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You know I’d like to see a TV series of a post-pandemic world, where the world is you know…. quite normal, and the series could be about how scientists saved the world instead of zombies, apocalyptic destruction and humans generally going back to middle ages. But that would be so boring, correct?

Desis post a lot of messages on slack anonymously. But you can easily make out a desi wrote the message because desis particularly love to use phrases like “Anyone who will do this for reasonable price…”, “Please share your experiences….”, “Any tips to not pay more….”, “I need urgent help….” and the likes.

But but but but just a few months ago ya’all were complaining how Amazon was ruining small businesses, small town shops, rural economics and culture of cities and towns? What happened: [Amazon’s belt-tightening affects towns across the U.S.](https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/03/07/amazon-hq2-warehouse-delays/)

Today morning I was remembering how Hobbes came into our household. We had picked a breeder after much research, and it was a mutual fit after they interviewed us. When the pups came along, right from their 5th week we were invited to puppy playdates to meet & greet puppies. The idea was we got to meet the pups, see them super young and let our breeders know what characteristics were we looking for. Our eyes were mostly set on two pups that seemed to hang around with us more often than others, and based on our 1:1 convo with breeder during playdate we were almost convinced we would matched with one of the two given our bias towards them already.

Except we didnt. In fact none of the 8 families that expressed their preference towards a particular pup was matched with them. Instead every one of us was matched with a pup that breeder thought was best fit for their lifestyle, the way we handled pups and past interviews with them. Of the 8 puppies, we never met Hobbes even once as he was always somewhere else. So yes, initially we were a bit disappointed to be matched with a pup that we had not once interacted in the 4 play dates we had.

We couldn’t have been more wrong. We were matched with the most perfect puppy that we wanted. Hobbes has that perfect blend of laziness and active personality that works great for us! He is ready to play when we want to, but he is also not hyper that he requires hour long play to tire him out. He can chill by himself whole day and then spend next couple of hours in light play or he’s just happy to be around you. Funny enough all 8 families matched with what they wanted. The two pups that we preferred initially? One turned into a hyper energy ball that a family of 3 kids (& a dog) perfectly matched with, while the other one is an ultra lazy dog that loves to chill all day long and doesnt like any activity, perfectly matching with an older couple who didnt want a hyper one. And we got the best of all worlds!

Every variation and take on [Kivein Mukhde](https://open.spotify.com/track/5sKx6QSarbmVkjx0jnf20h?si=801f3207608846e6) sounds so good. Something about the tune lends itself well to any way you remix it.

Anti abortion people are frankly terrorists in my book.

Got HBO a for next couple of months. Watching last of us, will start house of dragon soon and succession. Never got into Barry but might give another try. Anything else to see on HBO? Euphoria is not our kind of show.

Wouldn’t it be nice to be in a world where skin color of a fairy didn’t trigger people?

Writing is quite cathartic for me. I have noted my deepest fears, disappointments, joy or otherwise through these years. I don’t write for anyone, and I dont for the most part even care much for grammar or sentence structure / spelling. What I do care about it speaking whatever is in my mind and it has helped me so much its indescribable. It wasn’t until I wrote my annual blog post this year I really discovered that what a mess I was for a majority of last year and pretty much lived through depression. Its almost like the act of writing it all out has somehow snapped me out of that frame. I fee much better and happier these days, more relaxed and more hopeful of things around me. Its almost like writing that post finally made me realize how much I was holding in and needed to vent out, specifically via writing. I really should be blogging more often – clearly it helps me bring clarity to myself and makes me feel better!

In a meeting to discuss “core dependencies”. I dont know, are there other kinds of dependencies in software world?