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A photo of a pile of pan-fried dumplings in a cardboard takeaway box.

We went to Castle Towers for dinner, intending on trying the Japanese place that's there, except it was ridiculously packed and had a queue to even order, so we gave up and got food court dumplings, which were better than they had any right to be (though they WERE pretty greasy).

Then we went to Uniqlo and I bought new clothes that actually look nice! (Of the three items I got, two are black and the pair of pants is a VERY dark navy blue. So I'm still wearing all black, just with a nicer cut and better fit.)

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Posted on 30 June 2022, 21:44

A photo of scrambled eggs and potato gems sitting on a plate. The potato gems are golden-brown and crispy, and the eggs are fluffy.

Dinner. Of. Champions.

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Posted on 28 June 2022, 20:20

A photo of a small scruffy blonde dog lying stretched out on the floor on his side. There's sunlight coming in from a window that's falling just on his face and belly.

It's important to keep your belly warm.

beanie our house dog darkroom

Posted on 28 June 2022, 11:49

A photo of an Arduino connected to a breadboard that has a resistor and a red LED plugged into it. The LED is lit up.

I'm pretty sure this is the first circuit I've put together since I had one of those 100-in-1 electronic project kits when I was a kid! 😁

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Posted on 25 June 2022, 10:51

A photo taken with the front-facing camera with me sitting at my desk and the camera aimed at me, with the head of a small scruffy blonde dog popping up from my lap and resting on my arm. His eyes are half-closed.

Current Beanie status.

beanie our house dog darkroom

Posted on 24 June 2022, 16:40

A photo of the four elven miniatures that make up The Shadeborn warband from Warhammer Underworlds: Nethermaze. They're all in very dynamic poses, all lithe and mid-leap. The painting is a black undercoat with white airbrushed from the top angles of the miniature so it really gives a sense of depth as all of the lower surfaces are darker, as they would be if they were lit up directly from above.

The five Skaven from Warhammer Underworlds: Nethermaze. Skaven are sneaky, tricksy ratmen, and these ones are in very dynamic poses as well and look like they're about to attack. The bases are sculpted to look like they're lurking in a sewer, and the painting has been done in the same way as the Shadeborn: black undercoat with white airbrushed from the top so it looks like they're being lit from above.

Well, I'm not remotely confident enough to do actual painting with my airbrush, but I reckon I've got the hang of this zenithal highlighting thing.

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Posted on 23 June 2022, 21:58

A photo of the Pokit Pro box, showing the multimeter itself which looks like REALLY FAT pencil that tapers down and ends in a metal point. The body is dark grey and red. Next to it in clear plastic box is the Arduino starter which has a TON of components visible: resistors, LEDs, cables, a breadboard for connecting the components to, a couple of segmented LED displays, and more stuff visible under that that you can't make out.

Yaaaay, the "Pokit Pro" multimeter I backed back at the end of 2019 finally arrived! I got the one that comes with the Arduino starter kit and holy crap is there a lot more stuff in it than I was expecting. 😮

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Posted on 23 June 2022, 12:38

A photo of a big shiny black wooden board with stars painting on it, with two B-wings, two A-wings, and an X-wing on one side and a TIE Punisher, two TIE Interceptors, and three TIE Fighters on the other.

A photo mid-game close-up with a bunch of the ships all close together facing every which way.

Mid-week gaming was X-wing again, but this time we had TOO much stuff going on! Definitely need to tone it back for next time, fewer ships and fewer upgrades. We only got two rounds in, and nobody actually blew anyone up. It was pretty chaotic, but also fun. On the plus side, my newly-starred board looked fantastic. 😁

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Posted on 22 June 2022, 23:17

A photo of a Warhammer 40,000 game board, with painted miniatures and shamefully unpainted terrain that looks like a junkyard on it. (...the terrain itself looks like a junkyard, the fact that it's shamefully unpainted is unrelated to this.)

Tonight's game of Kill Team went very differently from the first one a few weeks ago! I ended up absolutely thrashing the friend I was playing against, 8 victory points to 3, and we didn't end up playing the fourth turn because he was down to one single unit at the end of the third.

Though he kindly pointed out after the game that my deployment was very bad and he held back a bit from just totally destroying my troops on the first turn so it wouldn't be a lopsided game. 😅

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Posted on 21 June 2022, 19:33

A photo taken from the 30th floor of our office building, looking west across Sydney and Darling Harbour. There's lots of buildings lower than us, and white fluffy clouds in the sky.

I came into the office today to pick up the last of the personal belongings I'd left here from March of 2020 and to play some more Kill Team after work, and man, the views from here never get old.

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Posted on 21 June 2022, 12:45