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This is America. This is why I refuse to put my family at risk by going to a protest. At the end of the day white people won’t care two hoots about us if something happened to anyone in my family. We have absolutely no one in this country except our friends. It is not worth it.

There is nothing more white suburbia than swimming. It literally is the whitest sport ever. I think we were one of the only three brown families in the entire frigging meet. Thankful that we stay in blue area and they are all nice people, many of whom we know now since a few years.

My god it’s hot and sweltering outside! The swim meet felt extra long just due to humidity outside. Bodes well for some heavy rain later which I hope for once it does coz I want it to ruin all celebrations in dc. Need a nap now in cold ac to recover from the swim meet 😆

Cousin who was here last week switched to android few months back after being on iOS for more than a decade. He gave me a quick tour of all the new AI features and goddamn they are so far far ahead of Apple at this point. The fluidity of even using the feature is so delightful. Of course it comes with giving up your privacy and data but his point was that companies already know too much about him that this didn’t matter much anymore and it was more so what! not that I am moving soon but gosh Apple really is struggling it feels now with iOS.

Cousin who moved from Dallas to Denver came over for a visit last few days. It was great catching up and he is convincing me to move to Denver. I am actually NOT against the idea of moving to Denver at all. It has everything I want – ample sunshine, nice spring/summer/fall and even the winters are peppered with lots of warmish days though cold days are cold (but hey DC is somehow colder than Denver so thats a win). Plus the famous Denver sun melts the snow in no time so it never becomes a marshy mess like it becomes in DC area. Definitely a city on my list of places to think about.

I got 25 thuja 2 feet plants that will eventually grow to be 30ft shrubs/trees in very quick time. I planted 5 of them before realizing that my back would prefer if my landscaper did it. And they came out and did the rest of the planting. Now three weeks later I kid you not the only fucking plants that seem to be dying are the ones I planted while the ones they did seem to be flourishing with fresh leaves! I should have left the job to the experts I guess – shame on me for assuming how hard could planting a tree be. 🤣

How do Israelis live with themselves? Aren’t they ashamed of their government? At least Americans are vocal about their displeasure with things – but Israelis? It’s just appalling to see this government just destroying everything around them. History will pay for this.

Just sad news coming out Ahmedabad (my home town) regarding the Air India Boeing 787 crash. Doesnt look like there will be any survivors? Reminds me of the other crash happened there when I was growing up. I am sure though Boeing will bridge Trumpkin so they don’t have to deep dive why this happened am-i-rite?

Crystal City or National Landing as they want to now rebrand this city is such a mess. The only good part are the parts that Amazon redeveloped and made it into a walkable livable community. Everything else is straight out of soviet era bunker style design. And the city is so inconvenient to reach from anywhere. Its not a surprise a lot of companies moved out in the last three decades but I am also hoping that Amazon will revitalize the city as they did in Seattle. They sure have a lot more support to do so here.

My ex-manager who convinced me to come back to the company is leaving in two weeks. It was a bittersweet moment for me. Just around 3 years ago he was on call convincing me to join the newly formed team. We’ve always good relationship before I had left first time, but over last 3 years we became really good friends more than colleagues. He was a great manager, took care of his team (and me) and backed us with fervor; i learnt a lot about management from him that I apply right now. When he called me to tell me he’s out, I couldn’t help but feel sad even though we’ve not been working with each for almost a year. The insane RTO push, and location stickiness, the bureaucracy and lethargy of it all finally just drove him away. I keep thinking how much good talent this company has lost over the last year over this whole RTO nonsense and it shows no signs of subsiding. I for one wish our old boss/CEO never left (or came back). He might have been a shitty person in real life but goddamn he was a great leader and a visionary, which is so sadly lacking anymore today.