Stuff I Dig

Just a Bunch ’O Crap I think is Neato

LEGO

Collecting and playing with LEGO bricks, since the innocent age of five, when on my sister's birthday I received my first LEGO set, from there it’s been a love affair. And at 33 I’ve amassed a collection of LEGO bricks that fills a 30 gallon rubbermaid tub to the top with loose legot. Recently my wife and I sorted all of the LEGO bricks into colors, LEGO people and LEGO people accessories, filling over 30 1-gallon Ziplock bags, which we then transfered to twelve small rubbermaid tubs.

Personally I don’t consider LEGO bricks to be “toys” in the traditional sense. I find them a great way to flex creativity and imagination at any age. I suppose I’m just a big—very big—kid, at heart.

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Baseball Hats

Since I can remember I’ve been an enormous fan of The Baseball hat. Not baseball itself, but the style of hat. I’ve collected, destroyed and recollected hundreds of baseball caps over the last 33 years, and even today I continue to buy, wear and wear out hats to teams I could care less about. I Just love the hats.

So if you see me out and about, don’t ask me how the team du jour upon my head is doing, ’cause I have no idea.

Seriously…

Magic The Gathering

Having been introduced to this amazing card game in 1993, by my friend Evan and having a long and torrid history playing traditional RPG’s (mainly D&D and TMNT) I instantly fell in love. In those days we’d buy a ton of cards and place them all in our library, we’d seriously play with stacks of 200 cards in our libraries. Good lord! Those were some heady days man.

After moving to Arizona, I became actively involved in MtG and played it constantly with a group of 10 to 15 other people, I started judging tournaments and became a feared and revered player, garnering a catch phrase from my peers “9 out of 10 kids lose magic to James”.

Some things that became legend in my MtG circle;

• When I traded a single ICE AGE uncommon (Avalanche) for all five Moxes and a Time Vault. *
• When I took a random chunk of cards out of my commons/lands storage box and beat John Bowers in ten turns while he used my "Heavy Bruise" black/blue deck. **

* This is true, unfortunately the moxes and the time vault are from a promotional deck so the fronts have this gold border around the card, making them worth nothing, and also illegal in tournament play. They are however tons of fun in private “just for fun” games.

** This is 100% true, he was complaining that I always won because I had great cards to choose from and a great deck. So I gave him my best deck and pulled out a random chunk of about 75 cards from my all commons and lands storage and we played a game. I mostly wanted to prove the point that cards do not make you a better player, it’s what you do with the cards you have. As for winning so fast that was a fluke I got lucky.

Currently, I own over 4000 unique MtG cards with no more than four of of any given card.

Oddly enough, I don’t believe I have ever won a single game against Evan, maybe someday.

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Boobies

Seriously, Hooray for Boobies! ’nuff said.

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