Thursday: 8:59 (crusht)

That might not be a personal record for a Thursday, but it's hella fast, especially for a rebus puzzle, but I got the trick almost immediately. On a Thursday, when the grid is fairly basic, with no grid-spanning answers or at least a low word count (more white space), it's not hard to anticipate, but I don't think I noticed. Putting one right there in 1-Down helps too.

Listening to Phish live stream their concert in San Francisco. First set just ended. I could have gone to see it myself for $100, but I spent a lot going to GP Sacramento last weekend. Almost got to Day 2, but fell short in the last round (I felt lucky to even get that far, to be honest). I'd like to blame poor luck, but I think I just built the deck wrong. I had a Dragon: Arcades, the Strategist. Elder Dragon Legend? Easy color choices! Well, turns out Arcades is not too good. My Bant cards weren't awful, but my black was rather deep, and I should have thought more about it. More experience might have helped, but Arcades is Mythic, so I might have caught on to how it's not even close to Doran, and is embarrassing against a mere Giant Spider. Oh well. Sold some stuff, got paid.