About Jerry

Jerry has been a technical person all his life. He started blogging from 2006. An active barcamper and lover of web technologies, he loves to code and hack for fun. His current work profile is in the Middleware portfolio where he is mainly dealing with XML and security.

I need reservation

Yes, I’m asking for reservation. That will be 33.333333 (add as many 3’s as you need).

No I haven’t changed my gender and I’m not planning to get into politics. But in a house, where you are the only male who has to survive against 2 women, trust me, you need reservation.

With Emma and her mommy at one side, it’s tough for me, Emma’s dad, to do things my way. My things, the stuff that I need were all relocated or packed away to make room for Emma’s and mommy’s things. Even my prized Arduino board, like the rest of the electronics stuff among other things have all been packed into boxes and cast away into an unknown place.

There is an ongoing fight to control the angular momentum of the fan. Even during these cool, pleasant Bangalore mornings, the fan has to be turned on. Forget the days when it’s cold. For some apparent, unexplained reason both mom and daughter have high body temperature that neither of their bodies are able to regulate or successfully cool down. That calls for the fan switch to be on and the poor dad to crawl under a thick blanket.

Yes, blanket and bed space, the other things that I need to fight for. I go to bed with my wife, and Emma happily and peacefully (we think so) asleep in her cradle. But at some random point in the night, my daughter magically appears in the bed between me and my wife. Now she needs to be under the blanket and needs bed space. By the time I had given her those, I’m left with a ¾inch X 2m piece of cloth to cover my body on a 1inch X 2m bed space for the rest of the night, trying to get some sleep before I freeze to death.

I wonder why they need the blanket and the fan at the same time. I guess I will never know.

There was a time when I used to come back from office, pick up my iPad and read through what had happened to the online world. Someone somewhere would have gone wrong on the Internet the past 24hrs and it would have made some interesting read. Well, the only place where I could read now is the loo. But I guess they found out about that and my days and numbered. Yes my wifey caught me re-tweeting when I was in the act.

The developments of the motoring world were closely followed before. But couple of nights back, when my friend told me that he was getting a Vento. I asked him, which car was that. His jaw dropped so hard and made what is now the pothole in front of Boca Grande restaurant in Koramangala.

Enough is enough! After being a part time cook, driver, maid and a full time ATM machine, this dad needs his space at home.

I need my rightful 33.3333333% reservation.

Meeting

Yes, it on now!

Are you sure? I don’t want to waste my time on something that might turn into a freak show…

Trust me! This time it’s going to happen for sure. Leave the details to me. You just make sure that you will be there on time.

Trust you? Remember last time, we were… No!… I was this close and we had to abort.

How could i have ever predicted someone else’s action? The sales guy had an impeccable timing. This time that won’t happen.

Why?

How does it help, me answering all these worthless questions? Does it satisfy some childish fantasies in you?

Stop wasting my time and your’s. I need to know all the details…

Ok, fine! The guard has been advised not to let anyone in.

You told the guard! Why? You might as well hang a board outside with the details.

Oh, shut-up! We pay him for nothing. He should be the least of our problems.

What if someone else…

No one will! It’s a Monday for god sake. Everyone’s doing what they want to do and we at this wouldn’t even cross anyone’s mind.

Will it be over in 2hrs?

We will be in and out in 2hrs… tops. Unless you want to…

No… Let’s concentrate on what we have to do and get the hell out of here. By evening, we will join everyone else at the usual time. You will reach sometime between 8 and 8:15 p.m. I will be here by 9. Does that sound good?

Yes.

Ok! See you at the destination!

and (finally) i’m proud of my wife!

This might as well could be the last blog post that i write before i step into a new roll. So here it goes…

With just over a day left for us to welcome the new member to our family, i must say that i’m totally proud of my wife and this is why.

She said -

We got married on 11th of Feb. Imagine the baby being born today (23rd of March) and we have our second child on 5th of August. Now the day of wedding was 11, first child would’ve been on 23 and the second on 5/8. With that we could’ve had the Fibonacci series – 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8.. – in the family !

Needless to say, something like that coming from her made me overly proud of the woman i married.