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A photo of a small scruffy blonde dog lying in a patch of sunlight, with his back up against a set of white IKEA wardrobes. It's winter here so the sun is coming in at a nice low angle and it looks hella cozy.

Favourite spot in the house.

Posted on 25 June 2024, 12:45

A photo of a game of Warhammer 40,000: Kill Team. The board looks like the metal of the inside of an ancient steampunk starship, and the terrain is a bunch of walls all connected together in the same steampunk style to form number of interconnecting rooms. At the bottom closest to the camera are my six converted all-women Space Marines clad in deep red armour, at the left are the four hulking Adeptus Custodes in giant golden armour, and at the right are the six Night Lords Chaos Space Marines, in fairly bright blue armour and with small red bat-looking wings as decorations in various places.

We had our semi-regular game of Sunday night Kill Team tonight, my Intercession squad versus a four-man team of Adeptus Custodes versus the brand-new Night Lords squad!

The final score was 3-2-0 Night Lords/Intercession/Custodes, but we ended up calling shortly after the start of the third turn because there were only three objective markers and I couldn't physically move fast enough to contest the two that the Night Lords had. In retrospect we should have put some more objectives down, but the mission we chose had three objective markers on it but with different rules that we decided were too complicated, so we just did a standard "capture the point" type of thing.

Play of the match goes to my leader Sister Sarine, she fired a supercharged plasma pistol shot into one of the Custodes and rolled two 6s, a 2, and 1. I'd taken the strategic ploy that lets you reroll an attack dice if you're shooting at something within 6" so rerolled the 1 for that and scored another 6, then spent a command point and rerolled the 2 and got ANOTHER 6! That SHOULD have been game over for the enemy operative but annoyingly he'd taken a strategic ploy that takes crit damage down to normal damage, and so even though he was only rolling one defence dice because of the AP2 plasma pistol shot, it was still a 2+ save and so he survived on only 3 wounds. ::fistshake::

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Posted on 23 June 2024, 23:13

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 looks like you're inside a cave. Closest to the camera are Lady Harrow's Mournflight, four swooping spirits in sickly green. To the right at The Dread Pagent, three humans in purple clothing and light armour and then a very large goat man holding a huge sword above his head. Lastly at the left are the six beastmen of Grashrak's Despoilers, all wearing raggy armour and clothing.

A photo of a grey staffie puppy with a white stripe down his chest, standing on the arm of a lounge and desperately looking like he wants to leap down. The photo is slightly blurry because he would not stay still!

We went over to @[email protected]'s for an excellent game of Warhammer Underworlds this afternoon. I decided to simplify things a bit and we just used the Beastgrave/Direchasm era warbands with their stock decks, me with Lady Harrow's Mournflight, @yayKM with Grashrak's Despoilers, and @[email protected] with the Slaanesh warband The Dread Pagent.

It was VERY tight at the end of the second round, with me and @[email protected] tied on 11 glory each, and @yayKM not far behind on 8, but I was able to score several objectives and make a couple of kills thanks to some crazy-good rolling, and the final score was me on 17, @[email protected] on 12, and @yayKM sadly still on 8.

Next time we're going to do an all-Chaos game with @[email protected] staying with the Dread Pagent, @yayKM using Khorne's Gorechosen of Dromm, and I'll probably use the Nurgle warband The Wurmspat (though now I think about it, maybe this might be a good reason for me to finally finish painting the Tzeentch warband Ephilim's Pandaemonium...).

In addition to Warhammer Underworlds, we met the most adorable staffie puppy named Hendrix, who is only 12 weeks old! 😍 He was SO excited to smell us, and he had his entire snout and part of his head fully inside my shoe after we arrived, haha.

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Posted on 22 June 2024, 18:52

A photo of the head of a vacuum cleaner with a little fuzzy roller inside it, with a bright green light shining out from it highlighting exactly how much of our dog's hair is on the floor (spoiler alert, it's a lot, and he's not even a big dog).

