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A photo of a Suhr "Reactive Load / I.R." load box. It's a chonky metal box with curved edges along the top, and several silver dials and switches on the front, plus two seven-segment red LED displays at the left marked "Bank" and "Cab".

First new bit of guitar kit in a while! I already have a load box, but the problem with it is that there's no headphone output which means I need to plug it into my USB audio interface which _does_ have a headphone output but is all wired up to my computer setup, which in turn means I can't play my tube amp anywhere except our home office. This new Suhr one has a headphone output and can be powered from my pedal board power supply so I'll be able to take the amp and pedal board to the front of the house and play with my full setup there, AND it has an auxiliary input as well so I can plug my iPad into it and play along to music or just use GarageBand's backing dummer functionality to have a drum kit to keep in time with. I have to say, though, this thing is significantly larger than I was expecting!

Posted on 5 October 2023, 14:53

It's started to rain outside and Beanie is getting nervous and demanding lap snuggles.

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Posted on 4 October 2023, 15:50

A photo of a small scruffy blonde dog lying completely upside on his back, fast asleep, all four legs up in the air.

Current Beanie status: completely passed out.

beanie our house dog darkroom

Posted on 3 October 2023, 13:59

A photo of the box of Apple's AirPods Pro second-generation earbuds.

Woot, these will be a nice upgrade over my increasingly janky Powerbeats Pro that I bought like six or seven years ago. The braided charging cable is SO much nicer than the old plastic ones. The other thing that'll be nice with these is being able to fit them into my pocket when we go on the Metro where I don't have my bag and can't bring my AirPods Max. The case for the Powerbeats Pro is just ABSURDLY large, and bounces around uncomfortably even in the leg pockets of my cargo pants. And it also means my migration to USB-C everywhere continues apace!

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Posted on 3 October 2023, 11:11

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's 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 (three zombies, three skeletons, three bat swarms, and a very large Mongolian-dress zombie thing with a huge axe).

We had @wobin over for #WarhammerQuest and a barbecue today! The Warhammer Quest journey type was "Scavenge" so we could get some gear and currency to level up, it was a similar kind of deal to the others where the map is pre-made, but oh my god I don't think I've EVER seen as poor rolling as @wobin had today. At one point he spent all four of his activation dice making attacks without hitting a single thing, and that was rolling the equivalent of a 3+. 😫 I think he made one single attack successfully, and ended up getting wailed upon by a Kosargi Night Guard which mean he had three grevious wound counters and so had to rely on one activation dice and whatever spare Destiny dice we had left. In the previous game we'd upgraded his character with a piece of equipment that let him attempt to recover wounds on a 4+ instead of a 5+, and literally every single role he made for this he failed. We had @yayKM roll two of them, and she made one success and failed the other. Thankfully, nobody ended up dying and we did actually get a good stash of stuff and have some good upgrades for the next game, but oh man.

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Posted on 1 October 2023, 22:25

A photo of our back yard, covered in calf-high long grass and weeds. Part of the patio is visible also has a bunch of weeds growing from in between the bricks.

The after photo, same view but with the grass short and neat and tidy and the patio free of weeds.

First job of the long weekend was a VERY overdue mowing of the lawn. It was so long that the bin was completely full from the clippings in the back yard and so I didn't even bother doing the front. Also mowed/whippersnipped the horrendous mess of weeds that's at the side of the house where the hot water system and air conditioning compressor are, where we never go. I started an "Outdoor Walk" workout on my Apple Watch and when I finished it had registered about 1750 active kilojoules after an hour and a half. For comparison my 45 minute workouts on the elliptical are typically around 2000 active kilojoules, so that was a decent effort. ::collapses in a heap::

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Posted on 30 September 2023, 12:36

A wide-angle photo taken from George St in Sydney. There's tram tracks running down the street, tall buildings on either side, and a nice big green tree at the left. It's delightfully sunny and the sky is blue.

I'm in the city today for the first of SEVEN consecutive weekdays. This is going to be weird! (We've got a full org-wide team event where we've flown everyone in from all over the globe.)

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Posted on 21 September 2023, 11:13

A photo of six armoured human warrior miniatures. Their armour is a deep brass colour, they're wearing big mag-boots of the same colour, and their clothes are a rich dark blue. The helmets are reminiscent of diving bells except with a cool-looking visors instead of a round viewing port. Four of them have big short guns, one is wielding a huge axe, and the other has a massive shield that's taller than he is, with a viewing port and a slot for his gun to sit in so he can see and shoot while remaining behind the shield.

There we go, the first half of my Breachers are done and fully varnished! I'm such a fan of that Nihilakh Oxide paint for the verdigris effect on the armour, it looks SO good. I've got another seven miniatures to go (a full squad is only twelve miniatures but I'm going to be painting all three gunner variants so I can swap them out depending on the mission) and I'm going to ATTEMPT to get them all batched painted in the one go. Usually my limit is five, so this might end up being split up into two lots, but it'd be good to get them smashed out.

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Posted on 18 September 2023, 21:48

A photo of a small scruffy blonde dog lying in a dog bed that's sitting against a wall. He's lying on his side but has his head jammed up at an angle against the wall, and his facial hair is all munted-looking.

Beanie decided he needed to be in a VERY uncomfortable-looking position as we were going to bed last night.

beanie our house dog darkroom

Posted on 17 September 2023, 9:37

A photo of partially-painted five armoured human warrior miniatures. Their armour is a deep brass colour, they're wearing big mag-boots of the same colour, and their clothes are a rich dark blue. The helmets are reminiscent of diving bells except with a cool-looking visors instead of a round viewing port. Three of them have big short guns, one is wielding a huge axe, and the other has a massive shield that's taller than he is, with a viewing port and a slot for his gun to sit in so he can see and shoot while remaining behind the shield.

First proper batch of Breachers is coming along nicely!

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Posted on 14 September 2023, 21:52