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We are going to Coldplay concert next week and when I bought tickets, I had somehow managed to buy an extra ticket on *other* side of the stadium. I had forgotten about it until I saw it few days ago. Used the ticketmaster service to put it on sale & was not expecting to go – i mean who buys a single ticket to concert? Well, turns out it sold in half a day! Made a small profit also in the process. Glad I remembered about this lone ticket.

Back from musical concert at school that the 4th, 5th and 6th graders performed for a packed auditorium. It was a lot of fun, and the kids did an amazing job – except the events of two days is still on my mind. As I watched the kids perform strings, bands, chorus and having fun at back of my mind I was all like jeez what if a disgrunted fuck pulled out a gun in this auditorium and started shooting?

The 6th graders performed “I want it that way” by Backstreet Boys as their final sayonara song of the night, and also the last song they’ll peform as elementary kids. It was a great performance, with kids really singing their hearts out while auditorium was clapping. Elementary school is really the age of innocence – middle school / high school is never going to be the same as elementary school. The general camaradarie between families and staff is so different. Some of lifelong friendships are formed here. How can someone be so sick and demented in their brains to intentionally kill such young kids? How is this even possible?

Sending your kids to public school has to be the biggest house of horrors that parents have to go through in this country. What a wretched fuck of a country this is.

Everyone’s pretty much given up on masks. Like totally at this pt. Well I’m no hurry to give up mine.

In this crazy real estate market where people overbid, one of the main fears as a buyer is the appraisal report. Its not commmon in HCOL markets to find that the appraisal came out lower than what the buyer paid – and then the buyer has to make up that additional difference in appraisal as collateral. So imagine my surprise when the appraisal came out higher than what we are paying for house! It doesnt make a difference to my application, but its nice to know somehow that we’ve potentially paid *less* for this house than it was appraised.

Also not to get too far ahead, sign of things to come then?

You know how you become desensitized to happenings around you? Few years back we’d be sharing any news related to school shooting in our friends whatsapp groups. We would get angry, cuss at the country and eventually go back to normal life. This time, nobody (including us) shared anything in our groups. There was no getting angry, no cussing and no sharing of collective grief. It was more like, this is the country we live in and thats that.

Said this before, saying it again. America needs to divide into two countries. There is no other solution.

100% chance that the Texas shooter was a Republican. Coz who else can it be if not from a cult of deranged lunatics.

Panchayat Season 2 was just terrific TV, and what a leap from S1. Episodes 3-8 are absolutely phenomenal, but man you only realize how terrific Faisal Malik is as Prahlad in the last 15 minutes of season finale. This is easily one of the best indian shows out there.

I must have the world’s only golden retriever who is afraid of water. Like the dude legit thinks water is his enemy. WTF is wrong with him? He is *supposed* to love water!

One of the first things we need to get done in the house is a kitchen remodel. We knew going into this that the kitchen needed redoing and its fine. The weekend was spent in debating designs of the space! Any good recommendations on where else can we find inspirations?