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I can’t make heads or tails of Shining Girls but it’s addictive. Though really head scratching series this.

Yesterday my kid did something I am super proud of – she asked for *help*.

R has been in a swim team since 3 years now, and while she mostly does great on all stroke mechanics, one area that she has never improved (or even learnt properly) is diving start off platform. This has greatly hindered her swim times in most races, and if she actually learns to do a clean competitive start off platform, she can cut down several seconds of her every race. We’ve been talking about this for a while with her.

Except, she determined as a wise pre-teen that she was much smarter than her parents. Our efforts to tell her nicely (and then bluntly) that her dive starts sucked went to empty ears and ended with more melodrama about how we dont love her (duh!). So around 18 months ago I gave up and told her unless she was ready for this, there is no use in us pushing her because she refuses to listen. And then something odd happened yesterday.

I go to pick her up, and even before we leave she says she went to the coach and talked to her about improving her dive starts. She told her coach, her dive starts sucked big time, and it was important for her to *learn* it the right way so she can be more competitive. The coach immediately gave her more pointers for private lessons and pointed her to other teachers at the swim team club that taught this exact skill she needs. She gave us the contact numbers of those coaches and asked us to ping them so she can get some help.

To say that I am thrilled with this is an understatement. My only comment to her as she said this was I was incredibly proud of her to ask for help when she realized she needed. And yes, we’ve already pinged the coach and she’s excited to get started! If anything I want her to do this as much as possible – do not ever be afraid to seek help when you don’t know something or you want to improve! I wish i had her guts and maturity when I was at her age of 10 years!

I am never going to understand the douche called Manchkin. Look, the women’s bill had no chance of passing the senate so his vote yay or nay didnt really matter much. But what he did do successfully by voting nay is he made the entire media narrative about *him* rather than the entire GOP contingent that voted *no*. At this point, might as well flip your party affiliation.

In time I am seriously hoping that USA turns into another European Union of sorts. Each state or collection of states can be their own country for all practical purposes but share a common bounding entity for trade and security. I cannot foresee how this country will survive otherwise. The divisions in this country are so big now that it’s impossible to bring people together anymore. Earlier this divorce happens better for the world.

Any tv recommendation? We started Pachinko last night and felt like a Bollywood movie. Wouldn’t mind a different recommendation

I tweet threaded instead of micro blogging it because I did not want it to be public.

Good grief doggo I am just using the restroom stop whining as if I have disappeared.

You know, at almost 80 all I want to be doing is sitting by beach, reading a book & enjoying the company of my grand kids and all. Now contrast with the daily global shit that Biden is dealing and I can’t imagine why does he want to do this when more than half the country are full of ungrateful fucks. Like really the amount of shit he is dealing with on a daily basis my 80 year old self (if I live that long) would be like hey bhagwan utha le type.

Recruiter: We would love for you to join our team! We have a lot of challenges that you can help solve (read: our org is a complete mess) and we will pay you competitively (read: less than what you make right now). This is really a role for someone who can roll up their sleeves (read: we dont have the right people for the job so you gotta do everything) and someone who is not afraid to challenge the status quo (read: our ceo is a dick). Me: No, thank you.

Randomly put on a song of QSQT on YouTube and ended up watching all songs. What a beautiful movie and such an epic soundtrack it was. They don’t make those innocent kind of love stories anymore.