India Is WOW
Topic: On the road

I am now doing the ORD - Delhi – Mumbai – Pune – Mumbai – Frankfurt – ORD – MIA – Key Largo – Miami – West Palm Beach – ORD all on multiple coupons of one PNR.

 

Currently, I am in a hotel room in Mumbai. It is very cold in the room but no way to fix it. For dinner I had tanduri local fish, and a dash of trying to learn Hindi. Here are expressions that I can’t remember:

·         Sorry

·         Please

·         How much

 

I don’t know why. I do know 2 ways to say thank you and hello, but I can’t get the one way to do the above.

 

I am overtired. This morning from 7 am I was sightseeing Delhi, including climbing all the towers of all the mosques and mausoleums, this is after doing the elliptical in the hotel, after a 16 hour flight. I then grabbed the 4pm flight to Mumbai and here I am. I should probably add that I’m able to put in about 2 hours of hindi study and 4-6 hours of work too, each day Sat-Sun.

 

Tomorrow I go to Elephanta island in the morning, a bit of sightseeing in the afternoon, and then work. And then I drive to Pune in the morning on Tuesday.

 

I could talk about some of my adventures here:

·         The poverty

o       People washing themselves on the side of the road

·         The lady that didn’t speak Gujarat or Panjabi or Tamil or Hindi or Urdu or anything anyone could think of that was eating leaves with white powder

·         The “single ladies” not allowed up in the mosque and my instant new friends from Delhi

·         The monkeys and the stray dogs

·         The cows of Delhi

·         The Sunday used book market

·         My favorite part was Himala’s tomb and the lotus temple

 

Road Warrior
Topic: On the road
"We are not here to create road warriors" - quote from my boss of 2 months ago. (do you see the correlation between that and the pool absence?)

This month:
Jan 12: DC
Jan 17: Vegas
Jan 23: Newark
Jan 25: Galena IL - only self inflicted trip this month
Jan 26: Bloomington
Feb 04: Palm Beach - family obligation

How the heck am I suppose to train with that kind of a schedule? Good thing we are still in the off season here...

But coupled with the: new house, wedding planning, and a social life... how's a person suppose to get anything done?

I guess, when you work hard, you got to play harder. Let me superimpose known major social events onto this calendar:

2 planned dinners with friends,
2 marjor family events
Jan 12: DC
1 planned dinner
Jan 17: Vegas
1 major family event
Jan 23: Newark
Jan 25: Galena IL - only self inflicted trip this month
Jan 26: Bloomington

Somewhere in there, I'm suppose to buy 4 sconces, 1 couch, 1 dining room table, a veil, hire a band, pick a ceremony, send out wedding invitations, a photographer, and a florist.

I have to catch up on things after the holidays, figure out a way to take all that in stride... and pick and achieve some major goals this year.

How do you cope with stuff like this? And don't tell me to cut back! Cuz I can't!

now in Lebanon, NJ
Topic: On the road
Me be at a client in NJ. Love being near the ocean! Will try and hit that tomorrow morning!!!

Stillwater
Topic: On the road
I was in Stillwater, MN for work a week ago. It was in full fall color, I should post my cameraphone picture. It was a perfect fall day, sunny and 65 degrees, and I took a detour before getting to the office to historic downtown to look at the St. Croix river. Woudldn't mind coming back to spend a relaxing day there.

I quote my boss last night "we don't aim to create road warriors"

..riiiight.

Next week I'm in bloomington.
The following week, jersey
then I'm going to sonoma, this is on my own accord
then it's jersey again,
DC
and MN.

no, not a road warrior lifestyle at all. Must unpack everything this weekend... AAAAAAAAAA

OH and my boss got fired/resigned the other day. Yuck. She was good and I liked her. Now I'll have no buffer from the people that run my company.

tire bang
Mood:  a-ok
Topic: On the road
Yuck. Tire blew up on expressway. Had to go get new tires, and still need to replace the hubcap.