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A photo of two round golden-brown loaves of bread covered in flour, sitting on a cooling rack.

Finally did another batch of bread, and hot damn does it look good. My bread log says the last batch I made was right before Christmas!

(I've been enjoying making big batches of rice-based lunches in the pressure cooker and just bunging that into the microwave to have for lunch when working rather than making bread, so I can spend less time getting a toastie prepared and cooked and more time doing drum practice.)

Posted on 19 March 2023, 11:52

A photo of a mug sitting on a white kitchen counter. The mug has a faux-Celtic design around handle and the outside, with a big white wolf head sitting in a dark blue oval in the middle of the body of the mug. It's not obvious from the photo but the whole thing is actually 3D, not just printed onto the surface.

It's 19:45 and still 30˚C outside. Good weather for a dark and stormy in the wonderfully tacky wolfshead mug that @yayKM bought me a few years back!

our house darkroom alcohol tacky rum

Posted on 16 March 2023, 19:43

A photo of a plate of beer-battered fish on top of hot chips, with a salad on the side.

A wide-angle shot of a beach with pale yellow sand and low waves and blue sky with some wispy clouds. There's lots of beach volleyball stuff set up because there was a volleyball tournament going on.

A photo of two men (me with a short red beard and short hair, and @dezwart with a goatee, glasses, and long hair pulled back into a ponytail) and two women (@dezwart's wife with long brown hair and glasses, and @yayKM with short pink hair) sitting at an outdoor table with dinner plates in front of us that have just the scraps of food left on them. On the chair next to me are two cavoodles, one large dark brown one who has his front paws up on @dezwart's lap, and the other one a smaller caramel-coloured one with her back to the camera and looking intently at the other dog.

That was an A+ day! We went down to Wollongong for lunch with friends at North Beach, I got fish and chips for the first time in YEARS and it was excellent. Then after that went over to visit @dezwart and his lovely wife and their two doggos and had a delicious barbecue dinner!

kristina selfie me darkroom wollongong fish and chips

Posted on 11 March 2023, 22:25

A selfie of me, a white man with brown hair and a red beard and a... let's say "large forehead", looking at the camera. My beard is very scruffy-looking and my hair isn't much better.

Me again, but this time the hair and beard have been gone over with a #2 razor attachment and it's all wonderfully short and neat.

It always amazes me just how hairy I am when I compare the pre- to post- head shave photos. So gloriously neat and tidy right now.

our house selfie me darkroom haircut

Posted on 9 March 2023, 20:28

A photo of a small scruffy blonde dog lying completely upside-down fast asleep, his back legs are up in the air and his head is off to one side.

Beanie is thoroughly enjoying our new aircon.

beanie our house dog darkroom

Posted on 9 March 2023, 17:26

A photo of a small Android tablet attached to the wall, showing two zones "Living" and "Beds" with separate temperature settings for each.

We've had a problem with our aircon system where it'll cool things down really quickly, the compressor turns off but the fans remains running to keep air circulating, and at that point the system starts blowing humid air and making it absolutely disgusting inside. I've got all sorts of data from our temperature sensor and power usage setup showing that that's what was going on, but when we had the people who installed the aircon out, they'd never heard of that problem before and didn't know what to do.

We gave up for a year (mostly because we stopped needing the aircon because summer had finished), but earlier this year I called someone else, he came out and immediately pinpointed the issue as poor temperature control (the only temperature sensor was on the aircon panel that's directly underneath the air intake). He recommended a new control system with separate sensors and more fine-grained control, and we had it installed today. It lets us have separate temperatures set for the lounge room and office, and early signs are looking promising!

The only thing I don't like is that it's basically a glorified Android tablet, but I've done the responsible thing and set up a separate isolated wireless network for it to live on. 😛

our house darkroom renovations air conditioning

Posted on 7 March 2023, 13:12

A photo of a small scruffy blonde dog lying half curled up on the floor, fast asleep.

Hot weather makes for a sleepy Beanie.

beanie our house dog darkroom

Posted on 6 March 2023, 16:12

A photo of a partially painted Aeldari miniature (think "space elf"). She's wearing elegant fuchsia-coloured armour with a dark turquoise cape flowing behind her and a bunch of dark leather pouches across her chest, and is holding two bone-coloured alien-looking pistols, one pointing like she's about to shoot and the other one behind her pointing upwards. She's got a cool-looking rebreather on that has an integrated targeting set up over one eye, and she's got a bald head except for a big tall top knot.

Definitely happy with this colour scheme I settled on for my Corsair Voidscarred! Not bad at all for an hour and a half's work so far. She's not finished obviously, and I still need to get some more paints to do the highlights with, but I think I'll be able to get her done this weekend.

our house darkroom kill team games workshop painting aeldari corsair voidscarred

Posted on 1 March 2023, 22:14

A photo of ten undercoated miniatures. Their armour is all quite elegant-looking as befits space elves, but they've got a lot of little details that make them look more like pirates. Everyone has a cool cloak, and the majority of them have very punk-looking haircuts (undercuts, mohawks, topknot ponytails) and are wearing rebreathers. Their poses are all mid-action.

The cover of the Warhammer 40,000 Second Edition army rulebook for the Eldar. The artwork on the front is classic Games Workshop, an exquisitely-armoured Eldar warrior standing atop a piece of rock, wielding a sword above his head. There's TONS of warriors in the background and all sorts of tanks and guns being shot, though they're all similarly elegant-looking Eldar warriors and tanks.

Got my Kill Team Corsair Voidscarred all assembled and undercoated!

They're such great miniatures, and I've always had a soft spot for the Aeldari (previously known as the Eldar until Games Workshop did their Great Renaming a number of years ago). They were my very first Warhammer 40,000 army when I first got into it back in 1995, and I still have the Second Edition Codex: Eldar. All the Aeldari are basically space elves, and the Corsair Voidscarred are pirate space elves which is even more fun. (There's also the cousins of the Aeldari, the Drukhari — previously known as the Dark Eldar — who are BDSM space elves. I assembled and primed a Kill Team squad of them back in November last year.)

our house darkroom kill team games workshop painting aeldari corsair voidscarred

Posted on 27 February 2023, 21:49

A photo of the end game state of a Scrabble board.

And tonight we continued with the board games by playing Scrabble for the first time in... I'm not even sure how many years. I won 312 to 253, though was extremely helped by getting both the only Q and the only Z.

our house darkroom board games scrabble

Posted on 25 February 2023, 22:17