🥾 Week Notes 027
🗓️ // Jun 29, 2025 - Jul 5, 2025
We had a great hike on Mt. Spokane this morning and I think it's something we're going to do more of. The family, other than Houston, loved it and is in good enough shape to have no problems.
🥾 The hike itself was really nice. The temperatures were great, high 50s low 60s after a drizzly morning. I only had on a long sleep t-shirt, but I felt great the whole way. I captured the workout on iSmoothRun as well and my heart rate never really exceeded 120 bpm most of the time despite the regular climbing. Mary set a very brisk pace. The girls were great right behind her, but it was a little bit faster than my natural hiking pace even though I feel like I usually walk pretty briskly on campus and overtake people regularly. It still doesn't compare to the pace Mary sets.
🗺️ We went up Trail 131 to the Bald Knob campground, and that was great, but then we had trouble figuring out how to get to Trail 132 to come back. The guy who was a ranger at the campground (I think) didn't give us the best directions, and the trails back weren't well marked. There was enough confusion that we ended up coming back on 131
🥾 There are a ton of longer trails that I think we all want to explore in the near future. We have the Discovery Parking Pass for the State Parks over the next year so we definitely want to take advantage of it more over the course of the year. It's actually quite ridiculous how little time we've taken advantage of nearby Mt. Spokane, considering where we live. But now that the girls are older, it makes sense to take advantage of resources like this.
Watching
📺 Ironheart 👍 Watched the first three episodes of Ironheart and enjoyed it quite a bit. I've got some definite quibbles about the execution and the ridiculous plan to steal part of Hood's cloak in episode three, but I really like the various characters/actors. NATALIE has been a standout as the accidental AI reincarnation of Riri's best friend.
📺 Department Q 👍👍 Got sucked into the new Netflix series about a misfit cold case police squad in Scotland pretty quickly, and now I really want to see how it all plays out.
Listening
🎙 The usual podcasts, but nothing too exciting.
🎶 I'm still enjoying Virgin, and feel like it's got at least a couple more gems beyond the songs Lorde's already released as singles. GRWM is a real earworm for sure.
Reading
- 🎧📚 Still working on the Bullet Journal Method audio book. I do wish that the pdf examples that go along with it were available in Libby, but that doesn't seem to be the case.
Playing
🧙♂ Finally had a little bit more fortune with Final Fantasy limited efforts. Didn't succeed in reaching Platinum in Constructed despite a lot of effort last Sunday. Love the new bans and the meta shakeup that came Monday.
⚽️🎮 Excited to build out the USL Super League in Bang Average Football now that the 1.1 version is out. Going to have to pick up the Steam Version so that I can piggyback off the work other people are doing to put together tournaments, mods, and the like. Thankfully, it's on sale right now.