A combination of a couple of efforts, first being my attempt to stay up and get my schedule more adjusted to local, and second, the opportunity to visit an old friend, let me to venture out for the first time last night for dinner.
Santanu is an old friend that I worked with back in the TIBCO Finance days. Before there was organization and progress for the lab space there, Santanu single handedly keep the environment up and bumbling along. As I worked to get the space better visibility, funding, and work improvements to the space, he continued to be an integral part of the team. It had been roughly 8 years since I had last seen him.... him continuing to stay with Reuters and move onto Paris.
I got back from work a little bit before 6:00PM, and told my driver that I might go back out, but that if I didn't contact him before 9PM, to just go ahead on home. It's weird having someone at my total beck and call, but that seems to be the norm around here, and you definitely don't want to acclimate to the driving habits. As I mentioned, I was still quite tired, but also had the situation where I needed to go out and get something to eat, so I chit chatted with him briefly about where the place was and then dozed off in the back seat.
Apparently he didn't REALLY know where the place was and it was a little bit of an adventure. I woke up from my mini nap at the wrong place... royal orchid hotel.... which I guess the place was near. There were a couple spells where my driver parked the car, ran out to talk or find directions, and then come back.
Eventually we did spot the place as it is right next to a TGI Fridays, and you can spot their awning from quite a ways away. But after we spotted it, it was difficult to get to and it took another 5 minutes.
Dinner was ok... it was indian food. Quite tasty. Some chicken, some fish, some prawns in curry. I was really tired throughout the meal, so I didn't need to eat a whole lot.
After that I found my driver, headed on home without incident, called home and crawled into bed.
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