A very fun day it turned out to be!

Howdy all, I had a very lovely day today.

After my soup I went sight-seeing by myself around town to take some video for you all to see.  It was very relaxing and I hardly got lost at all.  Don't expect these videos to be masterpieces please - I have not the time required to make each one a polished work or presentation, but I am sprucing them up a bit from raw footage.  When I get back I will devote January to making the most of my raw materials in the way they deserve, but I didn't want to keep you all waiting till I'm already home to see what's over here!

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When I got back I had a great game of Fluxx that one of the girls over here had brought with her.  It is probably the most fun game to make friends over that I could think of and I only wish I had known about it to have been the one to bring it myself!  Thus, I am providing a link for it here in case anyone wants to give it a go or bring it along themselves in the future.

A brief overview:  It is a card game that starts simple: Draw 1 card, play 1 card, turn ends.  There are cards that change the rules though - or augment them - so that eventually you might have something like: Draw 5 cards, play 3 cards, discard to 1 card in hand, turn ends.  The next round it might have changed to something like: Draw 1, play 3, discard to 1 in hand, turn ends OR Draw 5, play all in hand, turn ends - and so on.  Because some cards you play change the rules and other cards are actions themselves (Draw two, play one, discard other; switch hands with player of your choice; steal Keeper card from any player; etc.) and others are needed to win the game.  The way of winning is also changes as the way to win is dictated by "Goal" cards which are played sometimes multiple times in a single turn.  You really have to play it to grasp the dynamics of it - but we laughed for several hours over the card table and three players came and went with a jolly good time of it before we all had to head to our rooms and our beds.

On a less lovely note: dorm showers, if you are familiar with them are not the most wonderful things and I am not familiar with these enough not to scald or drown or freeze myself yet so... bit of a tangle there but it was gotten through and I am sure someone will figure it out before too long how to make the darned thing behave itself.

I hope the video is not too awful, my camera software picked a fight with me so I went through a few different programs and did a work-around on You-tube to get this up promptly for y'all!