Setting a 5am alarm for Saturday 6.28 or do we just sleep in and skip the last Kumbal
9.36, shoes off. Official table says 5th Kumbal Saturday 6.28 PM. Not Randoli. We stood tonight from 5. Partner wants a 5am alarm "because it starts twelve minutes earlier." I want to sleep until 10 and keep Sunday 6.44. Is Saturday actually a different night or the same loop with a nastier wake-up.
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Table is public: Sat 22 6:28 5th Kumbal; Sun 23 6:44 1st Randoli. No cancellation on any wire we have at 9.40. Skipping Saturday does not cancel Sunday.
6.28 is the auspicious start from the Maligawa, not a different route. Same 1.27 km streets. Last Kumbal, still no palanquins - those start Sunday 6.44, 1st Randoli. If tonight was enough Kumbal, sleep. If you need one more Kumbal before Randoli, you do not need a 5am alarm. You need to be on a kerb in the late afternoon, same as tonight.
We slept in after Thursday and still made Friday. The 5am idea is Tooth-morning energy, not 6.28 energy. If you also want the 5.30 theva, that is a different Saturday, and it is a brutal stack.
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