Silo S2E9 gave me LOST vibes, where one thing opens to yet another new mystery, more questions and more unknowns. I hope makers don’t go down the route of creating so much mystery and unknowns that they have no idea whats happening. As is, Season 2 has been a dump for the most part.
What about Bin Tere Sanam has made it into an evergreen classic? I did not know it was also Jatin-Lalits debut.
lol. Forget Asia, they can’t even compare to three star hotels of USA. A random ass 3 star in USA is miles better than a 4-5 star hotel in Europe. Asian hotels are a pipe dream.
What’s with white people and shoveling snow in tshirt and shorts?! What’s with the showing off? We know you folks don’t feel cold, like ever.
Nothing Mark Zuckerberg is saying or doing is surprising right now and should not be. Remember that the core users of his platform in USA are right wing people. And America elected a right wing president when they had a choice to elect someone else. Like no point expecting him to be a better human with values when the country overwhelmingly told everyone they have no values or morals either by electing Trump. You get what you vote for.
These Dallaspuram snow videos are in full throttle on my insta feed. These people are entertainingly hilarious!
Replaced ecobee and I see new things happening as in ecobee now says stage 2 heat is engaged - something changed in settings and I have no idea what 😂 - I literally have the same things connected.
As part of my health management I am required to lot of bloodwork every 3-5 months. My doc is known to be extreme in her ask for blood work. Something changed with quest diagnostics (where I do my bloodwork usually) in the last year or so. Just a year ago it took 4-5 days for my results to arrive so I had to plan it in such a way that I could be sure of results before doc appointment. Now? Less than 24 hours! I had my blood drawn yesterday morning and in less than 24 hours I have all the results. Technology must have improved leaps and bounds that results are now available so fast instead of waiting almost a week!
So more update on the HVAC saga. Remember I posted this a couple of days ago:
Yet another issue with HVAC Heat Pump this morning. Walk down in morning to frigid first floor at 60 degrees. Clearly the heating has failed on first floor again so I promptly call the tech. They send a person out in morning - the guy spends hours and hours here only for him to say, “I cant diagnose this t... supremus.micro.blog
Well, so we ended up getting two different HVAC technicians from two companies, partly because of how I ended up scheduling them. Anyhow, the first guy walks in with full confidence and says he knows our system and make inside out, and he’ll figure this out in no time. Spends an hour or two, and tells me upfront that the electric coils for our backup heater are non-functional. He shows me all the voltage connections, readings on his meters etc and sure enough they are all zero! Says nothing else is problem - the electric coils are not working and need replacement, otherwise all is kosher with system. Says he will send quote for the electric coills next morning. By that time our heat is working fine.
Next morning the guy from another provider comes in. Now this company is highly rated in our HOA group (why i didnt search for rec there in first place is another story!), and the guy comes in and says well yeah, your electric coils are not working because the voltage is not getting to it. And reason why its not getting to it is because you have a faulty……Ecobee!. He then says there is no issues with my heating system, but a bunch of connections are simply loose - that will explain why sometimes heater actually works and sometimes doesnt. Then says, ecobee is hosed because its not sending the right trigger to start the electric coils. When he bypassed ecobee and started them manually, they fired properly. Wrote up a report to replace ecobee and went off on his way. Later at night i contacted ecobee support and they are like yeah it happens sometimes and they are sending me a free replacement.
So in the end I have no real clue what is going on. All I can say with confidence is almost all big guy HVAC guys are complete crooks. I find it hard to believe that one guy says your electric heaters are conked, while another one says nope absolutely not. Then the last guy shows me loose connections which you would think the other guy should’ve figured out. I have now no faith in these people. I am 100% sure even if there are no issues, these people will muck your system on purpose so something goes wrong and they can charge you. I am 100% confident that is the case that all these HVAC techs are basically thieves operating for their companies and they deliberately spoil the system so you keep spending.
It also makes sense considering in my last townhouse I had a 20 year old furnace that i never once got it serviced - whether it was annual checks or anything else, i didnt do anything. It worked absolutely fine all through.
I decided to pay for one year of monarch money and check it out after trialing it out for a week. So far so good. I am not against the idea of paying for something if they don’t sell my data and so far the interface has been very good. One of the first byproducts of using monarch was to change my cellphone providers this week. After years on Verizon wireless, we moved to USMobile which also uses Verizon as their backend. It made no sense to stay on Verizon wireless paying nearly 140 bucks for two lines (and we are grandfathered, go figure!) when we could get a better plan at USMobile for all three of us and pay less than that! While Verizon did offer me loyalty discount and tried to get the bill to 120 odd, it still made no sense to continue with them.
Like I predicted schools are closed tomorrow also 😂 - at this point might as well call Friday off and make it a week long vacay for the kids. Yep people 8-10” of snow completely decapitates this area.
Like instead of being obsessed with Greenland and Canada I wish Trump would consider annexing all of central and parts of south america. Nice, warm weather, beautiful people and food and they can really use all the richness America offers to better their lives. Plus, Americans will have more warmer states to move to than the horrible southern states we have today. Like if Costa Rica is a state of America? Oh yeah that’d be awesome? Imagine the coffee? But we all know Trump only wants white people don’t we :D.
The 5 day RTO mandate that all companies are eager to put forward is one of the reasons why I will never take USA’s commitment to climate change seriously. Like this was a golden opportunity for the government and private sector to come together and redefine how urban planning of future could be developed and designed around work meeting people where they are and not the other way around. The result would have been less vehicles on road, newer economies picking up where people are and do more for climate change. Instead the government and private sector is hell bent on going back to the ways of the old, doing more of the same, and creating the same chaos. At this point, its hard to take anything this country says seriously.
Oh wow I did not know that Kohli has only 9200 odd runs in test cricket in 123 tests vs Smith at 9999 in 114 tests. That kind of puts a new perspective on Kohli’z record - not that it’s not amazing but for a cricketer who has constantly been called as the GOAT, I felt his test stats would be far better!
As predicted schools are closed tomorrow also in addition to yesterdays and today. Very likely Thursday will operate on a 2 hour delay but I give that a 50% chance, other 50% chance that it will be closed Thursday too. Yeah DC region really does not handle snow well.