Sitting on runway

Waiting to get to the gate. I hope we don't sit here too long. Fortunately my connecting flight is about 2 hours from now.

UPDATE: There's a plane sitting at our gate so we're going to a different gate on the other side of the airport. :o

Lunch at McDonalds

I had a bacon & cheese 1/3 lb. Angus burger, medium fries and a medium drink. Since we're on the subject I like McDonald's mushroom swiss angus burger better than Wendy's attempt at a mushroom swiss burger. I've also noticed that although McDonald's doesn't use Heinz ketchup the ketchup they do use works well with their fries. This is probably not an accident. :o

Mega Cricket Infestation

At the McDonald's parking lot in Castaic.

Little did I know...

That was the cash price. I used my ATM card and was charged $2.10. :(

Control vs. Burn...Yum!

Left 4 Dead arrived today!

Southern California is on fire again

Having some yogurt before playing Magic

Even while sick

Went after lunch since I called in sick to work. There was no wait. Wish I didn't still feel nauseous though. :(

In case you didn't know

My Pumpkin

Lunch

Dragon Roll and Salmon Skin Hand Roll.

Multimedia Programming

Books for my Multimedia Programming class that starts in January. Maybe I can get a head start by reading these two 300+ page books over winter break.

Economics part 2

My other new book for my Economics class that starts next week. It's only 252 pages though. Whew!

Economics

One of my new books for my Economics class that starts next week. 853 pages. Yikes!

Checked in for the CHOC Walk tomorrow

Uh oh...look what Arby's has

Rubio's FTW!

Looking at all those fish made me hungry

A Whale

I found Nemo

And a bunch of his siblings.

Giant Starfish and Giant Crab

Otter

Jelly Fish

Ouch!

Garden of Eels

More fish

Fresh Sushi

Aquarium of the Pacific

Seal.

Aquarium of the Pacific

Eel. Yum!

Aquarium of the Pacific

Garibaldi

Winner Winner Chicken Dinner

A fun new deck I built that hearkens back to a time when my Storm Seeker deck reigned supreme. Sudden Impact is the new Storm Seeker, and the Howling Mine returns to do its duty. This new version of my old favorite uses a relatively newer card named Ebony Owl Netsuke to bring added pain. Sculpting Steels and a Kami of the Crescent Moon act like more Howling Mines. There was a tournament deck a while back called Owling Mine that I remembered hearing about so I checked it out. I tried to replicate it the best I could while tweaking it for multiplayer, and while also using cards I had lying around. My decklist has about 1/3 of its cards in common with one of the Owling Mine builds. The rest is for my meta. What's crazy is that this deck can easily get up to everyone drawing 5-7 cards per turn so you're looking at a 12-14 point Sudden Impact during the draw step. The Ebony Owl and Incinerates should finish the job, and if not I have some other tricks up my sleeve. :)

Traffic School: Night 2

My final 4 hours. :(

Meet Sassafras

Meet Mishra

Traffic School: Night 1

It begins...

Watermelon Shooter

Having an excellent smoothie at Bagel Me!

New cards

:)

Torrent Deck

Generate a lot of creatures and finish with Torrent of Souls or Furystoke Giant.

My lunch

Club Sandwich special at Hot Off The Grill.

Thai Iced Tea with Boba

Picked up a Thai Iced Tea with Boba at a smoothie shop at The Village in Orange. It's good, but not as good or inexpensive as the one at Lee's Sandwiches.

Ultra Cute Persian Kitten

It's not $700 cute though.

Goatnapper Deck

I was able to get a one-sided wrath with this deck in one game, and in another I was able to deal over 60 points of damge but still managed to lose.

Singularity Deck

Tokens Deck

Bringers Deck

I finally put together a few decks that I had been working on for a while.

New deck...heh heh heh...

More fun food at 99 Ranch

At 99 Ranch again

New Tool

I picked up a MIDI controller today. I need to write some background score for my game concept for my Visual and Audio Design Fundamentals class so that gave me an excuse to pick up the one I've been eyeing for some time. It's a Novation Remote 25SL.

A MIDI controller has no sounds of its own. It just sends MIDI control information to a device like a sotware synth or a hardware synth. The most basic controllers usually have a few buttons, a pitch bend wheel, and a modulation wheel. The best things about this one is it has 64 assignable controls, two 144-character LCD screens, and an Automap mode. The multitude of controls won't really help much when playing piano sounds, but when you have a synth with a ton of tweekable controls like the ones in Propellerhead's Reason they really come in handy. The screens help by letting you know what the controls are assigned to. Without them you'd have to guess, and when you're controlling multiple synths it can be a problem. The Automap feature is the number one reason to get this controller. All other controllers have templates for the major synth plug-ins and user templates for manually setting the controls, but the user has to select the correct template or set up his own. With the Remote 25SL it automatically detects which plug-in it's controlling and automatically assigns all of the controls. The screens really help out in this regard.

Another plus is that it's bus powered or battery powered so it doesn't need a power adapter.

Fear the Reaper King

Reaper King, Mistmeadow Witch and some scarecrows/changelings = mega destruction.