🪲 Week Notes 098
🗓️ // Nov 8, 2026 - Nov 14, 2026
I started back publishing all of the Week Notes that I've been writing all along in 750 Words. I just wasn't cleaning them up and publishing them. I've been focusing on being a lot more productive in November after a challenging summer and fall. I've got my bullet journal rolling again and knocking off small tasks like publishing the Week Notes is a definite win.
🔧 I got to put on my diy repair hat on again this week after our dryer conked out and stopped providing heat. Thankfully replacing the heating element on our 400 series Kenmore is incredibly simple. My only mistake was initially thinking the issue was one of the two or three sensor/fuses, replacing those and realizing no, it's actually the heating element that has failed. I was checking everything via multimeter and failed to do the single most obvious thing.
⚽️ My new cube neighbor and fellow mac-using colleague at work is a big Manchester United fan so it was fun to chat briefly about local Spokane soccer hangout spots and the misery of your team struggling like they are at the moment. He was actually a Michael Carrick supporter, and correctly (in my opinion) feels United's problems are at the player and board level not the manager. It was a little funny to me that he didn't have much opinion about Pochetino, who just took the job and will start after the international break. As a Spurs fan I definitely feel like this move finally closes the door on Poch's return to Tottenham once and for all (which is probably fine for both parties).
🤖 NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang resigned after his involvement with multiple affairs came to light, but that barely matters in the grand scheme of things. The key thing is that NVIDIA was skirting Chinese sanctions all along and funneling a significant chunk of hardware to China via a Singapore shell company while Howard Ludnick and the Trump Administration looked the other way.
🌐 Office 365 had a worldwide outage Thursday taking down email at work and many of the systems we all depend on. I still had a pretty productive day actually because I've had a variety of projects I was working on that involved testing local Mac printer queues and packaging up some new software updates. Things seemed to be back to normal by yesterday, but it's wild that this could happen and there's no real concrete explanation yet that I've seen. I did seem references to them letting 50,000 employees go or whatever, but it was more in the schadenfreude sense rather than the no, they actually deviated the teams that could have prevented this.
✈️ The Trump administration absolutely botched the preposterous Friday rollout of some kind of half-baked AI system that was supposed to start modernizing the current system. The FAA was forced to ground all planes in the U.S. for five hours and then had the gall to hold a press conference where they demanded Congress give them $50B to fix the debacle. No, how about you just resign and head to jail now because heads are going to start rolling in the months ahead.
Playing
🖖🧙♂ I've been having a lot of fun with the new Star Trek set. I've mostly been playing Pick 2 draft this time with middling results. I started out by actually trophying with a Mardu pile with a lot of Klingon generation and decent synergy. Since then I didn't have much luck getting things to come together unfortunately. I do like that you're only playing 4 or 5 games at most and the cost is pretty close to Quick Draft.
⚽️🎮 I finished my Championship first season in the middle of the table. My player was objectively terrible because I'm not very good. I did score one goal off a fluke goal kick header, but never managed any actual assists either. The AI defense updates introduced right around the time I started playing make the game quite challenging.
Watching
📺 Black Clover 115-125 👍👍 Finally finished the Eye of the Midnight arc. I really liked all of the twists, reveals, and callbacks, but I was kind of ready to leave this plot behind by the end. The girls are on pace to catch me in the next week if I don't start watching more episodes again this week.
📺 Visionquest 3-4 👍👍 The series is really starting to hit its stride and I've been thoroughly enjoying it.
Reading
- 📚 Dandadan Ch. 252 👍👍 We finally got insight into Okarun's backstory and it is peak tragedy. The current arc is going to be so much better for people when they can just read everything all at once. The glacial build over the summer because of adjacent storylines and real world publishing delays has made getting here really frustrating, but the pay off is starting to get amazing.