🐶 Week Notes 087
🗓️ // Aug 23, 2026 - Aug 29, 2026
Tough week because of some dog aggression drama, but it started awesome with our younger oldest daughter's (Eawyn is the oldest daughter, but then we have our younger three) new soccer team going undefeated and winning their debut soccer tournament Sunday afternoon.
🐶 The dogs have had occasional bouts of aggression/fighting as they've matured but we feel like it is mostly caused by outside triggers like our very unfriendly neighbor dogs that get Echo way too fired up and charging the fence. Then he takes it out on Hunter once we drag him back into the house. We also had a bunch of guests over for middle younger daughter's birthday last Friday and that put them in a pretty uncomfortable and anxious state where they started attacking each other repeatedly over crowding and lack of space. Then Sunday we had the worst conflict yet and they ended up in a place where they were constantly fighting after the big blowup just for looking at each other wrong. So we completely upended our routines and kept them separated all week to let them cool off. We were able to make the appointment to have them neutered Tuesday of next week, and are hopeful that this will help, but are also realistic that they may just no longer be compatible.
⚽️ Huge bounce back 5-1 victory for Spurs over Charlton Athletic in the Carabao Cup. Savio had a tremendous debut at the 70' mark and almost immediately scored his first goal then followed it up five minutes later with another one that was marked as an assist because it deflected off Ben Davies. Unfortunately Spurs drew Liverpool away in the next round.
⚽️ Spurs Premier League woes continued today with a 0-2 loss to Newcastle. They played pretty well through the first hour and had some good attacks and chances. Then completely fell apart while I was away walking the dogs with Mary. Very frustrating given how promising they looked early, but this team is very much still figuring things out.
Playing
- 🧙♂ Made it to Platinum constructed through the power of mono black Skeleton - Demons midrange. Variations on this deck has been my hands down favorite for the last year at least. I'm going to be pretty bummed out when Corpses of the Lost rotates out in January
Watching
📺 Sword Art Online S1 👍👎 Super mixed feelings about this one. Loved the premise, the two main leads, Kirito and Asuna, and the romance and family elements of the first half of the season. It started slow for me, but once Kirito and Asuna started establishing their relationship I was on board. Found the long time jumps and lack of progression through the first several episodes pretty surprising. Things went way downhill for me in the second half because of the way the two primary female characters Asuna, and Leafa/Sugura were treated by the story. Love both of those characters, hate the extremely gross and demeaning positions the narrative put them in. Also way too much harem energy as seemingly every new female character ends up thirsting for Kirito. I'll probably come back to the second season eventually, but not for a while.
📺 Ted Lasso S4E4: Greyhounds' Day Off 👍👍 Great team bonding episode with a pretty amazing Harry Potter - Ferris Bueller's Day Off analysis discussion between the three coaches- Alice is fitting right in with Ted and Beard! B plots were a pretty mixed bag: Tracy Ullman is a great addition; very conflicted about Roy missing the point and speed running Keeley's arbitrary relationship resumption hoops even if it was funny. Still love this show just as much as ever and as a big fan of women's soccer incredibly happy that they're telling these stories.
Reading
📚 We're J-just Childhood Friends 👍👍 Very sweet low drama high school romance between two childhood besties who naturally drifted apart through middle school as they grew up, but are absolutely primed for a post-puberty relationship evolution. The family and friend group dynamics are completely wholesome and the story and art style is super cute.
📚 Witch Watch 👍👍 Having competed season 1 of the anime finally started working my way through the source manga and it's as enjoyable and funny as I expected. No real surprises early on. It'll probably be at least a month before I move beyond the anime.
📚 Hope You're Happy Lemon 👍👍 I was pretty skeptical of this college slice of life body swap romantic comedy of misunderstanding premise, but it's really grown on me as more and more of the unfortunate body-swapping pair's friend group get in on the secret. I'm not even sure who I'm rooting for in the love triangle at this point, but there's clearly a lot more crazy story to tell and a real question about how can they possibly disentangle their lives and stop swapping bodies every night.