Cardboard? (Day 3519 - 7/14/19)

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Stephen and Mallory took today off to do some cleaning and unpacking. Mal varnished her BioShock - "Beyond the Sea" painting. Stephen says it feels like the painting explodes out of the canvas after doing the varnishing. He says that it's something you can only understand if you see the painting in person. There is then a time lapse of them filling the car trunk with cardboard boxes.

Later, Stephen took a break from unpacking to drink some coffee since it's currently 1:00 AM. He says that today was a productive day off. Mal found her Nintendo DS Lite while unpacking and is now playing Trauma Center: Under the Knife. Stephen says that you definitely see the difference in resolution between the Nintendo DS and the Nintendo Switch after playing the Switch for so long. He says that it would be nice if they could bring DS games to the Switch, but the Switch doesn't have 2 screens so it might be difficult.

Today, they recycled some things and took some stuff to Goodwill. Stephen says that they kept holding on to some things for a long time since they talked about having a yard sale, but never ended up doing it. Therefore, they just decided to give away those things to Goodwill. They also borrowed containers from Lindsey and Dan to move, so now that they have unpacked the containers they can return them. Stephen hooked up the PS2, Wii U, Analogue Mega SG, NES Classic, SNES Classic, and PlayStation Classic.

Mal put up a shelf on the wall in her studio and put framed woodblock prints from Japan, books, and cat figurines on it. She also put up some small paintings. They are not done cleaning up the dining room yet. Stephen also has some containers of Genesis, Super Nintendo, and NES games to unpack. Mal organized wires and installed a paper tower holder in the kitchen. Stephen spent most of the day shredding stuff. He explains that at the old house they put the shredder in a closet and anytime they needed to shred something they would put it in closet next to the shredder. However, they never shredded any of it and just ended up putting all of it in a garbage bag and moving it over to the new house. Stephen says that that there was even some stuff from when they were still living in the apartment that needed to be shredded. The only things left to do are to put up curtains in the dining room, put some games on shelves, and organize the board games.