It’s Monday night and I can’t help thinking about how time flies nowadays – the routine continues as usual – week, weekend, week, weekend, week … Anyway so this weekend was another lazy one but since I like to pretend that everything I did is worth reporting, here we go again 
Okay so what did I do on Saturday ? After writing my blog, I promptly joined Vidye in doing the weekly grocery shopping for the household. Enjoyed some nice music in the car too thanks to the car CD player adapter that I bought her for her birthday, and fooled around in Schnucks. After that it was time for Vidye’s haircut [which btw is really quite a misleading term in her case since all she gets done is trim an inch of her 2-ft plus long hair ] and I sat around and watched and so did everybody else in ‘Great Clips’ since they ostensibly had nothing better to do. And what an opportunity for them too 
Anyway, I read quite a bit of ‘Kane and Abel’ in the night and enjoyed every page of it as I made my way from one end of the thick book to the other. Was interruped by Nonda who said that we should go to Nik’s Wine Bar after dinner to have a good time and I concurred of course. I had this blue margarita which was really quite awesome We chatted for a long time and I was greatly entertained since Nonda had managed to get high just on half a glass of whatever she ordered.
I also managed to speak to my parents in India after what seemed like ages – the connection was also crystal clear and all the more fun Nanna had me amused when I told him how I passed the driver’s test with flying colours and he replied, “Oh very good Ravi. It runs in the family see.”
Yesterday was a rather lazy day – I spent the morning doing nothing in particular, the usual Sunday morning bath and a dash of extra enthusiasm while cooking – ended up making some nice dal and a mixed vegetable curry. Now if only I manage to get over my laziness of cutting fresh vegetables, I can actually stop using frozen ones all the time.
In the evening I went over to Vidye’s house and helped her rearrange her room [only to undo it all today but that's another story ]. Booze joined us later and we had a good time talking. We came back home for dinner and the rest of the night saw the three of us engaging in an intense discussion in which Booze and I explained to Vidye how a processor works and what is meant by an instruction set and what kind of a job the compiler actually performs etc etc. It was rather interesting to listen to such basic questions and then try to answer them since the challenge also lay in being able to explain it in a manner as lucid as possible.
This evening Vidye and I discussed a very interesting problem connected to her research – basically that of smoothening out a graph like one would try to smoothen, say an image. Had a nice time putting to use something I remember reading a long, long time ago in some stupid Visual Basic book
I also re-stumbled upon the amazing ZNet website and found lots of very interesting articles on world affairs – economics and the like too
