🗓 Microcosm - 2024 Jun 22-30
JUN 30 2024 15:17
⚽️ Exciting end to another mostly dreadful England performance. Switzerland has to be the favorite to advance to the semis at this point.
JUN 29 2024 12:54
⚽️ Weather in Dortmund for the Germany - Denmark game is something else! They stopped the game at 35 minutes because of the lightning, tons of hail and heavy rain now. It's almost 10pm there so I wonder at what point they'd get to before they say no restart until tomorrow?
JUN 28 2024 15:05
🚙 Drove up farther north than Deer Park for the first time in ages to pick up my son from a retreat near Loon Lake, WA. I have a lot of fond memories of spending time with family near Springale during the first twenty years of my life or so. My mom still owns some timber property out that way, but I no longer have any relatives there to visit.
JUN 28 2024 11:43
🧙♂️The Bloomburrow and Duskmourn art and cards they've spoiled so far look pretty fun. The first Bloomburrow story releases are coming July 2nd as well.
JUN 27 2024 20:43
🧰 Also, how sad is it that expect had an O'Reilly book written about it thirty years ago and I only learned about it in the last couple of years and never tried it before now.
JUN 27 2024 20:26
🧰 Finally taking the time to figure out how to use the expect command line tool. I'm hoping it will help solve some macOS scripting challenges at work that have been plaguing me for a long time.
JUN 27 2024 15:27
🏀 Anton Watson is drafted 54th in the 2024 NBA Draft by the newly crowned Celtics! I hope he makes the roster, what a fantastic opportunity for the Gonzaga product.
JUN 26 2024 19:13
📺⚽️ Together: Treble Winners S1E4 - We can beat them all. 👍👍 A draw at Forest and then boom all cylinders are firing and City is rolling. Rodri may not have been a captain, but really clear how much of a leader he is for this team behind the scenes.
JUN 26 2024 10:29
⚽️ Alex Morgan was left off the Olympic team and I for one am very happy to see Emma Hayes take this approach. No matter how great a player was in their prime, there's no way that the USWNT should be fielding players in their mid-30s and beyond for competitive tournaments. The US talent pool is too deep, It blocks player development, and the USWNT took a big step back after 2019 because they didn't ruthlessly refresh for the Olympics in 2021.
JUN 26 2024 08:36
📺 Elsbeth S1E4 - Love Knocked Off 👍 Mary and I finally got back to the show we're watching together right now last night. The digital window insert Elsbeth installed to cover up her brick wall view was an amusing touch, I especially liked when she later used it for a teleconference with a Long Island detective they were working with. Loved the concluding scene where the Captain finally realized that she was also investigating him. It's a fun show that Mary and I both enjoy so happy to hear that it's been renewed for Season 2.
JUN 26 2024 08:13
🧙♂️ I always enjoy Pauper events on Arena, but I think I like Artisan events even more because of the larger card pool and greater power level (Arena Pauper events are also greatly hindered by all the upshifts). Brewed up an Azorius artifact flyers deck that I want to play more once I complete the daily quest that requires killing enemy creatures.
JUN 25 2024 15:20
🤖🎧 Spotify's DJ X beta AI channel is cool. I like the choices fine so far, but I particularly like having a smooth-voiced personal DJ who occasionally interjects and sets up the coming music.
JUN 25 2024 14:04
⚽️ Another ridiculously disappointing England match. Anthony Gordon and Cole Palmer not getting more game time in the first three matches is an absolute crime. Bellingham has been underwhelming since the first game and atrocious tonight.
JUN 24 2024 20:17
📺⚽️ Together Treble Winners S1E3 - I want my warriors! 👍👍 Mid-season lows and highs for City as they bomb out of the Carabao Cup, struggle with United and Spurs, and finally defeat Arsenal on the road. Master class from Pep on knowing when to hammer his guys, when to encourage, and when to just flush a loss and move on. In retrospect, it's also crazy how pivotal Grealish was at times during this season and how out of favor he was a year later.
JUN 24 2024 08:35
👾 Introduced my youngest daughter to Aseprite yesterday and started showing her how simple tools like the pencil, line tool, and paint bucket work. I could see her (and her sisters) really getting into making pixel art.
JUN 24 2024 08:08
👾 Working with bitmap fonts is one of my new favorite activities. I haven't created anything particularly compelling yet and have mostly just been recreating, tweaking, or porting existing fonts, but I love how accessible and straightforward it is.
JUN 24 2024 07:56
🏃 First evening summer run in a long time last night. It was really nice and breezy after what had been a very hot day. I took it easy and finished last (which makes me proud, all three of my younger daughters have really taken to our runs).
JUN 22 2024 13:53
🏃 Ran my first solo 8K run in a long time. Felt good, but my current fitness level and top-end speed are pretty disappointing by my standards and I faded after the 5K mark. We'll see how my body responds to a summer of continued running.
JUN 22 2024 10:49
⚽️ Wrexham signing keeper Arthur Okonkwo to a permanent three-year deal from Arsenal is a huge start to the summer transfer window for them. He's a quality young keeper and seems like a player who could bring a decent transfer fee in the future if he continues on his current trajectory.