Baby Cheeks

Levi, Noelle, and Leah were sitting on the couch. Levi puffed out his cheeks and asked if they were bigger than his baby sister's. She said, yes, but only when you puff them out. He asked why they weren't bigger all the time. She said babies have chubby cheeks because they just sit around and drink milk all day. So, he said I'm gonna sit here all day. After a few minutes he asked, are they bigger yet? Mama said no, so he gave up and ran off.

Afternoon

Levi took this with his toy camera. He's an artist I tell you.

Going Swimming

The Ladder

My new goal is to get good at Starcraft II. The way you measure this is by what league you're in. There are 5 leagues each holding about 20% of the player pool, and there are special elite leagues at the very top. When you start out you play in five "placement matches" vs. online opponents to determine your initial league placement. After going 0-5, here's my placement:



Bronze League. I made a chart of the leagues (drawn to scale) to demonstrate where I stand:



Congratulations! You are terrible.

Only way to go from here is up.

Like Father Like Son

Leah and the kids have been visiting family in Georgia this week (while I work my life away). Here's a report from Granny:

Granny: "Hey, so I hear you're gonna be 4 on your birthday.  Aren't you excited?"
Levi: "Naw, birthdays aren't THAT much fun."
Pepaw: "You could go somewhere special."
Granny: "You could stay home and invite your friends over."
Levi: "Well, birthdays aren't that much fun."
Granny: "How 'bout if you play Mario all day long on your birthday?"
Levi: "WHAT did you say, Granny?"
Granny: "How 'bout if you play Mario all day long on your birthday, with your Daddy?"
Levi: "Yeah, that DOES sound like fun; I'll wear a party hat!"

It's a secret to everybody

Don't tell the people who read my Magic blog, but I'm a little worried about it. It's a long story, but the main reason I enjoy playing games is to try to be really good at them, and I think I've realized for me to get better at Magic I'm going to have to spend a lot of money on the game, and I don't want to. Even if I do there are other problems like high variance and lack of creativity at the competitive level.

Compare to something like, say, Starcraft. $60 and you're done. Another dollar won't help. It's pure. Also there is the ladder to climb. At any give point you have basically a numerical value of your skill in the form of your league and rank. Magic is much more nebulous.

I have a desire to compete, and because of my Magic site I really tried to make it Magic, but it just doesn't seem to be working out. So I'm going to play some Starcraft. What about my site!? If it dies, it dies. But I think that's jumping to conclusions.

If I give up on my Magic blog, I'll be disappointed, but I certainly won't do it if I don't enjoy it, and I can't really control that. Even if the site dies and disappears from the internet it won't be all for naught because through it this site was born.

I'm thinking this site will be much harder to kill because I can write about anything, much to my readers' dismay I'm sure.