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I finally understand the adage that adulthood is having the money to buy all of the toys that you wanted as a child, but not having the time to play with them. After desiring it for nearly six years, I finally have a Lego Imperial Star Destroyer (set number 10030).

The box is huge, and the pieces are organised by putting them in four smaller (but still large) boxes. Each box contains several plastic bags of lego pieces. The instructions are about two hundred pages long and they come spiral bound on B-size paper (11"x17" or about 28cm x 43cm). What they did not do was organise the parts in the boxes so that there was some sequence to openning the myriad little plastic bags of pieces (something that they did with later sets). With a parts count of 3104, the prospect of having to lay out all of the bags on a surface is daunting, as I do not have enough uncluttered floorspace.

Adding to my troubles are keeping small children away from it while it is under construction and the fact that the last time I put together a large lego set, the Lego Technic Mobile Crane, I was temporarily unemployed and had plenty of time. Worrying is that my wife will probably not let me buy any more lego; until, it is completed.

No doubt, my misery will turn to joy as the pieces come together