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Almost there is right. Almost there means being nowhere close after having started out with the right directions in mind. Today was a day of blinding inadequacies and even more ineffectual thinking. It all started with some dude in China finally responding to my mail sent on Friday. His demands were not that insane, just that they still involved the most avoidable part of a weekend, a trip to the office. When I did eventually drag myself out of bed after having spent the better part of an hour reading through the morning paper. Interestingly, it has its sales pitch firmly focused on scantily clad models and wardrobe malfunctions for Saturday. On Sundays it deals almost exclusively with male perversions and maid fantasies, apparently Shiney Ahuja isnt alone.

After grappling with an innovative problem for the better part of an hour I decided against using any brains and headed off straight for search. That frustrated me for another hour before I went away and had coffee to freshen me up. Apparently, empty stomachs, the same ones which are consistent with every lazy weekend mornings when the Sun's bolting down and every place seems too far compared to the serenity of the sleep at hand, aren't the best places for innovating for problems. After 4.30, my cell started being my local search engine. I did notice that Bing was delivering substantially more relevant results than google on the subject of Technical jargon. Google results seemed to go to hell even more with every subsequent addition to detail of the problem at hand. By 5, not even a trivial solution was at hand and I had decided to leave for a quick swim, something to revitalize the aging neurons that were bombarded with dosages of alcohol extremely frequently. No sooner was I ready to strip that a call alerted me to the prospect of a reunion with a long lost friend over some momo and samosas at a local lake resort. This took up even more time as we made our way to another irani chai joint before heading home and ordering in for the night. The rest of the evening was spent lazing away and making re-affirmations about how I will not drink.

Lastly, I think the entrepreneurial spirit is dying within me....