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Seven Wonders and Lords of Waterdeep

We played a seven person game of Seven Wonders.  It was a game with Steph, Chris, Erik, Jeff, Cynthia, Iliya, and me.  I really like how this game is highly parallelized, but you still have interactions with other players.  The game went well for me, but not well enough.  I was going science and was able to get a lot of points there, but many of the science cards were in the same hands, so I wasn’t able to fill out as much as I would have liked.

Steph, Iliya, and I then broke off to do a three person game of Lords of Waterdeep.  We had a good time of it, and I was able to build 10 buildings.  Since I was the builder this made me win on the bonus points.  I did well even without that since I had so many buildings generating revenue for me via the other players using them.  I was able to complete a good many quests.

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Princep’s Fury

While I liked this book, I was a little disappointed at points in it.  I was hoping to have more happen in Canea, but they just showed up and then left.  There was no major exploration and explanation of the larger continent.  The Vord there were also never dealth with, and there remained only one queen left.  The defenses of the cities against the Vord in Alera also weren’t described in as much detail as I would have liked.  As they had a lot of them to get through.

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Kitties at Play

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Archer and Lana have enjoyed many of the new toys we’ve been getting for them, but they still go after the laser pointer the most.  Here are some videos of them playing with the laser pointer and a feather clump on a wire.

Archer after the feather clump, Archer at Play, Lana at Play, Lana in Circles

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Captain’s Fury

This book had a lot of great plot points, but the overall plot didn’t change all that much.  It was still excellent and full of action, intrigue, and fun anecdotes.

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Cursor’s Fury

This book was a bit slower than the others at the start, but it made up for it with how the book came to a conclusion.  Tavi was able to take command of a legion and fight off a Cane invasion with very amusing tactics.  I was surprised when some of the tactics weren’t reused, but I suppose you can’t have a super-weapon appear like the light cannon he used.

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Race for the Galaxy, Fish Cook, and New Era

Steph and I have been playing some board games in the evenings this week, outside of games night.  We played a couple games of Race for the Galaxy, where we are about equally skilled.  We also played one game of New Era, but I am much better at that game than her, and she gets upset when I continue to pull ahead.  I got some of the best card draws I’ve gotten in that game, which also helped.  I was able to get three cooperate from hand card draws each turn.  We also played a game of Fish Cook with Candice, where Steph won by one dollar over me; Candice took a close third.

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Academ’s Fury

This was a very good book, and part of an excellent series.  I like Kitai’s part in this book, as she is a very fun and interesting character.  The Cane are also very interesting, and are introduced here.  The way Jim Butcher shows the logic of the Cane is very astute to the differences in philosophy of ethics.

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Niji Sushi and Game of Thrones

After the movie we all went to downtown Mountain View to have dinner.  We tried a few places before settling on Niji Sushi, since they didn’t have a long wait.  We got some tasty tasty food, then headed over to Riley and Wit’s house for the Game of Thrones episode.  The episode was the start of the battle at the wall, and was the first episode to stay in a single location.  I was kind of surprised that they would do that, but wholly understand.  The battle at the wall is one of the biggest events in the entire series, and they will certainly continue the battle in the next episode.

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Edge of Tomorrow

I enjoyed the movie.  Before going in Steph found a thread on reddit that suggested the movie was pretty much an analogue for how video games work with die, rinse, repeat.  This was most certainly true as the main character had to get past hard spots in the fighting and memorize specific actions to take as specific points.  The ending was a little off, but that is to be expected.  It seemed like they had one ending, but it didn’t play well since people wanted the main character to live.  I thought he didn’t do nearly enough random goofing off with the ability.  We went to see it at the Mercado AMC 20, with Jeremy, Riley, Wit, and Rong.

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