God, Magic, Fire, Drew and Exotic Lands

More bible coming soon. I've actually got through Genesis with commentary and after that I started straight up reading and I'm currently half way through Deuteronomy. I still can't believe how stupid the bible is. There's a section where God is telling Moses how to build some sort of worship tent where they can sacrifice goats and shit that goes on for pages and pages (Exodus 25-40, TWENTY FIVE THROUGH FORTY.) I can't write commentary because it's literally just tent construction. I might as well comment on the instructions for an erector set. My favorite and, I think most telling, is the many multiple times God punishes the Israelites for doubting him. To be fair they do act incredibly dumb, they doubt this gods existence after they literally heard him talking to them like a week earlier. God punishes them by making them all walk around in the desert until their whole generation is dead. Commit thoughtcrime and God will fucking kill you.

I won a magic tournament last friday. So far I've been kicking ass at Innistrad drafts, every one I've entered I've either won or finished in the money. This game is finally really starting to come together for me. By nature, I'm not that competitive a guy but there is an exception to that. The better I get at something, the more I want to win. This only shows in a couple areas of my life: select video games, at work and now competitive magic. I'm hoping to get out to higher level tournament sometime, and I want to keep improving my game. I'm playing to win here!

A girl got fired at work the other day, the same awkward "Deuceaholic" I mentioned earlier. I was surprised but when I thought about it I decided I was more surprised that I was surprised. I hadn't really been paying attention, but thinking back it was pretty easy to notice she had been working on the same generic thing for over a month or so. She also didn't hide it very well when she was slacking, once she spent a solid 30 minutes at her desk fiddling with her magic deck (Note to self: don't do that.) She was an odd duck but also a good person, so I hope she landed on her feet. It's weird to see someone in your department get let go. It's like she died. We speak about her in hushed tones and if someone slips out one of her sayings we all clamor "Ooooooo, too soon."

I've never been more excited for a Drew album. The songs so far are "Gold Jerry, Gold!" at least in my own professional opinion. Some of them may be a little too much jaying off on our part but the whole band was very proud of Tonight, Tonight and Boys of Summer, even if they don't always make for the most comical of choices. The rest were all picked for their lyrics and work well. Baby made for a great single since it's so popular, easy to play and Jay knocked the Ludacris part out of the park. We only have a couple more songs to record and I have high hopes for all of them. The skits between songs make me bust up every time I hear them too. Me and Jay discussed the other day whether or not we'd be able to play a gig. If we had the time to prepare and practice, I really don't think it'd be out of the question. It's funny to think about what would've happened if all that Drewcifers energy was channeled into a functional band. All-in-all it makes me want to play more in general including writing some more songs or doing a couple songs for youtube.

Travel sounds appealing these days. I finally have the money to justify making long trips, the time is a much more scarce commodity and that's really where I have to save up. Budgeting my vacation days around Xmas this season is looking to be a challenge. I'm looking to hit an early tourney, visit the Joe, make my way back to cleveland for work and Jo'hearns Birthday party, get back to Dexter for family Xmas, and finally head to Canada for extended family Xmas. I'll admit to posting about the sugar bowl on hamtwitter as well but that's just a pipe dream (this year.) Whoever posted next was right, the time and money must be saved for HamFrance.

Damn Steven, go to bed it's like 2:30am.