Met an ex report of mine for lunch. Had a couple of beers. Nothing makes you more sleepy in afternoon like beers. Couldn’t wait to come back home and was knocked out for a solid two hours. means I am going to be a night owl tonight. Ugh. Maybe I need to down whiskeys to compensate for the beers

I don’t know if Sabrina Carpenter thinks she is a dog coz:

_Adore me
Hold me and explore me
Mark your territory (Ah-ah)
Tell me I’m the only, only, only, only one
Adore me
Hold me and explore me
I’m so fuckin’ horny
Tell me I’m the only, only, only, only one_

From Juno, a song from her new album.

Slow Horses is so so good! With this and Only murders in building, two of the best shows on tv each week!

Austrian airlines gave me credits for the cancelled flight to Vienna after few weeks. I appreciate the gesture – they didnt really have to do it, but it was a nice gesture of them to earn some goodwill of people by giving out credits to people who cancelled their flights to Vienna because of cancelled concert. Now, it’s another matter if I can actually use their credits for another trip within a year. I am sure thats a part of their calculation on how many will actually do anything about it.

A piece of advice I give all my friends is – If you are completely disinterested in politics (as many of them are), then just go ahead and vote democrat. 8/10 times you are going to come out better. If you are interested in politics, then I am happy to send you a whole lot of literature for you to read and make up your mind!

Does the *Rings of Power* get any better in second season? The major problem with the series (other than its…. kind of boring) is the casting of characters is horrendous across the board. I want to start the second season but I am already dreading it.

Back after a fabulous couple of days in Philly at friends. That said, concerning number of Trump lawn signs in suburbs of Philly! not that I *didnt* see Harris signs either, but fact that there seemed to be *more* Trump signs was certainly worrying. Its all going to come down to Philadelphia and Pennsylvania again isnt it?

I insist that every French traveler who wants to visit Northern India absolutely must start their conversations with Indians with *Namaste, aap English bolte ho?* and end with *Shukriya*.

I am never going to understand women who support Trump. What is appealing about him? What policy position resonates with them? It is just bizarre that he even has women supporters.

[C.I.A. Warning Helped Thwart ISIS Attack at Taylor Swift Concert in Vienna](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/28/us/politics/cia-isis-warning-taylor-swift-concert.html)

The CIA literally saved our lives potentially. If these motherfuckers had succeeded it would have been a tragic massacre and gives me shivers what could’ve been.