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A photo of a Labrador-sized brown and black dog of some sort sitting and looking EXTREMELY intently at my left hand that was holding a treat just out of frame.

A photo of the sun just above the horizon and extremely orange. The sky is filled with mottled clouds and the only real gap is where the sun is. In the foreground are tall city buildings that peter out into smaller houses as you go further west towards the horizon. It's a bit overly-HDRed because it was a very quick snap with the built-in iOS Camera app.

And then the farewell drinks after work today featured a very good doggo named Delphi and an excellent sunset (ignore the awful reflections from the indoor lighting).

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Posted on 21 March 2025, 19:11

A photo taken on the lunch level of our office with a bunch of people standing around a large stainless steel table/set of cabinets and a bunch of big unopened pizza boxes stacked on it.

There were a bunch of other team gatherings going on today, so we had a ton of pizza ordered for everyone after work. 😎 One more day and then I'm having a weekend filled with going absolutely nowhere. I have no idea how I used to do five days in the office every single week, my social battery definitely did not recover to its pre-COVID levels.

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Posted on 20 March 2025, 18:14

A photo taken overlooking Rushcutters Bay, with a bunch of small boats on the bay itself and a bunch of units and houses dotting the far shore. The sky is blue with wispy clouds.

A photo taken from the ferry on the way back to Circular Quay, it's mostly the waters of Sydney Harbour with, uh, one of the tiny islands in the middle and very foresty-looking shores in the distance.

A very backlit wide-angle photo looking up at the Sydney Harbour Bridge while we were passing it on the ferry.

I'm in the office for FOUR DAYS this week! We've got a team event yesterday, today, and tomorrow, and a farewell for a colleague on Friday. Last night we went to the Arthouse Hotel for dinner and waited almost two hours for our food (it was good when it arrived but not worth the wait). Plenty of good chatting to colleagues while waiting though.

Today we took the bus to Rushcutters Bay and had a picnic at a park, then caught the ferry back to Circular Quay, it was extremely #GloriousSydney areas (although the very bushfire-smoke-laden walk from the train station back to home was not at all glorious).

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Posted on 19 March 2025, 18:17

A photo of a three-player game of Warhammer Underworlds. It's played on three rectangular boards sitting together in a T-shape, there are tiles marked out with hexes, and the artwork is all gnarled and corrupted roots like you're deep within a cursed forest. Closest to the camera are the Shadeborn, four lithe elves in very dynamic poses with very pale skin and wearing deep purple clothing, at the left are the Gorechosen of Dromm, a three-fighter warband consisting of very large meaty-looking warriors in large red armour, one of whom is clearly part daemon because he's hunched over and has MASSIVE arms and huge horns sprouting from his head. Then finally at the right are Lady Harrow's Mournflight, four swooping spirits in sickly green.

A photo of Herax Skullgrinder's fighter card with upgrades on him.

We had @wobin over today for games and a barbecue! We mixed it up a bit and went back to Warhammer Underworlds, me with the Shadeborn (that I haven't played before), @yayKM with the Gorechosen of Dromm, and @wobin with Lady Harrow's Mournflight.

Round one was an absolute shocker for me, I lost both Drusilla and Valyssa to @yayKM's Gorehulk, and she was in a commanding position and it looked like it was going to be a blowout. Things turned around in the second round though, and I managed to kill the Gorehulk and Dromm and not lose anyone else and it was 8-8-2 Gorechosen/Shadeborn/Mournflight at the beginning of the third round. The Skullgrinder Herax was upgraded to be an absolute BEAST, I'm not sure we've had quite this many upgrades on a single character in any game before. 😅

The final score ended up being 12-8-5 to the Shadeborn thanks to an objective that gave me three glory at the end of the third round. I definitely want to play the Shadeborn some more to get my head around them, and really need to get around to painting up both Domitan's Stormcoven and Ephilim's Pandaemonium because they're such cool miniatures.

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Posted on 15 March 2025, 20:34

A photo of my Roland TD-17KV electronic drum kit sitting in the corner of a room. The whole setup is sitting on a mottled dark grey mat (essentially carpet with a fairly thick foam underlay).

There we go, last bit of drum kit upgrading for the time being: I got a proper drum mat! With my old setup the kick drum pedal was hard against the cymbal stand that's poking down there at the right, and the hi-hat stand would end up getting pushed back into the left of the drum frame. With the new setup if I really put the boot in, the kick drum pedal would end up migrating its way back, and the hi-hat stand was in an awkward position. I've added velcro to both now, and they are absolutely not moving. Plus a bonus, the kick drum pedal makes far less audible sound now that it's not booming directly against the floorboards.

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Posted on 7 March 2025, 13:11

A photo of five medium-sized brown birds with sharp pointy peaks and a mottled pattern on their feathers wandering around in the grass.

We just had a group of birds of a sort I haven't seen here before wandering around the backyard finding things to eat in the grass. I saw at least one of them grabbed a slug! It looks like it was raining a fair bit overnight and everything is soaked, I wonder if that's driven the slugs out or something.

