Asta is Not With Us Anymore...

• Asta, our pet Fox Terrier, is no more. As i mentioned on a reply in FaceBook, she lived an eventful and contented life.
• ENTHUSIASTIC - the word to describe her every day of existence. For a dog, she taught me a lot. 'Dog'matic in many ways, she was demure and very mature. Yes, always retained that uncertain characteristic of changing the mood and letting off on the street-side brat or mongrel. Showed the importance of remaining unpredictable in life!
• Though most of my interactions with her were that of pulling tails, snatching the ball from her mouth (towards the end, that was very dangerous as an odd tooth was a likely addition to the ball too !) or generally running around, it was the silent friendship that she kept that was most reliving.
• As I write this, I am reminded of how she stood guard near the bundle of joy called 'Siddharth'... we were apprehensive that she may not like the chap and may misbehave. But it was such an unfounded thought - we learnt only much later. Apologies for that, Asta.
• I am sure that this is one association I will not forget too soon... regards, ever, Asta.

Relocation!

• We recently relocated from Siliguri to Bhopal... guess good enough reason to not post updates for sometime now!
• The move itself was uneventful - i.e. if you call shifting schools for the kids, re-visiting Siliguri for the omitted signatures on the Siddharth's school TC, looking for a house and hoping fervently that the crystal is just that and not its plural during un-packing - as uneventful!!
• We are firmly settled down now.
• I have joined in a new appointment and seem to be the boss around here! Good for me, though - as dad mentioned this morning - I can't give an excuse that I was away with the commanding officer anymore!!
• Meanwhile, the new place also gave new scares. One innocuous looking message from Google one fine morning said '...Server settings have changed; do you want to sync?'. To which the Google swear-er promptly said 'Yes'. Lo! and behold, a few mins of the cursor updating itself, all my 'contacts' on the phone went kaput. It took a lot of cajoling and requesting Google's servers to give me back my data.
• More in a couple of days. Good times, always...