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l33tminion) wrote2023-07-21 05:07 pm
l33tminion) wrote2023-07-21 05:07 pm
Ericadventure to the North
The last two weeks, Erica's been on an epic road trip with her Grammy and Grumpy (Scott and Heather, Julie's parents) and her cousin Emilia. They took quite the journey up to Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island, back down along the Saint Lawrence to Quebec City, on to visit some extended family in Toronto, stopped at Niagara Falls, swung down to Cleveland for a consulting job for Scott and some tourism with all four grandparents. Then back to Boston. She just got back today. Two weeks out of town for Erica, and her first journey away from parents. (And I still didn't write the whole time.)
The two weeks were pretty uneventful work-weeks on the home-front, though did have quite an eventful weekend with Julie, we saw a play (Evita at the ART) and a movie (Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, for the second time for me and I did not at all regret the rewatch) and got in line early for a delve into a high-concept cocktail bar (Hecate, not an everyday thing and the concept done possibly to the point of silliness, but still very interesting drinks). And some quiet time and cooking, too.
I've mostly fallen out of the habit of playing Magic Arena with the last set, a "Universes Beyond" set themed after Lord of the Rings, since that set doesn't go into the N-most-recent-normal-sets format, Standard, which is the one I mostly play. Instead, it's in Alchemy, which is Arena's Standard plus "rebalancing" (having slightly different versions of cards) plus whatever the opposite of rebalancing is (having wild digital-only-mechanics nonsense). And, of course, Limited, with the set just by itself. Which has been fun, but not enough to keep up the play-every-day (well, most days) sort of habit I had before. With longer before the next Standard set in (and even longer before the next out, with Wizards having widened the window for "rotation" just recently), that's started to feel more same-y, too.
The two weeks were pretty uneventful work-weeks on the home-front, though did have quite an eventful weekend with Julie, we saw a play (Evita at the ART) and a movie (Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, for the second time for me and I did not at all regret the rewatch) and got in line early for a delve into a high-concept cocktail bar (Hecate, not an everyday thing and the concept done possibly to the point of silliness, but still very interesting drinks). And some quiet time and cooking, too.
I've mostly fallen out of the habit of playing Magic Arena with the last set, a "Universes Beyond" set themed after Lord of the Rings, since that set doesn't go into the N-most-recent-normal-sets format, Standard, which is the one I mostly play. Instead, it's in Alchemy, which is Arena's Standard plus "rebalancing" (having slightly different versions of cards) plus whatever the opposite of rebalancing is (having wild digital-only-mechanics nonsense). And, of course, Limited, with the set just by itself. Which has been fun, but not enough to keep up the play-every-day (well, most days) sort of habit I had before. With longer before the next Standard set in (and even longer before the next out, with Wizards having widened the window for "rotation" just recently), that's started to feel more same-y, too.