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Eating at Freddy’s for first time and I get In N Out vibes and I hope it’s as good.

Republicans are anti socialist but also want government to have fuller regulatory control over what Disney does. Ok.

Ted Lasso (apparently) and Succession are both in their final seasons and yet the contrast between them couldn’t be more apparent. Sucession seems to have turbo charged its final season with clear sense of purpose, while already 6 episodes in Ted Lasso just seems to be meandering along with little or no sense of plot development or purpose. I loved Ted Lasso in its first season but its been a frustrating to see this show go so downhill.

Oh no. I am RTO in two weeks and just realized i have no clothes except pyjamas and lounge tees. I actually need proper tees and jeans!

In other news, dad comes next week to spend a couple of months with us. This is the first time he will be living with a pet ever, and even more so *in* the house. Like a true desi he even asked us why is he not kept outside in backyard or shed instead. He was legit disappointed when we told him Hobbes was part of the family and no such thing like staying out or separation was going to happen, and in fact he was very much going to be around him also 24/7. I mean for all practical purposes, dad *is* the guest here, not him lol. This will be an interesting two months for dad and us, and Hobbes!

For the last couple of weeks I’ve been thinking on and off about India in general. Two decades ago when I came to USA, I was the only within my family and my extended family on both maternal and paternal side who had immigrated to USA. My family was of course used to idea of dad in middle east, but a 3 hour flight didnt make it feel very far outside of India. Two decades hence, I still remain the only one outside (along with my wife) from India. While over the last decade many of my cousins have also emigrated to the USA, I was never close enough with them to think my family is here (heck we haven’t even met each other more than two times in the last decade!).

So I keep thinking about family back in India. Imagining what-ifs – what if, we too along with my family and extended family had stayed back? I keep imagining few years from now about kid’s wedding and I literally fucking know no family to invite them to wedding. The kid has cousins here that she barely even registers much less family, and the immediate family kids are all back in India. It just feels very lonely at times knowing that beyond my own circle of friends, there is literally nobody here to fall back on. Beyond us, the kid has nobody to lean on except her friends. I feel jealous looking at my brother’s own kids who are surrounded by family on both sides at all times – growing up amongst people, family and all makes me feel bad that my kid missed out on all that.

It sure would’ve felt nice if my entire family had immigrated here I suppose.

I am disappointed the Dominion-Fox case did not go to trial and instead ended in a settlement. I hope the settlement was not just about the money but something was in there to ensure Fox didnt go on a voting fraud nonsense again – though I doubt it. For a media empire like Fox, this is not big money and people will soon forget this all. Disappointed.

In retrospect 2007-2011 was probably peak tech. Apple was discovering is mojo with one smashing event after another, we all collectively hoped Microsoft would die, Facebook & Twitter were actually fun to be on, you could stream all that you wanted from one provider and generally the Internet was brimming with enthusiasm new tech products with promise of better tomorrow.

And then the outrage factory took over the Internet and every electron of it and all we are left with are tiny specks of niceness in corners of the internet while the majority of it has become unregulated rotting filth that you really don’t want to be around.

If you had told me 5 years ago that I would be thrilled to see a dog poop out solid feces, I would have questioned your mental sanity and recommended intervention. But here we are today.

Crossed or underlined? Man that was just so stinging and so succession!