The one vegetarian restaurant that everyone who has been to Cusco recommended to us highly turned out to be the disappointment of the trip. The food was mid but the service was horrendous – and then the server had the nerve to ask us for a tip! He didn’t pay attention to our orders, messed them up, brought food to us before appetizers and drinks – overall was a mess while the other folks struggled to maintain order. Then shows up at end again after everything and says if we wanted to add a tip. We simply said no and paid and left. The way he stormed off our table on saying no was enough for us to justify our decision. So yeah when in Cusco avoid green point vegetarian restaurant!
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Cusco looks gorgeous from up above but my god the city is horribly dirty, trash every fucking where and stinks of trash almost everywhere. Glad we got out immediately and will come back to stay only one night later but ugh. I am sure the “nicer” touristy areas are not like that though.
The dunes at Huacachina were absolutely stunning, with many of the dunes towering at 500 meters. Yes meters, not feet. These were absolutely massive and gave you a feeling of being in such a desolate far away land. The sunset from top of one such dune was spectacular. Needless to say way too many Dune references were made.
Oh we also saw cute little useless turnips called ICE loitering around DCA airports. it’s embarrassing – everyone including themselves know they are just walking around doing nothing in particular while getting paid while the TSA guys around them are all working without pay for doing a thankless job.
Just less than a decade ago our trips would start out with us coming in morning, keeping our bags at the hotel coz our booking wouldn’t start till 3pm and then just head out for sightseeing. Now? We book the prior night as well even if we check in next day coz we need a few hours to recharge after night long flights. The first half of day is just chilling to recoup from air travel before we start our sight seeing. Age brings its benefits and wisdom – something we would have considered an unnecessary thing, is now a must have – I.e booking the hotel room for prior night so we have room to check into next morning!
The VA redistricting efforts will fail IMO, more because democrats don’t want it themselves rather than republicans doing a great job of canvassing. If by miracle it passes it mostly will because people have their eyes open but just way democrats are going about it is convincing me that they don’t want it either.
The trailer for new Harry Potter hbo series doesn’t look too bad but a bold decision to switch race for severeus snape. my guess is they switched the race to a black man because they simply couldn’t find another white man at the level of Alan Rickman and by making the character black they can focus the conversation on his race.
What a day – the worst the outcome that could happened ended up happening. The folks I came to work for, the individuals why I actually made the move were all let go. I have no details on what happened, or why it happened – just that it happened today. I was afraid this was going to be outcome when these folks didn’t show up for last 2 weeks but still unreal. Having worked with one for few years in my old company I know him more as a friend than colleague and irrespective of outcome here continues to be my friend. Needless to say I am feeling extremely deflated today – and of course now added stress to what all these changes to me and my work. Ugh. Fuck this shit!
I used to be a vegetarian for a long time before I finally tasted meat in college and since then have been an omnivore. But off late I have started preferring vegetarian again – I have pretty much stopped eating red meat and I end up picking fish over chicken more often than not. But if there is an exciting vegetarian option I will give up fish also. Like I feel veggies are just so much more fresher and lighter on tummy. I might just end up becoming vegetarian all over again!
Yesterday was a relatively lighter day for me so I ended up meeting not one but two of my ex colleagues from work – one guy I worked with almost 6 years ago but we have kept in touch and other guy is my ex manager from my previous company who also announced he is leaving. Both middle aged white men with families and kids around same age as my teen. The first guy left the cushy job few years ago because he didn’t like what we were working on and took on independent consulting and non profits. I know he got a terrific offer back then that he gave up. My ex managers did not wait for his stock vests either. He was so disillusioned working for the company that he decided to make a jump to a startup. I admire the confidence with which white people take risks. Like I think I am a risk taker too but it comes with so much anxiety, self doubt and general feeling of omg I fucked up. While these folks are generally of mindset of fuck if I know I did the right thing until it fails. I guess our Indian subconsciousness never really makes us confident about taking risks does it?