🏗️ Week Notes 075
🗓️ // May 31, 2026 - Jun 6, 2026
I'm trying to think of any particularly noteworthy events in my week right now and mostly coming up empty. It was overall pretty boring personally I would say.
⚽️ The three younger girls finished their spring soccer seasons last weekend and we're already trying to sort out which teams they'll be playing on next year. L's team is set and already moving to a higher quality league together, but now we're seeing if we can find similar teams for the other two girls.
🏗️ Lots of construction work on campus the last couple of weeks and Monday I arrived to discover a crane directly next the primary ITS department entry in Foley. It wasn't actually blocking the entrance just the sidewalks on the north side were cordoned off, but it was still incredibly unnerving to have then moving waste off the roof into a truck right next to the door and I wondered if I should be wearing a hardhat.
📄 Nathan finally got all of his paperwork sorted out for the work study job I was able to get him connected with. This will be his first job with a real pay check and as an incoming student they generally like them to start July 1, but hopefully they can get him started a few weeks earlier than than that since his schedule will be wide open after graduation.
⚽️ Gonzaga is hosting the Egyptian National Team at Luger field as their between game training base during the tournament, and I applied for the public practice that they're offering on Wednesday next week. Unsurprisingly given the 500 total tickets, I didn't get picked, but it sounds like Benji Wade applied for press credentials so hopefully the Spokane Soccer Show will have some good coverage.
🏀 The Knicks are taking a two game NBA Finals lead back to New York after beating San Antonio twice in Texas. I was able to watch a little of game two, and as a basketball fan without a pro team of my own (for the moment) I'm just really happy to see the Knicks having a magical run in the playoffs. That franchise has brought so much misery to New Yorkers over the years; they're well-overdue for another championship.
Playing
🧙♂ Decided to stop drafting Secrets of Strixhaven and crack my packs after my success started to tail off. Despite all the color-fixing support in the format going three-color+ to 5-color soup never worked out for me once I gave that approach a go.
🧙♂ Really looking forward to the Marvel Super Hero set now that we've seen virtually all of the cards. So many fun legendary character cards at uncommon and rare. In fact I think the only non-legendary creatures are at common. I expect to draft the heck out of this one.
Watching
📺 Star City - S1E1: The Eyes 👍👍 The Soviet perspective on For All Mankind that I've wanted since the very beginning, and it's a bleak world of surveillance and betrayal so far as the brilliant Chief Designer tries to carry out his goals for the Soviet Space Program while under the watch of the ruthless Head of Security.
📺 My Dress-up Darling - S1 👍👍 Started this on a whim and immediately got sucked into this incredibly fun slow-burn teen rom-com about an aspiring Hina doll-maker who gets entangled with his cosplay enthusiast classmate, Marin, who at first glance appears completely out of his league. Turns out that his ample skill and craftsmanship, natural empathy, and genuine care for people is pretty outstanding in its own right, and she's quickly falling for him. The overtly sexualized attire aspect of the Japanese cosplay scene is played up for A LOT of sexy teen-awkwardness humor, but it's really a show about friendship, romantic feelings, and finding your people.
📺 Shangri-La Frontier - S1 👍👍 Started this one after wrapping up Blue Lock S1 and was immediately smitten. Just a very fun homage to MMO gaming in general whether you're talking about min-maxing an rpg or mastering fighting versus fighting games. My main complaint is that Sunraku's awkwardly-obsessed romantic interest, Rei, is underdeveloped in SLF and mercilessly played for laughs during the entire first season. The NPCs and supporting characters are super fun though, and I'm hopeful we'll finally get some progression with Rei in season 2.
📺 Blue Lock - S2 👍👍 I'm just a few episodes in, but really enjoying the final steps towards assembling team Blue Lock for the defining game vs the Japanese U20 team. The method to Ego's madness is coming together and the attacking team he's assembled makes sense. You can turn skilled attackers with the right qualities into midfielders and defenders. Looking forward to seeing how the final showdown plays out in the remainder of the season.
Projects
💻 Started working on improving my command line game at the end of the week. Found
yazia great TUI for file manipulation, and things a Mac user would typically go to the Finder for. Also installed Neovim followed by LazyVim to get a more in terminal IDE experience. It's super cool and much lighter weight than my usual go-to text editor Visual Studio Code.🤖 Google dropped the Gemma 4:12B model aimed squarely at the 16GB laptop market so I started testing it on M4 mini. It doesn't have good Ollama support yet, but runs well enough in LMStudio if you keep the context size small enough. It supports up to 256K context, but anything beyond 32K will exceed the memory capacity of a 16Gb Mac unfortunately. Anyway I plan to do a lot more testing with this model in the weeks ahead.