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A photo of a small scruffy blonde dog with a harness and lead on, looking away from the camera along a tree-lined cycle path with grass on the right of it. This was a bit after 8am so the sun was relatively low and there's plenty of shadows being cast, and the whole photo has quite a warm feeling to it.

Our oven died last week, we had a guy out to fix it this morning and rather than having Beanie in the house barking the entire time and deafening everyone, I took him out for a nice leafy walk while it was being done. And bonus, by 8:30am I'd closed the exercise ring on my Apple Watch. 😛

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Posted on 29 February 2024, 8:53

A photo looking down a hallway of a small scruffy blonde dog lying on a green blanket, staring directly at the camera.

Beanie has very carefully manoeuvred his blanket out of the office and into the middle of the hallway.

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Posted on 26 February 2024, 21:30

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 a bunch of alley at night, plus a couple that look like the inside of buildings. There's four hero miniatures in the middle (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 four groups of hostile miniatures at various points on the board (two groups of three rat swarms and two groups of three bat swarms).

A photo of two painted miniatures standing next to each other, one is a heavily armoured warrior woman with short hair holding a large sword, and positively LOOMING over her is the Vargskyr, which is a massive hunched over demon/bat hybrid thing twice the height of the warrior, 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.

We continued our Warhammer Quest campaign today with @wobin by defeating the mighty Vargskyr! It was a very interesting variation on the standard journeys: instead of the hostiles we faced being randomly selected from the encounter deck, we started out with all six corpse rats and all six dire bats, divided into two groups, plus the Vargskyr itself. The Vargskyr didn't start on the battlefield and they represented it striking stealthily from the shadows by making its activation involve rolling the D12 and whichever of the lychgates (the red door things on the edges of the tiles) was on the die, the hero closest to that would just straight up take a damage, no saving throw or anything. To actually get it to come out in order to damage it, you had to get to the "mysterious objects", which are the skeletons and the columns with the raven on top, at which point it'd pop out and absolutely wallop the hero that activated it, then vanish as soon as any damage was done to it, and you'd have to get to the next mysterious object, and so on. It started out looking VERY rough, almost everyone was at half health quite quickly, but thankfully we were able to rally and once we got through the initial hostiles that started on the battlefield we had some very lucky rolling where the hostiles _didn't_ respawn when it was their turn to activate. After that it was a case of getting enough damage onto the Vargskyr which we were able to do (and once all the mysterious objects were gone it'd remain on the battlefield so we could really wail on it). So now we're all at Level 2, so there'll be more hostiles to face, and the Vargskyr will actually potentially come back as one of the hostiles drawn from the encounter deck when we play our next regular game! 😬

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Posted on 24 February 2024, 21:07

A photo taken from the 28th floor of our office building looking out over Sydney's CBD. Lots of tall buildings, with shorter ones directly below. The sky is a lovely blue colour and what I think is North Sydney is distantly visible through a gap between two of the buildings.

Man, the view from our office never gets old. (Though I also thoroughly enjoy NOT be required to come in, I should point out.) We had a team dinner tonight at Long Chim and it was absolutely spectacular, and lots of fun conversations with co-workers. A++ would team dinner again.

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Posted on 22 February 2024, 20:38

A photo of a bunch of pastries and sweets (croissants, big cookies, etc.) sitting on an office desk.

I'm in the office today for a team event, we ordered in a bunch of pastry-type stuff for a celebration in the morning and were originally planning on going to the beach but changed that plan yesterday after seeing the weather. So we managed to get a reservation to go indoor go-karting, got on the train at Wynyard and weren't even at Town Hall when the organiser got a call from the go-karting place saying it was cancelled because they were flooded. >_<

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Posted on 20 February 2024, 13:52

A half rack of deliciously-blackened beef ribs sitting on a wooden serving board, along with a small wooden bowl of chips.

A large shallow bowl with salted caramel mousse in the middle, with some pieces of honeycomb on top and three pieces of mint leaf, along with, uh... ground up something-or-other in the middle (I'm not actually sure what it was).

