🍿 Warfare (2025) – ★★☆☆☆
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micro posts unless they are macro
From a pleasant 56 degrees in afternoon (relatively) to feels like 10 degrees right now thanks to undying winds. Like can we end winter already!
By every measure 2025 was way worse than 2024. I attribute it to RTO, the horrid winter at start of year, general malaise and laziness, and health issues. 2026 has to be better than this! There is simply no excuse!
But also, I haven’t been on H1B for more than a decade now so I am not updated as I should be. The new rule in fact could be trash, but on surface seemed to hold water.
The new H1b lottery system based on salary is actually not a bad system at all, and perhaps even be the smartest thing they could’ve done to curb the H1b abuse problem. Of course desi body shops will find a way around that also, but at least the spirit is right?
Told my manager today who was very supportive of the move, which I appreciated. Told my team later who as I had guessed were quite gutted. Even if I say so myself, I was rather popular as a manager not just within my team, but within the org as well. I am gonna have to do detailed 1:1s with each of my team mates to make them feel better about it. It’s always the people that matters at end of the day.
I can’t deny that I am nervous and anxious about telling my manager I want to quit. Not because of my manager but fears of what ifs. 3 years changes so many things mentally – might write this out in derail in next couple of weeks.
My biggest accomplishment of today is that I finally finished a home improvement project that I had promised A 3 years ago. When our first floor renovation was done, the guys left all our ceiling recess lights at daylight white while we wanted them warm. It only took me 3 years do this 1 hour task :D.
A part of what makes Stranger Things so much fun is the collective nostalgia we 80s kids had, no matter which part of the world we grew up in – of unbridled freedom and staying out and doing random things as long as we could. Sure the settings are different, but my childhood in late 80s early 90s was no different – staying out all day, riding on cycles everywhere and coming home only after dark. Parents really didn’t give a shit – it’s funny to see how my teen does not relate to any of that and constantly asks us how could this be possible. And I am like yep, the world was much more nicer without the Internet.
I doodle and draw abstract crap a lot. It’s a way for me to regulate my brain. I am no artist, but doodling nonsense has a way of calming me like nothing else. For fun sake I asked Gemini to analyze my doodles and my god it goes off on a tangent only. Boss my thoughts and art are not as complex as Gemini wants me to believe it is. Like kuch bhi!
