Swim meet weekend at University of Maryland College Park. This is the location I absolutely hate coming to because of insane traffic on capital beltway. This year though because the kid is older, we are now in the morning session, which means the swim meet starts at 8, warmups at 6.30, so that meant leaving home at 5.30am, and which meant we were all up by 4.30am this morning. We get here and the parking lot is already full! Did the fucking Americans camp out here all night or something? Unfuckingbelievable. Anyway 2 days of this and I will be ready for some nice naps!
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Damn, Silo season 2 so far has been absolutely riveting 4 episodes in!
Wait Amit Agarwal, yes that tech blogger who made google scripts earns 13 million a year?!! wtf. Totally chose the wrong profession 😂
If FIFA signs up with Ticketmaster for World Cup ticketing then there is no question in my mind it will be an epic disaster. If Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour is any indication, then it means 90% of all tickets are going to be bought by scalpers and bots who in turn will put them on reselling platforms like Stubhub/TickPick for thousands and thousands more. People will complain and still end up buying them anyway, and Ticketmaster won’t care because they own half of the resell platforms also anyway so they make more money. I really hope they take the Olympics route that Paris did and lock down the resales to their own platform, and prohibit price gouging by resellers. In fact at Olympics if you resold a ticket, you actually ended up losing money because you spent 10% in reseller fees and you couldn’t sell it for more than the actual ticket price – that was a splendid model, and I hope FIFA does the same!
Not only was Blockbuster one of my favorite tracks of the year but it’s [single shot video](https://youtu.be/-urTPhh7gNk?si=2x7RV0-SX_ZFe3xH) was also my favorite music video this year. There is so much going on in the video and they pull it off perfectly in a single shot!
My kid is doing combined Civics-English research project and topic she chose _**income inequality and access to education**_ as her topic. She gave me initial thoughts and I am really looking forward to her paper when she finishes it!
For the longest time I was on United Healthcare and it was nothing but a pain. They started out OK a decade ago but dealing with them for any of my prescription medications was a royal pain. The specialist would need to fax in an authorization form, every fucking month to get me specific supplies. Due to health issues I was recommended by two specialists to do an endoscopy and colonoscopy few years back, and UHC denied my pre-authorizations for the procedures multiple times. When I came back to current company went with Blue Cross who immediately approved both procedures within a week of getting appointments and requests by specialists. Even the pre-auth nonsense that my doc has had to do every month has gone away. So yeah, knowing the absolute scum of company UHC is I have absolutely zero empathy for the CEO or his family. Fuck off.
Temperature 31, feels like “16” because of wind, will go down to 11 at night. The most awful time of the year is truly here. I can’t wait for the warmup next week to feel like a normal december. This is late Jan/ early Feb weather right now and I have not been gently ushered into it. Fuck cold. I want global warming to to create endless summers everywhere! _(Ok, pls take that last line with a /sarcasm tag and do not latch on to me)_
Am I alone in not feeling an ounce of empathy for united healthcare’s CEO?
Why are flights so damn expensive to Las Vegas from east coast. Every time I feel like doing the Big 5 national parks from Las Vegas, the price of air tickets puts me off completely. A hundred dollars more I could be in Europe!