It's all good Craig. I knew what you meant. :)

Thanks Craig. I think I understand what you're implying about the Dogster, nudge-nudge wink-wink. I'm not buying that 600 baht accidental tip story either. All's well that ends happy, if you know what I mean.

lol lol lol outrageous, mang! How could you think such a thing...

Dogster is indeed on the cadaverous side of slim - a kind of greyhound-lite - but nothing will stop this monster jet-lag. I confess it's as much a product of my bad behavior PRIOR to leaving than anything else. Luckily the cone of silence has fallen over all that. I am emerging.

Dogster looks around.

Where am I?

Wha...? Wha...? I'm surrounded by half-naked sweating Indians.
90,000 of them. True dinks. They are all running down the street. Well, not all of them. Some appear to be dead by the side of the road. It's the Kolkata Marathon.

Lordy! I think I've arrived!

You sure have arrived - better keep running too!

You know how dogs and their people grow to look like one another - I lived with a greyhound for some time - always hoped to become like her - tall, thin and elegant - the only similar thing I think happened to us was loving to be lazy.

"Some appear to be dead by the side of the road." Running a marathon in Kolkata? I could believe some of them are dead! Don't join them, greyhound or not.

The Kolkata Marathon just sounds like a bad idea all around. It is a marathon just being able to get enough oxygen out of that polluted Kolkata air to breathe enough to run! No wonder you see lifeless bodies along the race route!!!