Bangalore, Day 11
Feb. 11th, 2012 12:12 pmI must be fully adjusted to living in Bangalore: this morning (Friday), I slept in.
Over the past 10+ days, I've been waking up at 7:30am by reflex (my watch alarm set for 8am as a precaution), check my email, get scrubbed up enough to be seen in public and walk over to the office by 9am. This morning, however, I woke up, rolled over to look at my watch and was astonished to see it displaying 9:10am.
Fortunately, it's Friday here and all of the big work projects have already been tackled. In fact, I completed all of the writing tasks I had hoped to accomplish shortly after lunch Thursday. At the moment, I'm monitoring some processing jobs and updating some scripts, but otherwise expending most of my energy dreading a huge pile of stuff waiting for me at my data center back in Washington.
One of the curious side effects of being 10.5 hours out of sync with home is that I'm spending less time online. We talk a great line about how the Internet has made us a 24x7 world, but it really hasn't: the bulk of the transactions, updates & postings generated are done in the daylight hours of the writers. Since most of the people I follow on email, Facebook, Google+, LiveJournal and a host of news web sites are all in North America, there are precious few updates posted during my daytime hours in India. In effect, I get to do all of my reading & browsing within the first hour or so of my day before going to work and never have a distraction until my bedtime, just as folks in North America are starting their day.
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debbieann commented on yesterday's post about the card key electrical control for my hotel room. The suggestion was that any card the correct shape would probably work just as well as my room's door key. Sure enough, the Cold Stone Creamery gift card I forgot to take out of my wallet works just fine at keeping the lights & outlets on. Yay!
I just finished reading "Rainbow's End" by Maury Klein, a history of the stock market crash of 1929. Wow, that ended badly.
Over the past 10+ days, I've been waking up at 7:30am by reflex (my watch alarm set for 8am as a precaution), check my email, get scrubbed up enough to be seen in public and walk over to the office by 9am. This morning, however, I woke up, rolled over to look at my watch and was astonished to see it displaying 9:10am.
Fortunately, it's Friday here and all of the big work projects have already been tackled. In fact, I completed all of the writing tasks I had hoped to accomplish shortly after lunch Thursday. At the moment, I'm monitoring some processing jobs and updating some scripts, but otherwise expending most of my energy dreading a huge pile of stuff waiting for me at my data center back in Washington.
One of the curious side effects of being 10.5 hours out of sync with home is that I'm spending less time online. We talk a great line about how the Internet has made us a 24x7 world, but it really hasn't: the bulk of the transactions, updates & postings generated are done in the daylight hours of the writers. Since most of the people I follow on email, Facebook, Google+, LiveJournal and a host of news web sites are all in North America, there are precious few updates posted during my daytime hours in India. In effect, I get to do all of my reading & browsing within the first hour or so of my day before going to work and never have a distraction until my bedtime, just as folks in North America are starting their day.
debbieann commented on yesterday's post about the card key electrical control for my hotel room. The suggestion was that any card the correct shape would probably work just as well as my room's door key. Sure enough, the Cold Stone Creamery gift card I forgot to take out of my wallet works just fine at keeping the lights & outlets on. Yay!I just finished reading "Rainbow's End" by Maury Klein, a history of the stock market crash of 1929. Wow, that ended badly.
