So far, my plan to write this in the morning isn't going too well. Yeah, well, so sue me.
Yesterday, I accomplished absolutely nothing at work. I could have stayed home and it wouldn't have made a bit of difference. But that's okay, ‘cuz once I got home, I put together a new Magic deck. (Those of you who don't play Magic: the Gathering can pretty much skip the rest of this paragraph.) It's a "Prosperous Bloom" deck that was listed in the October 1997 issue of The Duelist. I tried it out a few times solo, and was stunned not only at how well it worked, but even more by the suddenness of it. I'd take 3-4 turns, with nothing much happening, and then out of nowhere, on turn 4 or 5, it would kick in and the game would be instantly over. I was simply amazed. Of course, it's one thing to work well without an opponent; it's quite another to succeed when taking damage and facing Counterspells. So I played it against David over our lunch hour today and won all but one game. Simply stunning. (Did I mention it was stunning?)
(For those of you who skipped the previous paragraph, we now return you to the rest of today's entry.)
I forgot to mention the other day that, when Mom & Dad were visiting, they told me that they had bought a new travel trailer -- again! It seems like every two years or so they come down with a case of "two-foot-itis", meaning that they decide they would really prefer to have a trailer just two feet longer than the one they have. What they had before was a 31-foot trailer, so they decided back in February to buy a 33-foot trailer. They went to the dealer, picked all the options and the layout they wanted, then placed their order. Time passed, but there were problems and delays at the factory. More time passed and the dealer grew more and more embarrassed. Finally, a few days ago, their new trailer arrived! But when they went to pick it up, they discovered that a 36-foot trailer had been built by mistake! Well, the dealer said that he could re-order it to get them a 33-foot trailer, or he could just give them the 36-foot trailer at the 33-foot trailer price.
So they now own a 36-foot trailer.
Of course, if you're going to be hauling around a 36-foot trailer, you need a bigger pickup truck to pull it -- so they're getting a new pickup truck, too. I didn't realize that teachers' retirement plans paid so well!
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