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A photo of our back yard, covered in calf-high long grass and weeds. Part of the patio is visible also has a bunch of weeds growing from in between the bricks.

The after photo, same view but with the grass short and neat and tidy and the patio free of weeds.

First job of the long weekend was a VERY overdue mowing of the lawn. It was so long that the bin was completely full from the clippings in the back yard and so I didn't even bother doing the front. Also mowed/whippersnipped the horrendous mess of weeds that's at the side of the house where the hot water system and air conditioning compressor are, where we never go.

I started an "Outdoor Walk" workout on my Apple Watch and when I finished it had registered about 1750 active kilojoules after an hour and a half. For comparison my 45 minute workouts on the elliptical are typically around 2000 active kilojoules, so that was a decent effort. ::collapses in a heap::

our house gardening darkroom

Posted on 30 September 2023, 12:36

A photo of a sesame bagel sitting in a cardboard takeaway container with some cheese and sauce visible through the hole. It's hard to see in the photo but the piece of chorizo was nearly as large as the bagel and probably would have been close to a centimetre thick.

Today is the last day in the office, finished it off with a chorizo, cheese, and pickle bagel from the A.P. Bakery that opened up right around the corner from the office, and hot damn was it good. I got a croissant to have with my coffee and that was delicious as well.

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Posted on 29 September 2023, 15:11

A photo looking down a lawn bowls green (very short, well-manicured grass, similar to a golf course), with a person bending down mid-bowl and a bunch of the balls already at the other end of the green close.

Today we went for a walk from Bondi to Clovelly and then played lawn bowls! I haven't played lawn bowls in so long, definitely well prior to COVID hitting. We were a bit iffy on the finer points of the scoring but I THINK we won. 😅

I also took a handful of "proper" photos on the walk and posted them to Flickr.

lightroom work people clovelly lawn bowls

Posted on 27 September 2023, 20:31

A photo of the spiced halloumi pizza, which is actually Turkish pide with a tomato sauce inside it and strips of halloumi and what I think was sun-dried tomato.

A photo of triangular stand in the middle of the table, with three levels and little nibbly desert things on it. There's some Turkish delight, some pastry thing, a couple of little bits of cheese cake, and a piece of chocolate something or other that I had and was delicious.

Nothing exciting to report food-wise yesterday, but today's paid-for-by-work food was dinner at Meccah Bah at Darling Harbour.

Because there were 39 of us all up (!) we did the $79 set menu. The starters were the bread and trio of tips, falafels, lamb sigara boureks, and North African meatballs, we could choose which main we wanted (I got the spiced halloumi pizza) and then we got a selection of desserts to share.

The whole meal was absolutely incredible and I am stuffed to the gills right now. I also had my first margarita because several people expressed surprised that I'd not had one before. It was... fine, but definitely reinforced my stance of not paying for cocktails if I'm paying for it because MAN are they not worth it. 😛

sydney work pizza food portrait mode

Posted on 26 September 2023, 21:08

A cropped screenshot of iOS's Fitness app, showing all three rings closed.

Bam, today is four straight years of closing the rings on my Apple Watch every single day. 💪🏻

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Posted on 24 September 2023, 19:58

Tonight with the 16 year-old we made Nagi's satay chicken stir fry and it was DELICIOUS, highly recommended.

Then we watched The Lego Movie because the subject came up and I said I'd never seen it before and got a "Whaaaat?!" reaction and oh man is that a fun movie. 😂 Lando and C3PO from the original Star Wars trilogy were in it for approximately 30 seconds and they still managed to get the actual original actors to do the voices for them!

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Posted on 23 September 2023, 21:55

A photo of a big lazy susan with all sorts of delicious Chinese food on it: dumplings, pork buns, noodles, chicken feet, etc. (I did not have any of the chicken feet.)

Day two lunch: work-paid-for yum cha.

In related news, I am VERY full right now.

sydney work food yum cha dumplings

Posted on 22 September 2023, 15:35

A photo of a bowl of laksa in a white takeaway food bowl. The broth is thick and rich and it's got slices of barbecue pork sitting atop the noodles.

First lunch of the office week: laksa. 😎

sydney work food portrait mode laksa

Posted on 21 September 2023, 13:29

A wide-angle photo taken from George St in Sydney. There's tram tracks running down the street, tall buildings on either side, and a nice big green tree at the left. It's delightfully sunny and the sky is blue.

I'm in the city today for the first of SEVEN consecutive weekdays. This is going to be weird!

(We've got a full org-wide team event where we've flown everyone in from all over the globe.)

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Posted on 21 September 2023, 11:13

A photo of six armoured human warrior miniatures. Their armour is a deep brass colour, they're wearing big mag-boots of the same colour, and their clothes are a rich dark blue. The helmets are reminiscent of diving bells except with a cool-looking visors instead of a round viewing port. Four of them have big short guns, one is wielding a huge axe, and the other has a massive shield that's taller than he is, with a viewing port and a slot for his gun to sit in so he can see and shoot while remaining behind the shield.

There we go, the first half of my Breachers are done and fully varnished! I'm such a fan of that Nihilakh Oxide paint for the verdigris effect on the armour, it looks SO good.

I've got another seven miniatures to go (a full squad is only twelve miniatures but I'm going to be painting all three gunner variants so I can swap them out depending on the mission) and I'm going to ATTEMPT to get them all batched painted in the one go. Usually my limit is five, so this might end up being split up into two lots, but it'd be good to get them smashed out.

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Posted on 18 September 2023, 21:48