Its pouring in Minnepolis. Rather cold. Not too cold though.
Work is okay. Nothing much to report.
Am in Chicago for the weekend now, Prem has come from Austin too so the gang is in strength. Kris (Krishna) is headed to Minneapolis from Monday so I shall have more company once Shaab and XP Babu depart next [...]
Entries from October 2004
October 29, 2004
Dreary days
October 26, 2004
Masti in Minneapolis
Shaab decided that he wanted to buy his digital camera online. He was looking for a particular model DiMage on Minolta and the damn thing just wasnt available in most places. I told him to try calling up their customer service. Shaab dials the number and gets to the point where the operator tries to [...]
October 26, 2004
Land of the Maple Leaf
As mentioned earlier, I went to Toronto for the weekend to meet up with relatives. Three of my Mom’s sisters live there. One of them is married to my father’s brother. The plot thickens. Only 1 cousin was available out of 6 since the others were out of Toronto.
Anyway, I landed up in Aunt#1’s house [...]
October 21, 2004
FBP – show me the money
I asked Prasad to check on the state of my reimbursements long since pending. He sent me this mail.
“today, i am processing (your FBP reimbursement), will be deposited into bank by tomorrow.”
While I was happy that I would have money in the bank soon, I was concerned abt this FBP thing. Was it Federal Benefits [...]
October 21, 2004
Tapas-ya time
Its been a long day. Meetings, narrative reviews and some testing work. If anyone has come across a test tracking tool that stores test case attributes and can be queried on, lemme know.
The evening started off with a game of racquetball with Shaab. We played 5 games in 40 minutes of nerve-wracking action. After Shaab’s [...]
October 18, 2004
Shaab in Shickago
Unfortunately this blog cannot hold sounds, else this posting must be accompanied with appropriate bleeps and beeps. (Well for all I know, its possible, but I dont know how to do it).
Shaab and me went to Chicago for the weekend. KC joined us all from Monterey. So we had a largish gang.
Shaab : “Lets to [...]
October 15, 2004
The Melting Pot
Buzzzz! went the alarm. Groan! went me. Darn, it was 6:35 am and time to wake up to hit the phenomenally interesting meeting at 7:30 am for edge-of-the-seat stuff on (classified info). I changed the alarm to 7:45 and continued to sleep. After all, I had gone to sleep at 2:30 am after a rather [...]
October 13, 2004
10 years from now
The entire TW team (Gary, James, Terri, Shyam, Susan, XP-Babu, Shaab, me plus a new TWer Ross Niemi) went out for dinner today to Tiburon, a caribbean restaurant.
After downing a few and partaking of the ample gastronomic pleasures, Terri says how about we all declare what we want to be doing 10 years from now. [...]
October 12, 2004
Dinner with shaab
Shaab and me went to dinner today. XP-Babu had gone out shopping and had eaten already.
We went to a seafood place close by. The hostess was attractive, particularly skimpily dressed, plus shall we say, suitably well endowed.
Me : Can we have a table for two please ?
Hostess : Well, its rather full but let me [...]
October 11, 2004
The Col Springs trip
We reached the airport at 22oo hrs. Doom turned up with 2 large bags. Turned out he brought his laptop. It would come in handy later.
First thing we did after we checked in at the hotel, was logical considering the time – 2330 hrs. We went for breakfast. Village Inn was yum. It turned to [...]
