I'm alive

Greetings from India! I arrived early (EARLY) Monday morning—12:15 AM to be precise—and got to my hotel about 2 AM. After a short four hour nap, I was up and heading out to work. So far things are going well, and I’m nearly over jet lag. In fact, I think after tonight’s sleep, I’ll be pretty much acclimated. Just for reference, India is 10 ½ hours ahead of Kansas City so it’s a big swing in time. But yesterday I was pretty tired.

I’m getting to have lots of yummy, spicy food and I think my new team members are a little surprised how much I like spicy food. We had a lunch brought in yesterday and most of them found one of the dishes too hot. I found it delicious and had seconds ::burp::

Last night, our head of international operations took us to dinner at an amazing place (do check the link, the pictures are worth it). We shared about five or six different appetizers and entrees and oh my goodness what a great dinner. I used to say my favorite place to get Indian food was in London but now I’ll have to say Bangalore.

No pictures yet, but perhaps this weekend I can get some.

Productive weekend

Between the two of us this weekend, we:

• Installed a wire closet system in the master closet (second bedroom will be next)
• Hacked a Pier 1 storage piece to house the litter boxes
• Unpacked all but about five or six boxes (those last few are the toughest)
• Bought and put together a guest bed and two stools for the bar
• Made two batches of soup (spicy vegetable and chicken noodle soup)
• Did seven loads of laundry (how do two people get so many things dirty?)
• Hung mini-blinds in three windows
• And got massages

We had the patio door open today since it's quite warm and we had the oven going for our dinner this evening. The cats are absolutely riveted by the dog next door and have been by the patio door since I opened it, staring at the poor little dog.

And in other news, Wally (re)discovered the dryer. What's amazing about his discovery this time is that the washer is front-loading; he had to jump from the floor to the dryer opening above the washer. As you can see from this picture, he was eyeballing the top where I have the laundry detergent stored.