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I don’t know if Sabrina Carpenter thinks she is a dog coz:

Adore me Hold me and explore me Mark your territory (Ah-ah) Tell me I’m the only, only, only, only one Adore me Hold me and explore me I’m so fuckin' horny Tell me I’m the only, only, only, only one

From Juno, a song from her new album.

Slow Horses is so so good! With this and Only murders in building, two of the best shows on tv each week!

Austrian airlines gave me credits for the cancelled flight to Vienna after few weeks. I appreciate the gesture - they didnt really have to do it, but it was a nice gesture of them to earn some goodwill of people by giving out credits to people who cancelled their flights to Vienna because of cancelled concert. Now, it’s another matter if I can actually use their credits for another trip within a year. I am sure thats a part of their calculation on how many will actually do anything about it.

A piece of advice I give all my friends is - If you are completely disinterested in politics (as many of them are), then just go ahead and vote democrat. 8/10 times you are going to come out better. If you are interested in politics, then I am happy to send you a whole lot of literature for you to read and make up your mind!

Does the Rings of Power get any better in second season? The major problem with the series (other than its…. kind of boring) is the casting of characters is horrendous across the board. I want to start the second season but I am already dreading it.

Back after a fabulous couple of days in Philly at friends. That said, concerning number of Trump lawn signs in suburbs of Philly! not that I didnt see Harris signs either, but fact that there seemed to be more Trump signs was certainly worrying. Its all going to come down to Philadelphia and Pennsylvania again isnt it?

I insist that every French traveler who wants to visit Northern India absolutely must start their conversations with Indians with Namaste, aap English bolte ho? and end with Shukriya.

I am never going to understand women who support Trump. What is appealing about him? What policy position resonates with them? It is just bizarre that he even has women supporters.

C.I.A. Warning Helped Thwart ISIS Attack at Taylor Swift Concert in Vienna

The CIA literally saved our lives potentially. If these motherfuckers had succeeded it would have been a tragic massacre and gives me shivers what could’ve been.

Every day now you hear about a company scaling “back” DEI. Why? what happened? too many black/ brown or women at work? too many pronouns for your taste? or you can’t promote your white bitch boy buddy as easily as you used to? White men in America are some of the most insecure people on earth!

Didn’t sleep well due to a work incident that I kept playing over and over again in my head most of the night. And now the kid is sick. And oh, we completely ran out of dog food and the next shipment won’t come till Saturday - so it’s eggs/rice/tofu galore for the doggo until food arrives. Sucky 24 hours!

🍿 Munjya (2024) - ★★★☆☆

A sold 3-½ star horror comedy movie. Munjya umm was so cute even if he is the devil 😆

Kid has a sore throat. Uh oh.

For first two years of my job here I was asking for more ownership for me and the team. Now that I manage the other ICs, I am realizing omg these people have no capability to handle any ownership so I am now actively deflecting it to someone else. #managementlife

Over the last couple of months I’ve noticed a strange thing with me. I will wake up in middle of the night with a sudden urge to eat…. almonds. So I will make my way down to kitchen, grab a few, eat them and then go back to sleep like it was nothing. I hate this, and I am going to stop buy almonds altogether to get over this annoyance.

You need some kind of weird mental strength to go through Costco shopping experience. Every time I go to their store I walk out with high blood pressure, incredibly angry and ready to drive like a maniac. Then it takes me several hours to cool down. This in-spite of Costco staff usually being fantastic and helpful. It’s the fucking crowds and the chaos that get me. And that claustrophobia.

The other day I and fam were talking about our best vacations we have taken in the last decade and unanimously agreed on the list.

5 - Egypt: heckling aside, absolutely stunning history and ruins. The pyramids are amazing but Luxor and Aswan are something else!

4 - Greece: stunning islands, amazing people and awesome food. I have written so much about the niceness of people on my blog in past, remains one of our favorites. (A taxi driver in Athens refused to leave us alone on street when he discovered I had messed up my booking, and helped us get a hotel for the night. Another taxi driver took the expensive DSLR I left in his car to the hotel in Mykonos, who then shipped it overnight to me in Santorini! The owner of Santorini hotel gave us a 1 day full guided tour in his car of the island because I refused to take the free car rental his property provided.)

3 - Banff/Jasper: the landscapes are truly out of this world, and the hikes are just amazing. And Canadians were so nice in 2017. They probably are, but dont know how right wing has affected them now.

2 - Universal Studios Florida - this is a outlier but this was such a personal trip for us and the kid had such a blast it will be hard to replicate. Peak Harry Potter helped!

1 - Costa Rica - Incredible scenery, incredible people, incredible food. There is absolutely nothing about this country thats not incredible. This is the country I honestly dream of retiring.

Kinda interesting how the refund for the Taylor swift cancelled concert played out. I bought the tix in resale from a very nice person in Europe. We chatted over video and he was the nicest guy ever. I sent him payment via PayPal for above asking price he wanted which was fine, and then he resold the tix he had in his account to me for 1 euro. When the concert cancelled they mentioned they would give a refund on tix and I was like well shit, I bought it only for 1 euro and I can’t get a refund now. I was never going to ask the guy who sold me the tix for a refund coz it was not his fault but I was like damn I lost the money. Turns out they did refund the money to my credit card, even though technically I bought it for only 1 euro from the official ticketing platform. What’s more amazing is once I had the refund I was surprised to learn the guy who sold the tix didn’t upsell the tickets that much at all. Ultimately I was out just a little and not the complete amount I thought. Oh well a silver lining to the end I guess!