I have been sleeping badly last couple of days. Arrived India late Saturday night and only reached hotel after midnight. By the time I hit the sack, it was close to 1:00 am. Had to get up by 6:30 am because my colleagues had this strange notion of going for a hike up some fort on a hill. Sunday night was a bad one - got up at 2:30 am and could not go back to sleep. Jet lag is supposed to hit me going back to San Ramon, not this way! I was the only one of the three going to the Indian partner's office for a full day of meetings followed by a full night of meetings because the helpdesk work here is done at night to fit the US working hours. So yesterday was a very very long day. Got to bed only at 1:30 am again. This lack of sleep is going to kill me, I am sure.

Clearing customs at Hyderabad airport was a bit of an adventure. One of my colleagues, Ann, had brought an enormous amount of corporate gifts to give to the Indian team here and they weighed a tonne. Anyway, custom officials made her opened up the suitcases and were wanting us to pay duties. Long story short, we got away because the amount allowed between the three of us exceeded the value of the stuff. Ann had not prepared any proforma invoices so we were lucky to get away so easily. But in the hassle, we accidentally left Ann's computer bag behind with the customs. Poor Ann had to go all the way back to the airport to see if the bag could be found (and of course, she did). But it gave us such anxiety finding out we had lost the laptop when checking into the hotel.

Gotta run - another long night of work lies ahead. The car is picking us up at 4:30 pm (5 mins away). More later...