After 4 nights of partying body is like bro just sleep. Not that we drank too much or did anything crazy. Our nights ended at 1:30am and no one was waking up before 9am so not like we didn’t rest – just that body is simply not used to this either anymore 😆. We are fighting age at this point I suppose!
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Kid got math homework first week of school. “It’s only 1 page!” she proclaimed before turning it over in no time. Yesterday the teacher sent everyone an email that while homework counts for only 5% of overall grade, it still does count…. and the entire class scored an F. It was so joyous to see the kid getting a rude awakening of High School expectations. All her friends also had similar pikachu faces it seems. Welcome to adulting kid 😀
In my retirement I want to become an executive assistant to a VP and be in charge of scheduling meetings day in and out while also getting all the gossip from other EAs. Added bonus is I will get to travel with VP wherever they go and be in charge of food & drinks so it will all be according to my wishes at expensive places. What a low stress high reward job!
It’s such an incredulous thing really that Trump in first term was presented with the covid pandemic, and instead of using his own wins of funding the vaccine development as his real legacy (lets be honest, operation warp speed did save a lot of lives!), he looked at it and decided, nope, I am gonna go real crazy town here and then goes even more anti-science in his second term. Like dude, if you had played your cards correctly, you’d have won the Nobel peace prize already just for that. Some people are just gifted losers.
I mean to be honest I thought America is the only country that did yearly covid vaccines anymore. Like I don’t know anyone in India who took any more covid boosters after first couple. Last year almost half my friends skipped it – I don’t think the vaccine restriction news will be taken as badly as reddit or online communities suggest. The uptick was low anyways! FWIW I do plan to take it again (I think…. I qualify).
I am convinced that RTO mandates are yet another way of trying to keep women out of workforce. Yesterday at work my bosses (one desi, one American) seemed genuinely surprised that I was willing to pay toll to get back home because I had to pick up my kid. Both of their wives are SAHMs so they never quite relate to the idea that other women work and can be busy. Their usual response to anything is “my wife usually takes care of it” – yeah dude, that’s why you can come in at 7am at work and stay till 7 in evening, that’s why you have no issues doing the 90 min one way ride into office into DC, that’s why you have no issues with meetings at random times off hours and we are expected to join because “at my level we do”. If only they took more interest in their personal lives more than work we’d all be more productive!
I wouldn’t be surprised if next week Tim Cook reveals a special liquid glass Donald Trump dynamic wall paper that comes pre-installed and default with every new iPhone or IOS release, just like he knew we all wanted and loved U2 so much. I will be disappointed if it doesn’t happen!
A worthy successor to Dravid, Pujara defined took the mantle of the “wall” and did his best. His dominance in Australia in particular was what made Border-Gavaskar trophies fun to watch, even if watching him at times was a chore. It’s bittersweet to now see even the second generation of cricket stars retiring in front of us. Hope he considers coaching as did Dravid!
A big bowl of cantaloupe was had. Summer fruits are just so lovely and fresh no? We consumed enough watermelons and mangoes, along with peaches and berries this summer. It’s not uncommon for me to sometimes just do lunch or dinner with a big bowl of fruits in summer! Throw in some greek yogurt and honey and you got your protein fix too.
I have a big doc due in 2 days and hadn’t even gotten around to it. This evening I just asked AI to read through all the tickets, docs, reference materials, email exports I created and asked it to create a 3 page narrative for me. I must say it did a pretty dang good job. Of course I have to spend hours to correct and remove hallucinations from doc, but what would’ve taken me a few more days to synthesize and put in a doc was done in 5 mins. I can now spend time just refining the doc rather than actually writing it.