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[–] PlanetOfOrd@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Work.

I'm working about 2-3 jobs these days, and none of them play to my strengths. You'd think I'd be able to make ends meet by working 60+ hours and living with roommates.

I'm also working on a side-project startup so I won't have to work everyday and I can actually--you know--have a life...and friends.

[–] Hermit_Lailoken@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

I work over the weekend.

[–] CrystalJagger@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago

Work, work and work. Sadly weekends are my busiest days

[–] Retro_unlimited@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

My plans fell through.

I planned to buy a large item from far away (6 hours round trip).

I had a trailer hitch going to be delivered yesterday.

In preparation I went to town, bought a trailer and went to the DMV and registered it and have temp license plate. (Trailer is at store with “sold” sign).

I took apart my car (I removed the tail lights, bumper cover, bumper, and wired up the trailer wires) but then UPS “the street number is incorrect” and they didn’t deliver.

Now I’m stranded here with a car that’s taken apart, with no hitch and it’s too late for me to get the item I really wanted with the trailer this weekend as they close in a few hours and tomorrow they are closed sundays, and I have visitors coming Monday.

I guess I can stay home and clean the house…

[–] midsommar_blomma@lemm.ee 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

My birthday is tomorrow :-) So, planning to stuff my face with cake.

[–] CheeseToastie@lazysoci.al 2 points 1 day ago

Happy birthday!!! How's your day going?

Stay inside, not want to risk getting taken by ICE for "existing", probably continue my dedicated Minecraft server I been working on, modpack is techopolis right now. Or maybe some more Factorio. Got to keep the brain busy to distract my self from the facism that is happening, you know?

[–] morgunkorn@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (3 children)

I'm playing in a Magic the Gathering tournament on Saturday with 32 players, the biggest i've ever been in

EDIT: Tournament results

After 5 rounds of Swiss with 27 players (a few cancelled last minute), I finished with 3 victories and 2 defeats, landing on place 9, which was unfortunately 1 too far to make it to the Top 8 single-elimination tournament. I went home with 2 Krark-Clan Shamans, a Bloomborrow booster, a pack of assorted tokens and a voucher from a partner to get proxies printed.

It was really fun! I will play the same deck in 2 weeks again at my local game store and in another tournament.

[–] psyvibe@lemm.ee 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Nice! What are the prizes?

[–] morgunkorn@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Pauper staples for the top 8: DCI Promo Counterspells, Dust to Dusts (the Dark), Mental Notes (Judgement), Snuff Out (Mercadian Masques), Krark Clan Shamans (Mirrodin), Lotus Petals (Promo 30th Anniversary), Boosters, and goodies like sleeves, deckboxes, playmats, sets of tokens, vouchers to print full proxy decks

(in German) https://mtg-ortenau.de/mtg-ortenau-pauperparty-2/

[–] psyvibe@lemm.ee 2 points 2 days ago

That seems like a good prize pool for a 20eur entry! Good luck

[–] rayquetzalcoatl@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Best of luck! I'm pretty new to MtG but that sounds fun - what kind of deck are you running?

[–] morgunkorn@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Thank you! This is a Pauper tournament, so all cards in my deck are commons from throughout magic history. I play black-red-green called Jund Wildfire.

It tries to win through attacking with creatures from MH3 Writhing Chrysalis, Nyxborn Hydra, Refurbished Familiar, with spells to draw a lot of cards and get more lands into play.

And you, what decks and formats do you play?

[–] rayquetzalcoatl@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Oh I've heard of Pauper! That deck looks great, Nyxborn Hydra definitely seems scary 👀

I only play EDH at the moment, but I'm interested in trying other formats for sure. I play a white/blue precon called First Flight which I've slightly upgraded and tweaked to focus more on life gain, as well as a red/blue deck I've put together with Magnus The Red as commander, focusing on token creatures and dealing damage to all players whenever I cast spells! I'm pretty new to the game 😅

[–] morgunkorn@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 days ago

White-Blue flyers is sweet, I have fond memories of my Sephara, Sky's Blade standard deck. EDH is cool because you can really tweak slowly your decks. Other formats usually have their own fixed list and you need to invest a lot to make a complete deck. At least in Pauper the individual cards are pretty cheap, you can get a complete deck for the price of a single chase-mythic

[–] some_dude@lemm.ee 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Going to visit Ghent with a friend so she can charge her company for the hotel and restaurants

[–] Servais@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 3 days ago

Enjoy, Ghent is nice!

[–] Chef@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Traveled to Washington DC to attend protests against this fascist bullshit we got going on.

Open invitation if anyone wants to come.

[–] SteelCoffee@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Thank you for getting out there and making your voice heard!

[–] Katt@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Boardgames tonight at my sister's house. Mom's visiting my house tomorrow evening to see our newly finished kitchen. We're having Indian food. Excellent stuff happening.

[–] morgunkorn@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 3 days ago

Sounds fun, what boardgames do you like to play?

[–] psyvibe@lemm.ee 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Setting up a Pi Hole on my home network. I’ve never done it before so I have no idea if it will take long. Probably take the pug on a hike too. Oh, and playing monster hunter wilds.

[–] switchboard@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Let me know how it goes, I have been thinking about it on and off for years. Since Chrome stopped ad blockers, I switched to Firefox but it is just missing a few things that I enjoyed about chrome.

Also, how much did it cost?

[–] psyvibe@lemm.ee 1 points 16 hours ago

I got it for free. (Last company I worked for went bankrupt). I think they were $200 when new? Well I got the case and fan installed….i need a micro hdmi to hdmi cable for display. I was unsuccessful in getting one. I don’t use Amazon anymore. Best Buy has it, cool. Drive over there, they don’t have it. They say they have it, but they can’t find it. Whatever they were gonna overcharge me anyways. Ended up ordering one online from B&H. So still waiting. Didn’t set up pi hole. lol sorry for the rant.

[–] Xed@lemm.ee 3 points 2 days ago

I got sick and it’s also been raining near me. I’ll just be watching movies and doodling

[–] furioussunshine@lemm.ee 3 points 2 days ago

Driving an hour to get some free compost and worms for my garden!

[–] XTL@sopuli.xyz 5 points 3 days ago

Get some rest.

[–] Plantfoodclock@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Unfortunately more work I need to catch up on for my research MA program. But it's just messing with some R code for analyses, which is much more preferable than doing any writing. Might bike to a cafe and work there for a change of scenery.

[–] compostgoblin@slrpnk.net 3 points 2 days ago

Play some Traveller with friends tomorrow, tidy around the apartment so it looks nice when my wife gets back from her trip, probably take my dog for a walk or two if the weather allows. If I’m feeling inspired, I want to print some zines on local foraging and go around putting them in Little Free Libraries. Should be pretty chill, and I’m not mad about that!

[–] Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 4 points 3 days ago

Given the shitty weather forecasts i hope to be able to ride my road bicicle on sunday. Some 80km would be great, but i guess i will be luclky to go for 50km. As for saturday, maybe swimming pool and lots of stuff to fix at home.