Last day in the windy city. It was darn windy too. We walked to the Prez Towers market which is very close to the office. Our faces became more frozen than the sides of meat at the store. Brrr.
Evening we had decided to go to a piano bar…the Redhead. We stopped by at 2 [...]
Entries from December 2004
December 21, 2004
Howling at the Moon
December 20, 2004
Mamma Mia!
Sir Doom and I went for the musical at the Ford Centre in Chicago on Sunday evening. We had booked tickets the previous weekend. The theatre was built in 1924 and looks somewhat like the insides of a Kannada movie cinema in Majestic. Well ’somewhat’ bcos of the decor, but its maintained much better [...]
December 19, 2004
Second farewell
Since the Shout House was so good. I just had to go back there. My friend Savio and his wife were to meet me Saturday evening so I suggested we go to the Shout House.
It was amazing. Since I was totally sober this time, I could appreciate the music – the two dueling pianists played [...]
December 18, 2004
Farewell to Minneapolis
My last day at the client was rather action packed. A few cards to test followed by an afternoon and evening of fun.
The morning was filled by the testing of several cards. Lunch was a sub picked up from my favourite Great Steak & Fry. Krishna and me tried our hand at foosball in the [...]
December 14, 2004
Winterapolis
Last weekend was spent in Chicago which consisted of work in the office, some home office day meetings, 3 games of AoE with Bangalore (I won 2 despite the communication gap) and an Xmas party in the evening. I had great hopes for the party but it didnt turn out as I expected. It was [...]
December 8, 2004
Most embarrassing moment
I was asked to do an SQL session for the client BAs. This was to enable them to do simple queries to retrieve information from the databse to help them validate cards and test results.
It was in this large training room which had several levels like a classroom. Its well setup with huge screen, projector, [...]
December 2, 2004
Jewel of India
After the usual session at the squash courts, which ended in nine miserable games (for Kris), we decided to go for Indian dinner.
A quick google search brought the ‘Jewel of India’ – the ‘best Indian restaurant in Minneapolis.’ It was 1.4 mile away from the hotel, so we decided to walk.
Suitably attired for the -1 [...]
