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TV over fireplace, yes or no?

On one hand TV over fireplace seems like a good use of space that always seems perfect for TV and nothing else. The walls usually stay empty or become a art piece hanger. Mounting TV over fireplace saves good real estate in other parts of room and allows some moderate flexibility in furniture arrangement. You could potentially draw an antenna line from chimney to get local channels. The cons of course being that no matter how low you mount the TV, your viewing angle is always going to be higher and not at eye level. Heat and how high/low TV is mounted is a real concern (though not as much as it used to be).

The advantage of wall mounting a TV on wall is obvious – you can mount it at eye level and have floating shelves for soundbar etc. But more often than not it locks you in a particular furniture arrangement, and not to mention makes it impossible to move TV elsewhere. Also, its not like the TV is mounted flush with wall anyway, so there is always going to be some distance between wall and TV which eats into space.

I am trending more towards wall mount rather than over fireplace, but what would you do?

Even though it makes no difference who is in power in Karnataka – congress or BJP, I am still glad congress had a thumping victory, if only to shut my own relatives first and other to teach BJP that yelling “modi” and “development” together doesn’t mean win elections. Hopefully congress plays it smart but I have zero hope in them either.

Its warm as hell outside like peak summer and I am SO FUCKING HERE FOR IT! I love love spring, but I will not mind the hot summer as well for the next several decades.

Its not just the light that has improved in our living room, but also air flow. This nice warm spring morning I have all windows open and enjoying a nice breeze along with chirping of the birds to give company. Of course all this will be ruined within the next hour when the lawn mowers come out, but gotta enjoy the times we can. Lawn mowing is one thing I wish HOA actually did something – like make a fucking rule and have people do mowing only specific days of week.

I dare you to eat this horrible diarrhea inducing concoction called [mango dolly dabeli](https://www.instagram.com/reel/CpxzkBduUN4/?igshid=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==)!

Had an excellent day of meetings today where I provided a lot of thought leadership by asking questions like
*How do we scale this 10x?*
*How do we change that behavior?*
*I think its a great start but perhaps we start out with something smaller?*
*We should not be afraid to think big! Why aren’t we thinking big?*
*Will the user care?*
*I think we need to circle back on this and treat it as separate initiative with its own motion, agree?*

This week I connected with a colleague after 3 years and we went to lunch at a local Thai joint that we used to love back then. Both ordered the same dishes as we did, and turns out in the 3 years hence his spice tolerance has increased two fold while mine has decreased five fold. I could barely eat the fried rice I ordered while he was gulping down his basil chicken by adding more spice. Anyway moral of the story is dont go to Thai restaurant with your colleagues.

Golden rule of judging how much time a home project will go on: Take whatever the contractor says and multiply it by two and save yourself some headache. I am yet to meet a contractor who says I will finish the work in X days and it does not end up taking 2X days. Not one. Which begs the question why do they even give a stupid estimate?

People justifying *why* they watched the trump town hall because they wanted to see how *it played out* is exactly why people are still on Twitter. You know *exactly* how it’s going to play out on Twitter, heck you even predicted it multiple times, but you stuck around to *see how it all plays out*. Trump is exactly the same – what has changed in the last 7 years that you didn’t know how dumpster fire would turn out? But sure stay to see how it all plays out because that’s exactly crap companies like CNN know what people want.

Dad is watching Karnataka election news on TV with great interest. There’s a panel of some 8 people on TV all of them yelling and shouting at one another. I cannot make out ONE word or what anyone is saying and somehow dad is magically making out what every one of them is saying with full clarity. Indian hearing has evolved to such a degree that I won’t be surprised if next generation Indians born today will have better hearing than dogs or wolves!