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A photo of a 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, and her skin is dark brown.

My first Corsair Voidscarred is finished! Now to actually paint the rest of the squad, given I finished my test Genestealer Cults miniature back in January and still haven't done any more of those either... 😅

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Posted on 14 March 2023, 22:15

Swing

I recorded another thing! It's a slower, swing kind of thing, with the guitar just plugged directly into the audio interface rather than going through my full amp+pedal board setup because I couldn't be bothered getting it out. 😛

I'm aware I cocked up in a couple of places, and this is after I rejiggered a couple of parts of the drums because I realised I was starting the fill in the middle of a bar, oops.

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Posted on 12 March 2023, 22:18

A photo of a plate of beer-battered fish on top of hot chips, with a salad on the side.

A wide-angle shot of a beach with pale yellow sand and low waves and blue sky with some wispy clouds. There's lots of beach volleyball stuff set up because there was a volleyball tournament going on.

A photo of two men (me with a short red beard and short hair, and @dezwart with a goatee, glasses, and long hair pulled back into a ponytail) and two women (@dezwart's wife with long brown hair and glasses, and @yayKM with short pink hair) sitting at an outdoor table with dinner plates in front of us that have just the scraps of food left on them. On the chair next to me are two cavoodles, one large dark brown one who has his front paws up on @dezwart's lap, and the other one a smaller caramel-coloured one with her back to the camera and looking intently at the other dog.

That was an A+ day! We went down to Wollongong for lunch with friends at North Beach, I got fish and chips for the first time in YEARS and it was excellent. Then after that went over to visit @dezwart and his lovely wife and their two doggos and had a delicious barbecue dinner!

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Posted on 11 March 2023, 22:25

A selfie of me, a white man with brown hair and a red beard and a... let's say "large forehead", looking at the camera. My beard is very scruffy-looking and my hair isn't much better.

Me again, but this time the hair and beard have been gone over with a #2 razor attachment and it's all wonderfully short and neat.

It always amazes me just how hairy I am when I compare the pre- to post- head shave photos. So gloriously neat and tidy right now.

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Posted on 9 March 2023, 20:28

A photo of a small scruffy blonde dog lying completely upside-down fast asleep, his back legs are up in the air and his head is off to one side.

Beanie is thoroughly enjoying our new aircon.

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Posted on 9 March 2023, 17:26

Fuck yeah, I am now a card-carrying union member. ✊🏻

(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