There is this white guy at work that I really like. Super smart, super helpful and is always ready to share as much as he can. Just one problem – he hates the eng team he manages and often gets into extreme arguments with them. I don’t manage his Eng team nor am I qualified to do so either but I depend on this guy to give me information that will help me build a solution and bridge the gap from product to leadership and sales. After weeks and weeks of insisting he was right and things had to go his way, we figured out that he was indeed wrong and the Eng team that he hates was right. He even forced other product managers to change their delivery plans because he was convinced he was right. Since he has been here for a while and is considered a top SME nobody questioned him. Well after the debacle yesterday, all he could message me yesterday was “I am so sorry! I will just stay out of it and let you lead”. All I could mutter under breath was “you motherfucker!” – now I am the one tasked with managing angry people all over the place. As they say, immigrants get the job done!
Macro
This is the second lowest I have weighed in a while. The only time I weighed a little lower than this was in 2006-7 after I started focusing on health. While I never have hit the peak of 2005, my weight has had considerable fluctuations over the years and early this year it had again climbed up. I don’t know if I am gonna plateau soon or will keep losing weight – though I don’t care about that part as much as my lower sugar levels!
Looks like dad’s paying us a visit later this year and staying with us a for longer time coz he wants to experience cold it seems. This coming from a guy who wears mufflers and sweaters for a walk in 80 degree summers. Well don’t say I didn’t warn you dad. Also, got a terrific deal on virgin Atlantic premium so it was criminal not to book it!
A nicely done up house is not selling in our community while every other house has already gone pending. The realtor is a resident too, and today she posted on our Facebook hoa page literally scolding others for not doing more to help this house get sold and how decreasing the price on this house actually impacts all of us. What a prick. I see this house daily on walks and as much as it may be updated inside, the 0.3 acre backyard is a monstrous disaster. It’s steep, with lots of trees and is a practically unusable backyard, not to mention a risk of sink holes etc given how much it rains here. Then they had the nerve to price the house at 500$ per sqft, when the going rate in our community is between 375-400$. Like the disconnect is real and somehow other residents need to do more. No, just reduce the price to where it should be and it will sell!
It’s sad to see how far off the ledge For All Mankind has fallen. Like 99% of the show is just people walking around in corridors, and the one time they actually do want to show the space exploration part of titan it looks so cheap and low budget it’s sad. At this point why even stretch this to 6 seasons? Just end it already with the last episode, or give it a hell of a budget to do something more interesting than walk around cardboard corridors!!
Thanks to the weather our local town fair which is always a big deal has been a complete washout. I feel bad for all the vendors out there but then my teen and her friends who braved the rain and still went came back eating nothing or doing anything at the fair because as she said “everything is way too expensive!” after the pandemic our town is the only one that hosts fairs anymore while all the surrounding cities who used to throw these fairs have all shut down, so I hope this is not the death knell for our town too.
🍿 Dhurandhar: The Revenge (2026) – ★★★★☆
I actually kinda enjoyed this more than part 1. Solid 3 and half stars, but an extra half star because I sat through the entire 4 hour movie in one go when I thought it would take us several days to get through. I didn’t find the jingoism in this movie as problematic as the first one though. You can debate plot devices but it at least didn’t feel like forced upon. Superb soundtrack like the first one, and I do think the raw version on Netflix with all the gaali galouch makes it more real lol. All things said, movie really could have been tighter towards the end – there was no reason why this movie stretched to 4 hours.
What happens when rupee invariably crosses 100 to a dollar? Tech companies will prefer to keep it that way for their businesses, but overall imports would suffer to a large extent. It’s a horrible death spiral I assume though I am not an economist so I don’t really understand the implications much except “oh it can’t be good for anyone except MNCs”
Signed up the teen for another year in swim team but she was clearly not interested or enthusiastic this year. It took a lot of convincing from us for her to signup again. It’s absolutely true that teenage girls start dropping out of sports around this age, but we want to keep pushing her to continue till end of high school. I know where her inflection point happened – it was when she got injured in November last year which caused her to lose a spot in junior varsity team at school. It’s never been the same after that for her. Of course the coaches aren’t that great either as the team has had a lot of turnover.
The continuous glucose monitor is both a blessing and a curse. It’s lovely to be able to see what spikes your sugar in real time but for a health data nut like me I just can’t stop looking at it way too much. Ugh. at this rate I might not even enjoy a glass of water. I need to remind myself thst it’s ok to eat…. rich food once in a while, bhaad mei jaaye readings!