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jay p blog 07/19/24
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JP Porcaro, librarian & library worker since December 1996.
I updated the list I keep of all the driving-distance-to-me North / Northern New Jersey stores that hold Magic the Gathering constructed weekly tournaments, or Pokemon weekly tournaments. I might add One Piece to the list at some point since my son Andrew plays it now. I leave off Magic non-constructed and Commander/edh since every single store holds those tournaments (aka those are easy to find.)
oh boy, the internet is funny some times
My Magic the Gathering card decks that myself and my son play at Manifest Comics in Bayonne NJ. https://archidekt.com/search/decks?owner=jpporcaro
I also play on MTGO, but those are all just meta decks (“netdecks”).
I think Senator Fetterman is a legitimately good dude IRL.
I canceled my scheduled posts for 07/10-07/12/24 because they were boring and self-serving. Everyone thinks they are the main character and not an NPC – realizing you are an NPC is a growth step.
Probably the most interesting part, though, was I explained how I ended up as “jp,” with a portion of that story being that I didn’t own johnporcaro.com – but I was able to snag that url the day I typed those (now canceled) posts. Now johnporcaro.com & jpporcaro.com redirect here.
That is an NPC dialog from a Pokemon city on Gameboy Color if there ever was one: “I used to be know as John, then I was JP, then John again, and now I am JP” and I am just holding a Magikarp and you never figure out why I am there and what the point of that dialog was. (I guess that only makes sense if you’ve ever played pokemon).
good times at the barber shop two weeks ago but we couldn’t convince him to keep the mullet…
I made Mythic in ranked best-of-3 standard on Magic Arena in April, and I made Ultra League in Pokemon TCG ranked last month.
cooking with the boys