The Ongoing Adventures of Not Failing

Well, again, I went into extended hoping to do something worthwhile with my burn deck. Went 1-2 for the evening. Not horrible, but certainly not what I wanted.

First match I lost the game because of sheer incompetence, not attacking when I should, blowing up the wrong targets, on and on and on. Note to self: blowing up a 4/4 is better than shooting 5 at his face when he has better board position than you. Lord almighty I amaze myself with my stupidity sometimes.

Second match: I didn’t attack- TWICE- with my Goblin Lookout on turn one. WHAT THE FUCK. That cost me two games. I am such an artard.

Oh well, I’m getting better at it I suppose.

Okay, so I’ve decided- out of all things- that the one thing I am really good at (and actually have a passion for) is Magic the Gathering. Which means that I am going to try and play the game as much as I can, in hopes of getting better at it and maybe making some headway into my dream of working for Wizards of the Coast. But that is in the future. For now, work on being a better Magic player.

To that end, I decided to play in a tournament online tonight. I was actually doing well the first round, though I missed out on a few optimal plays, but the second round I acted like an idiot and didn’t sideboard in Smash to Smithereens against a main decked Jitte. What in the hell. So that probably ended up costing me the game, but that was an acceptable sideboarding mistaking. (Okay, it wasn’t acceptable but it at least made sense given how little I know of the extended Metagame.)

What is NOT excusable however, was what I did the next game.

I won the first game, easily. He pulled the second game out at the end, due to the annoying as shit Jitte, and we’re on to game three. He’s at ONE life, I’m at 12. He’s stabilized though, and my burn deck is rapidly running out of fuel. He casts at Mistbind Clique and somehow locks his own lands down and not my own. Awesome. I have a rift bolt in hand, and I can win this shit.

I suspend it.

FUCK. All I had to do was pay attention, not zone out and auto-play, and win the damn game and go to the finals. But no. I give some fuck-stick who can’t think beyond playing faeries in extended the win after he fucks up. I *rewarded* bad behavior. Ugh. I am disgusted with myself. But not really. I know what I did wrong, and I damn well better learn from it.

I promise guys, really, there are dozens of posts between the last one you can see on my page and the one you’re reading now. It’s just that I slipped into an alternated dimension, and just recently got back, so all of those posts are actually stored on Dimension X’s servers. Sorry everybody. I’m working on a cross dimensional server, but for now you’ll just have to miss out on my Pulitzer Prize winning blog entries. Sad, I know.

I’ve missed out on too many things to hope to keep you totally up to date, so I don’t think I will try.

Sorry.

But I will start to to better about keeping you updated in the present! Yay?

-Snow

Man oh man, do I hate consumerism. Ironic, considering the company I work for. It’s something that just makes so little sense to me; why do people enjoy getting up so early, dealing with so many people, fighting over things, for products that no one really needs, most don’t even really want, and are generally just another way for us to waste time? If I were ever asked what the most pointless human activity is, I would be hard pressed to find one more pointless than rampant consumerism.

On to lighter things, my employees are all incompetent save Marie. Like… man. I can’t wait for new ones.

It’s been a long time since I updated, I know, in fact to be perfectly honest I had completely forgotten that this blog existed. But thanks to a little freindly reminder from my Faja I’m back in business to annoy all of you with my misbegotten ramblings and insanity! Also, there will be many a mention of sex and sexually related things. But you all saw that coming.

Hehe. Coming.

I moved to Jeff City, like any of you don’t know that already, to be the assistant store manager of the new Gamestop in said city (man, my grammar is on fire!) and also to stop sitting at home all day going “Durh, I should be productive… but oh well, I can do that tomorrow.” I know Marie has given me endless amounts of grief about giving up games, but I finally realized I keep playing them because A) I refuse to get off the computer and do something else B) They fill lots of down time when I *should* be doing something else C) They don’t require me to put in the effort to learn anymore skills. I’m not going to say I’m giving up games totally this time, but I am going to say that there will be a reduction in them since I remembered what it felt like to actualyl get something done, or learn something new, and it feels damn good. Plus, games cost money. Or time. Normally both. I don’t have enough of those to waste on games.

The job itself is going very well, although my employees are a little daft, and I hardly feel any of the soul crushing despair I felt going into my *last* job so I consider that a marked improvment. Though I certainly do miss the sheer insanity of Korea, I find the predictable redneck insanity of Missouri far more tolerable. Though for some reason everyone in Jeff City seems to have British teeth (sorry Matty B) and it makes me wonder how much Meth and Chewing Tobaccer are running around there. Alas, as long as they buy shit from me I don’t much care what the hell they have. Unless they try and stab me, but that is why we keep box cutters around.

And now I go off to devour too much turkey, then sleepily drive my way home. Yay working on black friday!

Today is officially the best day of the year. Why? Because it is the day that daylight savings time ends, and that means we all convince ourselves that there is an extra hour for us to waste doing pointless stupidity! And honestly, who doesn’t enjoy the cognitive dissonance that comes with thinking you get a free hour of time once a year? I know I sure enjoy it. Though all I did was spend it reading a Let’s Play. But hey, it was an hour I wouldn’t have otherwise had and that is what’s important! Yesssss.

So what did you do with your free hour of time?

So I have an interesting decision to make, I have an offer for a job working at Arvest bank as a teller for 9 dollars an hour… or I can move to Jeff City and work as a Gamestop Assistant manager for 11 an hour. Thoughts?

I promised Jacqueline that I would write a blog about zombies, so here we go:

Did you know zombies eat brains? It’s true. But why is it that zombies desire the human brain over all other forms of protein, much less forms of brains? It’s an interesting question, with perhaps too much speculation and myth surrounding the zombie for us to ever find the truth, but in this author’s opinion the zombie virus brings forth a latent desire to consume the flesh of those who are inferior to us.

Yeah, I got nothing. Happy Halloween everyone!

Well the big news for this week is that Ami broke up with me last night (I can’t honestly say ‘we’ broke up, because that just wasn’t the case at all) which definitely put a pretty big down on the rest of the day. I can’t say I was too surprised though, which was the worst and best part of the whole thing. Then my dad took me out to get icecream because he is an awesome man, and he listened to me whine and moan about life. Then later Krista Pat and I had sushi and Krista bought the sushi! She’s so nice to us.

But on the upside, Borderlands today!

The real question is: where the hell do I want to go now?