Magic

Friday after work, we had Julia and Ryan over for supper, and then we went to Gaming Weekend and played muchness of games.

Saturday morning, Jessi went with her family garage saleing. In the afternoon, Jessi, her sister, and I went to Gaming Weekend for my tournament. 16 people showed up, and it was a lot of fun. Oddly enough, the final championship-deciding match came down to Jessi vs. her sister. Jessi won. (See final results)

Whew. I’ve been busy. Some recent life highlights:

• Last week, and I went to Costa Rica on a trip with our church. We got a lot of stuff done on a recreation area for children in an extremely poor city, worked with children, and had a wonderful experience.
• My boss announced today that he was quitting, effective today. It was quite surprising news.
• I received my official notification today that I am now a Level 1 Judge for Magic: the Gathering. I took the test 3 months ago, and the paperwork has now gone through and made me Official.
• I’m contemplating running another Magic tournament during SFS Gaming Weekend at the beginning of WPI’s A-term. It’ll likely be either Sealed Deck or a Booster Draft, and I’m trying to figure out the details.

I seem to only be updating this thing on weekends now. During the week tends to be fairly unnoteworthy, but here’s a couple highlights of my week so far:

• Got stuff accomplished at work
• Fingerworks released new firmware for my keyboard, which includes XWinder support under Windows 2000. Much happiness!
• We received word that our Costa Rica trip is now fully sponsored and paid for. We have all the money we need. Much happiness again!
• On Thursday, I attended the Magic Online Birthday Party, during which I entered two 8th-ed drafts and got to the semi-finals in each one. That means that I paid 3 packs to get in and won 2 packs in each of them, so between that and the cards that I drafted I think I about broke even. It was fun.
• On Friday, I went over to the in-laws with Jessi and we had supper with her parents. We then went to Prof. Yang’s house (she’s one of Jessi’s professors) and watched Crossfire, a 1947 murder mystery movie. It was quite enjoyable, although I found it difficult to keep track of the many characters.

Plans for the rest of this weekend:

Jessi and I decided to play our own Sealed Deck game with the packs she had won at the prerelease. We each took 4 packs, built a deck from them, and played.

The first game I don’t really remember that well, but she won.

The second game was insane. At the end of the game, I had 356 life to my wife’s 2. However, I did not win. She won because she had a Condescend to answer my Beacon of Immortality so I ran out of cards.

Well, I went to the Fifth Dawn Prerelease this weekend. Saturday I played in 2 32-player tournaments with and Randall. Both times, I won 3 matches and lost 2, which put me just below the line to win prizes. I had fun, though, and Jessi and Randall both won some prizes. Oddly enough, in both tournaments I was paired to play against Jessi, but in both cases I beat her. Yet, she walked away with prizes and I didn’t. That’s how these things work sometimes.

This week was quite busy. I stayed late at work on Monday and had to go in Thursday night to fix problems. Full-time work takes much more time than part-time work. But, the week is over now, so it is time for the weekend!

We are going to the Fifth Dawn Prerelease tomorrow (More Info). If anyone wants to come with us, meet us in the parking lot of the laundry place and Boomers by the intersection of Highland and Boynton at 8:00am sharp. I don’t know when we’ll be back, or if anyone will read this between now and then, but if you want to get a ride and work on our schedule, and we at least somewhat know you, you’re more than welcome to come with us.

Well, the results of my first MMD draft were pretty good. I won 2 out of my 3 matches, placing me in 4th out of 10. I also won a cool shiny promotional card.

But now, time for bed.

Well, I finished my first exciting week of full-time permanent work.

Tonight Jessi & I are going to TJ Collectibles to try a draft game in Friday Night Magic.