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Posted on 7 March 2025, 10:36

A photo of one of the Vespid Stingwing miniatures from the Kill Team: Hivestorm box. It's very insect-like with an exoskeleton and two pairs of almost dragonfly-esque wings extending out from its back. It has both arms out, one is holding a gun, and it's crouched on a piece of ruined wall like it's above to leap up and take flight. The whole thing is painted in a muted grey/blue colour, with a set of horns in a darker richer blue, and it has six red eyes positioned in pairs on above the other. The base is covered in snow.

First Stingwing is done! I wasn't sure about that base colour to start with, it turns out it's one of the Contrast paints that is REALLY pigmented and so the underlying zenithal highlighting doesn't really show through very much. Additionally on the rest of the squad I think I'm going to make the feet and hands the same darker blue colour that the horn things (?) are, but otherwise I'm actually quite happy with how it's turned out!

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Posted on 6 March 2025, 21:24

A photo of the start of a game of Kill Team. The terrain is all ramshackle and looks like it belongs in a junkyard, closest to the camera are the six hulking and pustulant warriors of the Death Guard clan in large green armour, and then on the other side looking almost the complete opposite are ten warriors of the insect-like Vespid Stingwings who have been painted in yellow and have big blue insect wings.

A nighttime photo taken from the 30th floor of our office building, looking not quite directly downwards. There is a tall building directly opposite and some shorter buildings on either side, and you can see the streets quite far below. Most of the windows are lit up, and the train tracks going along George St are visible at the left.

I was in the office today for some after-work Kill Team, took my Plague Marines for their first spin versus the Vespid Stingwings!

It started out well, but I realised that I actually only had two operatives that had unrestricted range weapons (the Malignant Plaguecaster and the Bombardier), and I think I got a bit greedy with them and they were the first two operatives I lost. After that I couldn't recover because all the stuff I needed to shoot at was out of range, and I'd taken the Fighter who has NO ranged weapon at all. He killed one Stingwing and then got pulped. The Heavy Gunner with the Plague Spewer was nasty, but again lacked range, and even the Icon Bearer only had a bolt pistol with an 8" range (in the previous edition he had a boltgun). It also wasn't helped by the fact that the Stingwings' neutron weapons hit HARD. I don't think I used any of the strategic or firefight ploys either, I need to go back and have a better read. We called the game before the end of the second turn, and the Stingwings were already ahead 4-3 and I had only a single guy left.

The Death Guard were still pretty neat though, the Poison token rules are cool and I'm keen to try them again. I ALSO need to paint up my own Stingwings and get them into the rotation because those models are just fantastic-looking. And afterwards, the room in the office that all the Kill Team terrain is stored in had its lights off when we put everything away after the game, which made for an excellent nighttime cityscape shot.

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Posted on 3 March 2025, 20:48

A photo of two disgusting Plague Marine miniatures, their armour is painted a khaki green and the trim has been done in a bronze colour. The one on the left is holding a gnarled staff up in one hand and has his other hand out in front of him casting some foul cloud of magic, and the one on the right is mid-stride and has what looks like a huge flamethrower slung under one arm. Both of them are in green pox-ridden Space Marine armour, with tentacles and pustules everywhere, and the one on the left with the staff has a huge mouth with massive teeth in the stomach of his armour, and some sort of fleshy/tentacley guts coming out of it.

And that's my two Plague Marines finished! I'm very pleased with how the plague cloud thing that the Malignant Plaguecaster is blowing came out, and it's not super-obvious in the photo but I painted all the tentacles and the guts on the Plaguecaster with gloss varnish so it looks all wet and extra gross.

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Posted on 2 March 2025, 14:59

A photo of my Roland TD-17KV electronic drum kit sitting in the corner of a room. My laptop sitting on a music stand to the left, and there's a 13-inch display set up in the middle of the kit above the high and mid toms so I can follow what I'm recording in Logic Pro without looking awkwardly over to the laptop at the left.

I gave my drum setup a bit of a rejiggering this morning! A few months ago I'd sent a photo of my cymbal upgrades to my drum teacher and he asked why the kick pedal was so far off to the right, I replied saying it was because that was where my foot naturally fell when I was sitting there. He said on an actual physical drum kit, the high and mid toms are physically attached to the top of the bass drum, which I'd never actually noticed before, and the snare drum sits off to the side a little, so you end up with the bulk of the kit actually off to your right.

I didn't think I had enough space in our back room to do that, but I decided to give it a go this morning anyway, especially because the drum kit at work is set up more closely resembling a real kit (i.e. how my drum teacher had said physical kits are laid out) and I didn't want to keep having to rejigger it when we have our after-work music jams. It turns out we DO have enough space, and as a bonus I've got a bit more space with my left hand on the snare and right on the hi-hat so I'm getting less tangled now. I also moved the smallest cymbal that I'd kept from the stock kit to underneath the right crash and ride because it was awkward to hit being above them, and with the moving around of everything it actually slots in quite nicely there now..

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Posted on 22 February 2025, 12:06