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Posted on 31 August 2022, 13:01

A photo of a grassy backyard with a wooden fence, and directly behind the fence is a two-storey house. In the upper window of the house a grey and white cat is sitting in front of the blinds looking down at the ground, where a small scruffy blonde dog is up on his hind legs looking up at the cat and barking.

The neighbours behind us have cats that love sitting in the upstairs window, and if Beanie happens to see them he get gets VERY fussed and has to bark about it.

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Posted on 31 August 2022, 11:25

A photo of satay chicken with mixed vegetables on a plate.

A photo of a bowl of vanilla ice cream topped with Ice Magic and crushed peanuts.

I had another rubbish night's sleep last night (my right thigh muscles and lower back have been sore, enough that it keeps me awake if I don't take ibuprofen), so I called the physiologist and managed to get an appointment this afternoon. After a bunch of stretching and questions and testing, he reckoned it was most likely because my back is REALLLLY stiff and it's not quite pinching a nerve but enough that it's causing signalling weirdness to my leg. He gave me a thorough massaging and I've got some exercises to do and will see how it goes and will go in again next week.

So tonight we went out for Thai for dinner and bought some crushed peanuts on the way back to take @[email protected]'s advice with the ice cream and Ice Magic from last time, and HOT DAMN was she on the money! 👌🏻

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Posted on 30 August 2022, 20:05

A product shot of an electric guitar. It's black around the edges and fades into raw maple in the middle of the body as well as the headstock, and has three pickups (two humbuckers and a single coil in the middle).

A product shot of the Boss SD-1 "Super Overdrive" guitar pedal. It's BRIGHT YELLOW and has three dials on the top of it. Fun fact, this pedal has been around since 1981 and still kicks huge amounts of arse.

A product shot of the Boss RC-5 "Loopstation" guitar pedal. It's in a handsome red colour and has a small LCD at the top with a dial next to it and some buttons that light up red and green.

A product shot of the Boss NS-2 noise suppressor guitar pedal. It's an austere-looking unit in white with three black dials with white faces on the top of it.

I've been eyeing off one of Ibanez's guitars for a little while now, the Nita Strauss signature "JIVA10", and was going to get it when my bonus comes in at the end of next month.

I emailed the music store (I buy all my big stuff through Musos Corner, they're based in Newcastle and are really good) and they said that guitar is a special order and that if I ordered it now it'd arrive in late September, and they can take it out of the box before they ship it to me and make sure all is well and that it's all set up right and tuned up and such. So I figured fuck it, I'll get a head start and buy it now so it'll arrive at the end of next month. 😛 Also picked up some pedals as well, I'm REALLY looking forward to using the RC-5 loop station, apparently a looper pedal is absolutely brilliant for learning guitar with, and this one actually has a bunch of drum kits and styles in it so you can practice along to something more interesting to keep with than a straight metronome.

Also, just LOOK at that guitar, it's so PRETTY. 😍

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Posted on 29 August 2022, 21:10

A photo of a two litre tub of Bulla vanilla ice cream and a bottle of Ice Magic chocolate ice cream topping (which Wikipedia helpfully informs me is called "Bird's Ice Magic" in the UK and "Magic Shell" in the US).

I have no idea why but I've been uncomfortable in bed for the last week-ish and not sleeping very well, and today I'm feeling generally all-over achy. Decided to make myself feel better by going trashy and hitting up the shops to buy some vanilla ice cream and Ice Magic and let me tell you, it's pretty excellent.

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Posted on 28 August 2022, 20:17

My First Song (Electro Mix)

There we go, I present to you "My First Song (Electro Mix)"! 😁

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Posted on 26 August 2022, 21:21

A screenshot of Logic Pro showing three audio tracks and two floating windows above it with all sorts of knobs and dials.

I am having ENTIRELY too much fun in Logic Pro right now. I've taken the song I recorded back in May, recorded a bass track with my guitar amp/load box/audio interface setup, and have turned it into this electronic-sounding thing. (Once I'm happy with it, I'll upload it.)

Also, man, listening to this back again I can really hear that I sucked at keeping the guitar in time with the drums. 😛

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Posted on 25 August 2022, 21:42

A photo of a set of wooden drumsticks, and the boxes of an Ernie Ball "Volt" power supply and a drum practice pad.

Why yes, it IS more music-related things!

I got a teeny little power supply for my yet-to-exist pedal board because I don't want to have to deal with 9V batteries, and a practice drum pad because I've seen multiple (extremely good) drummers mention that every aspiring drummer should have and use one.

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Posted on 23 August 2022, 13:09

A photo of a shiny black electric guitar sitting on a guitar stand.

There we go, one fully restrung and intonated guitar! (I haven't chopped the overhang fully off the top of the strings yet because I'm not convinced I wound them around the tuning pegs enough. Going to give it a couple of days and make sure it's not slipping out of tune.)

I can definitely tell how much brighter the sound is with the new strings, even without having plugged it into the amp yet.

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Posted on 19 August 2022, 17:13

A photo taken at night looking up at three huge tower buildings. The front of them are curved and the lights are mostly blue but with a couple of sections where it's a much warmer, yellow colour. The photo itself is slightly blurry which makes it almost look like it's looking up into clouds which makes the buildings seem even taller.

After Featherdale, we went into the city for dinner at a Chinese restaurant called "Lotus". It was definitely tasty, but WAY overpriced, next time we'd just as soon go to Chatswood and get the same food for about a third to half the price.

After that we did a brief wander around Barangaroo, and while this photo isn't the world's best quality (it wasn't even night mode, just the ultra-wide angle lens on my iPhone so it struggled a bit with the low light), I REALLY love the feel of it. Gives me very Bladerunner-esque vibes.

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Posted on 18 August 2022, 22:19