We bought a new top-of-the-line Dyson handstick vacuum cleaner to replace our probably eight year old one that was starting to die and not doing a great job of, well, vacuuming anymore. The new one has this genuinely useful (and quite horrifying) feature on the hard floor head where it shines a bright green light out at an extremely low angle so you can see exactly where you haven't vacuumed yet, and how much shit you're about to clean up. 🤢

On the upside, my nose is now the clearest it's been for AGES.

our house darkroom vacuum cleaner

Posted on 14 June 2024, 22:36

A selfie of me, a white man with short hair and a short red beard, taken from a very low angle next to my desk chair. On my lap is a small scruffy blonde dog lying with his head draped over the side of my leg.

Furry hot water bottle: deployed.

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Posted on 12 June 2024, 16:00

A rather poor quality photo (I used the ultra-wide lens in my phone and forgot how dim underground carparks actually are at night) of an underground carpark just packed to the gills with all manner of different Subaru vehicles, some of them with their bonnets open, and people milling around.

We went to do our regular Friday night shopping, and apparently the local Subaru Owners Club decided the Coles carpark would be a good place for a meetup. Just a SEA of Subarus, and like 95% dudes.

I think my bar for "Wow there a bunch of douchey-looking guys here" is a lot higher than @yayKM's though, by virtue of being extremely familiar with the sheer number of ridiculously hotted-up cars that used to cruise down George St in the CBD of a Friday and Saturday night before it was turned into a tramway. 😂

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Posted on 7 June 2024, 20:26

A wide-angle photo of a room that's empty apart from a large white IKEA cupboard at the right. On the far side of the room the view looks out into the backyard, and there's sunlight streaming in.

The same room, but now there's a second IKEA cupboard next to the first, a waist-high chest of drawers, and a white nightstand. There's a bed at the left, and the top light is on because the view out the window into the backyard is black because it's now night time.

About five hours of this afternoon involved unpacking a bunch of stuff from a battered old IKEA cupboard and extremely shitty Fantastic Furniture desk, then assembling a new IKEA cupboard, chest of drawers, and night stand. Between all the walking back and forth with that plus my regular workout on the elliptical, I've done 12.5k steps now.

::collapses::

our house ikea darkroom tidying and rearranging

Posted on 3 June 2024, 19:43

A photo of a compact Breville Bambino Plus espresso machine in black and silver, a tall-ish and narrow black Eureka Mignon Specialita grinder, and a rather long but short black Nespresso machine, all sitting side-by-side on our kitchen benchtop.

@yayKM bought herself a Nespresso machine because she is not REMOTELY awake enough in the morning to use the full espresso setup and wanted something with minimal steps that was not instant coffee.

So now we can do:

Espresso
Nespresso
Moka pot
V60 pour over
Cold brew

I think we're probably good for coffee-making methods at this point. 😅

our house darkroom coffee

Posted on 30 May 2024, 12:36

A photo of two small black cube-shaped objects with a vertical slot cut out of the front of them. The one on the right has a larger slot which is holding a blue circuit board with three bright LEDs lit up in blue, green, and yellow. The one on the left has a smaller slot which is holding a smaller circuit board (the ESP32) with a USB-C port on one side of it. (The holder on the left is showing what's on the back side of the holder on the right.)

There are three short wires looping out to connect from the ESP32 on the back to the LED module on the front.

I still need to write up a full blog post about my latest ESP32 adventures, but suffice it say they've consisted of indoor air quality sensors, RGB LED modules, teeeeensy little ESP32 boards, and my very first 3D-printed things!

From top to bottom, the LEDs show the outdoor dew point, outdoor air quality, and indoor air quality (or office air quality for the other one), where blue is good and it goes through the spectrum to red is bad, and on the left you can see the back side of the holder where the ESP32 lives. I used Tinkercad to design and print the holders, and got a friend to actually print them out. The first ones didn't QUITE fit the LED boards so I had to go back and slightly tweak them, and the second round was a great success. I airbrushed them black because the resin he used was this weird pale almost-flesh colour that looked terrible, haha.

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Posted on 29 May 2024, 21:22

A photo of a Blackstar ID:CORE V4 20 guitar amp, it's a compact black box with silver trim on the front mesh and knobs on the top panel. There's nothing for scale but it's pretty compact, 37cm wide × 29cm high × 18cm deep.

Putting my union referral bonuses to good use. 😎

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Posted on 28 May 2024, 10:36