D&D Children's' Books

D&D Children's' Books

Although I really liked the Choose Your Own Adventures books, it would be nice if there were some D&D books for kids again.

14 Fatal Resume Mistakes

It's a good idea to update your resume every once in a while. Here is a list of mistakes to avoid from www.salary.com.

14 Fatal Resume Mistakes

Hospital Compare

The U.S. government has put up a website that lets you check up on surveys from various hospitals close to you and compare their quality of care.

I checked up on Methodist, University, and Santa Rosa. And the results were a little surprising.

Also, all three seemed to do only about as well as the state and national average. I guess I expected more.

Medicare Hospital Compare Quality of Care

Tombstone Generator

How many times have you thought to yourself, "That needs to go on my tombstone. Or better yet, their tombstone."
Now your wish can come true.

Tombstone Generator

Scars of Mirrodin Pre-Release

Tonight is the Scars of Mirrodin pre-release!! A few places are starting at midnight.

I can't wait!!

Magic the Gathering In San Antonio, TX

I've started getting into playing Magic:The Gathering again. It's been a while (10+ years), but the kdis are getting of an age where they might like it. We've played, and they enjoyed it well enough, but I figured I'd try the tournaments, which is entirely new to me.

To that end, I had to find out where to play. The Wizards of the Coast website has a locater where you can find places to play and buy cards and participate in organized and/or DCI sanctioned events. Also, some places have casual or EDH (Elder Dragon Highlander) play on different nights. So, this post is an effort to make sense of it all, or at least make sense of what I learned.

Monday
7:00 pm - Dragon's Lair
Casual & EDH

Tuesday
Nothing I can find so far. But, I'm going to keep looking

Wednesday
6:00 pm - Gamelot
Casual & EDH

Thursday
6:00 pm - Cards & Crafts
Casual
7:00 pm - Heroes & Fantasies (Pat Booker)
Booster Draft

Friday
7:00 pm - Dragon's Lair
7:00 pm - Cards & Crafts
7:00 pm - Heroes & Fantasies (Pat Booker, Summit Pkwy, Bitters)
7:00 pm - Gamelot
Friday Night Magic
This is usually Standard constructed (bring your own), but some places do booster drafts.
Also, most places charge up to $5, but Gamelot has a free tournament that starts around 8pm.

Saturday
5:00 pm - Heroes & Fantasies (Summit Pkwy)
Constructed

Sunday
12:00 noon - Cards & Crafts
Booster draft

There is also qualifying events for the big magic tournaments that happen occasionally, as well as product release and pre-release events.

Generally, some places have pre-release events at midnight of the day of release. Others have events at noon of the release day (Saturday). Others have events Sunday. Some have both Saturday and Sunday, some have both midnight and noon events. In all cases, call first, that way you can get the information updated and straight from the source.

Plastic to oil fantastic, Japan | OurWorld 2.0

Plastic to oil fantastic, Japan OurWorld 2.0

Very cool article (and video) about a machine a man invented to turn plastic into oil. It happened years ago, but great news in terms of recycling.

Here is the article.

Here is the video.