🚐 Week Notes 085
🗓️ // Aug 9, 2026 - Aug 15, 2026
My sister and her husband are in town this month to visit my mom and spend time with friends and family. They drove up from Arizona in their new RV camper van with their dogs and it's a pretty slick setup. I got a first hand tour on Thursday and was impressed. My brother-in-law is a software developer so he can do a lot of work remotely and they've outfitted the van with Starlink internet and some other nice amenities that allow him to keep working while they're traveling. They have plenty of battery to run the AC for a couple of days off grid if necessary so it's no problem to let their dogs chill in RV comfort when they need to get out and about.
🔥 The fire evacuation alerts all ended this week as the three fires in the area were Spokane were contained and the mop up and recovery can being. We still had some smoky and hazy days until about Wednesday, but air quality has been steadily improving and is quite good this morning.
🎓We finally had Nathan's graduation party at Mary's parents yesterday. We'd delayed it until later in the summer in the hopes we could get more family and friends over, but my sister and her husband were the only extended family that were able to make it. He still had a bunch of his buddies come over though and everybody had a good time. Mary made her trademark barbecue pulled pork and Nathan made some delicious chocolate cupcakes with cookie dough frosting.
⚽️ On the Spurs front Christian Romero finally got his Atleti move and Djed Spence heads off to Italy with Inter Milan. I'm sorry to see Spence go, but it's a great opportunity for him to further his career on a Champions League side and Spurs will never get better value for him than they will right now after his excellent World Cup performances. Romero had some great moments during his time at Tottenham, but far too many red cards, injury spells, and Argentina-first scenarios and fans, club, and player were ready for this move.
Playing
- 🧙♂ The Hobbit set dropped this week, but I'm not putting too much effort into it and mostly saving up gold for the next set. I play one pick 2 draft this morning and it was fun, but I got punished by variance despite having a decent boron dwarf deck.
Watching
📺 The Dangers in My Heart S1-2 👍👍 Great heart-warming middle school anime romance that I'd heard good things about and decided to start on a whim on Wednesday. Loved it from episode one despite some over the top cringe edginess that turns a lot of people off in the first few episodes. Discovered that night that it was leaving Hulu on Thursday so went on an absolute two-day mega binge to get in all 25 episodes before it disappeared. Made it through the 24th episode before I ran out of time so I actually bought episode 25 off Apple TV and discovered they only had the Sub version (Doh!). Still happy to have made it through the whole story, but bummed that I had to rush through it, and not get the full dub experience in the pivotal final episode. Sounds like a third season is coming next year.
📺 That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime S1E4-8 👍👍 Our OP slime hero makes some big strides in this set of episodes, acquires some excellent allies, and gains human form capability again in very bittersweet fashion. This is a fun show and I'm fascinated by the game-like tropes fantasy world sub genre of Isekai anime.
📺 Ted Lasso S4E2 👍👍 Some people found the first KC-based episode a little rough, but episode 2 was a complete return to what makes Ted Lasso great as we meet the women's team, and more importantly no-nonsense assistant coach Alice Chllton, who steals multiple scenes, and completely flummoxes Rebecca throughout the episode. Very excited for this season because women's soccer is such a rich vein to tap into for peak underdog comedy and drama.
Reading
- 📚 Hope You're Happy Lemon 👍👍 Amusing body swap rom-com manga that I was initially skeptical of, but won me over pretty quickly. Particularly like that it takes place in a university setting with college-age characters. The relationship dynamics are pretty amusing and I'm more curious about why they ended up in this body-swap situation than invested in a particular outcome.