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A photo looking straight down a walking path, there are large trees looming on the right and train tracks at the left. It's early morning so there's no direct sun yet, but the sky is clear and blue.

I needed to be up early today to take the car in for a service and rego check at the local mechanic (well, "early"... I got up at 7:30 where my normal waking time is 8:15 😛). I realised last night that there's a walking path that goes along beside the train tracks and avoids needing to go along any of the busy roads, and what a thoroughly pleasant walk back home that was!

darkroom trees

Posted on 16 August 2024, 8:43

A photo of the corner of a room that has a whole bunch of musical equipment in it: there are three electric guitars and a bass guitar sitting in a stand at the left, two very large speakers, an electronic drum kit, a MIDI keyboard, and a full size piano at the right that is painted in extremely garish bright colours.

A photo of five smiling people looking at the camera. There's me, a man with short brown hair and a short red beard holding a bass guitar, a tall man with shoulder-length hair sitting down holding an electric guitar, two men sitting at the drum kit each holding one drum stick each, and a woman with long brown hair holding a bright pink ukulele.

The reason I was in the office today was because it turns out we have a whole set of musical instruments in the "wellness room", so a bunch of us decided to get together to play some music! It was SO FUN! Only two of us could play guitar or bass so I mostly stuck to one of those, and we ended up with two people playing drums together (one person would do the hi-hat and the other would do the kick drum because nobody was coordinated enough to do both together, lol) and we absolutely got into a groove and were rocking out and it was so excellent. It's planned to be a regular thing and I'm so looking forward to the next one. (There is a group of Very Talented people who get together and play most Wednesdays and Fridays but that was way too intimidating for us so we did our own little thing.)

selfie me work darkroom friends guitar drums bass guitar in the office jamming

Posted on 15 August 2024, 20:35

A wide-angle photo looking down from our Level 30 office in Sydney's CBD. There are a number of shorter buildings directly below, and some taller ones forming a bit of a wall further out. The sky is grey and foggy and everything is wet because it's just been raining.

I am once again in the office and thoroughly enjoying view. Bit of a miserable day though.

sydney work darkroom buildings in the office

Posted on 15 August 2024, 10:57

A photo of a big deep frying pan sitting on a stove, it has chilli con carne in it and you can see all the diced onion and capsicum plus the red kidney beans. It LOOKS like beef mince but it's actually Quorn.

Aw yissss. 😎 I followed Quorn's own recipe (https://www.quorn.com.au/recipes/chilli-con-carne-quorn-mince) but doubled it, did three stock cubes instead of two, and did more smoked paprika and less ground coriander seed (mostly because we ran out). It's SO GOOD, the sweetness of the capsicum really comes through.

our house darkroom food portrait mode quorn

Posted on 10 August 2024, 20:49

A photo of three people (a woman with short brown hair, a masc but non-binary person with a magnificent large red beard and glasses, and a man with a shorter beard and glasses) sitting around a dining table, with cards on the table. The non-binary person is in the middle of looking through their hand of cards.

We had a visit from @scarydan and their lovely partner today, for afternoon tea and Munchkin! I managed to win, not through skill of my own but from everyone having expended their "Fuck over another player" cards on everyone else. 😅

our house kristina darkroom friends munchkin

Posted on 10 August 2024, 17:52

A photo of a big white casserole dish with tuna mornay in it, and a crunchy panko bread crumb topping. (It looks delicious and was absolutely as good as it looks.)

And then we made Nagi's tuna mornay recipe (https://www.recipetineats.com/tuna-mornay-casserole-pasta-bake/) and it was goooood, and now we're playing more Guitar Hero and @yayKM is currently having a go!

our house darkroom food portrait mode tuna mornay

Posted on 3 August 2024, 21:11

A photo of our TV showing the end a game of Guitar Hero, with the song being Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody.

The seventeen year-old is staying over for the weekend again, and we played another good three hours of Guitar Hero! This time we did Warriors of Rock and I'd forgotten that they'd added the ability to import a bunch of songs from the other Guitar Hero games into it, so we had quite a variety. They were very excited to see Queen, Black Sabbath, Nirvana, Def Leppard, and Bon Jovi in the choices, and we played some Stevie Wonder and Creedence Clearwater Revival and they added those songs to their "To listen to" list. 😁

our house lily darkroom gaming guitar hero

Posted on 3 August 2024, 18:17

A photo of my white hairy hand holding a glass of whisky up.

Vale @geordie. You will absolutely be missed. I was trying to think of how it was we first met, and I can't think of where else it would have been except late '00s Twitter. We used to live in Lane Cove at this time and so were dangerously close to the Malaysian restaurant Mamak in Chatswood, and we introduced him to it and the absolute delight that is the roti tisu and his mind was blown. I still have these two photos of him from when we went, from the end of 2010! https://virtualwolf.org/media/posts/857 https://virtualwolf.org/media/posts/856

our house darkroom alcohol whisky

Posted on 2 August 2024, 20:44

A photo of a white bowl with vanilla ice cream in it, covered with Ice Magic chocolate topping, chopped up strawberries, and some butterscotch sauce. The rum is there too but it's all in the bottom of the bowl so you can't see it.

I burnt 1020 calories on the elliptical after work watching an episode of The Wheel of Time, so now I've ruined it by having a big ol' trashy bowl of ice cream with a shot of The Kraken coffee spiced rum while I watch an episode of The Expanse. 😎

our house darkroom exercise portrait mode ice cream rum

Posted on 29 July 2024, 20:27

A photo of the interior of a corner of our "social" level in the office, there are a bunch of people standing around and one of the walls in the background is covered in a black fabric with shiny stars on it, and there are larger stars hanging from the ceiling.

I don't even know how to describe this one... it's basically a bunch of large shiny blue and silver inflatable balls of various sizes sitting on the floor and hanging from the ceiling, and the lighting is dim but with bright purple directional lighting highlighting part of it. It's... a lot.

A photo of my hand holding a cardboard takeaway container full of nachos, but the corn chips are black.

A photo of the DIY lava cake station, there are little lava cakes in paper bowls, and an assortment of things to put on top: some sort of raspberry jam thing, chocolate flakes, smashed-up chocolate honeycomb pieces, and a giant bowl of cream.

And then completely coincidentally tonight happened to be the "official" opening celebration of our new Level 29, there were nachos and a DIY lava cake station, and the theme was... "stars" or something? Not entirely sure why. Maybe because it's high up? Anyway it was good, though I bailed at like 6:15pm because I was peopled out, haha.

work darkroom food cake nachos in the office

Posted on 25 July 2024, 18:33