Monsoons et al

Everyone seems to be talking about the M word these days - not Money but Monsoons. With the monsoons playing truant, everyone is tense because of the impact. People have till now blamed the top 5 reasons for anything going wrong - global warming, "fatigue" factor, Pakistan, bad karma and the Opposition party. The PMO office is "keeping an eye" on the monsoon apparently. I asked them what does that exactly mean. The answer "We go out of our office, look at the sky, put our hands out and "see" if it rains. If it does, we go and tell the PM. If not,we repeat it the next day". So much for action..

Talking about the PM, I and the Better Half had out 656th fight today. Yeah, I keep counting - like you don't!! You don't? Oh well - we always do. As soon as we get to 999, we reset the count. Makes it easier..One thing about our fights though - I ALWAYS have the last word - its usually "SORRY". That seems to be always close the fight. Although I admit that there are times that the Better Half has the last word too - she says "SORRY that I married you".

So much for marriage..talking of marriage, remember that old adage that marriage is like going to a restaurant, ordering what you want and then wish you had order what the OTHER person had ordered. You agree? I thought so!! There is newer twist to it - marriage is like a cell phone - every 6 months there is newer and better model out there!!

Going back to more nicer things, there was a news article about how urine can be used to create fuel. Chemist found an electrolytic approach to produce hydrogen from urine - the most abundant waste on Earth - at a fraction of the cost of producing hydrogen from water. Now you have the option of doing two things at the petrol bunk - empty one tank and fill up another. However, I still wonder how they will gather the fuel - do we all stand in line somewhere? I can see the cabinet divided - a certain minister will insist that it should be located in W Bengal while someone else will say that no outsiders will be allowed to use their state's fuel. Imagine a signboard saying "Please piss here - the country needs gas". I can imagine the bumper stickers now "Don't mess with me - I am really PISSED off".

Coffee drinkers also have yet another reason to relish their favourite drink - it can protect against Alzheimer's disease, say researchers. I would have drunk more coffee but I seem to keep forgetting!!

On that note - ta ta and see you in the next post!!