Dear Men: Listen up. Ditch your masculine old spice body wash for the winter and instead opt for the Dove body wash with micro-moisturizing droplets (yeah yeah whatever!) for the best feeling ever. Its like you are bathing in moisturizing lotion. Perfect for winter. Just take care to avoid fruity/flowery flavors-you don’t want to be smelling like a peach-mango-peony smoothie do you?

I had so many long-form posts to write in the last few weeks and I got to none of them. Now I am lazy and likely won’t go back to them. Oh well. I will try more in 2025!

In a surprising change of heart my kid says she is now “open” to the idea of moving to India but more like 20% open to it. This is a big change from her staunch no just a year ago and from last India trip in 2021. Of course I know she doesnt quite mean it, but fact that she even said it is a win!

The wind is crazy outside today. The walk with doggo was interesting because so many branches on road and I had to keep looking up to spot check trees. Joys of living in a tree studded community!

And lifecycle yearly is here! Going to dig through this but one metric stood out immediately: walking. In 2024 I walked nearly 207000 steps more than 2023. That’s a big increase and I got only Hobbes to thank for that.

Finished up what will be my last “art” work for holiday season. This was fun learning experience over holidays and I am glad I did it!

In hindi there is a term called manhoos saaya. This is my wish that America’s manhoos saaya does not befall rest of the world in the new years especially its obsession with killing people. What a society in decay this is, sigh.