Being Raghu!

Last few weeks have been pretty exciting. For starters, I got to get past the Project Time Management chapter which has been like a ghost stuck to my shoulder for as long as a month. Sometimes, however and whatever you do, you just can’t get moving. There are certain forces unknown to you that just are not on your side of things. It’s like someone is pushing you from both sides, you feel the push, but you cannot move an inch as there is something pulling you too with equal force. My advice, wait it out!

With things picking up pace, the weather turned sour. I could see my feet getting cold and my skin getting dry like a fig leaf. And with Snow, comes great responsibility, a responsibility to shovel off the snow and start clearing the drive way and the walkout areas and thus help my land lord make peace with me. The thing that I hate the most is waiting for the car to get hotter inside to make it easier to even touch the steering  with my gloves that are freezing cold. My advice this time, buy a remote starter and switch on the engine 10 minutes before you even think of getting inside the car.

With all these happening, my fickle mind in the vulnerable cold conditions let my demons inside raise their ugly hood. I started researching on things that can help control the madness. It’s not easy. It’s like I am living two lives. The one obvious to everyone, a respectable (don’t doubt that!) software guy trying to make ends meet and spending time with his family and living by the book. The other life, is the one that I am by nature selected to be a freak, free as the water, going by the flow, living out of bounds. An irrational man seeking peace in madness, craving for adventures beyond normal and imaging things insurmountable. I know it’s not easy to deal with me. I am really impressed with the way everyone, especially my parents and my wife have been supportive of my extremes. May be they had no choice, but there’s always an incentive to walk away which they never did. In fact, they always encouraged me to dream on!

So finally the insatiable desire for an adventure ended with me deciding that I would be sky diving the coming summer, drive down to the Canadian wilderness and visit US if possible. My energy levels are now back to an all-time high with the knowledge and gratification that I am trying to set some goals and give some method to the madness.

Meanwhile, my hero LDC has won the golden globe for what I would term as the role of a life time and the character that would turn his life in ways unimaginable. Reading the book really helped me go to the movie with the same killer resolve for revenge as his character had. It was like I was out in the Canadian wilderness alone, left for dead, cheated, betrayed  adding to the near death experience after being mauled by a grizzly bear. I never felt the pain of a character as I did with the character of Hugh Glass. The movie chilled me to the core and yes, LDC has lived and experienced in reel as much as Glass experienced in real.

Off late, I have become a huge fan of a traditional nonalcoholic beer that goes by the generic name of “Root Beer”. 

Root beer is a dark sweet beverage traditionally made using the root or bark of the tree Sassafras albidum (sassafras) as the primary flavor. Root beer may be alcoholic or non-alcoholic, and may be carbonated or non-carbonated. Most root beer has a thick foamy head when poured. Modern, commercially produced root beer is generally sweet, foamy, carbonated, and non-alcoholic, and is flavored using artificial sassafras. It may or may not contain caffeine.

Yes, you are thinking right. I picked this up from Wikipedia.

I have tried, different types, but I guess the one that I liked most was a bottle that I bought off Walmart (Virgil’s Root Beer) which boasted as being brewed naturally on fire with natural ingredients. Also, you should try the one at Montana’s Grill.

A quick weather check before I close the post:

We are in for heavy snowfall this week till the weekend and then few days with sunshine. So make haste while the sun shines!