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A photo of a sunny window behind a kitchen sink, with cream-coloured vertical blinds partially open.

A photo of our box window that's in the lounge room, also with nice cream-coloured vertical blinds partially open and the sun coming in.

We FINALLY got the dingy grey vertical blinds in the kitchen and lounge room replaced with nice new light cream-coloured ones today. @yayKM had a seething hatred of the old ones, I didn't think they were that bad but I'll definitely grant the new ones look much nicer, and they brighten the place up quite noticeably at night.

our house darkroom renovations

Posted on 23 August 2024, 21:38

A photo of the box of the Dune 2 Blu-ray and a Pimoroni "HyperPixel" four-inch display, plus the new temperature sensor which consists of a coiled black cable with almost what looks like a silver microphone cover at the end of it where the sensor lives.

New goodies! Dune Part 2 in 4K HDR, a replacement screen for one of our Raspberry Pi-attached dashboards, and a different type of temperature/humidity sensor, the Sensiron SHT-30, that's actually got a weather-proof mesh around it and is specifically designed for outdoor usage.

(Our current BME280 it turns out is not, and despite being protected from direct rain, the humidity after it rains gets high enough that the sensor gets saturated and all the readings end up being wrong. I also found out that you can actually calculate the dew point if you have the temperature and relative humidity so I don't even need the BME280 to do that for me! The only thing that I'll be missing is the atmospheric pressure, I COULD leave the BME280 attached for just that but but I don't actually know that I care all that much about it tbh.)

our house raspberry pi darkroom esp32 dune

Posted on 21 August 2024, 14:35

A photo of a rather tall beef burger with a slice of cheese on it, and a big blob of ketchup dripping out one side.

A photo of a partially-completed jigsaw puzzle. The artwork is of a stylised seaside town with ships on the ocean in the distance, and a some nautical-themed shops in the foreground. It's all done in pastel sort of colours.

For @yayKM's birthday we made home-made burgers, then did some of one of her new jigsaw puzzles!

our house darkroom food portrait mode burger jigsaw puzzle

Posted on 18 August 2024, 21:28

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 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