My Encounter With Mandeep

It has been a long, long time since I've written a real blog. Since the pandemic days, in fact. But this warrants it. So there I was, going about my usual afternoon busywork at the AVN compound, when I hear a call from downstairs: "Hello?" I thought I heard my co-worker moving in that direction to see what was up, but then a few minutes later: "Hello?" Looked like it was gonna be up to me. So down the stairs I plodded, and immediately found myself face-to-face with a short, pudgy, balding man seemingly of Indian descent, whom I will call "Mandeep" for the purposes of discretion.  "Hello sir, is there somebody I can talk to here? This is the AVN?" he asked me. "Well yes, what do you need?" I asked. "I have traveled so far, I just need to talk with somebody who can help me," he implored. "OK ... what's happening? What's your question?" I persisted. "I want to find out how can I get into the industry?...
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Happy Birthrona Day to Me

Well, it's my birthday, and as luck would have it, the mayor of Los Angeles decided to declare that as of today, the city is basically closed. Story of my life. I'm off from work, at least—actually, it's the last day of the four-day birthday weekend I took because my parents are here. And I am currently reminded quite strongly of why I always say toward the end of a vacation that I need a vacation from my vacation. I thought I was gonna get about half a day of one, but circumstances conspired such that I'll be getting no such thing.

So now I'm going to figure out what to do with what remains of my birthday in this newly apocalyptic world. There will definitely be both ice cream and alcohol involved. OK, I leave you with this:

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