Chennai... This city is trying to kill me...

Okay, two trips here, and twice I'm starting to fall sick. Thankfully, this time I haven't woken up so miserable that I just wanted to die... Instead it's just a touch of a cold. I'll down some Nyquil tablets tonight, some Dayquill in the morning and I should be better by the end of the weekend.

I'm in Chennai meeting a patent firm that I had met on my last visit. The head of the firm that I met last time passed away shortly after my last visit. His wife is now running the show, and they've started to branch out into serving the local clients (which is good for me).

The firm has always been good to me, and since they found out that my trip to Sri Lanka is off (Ruwi is tied up with moving into a new place, and although I'm welcome, I'm not going to impose... I can save that for my next trip), they've helped me plan out a bit of a trip through the south of India for a couple of days. That should put me back in Delhi before the conference. I figure that a relaxing trip with a bit of rest will help me get over the cold before I get to the conference (that an all the folk remedies that people will be pushing on me).

I'll have to get a photo of myself in some of my new threads. Between the khaki pants and the kurta, I might pass for a local (until someone sees either the camera, or until I open my mouth).

I haven't snapped photos for about a week. Hopefully I'll get some more photos tomorrow. Apparently I'm going to an architecture museum where they've bought houses across the south of India, and relocated them to the museum ground so that these interesting old styles don't just crumble away. It's a cool idea, and I can't wait to see how it all works out.