Another week about to start

Went to a trivia night on Friday night. Hadn't been intending to, but WIF was off, and Major Major Major asked me to come along (some flattery about needing my intelligence may have been involved). As I had really nothing to do, I agreed. Also, I knew that some other people from work I like - the governors daughter and cutesmiles - were going along, so hey, what the hell.

There were, however, only four (rather than the usual ten) people at our table. We scrubbed out soundly in the first round, but by the end of the night we were 5th (out of twelve) and had vastly more points per person than the rest of the tables (yea, yea, so that wasn't hard; but still, getting 100 when the top table only had 108 and the bottom was on 88 or something is pretty damn good, if y'ask me).

yesterday I cleaned my house, with some assistance from my folks, and slightly less than no help from Suave/aggressive and little miss loud.
At one point I leaned on the edge of my bed and bent down to pick something up, and some books that had been carefully stacked there while other cleaning was occuring tumbled down onto me. I yell 'Oh, buggering hell, who the bloody idiot hell put these damn books here? what are they doing here?' and was informed by my mother that (a) I had put the books there and (b) I should apply for a job on black books. This made my at once both grossly insulted and terribly pleased, so I did my best to sound the part for the next hour or so.


Today I played magic most of the day. I turned up completely and utterly unprepared, and saked the room 'So...who wants to lead me a deck?'

One of the newer guys was happy to lend me a deck. I sat down, decided that half the cards were awful, and switched them out. I also couldn't get any Umezawa's Jittes (which if any of you played magic would mean something, I promise). I ended up with an ok-ish deck. I got a bye first round, lost the next to the welsh wizard¹, beat a guy playing white weenie through some combination of skill and non-skill (mine and his, respectively), won the next round vs turbo fat-guy.dec (glaical ray'd him for 10 in response to a white myojinn). Then I was up vs one of my buddies who had been badmouthing the the utter turdfulness of my deck. We id'd anyway (intentionally drew) and played about 5 games, in which he utterly savaged me to death. Then the top 8 pairings were up...and I was against him.

Luckily, the universe liked me more than him, and he got massively mnanascrewed both games. Game one he started to pull out, was on 8, cast a heartbeat of spring and then some myojin...and in response, I cast a glacial ray and spliced three onto it, killing him. And I won the next.

Lost in the semi's, and the deck needed serious work (it was basically snakes plus red with time of need and some random fat guys) but it was a fun day!


Also had dinner with the Bee's Knees, and played (a little) axis and allies with Bee, his brother, warboy and the otherone². Axis and Allies seems like a fairly terrible and random game. Maybe I've just been spoiled by WIF. But it is so limited and random and junky!

Anyway, see those of you in the country tomorrow night.



¹ Who's name is really...not ironic, but something. That thing where a persons name is totally suited to their job.
² Cool name pending.