I'm pulling on my driveway. We all know what that means. It's time for their drive to work.

Okay, so today is my origin story. I often, when I talk about getting my job at Wizards, usually the short version is I was up at Wizards because I was freelancing.

I said to Mike Davis, who was the head of R&D at the time, I'd be willing to move up here,

and he said, when can you start?

That's the story I tell.

And all that is true, but there's a lot more to it.

So today I thought I would sort of walk through the elongated version of how I got to work at Wizards in my early

day at Wizards, because it's a lot more complicated than that. I think sometimes when you

want to make a pithy story, you know, you tell the abbreviated version, but I thought today I

would tell the non-abreviated version. Okay, so this is a little context before we get to that scene with

Mike Davis. So basically what happened was magic comes out in, I don't know, July, July, August

of 1993. It was that, I guess August is when it first came out to be purchased at GemCon.

So let's say August in 1993.

Anyway, I was working at a game store part-time.

My writing was in a rough spot, and I was just going stir-crazy.

So I started working at The Gamekeeper, it was the name, which was later by them.

So anyway, the short version of the early part of this, since we're really getting to me getting hired, is I hear, people come into the game store and ask about the game.

We don't have the game. I'd never heard of the game. I then managed to see it at Comic-Con. There's nothing for sale at Comic-Con, but I find someone who owns a deck, and I'm

able to look at the magic cards for the first time.

And then, not too many weeks later, there's a convention in Los Angeles, a game convention.

I keep saying OrkCon, but there's like three different ones.

It was one of those.

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