Jamie Wakefield

I haven't looked at anything Magic related for a while, but feeling the need to game. Thought I would explore what's going on today and read a few articles and watch a few episodes of "The Magic Show" by Evan Erwin. Then I happened to see a little link on the other side of the screen that said GP: Krakow top eight. Awesome! They'll have the latest decks. Llorwyn was supposed to be killer for Green, lets see how its doing! Huh. 7 base Blue decks, 1 Green/Red deck. Think I'll go do my Spanish homework...

Wendy has updated her blog with some fantastic pictures and dialogue. You can even see the horrible haircut I mentioned in one of my earlier posts. It still hasn't grown out. Check it out here. Make sure to look at the pictures of a place I refer to as "The Lesbian Bar." Fresco's like that and pictures like the one in "The Naked Wendy Bar" are one of the many reasons I love it here. These aren't run down seedy joints filled with men in raincoats and shifty, beady eyes. No, these are places where people go to have a drink and relax just like any other bar in Madrid. The fact that there are two naked women on a bed isn't considered porn like it would be in America. It's just Art and people don't care. Nudity isn't the huge stress inducing (Remember Janet Jackson at the Superbowl ? Holy overblown!) deal like it is in the states. It's a nude woman. So? I like that. Wait, check that. I love that!

Fans of MMA now have the same game as other Fantasy Sports Leagues. The UFC Fantasy League allows you to use a web based interface to pick who will win in upcoming events, how they win and in what round. http://fantasy.ufc.com/ This past weekend I received 121 points for my picks. This gives me a ranking of 109 out of 14,612 participants. Pretty happy with that.

I hate the fact that Lobbyists pretty much own America these days. There is a great deal of change that needs to happen in America that never will because of the power of the nation's richest industries. Today, I hate the corn lobby. For one thing, we don't use sugar in America anymore, we use " High Fructose Corn Syrup " and tax the shit out of cane sugar. Do you know how bad for you High Fructose Corn Syrup is? And its in EVERYTHING. It is in the soda you drink, your O reos , your pop tarts and your cereal. It is in anything that should contain "Sugar." Its bad for you and the only reason Americans have to eat it is because of the powerful corn lobby. "Because of a system of price supports and sugar quotas imposed since May 1982, importing sugar into the United States is prohibitively expensive. High-fructose corn syrup, derived from corn, is more economical since the American price of sugar is artificially far higher than the global price of sugar a...

Michael Bisping vs Rashad Evans Both fighters have fifteen wins and no losses coming into this fight. The odds makers are giving Rashad the nod by a wide margin. I don't blame them. While not being a particularly entertaining fighter, Rashad always finds a way to win. My former coach, Tom Murphy, from Rail City MMA who fought Rashad on the Ultimate Fighter says that Rashad is a great tactician . He always comes into the ring with a plan unique for each opponent. Bispings strength is his striking and his avoidance. He's tough to submit or ground and pound. A negative for Bisping is his size. He is a small light heavyweight. He could easily diet down to 185. Rashad on the other had used to be a heavyweight and dropped a weight class. Rashad's wrestling is far superior to Bispings . He also has a rock hard chin. I've seen him take blows to the head that would kill a lesser man and he didn't even stagger. I've never seen Rashad rocked. On the other hand...

Joshie sends me an email asking that and I decided I would post the answer here as well. I've been meaning to finish my Spanish school dialogue but it needs more work. I wrote 4 pages yesterday but it just doesn't have the funny. I think tomorrow I'll do a UFC predictions for this weekend, and then the next day try and finish the Spanish diaries. What have I been up to? I do Spanish 4 hours a day, 5 days a week. Homework takes about an hour. Then I do flashcards for an hour if I can summon the willpower. I'm in a great new school that I'll tell you about later. Will be there until I come home for Christmas. Wendy has a new project that keeps her busy all day and on a tight schedule. In the early evening we run - three times a week. A few times a week Wendy makes us a gourmet meal (she is a fantastic cook) or we fend for ourselves. After that we watch television or read or talk about how much we hate American politics and discuss things we've read online or...

Life with Wendy is never boring. This weekend we took the train (I now hate every single person that works in Atocha train station) to Segovia and I was blown away by the town. The cathedral that took over 150 years to build, the walls of the city, the parks and pathways, the castle and the Knight Templar's church that once held a piece of the true cross. My voice recorder had thirty-seven notes waiting to be transcribed before we even left, and now it's stuffed with ninety-one. So much to write about concerning that town. I'm now determined to take my folks there. My mom would weep at the cathedral. Today I started classes at a new school. Last Wednesday was my last class at International House, and then Mario "Superman" Washington took me, Wendy, Daniel and Amelie out to dinner. Tonight, Collette is in town and we're going out to dinner at a restaurant that has beds instead of tables. So much to write about, all while trying to learn irregular stem changin...