First trip to the US

January 30th, 2004 admin

Amma and Nanna (Mother and Father) got their Visas yesterday. Now it is time to start planning their visit more seriously. Looking forward to a great time with my parents.

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Weblog is up and walking

January 27th, 2004 admin

Finally got this feature going. Keep checking this space to see what I am upto. This weekend extended into Monday and Tuesday because of the snow/ice/sleet storm. After the December 02 storm last winter, this is the first time IBM was shutdown during working days. The adventure for this storm was in the form of a stupid attempt to keep an appointment with the car mechanic. For all I knew the place was closed due to the rapidly freezing snow on the road. I went out, saw about 5 accidents, changed my mind and tried to get back home. I did get back home and parked the car on the road in front of my house. I wanted to avoid parking on the driveway which has a 20 - 25 degree slope. I walked into the kitchen and was fixing myself lunch when I chanced to be looking out of the kitchen window. I saw my car moving. I did not believe it, but there it was again…it was moving back and was curving up towards my opposite neighbor’s house. I picked up the keys, leaped into my sandals and darted across the snowed out lawn, opened the door of the moving car, jumped in and hit the brakes, a few feet before the rear of the car would have hit the neighbor’s post box. Unable to get the car to move up the incline, I reversed it and parked it on a different road that was much flatter. I have been checking on it every few hours since then. The car is still there … unmoved and untowed.

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