SPOILER ALERT — If you are only part-way through the first season of Ted Lasso, stop reading and come back when you’ve finished the season.

I grew up in Richmond, Virginia, which was named after Richmond, England, so I had a little bit of extra affinity with AFC Richmond while watching Ted Lasso, and I was sorry when they lost the last match and were relegated. I’m looking forward to the next season to see if they can get back to the top rung.

I also play trivia in Learned League – I’ve spent the last 10 seasons in Rundle A (the top level of five). Yesterday was the last day of the season; I was sitting in 24th place and looking at relegation. I could avoid it if I had a better result than the person ahead of me – so naturally, I wanted to win. I was disappointed to only get 4 of 6 questions right, but I had hope – and when I woke up this morning and checked the results, I was happy to find that I’d won. So had the guy above me, so I got relegated anyway.

But there was something curious about my win – my opponent had NO correct answers, after getting all six right the day before. A zero match day is very unusual in an A Rundle – it usually happens if someone is expelled for cheating, withdraws, or dies. And when I looked on the Memorial Wall, my opponent was newly listed there.

Being relegated was much less important after seeing that news.

I had fewer emails today touting Prime Day bargains than I’ve gotten in previous years, but the ones I got were effective. I bought an additional Amcrest webcam for about half the price of the ones I bought at the peak of the pandemic; I also bought a 60-watt Anker power brick for my laptop to take on trips, since it’s significantly smaller than the Apple brick.

I was tempted to buy other power supplies, but when I looked through the gadget bags, I realized two important things:

1) I didn’t need another power supply
2) I didn’t need the Motorola G6 phone I’d gotten to use as a Google Fi hotspot, especially since Motorola had stopped providing updates for it, even security updates.

I found a place to send the phone – 911 Cell Phone Bank; they’ll either provide it to someone as a no-cost emergency-only phone (all cellphones can call 911, even without a SIM) or recycle it. They even paid the postage to send it to them!

I’ve been noticing an interesting batch of flowers every time I’ve driven past Lester Square (a small strip mall near our house) so I walked over there today for a photo. I may have been a day or two too late to get them at their peak, but it was a lot cooler today than over the weekend – much more pleasant for walking than it was a couple of days ago.