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A photo of our dining table with a Warhammer Quest game set up on it. There's lots of cards and dice everywhere, and in middle are a bunch of variously-shaped tiles connected together that look like the inside of a set of buildings. There are four hero miniatures at the right (one heavily-armoured warrior woman with a sword, a vampire hunter with a long leather coat and a big hat, a steampunk dwarf, and a priest with a rich red robe and a big staff) plus four groups of hostile miniatures at various points on the board (four three shambling zombies, four skeleton warriors, a vampire, and Radukar the Wolf himself who is a vampire and has two big wolf pelts including the heads draped over his shoulders).

A photo of three of the heroes standing in a group with a horde of monsters coming into the room from two of the doors: six zombies and Gorslav the Gravekeeper who is this freaky emaciated undead thing from one door, and three of the skeleton warriors followed by the Vargskyr (a massive demon/bat thing that is over twice the height of anything else) from the other door.

Another Warhammer Quest journey with @wobin today, and oh my GOD was it a shocker. 😫

We played a Scavenge journey where you go around searching for loot and fighting off hostiles, but Radukar the Wolf (the MAIN big bad of the whole game) made his first appearance, my character Cleona was so badly wounded she ended up out of action (thankfully she didn't end up dying), everyone was constantly failing attacks they should have easily made, and we rolled so poorly on the end of turn event table that we ended up at the "Nightfall" point (where all the monsters are much more powerful) FOUR turns earlier than we should have otherwise. 😬

It was an absolute rollercoaster, even outside of Cleona being taken out of action everyone else had multiple times where they'd taken so much damage they were only two short of being taken completely out of action, only to claw their way back and then get wounded all over again, then right at the end it was a mad scramble to get everyone to the exit point. As is frequently the case, hero of the match went to my dwarf Dagnai Holdenstock who was able to be inspired early and just slaughtered his way through everything. He got an upgrade in the post-game phase where damage from his weapons can't be ignored, which is going to be REALLY good because there are three or four types of hostiles that have some sort of "Roll the D12 and on a (certain number) or higher, damage is reduced by X amount" and it bit us so many times.

Posted on 20 July 2024, 22:07

A photo of the card signed by several of the oncology staff at SASH:

"I am so sorry for your loss of beautiful Beanie. He was such a sweet and brave boy and a pleasure to look after. I hope the loving memories of Beanie will help you heal your broken hearts."

"Please accept our deepest condolences for the loss of your sweet boy Beanie. Words cannot describe how difficult it is to say goodbye to such a beloved companion but we hope you find comfort in all of the wonderful memories that you share together & know he is resting peacefully."

"I am saddened to hear of your loss, Beanie was so sweet and always a pleasure to look after. I hope fond memories ease some of your pain during this difficult time. Sending love & hugs."

"Thinking of you during this difficult time Beanie was such a beautiful soul who brightened up the room every time he entered. I hope you find comfort in knowing you shared so many beautiful memories."

Plus two printed out photos of Beanie himself, a small very scruffy blonde dog. In one of them he's just standing there, but the other is a selfie with him looking directly at the camera and our main doctor lady who was treating him with her head poking out behind his head and doing a silly duck-face look and the whole photo is adorable.

Oh my god we got the sweetest card in the mail from SASH today (Small Animal Specialist Hospital, the place where Beanie was going for his chemotherapy). 😭

He was such a little celebrity, all the staff would take photos with him because he was such a cutie and so well-behaved (I have no idea why he couldn't be that well behaved with us 😜), and @yayKM had one nurse exclaim "Oh I can't wait to meet him!" one time when she went to reception to let them know we'd arrived.

beanie our house darkroom cancer

Posted on 17 July 2024, 20:47

A photo of a white IKEA organiser/drawer/thing, the sort with the open front and wicker baskets as the "drawers". This one is sitting on a little stand and is in a 2x2 configuration for the baskets.

