A Pretty Good Day in Gurgaon!

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It's been a pretty good day here in Gurgaon and, since I've spent quite a bit of time complaining about my first few weeks in India, I thought I should take the opportunity to post some good news. Here are some of the good things that have happened today:

• The pest control man came and sprayed for bugs! Between my cleaning woman Jamila and me, we have swept up hundreds of dead roaches and other bugs! Surprisingly, given the gallons of poison he sprayed, there are still survivors, but they are being eliminated one by one either by hand (Jamila) or with spray (me).
  
• I confirmed my travel to Agra next weekend - on Saturday, I'll visit the Agra Fort and the Taj Mahal followed by a night at the Taj View Agra hotel and a trip to Fatephur Sikri on Sunday
  
• I booked a taxi for a day trip to Delhi tomorrow - I'm taking the optional holiday of Onam as a day off and going to spend the day wandering Janpath Market
  
• After not being able to get a taxi booked for today, I ventured out to the street and took my first bicycle rickshaw ride! It wasn't bad at all (easy for me to say since I didn't have to do any of the work) and it cost only 100 rupees each way for the 30 minute ride to and from the mall.
  
• I now have real curtains in my bedroom and living/dining room! The shower curtain has been relegated to office/spare room.
  
• I had an ice cream cone at Baskins and Robbins this afternoon - I picked "Flavors of Freedom" which was orange, white, and green sherbert in honor of Independence Day.
  
• I have clean laundry drying on the balcony. It dries pretty quick when it's 100 degrees outside!
  
• "Finding Nemo" is on TV.
  
• I finally got a good night's sleep and slept for 11 hours last night followed by a nice nap on my futon this afternon.
  

One piece of not so good news was to continue to read about yesterday's bombings in Hyderabad. I'm actually flying there on a day business trip this coming Thursday. There have been a seri with a death toll of at least 42. There have been a series of attacks across India in the last two years.

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