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A photo of a very large combination demon/bat monster thing. It's hard to describe but it's got red leathery-looking skin like a demon, brown fur on various parts of its body, and running along the inside of its arms are what look like vestigial wings. It's face looks like a bat and the whole thing is hunched over, and it's standing next to a normal-sized skeleton warrior that is less than half its height, even crouched like it is. On the base is a pile of skulls, mostly humanoid but with a very large ogre skull sitting in the middle of the pile.

FINALLY did some more painting tonight! I'm working on the Vargskyr from Warhammer Quest, the huge bat/demon thing that's the first of the big bads we need to kill in the campaign and I want to make sure it's actually properly painted before we kill it. 😅 The Vargskyr itself is done, I just need to do the basing for it. I'm making good use of the box of skulls I got for Christmas to make a much more interesting-looking base, and I've included one of the skeleton warriors to give a sense of scale of just how enormous this thing actually is. I also didn't realise I hadn't done any of the Warhammer Quest miniatures since August. 😬 Just haven't been in the painting headspace I guess, but hopefully this'll get me back.

Posted on 30 December 2023, 22:17

A photo taken from my perspective looking straight down towards the floor. I'm standing in front of the kitchen counter where there's a partially sliced round loaf of bread on the cutting board, and standing right by my feet looking directly upwards is a very hopeful-looking small scruffy blonde dog.

The SECOND I start cutting into the bread, Beanie is over like a shot waiting for fallout and the inevitably scrappy end piece I give him. Related, my kingdom for some sort of household-sized automatic bread slicing machine like Coles and Woolies have in their bakeries.

beanie our house dog darkroom food bread

Posted on 28 December 2023, 12:24

A photo of a small scruffy blonde dog sitting upright on his haunches.

Beanie is demanding his pre-bed scritches.

beanie our house dog darkroom

Posted on 24 December 2023, 0:05

A photo of my iPad sitting on our elliptical machine's tablet holder. On the screen is the classic image of the stargate from the show "Stargate SG-1": a large circular metal-looking ring with Egyptian hieroglyphs around the outside, and the middle is filling with a blue glowing almost-liquid.

Time to start some more classic 1990s TV! I'm about 95% sure this is going to end up in the same boat as Star Trek, both TNG and DS9, and I'll remember a handful of episodes but haven't actually seen the vast majority of them before.

our house darkroom exercise stargate sg-1

Posted on 23 December 2023, 16:05

A photo of the front of our house, to the left is the front door and in the middle of the photo is a big box window with a little garden in front of it. The garden has wooden beams separating it from the lawn and is covered in red mulch. There's two tall conifers in white pots in the middle, two, uh... I'm not sure what type of trees they are, but they're smaller and in blue pots to either side of the conifers, then some fairly sad-looking lavender also in blue pots in front of those. There's also a small jade plant and a kalanchoe in little pots at the left of the garden, and a little happy cow statue that's had most of the paint on it completely worn away.

Good weather for some gardening today, I (mostly) straightened the conifers, trimmed the lavender, and put some fresh mulch down.

our house gardening darkroom

Posted on 23 December 2023, 13:57

A photo taken from my perspective looking down at my lap while I'm sitting on our lounge. A small scruffy blonde dog is lying on his side half asleep, with his back hard against the back of the lounge, and his head jammed against and slightly on my right hip.

Beanie has made himself extremely comfortable on my hip while we're watching a doco.

beanie our house dog darkroom

Posted on 12 December 2023, 22:54

A photo of our little temperature/humidity display showing that it's 45.1˚C outside, and a very comfortable 25.2˚C inside.

This is too hot. Not a fan.

our house darkroom too fucking hot

Posted on 9 December 2023, 14:44

A wide-angle photo of a not-very-large bedroom. In the far corner is a relatively small exercise bike, with three guitars wall-mounted to the right of it and two eye-searing orange guitar amps to the left. At the far left is our existing elliptical which is now facing the window instead of being in the corner where the exercise bike is.

Our treadmill started making some fairly horrendous grinding noises a few weeks ago, we got a guy out to take a look and it turned out the bearings in both the front and rear rollers were shot. And annoyingly, we couldn't get replacement parts because the machine is ten years old and they don't make them anymore. We decided to downsize to an exercise bike instead, it was delivered today and we did some rearranging and now my guitar amps have a better place to live instead of being all jammed under my desk!

our house darkroom exercise exercise bike

Posted on 2 December 2023, 12:15

A photo of my iPad sitting on the tablet holder on our elliptical. On the screen is the closing shot from the very last episode of Voyager showing the ship itself flying in towards Earth.

Phewwwww, that's the final episode of Star Trek: Voyager finished! All seven seasons done, and with that, all of my 1990s Star Trek watching finished. I feel like Voyager got a bad rap, I quite enjoyed it. Don't get me wrong, I don't think it was up to the standards of Deep Space Nine but I enjoyed following the crew and getting to know them all, and I was sad when Neelix stayed behind in the Delta Quadrant with his new family. I was a bit meh on Star Trek: Picard overall but I absolutely want to see the continuing adventures of Captain Seven of Nine even more now.

our house darkroom exercise star trek: voyager

Posted on 1 December 2023, 18:32

And then the thunder rolled in with a vengeance. We had a few claps that caused me to actually jump out of my seat.

our house darkroom video thunderstorm

Posted on 29 November 2023, 15:53