Monday, September 12, 2005
Lazy Sunday
Last week was rather busy. That's definately a good thing. The faster we get things done the quicker I can get out of here. Helps the days go by quicker too. It's been raining here for about 5 days straight so yesterday, my first day off in a couple weeks, I stayed in the hotel. Went down for a late breakfast and then back for dinner around 8PM. Spent the rest of the day surfing the web, watching TV and even started reading a book. It was definately a lazy, relaxing day. I reflected a bit on what happened 4 years ago today and thought about the many changes that have come about since then. Sure hope we can avoid having something like that happen again.
This past Friday night we hooked up with some others that are in and out of the area frequently working on different energy related jobs. We decided to go out to a restaurant/bar that one of them discovered in town called Himalaya. When we arrived the bar and small restaurant area was packed so we ventured upstairs to get a table and some food and drink. Upstairs was an uncovered outside rooftop patio. It was still raining just a little and we said thanks but no thanks and headed back into the street to find a couple auto-rickshaws to carry us to Kalinga where we had been before. Someone from Himalaya came out just as we were getting loaded into the vehicles and told us they had a special AC room for us upstairs so we decided to give it a shot and went back up. What we found was a storage room/office that they had hastily removed enough stuff to stick a couple tables into. Very different this "special AC room". We decided to stay since they were making such an effort for us. The atmosphere obviously sucked but the food was surprizingly very good and the entire bill for 8 of us including food, drinks and tip was 2000 ruppees. Thats about $48 US. We'll go back sometime soon when they are less crowded and try to get in downstairs...
I can't believe what Stacey did last night (her Sunday afternoon) I guess there really isn't any need for respecting someone's wishes in a relationship anyway, is there? Especially when they are half way around the globe, right? All I can say is it will take me a long time to get past this...but that's another story and it probably won't be elaborated on here. Sure make this crappy assignment that much more irritating though.
This past Friday night we hooked up with some others that are in and out of the area frequently working on different energy related jobs. We decided to go out to a restaurant/bar that one of them discovered in town called Himalaya. When we arrived the bar and small restaurant area was packed so we ventured upstairs to get a table and some food and drink. Upstairs was an uncovered outside rooftop patio. It was still raining just a little and we said thanks but no thanks and headed back into the street to find a couple auto-rickshaws to carry us to Kalinga where we had been before. Someone from Himalaya came out just as we were getting loaded into the vehicles and told us they had a special AC room for us upstairs so we decided to give it a shot and went back up. What we found was a storage room/office that they had hastily removed enough stuff to stick a couple tables into. Very different this "special AC room". We decided to stay since they were making such an effort for us. The atmosphere obviously sucked but the food was surprizingly very good and the entire bill for 8 of us including food, drinks and tip was 2000 ruppees. Thats about $48 US. We'll go back sometime soon when they are less crowded and try to get in downstairs...
I can't believe what Stacey did last night (her Sunday afternoon) I guess there really isn't any need for respecting someone's wishes in a relationship anyway, is there? Especially when they are half way around the globe, right? All I can say is it will take me a long time to get past this...but that's another story and it probably won't be elaborated on here. Sure make this crappy assignment that much more irritating though.
