🔧 Week Notes 090
🗓️ // Sep 13, 2026 - Sep 19, 2026
It's been a hectic week. Unfortunately I ran into car trouble on the way home from my youngest daughter's soccer game in Moscow, Idaho. We had had a great father-daughter road trip and game (a 2-2 draw and she even assisted on the second goal) up to that point, then just outside Spangle four warning lights related to the automatic transmission triggered. I pulled over and idled for a bit then eventually continued after nothing changed. The transmission and engine seemed normal and I was able to get home after a stop at my mom's house, but the car is basically out of commission until we determine the actual culprit.
🚙 Being down a car once again has been a real pain. It's Nathan primary means of transportation and obviously we've needed to deliver him to and from Gonzaga somehow. So I've stayed late or picked him up after one of the girls' soccer practices a couple of times. He's actually been in the process of shopping for his own car too so that's accelerated things as well.
🏫 Houston starts community college on Monday. He still needs to pass his drivers test (he's never actually taken it, just the written portion), but he's going to be getting rides to and from himself for the foreseeable future as the Forester that's out of commission is also the vehicle he'll be practicing with.
🔧 I did a lot of research into the issue on the Forester and tried replacing the brake light switch which has a know issue that caused a recall as this was a common trigger of the warning lights cascade. I feel pretty conclusively this wasn't the issue, but I have yet to identify the actual code. Unfortunately errors related to the automatic transmission on Subarus getting stored in a separate module that only certain higher end engine code scanners can read. My cheapo one only reads the main engine one and all the real time sensors.
Playing
- 🧙♂ I barely played any Magic Arena this week. I completed my Daily Quests every three days or so, but I think I still have only two wins for the whole week and it resets in like two hours.
Watching
📺 Silo S3:E7-10 👍👍 Banger end to the third season. It's obviously a very dystopian show, but the final episode revealed a level of existential horror I was not anticipating. Very much looking forward to season 4 next summer.
📺 Ted Lasso S4E7 Yes & Baby 👍👍 Easily one of the top three episodes so far this season thanks to the focus on assistant coach Alice Chilton and her hilarious say "Yes" personal campaign that Ted and Beard were able to build on in pretty epic fashion. The romantic development B plots with Roy, Keeley, and Ted were pretty good as well. I do wish actual games from the season happened a little more frequently; it's been two episodes without one since the Chelsea FA Cup loss.
📺 The Apothecary Diaries S1 👍👍 I binged all 24 episodes from the first season this week and absolutely loved it. Maomao is a great heroine, and the whole premise of court intrigue and solving mysteries in a fictionalized ancient imperial China was super entertaining. It's too R-rated for our anime fan tween daughters, but I think Mary would really appreciate the mystery and conspiracy elements. I'm just disappointed that Season 2 doesn't seem to have come to Netflix or Hulu yet.
Reading
- 📚 Don't Toy With Me Nagatoro Ch20-50 👍👍 This is a really cute series and we're finally starting to see some real romantic progression between Senpai and Nagatoro by Chapter 40 and beyond. She still absolutely roasts him all the time, but her feelings are obvious to us and him. Their zoo date was particularly entertaining.