Well, the week is almost over.

Mrinal dropped in yesterday so that I could disassemble his guitar – Sony and Shanu are taking the cracked tremolo arm part with them to Chennai tonight to try and get a replacement.

Had a hilarious time trying to play Eric Clapton’s “Layla” without slipping from the original to the unplugged version, and vice versa. And Mrinal discovered that here was a song where he couldn’t play lead with a plectrum – he had to use plucking – plectrum was too slow!

In office, we have been fighting with (of all the things) photo copying. We have never needed such a beast of a machine – when we needed to photocopy, we sent it down to a shop.

But over the past week or so, copying requirements have gone through the roof – largely with all the paper work involved with the plot purchase. Our man Friday (Ramesh) began to look decidedly hassled with the number of trips he was making.

So today Sony decided to combine the facts that we have a scanner and a laser printer, and with the help of a small little open-source program (ginko) and the Linux standard scanning program sane, we can now do our photocopying in office – cheaper and faster (and less wearing on Ramesh