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Link to Week 10 San’s teammate is fostering rescued cats and was telling now I have to find homes.  San on a whim says I will take one. She was interviewed. She took photos of our balcony - which is pigeon netted and her application was approved. On May 23rd, Saturday evening we met Desire - yep - that’s the name of the 40 day kitten - along with Sufi. Both smelled each other and we exchanged some clothes rubbed on these to get familiarised.  After the meetup - we get back into our layout and find it totally jammed. It was around 6PM. We stop ( and further the jam ) and pick up potato chips from our regular shop.  Night we have dinner in Amu’s home. Made from scratch Chowmein, Panner Manchurian and Chicken manchurian. Sweets we got from Pulla reddy. The mysorepak was out of the world. On May 26th there is an online Webinar organised by MSWA - Maharashtra Society for Welfare Associations - they brought in all our competitors. San rocked the show.  Here is the recorded...

Link to week 9 Friday San and I go to Daily Dump in Indiranagar and improve the composting solution - San was using 2 clay pots - now she has gone high tech with a custom solution - with microbes and coco peat and all. .  When I was at Daily Dump I was checking some statistics. A family of 4 can potentially save 300 Kgs from going to landfill a year. Imagine if all homes start composting.  The army of sauces - keeps life interesting for these kids. Saturday Achu makes Chicken Marhaba Sunday evening I make Tacos with Baked Beans. The hard shells costed 150Rs. On chess.com I try to figure this 4 player chess game. Couldn’t. Over the weekend was playing blitz games. Trick is not to watch your points - and be ok to lose. Then it is lot of fun. I was not looking at the time and was losing because of time outs - even though I had captured the opponents queen. Next week will try to increase my speed.  Sunday morning I go running around the layout. Planning to run 30 minutes dail...

“  It is the most extraordinary, alluring and thought-provoking of all the ways in which quantum mechanics has been interpreted. In its most familiar guise, the many-worlds interpretation (MWI) suggests that we live in a near-infinity of universes, all superimposed in the same physical space but mutually isolated and evolving independently. In many of these universes there exist replicas of you and me, all but indistinguishable yet leading other lives.” -  Quantum Magazine Back in August 2018, one high school girl in Sweden, Greta Thunberg, stopped going to school on Fridays, and instead sat in front of the Swedish parliament with a placard which said “ Skolstrejk för klimatet ” - School Strike for climate. In 2019 - she travels to US, on a boat - because Flights are the environmentally most inefficient of all transports, and travels around the country - in a Tesla - lent by Arnold  Schwarzenegger  nevertheless - speaking in Colleges and climate forums and irritating...

Link to Week 8 Monday - May 4 I was still battling server issues. The load on the server was not just going down. Even starting 20 EC2 instances did not help. It was making it worse - and slowing the site and app further. Monday morning I started with Angamardhana + SMM on the terrace. While doing the yoga+kriya I get an insight - I am not kidding - perhaps the memcache is failing on heavy load. After standup I test my theory and it turned out to be true. When Memcache fails, all calls start hitting the database - and hence the load. Increasing more EC2 instances, was making more memcache failures, and more database load. By noon the issue is resolved. App and site are back to their super fast mode. I am jumping with joy here - and no one to tell. I go to tell San, but she is in the middle of a long meeting with the Sales heads - they are strategising the Life time ERP free the competitor is touting.  ADDA’s P&C Team ( People & Culture - we do not call ours as Human Resourc...

[ Image credit :  https://www.instagram.com/davidyarrow/p/BiXY1KlHH2c/?hl=en  ] 2020  10 million died from coronovirus - a new strain of common cold which spread across the globe. In the beginning many were in denial. It will only affect the elderly. The Western capitalistic economies thought - this is awesome. > 60 year olds are a burden to healthcare and social security budget. Let the virus take them out of the system - economy which is tanking at 2% growth can grow up by a few decimals. The virus killed the elderly who were deposited in old age homes. It looked like a success. The western countries allowed the virus to spread. They relaxed the lockdown because the economy was tanking. In populous 3rd world countries in Asia and Africa - the multiple chain lockdowns couldn’t stop the virus. People living on a day to day earnings all died of hunger and Mal nutrition. The Governments supplied food - once a day meal - to the poor. But the Govt ran out of money and comm...

Link to Week 7  Monday April 27 Sufi resting the whole world on her nose. Sufi loves to sleep under tables Charu gives finishing touches for this cauliflower Chinese dish Kidference in progress Saturday evening we have Pani poori Prithvi and I go for a walk on the terrace. Here is our balcony from the other side. Its a tropical forest.

Link to Week 6 Monday - April 20 Evening we play board games. I try to wind up by 7:30 PM. Wednesday I sign up for Flutter course in Udemy - they are having a sale now - all courses are 460Rs or something.. Flutter reminded me of Java Swing days - the UI is constructed with code.  Thursday Hair is becoming unruly. Debating whether to go for a full head shave. Later order a hair trimmer from Amazon for < 500 Rs. Delivery date says May 8th.  San comes up with an idea of a resort for Saturday.  We will check in by 4:00 PM. There will be a welcome drink - mocktails. Then there will be cake and tea. There will be a game. After that there will be veg roll, egg roll and chicken roll. We start planning - kids have something to look forward for the weekend. Friday Friday evening we have a pencil sketching session by Akshay from Dubai. As a budding cartoonist I watch in awe.  I recharge Apple Pencil and plan to revive my Idly cartoon series. [  Idly takes a look at bik...