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A photo of a handsome-looking stainless steel portafilter for an espresso machine. The handle is made of a reddish wood.

Upping my coffee game with a bottomless portafilter, thanks to @SeaFury. 😁

I also have a better basket on the way, but it's taking longer to arrive.

our house darkroom coffee

Posted on 15 November 2024, 12:52

Slow going (I have too many other hobbies completing for my time 😅) but that's the second piece of the Hivestorm terrain finished!

our house kill team games workshop photos.app painting terrain hivestorm

Posted on 11 November 2024, 21:20

A photo of some sort of striped lizard with very long claws that would have easily been 30cm just from nose to back legs, with its tail being even longer, hanging vertically on the red bricks that make up the outside wall of our house. It's directly in the afternoon sun and was probably wonderfully warm.

We had a visitor today! During our game of Warhammer Quest I got a message from our next-door neighbour with a photo looking out of his kitchen window to the side of our house of this handsome fellow just chilling on the wall.

I went to see if I could retrieve it and deposit it in the bushland across the street it so the Indian mynas didn't attack it, but it was WAY faster than the blue-tongue lizards we normally have to rescue and there was no chance I was going to be able to coax it into a container for relocation, which in turn meant I don't think the mynas would have had any chance of getting it either.

(To be clear, this isn't the photo the neighbour sent, I took it myself because our houses aren't THAT close together. 😅)

our house photos.app lizard

Posted on 9 November 2024, 20:45

A photo of Emelda Braskov, one of the hero miniatures of Warhammer Quest, who is wearing heavy plate armour and holding a massive sword, facing off against four skeleton warriors in rusty armour and tattered red cloaks who are wielding spears and shields. Next to them is one of the "mysterious object" markers, which is a gallows pole with a skeleton hanging on it. The skeleton is clutching at its through where the noose is, and is pointing off to the left with its other hand.

We had @wobin over again for a continuation of our Warhammer Quest adventures, and it went a lot better than last time. This game was a "Decapitation" journey where we're off to kill one of the big bads, it's split into two stages where the first one involves fighting through to find their lair, and the second is actually killing the boss itself. We did just the first stage tonight, and ended up getting almost everyone inspired within the first two turns, which meant we were steamrollering through the hostiles for a while, though our momentum ended up grinding to a halt when @yayKM's warrior was extremely badly wounded taking on a room full of skeletons and had to hang back until we could heal her up. Next time it's going to be taking out Watch Captain Halgrim, the skeleton warrior boss, and nothing except his skeletal Ulfenwatch minions.

our house gaming games workshop photos.app warhammer quest

Posted on 9 November 2024, 20:36

A photo of the box of the Espresso display. The display itself is only 5mm thick and has a silver housing with a bit of a chin at the bottom similar to how the old Intel iMacs used to, though much less chunky.

When I'm recording my drums in Logic Pro, my laptop sits on its stand over behind and to the left of the drum kit, and I have my iPad sitting in the middle acting as a second monitor so I can put Logic Pro on that and see which bar I'm up to without needing to awkwardly turn my head over to where the laptop is. The annoying part about that though is that you can't actually tap on the iPad screen to do anything, it's purely displaying output, so to pause Logic Pro or go back to a specific section I still need to lean over to the laptop.

It turns out that there's a company that makes little touch-capable portable displays, so I bought the 13-inch one (mostly because anything larger doesn't fit in between the two crash cymbals on the drum kit 😅)! I've also got a VESA mount stand to attach to the drum stand and a little VESA mount tablet/display holder so I can use both the iPad (during regular drum practice when I'm just using it to stream music) as well as the new Espresso display when I'm recording stuff, but unfortunately the display holder isn't arriving until next week so I can't take it for a proper spin yet.

our house new toys photos.app

Posted on 8 November 2024, 14:42

A screenshot of my character in Dragon Age: The Veilguard. She's a Qunari, meaning she's tall, broad-shouldered and quite muscular, and has two massive horns that protrude from the sides of her head just above the temples. They curl back and under so they're pointing forwards, sort of like a goat. She has golden rings around them at various points, and has a neck tattoo that looks like a choker, along with another set of square geometric tattoos on her cheeks. Her skin is a dark blue/grey sort of colour, and she has a swath of hair that comes down from in between her horns and over the right side of her face. You can't tell from the angle in the screenshot but that same side of her head has long hair on it behind the horns, and the other side is shaved. In short, she will fuck you up if you look at her funny.

My favourite character in Dragon Age: Inquisition was my Qunari Mage, so I've gone for the same this time around in Veilguard! I love how she just radiates "I do not take any shit from anyone" energy.

(Also, yay fully-controllable photo mode in this game too! Seriously, all games should have that IMO.)

screenshot gaming xbox dragon age: the veilguard

Posted on 4 November 2024, 22:05

A photo of a large stainless steel pot extremely full of the aforementioned Cajun beef pasta. You can't really see any of that though because there's a delicious layer of partially-melted cheese across the top of it all.

And then we made Nagi's one pot Cajun beef pasta recipe!

Absolutely delicious as always, but I think her recipe assumes you have a significantly larger pot because the amount of water ended up being a fair bit too much and it came out rather on the soupy side (plus the cheese on top at the end didn't melt as much as I was hoping). It made like six and a half serves though, and I'm sure that the extra liquid will all be absorbed by the pasta for the leftovers.

our house portrait mode cheese photos.app pasta

Posted on 2 November 2024, 19:57

A photo of a white femme-ish non-binary person with dyed black hair and wearing all black clothing, in the middle of playing a bass guitar.

First bass lesson with the seventeen year-old!

our house lily photos.app bass guitar

Posted on 2 November 2024, 17:14

A photo of the subwoofer, it's a glossy black box about 29cm square, with no ornamentation on it at all except for a silver plate in the middle of the top face that says "REL" on it. There are four short silver legs, and it's sitting in a corner next to our TV stand in front of the window.

We have FINALLY upgraded our lounge room stereo system and added a subwoofer! It's a teensy little REL Acoustics Tzero MkIII (sealed box, 6.5" driver) but damn does it add some excellent punch.

The bookshelf speakers we have are twenty year-old Wharfedale ones and still sound fantastic, but the HomePod definitely shows them up in terms of bass so I decided to finally do something about it.

our house new toys photos.app subwoofer

Posted on 2 November 2024, 13:50

A photo of a magpie lark, a medium-sized black and white bird with a pointy yellow beak, walking around in our back lawn.

Unexpected benefit of the 120mm (5x) lens in my new iPhone: I can take better photos of the interesting birds we get bopping around in our backyard!

our house birds photos.app

Posted on 30 October 2024, 10:47