State Politics, Gaming, Odds and Ends

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Labor wins the NSW state election; whilst the conservative Coalition didn't have a snowflake's chance in hell, I was a little surprised by how minimal the swing was. Much apparently due to the Federal governments unpopular workplace relations laws (despite being a Federal issue). On the other side of the planet, massive swing to conservative separatists in the Quebec elections, but the liberal federalists (Parti libéral du Québec) retains power, albeit with their worst ever result. The social democratic Parti Québécois came in third; leading to three-way split with each major party holding about 1/3 of the votes.

In gaming news have run two games of RuneQuest, one of Traveller: TNE, and the notorious AD&D1e module "Tomb of Horrors" since my last post. Recent reviews include Deities and Demigods (genius and idiocy in one package), Gods of Glorantha (solid content, average production), Spell Law (clear, balanced, but not beautiful) and the AD&D module In the Dungeons of the Slavelords. Oh, and remember the RPGPundit? Get a hold of these comments; Goth women are to be fucked and then mocked, and teenaged goths should be sent to therapists as punishment.

Visited recumbenteer and partner for their Parkville housewarming; most enjoyable, must have them over dinner soon. caseopaya is on a loose end, employment-wise (although I'm sure this will be a very temporary situation); she found a job where the pay, hours, work and people were good but the company wouldn't shell out the $6K that the agency wanted as a finders fee. Today we had an annual house inspection; the estate agents took (literally) thirty seconds. Rogue the rat hurt his foot during the week and spent a couple of days hopping around on three paws; all better now. LUV meeting next week with an emphasis on beginner's talks (new features of OpenOffice and an Introduction to DNS). Gave an introduction to philosophy talk (doc file, will convert later) at the Melbourne Unitarian Church on Sunday; was extremely well received and will be expanded to further discussion topics.

Comments

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On topic, one thing I don't recall on your journeys was many visits to archeological sites... I mean you're in the lands of the Aztecs and the Mayans... (although I really like the
Honduras set)

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Only been in Mayan lands so far - Aztecs on Thursday! I'm really looking forward to seeing Teotihuacan near Mexico City.

As for Mayan sites, we've been trying to space them out a little. One quickly reaches ruins fatigue and they have a *lot* of them.

So far we've been to Tikal in Guatemala, Copan in Honduras, and Palenque and Tulum in Mexico/Yucatan. Tikal was by far the most amazing - sitting on a pyramid in the middle of the jungle looking at other pyramids poking above the trees.

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Hmmm... I responded to this days and days ago and it seems el-jay ate my post..

I was going to say something like...

Tikal was by far the most amazing - sitting on a pyramid in the middle of the jungle looking at other pyramids poking above the trees.

I had a similar experience viewing the Merapi moutain and jungle from on top of Borobudur...