🚀 Week Notes 066
🗓️ // Mar 29, 2026 - Apr 4, 2026
Busy Holy Week in the run-up to Easter. Mary has a decade and a half long tradition of doing a couple of different themed meals on Palm Sunday, Holy (Maundy) Thursday, and Good Friday. My mom and Mary's parents made it out for Sunday's meal, and then yesterday we had them out as well as our niece and her boyfriend. So a lot of good family meal time this week, and one more big one to go at Mary's parents' house tomorrow.
🚀 Artemis II successfully launched on the first crewed mission back to the moon in over 50 years. Liftoff was impressive, but I remain very concerned about the heat shield doing its job when they return. Apparently, there was also a problem with the toilet early in the mission, but I think they were able to resolve the issue. One thing about the mission trajectory visualizations that surprised me (since I grew up on simple 2D diagrams), is that because the moon is orbiting the Earth at the same time, they have to aim for the empty space that the moon will be passing through when they arrive.
🚙 Mary's new car is fully paid for and insured, so we finally have our full transportation capacity once again. I'm looking forward to hopefully putting less miles on my car this summer, and maybe getting back to some bike commuting even.
🏀 On the Gonzaga basketball-adjacent news front, Mark Few was named to the Naismith Hall of Fame this week, a fully deserved decision that seemed inevitable as soon as he became eligible a few years ago. Additionally, long-time GU assistant and current Arizona head coach, Tommy Lloyd, leads his team into the Final Four today with a legitimate shot at winning his first national title.
⚽️ Spurs officially parted ways with Igor Tudor, and signed controversial, but highly respected tactician Roberto De Zerbi. I have mixed feelings about the appointment and can imagine a lot of ways that it will eventually blow up before we get anywhere near the end of his 5-year contract, but the players seem to be reacting very positively to the appointment, and his first practice with the team. Based on the behind-the-scenes video Spurs social media released, he is a very hands-on, and player-engaged coach, which I find to be admirable traits. I do wonder how many times the youth player he blew up at on the video that circulated on social media just outright didn't do what he asked before he finally erupted?
Playing
⛏️ Played a little bit of Minecraft with the kids again this week, but didn't do anything personally to take advantage of the new baby animal support. Need to build some new farms or something. I think I've got what I need to do a bonemeal farm for instance.
🧙♂ Pretty uneventful, and unexciting week. Kept up on my Daily Quests, and got to Gold 4 in ranked this morning.
Watching
📺 For All Mankind S5E1: First Light 👍👍 A solid return to one of my favorite shows, and some interesting cast additions. I'm also impressed with all the aged-up cast members, and very curious to see how senior citizens Margo and Ed, will presumably finish their runs this season. Lots of setup and not too much action on this one though, other than a pretty cool Mars-cycle ride from Alex that ends in a significant discovery.
📺 Daredevil: Born Again S2E2: Shoot the Moon 👍👍 Very ripped from ICE headlines vibe as Kingpin and his AVTF lackeys start arresting and harassing community members, but resistance is growing. Meanwhile, Bullseye remains an agent of chaos who may be stalking Vanessa, and we get a surprising reveal about who's doing the Masked Mayor Kingpin videos all over social media.
📺 For All Mankind S5E2: The Hard Six 👍👍 Baldwins being Baldwins (and even a cameo for the crime-against-pasta cheese powder Ed insists on), gotta love it. Kind of hilarious that Kelly wasn't even really angling for the Titan mission for herself, until the doofus project lead pissed her off. Seems likely that events are going to fully galvanize Alex, who was already showing interest in the cause, and I'm looking forward to more corporate conspiracy discoveries from Boyd.
Listening
- 🎙 The Talk Show 445:'Apple at 50', with John Siracusa 👍👍 You simply can't beat two and a half hours worth of Apple history discussion between two of the top Apple-centric podcasters in my age range. Lots of highly-relatable nolstagiac computer reminiscing that mirrored experiences from my own childhood as well. Kind of wish it went longer to be honest.