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I knew Denver air was dry, but boy it really is dry as heck. Feels like i need chapsticks and moisturizers galore!

At that stage in life where I told my wife and kid don’t expect me to bring anything back from Denver for you and also simultaneously googling closest doggy store coz how I can go back home without sometthing for my boy?!!

It dropped to 11 this morning and the hotel heater has had a hard time keeping up! Like most business trips by day 2 I am ready to already go back to comforts of my own bed lol.

Its amazing to see a country of billion people get so offended by a couple of politicians from a small group of islands that they have started a full blown defense of the dear leader and country. Its even more disappointing to see some of your childhood heroes like Sachin Tendulkar becoming stooges of the government and jumping in to defend dear leader so quickly. Like jeez, just grow up - look at Maldives and its size and look at yours.

Really liked reading this book about a lonely woman; Lahiri is such a masterful observer of everyday things. Finished reading: Whereabouts: A novel by Jhumpa Lahiri 📚

Gotta love the sun, gotta love the sun! oh Denver gotta love all the Sun.

My first observation of Denver is where the fuck are the trees?! After settling in VA for so long it feels very weird to be in a city that literally seems to have no trees at all. I dont know why I expected Denver to be super green and full of trees - i mean it makes sense now, but i was not prepared for it.

At that age where comfort trumps style. Check into hotel and I was upgraded to a suite. Was told it’s a nice quiet suite - go up to third floor and the suite is indeed grand and opens directly to view of downtown Denver. Only problem is I am frigging light sleeper so I can hear every car and bus on the street. Go back down immediately and say I don’t care about views I need a quiet room. I was put back into a standard room with a view of the alley in the back of the hotel — and I am OVERJOYED! I can’t hear any noise from street and this is as quiet as it can get. Fuck the views I am too old for that shit. Give me comfort any day.

Hello Denver. I have transited through this airport so many times but this will be a first to spend a few days for work here. Of course the weather is so cold I am not planning on doing anything except work and back to hotel, clubbed with team events. The one week we are it’s just horrid cold, but the next week is even worse so small mercies I guess!

Domestic travel within United States infuriates me. Why is getting to anywhere so expensive? To travel to Arizona in March during spring break the average price for a 1 stop flight from DC is 800$ in basic economy for one person! I might as well just fly internationally to places in Mexico, South America or even Europe for that kind of money. Look I want to explore the beauty of my own country but I ain’t paying international flight ticket prices to travel domestic. Might as well check off international destinations at this price.

Microsoft poised to overtake Apple as most valuable company

I had no idea about this but good for them. They have been on an upswing ever since Nadela took over and it shows. It also says lot about Apple that have become a company of safe incremental updates that bring in the bucks. I had actually thought it would be Google or Amazon at the top of that table, but both Google and Amazon (particularly) have not handled changes well, and frankly stopped respecting their users. If they do, and I am sure they will learn, they will come back stronger.

Kid at a sleepover party which means the other kid today gets 100% of our attention. Which kid is at sleepover party is left up to readers.

We started rewatching Dil Chahta Hai last night because we had nothing else to do and it always strikes me how carefully the movie is staged, especially with color blue. There is a shade of blue in almost every frame of the movie; some artifact or the other in foreground or background is blue - there are very very few frames that don’t actually have blue color in them, which is fascinating. On thw whole I still have problems with second half of the movie but can’t deny this movie was such a generational shift in Bollywood and an iconic movie. It helped that the movie came out literally few months after we had graduated and come to USA and the movie was about recently graduated buddies. Was a trip down the memory lane but I so wish they did re-edited this movie and cut out a whole lot of crap of Aamir Khans second half story.

LOL Supreme Court is going to decide whether Trump can be on ballot. Why go through all the shenanigans when the Roberts can simply put out the decision in a SMS message saying “yes, because we say so and he is one of us!” And be done with it. More nonsense to start the year.

Our neighbors across the street gave a contract to the same contractor who did our kitchen based on our recommendation and now seeing their vans parked right out side my house again gives me mild PTSD.

For All Mankind Season 4 has been such a letdown that I think that 9 hours of it (and 1 remaining) has been some of most boring hours I have spent watching TV. I will finish it this season but I think I am done with it. Its sad that I kept hoping over and over again this series would pick up in S4.

More and more likely we are in for just a rain event instead of a snow event that was potentially in card for us like rest of northeast. Very very glad. Fuck snow. Looks pretty at first and then a disaster. We’ll live with the lack of snow. Also, milder winters, FTW!

Where can I watch Utopia,, the Australian comedy series? Not available on any of the USA streaming channels.