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I've been pretty bad about reading Ars since losing my job but the good part is I haven't lost track of the weight loss. I weighed in at 249.5 on Thursday which marks 60 lbs lost in 55 weeks. Not quite as quickly as I was hoping but I can't begin to estimate the muscle mass I've gained. My legs...

I have been a bad Arena player by not maximizing my returns on dailies. Finally played the Jump-In event and played Gruul. It was fun but its a mistake for the crime lands to not be the common duals in the format. At least if you have OTJ packs and no DMU packs (and you will only have both for...

Pretty sure Rest In Peace coming back to Standard is going to be the death-knell for it. It's definitely not surviving rotation though since the SNC sac fetches are absolutely required for it to work.

That's weird. My LGS's prereleases the past two sets have been as big as any previous one that I've been to.

I've seen both Jim and CGB's skeletons deck. Looks like there might finally be a skeleton aggro deck that's somewhat viable now that MID and VOW are about to rotate. Only took them 3 years to get there.

So I lost my job of 10 years on Tuesday and while working on the resume the imposter syndrome is hitting very hard. It's not like I don't have 15 years of experience doing LOB app development. It's not like I can't hold my own (generally) in a technical conversation about the various...

Yep. The character gets arrested for blah-blah-blah is rarely about the blah or its fallout. It's usually about what led to the blah happening. An episode where they spin wheels dealing with the procedural fallout of that would be the prototypical filler episode. Nothing of import in the...

Umm, yeah. I did that too. I thought it said Omniscience but it wasn't what I was expecting (basically a free spells Cube draft) so the bunch of little garbage cards in the packs threw me and I drafted around a regular draft experience instead of a churn through the deck to draw bombs and win on...

15 years ago that would have been unexpected and worth a chuckle. Today it's 150,000% expected. Thus, not even in the slightest bit of a snowball's chance in hell that it would ever be seen as funny. Unless, of course, their CEO is John Ritticello and then the April Fool's joke is "Haha! You...

A couple of quick videos I've found state that ObeseN1NJA apparently hit #1 in Mythic with it just before the month ended. So low-viewership streamers are gonna be all over that clickbait trying to get their $3.50 (and, fair game to them, it's a shitty fight-for-scraps world we live in right now).

Until we actually start ripping the money from the hands of the rich and forcing the government to treat it's people as people it's up to us little guys to stand up for and protect each other. I have the means to make sure that those who are waiting on me (in a totally luxury service industry...

This was very silly and very bad. Thankfully it doesn't appear to be possible to make a non-silly or good deck with nothing but rares and mythics from the current set so... Two losses to color screw (because: duh, that's gonna happen) but otherwise a big over-the-top gameplan. Last opponent...

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I am one cable away from having a Roland MT-32 (computer has a dearth of USB ports so I don't keep the MIDI cable hooked up at all times). Aside from that there's nothing that's more than a few years old.

Beef stew and fresh bread tonight Stew was good (no shadow on my grandmother's recipe but I can't remember that these days). Bread was fine, left it in a bit too long and was slightly overtoasted on the bottom. It's this recipe which they say is denser than normal breads which doesn't come...

I'd thought about trying that but getting up to do exercises (and plan them out beforehand) is something that has just not worked for me. Instead I've taken to walking to work 3x/week so as to get the time that had been spending in the early evening done earlier. That's worked pretty well for me...

Got to gold finally. Opponent was an Oracle of the Full Rope before Turn 1 player. Died on turn 3 after only playing Oracle of the Alpha. I'll take it. Especially since every rank this month has been win 2 lose 4 to variance that's out of my control. Love drawing 8 lands after scrying 6 to the...

Putin's Russia now. He is Diet Soviet. That means Putin's Console is Lynx 2.0.

I'm not sure. I lost count at the umpteenth time Jesús was supposed to return. Never understood where he went that it was so important that he came back from. Perhaps the grocery store? However, I can say that I feel fine...

We're out early today. Our next actual holiday off won't be until Memorial Day though. Two months of 5 day work weeks. :flail: