Busy, as usual
April 24th 2006 -
Another trip to Sweden in two weeks’ time. And tomorrow isn’t a holiday for me: we’re going from 5:00pm to 1:00am in a teleconference. Urgle.
Feeling really out of it at the moment. I’ve been fiddling endlessly with the first thousand words of the short story, and I’ve been feeling guilty about doing of my other home projects, because I ought to be working on the short story.
The extended weekend was full of busy fun. Archery on Friday (at which I did poorly, as I had been doing quite a bit of arm exercise recently, and they were trembly.) Did some work on the video delay project. Still haven’t ported it to the PC or done the save feature.
I went to the Dissention pre-release tournament on Saturday morning, with David MM, and put together a Rakdos deck for a 2-2 result. I thought I was a little unlucky in the last match, as I mulliganed a total of seven times in the three games. Highlight: me on 1, him on 20 with a life-gaining artifact and a deck that was running red. Second game of the third match. I had lost the first game. He had four cards in hand; I had none. I drew Infernal Tutor, tutored for Rakdos, and played him. Three turns later, he had only two permanents left on the board, and died. Even better was my winning game of the third match – got Rakdos out, and gave him psychotic fury. Fourteen points of damage, and he sacrificed three quarters of his permanents. Rakdos seems like fun – utterly psychotic, and liable to lose very badly indeed when it loses, but fun.
Then, Sunday: golf, at which I sucked mightily, Greek Easter lunch with Anna’s mom, then off to David MM’s place for a day of games – Amun-re, Apples To Apples, and Formula De. Finally, Jon & Kate came over for Lost & Dr Who. No time for music.
I think I’m getting a cold.