Catching Up

I’m pretty sure you wouldn’t want to know what I’ve been doing these years, so I’ll just jump straight to the present. I arrived back in Portugal two months ago, It’s not a permanent return, at some point in the near future I will go to China again, this time for working, I already have an employment letter. What I do not have is a new Electronic Citizen card to replace 5 other old paper cards, I don’t have a Passport with enough time left, and I do not have a working Visa. Because I missed graduation day, I also didn’t had my diploma which was useful for the job formalities, but that I already took care of, gotta start somewhere.

What’s delaying me so much is that I’m not in my hometown of Lisbon, which is also the place where you take care of your burocracy. Right now, I have a temporary job, helping with the family business, which takes me most of my free time, sometimes 10 hours a day, 7 days a week. It’s not fun, but I’m needed where I am now. This point of my life is not an optimal situation but I should be able to handle it.

Meanwhile I discovered for the first time in 10 years I wasn’t qualified for Portuguese Nationals. How did that happen? After skipping Nats since 2007 I found it sad that the one time that I had a chance to attend I wasn’t holding an invite. After no other options available, I had to play Nats Qualifiers, managing to qualify (fist pump!!!), but you can read about that in another post. Point is, I’m qualified for Nats, I’ll try to playtest a little to fight for a Top 8 slot, even if I fail, being in contention until a couple of rounds to end won’t be bad. However I would like to know whether we’re drafting 2x Roe or ZZW + ROE. I can’t just say “meh whatever it is, I’ll just draft” since I need to read the cards before the tournament to prepare, but I don’t want to waste my little free time reading cards unnecessarily.

Thanks to my workload, nothing exciting is going on, but things will change in the future.