Future Sight Sealed
May 17, 2007
While I’m on a roll with updating I might as well write about our latest MTG event. The Saturday following the wedding, there was a mini sealed event at my place: 3 Future Sight, 1 Planar Chaos, 1 Time Spiral.
I got a great set of cards and made a UGr (2 Ghostfires, 1 Conflagrate – how could I not splash red?). I pulled an Aeon Chronicler (my bomb for the day), Ancestral Vision, and a couple of back-up card advantage creatures (Citanul Woodreaders for one). It was a rather strange day for wins as the usual pecking order of wins went awry. I went 3-1 in the 1v1s and then did fairly well the DHG as well!
The new set is interesting. There are some cool library effects but as a whole, I’m not as impressed as I was with PC and TS. The new set has some very beautiful art – my favorite is definitely Blind Phantasm. What a beautiful card.
The next event will be a FS Preconstructed with 1 or 2 boosters. That should be quite interesting too.
How A Wedding Caused Podcasting
Last Friday Mike and Akiyo finally ceremoniously tied the knot at the all too wonderful Sumiyoshi-taisha. It was a very beautiful Japanese wedding with a really awesome reception. Later that night the woman and I MC’d the nijikai and had a great time. Congratulations to those two. Pictures pending permission from the bride and groom.
At the nijikai, the lady won an iPod shuffle! I swore I’d never buy an iPod but if it’s given as a gift, well I don’t see the harm in that. The lady “let” me use it and I’ve been playing with podcasts and iTunes ever since. I really like that tiny 1 sq. inch sized, 1GB piece of machinery.
Finally, with an iPod, I subscribed to Streamlink to listen Coast to Coast AM, still going strong after all these years with George Noory and Art Bell. With dozens of shows archived away, I’ve been struggling to find time to listen to everything. I’m managing to eke about 4, 40 minute clips a day, from my waking moments to the last conscious moments (I go to sleep listening to it). It’s great!
