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A photo of our dining table with a Warhammer Quest game set up on it. There's lots of cards and dice everywhere, and in middle are a bunch of variously-shaped tiles connected together that look like the inside of a set of buildings. There's four hero miniatures at the right (one heavily-armoured warrior woman with a sword, a vampire hunter with a long leather coat and a big hat, a steampunk dwarf, and a priest with a rich red robe and a big staff) plus two groups of hostile miniatures at various points on the board (a group of four skeleton warriors plus a huge zombie thing in a Mongolian hat and wielding a MASSIVE axe).

A photo of our four heroes miniatures standing next to and being positively LOOMED over by the Vargskyr, which is a massive hunched over demon/bat hybrid thing twice the height of the heroes, with red skin and brown fur down its arms. It has blood around its mouth and dripping from its claws and there's a pile of skulls on its base.

A photo of Dagnai my dwarven hero, he's a steampunk-looking dwarf with an axe and a harpoon gun thing, facing off through a doorway against three shambling zombies and four skeleton warriors in rusty armour and wearing rotted red cloaks.

A full two months after the last game (oops), we had @wobin over for another Warhammer Quest game! We did another Deliverance journey, where you need to stay ahead of the Suffocating Gravetide curse and warn the citizens of its approach, and we absolutely smashed it despite the Vargskyr making an appearance. We found from the last one of these we did that as long as you can get sufficiently ahead at the beginning it's not too much trouble to keep clear of the Gravetide, it's when you get stuck fighting hostiles and can't make any forward progress that you really end up in trouble. To be fair, @yayKM's character was VERY heavily wounded in that fight, but thankfully I had a very convenient healing potion equipment I was able to give her and she rolled very well and was able to recover all the wounds she'd lost. We did a lot better this game, everyone ended up inspired, and my dwarf Dagnai singlehandedly faced down an entire room of zombies and skeletons and took most of them out, barely taking a scratch in return! The next game is going to be a rough start though, I rolled EXTREMELY poorly on the event table at the end of the game, and THE big bad, Radukar the Wolf, is going to make an appearance at the beginning of next game despite him ordinarily not showing up until we're Level 3 (we're Level 2 right now). 😬

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Posted on 25 April 2024, 22:13

A photo of two large hardcover books, "The Art and Soul of Dune" and "The Art and Soul of Dune Part Two", and a plastic box with a "PiicoDev Starter Kit" sticker on the front showing several small blue circuit boards connected together with wires (it contains a bunch of sensors and wires and bits to do MicroPython electronics projects with).

Birthday goodies!

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Posted on 20 April 2024, 10:17

A photo of a small scruffy blonde dog sitting upright on his haunches.

And now it's bed time and Beanie is demanding his pre-bed scritches.

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Posted on 19 April 2024, 23:35

A photo taken from a low angle, looking back at me (a white man with a short red beard) sitting on a lounge with a small scruffy blonde dog lying with his head on my leg, looking very large thanks to the angle of the photo.

Current status: settled in to watch the latest episode of Taskmaster.

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Posted on 19 April 2024, 22:27

A photo of a white front-loading washing machine with a very dark tinted plastic door on it. The front of it curves in as it goes up towards the top and with the control panel being black as well, it looks quite futuristic.

A wide-angle photo of a small scruffy blonde dog sitting down in the mulch and sticks in a shady area alongside a path. On the other side of the path is a playground, and past the playground are a bunch of trees.

Seventeen years after I moved out of my parents' place and bought a washing machine/dryer combo, we finally had to replace it. Got a very slick-looking Electrolux instead, given we bought one of their dryers a number of years back and it's been fantastic. I took Beanie down to the park while the delivery people were installing the new one and taking the old one away, and it was PROFOUNDLY glorious in the shade.

