Author: Swati Sani

Another insipid entry

Tarique says my LJ entries are rather insipid. So be it, such is my life. And who should I blame for it?

Asthma is at its worst. Home has been taken over by the pest control guys, the carpernter and the painter. We have shifted bag and baggage to the two spare rooms in the office. Hopefully things will be back to normal in 10 days and we will get to eat decent home cooked meals…

In another news, Pressman is about to start full fledged operations in Nagpur again after 5 years of gap. Veena has really worked hard. She is getting a pay hike plus two more executives. Feels good to see the Nagpur branch of Pressman doing well – I started it eight years back.

Into My Own – A Poem by Robert Frost

One of my wishes is that those dark trees,
So old and firm they scarcely show the breeze,
Were not, as ’twere, the merest mask of gloom,
But stretched away unto the edge of doom.

I should not be withheld but that some day
into their vastness I should steal away,
Fearless of ever finding open land,
or highway where the slow wheel pours the sand.

I do not see why I should e’er turn back,
Or those should not set forth upon my track
To overtake me, who should miss me here
And long to know if still I held them dear.

They would not find me changed from him they knew
Only more sure of all I though was true.

Aasim fighting sleep

Of-late I am finding that Aasim is fighting sleep a lot – his eyes are red and sleepy by 8 PM but he manages to stay awake till midnight. and sometime even past midnight Earlier I had attributed to his staying indoors in summer and not getting tired, but since his skating camp began, he does get tired.

I hate to scold him to go to bed – I feel a child should not go to bed crying. He already knows all the stories he should by heart still makes me read at-least 5 of them every night and still refuses to sleep. As I write this, he is roaming around the house sleepy eyed, refusing to go any where near his bed…

Wasting time needlessly

Been trying to get the lj client running for my linux machine.. Downloaded the client Found out it needs curl 7.9 Downloaded curl 7.9 it tells me libcurl.so.2 is needed. Realised it is faster to make a journal entry (for those who prefer calling events, experiences, and observations – a diary entry) from the LJ site itself!!

Bottom line – not to waste time when the deadline for submitting the year’s accounts to the CA was yesterday

Random Thots

Days pass by so quickly… Next month it will be eight years to our marriage and it still seems like yesterday.

Financial year ending means so much work

Going out of station demands extra hours of work – shopping, packing, buying gifts and taking care that Aasim doesnt fall ill (100% home cooked meals No Pepsi, No Icecream)

Wow! I lost one more pound

Ah! must go back to the kitchen else everyone will have to eat burnt dinner

Desktop Dilemma

I am not a geek, I don’t use Linux as a hobby. I need it my desktop applications as any manager would. I am a power user.

I choose to use Linux because of the stability it promises to offer but every time I realise that Linux desktop is just as (un)stable as MS windows.
For almost 10 months I refused to touch the Linux desktop. After being told that things are much stable now, I picked it up again.. things were better.. but not good enough. Not good enough for Linux.

Why do I keep going back to Linux

I am back to using Yahoo messenger on Linux. It was very nice of Madhu M Kurup (person developing Yahoo client for *Nix) to chat with me and tell me that he will work on the problem I faced and told me a workaround. This is what makes me go back again and again to keep using Linux desktop.

Someone cynically told Tarique yesterday that I basically *don’t* want to shift to Linux and I will never. I would like to tell him how wrong he is, an ostrich like attitude never works there is a problem which has to be sorted out and it can be solved only if it is acknowledged.

I complain. Yes I do. I am a demanding user and Linux desktop has to satisfy users like me to be better than the more popular Windows.