Big magic weekend

The fun got started Thursday evening, when I played some casual magic with tcgtrf.  We actually quit playing magic at a relatively sensible time, but then we got mired in conversation about politics and the state of the world for a couple of hours longer than we should have, and I didn't get to bed until after 3, but I still woke up at a relatively normal time.  Then Friday, I headed to Friday Night Magic, where I did moderately well in Standard -- 3-2, winning two prize packs plus a pretty good door prize -- but didn't get out of the store until nearly midnight.  I still had enough time to get a decent night's sleep, but unfortunately, I woke up at about 6 and gave up on getting any more sleep by about 7, so I was pretty sleep deprived.  I headed to the Gopher for the main pre-release event for the new magic set, where I did well in the tournament, 4th place out of 36.  Then I grabbed some food and came back for a second prerelease event, Two Headed Giant, where my partner Dave Abzug and I ran the table, finishing first in a field of 14.  So I had a lot of fun and got to open a lot of packs of the new set.  I didn't get very many of the chase rare cards, but I got a very cool door prize in the second event and a somewhat cool one in the first.  But again I didn't get out of the store until about midnight, and with the sleep debt I came in with, I was completely non-functional when I woke up this morning to go to EFRC.  Just not in shape to drive over, much less to spend several hours outside (even though the extreme heat seems to have broken today, it's still July in the midwest) and then drive home.

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