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[Amazon is pausing HQ2 construction](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-03/amazon-hq2-pauses-construction-amid-layoffs-remote-work?utm_source=website&utm_medium=share&utm_campaign=copy) and I think its the right thing to do. Times have changed between 2017 and now. Remote work is a reality, and there is no need to keep spending billions on office towers if majority of work force are not going in every day. I hope they take this opportunity to spread their offices *around* HQ2 area in Virginia, DC and Maryland so folks have maximum flexibility to come to work if they desire. As is, getting to Crystal City is such a fucking nightmare for both MD and VA residents it was always a surprise of all places they had chosen that godforsaken city as HQ2.

I hope Indian goes on to lose next test match also and Sri Lanka wins against NZ so they go to final with Australia. Will serve them right! So happy australia won.

Slack reminders are the only way I remain productive at work.

I didn’t even bother watching the third india australia test and I do not regret it at all looking end of day scores.

Last night around 3 ish there was a loud thunderstorm that lasted a while. I can’t remember the last time we had a thunderstorm this early in the year!

Tomorrow will be 12 years since mom passed away. As if to make that feeling worse we are watching Dopesick on Hulu that is so heartbreaking to watch, especially knowing addiction/dependence up close. After her accident in 2007, my mom was prescribed Xanax that completely engulfed her. Towards the end I don’t think she was even aware of how much Xanax she was having because she had become so dependent on it. She hid it all from everyone, and while I suspected many other things were wrong with her sitting 10000 miles away, I never once guessed addiction.

Years later while we were emptying out her belongings we discovered stash upon stash of Xanax hidden in her belongings. Those discoveries led to new stories around how mom always looked drowsy but people assumed something else, or how our car driver would take her medical shops that gave her the drug (I mean its India, nobody cared what it was), and how everyone she purchased from was swore to secrecy by her. Or how everyone around her quietly assumed she was taking sleeping pill to ease her from her accident pain of years ago. Or nobody gave a fuck when she refused to see doctors, or allowed anyone to touch her purse and prized belongings.

I tried my damnest hard to help her from here, but not knowing what it was, and not having that forcing influence on family I could never get her to go to a doc. I wish I knew what she was on and I understood the signs; maybe then maybe I could have forced the family to get her proper counseling and support. I wish family around her took the signs seriously and stepped in. All that’s left is a series of what-ifs. I dont know if Xanax took her life eventually in form of a heart attack, but even if it didnt, it made her miserable. So I hope she’s happy wherever she is now, because we miss her everyday and not a day goes by without me thinking what could’ve been.

India has made a mockery of test cricket with their pitches and I am glad it’s now being talked about — [so much this about Indian cricket pitches](https://www.espncricinfo.com/cricket-videos/aakash-chopra-says-if-every-test-lasts-only-two-and-a-half-days-there-is-a-problem-with-the-pitch-1361270)

How does a government slowly keep changing their citizens mindset to convince them that war is absolutely necessary is playing out in real time in USA. Both parties to blame here but to me its clear that public opinion is being swayed continuously to convince us that going to war with China is the right thing to do.

I honestly won’t be surprised if Scott Adams ran for presidency and also win it. He is making all the right moves and comments to set him up for success.

England New Zealand showing us what real test cricket is all about while India Australia showing us how borefests are created.