One more week!!

I am excited. Next week same time i will be in Talkeetna preparing for my climb.Last minute shopping to be finished today and tomorrow.

I just witnessed the death of a small dog while coming from office. The scene of the dead dog and the owner crying uncontrollably beside it was heartbreaking. Death hurts.

My new spantiks!!Yoohoo!!They really look snazzy,isn't it!! :)

'Sore butts are not a happy feeling'

My butt is sore and my leg aches with every push.I have a very new appreciation to the likes of armstrong's,contador's,schlek's who participate in the tour de france and have begun to accept them as super-human's.I have no bloody damn clue how they manage to ride 3000 odd Kms in 20 odd days.I bow down to them,their motivation, their super human strength and pain thresholds.

Today i was extremely motivated and pushed myself to do a 41 mile bike ride on my road bike.Let me tell you a 'life' lesson learnt - 'sore butts are not a happy feeling'. I could not sit on my bike for the last few miles.My legs hurt with every pedal stroke and i literally cried when i finally got off my bike. I could not walk for the first five minutes and was hobbling around like a penguin. Then came the task of lifting and taking my bike four levels up to my house on the stairs.That, My dear friends is pain personified!! None of you should ever go through that and if you piss me off i will definitely wish that pain upon you as it was the most unbearable pain ever!!Imagine a really sore butt and failing legs and having to climb four floors with the a bike on your shoulders.

All in all i was really glad when i came back home and simply dumped everything and flopped on my bed and that was the most heavenly feeling ever.I could hear my butts almost smothering me with their thank yous and in matter of minutes i happily drifted off to sleep.

On 'hind' thought i think it was a painful experience 'Butt' I feel I should take another shot at it.

Some people are stupid and never learn.Do they :)

Go Yanni!!

This was a long time coming but it finally happened.Having listened to Yanni for years I finally got to see him perform live in San francisco last weekend.It was fun and his group played a really good collection of songs.I had great company with my cousins and it was a gorgeous day at SFO topped with some amazing Masala dosa and sambar vada at a place called 'DOSA' in downtown SFO.You couldn't ask for more!!

My Mountain Hardware absolute zero parka is here.Supposedly the warmest and burliest parka on the planet.It is worn in all the extreme places on earth(Everest,north pole, Antarctica,..you name it and its been there).People dream about owning a lot of things in life but i am willing to bet it will not be the warmest piece of clothing ever invented by Man till date. :) Even i did not but i just did dibs on that.:) Born in one of the warmest places on the planet and currently living in one of the coldest places and in a month going to one of the most extreme places on planet earth.People talk about diversity in many different ways,can it get more diverse than this? :)


Below is a cute model trying it out.