All is well.

Just thought I’d post that quick note for anyone wondering, as I’ve not much more to say at the moment… other than I spend way too much on Magic: the Gathering. >.>

March 27, 2009 · Filed Under Uncatagorized

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Number One Canadian Fan

The signed review.

Originally uploaded by The Lazy Canadian

It truly is an honour, I was named the Number One Canadian Fan of review blog The Impulsive Buy, by the main writer, Marvo. Tres awesome.

I asked Marvo via Twitter (@theimpulsivebuy) to send me an autographed copy of my favourite review, because I hadn’t had any luck winning any TIB contests, and wanted something TIBesque.  If you can’t read it, he wrote the following:

“NobleArc, I’m officially naming you TIB’s Number One Canadian Fan, although with that honor [sic] you have the burden of fighting any fellow Canadian who wants that title from you. So be on your toes. Thank you very much for reading TIB. Marvo.”

March 6, 2009 · Filed Under Announcements, Journal

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All That Glitters…

The sun has once again decied to shine upon the Sunshine Coast, rather than hide behind a shield of clouds, rain, sleet, hail, and snow.  The last few days it has been absolutely beautiful and sunny, and it’s reminding me why I love living here so much–the spring and/or summer are fantasticly beautiful.  The winters might be harsh, but heck, who cares when I get this beautiful weather half the year.

Anyway, I’m writing this post because lately life has again been pretty damn good, and I want to have a record of these awesome times!  Today I got myself a haircut (as my last was… sometime around September 2008?) and I no longer feel as though someone has poured a bucket of hair over my head, and that it somehow just… stayed there.  But the haircutting is just one of the final steps for Cleanfest 2009–whereby I clean myself up through shaving, haircut, new clothes etc… and I also clean my room.  Currently it’s just fandabbybabulous, and pretty clean all around.  The few spots with dirt/dust are under the table I’ve got my 360, PS3, and lappy on, as it’s hard to get under there with a vaccum, let alone any other form of cleaning.

I’m also still into Magic, just as I was when I last posted, and I’m currently debating the purchase of a booster box o’ Mirrodin, as I never gave the set a chance (and now, upon looking back at some of the terribly broken cards, wish I had) because it was the first set to leave Dominaria, something I wasn’t ready to do in 2003, as I had just left Powell River and moved to Sechelt.  I wasn’t about to make any other large changes in my life, even if it was just the setting of a game I play.  Plus at least Mirrodin is tied to Dominaria, in that it was created by Karn–a former denizen of Dominaria–who is a silver golem/living embodiment of Urza’s Legacy, and is thus now a sensient being, and a Planeswalker with the memories of Glacian, Xantcha, and Urza…anyway, that’ll make no sense to anyone who doesn’t pride themselves on their Magic: the Gathering lore. ;)

… where was I?

Oh, yes, I like Magic still, and I’ve even got a way to play it twice a month, guaranteed*!  The local hobby shop, The Lion’s Den, is now running a biweekly Friday Night Magic… knockoff.  It’s not officially a Friday Night Magic tournament or anything, it’s just a time when everyone who plays Magic–and knows of the event–on the Sunshine Coast can get together, and have several large games for a few hours.

In music news, as of late I’ve been listening to a lot of Belle and Sebastian, and Apoptygma Berzerk–they’re bands that don’t really mix at all, but I’m listening to tonnes of them none-the-less.  There was a brief period between Beatlemania 2009 and this new fusion of lyrical subtlety and booming beats, where all I would listen to was Neil Diamond again.  Right now the predominant music is either APB or B&S, but with splashes of Beatles and Neil Diamond every once and a while.  Especially Diamond’s “Lament in D Minor (Dance of the Sabres)“.

In the realm of novels, I’ve recently been able to track down a book I was looking for for quite some time–”Star Trek Deep Space Nine #27: A Stitch in Time” by Andrew J. Robinson.  The novel was released in the year 2000–I just noticed that if it had been released in like.. 1997, would I say “the year 1997″? No.  I’d say 1997. So why the “the year” prefix to 2000?  It just sounds silly saying something came out in 2000–but is now out of print, and for some reason is up on Amazon and eBay for $30 at the least, and $140 at the most… it’s bizarre.  I wanted to read it just because it revolves around Garak, a Cardassian and former spy for the Obsidian Order, who resides on Deep Space Nine after it’s taken over by Starfleet–anyway, it looked like a good book, but was obscenely priced online, so I tracked down a copy at the local bookstore for $4.97.  That’s much better. :)

I fear this post has outgrown its… uh.. intended length, and I’m clealry stretching my vocabulary so far I’m running out of ways to describe even the most mundane of concepts.  Or maybe I’m not.  Either way, all things must end eventually, and it’s time for this post to end… right now.

March 5, 2009 · Filed Under Journal, Magic, Projects

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