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<\/a>February<\/strong>: I spent some time re-playing Morrowind, my favorite of the Elder Scrolls games, but this time with the Morrowind Overall Improvement Suite Enhanced (MOISE) <\/a>through Wabbajack. It was my first time using Wabbajack and I was surprised at how easy it made deploying the wild number of mods in the package. Have to say, it still holds up all these years later. This month I also polished off Pokemon Brilliant Diamond, which I didn't find as compelling as Platinum, but fun enough, and Kentucky Route Zero, which my friends had been pushing to the top of my queue for months. KRZ was amazing, and quite unique.<\/p>\n March<\/strong>: A significant amount of time in March went into organizing my unwieldy Magic collection. I threw together two shelves sized to wedge perfectly into my office closet, sorted everything, and printed labels for long boxes. Now that I'm writing this, I'm actually thinking to have another go with an eye toward spring cleaning, since I've absolutely accumulated more copies \/ variants of cards than I'm ever realistically going to use. I sped through Pokemon Legends: Arceus in March, which I thoroughly enjoyed. It was the first really fresh take on the formula in ages, and I absolutely devoured it. <\/p>\n April<\/strong>: A big month work-wise, so not a ton happened home-side. This was the month were the rough sketch for our library finally became a CAD model. It was also when I first began really digging into Elden Ring, a game which eventually became my big obsession for the year.<\/p>\n May<\/strong>: A busy month! A playlist was sent out for my long-running disk exchange, I found a much safer bike route to work that I began using regularly, and we finally began cutting wood for the library. There were a few false starts and errors to sort out (always be clear if you\u2019re measuring shelves center-to-center or inner-face to inner-face, material sold as 3\/4\u201d thick can be off by 1\/16\u201d and no one will tell you, etc), but real progress was made. Our group of magic-playing friends finally met up again, and I built new EDH decks for Ouliana and myself for the occasion (Jolene treasures<\/a> and Kotori vehicles)<\/a> which worked well. In less fun news, the water heater that came with the house finally gave out, after a bit of research we replaced it was a heat-exchanger based electric heater, which has performed beautifully and keeps the garage cool and dry as a bonus.<\/p>\n June<\/strong>: Rather than risk the expensive walnut plywood, we built the same design in bargain priced maple plywood; this first prototype bookshelf was glued up and put in my office! The other notable project in June was finally putting up mirrors in the garage gym, which required us to learn how to cut thicker glass. The methods for handling stained glass still work in principal, but we had to upgrade to some beefier \u201cgrozing\u201d pliers<\/a> to get consistent breaks.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/a><\/a>