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Cool cool – if the Perth test match between England and Australia gets over in two days surely pitch had nothing to do with it and it’s only the brilliant quality of two white teams amirite? Imagine the pushback and criticisms India would get on a spin pitch that ends a 5 day game in 2 days. Anti brown hypocrisy is alive and well. FWIW, I don’t care if it’s a spin or swing pitch but if a test match is over in 2 days then it should be criticized equally.

If Ukraine agrees to the peace agreement it honestly is such a terrible look on Europe. They really cannot do jack shit even with a significantly degraded Russia without American support. Hopefully is a wake up call to them to take charge of their own destinies – as Jaishankar said it best few years ago – Europe needs to get outside of mindset that Europe’s problems are world problems to solve for. Anyway, looks increasingly now Ukraine will have to make a difficult choice.

A house came up for sale in our community with the exact floor plan that we have. We thought being end of November, dampening economy and federal impact, the house was priced higher than it should have been. Well, we were wrong. The house listed on Friday and under contract on Sunday evening. We are in some unhinged economic times.

Had a phone screen today and it was an old desi. I admit I had to remind myself to keep ageist biases away because my first impression was hmm you look older than what this position demands for. Then he blew it out of the park completely. It’s rare that I have come across a candidate that I felt just based on a phone screen needs to be hired at a higher level then he is interviewing for. While I am glad he’s definitely going to come to do a full loop with team I have already flagged recruiting and told him that not looping him for a higher level would be a travesty and honestly we’d be amiss if we didn’t hire him at a higher level.