Fluff

My parents had to put down Fluff. He started getting sick a few weeks ago and they took him to the vet. They had to change his diet and he was doing OK for a few weeks. Then he got sick again and he was in pretty bad shape. He wasn't eating and had to be rushed to the emergency animal hospital. He was on an IV and stayed there for a few days. It was discovered he was diabetic and would have to be given needles. He came home for a few days, recovered for a day or two and then steadily got worse the next few days. They brought him to the vet and they put him down. It was for the best. My mom and dad were pretty upset but mom is starting to sound normal after the last few weeks.

Chris's friend bought a bunch of Magic cards so I went to Moms' two Saturdays ago while Holly was sick. Dropped Jeremy off and Chris and I went to draft at his friend's house. It was fun drafting in person, even though I only got to play against Chris. I thought I had the stronger deck but Chris won in three games (he could've even won in 2 games, he missed the Undeath of a creature). The draft took a long time but was fun. Went back to Mom's for dinner and came back home.

We both started playing online. I played three drafts, one with Chris. We both lost the first round and then we went to play another and I didn't join in time and he played by himself. I found that they added a new draft format, Swiss where you win one pack every draft you play. I drafted again and won 2 out of 3 rounds. I could've won the first and put a creature out with flash during his 'declare attackers' but I couldn't block. I had some decent cards in hand and think I could've won. The last round the guy had a really tech deck but he lost because of his timer. I would've lost eventually and am glad I didn't. The next draft was RRR and I didn't draft such a great deck. I won the first games of the first two rounds but couldn't get another win. I did win the last round and ended up with a pack. The RRR format doesn't really work at all.

We took Jeremy to "Walking with the Dinosaurs" at the Arena. It was a really fun and interesting show and all of us enjoyed it. We left early because it was race weekend but made good time down there. We stopped at Dick's before the show and I bought Jeremy a hockey stick. I still have to cut it down for him. After the show we went to the mall for lunch. They put a new cigar store in and I was going to buy a hookah but decided against it. Sunday we just hung out all day.

We started the new session at Big Wheel. We lost our first game and won our game last night. I had a good game with 2 goals and at least one assist. One of the kids I don't like got hit in the face with a puck. We tied it up late and went to a shootout. I hate shooting but I did. Fatboy wanted to shoot but the team dismissed him. I didn't open my mouth either but was nominated. I pretty much figure I'd go 5 hole and did. He got a good piece of it but it barely got past him and like trickled past the line. It was something you'd see in a movie in slow motion. They moved Tuesday night hockey to the Bethleham. It's a pain in the ass of a drive and I got all flustered when I went there the first time. I pulled into a gas station to turn around but couldn't really find any place to maneuver. I had to back up near the garbage dumpster and even then there was barely enough room. Then I missed a turn and made a quick turn into a mini mall, on the wrong side. I finally found the rink. It's an awesome rink, full sized hockey with sport court. Only 8 guys showed up to play and we only wound up playing half court zone posts. I'd like to play in that league in the future, maybe next session. The kid was telling me that they had at least 15 teams playign there, some in professional A roller hockey.

We got a fire pit a few weeks ago and roasted marshmellows. It was fun and something different to do on the nice nights.

I started playing the auction house on Warcraft. I've made pretty good gold doing it the last 10 days and have enough to buy my epic flying. Going to wait a few days until I have enough so that if anything really good comes on the AH, I can still buy it to turn a profit. Last weekend I was bored so I leveled up my cooking. I've gotten it to 375 and have the mats to get it past that. I got my exalted rep with Son's of Hodir and Revered with Oracles so I have nothing much to do on there during the day except quests. Started doing the daily fishing and daily cooking and might grind rep with the other factions if there's any dailies that aren't too bad.