I would have sold my trade stock the minute after the last Ockanickon Magic Tournament if I could have, but the guy I sell to had something called “sleep” he wanted to do when I called him at 11 PM yesterday.  So, today I packed my car with Magic cards and paraphernalia, drove to Moorestown, NJ and dropped off the rest of my once mighty collection.

Me: I want this out of my house.
Buyer: Ok, it’s going to take me a few hours to price this.  Do you want to wait?
Me: No, I just want this out of my house.
Buyer: So, just price it, cut you a check later?
Me: Yes, I just want this out of my house.

What remains of my collection is now tripartite:

  1. A deck built entirely out of 6″ x 9″ promotional cards from the 90s.
  2. My big box consisting of 3000 or so sleeved unique cards from between Urza’s Legacy and Zendikar.
  3. 1 Imperial Seal that has f-ing evaporated.

This I now have more off than Magic cards:

  • Star Trek: Collectible Card Game cards
  • Star Wars: Collectible Card Game cards

I’m not sure how to get rid of those.  Ebay, Craigslist, bonfire, or use them in some elaborate prank where I replace someone’s Vintage deck with my nigh unstoppable Soong-Type Android deck (it’s essentially the ST:CCG equivalent of Workshop).

An era of my leisure life is now closed.

Boss stops me while I walking around the building wearing a pair of bluetooth headphones like these:

My phat cans

Boss: Terry, did you ever see Episode 5?
Me: Empire Strikes Back?  The scientifically best movie of the series?  The one where story-telling is brought to a high art and the idea of not telling the audience everything builds a richness that compels us through as everything breaks down for the heroes.
Boss: The ones with Billy D Williams.
Me: As Lando Calrissian, former swashbuckler now turncoat who operates Cloud City, a Bespin gas mining operation.
Boss: And that guy who was with him.
Me: Lobot, chief administrator and computer-liason officer for Cloud City played by John Hollis.
Boss: You look like that guy.  So you’ve seen the movie?
Me: Once or twice.