Yesssss, beef ribs followed by honeycomb salted caramel mousse at Meat & Wine Co. 👌🏻

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Posted on 18 February 2024, 20:37

A photo of a bunch of steampunk-looking terrain on a game board, it's all walls and put together to look like the interior of a gothic-slash-steampunk starship. The terrain is all rusty-looking like it's been properly abandoned for centuries. Closest to the camera are the warriors of the Astra Militarium, ten heavily-armoured women in white-coloured armour wielding various guns. On the far side are six Plague Marines, huge superhuman warriors in green armour that have all sorts of gross mutations.

A close-up of two of the Astra Militarum who are about to go barrelling through an open hatchway. Above the hatchway are black and yellow hazard stripes, and the walls are all details with pipes and skulls and cabling. Next to the hatchway is a little button pad with a round screen that I've painted green and it looks like it's lit up.

A closeup of one of the sections of wall that has a series of ten smaller screens on the left half of the wall. They look like they're probably CRTs (or whatever the Warhammer 40,000 equivalent is) because they're curved and are green and glowing like what one of the old Apple IIe displays from the 80s looked like. On the right half of the wall is what looks like a round radar display along with two much larger screens, also green and glowing. Similar to the rest of the walls, there's also a bunch of cables and wires and pipes and skulls and it all looks appropriately grimdark.

A closeup shot of the leader of the Astra Militarum who is wearing an officer's army cap and has her cloak billowing out behind her. She's pointing a glowing plasma pistol directly at a Plague Marine who has a giant mouth in the chest/abdomen section of his armour and is wielding two plague knives (which basically look like mutated short swords). They're both standing at either end of a room that has two open doors where they've come in, and all the walls are the standard grimdark steampunk/gothic look with cables and pipes and skulls and rust.

My Kill Team terrain is DONE! Absolutely fucking stoked at how good it looks, I even painted the screens up to look like, well, screens! Other than the screens, all I did to the rest of it was a drybrush of Ironbreaker plus the rust pigment. I wasn't looking forward to having to individually apply pigment fixer to everything but fortunately using a solid thick coat of matte varnish via the airbrush has done the trick just as well, and with far less effort. The hazard stripes above the doors look so good too, and I made sure I dabbed them with rust pigment so they looked properly worn like the rest of it.

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Posted on 18 February 2024, 16:06

A photo of a game of Warhammer Underworlds. There are two rectangular boards with hex tiles on them, the art on the boards looks like the inside of a cave, and there's two pieces of scenery in the two blocked hexes, one is a giant set of yellow crystals and the other is a massive horned skull. Closest to the camera are the four vampires of the Crimson Court, they have pale blue skin and red cloaks, with blood dripping from their weapons and the corners of their mouths. On the other side of the board are the Gorechosen of Dromm, a three-fighter warband consisting of very large meaty-looking warriors in large red armour.

Another game of Warhammer Underworlds, @yayKM took the Gorechosen of Dromm again and after last game I realised that horde warbands really don't work against the Gorechosen so I went for the undead majesty of the vampires of the Crimson Court. It wasn't looking great for the vampires at the end of Turn 2, but a couple of lucky rolls on my part meant the game ended up with none of my vampires dead, all three of the Gorechosen wiped off the board, and I ended up winning 14-8.

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Posted on 17 February 2024, 16:04

A photo of a small scruffy blonde dog lying in a dog bed, with a blue blanket that's balled up in part to the same height as his head, and his head resting on top of the ball.

We got this furry little scruffball ten years ago today! I washed his blankets today, @yayKM made his bed all nice and flat, and he had to completely ball up the blanket and make a headrest instead.

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Posted on 16 February 2024, 23:46

A photo of a small scruffy blonde dog sitting the back seat of a car with his lip stuck so it looks like he's either smirking or sneering.

Beanie had another chemo drip treatment today, he didn't need to be sedated at all and the vet said he got bored half-way through the process and ended up mostly asleep! He's going to get another CT scan in three weeks to see how things are looking, and possibly another dose of chemo if it's necessary.

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Posted on 13 February 2024, 15:44