Back to school

Truly, the idiot box has lived up to its name of making idiots of us all. Possibly the most intense socio political activities happen in connection with it, not only onscreen but in any and all aspects concerned with it. Joining the long list of Saas bahu action/emotion/formula 44 dramas is my cable operators fight to the death with Sony. Some disgareements over payments have lead to the chopping off of all Sony channels from television...thus cutting us all off from the daily dealings of the ever popular Jassi, much to the chagrin of dad , who follows the whole show with a religiousness rarely seen otherwise.
The vaccum created has sought to be filled with 3 movie channels... which I feel are a much better VFM than their predecessors. Which brings us to the whole point of this post...the N+1th rerun of 'Rockford' that I saw in bits and pieces yesterday.
This viewing was especially pleasurable, not only because it is an immensly well made movie, but also because it brought back memories of the high point of an extremely pleasurable Yercaud trip. The movie has been shot in Montford High School at Yercaud, one of the picturesque but not-so-well-known hill locales of Tamland. Our (i.e. nagulesan+Urs truly) visit to the school was on a Sunday, which meant a near complete absence of schoolboys doing whatever their daily routine tells them to do, but which also meant hearing out the school band practising the 'Topgun Theme Song' in three different tempos under the school chapel.
This post seems to rapidly digress from its topic, now that I am tempted to put in a mucvh delayed travelog of the Yercaud trip. However. One shall take a break at this point.

The Blog... Finally

...and I seem to have overcome my inherent lethargy to create this space. Here's the blog, I tell myself, and I mean to post regularly enough, though how long the promise is going to hold out, is anybody's guess.

I guess these introductory lines seem enough for a first post , but just before wrapping up would like to mention the number of attempts I had to go through before I could hit upon a URL for the Blog. the current one is just that .. a welcome relief.