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Sep. 10th, 2022 05:53 pmBack in town, the school year is once again in swing, work grinds forward.
Last weekend was a long weekend for Labor Day. Had a pretty good time. Took Erica to Legoland Discovery Center on Friday. On Sunday, we went to the children's museum, with poke lunch and taiyaki ice cream for an afternoon snack.
Today, there was an Alphabet Workers Union picnic in the park in the afternoon and a fall fun fair organized by the PTA at Erica's school in the evening.
Erica's taking the lead on more reading, those literacy skills are definitely coming along. Cool to see some of those early reading favorites get a second go around now that she can tackle them herself.
I've been playing a lot of Magic Arena with the new set out (Domanaria United, a return to Magic's oldest setting). This one is really fun to play in sealed, and the new standard constructed environment after rotation (when old sets leave the collection of cards allowed in standard) is pretty interesting as well. That standard environment is this time swirling around a core of black, since that color didn't lose many of its powerhouse rares (a two-mana 3/2 recurring threat that draws cards, a guaranteed three-for-one, a 3/3 for three that gains life and disrupts your opponent's recurring threats, a flexible boardwipe that also gains a bunch of life) and adds to the mix two powerhouse mythics (an old favorite three-mana planeswalker and an aptly-named monster that produces game-winning advantage in short order). But those aren't the only good options, a new set means many new possibilities to explore. The sloshing about of play and counter-play in the metagame is also pretty interesting in itself.
The news is all crazy and I let so much go by without comment because I can't find time/energy to write. The whole saga of (as Opening Arguments cleverly calls it) NARA-Lago continues to be politically and legally just the craziest shit. I do hope more of the truth of why Trump was absconding with classified documents comes out, the only predictable thing about this is that the truth is sure to be stupider and stranger than what I would've predicted on my own.
Last weekend was a long weekend for Labor Day. Had a pretty good time. Took Erica to Legoland Discovery Center on Friday. On Sunday, we went to the children's museum, with poke lunch and taiyaki ice cream for an afternoon snack.
Today, there was an Alphabet Workers Union picnic in the park in the afternoon and a fall fun fair organized by the PTA at Erica's school in the evening.
Erica's taking the lead on more reading, those literacy skills are definitely coming along. Cool to see some of those early reading favorites get a second go around now that she can tackle them herself.
I've been playing a lot of Magic Arena with the new set out (Domanaria United, a return to Magic's oldest setting). This one is really fun to play in sealed, and the new standard constructed environment after rotation (when old sets leave the collection of cards allowed in standard) is pretty interesting as well. That standard environment is this time swirling around a core of black, since that color didn't lose many of its powerhouse rares (a two-mana 3/2 recurring threat that draws cards, a guaranteed three-for-one, a 3/3 for three that gains life and disrupts your opponent's recurring threats, a flexible boardwipe that also gains a bunch of life) and adds to the mix two powerhouse mythics (an old favorite three-mana planeswalker and an aptly-named monster that produces game-winning advantage in short order). But those aren't the only good options, a new set means many new possibilities to explore. The sloshing about of play and counter-play in the metagame is also pretty interesting in itself.
The news is all crazy and I let so much go by without comment because I can't find time/energy to write. The whole saga of (as Opening Arguments cleverly calls it) NARA-Lago continues to be politically and legally just the craziest shit. I do hope more of the truth of why Trump was absconding with classified documents comes out, the only predictable thing about this is that the truth is sure to be stupider and stranger than what I would've predicted on my own.
