Sunday, May 9, 2004

   *Ish tired*
Wow...I did a ton of stuff yesterday and today. It's one of those weekends you feel like you accomplished stuff, ya' know?

Saturday morning I got up bright and early and went to the local Toys R Us for the Yu-Gi-Oh tournament. I showed up early, so I took a stroll to the nearby Barnes and Noble and picked up Shaman King, vol. 3. ^__^

Anyway, the tournament: in the first round, I was matched up against...a five year old girl. Great...

I spoke with the TRU guy, because, let's face it, I did'nt want to beat a little kid. (The players were about half and half divided between folks about my age and younger folks.) He told me that if I let her win, he'd still advance me.

So, I let her win. Took a while, too. I mean, I set a Sinister Serpant in attack mode, with no traps, and she wouldn't attack, despite having a Battle Ox and another creature whose name escapes me on the field.

After 'loosing', I advanced to the next round, where I was promptly thrashed. This guy's entire deck was filled with rare cards. He played Mage Power on his Gemeni Elf and laid three other traps. He reborned my own Jinzo and went on the offensive.

Gah...I had Dark Master Zork in my hand, but without the Contract with the Abyss, I couldn't summon him. I did have one ace up my sleeve, though: the Spirit Reaper.

Wow; turns out this guy's entire deck was based around 1900 attacks and power ups, with no other plans. He had almost no way to destroy my Reaper. For four or five turns that lil' guy was my saving grace.

He also had no defense against the Wall of Illusion, either...

Eventually he drew Fissure, and destroyed my Reaper, and took me out. I didn't expect to get so far at my first tournament, but I learned a lot about the types of decks used. I'm reasonablly convinced I can rebuild my own to take them down.

I'll also put to use my newly-aqquired card, the Chaos Sorceror. ^__^

Anyway, afterwards, I went to the movie theater, met Ernesto, David and Kelly, and we saw Van hellsing.

I had only one expectation for the movie: monster fights. And there were monster fights, so I was satisfied. I won't recommend it if you want more than that, though. ^^;

A quick trip home to change shirts, and I went to the big final concert held by the orchestra. Kelly asked me to, but if I'd known how boring it would be, I wouldn't have. The music was excellent, but portions of the presentation were self-congradulatory to orchestra members. That was fine, but I'm not an orchestra member.... And I was tired from being on the move all day...

I guess it's one of those things you do for your friends, eh?

I spent all this morning working on my "As I Lay Dying" project. I didn't read the book, and the projects due tomorrow, and I still do the whole thing.

I consider it an appropriate culmination of my ability to BS easy or pointless projects. ^__^

Thought of the moment: If you name your child 'Van Hellsing', you're kind of limiting their future career paths....demon hunter...wizard...mad scientist...

Quote of the moment: "I have dragons on my shirt, a Game Boy in my pocket, trading cards in my car seat and comics in my trunk. Geek power, baby!" -Me
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