🔥 Week Notes 077
🗓️ // Jun 14, 2026 - Jun 20, 2026
Another week that passed in a bit of a blur thanks to taking off Thursday in addition to the Juneteenth holiday. Kind of bummed out that it's already Saturday. We had a major wildfire force evacuation of the neighborhood east of Beacon Hill here in Spokane at the beginning of the week. It was extremely windy on the day it happened, and once the fire sparked in an undeveloped area with lots of trees and brush, it quickly spread to the east where a ton of people live. 15 homes ended up destroyed and at least one person that refused to leave died. I work with a couple that live in that that neighborhood and thankfully their home was spared.
⚽️ My almost 13-year-old daughter started tryouts with a new team on Tuesday and they had to relocate the scheduled practice because of a different fire near their usual field on the west side of town being overwhelmed by smoke. On top of that I missed the original notice of the move, but we figured things out and she had a really good time working out with that group and will attend a couple of more practices before din finding out if she makes the cut.
🎂 We had to delay celebrating Mary's mom's birthday because of some scheduling conflicts so we're doing that today. Looking forward to getting out of the house for a little family time. Eawyn and my grandson will be there as well so excited to see them again for the first time in a week as well (Mary's gotten tons of Yiayia time helping out with him and Eawyn this week). It is cool that we have two June birthdays in the family now.
⚽️ I've been tuning into the World Cup a little bit and attendance seems good at the games I've seen, but I'm still appalled at the outrageous ticket prices. Mary's brother got to go to Egypt - Netherland in Seattle and I'm curious to find out more about his experience later this summer when he comes over to Spokane to visit family.
Playing
🧙♂ Pretty uneventful week. Finally started making progress in Ranked and made it to Gold 2 with a pretty nice Boros Burn deck that I found. I'd been experimenting with my own builds, but this one is definitely my favorite so far.
⚽️🎮 I really want to start playing some World Cup only FM26 seasons now that it has that mode, but I haven't done it yet. It's hard to fit it in with all of my other projects.
Watching
📺 Star City S1E3: Bad Dancer 👍👍 Valya is stressed out with good reason in the sunup to the moon base mission, Sasha gets a chance to show his mettle, and Irina gets some awkward face to face time with her surveillance assignment (and daughter's music teacher!), Tanya.
📺 Blue Lock: S1E1-6 👍👍 Started a rewatch with my daughter to get her in the tryout mindset and start thinking about soccer in new ways. She seems to be enjoying it and we're getting a lot of laughs out of the typical over the top anime silliness as well. I'm sure my other daughters would like it as well, but feel like it's still a little bit mature for them.
📺 Blue Box S1👍👍 Really enjoy this high school sports themed slice of life teen romance anime. My main minor complaint is that Taiki never even considers trying to watch and support his friends/love-interests HIna and Chinatsu when they're participating at Nationals. It's used to cool dramatic effect in the case of Chinatsu's last game simultaneously happening while he's talking to HIna at the playground, so fair enough. It's just wild to me that it never even occurs to him as even a passing thought in the runup that it's a big deal and worth attending. Even if for story reasons it's better for him not to go, it's still meaningful for him to have wanted to and have regrets that he couldn't.
📺 Witch Watch S1E1-2 👍👍 The first time I saw a clip for this I was kind of left cold by the childish versions of the kids and the Nico's inability to properly pronounce Morihito. I got a lot more interested once I saw the trailer explaining Morihito is an ogre with super strength and will be acting as Nico's familiar/bodyguard. Then I discovered the hilarious ways that the adorably well meaning, but inevitably hapless, Nico screws up her spell-casting so Morohito has to bail her out and was sold on the premise, particularly once I realized that they're still high school age and there will a whole cast of characters and situations springing out of that.
Reading
📚 My Dress-Up Darling Vols 6-11 👍👍 Caught up to where season 2 of the anime concluded and discovered that they actually had a somewhat significant divergence in how things played out vs the manga. In the anime Marin gets a selfie with Wakana at the end, but chickens out when it comes to expressing her love. In the manga, Wakana immediately becomes obsessed with a challenging new cosplay assignment, the fallen angel, Haniel, and skips out on socializing post Coffin shoot to immediately start researching it. So Marin never actually has the chance to follow through with her plan to express her feelings.
📚 Attack on Titan Vol. 1 👍 Picked up the first volume on a whim because I know it's a pretty popular series and anime and found it kind of underwhelming. Not particularly impressed by the art style.
Projects
- 🏡 Finally got the boys in-window AC unit installed as temperatures start to heat up. Had to saw a bunch of plywood to make it happen, but very pleased with the final results. It's very secure and I was able to cut the main board to fit perfectly despite not having a big enough table saw to comfortably make the cuts I needed. Still need to figure out a plan for painting the exposed wood though