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What regrets do you have about your 20s and 30s with regards to health and fitness?

My big one is I didn’t do a half marathon, much less a full marathon. Was in California then, no kids, great weather and I actually ran everyday. I dreamt about how I would do the Big Sur marathon at least once and never managed to cross a 4 mile run. Looking back feels like lost an opp.

Meanwhile a colleague of mine went from chain smoking to running marathons to Ironmans and ultramans all around the same time 😆

I keep refreshing my Opendoor offer every week just to gauge how market factors are impacting their offer prices, not that I would ever sell to them. I know they always end up offering less than house is worth, and we know folks who sold to them at lower price than market would have given them. Its incredible that in the last 4 weeks, their offer on my house dropped 100k, and almost 250k from late Jan when they peaked. Just sign of times and market/economy! We are headed for hard times.

Nothing like a little fire in belly eh? Our realtor who runs a mafia operation wanted the house spruced up for sale. We were like fine, whatever, as long as you use it to get us the best price in return. Anyhow for the last three weeks work has been going in our house for something or other, and it came to a complete standstill in the last week, because, you know how thats how contractors are – start work, but leave it unfinished while they are doing 5 other jobs simultaneously. So yesterday I called up the realtor and told her we have decided to rent our place and no longer selling – and today morning the entire mafia operation and their extended family are here. Suddenly work that was supposed to take 2 more weeks is only 3 days away from completion and my realtor is now super motivated that she can get us the best price even in this market. I am like, well, work your magic — and if you cant, thanks for your mafia operation for upgrading our house for cheap but we’ll just rent it lol. This is going to be a fun week full of possibilities!

An intense desire to eat theplas today. Anyone who knows me well enough know that I am obsessed about gujarati theplas. When I go to India, my foi makes theplas by the dozen and I manage to gulp them down within 3-4 days. If there are theplas around, I will eat them for breakfast, lunch, dinner, midnight snacks and whatever. Usually it will always end with me getting a solid tummy ache at which point I know I overdid it, but that won’t stop me from eating them. I just eat a little lesser.

Anyway, so the point being today I am in a massive I-want-to-eat-fois-thepla mode. Luckily dad is in ahmedabad, so I might end up getting a thepla care package in due course.

This song was far ahead of its time and is more relevant today than it was when it released. A seminal Jackson track [open.spotify.com](https://open.spotify.com/track/3wuCCNCnBhJlwkIJTBZFiv?si=yDv_hCX6TLi1Ihg22EjuTw)

Bumrah Shami in that england one day match were bonkers.

Also, ODI is a dying brand isn’t it? its either Test cricket of T20. I don’t see how ODI survives another decade or two. Frankly don’t care as long as Test cricket flourishes.

Someone on our gym app feed: sorry folks at 8am class I am down with covid; got symptoms last night and wanted to let you all know.

Everyone: Awww get well soon! We will miss seeing you at the gym.

Me: lol cancelling my sessions for the week.

I am envious of people who meal prep entire week. I don’t think I could go threw straight days eating from the fridge lol. That said I am envious of people who have that discipline.

That was some strong storm ooff!

Glad. This bodes well for apple. Ive and Jobs rebuilt apple, but Ive really went off the rails beyond a certain point with form over function. [Apple Ends Partnership With Former Design Chief Jony Ive – MacRumors](https://www.macrumors.com/2022/07/12/apple-ends-jony-ive-partnership/)