About Today

 I wrapped up my last injection yesterday. Hand pains a bit from all the injections. Nearing the end of Jurassic Park: Chaos Theory, so will have to find something else to watch now. I did a total of 11 stories on the same report by ISRO, this was a blitz, what is known as cluster coverage. So good day at work yesterday and today. It is taking nearly five minutes for me to unpack my whole pasara, a spread of tech on my desk, that includes a wireless keyboard, a tablet with its stand, a smartphone with its stand, a large Ant mousepad that I got for like 170 bucks from Instamart, the headphone, a mouse and two laptops. 

After being dry for nearly three months, I now have a flood of devices to review, including two laptops, a gaming mouse, and a smartphone. Will be a little grueling to get all of them done on time. The hype for Artemis II has not started yet, cannot believe that humans are embarking on a Moon mission for the first time in over 50 years, and there is almost no hype. 

Swarajya is doing some crazy things. So the Parliamentary Committee Report criticised the low cost at which private industries in India were gaining tech developed using taxpayer money. The Indian National Congress put out a snide post on X based on this, that got all the brigading sanghis up in arms. Now, Swarajya Mag with its over-the-top ass-licking went hard in the other direction, putting out a story saying 'Taxpayer Funded Technology Gathering Dust In ISRO Labs Is The Real Waste'. In doing so, they contradicted the Parliamentary Committee Report, which says "It has been observed that technologies are often transferred to private players at undervalued rates, allowing these partners to earn significant profits while the originating institutes receive only a marginal share of the value created. Furthermore, there is no credible mechanism to verify whether the benefits of low-cost technology transfers are being passed on to the intended target users for whom the technologies were developed."

Sometimes, overenthusiasm makes people do ridonkulous things. I had to explain all this to my edit team. 

Had dal chawal today. The Rasa cafe has some excellent chilli cheese toast. I am down on some herb supplies, might have to restock day after. The kid enjoyed the bisibele bath and filter coffee yesterday, but not the curd rice. Came to know of two new old South Indian restaurants in Noida that I have to check out, one is Lakshmi Coffee House, and the other is Reena Restaurant which is like a canteen but apparently provides good food. The Nothing 4a Pro is running a battery test in my bag as I type, I hope it does not get disturbed. From the looks of it, the battery can easily last two days under sustained use, which is impressive. 

Feeling a bit sleepy. My course of injections got over yesterday, and instead of four pills a day, I now only have to take two pills every day for 10 days, one in the morning and the other in the evening. I also got five painkillers that I can take in case chest starts paining. There seems to be no pain so far, and hopefully the infection is getting cleared. I have to take another X-ray at the end of ten days to make sure. This treatment and even diagnosis was an unexpected financial burden on me. 

I also discovered that I do not have medical insurance, apart from the company policy. AARHGUSHDGFHJSDGHJ. 

KTHXBAI.