A Day on the Pale Blue Dot - 2

Monday, 1st May 2023

Workers Unite!

Disclaimer: An unhappening day.

May Day, a day to honor struggles and achievements of labor movements fighting for workers' rights. And what do we did today? Almost nothing! Just sat at home and cooked meals. And watched a movie.

Well, I guess we did do justice to the day - by staying off work.

Recently, my wife and I decided to ensure we finish our breakfasts before 9 am. This allows us to get ample time during the day to do a lot of things. Just like a new year resolution, we broke the habit in less than 3 days. But we did not digress by a lot. We finished our breakfasts by 10 am after which we stepped out for grocery shopping to prepare chicken biriyani as decided yesterday.

After a quick shopping and we were back home in 45 minutes. Before staring work in the kitchen, we had to pick something to watch. We usually watch something while we cook - something we could watch without paying much attention. And we try to cover some very popular movies released when we were kids but haven't watched yet. Today, fortunately, I quickly came up with a suggestion - Shah Rukh Khan, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan starrer Josh. Released in 2000, most of us are familiar with the songs in the movie. Like we wanted, this was something we could watch without paying much attention.

Just 15 minutes before the movie ended, our biriyani was ready. I did forget to mention that the biriyani was cooked in our newly bought stainless steel utensil. Only last week, my wife decided to get rid of all our Teflon coated utensils and switch to steel or iron utensils. The biriyani pot was thus inaugurated today.

We set out the table for lunch and the next task was to select something to watch while having lunch. This time we could choose to watch something that required attention. We spent 10 minutes trying to find something to watch - from Netflix to Disney Hotstar and back to Netflix we were browsing through titles. And finally decided to watch Tom Hanks starrer A Man Called Otto.

And nothing much happened during the rest of the day. Fin.