Today was a good day. Been clean since Saturday, so expected to sleep well. Just ended up sleeping less. Apparently the third eye deep within the brain, known as the pineal complex, that helps regulate sleep and the production of melatonin actually started off as a set of dorsal eyes on the earliest known vertebrate, that lived 518 million years ago. Cannot even say half a billion years here, because god alone knows if the four-eyed creature survived 18 million years.
During the Cretaceous period, about 90 million years ago, India was actually bisected into two, with the Narmada and Godavari valleys containing seaways. Most of the nesting sites of the dinosaurs in India are along these seaways. This is also the reason why marine fossils are so common in central India. The last days of the dinosaurs must have been pretty sad, because the large Titanosaurids preferred to nest on the warm ground of fresh volcanic flows. We have discovered remains and eggs in layers sandwiched between volcanic flows. It is almost as if the dinosaurs were attracted to their doom. Kind of sad. Was reading the book 'Dinosaurs of India' by Ashok Sahni in the Metro.
Have also decided to reduce Uber usage and travel more on the Metro, and only drink on the weekends. It is a nice walk across a park to the Nehru Enclave metro station from my home. Wish there was an underground walkway between Nehru Place and Nehru Enclave. When I first came here, I used to waste a lot of time switching over at Kalkaji Mandir, till a colleague told me of the easier option.
There was a boo boo at the Rasa cafe today, which is where we have lunch. It is the de-facto office canteen, but is operated by the owners of the building. The food is actually great, particularly good for Delhi. Mostly North Indian food is unpalatable to me, and I get a lot of nightmares about looking for and eating home-cooked food. I miss my dad's cooking also, which is getting increasingly erratic and unpredictable. He likes to experiment, so every day there will be a fresh take on a dosa or pakoda, and at times it is sad to see him struggling to get it right. Like ambodes were fragmenting. I also used to wake up to different kinds of music blasting on the speakers early in the morning because he is hard of hearing. One day it was Snoop Dogg lol. Miss that.
Might be visiting Mumbai for an event in Feb, but it is mostly going to be in and out.
Oh right, the boo boo at Rasa was that the dosa was too dayum salty. One of my colleagues could not consume one dosa, so asked for it to be replaced, and could not eat the replacement too. I had to explain to him that the batter is going to be the same. All over north India, the south Indian food is crap because the items are slow moving, and we often get old stuff. There is no gatti chutney available even in the fanciest five star hotels, and all of them have the consistency of cat diarrhea. So we went to a neighbouring office complex and consumed pav bhaji... which the idiots found it fit to sprinkle paneer on. Delhi people put paneer in everything, including poha, watermelon salad, veg patties and mix vegetable. I do not want your fake ass paneer dude! Butter paneer is not a curry, it is a glorified starter.
Hmmm... let me see if there is anything else. Oh yeah every time I see Pawar's face I can only imagine him peeing in a dam. This is why you need to be careful about what you say as a public figure. His face is all over the media today. That is it, I guess, will head down to the shuttle now that will take me to Okhla Burb Sanctuary. Oh yeah, yesterday I actually overshot and forgot to get down at my station because of how long I had not travelled in the metro!
Made a couple of new friends in the Wolvesville game, Jasper and BranzyCraft. I made and forgot so many friends over the years in videogames, that I need to write them down to remember them now. This wolf simulation game is going to the dogs. The Sandbox mode practically trolls the players, and it is sad because most people are doing something else while playing the game, watching a series, eating, working, playing another videogame, and at times even sleeping. It is sad because the villages lose simply because half the lobby is not paying attention. The setups and stacks also suck right now, which is why I am going back to Quick mode, but still prefer Sandbox on principle. The guild master is MIA for a few months now and is not responding to pings on Discord.
Today, after a long time, I finally got to wrap up work early, and got some time to pack in a blog post before leaving for the day. Need to get back to posting on Starbullet.in... have not updated that site in too long, been nearly three months. I renewed the domain name for a year, so I better use it. I wish there was an app to track all your digital subscriptions across platforms. A colleague of mine has started watching and enjoying Castelvania, I asked him to watch Voltron too. Oh PS, I wrote a stinker on Space Gen Chandrayaan, it is shit! Feel sorry for the lead actor, he gave a sincere performance, but the direction and story was so bad. Indian creators have to stop scamming their audiences and treating them like addlepated nincompoops.
KTHXBAI.
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