๐ฑ Week Notes 018
๐๏ธ // Apr 27, 2025 - May 3, 2025
Another Saturday, another chance to start week notes and not get them onto my blog. Editor's Note: Joke's on my past selfโ it's an entry in the blog now!
๐ถ Woke up to an absolute mud debacle with our dogs in the hidden corner of our side yard by the large vehicle gate to our back yard. The neighbors' sprinklers may have a leak and our dogs love to dig in mud. They turned what was already a pretty sizable hole into a larger water-filled mudpit. So I'll be starting from there with our paver stone project.
๐ค๐ท Trump released an AI photo of himself as the Pope on his Truth Social platform. It's absolutely real and gross. I actually looked it up on the site itself having never gone there before. Yep, he really did it to troll 1 billion plus catholics. No idea what possible benefit that could have to what he's trying to do or what the thought process was, but completely ridiculous.
Watching
๐บ Andor S2:E4-6 ๐๐ The second act of the season was solid. Lots of tension, intrigue, and occasionally some retribution, but life in the burgeoning rebellion is pretty fraught. I love how deep into the human cost this show gets and of course this remains an incredibly timely show if your head isn't in the sand.
๐ฟ Carlo Acutis ๐ went to a special showing in theater documentary about the beatified, but not yet fully-fledged first millennial saint. A North Dakota catholic schools's pilgrimage to Rome and Assisi was interspersed to good effect with the experience of the students, who spent a couple weeks away from modern technology and social media.
๐บ๐น๏ธ Discovered a really cool YouTube documentary about the cyber-archaeology project to restore a classic Williams arcade game called Blastarr or something to that effect. I eat niche retro-technology documentaries like these up and can't wait to watch all two and a half hours of this one.
Listening
๐โฝ๏ธ Caught up on my Spurs podcasts in the lead up and post-win glow of Thursday's first leg Europa League 3-1 semifinal win against Bodรธ/Glimt. Mostly optimistic about the coming away leg, but expecting another disappointing Premier League game against West Ham tomorrow.
๐ถ Lorde has a new single out in the lead up to her new album's release. Enjoying that and looking forward to more.
Playing
๐งโโ Ended the season in Platinum Constructed and Silver Limited (best I've ever done is Platinum/Platinum), but that was a long time ago.
๐งโโ ๐ First trophy with 7-2 Mardu deck that started 3-0 went 0-2 in the middle and then finished on a 4-0 triumph. Mardu seems to be my speed, not sure about making the other pairs work at this point.
๐งโโ Having pretty good luck rare drafting in limited- picking up something like an average 10 per draft so far.
๐งโโ Spent a lot of time thinking about budget decks and watching YouTube videos for the girls since they have limited wild cards, etc. J was actually really easy as MythicMike's mono-black Skeleton-Demons deck is quite good and budget-friendly enough to chaft the whole deck no problem. S and L remain somewhat of a challenge as L likes green and that's probably the weakest color in best of one standard right now.
โฝ๏ธ๐ฎ Finished out my third season in Bang Average Football with my men's team (player-coached by the son of my female player-coach from my first season I played with). I'm good enough at the game on medium now that I was able to trophy every season without doing too many player replacements.
Projects
- ๐ก Lots of home yard stuff brewing this week. Picked up a couple of new tools, a thatching rake and an improved manual aerator with actual openings for the dirt pellets to come out. Plan to do a bunch of work on our yard on Sunday in preparation for reseeding.