May 7, 2017

 Today was a pretty good day. I woke up after a full night of sleep and made scrambled eggs for breakfast. Throughout the day I watched YouTube videos and played video games. I tried out DiRT Rally and it is very much a racing simulator. It is a game that would be fun to get really good at but that is never going to happen. I would like to continue playing it, so we'll see how it goes. I also played a few hours of Burnout Paradise. That is more of an arcade racing game, which is fun because you get to drive super fast and do ridiculous stuff. Jumping back into it, I was reminded of my frustration from the last time I played it. Most of the races are going from point A to point B, which is cool, but there is no set path to take and you can't see the whole race on the mini-map so you can't really plan a route. You just head in the general direction of the finish line and hope you don't take a road that ends up taking you in the opposite direction of the checkpoint. I seem to end up on those roads a lot. This really forces you to memorize the entire map, something that is hard to do because instead of just watching the road you're constantly having to look at the mini-map and hope you're still going the right way. It's a little frustrating. It's also disappointing that they made is more of a straight-up racing game compared to earlier games in the franchise. And, I played a little bit of Gat Out Of Hell. Flying around is still fun.

I spent a decent amount of time cleaning my house a bit. I mostly focused on my desk and the banister. Both are places where things tend to get stacked. I also picked up my office as a whole and the corner in the kitchen where things like all the grocery store ads I get in the mail tend to get stacked. The main impetus for this cleaning was needing to make room for bookcases. I think I'm getting eight and, I think, I know where they will go. Two in the living room, two in my office, and four in my bedroom. It works in my head so we'll see what reality has to say about that.

This evening I made my Green Apron box for dinner. That being the meal my coworkers got me for my birthday, packaging all the ingredients so I just had to mix it together and didn't have to worry about measuring or making sure I had all the ingredients. It was a summer vegetable stir fry and it was really freaking good. It had carrots, red onion, and asparagus, so that was really simple. And the sauce consisted of soy sauce, corn starch, honey, red pepper flakes, garlic, and fresh ginger (which I had to grate). I never would have even thought to combine all of that but it really worked out well. I especially liked the red pepper flakes because it added a bit of subtle heat to the whole thing. Also, fresh ginger smells really good. It kind of reminded me of Pine-Sol, which I haven't smelled since I was a little kid, so I could be wrong about that. Either way, it was delicious.

I spent the rest of my night watching YouTube videos and playing video games. Good times.

And it is now that time where I record my audio journal (hopefully on the first try) and then I go to bed. I might iron my pants for the week before I go to bed, but we'll see, I'm not committed to the idea yet.