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— चार हजार नौ सौ दस — There have been three noteworthy events since I last updated! I'm using the word "noteworthy" very loosely here. Number one! The Netflix movie The White Tiger, which I found to be a lot better than the trailer for it made it look. I started watching right at 4:30 when my work day ended, so that the movie would be over soon after 6:30. It's slightly over two hours long and I had to pause it a couple of times. It was closer to 6:45 before I could really get started on my B+ review. If I'm being perfectly honest that review post will be a much more interesting than this post you're arguably wasting your time reading right now. Number two! As soon as I finished writing the review, I drove to the office to swap out receiver paperwork. To my surprise, even at about 8:00 in the evening, two other people were in the office working: Marianne in HR and Craig in Accounting. I didn't ask either one of them but I wondered if maybe they were pulling late-nighters as a means of getting in there to work without anyone besides them in the office at the same time they were. I was grabbing a cookie out of the Merchandising freezer when Marianne suddenly walked past behind me and said, "What are you doing here?" So I said, "Getting a snack." I didn't mention that I was also listening to Madonna's Like a Virgin album on my AirPods. — चार हजार नौ सौ दस — — चार हजार नौ सौ दस — Number three! Hayley finally finished and shared her latest video music project she'd asked me to participate in: an acapella rendition of Katy Perry's "Never Really Over." A surprisingly large number of people participated—Hayley tagged 22 participants in her Facebook post—which worked out well for me because I hated how I sounded on my own and this way I just blend in with countless other people singing. My favorite part is my brief appearance in the end credits, the clip of which was relatively predictable: the moment that Guru had jumped into my lap and shoved his own face into the camera. Anyway, Hayley shared it on Facebook at about a quarter till 9 this morning, then also uploaded it to YouTube after I posted a comment asking if she planned to do just that. I appreciated that as it made sharing the video to Twitter much easier. — चार हजार नौ सौ दस — [posted 12:30 pm]

My tweets

• Thu, 6:02: One strong argument for emptying your bladder before going to bed is otherwise you might find yourself dreaming about wandering naked through a milk production facility, desperate to find a bathroom.
• Thu, 8:59: A study in idiocy: “So in other words Fauci and everybody else really has no idea what to do or what is safe,” former Major League Baseball player Jordan Schafer tweeted in response to a news article about the scientist recommending two masks. "Fauci has told us not to wear a mask, to wear one mask, and now to wear two masks. Can we just get transparency please and accurate info.” Changing recommendations based on new information *is* transparency, you fucking moron. This has been the case all along, as more data was gathered and as conditions changed. It's so pitifully frustrating, the state of education in this country. It's not just that people don't learn, they don't even know HOW TO learn. So they make up their mind based on feelings and emotion and never budge, despite all evidence they would do well to do otherwise. Time to double or upgrade masks as coronavirus variants emerge, experts say
• Thu, 19:34: A pretty defeatist worldview, effectively the anti-Slumdog Millionaire, and somehow better for it. https://t.co/4ZsK0vOVIw
• Thu, 22:52: If anybody deserves to be canceled it’s the people who say we’re “in a panoramic.”