SAT Testing

This week of SAT testing has gone well. 7-1 has worked quite well on their tests, with most students finishing well ahead of the allotted time for each test. The tests themselves are un-timed, meaning that students have as much time as they need to finish each test; the listed times are guidelines to help us plan breaks for everyone. Religion class has been on "pause" this week as the SAT tests fall squarely in the time for religion; we'll get back on track next week with Holy Week preparation for Easter.

Our Holy Week schedule is as follows:

Tuesday Evening: Prayer/PTO Meeting

Wednesday Morning: Washing of the Feet Morning Prayer

Thursday Morning: Live Stations of the Cross / Veneration of the Cross

Thursday: 1/2 day of school

Friday - Monday: Easter Break

Tuesday (April 10): Back in school (God's Own Making Section II)

May you all have a wonder-filled Holy Week and Easter Celebration!

Blessings & Peace,

Mr. Hugo De La Rosa III

Who Am I?

For a while, I was posting several quizzes I had found that I enjoyed. The quizzes were mostly funny / satirical /entertaining / time wasting fluff, but I think that part of the reason I may not have posted recently is that I was trying to only post about religius / spiritual topics . . . and that's only part of who I am.

A large part, granted, but only a part - not the whole. So I think I may expand the offerings on my blog. I'll probably still post lots of religous stuff - it's my line of work, I read a lot about it, I talk about it with others, and I'm constantly fascinated by the variety of religious experience that's out there.

But I also like many other things: family time, extended family time, spouse time, goofing off time, alone time, music, reading, role-playing, watching TV, watching movies, doing yard work, computers, software, collectable card games, cooking, eating, sleeping, etc. and etc. :-)

So my posts may be philosophically deep or refreshingly shallow; universally applicable or historically contingent and idiosyncratic; loved by most or ignored by most . . . but I think (I hope!) the freedom will push me to write more.

Having said that, if you'd like to find me on other parts of the web, here's where to look:

> My current D&D Campaign wiki
> My obligatory MySpace page
> My Campus Ministry school site

And that's about it - there's a few others, but these are my main ones. Let's see what happens now!

Blessings & Peace,
Hugo

Mono White Deck

I'm moving this post over from another blog of mine (of which I only had three posts) - feel free to disregard if you don't play Magic: The Gathering. :-)

My current personal favorite deck breaks down like this:

Creatures
1 Savannah Lions
2 Soul Warden
3 Soltari Foot Soldier
2 Lantern Kami
3 Mourning Thrull
2 Silver Knight
2 White Knight
1 Soltari Champion
1 Windborn Muse
1 Dawn Elemental
2 Serra Angel
1 Radiant, Archangel
1 Serra Avatar
1 Blazing Archon

Spells
1 Swords to Plowshares
2 Disenchant
1 Serra's Blessing
2 Contemplate
2 Faith's Fetters
4 Glorious Anthem
3 Congregate
1 Catastrophe

Artifacts
2 Angel's Feather
1 Loxodon Warhammer

Land
21 Plains

Sideboard
2 Drought
2 Karma
1 Light of Day
2 CoP: Blue
1 CoP: Green
1 RoP: Green
1 Conversion
1 Justice
2 RoP: Red
1 RoP: White
1 Sphere of Truth


The deck has several thursts: gaining life (congregate, soul warden, angel feather, contemplate, faith's fetters, mourning thrull, warhammer), fast creatures out early in the game, and some nice larger creatures for later on in the game. I've got a few minor ways to deal with nuisances (catastrophe, swords to plowshares and disenchant), and the sideboard is geared towards each color (with black and red getting more cards in the sideboard than the other three colors).

Any comments and/or suggestions are welcome!

Blessings & Peace,
Hugo