The Reason

Some people have asked why we are going to India. We are going there on a business trip -- the company I work for has an office in Bangalore. We have several software teams over there working as extensions of our software teams here in the States. I will be serving as a technical mentor/trainer to the software engineers, providing a jumpstart on working with our software products. I think they are expecting formal classroom training -- I think they will be disappointed :(

When I was first asked if I would be willing to go, I was interested in finding out more, but didn't think they would try to send me right away. (This was back in November, they needed someone right away) I didn't think I would be ready to go at that time -- too much planning to just take off like that. Besides, Mary was going to go with me and I would not have had time to get both of us ready on such short notice. Even with this much time under the bridge, we just received our Visas the end of last week.