⚾️ Week Notes 041
🗓 // Oct 5, 2025 - Oct 11, 2025
This has been a busy, but not particularly productive week for me at home. Work has been a little bit better, but I've also been doing a lot of update research and testing which doesn't always feel particularly productive.
⚾️ Watched the most baseball in one sitting that I have in the last 25 years as the Mariners found a way to defeat Detroit 3-2 in 15 entertaining and tension-filled innings. The kids were somewhat puzzled that we suddenly had baseball on television because it's just not a sport I watch regularly, but expressed varying degrees of interest when I explained the significance. Namely it's been roughly 25 years since the Mariners have been remotely this good and they were their grandpa's favorite pro sports team.
⚽️ Youth soccer season is winding down. I had practice duty on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday which kind of disrupts my after work productivity, but it also meant I was also able to read a lot of comics this week while I was waiting (actively watching practice is not my favorite thing).
🍁 Leaves are starting to turn and it's quite cool in the morning now. I even wore a long sleeve shirt into work at least once this week. We had a bit of a scare with our furnace as it didn't immediately start working when we switched to heating mode, but it eventually sorted itself out without intervention on my part. I will say I don't love getting up and taking a shower at 5:45 am when the house is cold (which I otherwise prefer since it makes layering comfortable).
🏕️ Mary and I finalized our weekend getaway plans for 25th anniversary in early November and made our reservations.
Watching
📺🏈 Chad Powers S1E3: Third Quarter 👍👍 This show continues to charm and make me laugh out loud. Great Chad - Ricky episode this week that sets up Chad as QB1 going forward.
📺 Brooklyn Nine-Nine: Season 5 👍👍 Got in a couple more episodes from Season 5 this week and continue to love this show. Very much comfort food viewing.
📺 Slow Horse S5E3: Tall Tales 👍👍 Fun twisty episode, but I was kind of puzzled that the penguins were actually the intended target, except I suppose the mayoral events would have been completely canceled if a bunch of people were blown up.
Reading
🦸♀️ Started Gail Simone's new 52 Batgirl run and finished Volume 1 and most of Volume 2. Enjoyable, and I think it will be a pretty good follow-up to Batgirl: Year One for my young daughters who really like the character.
📚 Made a little more progress on The Understudy, and made it a couple of more chapters in. I'm actually enjoying drawing it out and picking it up a few times a week right now, but I think it's close to the point where I'll just start reading and keep reading until the end.
Playing
🧙♂ Mainly worked on my daily quests and Midweek Magic, but did slowly work my way through one Quick Draft (currently at 5-1, which is better than I did in many games of Edge of Eternities).
🧙♂ Intended to play a few more IF Comp games, but that didn't come to fruition. Hopefully I can get in enough games to vote.
Projects
🏡 Got the garden fenced off last weekend and the dogs promptly broke through a couple of days later when they were both let off leash again. Did some initial reinforcement with old plywood, but need to work on it further tomorrow.
🏡 Replaced the other hinge on the top oven door as it was starting to get sticky. Way simpler since I knew what I was doing, and it wasn't broken in the closed position.
Listening
🎶 👾 Tron: Ares Motion Picture Soundtrack 👍 Enjoyed listening to the dark and brooding Trent Reznor powered soundtrack quite a bit this week, but wasn't completely blown away in the way that I was by the Tron:Legacy one that Daft Punk did fifteen years ago. The surprisingly soulful duet, Who Wants to Live Forever?, is the track that's sticking with me the most so far.
🎙 🍿 Surely You Can't Be Serious Podcast: Pee-Wee's Big Adventure (1985) vs UHF (1989) 👍👍 Great two-parter comparing two surprisingly good low budget offbeat comedies from the 80's. My parents actually kind of tricked my uncle into going to Pee-Wee's Big Adventure by hyping it up after we went to it as a family which still makes me laugh. I actually want to watch it with my kids now and UHF would be a good one to watch as well. Just need to track them down.