I have been enjoying MLB The Show 20 playing with the Twins. Several of the players on the 2020 team played for the Chattanooga Lookouts so I wanted to play with this team. Today I won a game with a walk-off homer by Nelson Cruz.

I took Ray’s suggestion and made a playlist on Spotify. It was a collection of songs that I had already been listening to during the course of my unemployment. They were not necessarily songs that I heard as a child but songs that have encouraged and challenged me over the years or just recently.

My son and I played tennis on this beautiful afternoon. It was my first time playing on these courts since they resurfaced them. I can’t remember the last time we played. Probably pre-pandemic. He beat me 2 sets to 1. But the last set was 7-5 so I held my own. I even aced him once on a serve.

I just completed a year of tracking my walks in Strava. I was just short of 750 miles at 741.4. According to Google Maps, I walked 32 miles in my 9 days in Barcelona and Budapest. Not sure how accurate that is. That would bring the total to 773 miles. ???? #strava #walking

I “toe dipped” into View Transitions on Tuesday thanks to @geoffgraham.me. Very easy to apply a simple transition to blog titles and have them animate from listing to a single post. Since I also use WordPress (as Geoff does and demonstrates in the article), it was easy to implement in my templates. Thanks, Geoff! And Dave and Jim.

You can see the view transitions if you view the site in Chrome or Edge.

https://css-tricks.com/toe-dipping-into-view-transitions

The chorus to this song has been stuck in my head for several weeks, but I did not know the song title I thought it was Stray Kids. I finally figured it out today.

Woah-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh, oh-oh
Leave us alone

It is incredible how powerful music is to invoke memories. I was listening to music last night that is tied to my first summer in Hungary. It invoked images and partial memories that I would probably not think of unless I had that auditory cue.

Another halftime buzzer beater. Not quite as dramatic as half-court shot but great play and timing to get the layup before the end of the half. I went on to win this game 110-104 to win the NBA Cup against the Knicks.

I have been enjoying playing NBA 2K25. I bought the game with birthday money in December. Several weeks ago, I started a season with the Denver Nuggets. In a game I played today, I hit a half-court buzzer beater to end the first half. It is the first time I have hit a long shot to beat a buzzer and it was the only three-pointer I had in the game. I still have not established a 3-point game. I get all of my points in the paint.

This one was painful to watch. Disappointed that they were not able to pull off the three-peat.

I am so excited that my hometown team is going back to the Super Bowl with an opportunity to make history–win three Super Bowls in a row. It is not something I take for granted. I am enjoying these years of immense success of watching so many years of losing seasons or early playoff exits. I feel extremely lucky that we have Patrick Mahomes. I love to see him step up in the playoffs.