This is an eye opening stat that I did not think was true.
Our FIOS went out at 4 in the afternoon presumably due to some accident nearby. Still not fixed! The estimated time to restore is tomorrow mid day. This is the longest outage I have ever seen FIOS have. Even in the worst weather FIOS is dependable but today is something else. Something must have seriously gone wrong.
FIOS is out which means we have no TV tonight. We actually have to talk to each other. The horror 😱😱😱
Not clicking or reading any more stories about Israel’s continued genocide in Palestine. From my point of view, post Nov 5 the blood is on Arab Americans hands and the people who wanted to send Biden and democrats a message. My conscience is clear so best of luck to all those who sent a message. The blood of all those innocent people is now on your hands.
Over the last week I have done the following: 1/Logged out and deleted my twitter account. I had a shadow account that I had been using to track local police/school/weather accounts but fell into the dark hole a month before election by using it nonstop tracking the election. Now that it’s over, time to logout and keep it away. It has actually worked wonders just by doing this for my mental health. 2/ I am actively not taking any interest in “Trump appointed X to run X” articles. They are all over my news app but I am just not following it anymore; I sometimes click to read the opening paragraph and then just ignore the rest. It’s immaterial now. 3/ I had advised my wife and kid to do the same and avoid all news altogether. I told my kid focus back on Taylor Swift and not elections (which she was heavily invested in!). 4/ Start focussing on the things that I can indeed control in the short term, most important being my health and planned vacations. There’s a lot going on there that deserve more attention. 5/ Be more outgoing and invite more of our extended friends to spend time with us. While I love the small circle of friends we have, we just don’t do enough meeting up with so many others that we really should; over next few months just having more people around and meeting them will be a good change. They ain’t going nowhere yet, so we might as well enjoy! In short, fuck the news and focus inward.
Can we like stop with this whole nonsense of Biden stepping aside now so Kamala can be the first woman president, or Biden nominating her to SCOTUS. Like he *DID* step aside. She did her best. The American public has spoken. What Biden must focus on is to biggest bang for the buck that gives democrats a fighting chance in future than to indulge in symbolic performative nonsense like this.
The dreaded end of year reviews means no matter how good or bad someone is I need to make a sucky choice of rating someone below the line and potentially creating an exit scenario for that person. This is the one aspect of management job I am sure everyone hates but as my current manager told me, *If you dont nominate someone, I will nominate you to be that person* – simple, but quite effective forcing function. I dont like this one bit, but I gotta do what I have to do I suppose. I know the criteria by which (rather simple) I am going to do it though.
It’s insane how I am seeing Kamala all over my Instagram suddenly. Like every post even going back to few weeks ago suddenly popping up in timelines. Don’t let anyone fool you that only Musk was the only one here with X – Mark was equally in cahoots suppressing all dem information and pushing conservative posts.
Is it just me or the bakers on this season of great British bake off are insanely good! So far Dylan is my favorite and honestly the fact that he is Indian-Japanese is even more cooler coz that’s a combination I would have never imagined. Also, he seems like a fantastic baker!
A nice sleepy Sunday. Ifs actually going to run after 4 weeks today and kid is out with her friends at a mall. For a change I am looking forward to the rain 😆