Gearing up to head out

If all goes well (that mantra of the space age...), I'll be leaving for Hyderabad, India in a week - for something close to 6 months. This is my third trip to Hyderabad, so I'm not completely clueless regarding what I'm in for, but my prior trips have been for about 3 weeks, not 6 months.

This blog is fallout from getting ready to go. For the past several years, my primary email has been hosted on a server in my basement. Since I'm not going to be around to tend it, I've moved to Gmail, and while exploring that, discovered that Google now does blogs. So be it.