Friday

Temporal Status

This is Friday. The week is over.

This has been a very, very long week.

Magic Stuff

I continue to sporadically open the second half of my Time Spiral box. I love, love, love this set.

The second Magic Booster Draft Invitational is tenatively scheduled for November 18th. The plan is to do a Kamigawa block draft. Should be fun.

Hygiene

I needed a haircut, badly. I got one.

There really isn't much of a story there.

Dinner

Last night I took my lovely wife out to dinner, just because. We had initially planned on going to Issac's, which is nice and in town, but when we arrived at 8:15 we were told that they couldn't seat us because they were closing up for the night. Quarter after eight on a Thursday? Are you shitting me?

So we went to Moxie's. My lovely wife had the steak oscar, which looked good, and I had the seafood linguine, which had far more seafood in it than I would have expected and was very tasty. We had a cheesecake desert which involved coffee-flavoured liquors and I had an irish coffee, with extra irish. Our waitress was unfailingly helpful and attentive without being pushy or hanging around too much, and got a nice tip.

Today we went out for lunch, and Moxie's got picked again. What can I say; reasonable prices, really good food and smoking hot waitresses is a winning combination. I had the philly cheese steak and it was good.

Canadian Tire Is Sucking More Than I Remember

Before hitting Issac's and then Moxie's for dinner, we tried to go to Canadian Tire to buy a rake, as we had almost finished pulling up the last of the old surfacing on the yard and would shortly need to move the large quantity of earth my completely awesome neighbour had obtained for us. Canadian Tire had lots of snowsuits and xmas decorations, but no rakes. So we went to Home Depot and got the perfect rake. My lovely wife pointed out that we usually seem to go to Canadian Tire, don't find what we need, and go to Home Depot instead, and that maybe henceforth we should just skip the middleman and go straight to the Depot.

After work today I finished pulling up the yard and moved the earth around with shovel and rake. It's fairly well distributed if not entirely flat. Job well done. I also put together the spreader (the bucket-on-wheels device to scatter grass seed), which was a pain; cotter pins in a cold garage does not add up to happy thumbs.

My Sister's Blog

Speck-tacular is indeed an awesome name, and I wish I'd thought of it.

I've been informed that readers of that blog want to see a picture of the rock.

Serdic

Keep a positive attitude and good things happen. You rock, buddy.

Gifts

Normally, when the holidays roll around, I exchange small xmas gifts with a few people that I work closely with. Null, Serdic and I are more or less going to do a Magic Card Exchange this year, it seems. RJA steadfastly refuses to be involved, as he doesn't want to have to go to a card store and buy magic cards.

I plan on getting RJA a scarf, since we were looking at (and making fun of) GQ Magazine's article about the best scarves of the season, most of which were horrific. I haven't decided whether to get him a nice scarf or a nasty comedy scarf. Knowing RJA, the scarf I'd pick as nasty comedy scarf would probably be the one he'd prefer. We're not exactly on the same wavelength when it comes to that kind of thing, if you know what I mean.

Dao of the Jedi

I had to explain to RJA what a lightsaber was, and how it all works. This isn't the first time we've had this conversation, but it renewed my visceral disgust for the fact that he hasn't seen Star Wars. What the hell, man. What the hell.

I took my double-bladed Darth Maul lightsaber to work, and took my standard blue Jedi saber home. We found batteries and put them in the Maul saber. Turns out that it lights up a flashlight on both ends, and makes a barely discernable difference in normal lighting. Not really very exciting, I'm afraid.

My lovely wife got me a complete Darth Tater Mr. Potato Head set. It comes in a huge Darth Tater container and contains Darth Vader, Stormtrooper and R2-D2 potato-heads. It also has a tiny Leia potato-head cast in translucent blue plastic so you can do the "Save Me Obi-Wan Kenobi" bit with R2. My wife is awesome.

Weather

It is unconscionably cold out there. I don't expect this trend to reverse in the near term. I have not yet made my peace with these seemingly inevitable conclusions.