Bingo!

One…Seven…Seventeen, the dancing queen.
Seven…seven, lucky seven.
Three…three, cup of tea.

and Bingo!! I got married!

Yes, on the 17th of last month, I did the seven pheras and tied ‘em three tight knots! The lucky lady is TruthFairy!

After wallowing in Shangri-La (namma Bengalooru) for longer than my boss would’ve approved, I got off the La Amistad last week. Nice immigration officer. Said they need more folks like me…duh!! Who wouldn’t instantly trust and fall in love with a disheveled, stinky, jetlagged, trans-Atlantic traveler. Hmmm, although the security check fellow at the airport back home respectfully asked me “Sir, are you carrying a small knife?” Well, sometimes staring at X-ray machines for 10 hours a day can be taxing, and sometimes you could use a shiny Parker to stab folks who ask you annoying questions – good call, security man.

I’m growing up faster than I’d imagined. It’s a nice buzz. Similar to the feeling I got when I was 15 and shot up to flirt with the 6' mark I’d drawn at 20 places around the house. Last month I got married, and this month we put in an offer for buying a condominium, and the seller accepted it. Well, what do you know…M3’s still got it. I made them an offer they couldn’t refuse. (No price horse had to be beheaded, if you must know, you movie-freak! In real life, the mafia is kind to animals.)

Anyway, I am now jumping through hoops, the usual home-buyer's rigamarole, and as they all say, “I signed my life away to my home!” During the contract/mortgage signing marathon..yeah, about 250 places marked with what looked like a retarded alpha, I heard the words of my mortgage consultant – “You fatten the pigs, but slaughter the hogs.” Well, well, well…you just didn’t call me a pig, mister! After all that we've been through to reach my current carpal tunnel situation, how dare you call me a pig? ...oh, oh, like that! I think I completely missed the context. On second thoughts, regardless of the context, I’d rather be called a pig in “Mortgagese”...anything to stay away from the butcher's block.

More soon. I'm back baby, and I'm gonna put rambletown on the map. Stay connected!