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A wide-angle photo of seven people sitting around in a loose circle with electric guitars on their laps.

Spent a couple of hours this afternoon jamming* with some local dads.

*Well, I say "jamming" but that's overstating it in my case, I'm not good enough to actually just look at what someone else is doing and be able to play along with them.

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Posted on 30 June 2024, 15:59

A photo taken of a table in the middle of a Magic: The Gathering game with cards everywhere, plus snacks and cups in scattered around. There were six people but the table is large enough that only four people's worth of cards in play fit into the photo.

Tonight I went over to a friend's place for some birthday nerding for him and another friend (both of them born on the same day, just a year apart). We got two six-player games of Magic in, and then probably like an hour of a very silly card game called Muffin Time before the game essentially got reset and we decided to leave it there, haha. I won the first game of Magic, and one of the birthday boys won the second one.

This was "Commander" format Magic where you can only have one single copy of a given card, and the decks are larger (100 cards vs. 60 in a normal deck), and I absolutely cannot brain sufficiently to figure out synergies between that many individual cards to make a Commander deck so I just played with other people's decks rather than my own regular format ones.

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Posted on 29 June 2024, 23:32

A photo of a busy construction site with big sewer pipes sections sitting in the foreground, various earthmoving vehicles in the distance, and a set of unit blocks in the distance with cranes on top of and behind them.

After almost two years of nothing happening with the earthworks near us, suddenly it's action stations.

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Posted on 27 June 2024, 9:20

A photo of a small scruffy blonde dog lying in a patch of sunlight, with his back up against a set of white IKEA wardrobes. It's winter here so the sun is coming in at a nice low angle and it looks hella cozy.

Favourite spot in the house.

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Posted on 25 June 2024, 12:45

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 bottom closest to the camera are my six converted all-women Space Marines clad in deep red armour, at the left are the four hulking Adeptus Custodes in giant golden armour, and at the right are the six Night Lords Chaos Space Marines, in fairly bright blue armour and with small red bat-looking wings as decorations in various places.

We had our semi-regular game of Sunday night Kill Team tonight, my Intercession squad versus a four-man team of Adeptus Custodes versus the brand-new Night Lords squad!

The final score was 3-2-0 Night Lords/Intercession/Custodes, but we ended up calling shortly after the start of the third turn because there were only three objective markers and I couldn't physically move fast enough to contest the two that the Night Lords had. In retrospect we should have put some more objectives down, but the mission we chose had three objective markers on it but with different rules that we decided were too complicated, so we just did a standard "capture the point" type of thing.

Play of the match goes to my leader Sister Sarine, she fired a supercharged plasma pistol shot into one of the Custodes and rolled two 6s, a 2, and 1. I'd taken the strategic ploy that lets you reroll an attack dice if you're shooting at something within 6" so rerolled the 1 for that and scored another 6, then spent a command point and rerolled the 2 and got ANOTHER 6! That SHOULD have been game over for the enemy operative but annoyingly he'd taken a strategic ploy that takes crit damage down to normal damage, and so even though he was only rolling one defence dice because of the AP2 plasma pistol shot, it was still a 2+ save and so he survived on only 3 wounds. ::fistshake::

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Posted on 23 June 2024, 23:13

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 looks like you're inside a cave. Closest to the camera are Lady Harrow's Mournflight, four swooping spirits in sickly green. To the right at The Dread Pagent, three humans in purple clothing and light armour and then a very large goat man holding a huge sword above his head. Lastly at the left are the six beastmen of Grashrak's Despoilers, all wearing raggy armour and clothing.

A photo of a grey staffie puppy with a white stripe down his chest, standing on the arm of a lounge and desperately looking like he wants to leap down. The photo is slightly blurry because he would not stay still!

We went over to @[email protected]'s for an excellent game of Warhammer Underworlds this afternoon. I decided to simplify things a bit and we just used the Beastgrave/Direchasm era warbands with their stock decks, me with Lady Harrow's Mournflight, @yayKM with Grashrak's Despoilers, and @[email protected] with the Slaanesh warband The Dread Pagent.

It was VERY tight at the end of the second round, with me and @[email protected] tied on 11 glory each, and @yayKM not far behind on 8, but I was able to score several objectives and make a couple of kills thanks to some crazy-good rolling, and the final score was me on 17, @[email protected] on 12, and @yayKM sadly still on 8.

Next time we're going to do an all-Chaos game with @[email protected] staying with the Dread Pagent, @yayKM using Khorne's Gorechosen of Dromm, and I'll probably use the Nurgle warband The Wurmspat (though now I think about it, maybe this might be a good reason for me to finally finish painting the Tzeentch warband Ephilim's Pandaemonium...).

In addition to Warhammer Underworlds, we met the most adorable staffie puppy named Hendrix, who is only 12 weeks old! 😍 He was SO excited to smell us, and he had his entire snout and part of his head fully inside my shoe after we arrived, haha.

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Posted on 22 June 2024, 18:52

A photo of the head of a vacuum cleaner with a little fuzzy roller inside it, with a bright green light shining out from it highlighting exactly how much of our dog's hair is on the floor (spoiler alert, it's a lot, and he's not even a big dog).

We bought a new top-of-the-line Dyson handstick vacuum cleaner to replace our probably eight year old one that was starting to die and not doing a great job of, well, vacuuming anymore. The new one has this genuinely useful (and quite horrifying) feature on the hard floor head where it shines a bright green light out at an extremely low angle so you can see exactly where you haven't vacuumed yet, and how much shit you're about to clean up. 🤢

On the upside, my nose is now the clearest it's been for AGES.

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Posted on 14 June 2024, 22:36

A screenshot of my current desktop setup, with the music notation for Bad Moon Rising on the left, and Logic Pro showing separate tracks for the parts of Bad Moon Rising plus another for my actual bass guitar on the right.

Okay THIS is cool as hell: one of the features Apple added with the latest Logic Pro update is the ability to split an audio file into its constituent parts (vocals, drums, bass, and "other"), and the guy who did my bass guitar course actually wrote out a bunch of bass lines for a selection of 50 songs of various genres, and one of the ones included is Credence Clearwater Revival's "Bad Moon Rising". That song is actually in my iTunes library so I dropped it into Logic Pro, had it analyse the tempo so the metronome would match, then ran it through the splitter and muted the bass track. So now I'm actually playing my bass along for reals to the song! 🤘🏻

(The keen-eyed among you may note that the tempo according to Logic Pro is actually twice what it should be, I think the 8th-note hi-hats throw the calculations off but it doesn't really matter.)

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Posted on 12 June 2024, 21:12

A selfie of me, a white man with short hair and a short red beard, taken from a very low angle next to my desk chair. On my lap is a small scruffy blonde dog lying with his head draped over the side of my leg.

Furry hot water bottle: deployed.

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Posted on 12 June 2024, 16:00

A selfie looking down a long table in a pub, with a bunch of people smiling at the camera.

A photo of a large knitted chicken in green and brown wool. There's nothing for scale but it's probably a good 20cm high.

Today marks fifteen years that @yayKM and I have been married! We met up at our local pub for lunch with a bunch of friends and it was most excellent.

And @wobin knitted us an amazing anniversary present, a large chicken who we are naming Agatha! 😂

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Posted on 9 June 2024, 16:21