If
Biscuit’s behavior yesterday was like Sreesanth back-chatting to Alan Donald,
his conduct today in the face of extreme provocation by Tiggy (discerning
readers would remember, my colleagues Rottweiller) who loudly protests
Biscuit’s encroachment of his territory from his balcony, was Dravidesque to
Mitchel Johnson’s taunts. Clearly he was contrite and was making amends for his
previous day’s fall from grace. His love for the canine brotherhood extended to
the playful stray couple who were performing pre-nuptial dances. Today Biscuit
was as bashful in his entire morning walk as to have put a new bride in her
in-laws place! Wish I could convey to him the outpouring of support from the
internet community as if he were the aggrieved party in yesterday’s exchange.
I
met the 71 year old friend (his name I got to know today is Venugopal) and
conveyed to him the growing fan club for him from amongst my readers. It turns
out that the other early bird is Mr. Ranganathan (who addresses me by name) is
the elder brother of Venugopal. As I was gossiping with them, Kakinada express
parked abreast and was rearing to go.
No
cow in sight today to take my humble offering of banana peels. Hope ache din
comes soon for people too when we do not find people to receive alms. It sure
felt awkward carrying back the banana peels back home.
Today’s
thoughts were on the commonalities between Gandhinomics and the philosophy of
Uncle Scrooge. Whenever I am in doubt about what Gandhi would have done when
faced with an expenditure proposal, my simple mantra has been to think what
Uncle Scrooge would have done, the path of least price. I have confessed to my
wife soon into my dalliance with Gandhi-ism that I was a simple stingy soul who
has started fashionably calling himself Gandhian. The larger beneficial impacts
for the individual and the world at large will be a subject matter of a separate
blog later.
Today’s run took 3:18 hrs for a
32K run. Time to taper for the 24 hour stadium run at Bangalore on August 2nd.
Let me see how long I can postpone the taper!
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