Various Sundry Things

Kung Fu

Weapons was a blast. Mixing weapons and unarmed attacks; evading attacks when you don't have a weapon (using foam-wrapped sticks to simulate baseball bats); taking someone down when they have a blunt weapon and you don't have any weapon at all. That last part is a lot of fun but it wears you out. I think I pulled something in my leg.

My wrist is still not 100% but I can do push-ups now, so that's good.

Magic Night

Magic night at the Chateau Serdic was a lot of fun. Optimist Prime's sliver deck is annoying, but devilishly effective. Diabolical! Null is starting to mix a few newer cards in with his existing stockpile and I foresee this causing great complications in the future.

And he totally stole my Jaya Ballard. That's just not cricket. Oh well, I got to use her Incinerate effect, which as far as I can recall is the first time she's done something for me other than eat removal spells.

And Serdic makes a mean pot of pasghetti!

My box of Time Spiral turned up prior to Null arriving to chauffeur me to Serdic's place. I opened half the boosters right then, and tossed some nice stuff into a few of my decks. My lovely wife has challenged me to only open one booster a day of the balance of the packs. So far, so good.

Hungary, 1956

The Hungarians revolt to try to throw off the yoke of their oppressive Soviet oppressors, expecting the west to get involved. The west, uninterested in another war just then, declines to do so. Fifty years later, the occasion is marked by riots and mayhem -- and by an incredibly prepared group of rioters who stole a vintage, running T-34 obr 1944 with the aid of a spare battery and a steady supply of diesel fuel.

http://mf.index.hu/belfold/okt23_tank.mov

Hungarian police try to stop a tank with a water hose.

Now these guys know how to party.

Miscellaneous Quick Points

Blogger's formatting sucks the beans.

The Wine and Food Show is coming up. I am excited.

Curling is in the air and everybody wants to get in on it.

RJA is straight. Honest. You might not know it from his blog. I'm just saying.

Hallowe'en

Optimist Prime's Hallowe'en party sounds like it's going to be a blast. This year, it's not going to work out, but next year? Oh yeah.

Also, and I don't know if you've noticed this, but if you go looking for Star Wars costumes online, there are plenty. Except the one costume that you would expect without question to be able to find. That one, as it happens, is impossible to find. This, my friends, is horribly unfair.

Stick To Your Knitting

In the paper, there was a story about how a local knitting group (who refer to themselves as a 'guild', I shit you not) is all offended because Belinda Stronach referred to knitting in a dismissive, negative fashion. Apparently knitting doesn't necessarily mark you out as a member of a repressed class of cat-owning old women who carry around bags of mismatched bits of coloured string. (A guild. Seriously.)

I understand the modern tendency to take offense at the slightest excuse, but sometimes you have to admit that certain hobbies aren't, and never will be, sexy. Magic is a geeky thing to be interested in, and I have no problems with saying so. Apparently I've been missing out on opportunities to have editorials written in the paper about it.

Who the hell belongs to a guild? I mean, since the Medicis were a going concern, I mean?

Wolfgang, you're going to have to try to explain this to me, because I just don't get it.