π€οΈ Week Notes 057
ποΈ // Jan 25, 2026 - Jan 31, 2026
Hard to believe January 2026 is already wrapping up today. Weather continues to be unseasonably warm during the day at least. Yesterday it got up to 47Β° F which was quite pleasant for my afternoon run with the girls.
π Seahawks beating the Rams on Sunday puts them back in the Super Bowl for the fourth time. Pretty wild that they'll have stayed on the west coast for the entire playoff run. Looking forward to the rematch with New England next weekend.
β½οΈ Spurs finished 4th in the Champions League standings thanks to a solid 2-0 win over Frankfurt on the road midweek. Thomas Frank has a very tough Premier League slate coming up, but the European success seems to have given him a little bit of breathing room on the job front for the moment.
π Got some good news on the car crisis front this week. My daughter is going to come out ahead money-wise on the settlement for her totaled car, and Mary's car doesn't seem to have anything mechanically wrong with the transmission. They're still trying to figure out why it went into neutral on the highway though.
π Found out that the Zags are doing a big marketing promotion thing for the One Piece Netflix show and trading card game. I know almost nothing about this franchise, but I have heard it discussed and mentioned quite a lot in circles that I follow.
Playing
π§ββ It's been a really rough week on the draft front after my initial success. Even switching over to Quick Draft hasn't helped that much, although I did manage to pick up more of the removal that I could never seem to find in Premier Draft.
βοΈMinecraft hasn't been particularly eventful; just doing a bunch of caving and exploration mostly while playing with the kids. Found a ton of copper.
Watching
πΊ My Hero Academia S4 ππ Really enjoyed watching the fourth season again, but now that I've just about caught up to where I originally was in the fifth season my binge-watching mojo has fallen off a bit. I finally started up on Season 5 again today after a few days off.
πΊ Fallout S2E7 - The Handoff ππ Good setup episode for the season finale. Very curious to see how it all wraps up leading into the inevitable season 3.
πΊ Star Trek: Starfleet Academy S1E4 - Vox in Excelso ππ Very Trek episode featuring debate and Klingons that I enjoyed quite a bit even if I did see the ending coming from a mile away. A lot of quality character building for Jay-den, Caleb, and Darem in particular, but Lura Thok has a pivotal scene as well.
Listening
- π Just the usual podcasts in my rotation. Spurs podcasts have been tolerable thanks to the midweek win, and a couple others were talking ST: Starfleet Academy.
Projects
π I was really behind on my blog entry publishing for January so today was a big catch up day for me.
π‘ πΆ We got a bigger hard crate for Echo, the pup who will chew his way out of a cloth one if unattended, because Mary felt he was too cramped in the smaller one. I set it up last night, but we're only going to use it on the days where we have to leave the dogs unattended at home for a few hours (we never go longer than that at this point). I'd just as soon put away the cloth one he sleeps in at night for the time being and just use the hard crate full time.