A little more than a week ago the head of the division that eScription is a part of at Nuance, walked into my boss's office and asked if I could go to India to do some training for a couple of weeks...in one week. "Wow!", I thought, "This is just the kind of nimble business move that made working for a smaller company attractive"...it is also a classic case of being cautious as to what you wish for...!
But I have always had at the tip of my tongue the answer "YES" when this kind of question comes up. And so here I am.
The trip was uneventful, Bangalore smells as I remember it, rich and earthy, and full of human and animal life. I arrived in the dark, was driven straight to the hotel, went to dinner in the evening with Santhosh Kumar, a friend and colleague from my earlier Bangalore trip, also in the dark, so I can't honestly say I've seen anything yet. Except for the hotel and this lovely room.
I missed breakfast the first morning because my flight got in after midnight, and I didn't really get to try to sleep until about 4 AM, so I had them bring me coffee and a croissant to my room.
The young lady who served this set it out on the balcony as I asked, and then when I came back in the room to sign the check said, "you should eat before the crow comes...". Cryptic, almost Steven Kingish, right. No, she really meant a crow would come to steal my food if I left it unattended. Which I found out a while later. I stepped back into the room leaving that half a croissant you see on the plate. It was just seconds, I mean a two count! I heard the clatter of the butter knife...Back out on the balcony I found a crow the size of a coyote sitting in tree about five feet from the railing, looking smug...
Enough for now, I'm up early, 4AM here because I can't really sleep anymore. I'll do a little work preparing for this training then call my love.
More later...
