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Damn Halloween and Diwali just passed by in a jiffy with them falling so close to each other. Long wait till thanksgiving now. Thank god (pun intended?) for Indian festivals that keep happening with regularity so it keeps the year interesting!

Went to an Indian neighbor’s house last night for Diwali who had legit no idea that early voting had begun since 3 weeks in Virginia. He spent a good 20 mins trying to understand how it all works! And then was confused how can that be secure enough. He and his family were “undecided” and trending Trump because both according to them were terrible but they could change their minds by Tuesday coz they just started looking into candidates he said. So yeah, these people….do exist somehow 😳

I am hopeful that the warm weather will make more young people come out and vote. Conversely i hope families around here pre voted before what was actually a 6 day weekend for kids so many families just went away!

Yesterday I interviewed someone for an adjacent team. Turns out this individual lives in the community next to mine, and cannot possibly be living more than a few hundred feet away from our house. It’s likely we must have crossed each other multiple times on walks. Gonna be very weird now because we know each other, and I am going to reject this person based on the interview. It will be so odd if this person stops me for small talk any time.

Oh, so now daily *stand-up* is also non-inclusive term. Thats why we *huddle* every day. Can’t wait for huddle also to become non-inclusive some day because you know…

Kid had her friends stay over last night coz today is a holiday here. When I and A went down to basement to setup the beds I almost choked looking at the amount of mess the teenagers had made within an hour of being there. My goodness. Makes me wonder if I was the same (pretty sure I was), but boy, teenagers really like dumpster living. It took a good 20 minutes for them to move their crap aside so we could roll the beds. I dont even want to go down this morning and look what has happened overnight coz I heard them singing and dancing till 2am.

The doggo got a confirmed tick bite. Unfortunately he wasn’t on any medication. Doc says gonna have to wait a month to see what happens and if he is showing any symptoms then a month long antibiotic treatment.

Robust Halloween business in community

Other day my teenager decided to introduce me to [Pink Pony Club](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GR3Liudev18) by Chappell Roan which is insanely catchy. I shared my approval that it was a great song and I immediately started humming a desi/punjabi tune of Pink Pony Club which has angered my kid so much she has sweared never to give me any rec again and she said i have ruined the song forever for her because of my Indian rendition of it.

Dad – 1, Kid – 0!

I am intrigued by the idea of moving my blog to Ghost via Pikapods. There is not particular driving force behind moving it from WordPress but just an itch to try something new. I also want to export long form posts from micro and cross post it to that blog. Eventually I’d like to cancel my micro blog account and use Mona/masto + a ghost blog as a logical flow. Fediverse should ensure people should find each other anywhere I would think.