🗓 Microcosm 2025 - Oct 16-23
⚽️🎮 OCT 23 10:35
FM26 Beta drops at noon. Guess I know what I'll be doing with my free time tonight!
📺 OCT 22 22:45
Chad Powers S1E5: Fifth Quarter 👍 Whelp that was pretty painful all around.
🚙 OCT 22 21:24
Car ran fine with no misfires once I returned the dry coil pack to the fully dry spark plug well. Contemplating replacing all the coil packs and still need to figure out how to stop the drip that caused the issue.
🤕 OCT 22 13:46
Just realized my mysteriously sore upper abdomen is leaning against Mary's car last night as I stretched into the engine bay.
🥱 OCT 22 08:16
Got my usual coffee this morning, but still kind of drained and sleepy after the last couple days of car stress and getting to bed late.
🏀 OCT 22 07:50
I wonder if Canada has a legitimate shot at contending for a gold medal in the next couple of Olympics? They have top young guard talent in SGA and Andrew Nembhard, but maybe just lack depth and elite bigs.
🚙 OCT 21 22:59
Turns out the coil on the misfiring cylinder was completely flooded with water, presumably from the heavy rain we got last week. I got out the air compressor and blasted the heck out of the spark plug socket and dabbed all the moisture that flew back out with paper towels. We'll see how it performs tomorrow.
🏀 OCT 20 13:03
Finished Starting 5 S2E8: during my lunch today. Excellent finish to a really good series. It was pretty moving seeing Haliburton's teammate carrying him back to the locker room, and the footage inside there, thanks to the presence of his personal videographer, was heartbreaking but incredibly real.
🏀 OCT 20 08:49
Jaylen Brown was probably my second favorite of the younger three. Just a super-thoughtful, family-oriented (his grandpa steals so many scenes), stoic two-way warrior on the basketball court. There was one bang bang play in the playoffs where he got leveled running up the court, and I was reminded just how physical NBA basketball can be because JB is an absolute unit.
🏀 OCT 20 08:42
I do have more cognitive dissonance about OKC than ever, though, mainly because of Chet Holmgren and SGA. All three younger stars on Starting 5 Season 2 were unique and super-likable in their own ways, but Shai Gilgeous-Alexander was my favorite because of his down-to-earth personality and outward style.
🏀 OCT 20 08:35
I forgot that I can easily watch more weekly NBA games now than ever before, thanks to the new deal with Prime, Peacock, and NBC. Coming off Starting 5 Season 2 I'm definitely way more interested in the NBA again, and it will actually be kind of fun to watch games with no allegiance.
😠 OCT 20 08:04
Inexplicably locked out of 750 Words this morning, and now I'm seriously annoyed with the way my three-day weekend has gone downhill since yesterday. Nothing like having your favorite private venting space denied when times are stressful.
🚙 OCT 19 22:20
Mary's car unexpectedly developed a misfiring cylinder this morning, so now I'm going to be tearing into the motor tomorrow to further diagnose the issue. Really hoping it's an ignition (sparkplug) problem rather than mechanical.
🏀 OCT 19 21:33
Starting 5 Season 2 has been ridiculously compelling, and I still have two episodes to go.
🏀 OCT 18 21:07
Starting 5 Season 2 on Netflix is a great documentary series. Great blend of veterans and up and coming players. I started yesterday, and I'm already three episodes in. Also hilarious to realize how big the Clippers lost on the SGA and numerous draft picks for Paul George trade.
📦 OCT 17 15:00
Decided to set up an old PC with Ubuntu Server 24.0.4 LTS as my dedicated container host for anything I want to expose to the outside internet via Cloudflare. Just makes way more sense than trying to do it in macOS.
🔗 OCT 17 14:57
I discovered last night that saved articles in Anybox do sync across devices. So I can grab Spokesman articles at work and then read them later on my phone. Really cool!
📰 OCT 16 10:51
The Spokesman Review website is actually kind of impressive when it comes to tracking down articles by day all the way back to the early 2000s. It's just a bummer that the articles I'm interested in come before those.