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It has been a while since I’ve posted, so I’m just going to cover all the boards games I’ve played here.  a few Thursdays ago I played a decent game of Lords of Vegas, and it was  fun time.  I ran up the price on Chris a number of times and he blocked me out a few times.  We both ended up losing pretty badly because of that, but it was fun.

I also got to play some Mage Knight.  This time it was actually with Steph.  She took all the advice I gave her, and she ran things pretty smoothly after that.  I took one shortcut in the game, I’ll admit so that I could get out of someone’s way that wanted to go to the village.  It would have been better for me to stay, but I moved out into a fight that technically couldn’t have happened the way it did.

We got to do a magic draft of the remaining Battle for Zendikar.  I had a pretty decent ally deck, but it wasn’t quite reliable enough to do really well.  The three color deck worked well when it hit, but many times it didn’t hit at all.  I had a great time playing it.

I got to play my first game of diplomacy.  Chris was England, Adam was Germany, Bryan was Austria/Hungary, Erik was Turkey, Wit was France, Cynthia was Russia, and I was Italy.  I didn’t get any good outs early game, but was able to inform on Bryan in mid game when he was about to stab Erik.  Erik and I then joined forces and he was nice enough to not stab me since I had informed him about Bryan.  He could have easily destroyed me, but I was holding the line against Wit and Chris.  The game drew to a close when Adam offered to let us take over all his territory for a joint victory of the three of us.  We decided it was fine, and we managed to corner wit in the Med at which point he and Chris surrendered.  Had the game gone on much longer it could easily have ended with a total victory for Turkey.  Below is a gif of the entire game.1

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Book Club: 2 Views of God

For book club we read “The God Delusion” and “Reason for God.”

We all felt like the books were a little poorly supported, with too many anecdotes for the subject matter they were discussing.  The discussion was really good and Debby is going to send me some follow up material to look over in response to http://bibviz.com/.  This is an area I’d love to dive more into, but it requires discussion with people on multiple sides, since I’m pretty agnostic.

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Japanese Curry at Andrew’s

Steph and I went over to Andrew’s place for some really tasty Japanese curry.  We brought over some wine and bread and it was a really nice time.  We watched the remainder of Naked and Afraid XL, which was pretty amazing.  I really enjoyed it.

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Paint Nite

Liana and Ryan joined us for a paint nite event, and it was a really good time.  The venue was a little cramped, but I was able to get over to them and chat for a bit.  The painting was also the best one we’ve done so far, and I got a lot of comments on mine looking good.  I really enjoy the simple paintings with really colorful backgrounds.

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Shakshuka

Steph and I made some really tasty food this weekend, and it was pretty healthy as well.  The shakshuka is mainly tomatoes, peppers, onion, and egg.  I really liked the flavor, and it is also fun to watch cook because the eggs go directly on top of all the other ingredients.

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The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap

This was a fascinating book.  The duplicity of the law was made starkly clear, with a decent backstory to how that duplicity came about in such contrast.  The biggest thing I don’t like about the book is that is says nothing about what can be done.

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The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing

This book had a lot of really good points, many of which I’m already implementing.  The book does go a little to a strange place when it starts talking about your belongings having feelings.  I think the why of much of the later part of the book is wrong, but the how and what make sense.  I don’t think my backpack feels left out if it doesn’t have a home. I do think that the backpack will survive longer and be more useful if there is a designated place for it in my home and at the office.

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Back to the Future Day

Wednesday was ‘Back to the Future Day’ marking the point in time in Back to the Future 2 where Marty and Doc go to the future.

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Stephanie and I decided to do the opposite theme and go to the past, specifically an old style diner in Palo Alto called The Creamery.

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We got some really tasty milkshakes there.

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Shadows of Self

This was a fantastic book, and I’m really glad to see some characters from the original Mistborn series coming back into story.  The action was just as good, although there were some points that didn’t flow terribly well, mostly for setup in the next parts of the story.  I also thought that it was interesting how the twist at the end played out.  The cliffhanger at the end was also interesting, and small enough of a cliffhanger that I’m not upset about it and still looking forward to the third book in the second Mistborn series.

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