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(Professionals Australia if you're interested, they cover tech-related areas, amongst a number of others.)

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Posted on 8 March 2023, 18:52

A photo of a small Android tablet attached to the wall, showing two zones "Living" and "Beds" with separate temperature settings for each.

We've had a problem with our aircon system where it'll cool things down really quickly, the compressor turns off but the fans remains running to keep air circulating, and at that point the system starts blowing humid air and making it absolutely disgusting inside. I've got all sorts of data from our temperature sensor and power usage setup showing that that's what was going on, but when we had the people who installed the aircon out, they'd never heard of that problem before and didn't know what to do.

We gave up for a year (mostly because we stopped needing the aircon because summer had finished), but earlier this year I called someone else, he came out and immediately pinpointed the issue as poor temperature control (the only temperature sensor was on the aircon panel that's directly underneath the air intake). He recommended a new control system with separate sensors and more fine-grained control, and we had it installed today. It lets us have separate temperatures set for the lounge room and office, and early signs are looking promising!

The only thing I don't like is that it's basically a glorified Android tablet, but I've done the responsible thing and set up a separate isolated wireless network for it to live on. 😛

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Posted on 7 March 2023, 13:12

A photo of a small scruffy blonde dog lying half curled up on the floor, fast asleep.

Hot weather makes for a sleepy Beanie.

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Posted on 6 March 2023, 16:12

A screenshot from Cities: Skylines, looking down a leafy boulevard. The road has two lanes on each side, one regular and one bus lane, and there's a yellow bendy-bus just pulling into a stop at the left. On the right alongside the road is a train station with a whole bunch of people walking down the street and going into the station. On the other side of the train station is a highway, and there's a pedestrian foot bridge crossing over it.

Apart from doing chores, this weekend has been spent almost entirely playing Cities: Skylines on the Xbox. NO REGRETS.

They released a free "remastered" update that brings it in line with the (software) architecture of the PC version, and one of the things that allows is that instead of a maximum of nine 2x2 kilometre tiles in total area, your city can now be a maximum of TWENTY FIVE 2x2 kilometre tiles! Unfortunately the save file format is totally different and so can't be brought from the original game to the remastered version, so I'm having to start from scratch. My biggest city in the old game was about 120k population, I'm at a bit under 19k in my new city now. As always my favourite part is setting up the public transport and watching all the little people go everywhere!

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Posted on 5 March 2023, 20:35

A photo of a plate with fried eggs, bacon, and toast on it.

A photo of two white men (me, with a red beard streaked with grey that's getting to be in desperate need of a trim, and my friend who also has a scruffy beard streaked with grey, but his is a very dark brown bordering on black) smiling at the camera.

A wide-angle view taken from the middle of the Sydney Harbour Bridge looking over at the Sydney Opera House. There's a GIANT cruise ship moored at Circular Quay to the right, behind which are a bunch of tall buildings. The sky is all grey and cloudy with very small patches of blue poking through.

Aww yeah, free hotel breakfast. It's been YEARS since I've had anything but cereal for breakfast, haha. A friend went to the show as well, we caught up briefly after the concert then met up for breakfast this morning, then I walked over the Harbour Bridge (which despite having lived in Sydney my entire life, I'd never done before).

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Posted on 3 March 2023, 12:27

A photo looking over at Sydney Harbour Bridge and towards the CBD itself. Lots of tall buildings are visible, plus of course the Bridge.

A photo taken from towards the side of a stage with a First Nations woman at the microphone and a fellow with a didgeridoo behind her, with a big crowd in the shadows in front of the stage.

A photo taken with several warriors on the stage, they have round shields and spears and are in a circle facing inwards. There's a guy with antlers in his headdress off to the right, and the lighting is very orange/red coloured.

The warriors again, this time in blue lighting. One of them is actually a woman who has no top on and she's holding her spear up in front of her in a defiant manner and is mid-yell.

I went to see Heilung tonight and HOLY SHIT IT WAS FUCKING EPIC. Legit chills at multiple points during the performance. There was no opening band, but before Heilung themselves came out they had two First Nations people come out and give a bit of a speech and play a short bit of music, and everyone gave them a really good cheer which was wonderful.

I decided to stay at a hotel near the venue rather than needing to keep track of the train times (and then having @yayKM wake up from Beanie barking when I got home at like 12:30-1am or whatever). What a brilliant choice that was, and check out the view I was greeted with when I got into my room!

I took a ton of photos of the concert, it was equal parts music and theatric performance, and will process and post them tomorrow.

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Posted on 2 March 2023, 23:36

A photo of a partially painted Aeldari miniature (think "space elf"). She's wearing elegant fuchsia-coloured armour with a dark turquoise cape flowing behind her and a bunch of dark leather pouches across her chest, and is holding two bone-coloured alien-looking pistols, one pointing like she's about to shoot and the other one behind her pointing upwards. She's got a cool-looking rebreather on that has an integrated targeting set up over one eye, and she's got a bald head except for a big tall top knot.

Definitely happy with this colour scheme I settled on for my Corsair Voidscarred! Not bad at all for an hour and a half's work so far. She's not finished obviously, and I still need to get some more paints to do the highlights with, but I think I'll be able to get her done this weekend.

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Posted on 1 March 2023, 22:14

A photo of ten undercoated miniatures. Their armour is all quite elegant-looking as befits space elves, but they've got a lot of little details that make them look more like pirates. Everyone has a cool cloak, and the majority of them have very punk-looking haircuts (undercuts, mohawks, topknot ponytails) and are wearing rebreathers. Their poses are all mid-action.

The cover of the Warhammer 40,000 Second Edition army rulebook for the Eldar. The artwork on the front is classic Games Workshop, an exquisitely-armoured Eldar warrior standing atop a piece of rock, wielding a sword above his head. There's TONS of warriors in the background and all sorts of tanks and guns being shot, though they're all similarly elegant-looking Eldar warriors and tanks.

Got my Kill Team Corsair Voidscarred all assembled and undercoated!

They're such great miniatures, and I've always had a soft spot for the Aeldari (previously known as the Eldar until Games Workshop did their Great Renaming a number of years ago). They were my very first Warhammer 40,000 army when I first got into it back in 1995, and I still have the Second Edition Codex: Eldar. All the Aeldari are basically space elves, and the Corsair Voidscarred are pirate space elves which is even more fun. (There's also the cousins of the Aeldari, the Drukhari — previously known as the Dark Eldar — who are BDSM space elves. I assembled and primed a Kill Team squad of them back in November last year.)

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Posted on 27 February 2023, 21:49

Tonight Beanie finally met the next-door neighbour's dog Salem and it went fine! I was out taking him for a walk around the block, and we ran into Salem and the neighbour out the front of a house around the corner. Beanie of course went feral, but I got the neighbour to do the thing that a dog trainer did YEARS ago where we picked both dogs up and let Beanie give the other dog a good sniff, then put them back down. After that there was a bit of dancing back and forth as they continued to sniff each other for a bit, but once they were over it that was pretty much that and they mostly just ignored each other while the neighbour and I chatted.

Very interested to see how Beanie goes next time we run into them, if he remembers Salem or not. It seems to be just the initial introduction to new dogs that he has a problem with, once he's had a sniff he's fine.

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Posted on 26 February 2023, 19:37

A photo of the end game state of a Scrabble board.

And tonight we continued with the board games by playing Scrabble for the first time in... I'm not even sure how many years. I won 312 to 253, though was extremely helped by getting both the only Q and the only Z.

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Posted on 25 February 2023, 22:17