THE SIMPSONS NEWS

So I started work on a new crew last week.  I was helping out on another crew for about a week and a half.  The crew I’m on now is my next “official” crew.  Problem is, I think I should have taken it a little easier when helping out on the last crew because I’m really feeling burned out right now.  It doesn’t help that the art on the act we are starting on is really rough.  This means we pretty much have to  re-draw the whole act.  Our job is basically to “plus” the board. In other words, we add and finesse the acting, as well as make any big corrections the need to be done in order to make the story reel play well and be clear.  When we get a board that is so rough that we can’t use any of the original drawings, it slows us down to a crawl because it means, not only do we need to work on any revisions and add the extra drawing to scenes that need it, but we also need to go and re-draw the scenes that don’t need anything done to them as well.  We still have three more acts to get to after where done with the one we’re working on.  There is only three of us on the crew, we only get three weeks and we are NOT allowed overtime. I hope we don’t get too bogged down on this act so that we can get to the others. More importunately, I hope I don’t go into complete burn out so that I’m not completely useless.

FAMILY

We had to wait till this weekend to get the family together for my dad’s birthday.  We had a good time.  The kids had an especially good time.  Munchkin was having so much fun that when it was time to go, (at 10:00 pm) she didn’t want to leave.  She was really upset and didn’t even fall asleep on the way home.

We saw little Paulo and he’s sooo big now.  He likes to bounce so Deborah and Juan bought him a jumper.  He loves it.  It’s very funny to see him bouncing. We all had a good time.

BOARDGAMES

Things got a bit more interesting in Andy’s life, so he can’t come over to play with me on Fridays.  This kinda leaves me without a game night, which is really depressing.  Seeing that I had no one to play with anymore, Alesha decided to offer to play with me last Friday. We actually had a fantastic time.

We first played Lost Cities, mainly because I think it’s one of Alesha’s favorite games to play against me.  She wins every game we play. Having lost yet another game of Lost Cities against her, she let me choose the next game. I chose to play Magic: The Gathering. I had bought a Duel Deck box a while back. It contained two decks that where constructed to be played against one another.  The theme of the Decks where Divine versus Demonic.  Alesha took the Divine deck, which consisted of Angels, Paladins, clerics and a bunch of healing magic. This left me with the Demonic deck which consisted of demons, imps, fallen angels, and lots of life sucking, mean things.  I lost all three games we played.

The first game we played, I let Alesha win.  I got a ton a really good cards and I had spells in my hand that I could have activated in such a way that they would have given me an instant win. I chose NOT to play them.  I wanted Alesha to have a good time.  I also had an advantage since I know how to play the game while she was still trying to get used to it.  I wanted her to read her cards, get acquainted with them, remember the rules and generally enjoy the way the game played. In the end, she managed to win the first game while a had a hand of “killer” cards that would have won me the game easily.  In fact, I was so confident that my deck was better than her’s that I offered to switch decks with her after the game was over.  She refused.  She wanted to stick with her deck.

Turns out the first game we had played had been a lucky draw on my part. By the time the next game started not only was Alesha familiar with her deck and how it worked, but I had gotten a very crummy draw.  I just couldn’t get the cards I needed while Alesha just kept getting some really good cards.  Alesha suddenly began learning how to combine her cards to get their full effects. I had been planning to win that game.  I could barely keep my life points up.  The game was over fairly quick. Alesha had learned her deck fairly well by the time that game ended.  I was irked and wanted a rematch.  I had just gotten a bad draw that game.  I wanted to at least win one game.  So we played one more time.

I thought I had it in the bag the third game. I had gotten a pretty darn good draw.  It started off really good for me and I was playing the game to the best of my ability, no more letting her win. I had some mean little imps that where doing damage to her every turn. Then Alesha cast some nasty spells on my creatures and my game went down the tubes. I managed to stop her from summoning a powerful Angel but it didn’t do me much good. Specially since the rest of my guys had been enchanted by Alesha and she kept getting life back when she cast spells.  Meanwhile she smacked me upside the head with her Paladin who rode down the field  on a fancy white horse in armor.  She was playing Magic like she’d been doing it for years. Then she drew her best card out of her deck and the game was pretty much over.  With two points left, I also drew “my best card” which wasn’t really all that great because (since it was horrible demon) it would hurt me for 7 points of damage if I didn’t sacrifice a creature to it every turn.  I didn’t have anyone to sacrifice so I was going to lose no matter what.

I think Alesha enjoyed trouncing me way too much.   I want a rematch, I KNOW I can win at least ONE game.

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