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Dealing with Dyson support is just painful. They make great products and kinda Apple of the home goods world at this point, but gawd their offshore support is just hard to deal with.

Bumrah does all the hard work only for a lazy ass Jaiswal to fuck it up. I get you miss once, but thrice at this level of cricket is unacceptable. And he is not even old that you can excuse it because of age. Does not bode well for him.

This Bumrah spell to Khwaja is pure test cricket class. Oof what a bowler.

Should have gone to potbelly next door. Might have had better luck with the car!

Called a few providers in area. Of course they want an arm and leg. Finally called progressive even though I don’t have roadside assistance baked in – still came out half the price other providers were quoting. Blah! Everything is a scam. I am sure even the auto body will milk this incident.

Drove the merc to cava. Now the car won’t start. The starter has failed. Need a tow back to repair shop. Serves me right to come to cava.

WTF is this new trend of burger joints serving burger “bowls” – i.e burger in a bowl without the buns. WHAT IS THE FUCKING POINT? Just call it a salad bowl in that case! Ugh.

What a century by Nitish Reddy. Rohit/Pant/Kohli should be embarrassed by themselves at this point.

As my “alone” time is coming to an end in a few days I’ve been thinking about these past few weeks and my hobbies; I sure as hell miss my family, but also the last few weeks have been a mental and physical reset in many ways. I have explored hobbies, did random stuff in my free time, ate well and got things done around the house that had been pending for months if not years. All this while I kept thinking its not that I did not have the time to do this while my family is around, and if anything I technically should have *more* time, not *less* considering me and wife split up most daily chores. Fortunately, unlike our friends with multiple kids, we do not lead ultra busy lifestyles where our life moves from calendar event to another, so we *can* make the time if we wanted.

But as I thought more I realized the single biggest thing that has led to more productivity and sense of content is **sleep**. Last few weeks I’ve gotten an absurdly good amount of sleep. I’ve slept at normal times and woke up much later than I usually do. There is no pressure or background process running about school work next morning. I’ve had time to take extended afternoon naps because, why not? But what I’ve realized is my brain is fresh and ready to do things. Its almost like even after a day of work, walk with dog, playtime with him, cooking, laundry every few day etc, my brain has been asking for more. Hence the turn to new hobbies and learning new stuff. Every single thing I’ve done in the house or new things I’ve tried in last few weeks can simply be attributed to getting a very good night’s sleep and being well rested.

So my resolution for 2025 is to find ways to be less stressed and get more sleep whenever I can. I like this well rested well slept me that is able to do more things creatively – and if I have to give up a few things or sleep earlier, so be it, but I must put effort into getting more high quality restful sleep. This means some minor changes to my lifestyle that luckily will not require drastic lifestyle changes.

Started watching Hridayam again on a whim and it really is such a charming movie. It gets essence of growing up in college right. Love the movie and the soundtrack.