Most of this week has been taken up with preparing for Mrs B's trip to visit her family. She does so much around our place that when we started planning out the week for when she would be gone, I suddenly realized how much I was going to have to take on. So of course I "encouraged" her to do as much as she could ahead of time so I wouldn't have to, hahahahaa. Being Mr B to her Mrs B is fantastic.
The other thing I concentrated on was sleeving up the latest iteration of Magic the Gathering. This set was all about Marvel Superheroes and Villains.
Each deck consists of 100 cards, so that's a total of 400 cards. That's a lot of work. I've done this before with other sets (Warhammer 40K, Lord of the Rings, etc) and always had someone else to help me. I did one deck each evening and let me tell you, sitting in a hard backed chair putting little pieces of cardboard into little pieces of plastic was boring. Satisfying but boring. It was like doing laundry. It needs to be done and I do it every Sunday, but I do NOT look forward to it :-D
Now, I do get to put those little pieces of pretty cardboard into little pretty pieces of plastic. I could just use just black sleeves, but half the fun is getting a sleeve color to match the deck. I've got Green for the Dr Doom, Blue for Fantastic Four, Black for Wakanda Forever and Silver for the Avengers. The little touches, while not necessary, really move this from a chore to a FUN chore, hehehehe.
The second part of deck'ing is the case you put them in. I usually use clear cases so I can see the Commander, ie, the face card of the deck. However, for these specialty releases, I like to play the decks only against each other. I only play the Warhammer 40K decks against each other, the Lord of the Rings against each other and now, just the Marvel Heroes decks against each other. My problem is that I have a cupboard of over 50 commander decks. Pawing through 50 decks isn't fun and really ruins the pre-game vibe. So these nice green deck cases are easy to see and pick out for when I want a little Magic Marvel action.
On Wednesday, as chronicled by AAA (that stands for Awesome As Alex), Canada set itself on fire and then invaded the United States. The sky was filled with smoke. The picture above is one my coworker took at 10am on the jobsite we were working at. We worked for an hour or so, then went inside one of the buildings that had AC and just breathed clean air for a bit. We could taste it and feel it coating our throats. It was extremely unpleasant. Thankfully it cleared up by Thursday and it was blue skies then.
And now it is Friday evening and Mrs B has arrived safely at her destination. I had the day off since I had to take her to the airport early and I picked up some Mr Mac's Cheeseburger Deluxe . It might be summer, but when I go batch'ing it, Mr Macs is essential to my single's lifestyle. The other essential part of my single's lifestyle will be to live the next week exactly the same as I always do. Just by myself.
I have a feeling I will be talking to myself, out loud, a lot over the coming week. The tv will also be on most evenings to give me the sense that I'm not by myself, even though I know I will be.
Lest you think I will be a sniveling wretch, let me assure you that I won't be. I will enjoy this truly alone time, because I know it isn't permanent. It has a specific end date and so I will be soaking in the solitude like Superman soaking in the rays of the sun :-D
See you all on the flipside.
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