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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.

Posted on 27 March 2025, 13:25

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).

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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.

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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).

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Posted on 19 March 2025, 18:17

A photo of the start of a game of Kill Team. The terrain is all ramshackle and looks like it belongs in a junkyard, closest to the camera are the six hulking and pustulant warriors of the Death Guard clan in large green armour, and then on the other side looking almost the complete opposite are ten warriors of the insect-like Vespid Stingwings who have been painted in yellow and have big blue insect wings.

A nighttime photo taken from the 30th floor of our office building, looking not quite directly downwards. There is a tall building directly opposite and some shorter buildings on either side, and you can see the streets quite far below. Most of the windows are lit up, and the train tracks going along George St are visible at the left.

I was in the office today for some after-work Kill Team, took my Plague Marines for their first spin versus the Vespid Stingwings!

It started out well, but I realised that I actually only had two operatives that had unrestricted range weapons (the Malignant Plaguecaster and the Bombardier), and I think I got a bit greedy with them and they were the first two operatives I lost. After that I couldn't recover because all the stuff I needed to shoot at was out of range, and I'd taken the Fighter who has NO ranged weapon at all. He killed one Stingwing and then got pulped. The Heavy Gunner with the Plague Spewer was nasty, but again lacked range, and even the Icon Bearer only had a bolt pistol with an 8" range (in the previous edition he had a boltgun). It also wasn't helped by the fact that the Stingwings' neutron weapons hit HARD. I don't think I used any of the strategic or firefight ploys either, I need to go back and have a better read. We called the game before the end of the second turn, and the Stingwings were already ahead 4-3 and I had only a single guy left.

The Death Guard were still pretty neat though, the Poison token rules are cool and I'm keen to try them again. I ALSO need to paint up my own Stingwings and get them into the rotation because those models are just fantastic-looking. And afterwards, the room in the office that all the Kill Team terrain is stored in had its lights off when we put everything away after the game, which made for an excellent nighttime cityscape shot.

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Posted on 3 March 2025, 20:48

A photo of five people sitting around a somewhat messy music area in our office. The drum kit is empty because I was on it but stepped back to take the photo, but we have someone on bass guitar, two guitarists, a keyboardist, and a vocalist.

In the office again for the first after-work music jam of the new year! As well as the guitar/bass/drums/keyboard, there's a little Korg synth of some description and one of the people had great fun playing around with that despite not actually knowing how to really use it. At one point I ended up just starting a simple little progression on the bass guitar and then everyone else joined in along the same lines and it sounded so good! Completely improvised but we all got into the groove and it was hella satisfying.

Then at the end we played Black Sabbath's Paranoid and oh man such a good song but I was on drums at that point and it absolutely did my arm in, haha.

darkroom friends in the office jamming

Posted on 30 January 2025, 20:44

I was in the office today for another post-work jam session! It was a lot of fun, I just stuck with the drums this time and we played along to a number of songs before we did some general improvising. The best thing about drums is that I don't actually need to know how the drums REALLY go, I can just get the tempo right and off I go. We played Creedence Clearwater Revival's Bad Moon Rising, and a number of other songs I've never heard of, but it was great.

There was a non-work university friend of one of the work people on vocals, and while we were improvising and she didn't have anything to do I asked if she could take a video of us, longer than the six seconds from a couple of months ago. Next time I think I need to get it taken from where the speaker is actually pointing to because the sound is not great in this as the speaker was over by the bass player and pointing out to the right, oops. I also managed to get the recording done RIGHT before 8pm which is when the lights in the building automatically turn off, hence why it goes dark right at the end. 😅

(We have a big multi-channel mixer that I could probably hook something into and record the proper audio straight from the instruments, which I think I might need to look into at some point...)

me friends video drums in the office jamming

Posted on 5 December 2024, 22:04