It’s been a hot, boring summer. I quit playing Rift; just lost interest in it. Got back into Magic: the Money Gathering Pit again. (Well, WOTC gathers it, anyway), but I play no better than I ever did; still just a scrub. Yeah, really feel great when I sit down next to one of the store’s top players for a draft, and he goes, “Damn, I’m next to you? You don’t know what the hell you’re doing.” (Hint for the future: I knew well enough to figure out what color you were playing and start hate drafting against you.) So, that store’s air conditioning sucked and I quit going there anyway. Update 9/4: They’ve done a couple of things to mitigate the heat and I’m pushing the limit on late arrival to avoid the heat. It’s helping
Haven’t been doing much computer gaming on the weekend with Dr. Heinous. This last weekend he was off to help the Stainless Steel Brat move into her college dorm. Sigh, I guess that means we’ve only got two years left before civilization is in real trouble.
So, I’ve basically stopped watching any of the series out there this season. Well, I did catch up on Sacred Seven, but it’s not because it’s any good, it’s just that I was bored and it was the least inoffensive thing I could queue up. Downloaded a couple of movies, including Redline, which falls into the “terribly cliché, but kinda fun anyway” bucket, and Ghost in the Shell SAC: Solid State Society, which falls into the “Cool but weird” bucket until it unloads a bunch of “WTF?” with the identity of the final villain. It’s utterly stupid, and puts the writers in the corner for any future stories.