I think next year, I may just send email Christmas cards instead.

What a pain.

My grandma gave us some of my baby pictures as a Christmas present.

Yes, I’ve been using dual monitors since a very young age.

Yesterday, Jessi and I went to a Magic Grand Prix Trial with a Ravnica sealed deck format. Out of 40 players, Jessi came in 25th, but I went 4–2, coming in 10th, just missing the Top 8 booster draft. But I won more than I lost, and I did good enough to be in the prizes. It’s boosted my confidence in playing Magic enough that I think we’re going to take a short vacation to play in Grand Prix Richmond the first weekend of February. It should be fun at least, as there are a lot of events there, even if we don’t win anything.

It really frustrates me when I can put SQL query hints in to make queries go faster. I should not be able to make a better execution plan than the built-in optimizer.

I saw the new Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe movie last night in a special prescreening put on by the Worcester Collegiate Christian Network. I highly recommend it.

I’m an uncle!

We added one more thing to our home today…

Some people I know have moved since last year. Some of you more than once. I’m working on updating our contact database for the purpose of sending Christmas cards out. If you think we may not have your physical mail address, and you’d like a Christmas card from us, then please email your address to pete@cooperjr.name.

Thank you.

“Discharge of a nuclear weapon will be deemed a warlike act even if accidental.” — Excerpt from my house insurance policy

I just played in my first Ravnica booster draft at FNM at TJ Collectibles.

I went 3–0, winning my draft pod.

I won 8 packs and a very cool promo Counterspell.

I am very happy.

And now I need to get some sleep since tomorrow Jessi and I will be playing Two-Headed Giant.