So I got up this morning, and it was really cold in the house. The furnace was flashing an error code ( Read more... )

I'm also going to update on Magic. I didn't touch a Magic deck for the first two weeks of 2016. Friday at FNM, I played my Hardened Scales deck in standard, the last time before the new set becomes legal. I did awful, 1-3. It's a marginal deck that has to get lucky to do well against serious decks, and I just didn't ( Read more... )

I haven't posted in a while because I've been a bit busy with stuff, but since I use this journal as a record of my own life I want to note some of it.

For New Year's I went to nbowa's. Hung out, played poker once (wasn't the first one out, was actually ahead at the break, but as the stakes went up I quickly ran out of chips), played some other games ( Read more... )

I played my Hardened Scales deck again at FNM. Came in 3rd out of 8 players.

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Played Standard at FNM, for apparently the first time in over a month. (3 of the missing weeks were cons, and I think the one other Standard didn't go off.) I hadn't looked at my deck in weeks, and at first it was in a huff and gave me some bad hands, but I ended up in second place for the night.

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So I am safely home from MFF. It was a fun weekend, but a lot less fun than it could have been for me. The convention has just gotten too big. It started sometime last Spring when I learned that the Hyatt was already sold out, before I'd learned that the room block was open. So it was the first year that I've been in someone else's room, and ( Read more... )

So, my Thanksgiving festivities are over a little early this year ( Read more... )

I just played a game of Dominion which featured the most complete drubbing I've ever seen in a game of Dominion, so I'm going to record it for posterity. Since I recently got the Adventures expansion, we were playing with events. Specifically, Expedition, which allows you to pay 3 and get two extra cards for your next hand, and Inheritance, which ( Read more... )

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Safely home from Windycon. There was a lot of music. Wall to wall concerts from Friday at 8 until Sunday at 2, the only gap being Saturday evening. They need the stage for the masquerade. Enough of the concerts were ones I wanted to hear that I didn't get to any other programming (even though there was a fair bit of programming I would have ( Read more... )