It was raining this morning. Kristeen stayed home. I grabbed the umbrella and head out after breakfast. As usual, I crossed the street and waited to flag down a passing Qing-Qi (front of a motorcycle frankensteined into a multiple passenger vehicle with a carriage in back). It is cheap at 10 cents and gets me to the main road where I can hop on the metro bus (20 cents) to get the rest of the way to the office.The day began with a sense of stress regarding finishing this project and financially making it back to LA and beginning all over again. Out in the rain, I let go of that feeling, as I watched vehicles go past. A few Qing-Qis passed, but they were all full. A young guy on a motorbike pulled up. He saw me holding my umbrella, waiting. He asked where I was going and I said to the main road. So I hopped on and shielded the two of us with the umbrella. It turned out that he was going to Model Town. My final destination, Kalma Chowk was on the way so instead of hopping off at the metro we kept going. We took the same route that the metro bus does, but the bus is several stories above the street on its own platform. Today, in the rain, I got to see the view from below. It was a lot of fun zipping around traffic in the rain. We chat a bit on the way and eventually I reached the chowk and hopped off. That little happenstance changed my mood and the day was good again.I walked the rest of the way with my umbrella, which I had tucked away 15 minutes into the ride when I could no longer hold it as we picked up speed. Sometimes it is fun to slow down and look around. Todays task would not be easy. I needed to deal with the most difficult mini dv tapes that were dropping frames like crazy and those that had some sections that needed to be patched in by digitizing again. I counted 23 tapes successfully completed last night, with a good number close to finishing and just a few undigitized at all. I’m getting there, thanks to friends at CheckPost who have opened their doors and facilities to me.When I got home, Kristeen and Umar had made some pasta with homemade sauce. Now that is a great day. Why does Umar have a biker light on his head? There's no light in the kitchen of course...