On Friday he rested

The all-hands India meetings were over. There was one straggler in the office when I got in around 9:30am. Suresh left shortly thereafter and the Hyderabadites were left on our own. I worked until about 2pm then Chandra and I went for lunch at a place called Minerva. Naturally he chose the items and they were interesting.

The server first brought a lot of little bowls with an assortment of sauces/chutneys (I think), then the first dish arrived, It contained a few bread-like biscuits about the size of an ice hockey puck, with the consistency of a soft kitchen sponge. The little holes in the item resembled the fizz on top of a glass when you pour soda in and the head builds. I know I will get an update on what this stuff is once I speak with someone here about it. They are served at breakfast at Katriya so I will grab the name from the little sign in the Orchid cafe. We then had the next dish. When it arrived I commented that it was the biggest enchilada I had ever seen. The shell was very thin and crispy, rolled on a tube about twice the size of the cardboard in a toilet paper roll. Inside was some soft yellow'y filling with creamy sauce and what could have been onions. I was afraid to ask what the soft chunks were in case they were some alien substance I do not normally eat. It was, to my re;ief, simply potato.

Rather than go back to the office, I foolishly thought it was nap time and putting my head down for a bit would allow me to catch up on my sleep. I went back to hotel and maybe slept a half hour in the next two hours until Raju called from the office. I returned to work and sat in on a few meetings with Ottawa people and we started the task of hooking up an internet phone for the balance of my stay. Raju gave me the details on a car that had been reserved for me to tour Hyderabad on Saturday. I was told Aditya was coming too which pleased me to no end. I came back to Katriya about 9:30pm, giving myself a real flavour of how life seems to play out for Pythianites in India (working so late that is).

My head hit the pillow again about nidnight, eagerly anticipating the $23 fee for a full day private car to tour Hyderabad Saturday ... next post is details about that journey, and a journey it was at that :).