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A photo of beef massaman curry on top of rice in a white bowl.

A photo of a can of Brookvale Union's spiced ginger beer. The art on the front has an elephant sitting down, wearing a Thai-looking decorative robe, but it also has an eyepatch and a pirate hat and is wielding a large sceptre.

Today is our thirteenth wedding anniversary! We WERE going to go out to Meat & Wine Co. for delicious slow-cooked meats but unfortunately over the weekend Kristina finally picked the cold I had. 😞 So instead we got takeaway Thai and are having our meats next week. Finishing it all up with a ginger beer that has spiced rum in it and it is DELICIOUS.

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Posted on 9 June 2022, 19:54

A selfie taken from a very low angle next to my chair. I'm a pale man with a red beard, and in my lap and partially curled around my side is a small scruffy blonde dog fast asleep with his snoot mushed in between my leg and the raised plastic bit at the edge of the chair.

Beanie really likes having his face smooshed into things when he sleeps.

Also, MAN he's a good hot water bottle. 😛 My lap is so cozy right now.

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Posted on 9 June 2022, 15:44

A screenshot from the first-person shooter "Marathon 2: Durandal". There's three humans in green jumpsuits holding handguns who are fighting four purple aliens armed with staves, and there's a fourth human who's in the middle of a gruesome death from one of the aliens. The aliens and humans are both quite clearly 2D sprites, though they've been upscaled so they look a bit less awful.

A screenshot from the real-time strategy game "Myth II: Soulblighter". It's a fantasy game, there's a formation of knights with swords and shields, two dwarves, and six elven bowmen all standing on a brown expanse of ground that's in the middle of a village. There's two enemy warriors approaching armed with round shields and swords, and one has just been hit by all six of the bowmen. On the ground there's a bunch of dead bodies with blood scattered around.

Current status: Getting my retro gaming on with Bungie's Marathon 2 and Myth II. So good, I spent SO MANY hours playing these when I was a kid.

(...Is it still retro gaming if it's the original games but running natively on a current machine with high-resolution texture packs? 🤔)

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Posted on 5 June 2022, 20:48

A photo of a small scruffy blonde dog lying on the floor in the sun. His head is propped up on the edge of a MacBook Pro box.

I'm not sure how this is comfortable given the sharp edge of the box, but he seems pretty content!

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Posted on 5 June 2022, 11:40

A photo of the box of Warhammer Underworlds: Nethermaze, and the Exiled Dead warband. The box art for Nethermaze has an elf with a full face mask on, with long hair and she's wielding a sword and staff. Underneath that are more elves in combat with sneaky-looking rat-men, the Skaven. The Exiled Dead warband is a bunch of zombies that have a very Frankenstein mad-scientist vibe to them, several have metal pieces coming out of them with electricity crackling around.

Yassss, moar plastic.

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Posted on 1 June 2022, 16:05

A photo of a pizza sitting on a plate. Just visible in places under the cheese are pieces of ham and onion, and on the top it has sun-dried tomatoes and olives.

And then we went out for Italian!

We WERE going to go for Thai and had made a booking, but Kristina got a very apologetic phone call this afternoon saying that they had to close the whole restaurant down because something had gone wrong in the kitchen and they were going to be closed for like a week because the whole floor needed to be taken up.

We'd been to this Italian place before MANY years ago but had zero memory of how it was. Turns out, really good! They had a brownie tiramisu for dessert that I really wanted to try but by the time I finished the pizza I was STUFFED. And this was just the medium pizza, not even the large one.

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Posted on 28 May 2022, 20:40

A photo of a Warhammer Underworlds game board setup. There's three individual boards, two are have the artwork underneath looking like deep within a cave and the third looking under it's an underwater cave with lots of blues. At the front closest to the camera are four lithe and elegant aelves, the far side has three diseased Nurgle warriors, and the left has seven gore-covered ghouls.

Another visit from @[email protected], another game of Warhammer Underworlds! Beanie was really good, we didn't even need to break out the treats to get him to stop barking.

The Underworlds game was very one-sided, Kristina won 12-7-7 and I only scored my last three glory at the VERY end of the whole game.

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Posted on 28 May 2022, 18:23

I am now officially discharged from the exercise physiologist! 🎉

When we started a few months ago, she had a "force meter" device where it was attached to my ankle at the front and I'd sit down and pull as hard as I could backwards. My right leg measured ~13kg and my left was 11kg. Today we did it again, and the right leg was 20kg and the left was 24kg!

I'm not at the point yet where I'm able to have the elliptical up to where I used to use it (previously I was at 12˚ incline, 14 resistance out of a maximum of 20, right now I'm at 2˚ incline with 7 resistance) but that'll just be a matter of building up to it.

💪🏻

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Posted on 27 May 2022, 13:25

A photo of a small scruffy blonde dog lying upside-down with his legs in the air, in a patch of sunshine that's coming in from a nearby window.

Current Beanie status: warm AF.

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Posted on 25 May 2022, 12:54

A photo of a Warhammer 40,000 game board, with painted miniatures and shamefully unpainted terrain that looks like a junkyard on it.

We actually finished the game! 😮 I lost, partially because we weren't playing with the extra bits to allow for more victory points to simplify things, but also because there was so much to keep track of I kept forgetting about various abilities. Still, keen for the next game!

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Posted on 24 May 2022, 19:21