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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

A photo of six adults (and one very red-haired three year-old) smiling at the camera.

We went over for a barbecue and games at @[email protected]'s place today! Most excellent fun, next plan is for me to make another pulled pork during the day and then go over and introduce everyone to Warhammer Underworlds, aw yiss.

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Posted on 25 February 2023, 17:19

A photo of a dinner plate with a bed of golden mashed potato with a layer of beef mince on top, covered in chopped-up red capsicum and with a healthy dose of chipotle Tabasco sauce on top, and a big dollop of sour cream next to the mash.

Oh man, @yayKM made a nacho... mash... thing for dinner and it was SO GOOD.

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Posted on 23 February 2023, 19:44

A photo of a Warhammer Underworlds board and miniature. The board is covered in hex tiles and the art on it looks like tree roots and the inside of a cave. Closest to the camera are five Skaven (rat-men assassins) in various dynamic poses (one is leaping over a smoke bomb he's just set off), and facing them are three heavily armoured human warriors of Chaos, and a less heavily-armoured wizard who is wielding a staff and looks like she's in the middle of casting a spell.

Mid-week Warhammer Underworlds with @[email protected]!

This time it was me playing the tricksy Skaven, Skittershank's Clawpack, and him playing Khagra's Ravagers. I'd played the Clawpack once before and it went disastrously poorly, but it seems to depend entirely on the cards you draw and when. This time was FAR better, there were lots of fun things to do and we ended up calling it at the end of the second round when I was ahead 13-7 and he had only a single fighter left.

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Posted on 22 February 2023, 22:55

A photo of a pizza in a open pizza box, with garlic bread behind it. On top of the pizza there's meatballs covered in bolognese sauce, fresh basil, onion, and strips of parmesan cheese.

@yayKM was in the office today and stayed back late, I was all excited to treat myself to some Indian for dinner until I went to order it and remembered that they're closed on Tuesday. 😤

So plan B: pizza and garlic bread (and enough of it that I'm also having it for lunch tomorrow).

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Posted on 21 February 2023, 19:43

A photo of entire set of EXTREMELY ramshackle pieces of terrain from the Warhammer 40,000 Kill Team: Octarius box from Games Workshop. At the back are four parts of an Ork fort that look like they belong in a junk yard, the walls and platform on top are made up of a whole ton of pieces of metal scrap, like big plates, corrugated pieces, massive beams, there's a door in there, and a couple of empty gas cylinders. There's also an old rig thing with the big pumping arm in the same ramshackle style, and scattered in front of these larger pieces are piles of scrap metal and chest-high walls also made out of all sorts of pieces of scrap.

All the big pieces are on cut-out pieces of cardboard that are covered in a texture paint that makes it look like sand, and there's various tufts of dry grasses growing around the base of the walls.

IT. IS. DONE.

All of the Kill Team Octarius terrain, fully painted!

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Posted on 19 February 2023, 10:56