⛈️ Week Notes 031

03 Aug, 2025

Busy week getting back in the swing of things after a week off. Quite hot at times with one cool passing thunderstorm that dropped a little rain too.

🎂 Finished off the week by celebrating Mary's birthday with the usual family in attendance. Mary's parents supplied her favorite Old Spaghetti Factory meal, and my mom brought a KFC feast for the rest of us. There was no actual cake because the kids made her favorite, lemon bars, so we just put some candles in the uncut pan. A very nice evening with family and she really liked the card I made and the hiking day pack I got her.
🌵 Staying on top of the watering this week was a challenge, but we're also supposed to be cutting back on watering right now as well so it's good to skip days anyway. The city of Spokane has tighter rules than we have in Spokane County, but we're all pulling from the same aquifer.
🏡 Two-thirds of one HTH Shock pack worked like magic on the algae takeover of our above ground pool. I'm completely sold on the stuff for keeping the pool clear and usable in summer's to come.

Watching

📺 Dan Da Dan S1E17: We Can All Stay There Together 👍👍 Very enjoyable and funny catch-your-breath episode with Jiji sort-of recovered that had to end with an explosive cliffhanger because of course.
📺 Star Trek: Strange New Worlds S3E3: Shuttle to Kenfori 👍👍 I'm still running about a week behind, but loved this Pike and M'Benga vs Klingons and Zombies away mission team up. The ongoing Batel and Ortega storylines are really good as well.
⚽️ England 1 - 1 Spain (3 - 1 penalties) - Had a really fun time watching with the girls and Nathan. England's resilience and mentality was incredible all tournament.
⚽️ Spurs 1 - 0 Arsenal in preseason Hong Kong friendly. I didn't wake up in time to watch the beginning since it started at 4:30 am and I completely missed Pape Mata Sarr's amazing midfield interception and long distance keeper lob, but a really cool defensively solid statement game.

🧙‍♂ Edge of Eternities dropped this week so I crafted a few cards and started one Premier Draft (off to a 3-0 start). But keeping it generally low key and mainly doing daily's while I work on a few other things.
🧙‍♂ Helped the girls with completing dailies and grabbing the last couple of Final Fantasy cosmetics they were interested in before they left the store. From my game playing perspective the set was great, but from the girl's perspective with minimal franchise exposure to date, Final Fantasy definitely has really cool and appealing IP and character art.
⚽️🎮 Other than playing a couple more season games last night didn't do any USL Super League 2024-25 database work or testing.

🎧 Just the usual Spurs podcasts and music that I've been listening to the last couple of weeks. No standouts.

📚 On a whim, after passing it for months and wondering how it got on our basement stairs bookshelf, started reading All The Light We Cannot See. I'd originally seen the trailers for the Netflix adaptation and thought that looked good. Taking it slow, but not disappointed at all so far.

🎁 I put a lot of effort into picking out Mary's present, making her birthday card, and customizing her wrapping paper (this occurred to me after I had wrapped it in some plain brown paper). The stencils that came with my bujo notebooks got a lot of mileage in this endeavor.
🗓 Finally finished up importing all of my 2024 Microcosm posts into bear blog at the beginning of the week. There are still a few sports related microblog posts that I might bring in at some point as well, but the bulk of the important day to day stuff is there and I'll start working on 2023 now.
⚽️🎮 Really need to wrap up USL 2024-25 so I can start play testing as well as working on the new 25-26 season. I also really want to do the Women's Euro 25 tournament, NWSL 2025, and Super League. Fotmob is such a good resource for these.
🌐 Still working on setting up a mini to act as a local web server for my microblogging needs. Realized that a Cloudflare Tunnel is the way to make this happen from my home network so started working on setting that up by moving octobloc.xyz into Cloudflare.