Grooooaaaaaannn!

Today was mom-in-law’s mutton biryani day, and the gang (Sony, Shanu, Vaibhav and Khader) came over to gorge. Mrinal couldn’t make it, as usual (either he has a new girlfriend we don’t know about, or he is genuinely busy).

We hogged like we hadn’t eaten in days, then sat around, trying to breathe shallowly to avoid any disasters caused by too much pressure on bulging waistlines. Major meal! Diet gaya bhaad mein!

Later in the day, the gang and Anjali chose physical exercise over the more sensible playing cards, and were tromping all over the lawns playing frisbee. Judo managed to catch it and destroy it, so a new one had to be acquired.

While these insane people were sweating it out, I was in the basement, attaching PC to main PA system to finally get jamming at mixed volumes with the PC. Using an old version of Cakewalk and an extremely cruddily made MIDI file of “Comfortably Numb” as a base, I got to work giving it a proper rhythm section, knocked off the lead and guitar bits, then cranked up the volumes, and played and sang along. Sounded good, felt better. Repeated the process with “Learning to Fly”, with less spectacular results, but not bad.

Later in the evening sat down to watch StarTrek TNG, which was actually quite interesting, when half-way through the episode, there was a loud bang, and the power went off. The transformer down the road had smoked.

Resigning ourselves to a night filled with mosquitos, we crawled into bed, but were pleasantly surprised when the power returned at around 10pm.

Which means I get to see StarTrek Voyager now, and possibly the remaining bit of the TNG episode.

So I am off.