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Hardwood on second floor of house is overrated. For my money a plush nice carpet is way to go.

I got a package last night that was addressed to someone along with a care-of: our last owners name. I was like, hmm yet another package that our last owner got. I texted him and told him he probably got a package for his kid under care-of name and sent him the shipping label. He messages back, no, its not him, but our neighbors *across* the street. So I am like, if its a package for neighbors *across* the street why is the package addressed clearly to our address with his care-of name?

He texts back a bit later and says OMG the neighbor across sometimes used to send *gifts* to their address so he could surprise his wife. And thats what must have happened – the neighbor must have sent package to our address to keep it away from his wife, but forgot that previous owner no longer lived there. I am like OK no problem I will give package to the old guy. Old owner texts back, no no, please hold on to package until I chat with that guy. So I am ok!

Neighbor texts me late at night apologizing about the package and says he will pick up the surprise gift today morning (which he did). Previous owner has a sigh of relief that his friend & neighbor’s surprise was not ruined because the old man forgot he doesnt live there. All is well in everyone’s house.

Except, now I have an angry wife at home who is smitten by the amount of love between the old neighbor and his wife that he has gone to extreme lengths to keep a gift a secret and why the fuck can’t I do something romantic like this?

FML!

Our HOA is being a fucking pain, but I guess thats on par for all HOAs. We want to cut 3 trees in our backyard (change from the 7 we wanted to), but now the HOA wants a arborist to certify that those trees indeed need to go. So we got an arborist to send them the recommendation – and now they like well we can’t the arborist certification on site. I’m like benchods, its a opt-in website. Now what you want me to do, bribe the fucking arborist to validated his credential so HOA overlords are happy? Lesson for next house – avoid HOA like a fucking plague.

I guess we will never have another waka waka

Even the music from this years World Cup is so insipid and boring

I dunno but I miss the high focus days of the pandemic. Not the pandemic itself btw, but the highly focused life i developed because of it. And now that pandemic’s waned this year, lifestyle creep and laziness has set in. I need that focus back without the pandemic.

Already been a year since we went to India 🙁 – can’t wait to go back again though a year away. Gonna be a excruciatingly long wait to go back home!

Honestly Ted Cruz is such a horrible man that I bet he was was already looking into how to politicize things to his advantage had something happened to his kid. He really is such a vile person, and by definition anyone who voted for him.

People who rate something 8.7 out of 10, why? Why so specific?

Feels like an end of era for Indian cricket – need new faces and folks in and give them time to grow. It is time for the senior players to think about their priorities. Also, Dravid hasn’t been able to replicate his success at local level to national level, though dont think he can’t do much. Shastri got this team at their prime years and Dravid has to deal with inflated egos and age of the team – going to be hard.