So as I mentioned in the circuses and monkeys post I am a bit harried these days, it feels like for every thing I check off my list one or two come in to replace it. That made what happened today out of the ordinary.
My adviser Dr. Garg had an old student (Dr. Somsundar Mukhopadhyay) of his in town for a few days and wanted a couple of us to sit with him and learn a few things. This was not really at the top of my list of priories but I thought, that since Dr. Garg wanted it to be so and because Som was a friend of mine last year before he had completed his thesis defense, that I should to it. Som and I wound up spending basically all day working on several things, adapting code from an ancient Solaris machine to a Linux machine (really horrible code too more on that in another post… maybe). Also finding a number of bugs in that code that were really stupid. Still being in the presence of a friend, working on something interesting, laughing and talking, lightened my mood considerably, despite the coming crap-storm.
Then later Darshana, the friend for whom I was covering the auto-fill system, came by and presented me with a hand made cloth bound diary / sketchbook. The cloth has some nice designs and on the front cover is an engraved plate thing with Ganesha. I liked it then and now that I have read about Ganesha and what he represents in the Hindu pantheon I like it even more. Turns out that Ganesha is the remover of obstacles, Lord of Beginnings and Lord of Obstacles, patron of arts and sciences, and the Deva of intellect and wisdom. I can get behind that.
Darshana, I am 99% certain that you do not read this blog, but nevertheless, thank you very much, this means a lot to me.
It was odd, but today was one of the best days I have had in recent memory. Thanks to all who contributed to it.
