I did try to make a toast and all came down to money, which I do not have to hold or spend. I spoke to a young man in Goa today, well actually, I emailed him and he emailed back asking for my Yahoo id. Unfortunately, it is not allowed here as I spend enough time on the internet without talking to everyone too. Anyway, just for the sheer devilment I secretly followed instructions to sign up for IM or whatever and was told I already had an account so I now have a sixth identity but my Gmail is not easy to remember. The knotty problem arrived in the form of a demand for money to pay for the IM service so I had to apologise to my friend because I was financially challenged and could not rise to it. He said it was fine and we would email.
We had been discussing the New Year and how they celebrate it in Goa. It is fine to do it on the beach when it is 80 deg f but it is only a mere 50 deg f here at present. He tells me they eat at a beach restaurant and at midnight, they dance and drink sweet wine, which is more sugar than wine unlike the dry ones like merlot and shiraz. Well, if Shiraz is dry then heaven knows what they would think of the cheap Cotes du Rhone I was forced to drink the other month. It had no legs as I mentioned.
It seems that the Hindus have a different New Year to us as do the Chinese and seeing as this new one is a Rat and the last one was a Fire Pig then somewhere ex many years ago he must have been born. He is a pig, I am a Monkey, that makes him 24 as I do not think a 36 year old would call himself Guy. He is obviously a Hindu and their New Year is called Gudi Pavda and is celebrated in September. There are others in India too not only the religions but also the caste and I do not know much about the latter but it gets complicated.
Oh by the way he is a Libra too and the nice thing about this is that I am a Libra too and that there is every chance we will actually get to meet each other, in the flesh, as Blondie says, which will be nice. I offered to send him a photo, not of me but of the badgers because we do get them in the garden and I have not heard from him since so was it something I said?
In the end I just sent him a good wish for the New Year, like posting the toast and if he never writes again then I will just have to wait until February and phone him. That is if I can find his number.
My sister in law tells me she belongs to a bulletin board for Las Vegas and asked if there was one for Goa. As I had been on the line to Goa earlier I think that is the nearest I will come to posting and the nearest I will come to IM. Heaven knows what happens when we come off the Virgin and go onto Talk Talk.
Now it is time for some reminiscing as it is an Indian meal for tea but there was something else and it can wait. Oh he wanted to know how I celebrated New Year and I explained that I would not be leaping into the Serpentine in London for two reasons, the main one being it is too cold and the other is logistics, again. We steer clear of town on nights like that due to the drunken revellers and no doubt will just hear it in on TV as Big Ben strikes Midnight. Cheers to that
