Work, sleep and Magic related Issues.

9th post, and my second "sleeping" tag... probably not good.

Anyway, last night I went into the Local card shop, to play some Magic the Gathering. Now, playing card games has always been one of my favorite things to do, and after having 2 years of not playing any really, I *really* miss it.

One of the main reasons I stopped was the having to spend vast amounts of money to play and have a chance of winning. So the first question asked to me when I mentioned playing Magic involved why that game since it's one of the most money hungry ones. The answer, Sealed Deck and Draft.

So last night was a Draft, £10, get 3 boosters, take a card, pass, etc until all the card are gone, then make your deck with what you've got! Quite a good way to get some playing done, without borrowing a deck I have to figure out, or spending lots of cash.

I went 2-1, which shows I'm still ok, but 1 of the wins was a buy(bye?) so I only won 1 match, each match however is best of three, and the one I lossed I still won a game, so out of 5 matches, I won 3, not a bad record.

The main problem is that I now finish work at 4:15, which ment even with working late at work (10 minutes! I know, not alot) that I got there at 5pm, and because of the first round by, I didn't get my first game till around 9pm, so 4 hours of little to do. Also, By the time everything had finished at half 10, I'd played 5 games in total. With 5 games played, I didn't get home till 11:15, and I had something to eat then totally failed to get much sleep.

Today i've been horribly tired, I grabbed a book this morning (American Gods) just incase a 4 hour lull happens again I've got something to occupy my time. And get told i've got a meeting at 10am, not told what it's about, i'm told who it's with, but i've never heard of them. In the meeting (2 hours worth of sitting around) I'm mostly bored, and get asked some awkward questions which need diagrams to answer...

I'm wondering if the weekend's 2 hour sleep is catching up with me, thursday morning is quite nice for it to have lasted this long. Work on the other hand is a bit of a bitch, Suzanne is starting to replace Dan in the "So, you two have worked on this" in regards to a bunch of jobs i've done alone, and it got a bit awkward in the meeting when the question "Do we need Suzanne in here? Does she have anything to do with these stats?" arised, and I don't have a clue of the answer.

Since Friday, she's bombarded me with reports to do, i'm trying to decide how this fits with my change to working under her.

1. She's just been loaded with alot of work, I'm needed to help. Result: I'm her lacky
2. She's always had this work, but now she doesn't have to do it, I can. Result: I'm her lacky
3. I'm trying to think of a result where i'm not a lacky.

Anyway, dispite the huge "Month End Report" disrupting jobs she's giving me, I'll have to see how it pans out. It does seem like with the IT team, anything I get is boring cross referencing, and has no interest to me whats so ever.

That's another reason I want to get back into card games, I feel like it's been ages since I engaged much thought into anything. Maybe I'd just being big headed, but I like a challenge and i'm not getting anything challenging...