My lovely wife is feeling better but still is not well. Despite this she made it out for her curling game tonight, leaving me, Serdic and Prime to our game night.
We got in a game of Magic and one of Vampire. I won the magic game because Prime and Serdic were both more interested in going after each other; either could have ousted me in no time flat but they focused on each other, and by the time Serdic ousted Prime he wasn't in any condition to hold me off. I was playing a white/blue deck which was sorely lacking in offense. By all rights I should have been out and gone and spectating for most of that one.
The Vampire game went better for me; my Tor/!Tor Guns & Butter deck pretty much controlled the table. I was able to oust Prime with a mix of bleeds and votes, and then take down Serdic the old-fashioned way. This is the first Vampire game that I felt pretty confident in; usually I'm wishing I had different cards in hand and hoping that nobody comes at me hard. This time I felt like I really had a handle on the game. This may have something to do with the fact that Null was absent, off packing in anticipation of their upcoming move. He's usually the one really making me scramble.
I've tweaked the Tor Guns & Butter deck slightly and left my Lasombra stealth-bleed deck alone, but my Nosferatu deck has been disassembled in favour of a Guruhi bruise-bleed deck. I'm concerned that I don't really have a good handle on what it's focus should be. That's never a good sign.
My leg has been giving me a few twinges today. Not sure what's up with that.
I'm listening to the Battlestar Galactica podcasts of the writer's room sessions, when they broke the bottom half of season 2. For someone with an interest in the writing, it's like crack. Sweet, sweet crack.
The bench we got from the Greek is in place. It got its first workout yesterday. I plan on keeping it pretty active. Having that thing is just awesome.
The eye candy in my last post is a variant of the 2S19 Russian self-propelled artillery vehicle. Those are two 155mm artillery pieces, stacked one on top of the other. Apparently this thing is not just an experiment but is expected to go into production. The double guns are in the interest of increased rate of fire; they're not intended to fire together.
Kinda wierd, but the Russians have a different way of looking at this sort of thing than we do, and they take their artillery seriously.
Just for reference, the standard 2S19 can throw a shell in the ballpark of 50km. The Russians, they don't fuck around.
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