Saturday night status: assembling IKEA furniture. Let nobody claim we don't know how to party!

our house ikea darkroom tidying and rearranging

Posted on 13 July 2024, 19:49

A wide-angle photo of a bunch of mostly empty bowls and plates from a Chinese restaurant sitting on a table.

A photo of a crispy golden-brown ball of deep-fried ice cream sitting on top of butterscotch sauce.

And the final day of delicious paid-for-by-work food was Mr. Wong's, we went there last year and it was amazing and was just as good this year. There's nothing for scale on the photo of the deep-fried ice cream ball but it was about the size of a softball (we went halves, there was no possible way I could have eaten the whole lot).

sydney work darkroom food ice cream

Posted on 3 July 2024, 19:17

A photo of a big bowl of tonkotsu ramen, with two hard-boiled eggs and slices of pork floating in the broth.

Day two of team event involved stopping actual work at 11:30am and going to Cockatoo Island for hanging out and drinks and nibblies. I took some RAW photos with my iPhone that I'll process and put on Flickr (assuming they come out any good, it was very grey and dreary so they might actually be just flat and boring).

Then we went out for ramen at Ippudo for dinner and it was gooood.

sydney darkroom food portrait mode ramen

Posted on 2 July 2024, 20:35

A photo of the inside of an open office area with a number of individual low tables and chairs, and a BUNCH of big plants that reach up almost to the ceiling, so it almost feels like you're in a rainforest.

Another section of the office, it's all clean light colours (but not in an antiseptic way), with light coloured wooden tables and chairs and cupboard panels, and a big commercial espresso machine sitting in the middle.

One last view looking down a quite large open area, still in the light colours but with a (currently closed because it's night time) self-service salad bar in the middle and the base of the bar is a bold red splash of colour in the middle of the lighter colours surrounding it.

They did a big revamp of the reception/kitchen level at work, and man it looks great. We even have an in-house barista in the morning now!

sydney work darkroom

Posted on 1 July 2024, 18:58

A photo of a fried chicken burger with a slice of cheese hanging part way out, and a little cardboard container of chips.

A photo of a "doughnut" (it doesn't actually have a hole in the middle" with meringue on top and a bit of the lemon filling visible at the side where it's leaked out.

Aww yeah, day one of our work team event has begun with a kara-age burger for lunch followed by a lemon meringue donut. 👌🏻

sydney work darkroom food portrait mode doughnuts burger

Posted on 1 July 2024, 14:06

A wide-angle photo of seven people sitting around in a loose circle with electric guitars on their laps.

Spent a couple of hours this afternoon jamming* with some local dads.

*Well, I say "jamming" but that's overstating it in my case, I'm not good enough to actually just look at what someone else is doing and be able to play along with them.

darkroom rouse hill guitar

Posted on 30 June 2024, 15:59

A photo taken of a table in the middle of a Magic: The Gathering game with cards everywhere, plus snacks and cups in scattered around. There were six people but the table is large enough that only four people's worth of cards in play fit into the photo.

Tonight I went over to a friend's place for some birthday nerding for him and another friend (both of them born on the same day, just a year apart). We got two six-player games of Magic in, and then probably like an hour of a very silly card game called Muffin Time before the game essentially got reset and we decided to leave it there, haha. I won the first game of Magic, and one of the birthday boys won the second one.

This was "Commander" format Magic where you can only have one single copy of a given card, and the decks are larger (100 cards vs. 60 in a normal deck), and I absolutely cannot brain sufficiently to figure out synergies between that many individual cards to make a Commander deck so I just played with other people's decks rather than my own regular format ones.

darkroom magic the gathering seven hills

Posted on 29 June 2024, 23:32

A photo of a busy construction site with big sewer pipes sections sitting in the foreground, various earthmoving vehicles in the distance, and a set of unit blocks in the distance with cranes on top of and behind them.

After almost two years of nothing happening with the earthworks near us, suddenly it's action stations.

schofields darkroom construction

Posted on 27 June 2024, 9:20