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My mom watches this show on the Indian channel, and she's become a big fan of the doctor who practices/prescribes ayurvedic treatments. Apparently, he tours the US every year and came to our town this week. We had to wait for 2 hours in a stuffy hotel room (even though we had an appointment!) and he basically felt my pulse for 2 seconds and then prescribed a bunch of herbal remedies without really asking any questions. I felt ripped off. It was the biggest waste of $100 since I saw Mystere in Las Vegas a few years ago.

My sister's been visiting this week from Belgium. She has a (very well-deserved) break between projects and it happened to fall on the 4th of July too so she decided to come here. It's been really nice having her here and everyone seems to be in a much better mood when she's around.

My family is terrible at making decisions. Person A will place the responsibility on Person B, and if Person B has a good idea, Person A will invariably be upset about the idea. We didn't have a plan for the evening until about 5pm. There's supposedly a great fireworks display at the lake near our home, so we waited with the other throngs of people at the corner. For some reason, the 50 or so other people had never seen the display before either, because the fireworks were way too low and there were huge trees blocking our view.

Happy 4th!