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Operation Dropper Bottles has begun!

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Posted on 17 March 2022, 22:34

A selfie of me, a white man with a red beard and short hair, holding a shiny black electric guitar. The guitar strap is thick and leather, and there's a capo attached to the neck of the guitar, which is a device that sits across all the strings and makes the pitch of the notes higher.

I made some guitar-related purchases! I needed a new strap because I'm pretty sure the one I was using was the original Fender one from my first guitar kit from like fourteen years ago, and it was starting to tear where the strap hooks onto the guitar, so I got a handsome new black leather one. The other bit was a trigger capo because the next section of my Fender Play learnings needs it.

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Posted on 17 March 2022, 20:08

A photo of a Warhammer 40,000: Kill Team board with terrain on it that's all ramshackle and looks like it's part of a junk yard, which has been undercoated in black but has shamefully had nothing else done to it.

We FINALLY got a game of the new Kill Team in! We played without tac-ops or equipment just to streamline things a bit, and only got two out of the four turns done, but it was really good, can't wait to play more.

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Posted on 16 March 2022, 23:26

A photo of our old pergola. It's done in timber with white paint over it, and the roofing is polycarbonate. There's a vertical post in the middle of the longest span and the whole thing looks a bit shit.

A another photo taken from underneath the pergola looking out. You can see that the wood isn't very good quality and is rotting in places and the roofing has dust and mud on the top of it. It too looks awful.

A photo of the new pergola. It's done in white metal and looks clean and airy and SOLID. There's no middle vertical post for the longest span and it looks much more open now.

A photo taken from underneath the new pergola. The roofing is primarily white metal and there's two translucent fibreglass panels that provide a wonderfully soft and diffuse light.

New pergola is done! It looks SO much nicer, and it's much brighter underneath than I was expecting giving it's only got two light panels. I'm very excited about it not getting to be a gajillion degrees underneath it on sunny days, too.

(Ignore the piles of dirt at the left and the lights hanging from their cables... the former we need to dump out at the back of the yard, and the latter we need to call the electrician in for because the new pergola needed to get fastened to that panel of wood that the lights were previously on.)

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Posted on 15 March 2022, 13:22

A photo looking up over the hedge the next to our house, with a street light and some trees also visible, all silhouetted again the pre-sunrise sky. There's a hint of orange in the sky at the very bottom.

Man, it's been a while since I've been up before sunrise. I think the last time was when we went to New Zealand RIGHT before COVID hit in February of 2020.

We're getting our pergola redone (yes, again), this time by someone competent. Had someone in to quote just for getting it fixed, and so much had been done wrong that it made more sense to rip the whole thing down and start it over again in metal rather than timber.

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Posted on 14 March 2022, 6:53

A photo of a bunch of round cookies sitting on two cooling racks. They're golden brown and each one has four chunks of dark chocolate on the top.

Made excellent use of my day off and made a batch of rosemary chocolate chunk cookies. 👌🏻

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Posted on 11 March 2022, 15:50

A screenshot from my Grafana dashboard showing the current temperature and humidity. Outdoors it's 24˚C and 28% humidity, and inside it's 24˚C and 53% humidity.

After the week+ straight of rain, this day could not be more perfect if it tried.

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Posted on 10 March 2022, 14:13

A photo of the board of Warhammer Underworlds. The art on it is primarily blues and feels like a sea cavern. It's covered in hexagons and there's two sets of miniatures facing each other in various positions: Lady Harrow's Mournflight, a set of four spooky spirits all flowing and painted in a sickly pale green, and Hrothgorn's Mantrappers, a huge ogre with a massive crossbow alongside a sabretooth tiger and three little goblin-looking creatures. There's cards and dice around the board.

Went over to a friend's house tonight for a cheeky mid-week game of Warhammer Underworlds. Despite never having played and being down to one fighter at the end, he won 14 to 11! (Partially my fault, I got a bit greedy.)