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The biggest myth of dog ownership is “*if you are cold they are cold*. No, my golden will happily sit for a hour in foot deep snow eating all the snow around and then will have a zoomie. He will then beg to finish that with a round of fetch. He comes in because we force him. They don’t feel cold. Whoever came up with that nonsense probably owned a chihuahua in which case their life was already a tragedy.

Here’s a simple thing: If you have to resort to umpteen blog posts, email exchanges, private messages, responses and more to explain your position, you have already failed. If I have to read the manual to understand your nuanced take, you might as well keep it with you lol.

bear blog, write.as, friendica – so many fediverse blog options. I did start looking at various options today after what continues to be a train wreck of a situation with this company’s founders, but if there are other options out there that operate similarly to micro, let me know some recos. Definitely trying out multiple options! And some of them even offer private/unlisted blog which has been a top wish of mine for a while.

I have a special kind of hatred who propose an alternate time for a meeting and that alternate time is 4.30pm on a Friday with a message “does this time work?”. No fucking not, it does not. Its a friday. I am not attending a meeting at 4.30 on a goddamn friday. No sorry, les meet Monday instead.

MAJOR SPOILERS. Stop reading if you haven’t seen the last episode of Silo, Season 2. I had said i would post about why I did not like that last scene ending in-spite of the overall episode being one of the best episodes Silo has ever produced. My problem with the ending scene was simply this: It sets the series up to become another LOST with flash-forwards and backwards. Silo spent a significant amount of time world-building to the point that we are completely bought into it. Now its completely unimportant *why* the Silo came to be. To me, there is no mystery or fun here – it literally could be anything that led to creation of Silo but it would mean nothing to where the story is. Everything about why the Silo came to be can be simply explained within an episode, but given how Silo has operated they will make an entire season out of it which to me is largely unnecessary. I hope Silo S3 and S4 really focus on what happens to the people of the Silo, instead of trying to make how the Silo came to be as one of the defining mysteries of the series, which it really isnt. I haven’t read the books, and yes it may have made more sense in the books to do so, but TV is a different medium and we largely don’t need a backstory. So yeah, I hope Silo S3 moves ahead and not resort to LOST style flash-forwards and backwards gimmickry!

For years A has been telling me to invest in a property in India as a safeguard option. I am finally taking it seriously now. No time lost. The best time to do it was 5 years ago. The next best time is now. What’s the worst that could happen? We’ll rent it out. In a place like Bangalore, finding renters is not going to be very hard, and now even India has all sorts of fancy property management services you can use from abroad so you don’t have to depend on your family & friends like a decade ago to maintain your property.

Last night our kid asked us if we were legal immigrants when she was born and if there was a risk to her citizenship because of us. We nonchalantly told her we are all citizens today, but if something happens and we along with her lose US citizenships, we will gladly pack sack and move to India. She was upset we would even suggest this and how the US is *her* country and she is an American. We asked her to buckle up and just said, be glad she at least has a backup option in life that many don’t. Of course now the kid thinks we actively want to be in that group so we can go back lol. What a shameful mess this country has come to be.

This whole episode over last 2 days on micro remind me of how white Americans look at the world. Like if there is natural disaster or terrorist attacks elsewhere in the world, news channels will lambast faces and bodies of dead people (mostly always brown/black) nonstop on your screens for everyone’s entertainment while making nonstop comments; but the moment something like that affects white people, it’s always “we are not showing you the images out of respect and privacy of affected individuals”. That’s exactly how it felt like 😆

Today was exhausting day at work with a lot of fried tempers, half of which could be attributed to yesterday. I will say this though – women are 2x harder than men to manage. I somehow managed to trigger a team mate off today and now she is treating me like sulking sibling. Like just stop it already – not here to parent you, just do your fucking job and let me do mine!

Dreading taking out the dog for a walk and doo-doo in frigid cold right now but needs to be done. The mofo better poop quickly instead of taking his jolly time sniffing around the neighborhood trying to find best locale and moment to do his deed.