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I know paying any attention to a poll year out in advance is stupid, but the fact that Trump is ahead in 6 swing states indicates to me how far off from reality more than half of population of this country is. People are way more right than they indicate, so when they say 25-30% of population is bat shit crazy, in America I make that 50% or more. With everything that has happened in the last 6 years, forget being ahead in a poll, someone like Trump should not even theoretically be polling and yet here we are. Truly baffling and very very scary for the future. Like I won’t be surprised at all if the next batshit crazy Trump alternative comes in and half the population will be totally OK if America becomes a nazi state.

So the doggo and I have settled into a night time routine where I sit on the floor and give him lots of rubs and scratches while he settles in my lap to doze off. Now a days if I *dont* do it come 9pm at night, he actively barks at me and huffs & puffs until I sit down and start petting him. Its like he’s made this into an established routine and come certain time I have to do my duties! I ain’t complaining but my wife is like you are spoiling the dog rotten, while my daughter just rolls eyes and is like ugh, you boys.

Watching Jawan makes Pathaan feel like a master piece. My goodness the absolute atrocity this movie is. Ugh! STK just go back and retire please!

I am nervous about Virginia elections on Tuesday. I want at least one chamber in D column.

I can’t decide if India is playing a whole different level of cricket right now or all other countries are playing at a lower bar. Unless some catastrophe happens I am really not sure how any team is going to play against this batting and bowling lineup that India has right now. This is uncanny.

Today we visited the fabricator to “see” the quartz stone before its cut out over the weekend for install next week. We paid a premium to get a USA made quartz because of their superior resistance to heat and stains (not that that they are fool proof!) than trust an random Chinese company who could be 5-6x cheaper! Our architect tried hard to convince us to save money on a lower grade quartz from a Chinese supplier but i was like boss you don’t know Indian cooking and the mess it can make, so yeah, counter top is the one thing we wanted to be ultra sure we could get a good one. Now, we could’ve gone granite or soapstone which dont have any of these issues, but thats not a “modern” kitchen look anymore. Quartzlite and Marble was always a no for us not just for the cost, but they are a fucking pain to maintain, and yeah the cost. Quartz seemed like the best bet for now – we will see how this all plays out in future, but for now we are excited to see this getting installed on Tue and seeing our kitchen come one step closer to completion!

Did NOT expect this kind of run chase from Pakistan. Wow! I hope they get to finish this match instead of awarding the match to Pakistan based on DLS. But damn I had written them off the tournament!

> North Korea sends Putin tons of ammo. Europe can’t do the same for Ukraine. – POLITICO

This is so pathetic it’s hilarious! Jaishankar is right when he says Europe problems are Europe problems and not the world’s problems. If Europe as a continent can’t even support their own in dire times of need like this while a minuscule country alone can send this much ammunition to Russia it should be called out. It’s just shameful and no wonder Russia knows they can just keep prolonging this war.

Counter top and island decided phew. Today was stressful where we went from our fabricator not having the stone we wanted in stock to finding it with with some other dealer who wanted to offload and us being able to procure it in time for a next week install.

The county inspector came by again today morning to check on the work on our support beams & joists, as well as the range exhaust to out of house. He was not happy. I dont quite know what he had an issue with but our contractor was left scratching his head too (and no, our contractor does Kitchens all the time so this is not their first rodeo or they are new to this). Whatever rules or codes have changed recently in county its definitely throwing a wrench in the plans — and just by look on the contractor’s face I can tell we might need to redo something, which, ugh ugh ugh is not something I am looking forward to at all!