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7:42 pm

Shelves

Yeah it’s true I’m unreasonably excited about installing shelving. This is what happens when you’re 43 and a homeowner and one of the primary themes of your day-to-day is “where am I supposed to put all this stuff?”

We ordered the shelving system from The Container Store. For anyone not familiar, yes, it’s exactly what it sounds like. I joke that the store is 90% air. Anyway, we have this same system (“Elfa”) in all of our closets and we love it.

I do get excited to break out the drill and the level and just put up some shelves. Anyway they look great.

Racing

Way back when, I played a lot of Need for Speed on Playstation. I mean, like, the first Playstation, the original Playstation. It’s been a long time since I played racing games but I apparently fell back into it.

So far I’ve tried Hot Wheels: Unleashed 2, Inertia Drift, Need for Speed: Deluxe Edition, and Asphalt Legends Unite.

I’ll be honest, Asphalt Legends Unite—which is some kind of gachapon free-to-play scam for sure—is the most fun of all of them. Hot Wheels is more unforgiving than you expect from a game named for a child’s toy, Inertia Drift is spartan and unrefined, and Need for Speed is trying very hard to be so much more than a racing game.

Hot Wheels is still a good challenge, and Need for Speed’s graphics are absurdly good even on the Steam Deck, but Asphalt Legends is just the right level of casual. There are literally flip ramps, slow-mo cut-ins of your car smashing the panels off another, lots of drifting, and crazy nitrous boost stuff. Sure it slightly feels like a casino but I haven’t paid any money yet, so, cool?

That is all for today goodnight.