🏆 Week Notes 021
🗓️ // May 18, 2025 - May 24, 2025
Absolutely wild Tottenham week so far. Wednesday's Europa League Final against Manchester United was not a pretty game by any stretch of the imagination, but it had two moments of absolutely magic. First, Brennan Johnson somehow scrapped/tapped in an excellent cross from Pape Mata Sarr that bounced off Luke Shaw past Onana and barely off Brennan's cleat to give Spurs the 1 - 0 lead they needed going into halftime. Then, late in the second half, Micky Van De Den denied the sure header after Vicario botched a parry to Hojland by skying across the face of the goal and clearing with his right foot.
💩 Our backyard smells really strongly of dog poop, which is absolutely baffling because I made sure to clean the main backyard before mowing. I don't know if they've been pooping a ton under the deck or what, but it smells like I got a bunch on my shoes even when they're perfectly clean.
⚽️ Last Premier League game of the season for Tottenham tomorrow versus Brighton. I'm not super optimistic, even though I really feel like they need to close out the season with a win if at all possible.
📹 I realized today that part of what screwed me over for motivation to create videos this season was that I couldn't fully watch the Europa League campaign because they were on Thursdays when I was working. I'd only be able to half-watch and didn't feel like recording a video after, and then we'd immediately lose in the Premier League game the following Sunday. Then I definitely wouldn't want to record a video.
Playing
🧙♂ I finished drafting and started cracking packs after deciding 120+ rares was a good stopping point. Ended up with ~200 rares from Tarkir Dragonstorm, 15 rare wildcards, and a similar of myths. Don't think there's much left that I need to craft at this point.
🧙♂ Started playing Jump In on the girls accounts to help them with their card acquisition and daily quests. Completely forgot what a good value the Jump In events are for 1000 gold. You've got more control over what you're acquiring and it's a great cheap way to complete your quests and get the specific colors you need rather than just buying packs.
🧙♂ Reached Platinum 4 in Constructed and Gold in Limited, and well on track to finish my mastery pass. Switching gears to keep building up my gold and help the girls collect cards for their accounts.
Watching
🍿 Gilman Street Documentary One 👍 After randomly learning about the 924 Gilman Street punk Mecca in Berkley tracked down a couple of documentaries on YouTube. The first one was low budget and informative, but not particularly great storytelling.
🍿 East Bay Punk 👍👍 The one financed by Green Day was a step up in terms of storytelling and narrator (Iggy Pop), and I thoroughly enjoyed it. The whole scene was pretty cool, and there were definitely stand out bands aside from Green Day that I want to check out further.
📺 Welcome to Wrexham Season 4 continues to be great. The Disney FC episode was particularly enjoyable.
Listening
- ⚽️🎙 So Many Spurs podcasts this week before and after Bilbao. Just an absolute feel good week after an otherwise miserable season.
Projects
🏡 Tons of yard work today and earlier this week. Mowed the yard again and finally ready to reseed the lower bowl of our front yard. Also installed some pavers in the side yard by the gate and corner.
🏡 Haven't ordered the replacement hinge for our oven top door, bu t it's next on our agenda. I'm hesitant to further dig into the project until I have it in hand though as we need to have the lower oven working at least.
Reading
- No fiction or non-fiction of note, mostly just Spurs related articles in the Athletic and Football London.