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Posted on 15 April 2024, 15:10

A photo of a game of Warhammer 40,000: Kill Team. The board looks like the metal of the inside of an ancient steampunk starship, and the terrain is a bunch of walls all connected together in the same steampunk style to form number of interconnecting rooms. At the left are my six converted all-women Space Marines clad in rich red armour, and on the right are the FOURTEEN miniatures of the Chaos Cultist team. At the start of the game here they're primarily just scrawny humans in ratty clothing and with rag-tag equipment, but they turn into slightly larger mutants and then BIG things called Torments.

A close-up shot of my Assault Intercessor Sister Genevane who is mid-stride through a hatchway pointing her big pistol at an ominous-looking figure who is wearing a cloak and wielding a huge evil-looking sword.

I took my shiny new Intercession squad out for the first time tonight and was victorious, winning 16-11 over the filthy Chaos cultist heretics! It was definitely an awful start though, absolutely atrocious dice rolling. At the start of turn two, my leader Sister Sarine fired her plasma pistol and of the four dice hitting on 3+, only ONE was a success (which was duly saved). Then she charged into combat, rolled five dice that would normally hit on 2+ but needed 3+ instead because of an aura effect the Chaos mutant I was fighting had, and EVERY SINGLE dice was a 2. 😑 She and my grenadier Sister Decimica ended up getting killed within the first couple of activations of turn two, and two of the giant mutated Chaos Torments had spawned and it was looking very bad. Fortunately after that I was able to rally a bit and my dice rolling turned around, and player of the match goes to my remaining Assault Intercessor Sister Genevane who accounted for two Blessed Blades, a cultist, AND one of the huge Chaos Mutants. Being able to move a full six inches — actually seven because I took the Chapter Tactic that gives an extra inch of movement — instead of the slow plodding four of the Death Guard meant I was able to move around the map a fair bit more, and the bulk of my victory points ended up being from scoring objectives. I definitely enjoyed playing the Intercession team and they don't have _too_ many things to remember. I think my plan is going to be to pretty much take the exact same equipment and tac-ops each time until I get a proper handle on them.

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Posted on 14 April 2024, 23:19

A photo of a soft fabric dog house that's completely tipped on its side with a small scruffy blonde dog just visible inside it, lying on top of a pink blanket.

Beanie got, uh, slightly carried away in his house.

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Posted on 12 April 2024, 21:40

A photo of a plastic box with a "PiicoDev Starter Kit" sticker on the front showing several small blue circuit boards connected together with wires. It's got various sensors and cables in it that you can use to hook up to a MicroPython board and generally do little electronics projects with.

New toys! ...that need to get packed away now because they're a birthday present. #FirstWorldProblems

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Posted on 8 April 2024, 13:43

A screenshot from my Grafana dashboard showing two "gauge" type panels, one for the dew point and one for the atmospheric pressure.

I did a bunch more hacking on my ESP32 sensor reader code today, deployed the new BME280 into "production" outside, and got my Grafana dashboards updated! And I was able to do it completely successfully without needing to actually plug the ESP32s into my computer to update anything, the remote-updating code worked a treat. The new sensor is remarkably close to what the Bureau of Meteorology is reporting: the sensor says it's 17.5˚C, 95% humidity, dew point of 16.6˚C and atmospheric pressure of 1017hPa, versus the BoM that says the temperature is 17.8˚C, 94% humidity, dew point of 16.8˚C, and atmospheric pressure of 1019hPa.

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Posted on 5 April 2024, 21:50

A photo of a small microcontroller board hanging from the side of my laptop, with four thin cables going from some of the pins on it into a single small connector that's connected to a very small square circuit board that is the temperature sensor. There's red heatshrink around where the cables are joined, and there's a second one of these connector-to-separate-cable, well, cables sitting unplugged on the desk as well.

Tonight I did a bit of soldering for the first time in a while! My shiny new BME280 temperature sensors have this very handy relatively standard four-pin connector on them for use with I2C, but ESP32 boards I'm using (the HUZZAH32 from Adafruit) don't have it and only have standard bare headers. So I took one of the cables with the new connector on both ends, chopped it in half, chopped four of the separate female "DuPont" connectors I already had in half as well, and soldered them together, and bam, easy connection!

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Posted on 4 April 2024, 21:45