🪓 Week Notes 023
🗓️ // Jun 1, 2025 - Jun 7, 2025
This has been a wild week as a Spurs fan. The fate of manager Ange Postecoglou has been hanging in the balance since he led the team to a Europa League title in Bilbao two and a half weeks ago. He's been on vacation, and the club's had nothing to say, so of course social and conventional media stepped in to fill the void. The conventional sentiment was that he would still be sacked despite the cup win and all the mitigating circumstances leading to horrendous league results. But I still held out a little hope because I genuinely love the guy as a person and manager. Unfortunately, Friday morning, the axe dropped.
- With hot weather arriving we've been wondering how we would deal with our well-used above-ground pool and its leaky liner. My mom found a great deal on an improved one and bought it for us, so now I'll have to enlarge the place where we'll set it up.
- Went to work Thursday and Friday this week because of mandatory in-office days. That was fine and got a nice biscuits and gravy helping on Friday.
- First week post soccer season, so no practices to go to. Still felt like a busy week that went by quickly.
Watching
- 📺 Welcome to Wrexham S4E5: Anything's Possible 👍👍 Another excellent episode focusing on the inevitable player entrances and exits as the club climbs the table and goes for the Championship. Love how they were able to connect the story to the 100 year-old fan who passed last fall, as well as Rob McElhiney's early career struggles.
- 🍿 Captain America: Brave New World 👍 Liked it but didn't love it. It had some good pieces, but was flawed overall, continuing the recent Marvel movie disappointment.
Listening
- 🎙 Lots and lots of Spurs podcasts this week.
Projects
- 🏡 Made real progress on our paver lining along the south fence (to discourage puppy digging). Just about to the point where I can clear the temporary barricade and let the dogs back there again.
- 🌐 Finally started rolling out Tailscale on our home network. Painless and one added benefit that hadn't occurred to me is that this is going to improve the lan gaming experience immensely for the kids.
- 🏡 The yard continues to come along. The front yard is improving thanks to the re-seeding and all the watering. The backyard remains a mess.
- Made some real progress on the blog microcosm post backlog this week.
Playing
- 🧙♂ Took care of my daily quests and played enough ranked to progress in Gold, but nothing significant with my account.
- 🧙♂ Midweek Magic was Tarkir Dragonstorm Quick Draft so I did four separate drafts and confirmed that you can't really rare draft but you can pretty consistently force Boros decks that will win. Kind of regret not exploring that further when I was still drafting the set.
- 🧙♂ Put in more time on the girls' accounts, playing a little bit of Jump In and building their collections.