Day 9, Saturday, The Mozzy Net, Finding a Transformer

Tonight there were more mosquitoes than I'd seen before. While I was working on my computer, one flew across my field of vision and I made my first mosquitoe kill. There was a drop of blood splattered between my hands - this particular mosquitoe seemed to already be carrying someone's blood. Who's? My roommate's? A stray dog's?

My roommates seemed to not care, but I was grateful to have a mozzy net.

I setup the mozzie net Thursday night, and it feels reassuring to be able to get into it at night.

After I get out of bed in the morning, sunlight begins to beat down upon the net, and I drape a sheet over it to prolong the life of the nylon. At least that's the intention...the directions said to keep it out of direct sunlight.

The three of us stayed up playing cards. They taught me "three cards" or what sounds like "tem-pati" in Hindi. In that game, each player gets a hand, makes some bets, and shows their cards. The rules of which hand beats what hand resemble poker hands. But Three Card isn't as exciting as poker. So, we learned poker and played a variation of texas hold 'em. Unfortunately, I didn't remember the rules that well, so we played under some strange rules instead of the correct rules.

I bought a transformer from MK Retail, and it worked. It was a 220/240 V to 110/120 V converter. All appliance transformers indicate the voltages and hertz of AC current that they accept, and my electric shaver from the United States required 120 V. It only drew 20 watts of power, and that was precisely the wattage supplied by the voltage converter.

Earlier today, I went out and got a loaf of whole wheat bread. It was quite healthy; a ratio of carb-to-simple-sugar of 4 (many whole wheat breads struggle to attain this ratio, and end up with a higher amount of simple sugar). The bread was baked and packaged here in Bangalore, and only costed about fifty cents. It was my first major purchase of food that I didn't plan to cook myself. I figured that since the bread was baked, the baking process would have killed most of the germs. I at a couple slices and waited for two hours to see what occured. Nothing (well, nothing but tastiness). I devoured most of what was left during the evening.