Alex Morgan just scored her 5th goal! Wow! Serious tournament opening domination.

I think Rapinoe wins the goal celebration of the match award. Crazy that Alex Morgan got her 4th goal of the game moments later. 10-0 USA at this point. Oh, wait Mallory Pugh just got her first World Cup goal. 11-0 at the 85’.

The annual “craziest three weeks” of the year at my house have begun this week. Swimming lessons for multiple kids, daily visits with their visiting cousins, and general beginning of summer routines chaos. Should be fun!

There seem to be a fair amount of negative reviews of Console Wars on Goodreads, but personally I really enjoy the storytelling style. After reading Game Over and personally having more familiarity with Nintendo I’m fascinated to learn more about the Sega story in 90s.

I’m kind of intrigued by Swamp Thing, I didn’t even realize it was out and now it’s been cancelled after the first week apparently. It has good review numbers on IMDB and some recognizable character actors so I will probably check it out.

Found another great retro video game music podcast called Retro Gaming Boombox. Wish it was a little bit more family friendly, but lots of great gaming history discussion and analysis interspersed with the music itself. Looking forward to listening to all 30+ episodes.

Sunset Rainbow

Downtown Spokane at dusk.

Super weird to be caught up on all my regular podcasts. I have been riding and listening on my bike more, but less at work overall where music tends to work better.

Just heard that Phil Martelli has been hired by Juwan Howard to be an assistant coach at Michigan. Seems like a win-win for everyone involved. Howard gets the insights of a veteran head coach and Martelli lands at a spot where he can have a big impact without all the HC burden.