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Its been almost a month since the election and my decision to stay off consuming all political news and content has largely paid off. I still keep seeing headlines and masto/bsky posts around topics of interest, but I look at the headline and just don’t get into it. The first political article I read after few weeks last night was Biden forgiving Hunter and I am glad it happened. But now I am going back into that mode again to try and avoid consuming as much political content as I can. I am done, and I think I like this change a lot right now.

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We started watching mission impossible series with the kid last night and my wife remarked that the first movie we were watching came out when she was nearly the same age as our kid right now 😆. This is a series that really has just overstayed.

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Something is happening in California. A distressing number of people I know as ex-colleagues or acquaintances on Facebook have all come out slowly but surely indicating they voted for Trump for one reason or another. These are folks I worked with for a long time while I was at Cisco and they are all pretty much South Asians and a couple of Eastern Europeans. I just feel weirded out reading all their posts.

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Our downstairs floors are frigid this morning. Electric heat pumps are the absolute worst kind of heat there is – the system basically runs on Aux heat nonstop which almost always kills something inside that needs replacing. Sometimes I wish this system just conked altogether so I can replace it with a gas system which is far more better and predictable than this electric heat nonsense. It simply does not work in real cold. Period.

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First real walk in cold today with doggo in low 30s is a sign of things to come. I am not looking forward to these walks as much as they do help me in some ways tolerate the cold. But ugh, I hate hate hate winter.

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Had a wonderful Thanksigiving last night inspite of a few people not showing up. We started out at 6 and pretty much ate our way through till 12.30 in morning. Much food and drinks were consumed. Then we spent few more hours chit chatting while kids finally tired at 2am decided to call it a night. Eventually our festivities ended at almost 4am! Blessed and lucky to have friends in life whom we can spend so much time with. If another family had made it we’d have few more days/nights of this since they would’ve come out of town. On the plus side, looking forward to a quiet weekend with family and shopping!

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A family bailed out on dinner tonight for good reasons, but it means we now have horrible amount of food to devour.