient.

Sadly, there is no possibility of stepping out and going a-wandering. Time to head back to work, and face the day. Seize it, even. Carpe Diem, FTW.

This melancholy veil is rudely shaken away. Not by fate or circumstance(except in a roundabout way), but by the combination of two immutable facts:

1. The road has suddenly deteriorated

2. I happen to be sitting on top of the tyre. Shock absorption is all very well, but not when I am the one absorbing the damn shocks!

Hmm. I think we have crossed into Karnataka. The roads sing in Kannada now, which is slightly staccato, not in Portugese, which flows a lot more easily from the tongue. Its quite curious that K’ntaka has roads that are so much worse than all its neighbours. It might be a deliberate ploy to either keep people out, or slow them down once they are in the state, so that they spend a little more money and rescue the local economy.

Talking of rescuing, I must say that one meets strange characters in Goa. Not much more to say here, but the shacks on Calungute beach are populated with people right out of the pages of various novels. There’s the Hemingway types, the Ian Fleming type, even the Danielle Steele type. Fun, nevertheless.

The palmy feeling has passed, since I am now writing this the next day. I saved the first bit to complete later, so now I shall aim for five hundred words, and then stop. Why five hundred? No reason, really, just a obsessive desire to see this post rounded off now.

I hated being ill, but now I’m well again. Rejoice, minions!

Spent a few hours yesterday moving my website from Serverway to Godaddy. I also decided to change my domain name, from .org, to .com. Now the fun part is, moving a blog which relies on a database is not as easy as moving static HTML. It’s not that difficult, but throw in the domain name change, and things become interesting… It took an hour of cursing, scratching my head, reading the doumentation, and generally praying to whom it may concern..

Finally it got done, and my site is now running on Godaddy. I changed  it cause my old host was getting a bit flakey.. you know how it is. Anyway, let me know if anything is broken, I may have missed something.

Played ball today after quite a few days. Our Univ team will be going for this tournament in October, so we are all getting down to practice and generally try to win this year. Last year we lost in the finals, which sucked.

I’m suffering from a lack of good books to read. I’m also generally bored, and there is nothing exciting happening in my life, so it’s all purple. And deep dark red, and generally other colours.

Oh well, I’m off. Laters, all