🗓 Microcosm - 2024 Oct 15-21
🏡 OCT 21 2024 23:18
Washer still leaks despite replacing the tub seal. Probably leaking through the shaft itself.
🏡 OCT 21 2024 14:12
Successfully replaced the tub seal on our washer this morning. Hopeful that people will only do reasonable loads and this one will last a bit longer. I'd like to replace the transmission, but there's no part number on it and I haven't yet been able to find a clear match online.
🧙♂OCT 21 2024 14:08
Much better draft so far than my last one with a couple of sweet bombs in Orzhov. Got some input from Houston on cutting the last three cards and then he helped me reel off 5 wins in a row.
🏀 OCT 21 2024 07:52
Heh, looks like Unrivaled smartly really wants Clark, she's been playing it cool, and a lot of fans who don't like the way the WNBA players treated her this season want her to stick it to the new 3-on-3 league since it's a WNBA elite in-club. The thing is, she was unanimous Rookie of the Year, she absolutely proved she belonged, and I expect she's going to be treated a lot better going forward. I think it's in her interest to show magnanimity, leverage her way into the best Unrivaled deal possible, and then try to win the whole thing.
🏀 OCT 20 2024 20:21
It's kind of crazy that Sloot is 35 now, but I'd still expect her to play at least a few more seasons. I hope she can play at least one with Seattle before she's done.
🏀 OCT 20 2024 20:09
The Liberty win their first WNBA title and Courtney Vandersloot her second. Sloot's role was pretty reduced after their game-one meltdown, I suspect because Minnesota's athletic guards took advantage of her defensive weaknesses. I'm not particularly impressed with New York's coach, they should be way better on offense and her substitution patterns baffled me.
🏃 OCT 20 2024 18:07
Realized I was fairly dehydrated from working outside in our yard as I felt kind of drained as we began our run. It's been a long time since I've felt a significant dehydration fade from a long run or hard workout.
🏡 OCT 20 2024 11:34
Thought I was going to be fixing the washer today, but it makes sense to focus on yard cleanup today and do the washer repair tomorrow when it's raining and I have the day off.
👾OCT 20 2024 11:33
Spent some time figuring out all the systems used for the IFComp 2024 entries this morning. I'm curious to try out the Dialog and Gamefic games I came across to see what those systems are capable of.
⚽️ OCT 19 2024 06:28
TOT 4 - 1 FT Kulusevski gets a well-deserved Man of the Match award. That's the kind of result we needed to see coming out of the break.
🗺 OCT 18 2024 14:07
Inspired by a cool status.lol thing I saw yesterday, fiddling around with using Shortcuts to generate location map images.
🏡🔧 OCT 17 2024 23:04
Looks like I get to replace the tub seal on our washer again (good thing they come in a two-pack). My original replacement was working fine until my oldest daughter ran a ridiculously light and unbalanced express load that was the equivalent of self-destruct mode. The transmission bearings are the real problem.
🏀 OCT 17 2024 13:46
Apparently, Virginia coach, Tony Bennett, is retiring effective immediately less than three weeks before the start of the season. What's hard for me to believe is that it's been 15 years since he left WSU. Press conference tomorrow. He'll leave as the all-time winningest coach at UVA.
🏀 OCT 17 2024 09:06
Started thinking about radical basketball systems again yesterday, specifically for the high school level. I've had some crazy ideas for a long time, but I've never laid out how I would systematically implement one from first principles.
OCT 16 2024 08:15
⚽️ It's actually been kind of nice to mostly check out on Spurs related stuff during this international break.
⚽️ OCT 16 2024 08:10
Pleased to hear that Djed Spence has signed a new deal with Spurs that will extend his contract through 2028. Sill annoyed that he was left off the Europa League squad.
🍏☁️ OCT 16 2024 07:34
Always annoying to start working in Drafts and realize that there's a sync break between my home Mac and iCloud because stuff that I was working on all day yesterday is missing from my work computer and phone.
🌧️ OCT 16 2024 07:28
Rainy morning, but it mostly let up before I drove into work. Tried my stronger glasses again because they have the better anti-glare coating and felt like they did help with the headlight glare issues that I have in darkness. They still don't work at all for the midrange computer screen work that I do all day though.
🤧 OCT 15 2024 21:48
A bunch of people in our house have been hit with a pretty good cold. I've had a stuffy nose at times, but nothing like the fatigue that they've also experienced.
📹 OCT 15 2024 16:51
Impressed with the way that media links just work in Bear blog. I had no problem uploading a short mp4 video and displaying it on a post. Now I want to try an audio file.
🏀 OCT 15 2024 15:32
Saw there's a rumor out about Jeff Bezos buying the Celtics for $6B. Kind of ambivalent to be honest.
⚽️ OCT 15 2024 15:21
Thomas Tuchel announced as the new England National Team coach. Surprised, but think it's a good hire.
📷 OCT 15 2024 09:32
Discovered I have a lot more Instagram posts from 2020-24 to import into the blog than I realized.