๐ฎ Week Notes 026
๐๏ธ // Jun 22, 2025 - Jun 28, 2025
Finished up my weekend in Olympia with extended family and returned home to a really busy week for my own family with all four of the youngest kids involved in various church related overnight camps or day camps. Still found time for a fun date night with Mary, thanks to the Spokane Soccer Show.
Spending time with my mom, siblings, and their spouses in Olympia last weekend was great.
๐ NBA Finals didn't go quite as my brother and I hoped with OKC getting their first title, but it was fun to watch it with him at his house and eat some quality local-to-Olympia pizza.
๐ Had to make two trips to the camp by Loon Lake that Nathan was attending. The first unplanned because Mary's oil light came on, and I had to come rescue her. Thankfully, my creaky old Element did fine, although I made sure that its oil levels were good as well with so much highway time.
๐ฎ Grabbing some street tacos, chips, and margaritas at Barrachos with Mary on Thursday was a quality start to our date night. I'm glad we tried it out with Kristen and Paul last year.
๐Dined out more in the last week than I have in the preceding year. With food prices what they are, I think I'm good for another year.
Watching
๐ฟ The Damned United ๐๐ Second time I've seen it, first on the big screen, and a really fun way to boot with Benji Wade introducing and then hosting a post-movie Q&A with Spokane Velocity coach Leigh Veidman about English football in the 70s vs as a coach in the modern era. Most importantly, Mary really enjoyed the event as well and it was great to get out for a fun night together for the first time in ages.
๐บ Welcome to Wrexham S4E8: Do a Wrexham ๐๐ Great bookend to their back to back to back promotion push into the Championship this season. It's an outstanding story and achievement (with the whole community on cloud nine right now), but my guess is that even if everything reasonably possible goes right they're still five years out with continued serious investment and development from having a chance to even make the Premier League let alone remain in the Championship. I will be tuning in though.
๐บ Europa League Winners ๐๐ Awesome YouTube documentary put out by the Tottenham Hotspur channel.
Reading
๐งโโ Wizards released all of their Edge of Eternities story episode's in audio form with a voice actor reading and it's pretty brilliant. The first three installments have been intriguing and epic, with no familiar faces front and center so far. I will of course still be assembling an ePub version shortly as well.
๐ Still working my way through the audio version of The Bullet Journal Method. Actually had to renew it because I hadn't given it enough attention over the first two weeks. I've basically been doing a digital version for work in Drafts for five plus years, but I've already picked up some minor techniques that will improve that a lot. I think there's still room for a paper version for the rest of my life stuff, though.
Playing
๐งโโ Final Fantasy limited has been both fun and frustrating. I've just had really bad luck in Premier Draft with my matchups. I've put together decent drafts and drawn terribly and my opponents in Bronze have been ridiculous in terms of deck quality and draws.
๐งโโ Jump In has been more fun in terms of being able to build up cards cheaply and help out the girls with their collections and daily quests, but I need to focus on my own account going forward.
๐งโโ Trying to finish in Platinum for Constructed. Skeletons have still been serving me well over the last couple of days.
Listening
- ๐ถ Lorde's Virgin finally dropped a couple of days ago, and I finally got a chance to listen to it today.