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A selfie of me, a white man with an increasingly-scruffy-looking red beard and receding hairline, sitting at an electronic drum kit. There's also Hob, a white man with glasses and shoulder-length curly hair, sitting down with a semi-hollow Gretsch electric guitar in his lap, and Daniel, an Asian man with sort of mid-length (?) black hair standing up and smiling and he's looking down at a dark green Ibanez bass guitar.

A photo looking out west from the 30th floor of our office. In the foreground are tall buildings, though lower than where I'm standing, tapering down to residential houses and units further back, and the sky has clouds scattered across that are lit up yellow from the sunset. The sun itself is behind a cloud bank in the distance.

I was in the office again for another after-work jam session, and this time we did almost zero playing along to real songs and spent most of the time improvising! I started on bass which was a bit dicier because I required that I actually figured out what the hell notes I was playing (though I DID actually correctly remember the typical progression for a 12-bar blues which I was quite pleased with, as well as which notes it should be!), but we got over that hump and got some pretty cool grooves, and then I switched to drums and we got a particularly awesome minor key thing going with me playing the eighth notes on the low tom.

The sunset before I headed over to our music room was decent too!

sunset clouds selfie darkroom friends in the office jamming

Posted on 10 April 2025, 20:18

A photo looking towards the floor at right-hand side of my drum kit underneath where the two crash cymbals and ride cymbal life, showing the drum speaker. It's black box with a grille on the front, with the front of it with the speaker and grille in being angled so it points up at you as you're sitting at the kit.

I have two weeks off at the end of April, and had been talking to a couple of friends who play guitar and bass about getting together and actually playing some music. One of them is on a long break and the other only works part-time, so we're going to meet up during the day on a week day during my time off and rock out!

Very looking forward to bit, but I realised that the only external speaker I had was the little Audioengine one I'd bought a while back and that really wasn't going to cut the mustard competing with a guitar and bass amp, so I bought a Roland PM-100 drum monitor which arrived today, and it fits perfectly under the kit at the right!

our house darkroom new toys drums

Posted on 28 March 2025, 12:48

A photo of a bowl with two slices of beef brisket, mac and cheese, some green beans, and a big slice of fluffy bread.

Aw yiss, in the office today for an after-work music jam, and the hot lunch was beef brisket and mac and cheese and it was goooood.

darkroom food portrait mode in the office

Posted on 27 March 2025, 13:25

A photo of an old PowerBook G3 sitting on my desk, with windows for Hotline and Internet Explorer 5 (with macintoshrepository.org loaded) open. I also have the "About This Computer" window visible in front of everything, showing that the computer has 512MB RAM in total, with the entirety of the OS taking up 43MB.

Talking to @[email protected] about my old websites got me right in the nostalgia and missing the time when computers and the internet were simpler, so I've booted up the old Pismo and am bathing in the Mac OS 9. 😁

our house mac os 9 powerbook g3 darkroom retro things

Posted on 22 March 2025, 20:48

A nighttime photo of some sheep grazing in the front yard of a house. The photo is lit from the street light just behind me so the light fades off as it gets towards the brick house at the back of the yard.

Oh and to top it all off, on the walk home I came across some sheep having a nom!

schofields darkroom sheep night mode

Posted on 21 March 2025, 21:03

A photo of a Labrador-sized brown and black dog of some sort sitting and looking EXTREMELY intently at my left hand that was holding a treat just out of frame.

A photo of the sun just above the horizon and extremely orange. The sky is filled with mottled clouds and the only real gap is where the sun is. In the foreground are tall city buildings that peter out into smaller houses as you go further west towards the horizon. It's a bit overly-HDRed because it was a very quick snap with the built-in iOS Camera app.

And then the farewell drinks after work today featured a very good doggo named Delphi and an excellent sunset (ignore the awful reflections from the indoor lighting).

office dog sunset clouds dog darkroom in the office

Posted on 21 March 2025, 19:11

A photo taken on the lunch level of our office with a bunch of people standing around a large stainless steel table/set of cabinets and a bunch of big unopened pizza boxes stacked on it.

