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Played my first game of Twilight Imperium today. Three players, adjusted only slightly to account for not being able to keep secrets from myself. I played the human Federation of Sol, the Borg Lizix Mindnet, and the lizard-like Yssaril Tribes.

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I've been checking the arrivals at Sydney Airport, and after three weeks in Germany, my mother has officially landed back in Sydney.

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I love that I can see this information online. Thank you, technology.

- There's a guy living near me who owns a wolf; I've seen them out walking occasionally. This wolf is the most beautiful animal I've ever seen. It's huge, and I mean massive, and it's utterly pure white except for a streak of gold down its back. It's an absolutely stunning animal. So much so, I need to mention it in a blog post. :)

- I'm just reading stories online about people being smuggled across borders, and it makes me remember my father's stories of leaving East Germany. He was still a child and his mother - my grandmother - got in friendly with the border guards. "Oh, the kids are just going to visit relatives. They'll be back." And they always were, so that's how they made the trip back and forth across the border: getting the guards to trust them. And one day they just didn't come back.

The only other thing my grandmother managed to smuggle out of the country with them was her sewing machine, because she wasn't leaving without her sewing machine! I don't know how she managed that, but this is the same woman who stole her teacher's cane by sticking it down the front of her dress, so who knows how creative she got with the sewing machine.

- LANDO CALRISSIAN IS GOING TO BE ON GLEE! Or at least the actor will be. Not as awesome as the time they had Chewbacca on the show, but still pretty awesome.

- Fascinating history: The Medieval Guide to Sexual Sin.
Only in darkness, fully clothed, in the missionary position, without "lewd kissing" and ideally without taking pleasure from the act.

- This is my current desktop: ( Engage )

Happy New Year everyone!

Goodbye 2013. It's been interesting.

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Can't wait to meet you, 2014.

I forgot to do one of these posts last episode, but oh well. Have one for this episode...

Glee, episode 5x05: The End of Twerk

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Funny, now that Glee isn't in sync with the American school timetable, it's accidentally in sync with the Australian one. A lot of schools have their Formals (Proms) in October, with exams and the end of the school year coming up in December.

Glee, episode 5x02: Tina In The Sky With Diamonds

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I now have Pandemic. Finally. I got the new (2013) version, which is slightly different to the original.

Played my first game Wednesday night (in two hours) and just managed to win, as in, I found the fourth cure just before having to draw the last card off the player deck. *phew* Dear self, you know, you are allowed to leave yourself some time. What's with all these nick-of-time saves?

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I also decided to try out my brother's game, Citadels, which is a semi-fantasy card game.

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To buy my games, I usually go to Eclipse (Westfield, Parramatta), and there's The Games Cube (Level 2, 79 Phillip St, Parramatta) that I haven't been to yet but want to check out. The one exception was Carcassonne, which I bought at Supanova, from Battlecraft Games and their shop is in Epping.

These are the board games I've been playing while I had no computer:

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Text version:
- Carcassonne
- Citadels
- Talisman: The Dungeon Expansion

I have entries to write on all of them, but I'm going to start with The Dungeon because it's just an expansion of the game I've written about previously.

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Last episode and not a cliffhanger in sight. Just stories to be further delved into next season. As it should be.

Glee season 4, episode 22, All Or Nothing

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