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Surviving another year

Since time is a meaningless idea the sheer audacity of the humans in counting it is noteworthy.  In the realm of trips made around our sun I happened to be approaching the half century mark.

The spouse too.  Turned out it was an occasion that we celebrated with friends in Silicon Valley that we do not see that often.

It was in a bistro like setting serving food from Northern India mere blocks outside the Stanford University campus.  I had eaten their food some time back but as takeout never on site.

We arrived early and were able to get a set of complicated orders in before the place got mobbed.  I still messed up my wife's order after spending a quarter century with her - such enigma the matter between the ears is.

Nonetheless it was pleasant company where we chatted about everything and nothing in particular all at the same time.  From possibility of procreation to evangelism to aspirations and perspirations to state of our planet and everything one could throw in between it was a laissez faire conversation lubricated by cups of steaming masala chai from the spigot the hosts had left out.


The food was freshly made and after nourishing ourselves we set out for a stroll. 




More conversation and more pontificating on some of our parts we ended with wishing one of the friend best wishes for a PhD program she intends to embark on.  She intends to study linguistics = figuring out if in fact we have been communicating well for all these years that we have been keeping track of time.

All in all a pleasant afternoon with the only sideshow of unexpected proportions in the form of a guy off his rocker (but not off his bike) urinating on the sidewalk - perhaps getting the wrong inspiration from an artistic rendering in the middle of the street.  Maybe his startup never achieved unicorn status?

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