Why so few posts.

To be perfectly honest as to why I have not been posting to this blog, the computers here are painfully SLOW. SLOW, SLOW. In addition, finding an internet cafe open before 11:00 AM is impossible. Finding a chair available when it is open is a stroke of good luck. And this was quite surprising to me: the power to the city is off almost as much as it is on. This fact makes it very difficult for businesses to operate. Many businesses have generators. Many do not. Businesses dependent on computers have banks of batteries to keep them going. But batteries don't guarantee their ability to get on the internet because the power outages affect their servers' connections and voltage fluctuations wreak havoc on the computers themselves. But somehow everyone seems to be able to take things in stride and they make do. This attitude, along with the tolerance people have for each other, make India a unique and exciting place indeed. India is a country about 1/3 the size of the United States with a population of more than 30 times that of the US. That is a lot of human beings living very close together. From a western perspective, this fact has resulted in many adaptations in daily life that are very different from ours. More on these adaptations later.