So much of the headline news in my life is bittersweet or objectionable it's hard to even think of something to post here.

I've made a new friend with whom I've been playing a lot of Raft. If you remember that friendslop game where you start on a 2x2 square raft in the middle of the ocean. You have hooks to gather trash and expand your ride. You end up eventually making a radio and through that come to find there's a narrative to follow throughout the world.

I expected to play it once so that I could talk to them before continuing a relationship. They ended up really liking the game. One day we're getting ready to play and they ping me like "I had trouble sleeping and then I found creative mode, come check this out." They had designed a 3 story yacht with rooms, an indoor-outdoor system and engines on the boat. It was unbelievable.

So over the next 50+ hours we proceed to finish the story and get to work turning the ship into their dream ship. We made a kitchen, a sofa in front of a fireplace, an engine room, a bedroom, a navigation helm, and a rooftop where we keep all the animals, bees, and trees.

The once overwhelming tasks of navigating a big island with hostile mobs on it turns into background noise as we discuss what to spend our rapidly accumulating currency on. In fact, we sought out the island because it pinged on our radar and we knew we needed stuff from around the reef.

The chances of me bothering with this game without them was slim to none, and the chance of me going into creative and coming out with a vision for design+interior design are so laughable it's not worth consideration. But instead I get to think about how to make a vision possible and that's my favorite.