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We gave an early birthday surprise to the kid this morning and laid out our summer plans:

Olympics swimming finals.
Hike the alps.
Taylor Swift concert.

The kid is in utter disbelief. Period.

Today was my first therapy session and it went better than I expected or thought it would go.

We ordered two accent chairs from Macys that were delivered last night. Despite our best intentions and measurement it turns out they look bulky and cumbersome in our room. The same piece in store looked nice and stylish. A quick call to Macys and they are coming back next week to pick it up, and the nice lady on phone even waived the restocking fee! We’ve bought quite a few furniture from Macys but pleasantly surprised by the return process.

For years after mom’s passing my dad would keep sharing numerous spreadsheets and documents around on how he planned to disperse his “inheritance” between me and my brother. He would show me various combinations of properties & assets divvied up between me and bro, and even a “college” inheritance to my kid. He even made a will at some point that he shared with both of us. I *dont* need any of his money (thankfully!) and told him its his assets to do whatever he wished. He of course insisted I absolutely had a stake in it.

Until I didn’t. As is true for him (and thats why I had no expectations to begin with), he decided my bro should get the entire inheritance and promptly wrote it all away for him including the whole “college” inheritance he promised the kid last few trips. I and bro get along really well and we are very close to each other, and I would’ve never said no anyway, but it kinda hurt nonetheless that dad didn’t once ask or thought he should let me know. He kinda sorta dropped all of this on me while we were out picking the kid from swim practice. My poor bro kept assuming I and dad had already conversed and it was the plan. Anyway, its things like these with my dad that often leave a bad taste in my mouth. I already struggle with my feelings for him and things like these don’t make it any better! On the other hand I am also glad that I do really well for myself and at the end of the day nothing about my life changes with his decision at all. If he feels happy with his decision, so be it. It would’ve just been nice to be asked though.

I legit heard a firecracker burst in our community. Hell yeah! *Gand maraa benchod* is just about the only feeling I have right now!

Its absolutely insane how terrible almost every European company’s websites are. A majority of them feel like they were designed by entry level developers at Infosys or TCS. Random errors, no focus on user journey, webpages crapping out for no reason, the fucking websites don’t even implement location detection and change default language to english if location is from a english speaking country. Its just infuriating dealing with European websites. Small mercies – fuck all the cookie tracking but gosh most American websites actually make it easy to do business not harder!

How long before Netanyahu goes full Hitler mode and starts annexing all the border countries starting with Egypt and mercilessly killing civilians in other countries also while western countries continue to affirm their full support? Isn’t that how Germany got out of hand initially? Stop this man before he becomes the second coming of Hitler.

Weirdly enough I am no longer finding micro.blog a space to write my thoughts as i *feel* them. Which means I am cutting down on my *macro* posts in favor of actual micro thoughts because thats how I feel micro.blog is trending towards becoming. Nothing wrong in it, it just means I need to blog more!

I keep reading this here and elsewhere on web, but I genuinely can’t make this out. What, exactly, is a **nuanced** dialogue around abortion? What part needs nuance other than saying women absolutely should have full and complete autonomy over their bodies. What is not clear that it needs “nuance”?

Our city holds a 3 day fest on Memorial Day weekend with attractions, rides, food and live music. It’s always cheese American fun and we usually try to attend a few hours. This time though the teenager invited her friends to our house (we stay very close to the fest) to drive to the fest. Then what was supposed to be a 3 hour thing turned into a full day in hot sun. I and A were drained out of our soul in the weather while these kids still seemed to bouncing off walls. Later in evening they even rejected their parents offers to sub in for us and decided to come to our house for dinner! Were they done post dinner? No. They apparently had to talk something very important so we parents chilled out on first floor. After what felt like an hour the kids call us to basement and show us a dance performance they concocted while everyone waited. It was fun and tiring but a day well worth it in the end!