Today an old friend of mine: ‘Amit’ dropped by for a visit after a looong time. We drove to an egyptian place for dinner and caught up on old times. Then we came back home and talked some more. It was a lot of fun.
Tomorrow I might be going to Washington to visit another friend. I will be leaving from NJ early in the morning and will be back Sunday morning… Atleast thats the plan for now, lets see if we actually manage to wakeup on time and leave.
My first article on Linux just got published in LinuxGazette.net 🙂 Check it out at: Here. If you have any comments/feedback on it please let me know.
Thanks,
Suramya
After a hard day at work its fun to come home and relax by watching a good movie or old TV series. The past few weeks I have been getting old episodes to Dr. Who on DVD from Netflix and they are hesterical.
Today I watched a Australian TV mini-series called “The Girl From Tomorrow”. It was actually pretty nice. Its about this girl who got transported back in time from year 3000 to year 1992 and how she gets back to year 3000.
The special effects look silly but overall the show is worth watching atleast once.
More Details: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098803
I hate mornings. In the words of Wendy the good witch: “Mornings would be so much better if they happened in the afternoon” Today I woke up at 7 am thinking it was 8 am then realized that it was 7 am so went back to sleep. Then I got a call at 7:30 am from Ruth so that I could help her with her website assignment (I had asked her to call me in the morning, but I had forgotten that her morning starts a lot earlier than mine).
Once we were done with this I left for work and got stuck in traffic *again*. This time a car was totalled on I-280 causing a 1 1/2 mile backup. Not fun. I had taked a photo of the crash but managed to erase it by mistake. 🙁
Ok, after posting so many tech news items in one day I think its time to post something else for a change.
I was happlly surfing the web when I thought I should check my email again and I got quite a shock when I saw 11 new emails had come in within the last 15 mins. And none of them were junk, that was the surprising part.
What had happened was that Surabhi, Vinit, Vivek and Ruth were having a 4 way ‘chat’ using email. So I obviously joined in and started shooting off emails, It was a lot of fun. Over all we had about 20 – 25 emails sent in about an hour’s time (All of us were supposed to be working/studying during this time). Then Ruth had to sign-off as she had to work on an assignment so we ended the 5 way email chat othewise there would have been a lot more mail’s…
Thats all for now. Will post more later.
– Suramya
Magicbike is a mobile WiFi (wireless Internet) hotspot that gives free Internet connectivity wherever its ridden or parked. Read more at: http://www.magicbike.net/
Here’s a picture I found of it:
Today was better than yesterday not good but better.
Today I was supposed to be in at 9 am to present my project to the boss, so I left home at time and reached the office at 8:55 am. Then when I try to get into the building I find out that I don’t have my access card with me ’cause I had lent it to Surabhi who forgot to return it. So I called up the office to see if anyone was there to buzz me in, which was not the case so I waited for 15 mins for someone to come by and buzz me into the building (As it was Saturday no was there at the front desk). So I had to drive all the way back home to pickup my card and drive back.
I made the entire round trip in ~25 mins but when I got back Shlomo was already in and waiting for me (Not good…) but he was pretty nice about it. Then we worked for a while on interesting stuff.
When I was driving back home I noticed that the car had a slower pickup than usual and then I noticed that the car was complaing about low fuel. So I hit the reset button so that I would know how many miles I had before I ran out of gas. That was when I almost had a heart attack as the system was telling my that I could drive 0 Miles before empty and the nearest gas station was about a mile away. So I switched off the AC and the music and started praying that I would be able to reach the gas station before I ran out of gas. And on the way every light I passed through was Red but I thankfully made it to the pump before the car stalled.
So the moral of the story is that “One should keep an eye on the fuel indicator if one doesn’t want to be pushing a car to the nearest gas station.”
Now that I am home I will probably read a book or watch a movie and then sleep. Tomorrow I will be playing with my site and will try to add some features/Capabilities to my website and blog
This is all for now. Will post more later.
– Suramya
Today was not a good day. I had left my window open at night to let some fresh air in like I usually do and when I gotup in the morning my room was cold enough to prompt me to raid vinit’s room to steal the heater.
Then once I got ready I left for work and I was feeling happy that I would be there on time for a change… I should have know that wasn’t meant to be and sure enough as soon as I got on 280 I get caught in a traffic jam for 45 mins and the trip which should have taken me about 20 mins took me about 1 hour and 10 mins. When I finally make it to work I walk in to see my boss sitting at his desk, he looked at me and then looked very pointedly at his watch. So I told him what happened and then started working.
Work wasn’t that bad initally but I had to generate reports for billing which is just time consuming and boring. Once I got that done I got to work on finishing the project I am working on. I have to demo it tomorrow so I ended up staying late to complete it instead of leaving early like I had planned.
I was pretty tired by the time I was done and tried to get some shut eye at my desk but I should have known better than to try something like that ’cause that gave John and David to take pics of me with Daffy duck posing on my back. (I will post the pics here once I get them from David)
Then John decided to help us finish the marshmallow cream we had bought yesterday by putting it in his coffee. Below is a photo I took of him doing it. (Yes I know, People at my office are wierd)
Over all it was a long day that I am glad is over… This is all for now. Will post more later.
– Suramya
One of my co-workers likes bananas and we had been talking about getting him a peanut butter and banana sandwich for the past couple of days. So today during my lunch break me and David went to PathMark and bought the following items to make a special sandwich:
1. Bread
2. Peanut butter
3. Marshmallow cream
4. chocolate Syrup
5. A Banana
We brought these ingredients to the office and made two sandwiches, one for Piet and the second one for my sister Surabhi. Below are a couple of photographs I took to remember this event by:
We even packed it nicely for them
Surabhi trying out the sandwich
Surabhi decided to add potato chips to the sandwich to make it crunchy. Don’t ask me why…
Well this is all for now. Its late and I will try to sleep on time for a change.
Stay tuned for more updates later.
– Suramya
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