Playoff football and some Top Golf
Sunday weblog notes from January 18, 2026 that were compiled and shared.
The Kansas Jayhawks played the Baylor Bears on Fox this weekend. It is nice to get the game via an OTA broadcast. Overall the image quality was really very good. It was crisp. The OTA broadcasts are usually pretty good. It was a great game to watch. The Jayhawks are playing better and better each week. Not only did we have a Jayhawks game, but also we had a Colorado Avalanche game as well Friday. That one I had to watch via the Altitude Plus broadcast. The Altitude team always makes it a good watch. It was a wonderful Friday night I guess. This week my weblog post writing did not really start until the weekend. Overall, I just did not muster a tremendous amount of writing output this week.
I almost sat down and spent some time working on a fiction project. It almost happened. That is the first time in some time that I wanted to sit down and just dive into creating a world with a written work of pure fiction. At one point, that was a lot more common in my writing routine. Maybe this weekend I’ll take inventory of the incomplete writing projects that maybe were a false start or received a lot of attention and then fizzled out. I know of a few of those projects that were 30,000 or more words into the process and then got shelved.
My Functional Journal weblog posts for the last few weeks have all used the same thumbnail and I’m okay with that going forward. It’s always an interesting process to pick a thumbnail for Substack posts. I’m not entirely sure how much picking the perfect thumbnail really matters. They really just show up on the homepage and when things are shared on social media. On platforms like YouTube the thumbnail is very important as it helps get people to click on the video. It is much easier to make a thumbnail these days. It’s really just a request process. My big plan for the weekend involves watching some football. The games this week should all be very good. It’s that time of year.
While the weather in Denver, Colorado is pretty cold it is otherwise nice outside. The Buffalo Bills came to town to play the Denver Broncos. Tickets were more expensive than I was willing to pay for a football game. I’m planning on watching the game OTA broadcast on CBS for no real cost outside of my time and electricity. Overall the people of Denver seem to be very excited about this home playoff game. Apparently, all that excitement was well placed and the Denver Broncos will get to play another game this year. The news after the game was disappointing, but it will make the next game very interesting.
Here is just a little bit I’m planning on going to Top Golf for a couple of hours which will be pretty fun. Hitting golf balls during the winter season is always a very interesting experience. However, the weather today will be pretty decent so the heat fans won’t have to do a tremendous amount of work to make the experience more comfortable. The high for the day is 51 degrees which is much better than freezing. It’s pretty warm for January in Denver, Colorado.