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I often keep wondering what happened to Katie Porter. She burst on the scene with her boards and systematic takedown of so many individuals. And then she has kind of disappeared- almost like the democratic establishment decided she is ruffling too many feathers and it was best to keep her out and ignore her.

Dad’s left to meet his best friend in New York. Both wife and I thought the excitement & anticipation on his face was far greater than meeting us. This is one friend whom he can’t stop talking about once he starts so I try to just avoid talking about him at all costs. I mean he’s a nice guy, nice family but you know in the last 20+ years I’ve been in the USA I’ve talked to him a grand total of 4-5 times, most of which are during when dad’s here. He’s never once called me while i was doing masters, or invited me anywhere (as much as he says now *do you need an invite?*) in the last 20+ years. I respect that distance but I also dont have any specific interest in harboring any relations with him or his family at this point. No hard feelings. Of course if you ask my dad I wouldn’t even have survived by myself without his watchful eyes on me. Their friendship is so strong that dad has chosen to spend a couple of his birthdays with him while in USA while my 5 year old disappointedly thought her grandpa would be with her. This time too he was all gung-ho about his grandkid’s birthday until I reminded him his own grandkid’s birthday party was this weekend and graduation was later this week. He half heartedly decided to come back on graduation day, which I guess is still a big improvement over just missing it all together. (*No, we did talk about moving the visit to next week to accommodate our events but that would be too much to expect lol*).

On the other hand, I know how much his son and daughter make each year thanks to some taunted shade that dad throws my way and I’m like yeah good for you, but I am not telling you my salary so you can have a measuring contest with your bestie. Anyway, house is going to be empty for a few days which means business as usual!

Rohit Sharma’s comments about WTC final are exactly what I expected in present day Indian player mentality. *Why can’t it be played in march?*, *Why not different country? (meaning, India)*, *Why not best of 3 test matches?* and all such. Essentially Rohit is saying, lets play the WTC final in India, in pitches of our choice that we can doctor for extreme spin from day 1, and while at it, lets just make it best of 3 so we can adjust our pitches to make us win the title. Sure you can do all that, but the beautiful game suffers. There is nothing wrong with a one off test final in the mecca of Cricket. Just keep it that way. If you are not good enough you are not good enough. No need to make so many excuses around it.

But but but Fox news told me all the liberal cities are crime central of the USA that need cleansing. What happened? How did most of the safest counties happen to be blue states? Must be wrong….

> [These Are The 15 Safest And 15 Least Safe Counties In America](https://www.fatherly.com/news/safest-least-safe-counties-in-america-map-story)
> Regardless of how the cookie crumbles, there are a few major takeaways. One: In general, the safest counties in the United States are almost exclusively on the East Coast, with the exception of a few counties in Ohio, Illinois, Colorado, and Georgia. Two of the counties on the list are in New York City — Queens County and New York County — and many others are in New Jersey and New York suburbs.

>And similarly, the most dangerous counties in America are almost exclusively landlocked areas. The least safe county in America? Big Horn County, Montana. Counties in Mississippi, Maryland, Arkansas, and a handful in South Carolina, Kentucky, Alaska, and Arizona all hit the list.

It’s 2023 and the government says it will take months to fix i95, one of the most important highways of northeast corridor? Like just call the Dutch or the Chinese and they will be done in 2 weeks. Months is so fucking laughable.

Also I realized my kid has too many white fiends. The only brown friends she had at party were all family friends. This is also an indication of the school and sports she is in. Hopefully as she gets into middle school which has a more diverse population, she will make some more diverse friends of color. She used to in our last school and I absolutely loved it but it has completely changed now. This is nothing against the white friends or families though – every one of friends she has made are absolutely wonderful and their parents are equally friendly, down to earth and wonderful. It’s just that I feel that everyone should have diverse set of friends so they experience growing up knowing different set of people. But glad for the friends she has already made though!

The kid’s birthday party at a bowling place was a lot of fun but also very tiring. Hopefully this is the last of the bday parties that we have to host – next time I hope to just leave the kid with her friends at mall and let them run loose instead of planning a party stuff.

I really don’t understand why White House your needs a reservation through my congressman or senator. It’s not like we can visit any “sensitive” area of the white house and now that’s it’s open to citizens only why not just put a scheduling system to book it directly with ID validation? Seems such a wasteful and unnecessary exercise – having a scheduling system would be so helpful for people to plan around it especially for out of state visitors.

Conspicuously absent from entire White House tour – absolutely no pictures of the former terrorist President. Thank you!

Woke up to india losing their final wicket in WTC final. Well done australia and deserving winners. This match was not lost at toss (which was really stupid decision to win toss and not bat first), but good several months ago when india pulled off the doctored pitches purely to advance to finals. You reap what you sow. They never deserved to be in finals.