There were a bunch of other team gatherings going on today, so we had a ton of pizza ordered for everyone after work. 😎 One more day and then I'm having a weekend filled with going absolutely nowhere. I have no idea how I used to do five days in the office every single week, my social battery definitely did not recover to its pre-COVID levels.

pizza darkroom in the office

Posted on 20 March 2025, 18:14

A photo taken overlooking Rushcutters Bay, with a bunch of small boats on the bay itself and a bunch of units and houses dotting the far shore. The sky is blue with wispy clouds.

A photo taken from the ferry on the way back to Circular Quay, it's mostly the waters of Sydney Harbour with, uh, one of the tiny islands in the middle and very foresty-looking shores in the distance.

A very backlit wide-angle photo looking up at the Sydney Harbour Bridge while we were passing it on the ferry.

I'm in the office for FOUR DAYS this week! We've got a team event yesterday, today, and tomorrow, and a farewell for a colleague on Friday. Last night we went to the Arthouse Hotel for dinner and waited almost two hours for our food (it was good when it arrived but not worth the wait). Plenty of good chatting to colleagues while waiting though.

Today we took the bus to Rushcutters Bay and had a picnic at a park, then caught the ferry back to Circular Quay, it was extremely #GloriousSydney areas (although the very bushfire-smoke-laden walk from the train station back to home was not at all glorious).

clouds darkroom sydney harbour bridge buildings in the office ship rushcutters bay

Posted on 19 March 2025, 18:17

A photo of a three-player game of Warhammer Underworlds. It's played on three rectangular boards sitting together in a T-shape, there are tiles marked out with hexes, and the artwork is all gnarled and corrupted roots like you're deep within a cursed forest. Closest to the camera are the Shadeborn, four lithe elves in very dynamic poses with very pale skin and wearing deep purple clothing, at the left are the Gorechosen of Dromm, a three-fighter warband consisting of very large meaty-looking warriors in large red armour, one of whom is clearly part daemon because he's hunched over and has MASSIVE arms and huge horns sprouting from his head. Then finally at the right are Lady Harrow's Mournflight, four swooping spirits in sickly green.

A photo of Herax Skullgrinder's fighter card with upgrades on him.

We had @wobin over today for games and a barbecue! We mixed it up a bit and went back to Warhammer Underworlds, me with the Shadeborn (that I haven't played before), @yayKM with the Gorechosen of Dromm, and @wobin with Lady Harrow's Mournflight.

Round one was an absolute shocker for me, I lost both Drusilla and Valyssa to @yayKM's Gorehulk, and she was in a commanding position and it looked like it was going to be a blowout. Things turned around in the second round though, and I managed to kill the Gorehulk and Dromm and not lose anyone else and it was 8-8-2 Gorechosen/Shadeborn/Mournflight at the beginning of the third round. The Skullgrinder Herax was upgraded to be an absolute BEAST, I'm not sure we've had quite this many upgrades on a single character in any game before. 😅

The final score ended up being 12-8-5 to the Shadeborn thanks to an objective that gave me three glory at the end of the third round. I definitely want to play the Shadeborn some more to get my head around them, and really need to get around to painting up both Domitan's Stormcoven and Ephilim's Pandaemonium because they're such cool miniatures.

our house darkroom gaming games workshop warhammer underworlds beastgrave lady harrow's mournflight nethermaze the shadeborn gorechosen of dromm

Posted on 15 March 2025, 20:34

A photo of my Roland TD-17KV electronic drum kit sitting in the corner of a room. The whole setup is sitting on a mottled dark grey mat (essentially carpet with a fairly thick foam underlay).

There we go, last bit of drum kit upgrading for the time being: I got a proper drum mat! With my old setup the kick drum pedal was hard against the cymbal stand that's poking down there at the right, and the hi-hat stand would end up getting pushed back into the left of the drum frame. With the new setup if I really put the boot in, the kick drum pedal would end up migrating its way back, and the hi-hat stand was in an awkward position. I've added velcro to both now, and they are absolutely not moving. Plus a bonus, the kick drum pedal makes far less audible sound now that it's not booming directly against the floorboards.

our house darkroom drums

Posted on 7 March 2025, 13:11