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A selfie of me, a white man with a relatively short but getting somewhat scruffy-looking red beard and short brown hair, wearing a black Fear Factory t-shirt. I'm holding a white Fender Player II Stratocaster electric guitar and smiling at the camera.

You'll have to speak up, I'm playing a guitar. 😎

I finished the bass line this morning, I've got the broad strokes of the rhythm guitar down and just need to record the rest, so now I'm mucking around with the lead. I recorded some lead earlier in the week but listening to it again now I realised it doesn't go, especially with the increased energy of the new bass track, it was just too slow.

our house selfie me music darkroom guitar

Posted on 5 January 2025, 21:26

It's a wee bit angry out there.

our house video thunderstorm kino

Posted on 5 January 2025, 16:50

A photo of a big thick-skinned potato sliced in half and covered in beef mince with healthy dollops of sour cream on top.

Aw yiss, NYE dinner was baked potatoes done in the air fryer with Mexican-seasoned mince on top and sour cream, so good! 👌🏻

our house darkroom food portrait mode

Posted on 31 December 2024, 19:34

A photo of a smallish room, with stuff against all of the walls but in a neat and tidy and actually arranged fashion, and without a bunch of dust and leaves on the floor.

Did some cleaning and tidying for the final day of 2024: I finally got around to donating Beanie's old stuff to our local vet who were very grateful and assured me they'd be put to good use. The woman who helped me bring the stuff in said in particular that some of their clients have, and I quote, "geriatric dachshunds", so Beanie's old ramp will be particularly helpful, haha.

I also went through the horrifying mess that was the cable box and got rid of all of the cables I had a ton of duplicates of and didn't need anymore (mostly things involving USB-A), and we took all of that plus the rest of the e-waste that'd been sitting there gathering dust to the local e-waste recycling place, and finally I did some long overdue vacuuming as well, phew.

beanie our house darkroom tidying and rearranging

Posted on 31 December 2024, 15:48

A photo of fifteen lightly golden cut rounds (basically scones but more savoury) sitting on a cooling rack.

And finally we have a somewhat belated batch of cut rounds, made very specifically to have with @mike@chinwag.org's jam. 😁

our house darkroom food portrait mode cut rounds

Posted on 30 December 2024, 14:00

A photo of a dining room with two tables set up on either side, two people are sitting around the left and another two and a child are sitting at the right. There are a bunch of paints and miniatures and things scattered over both tables.

A photo of several different pieces of gothic-looking yet somewhat futuristic ruins of varying sizes sitting on my painting table. They've been primed black and then had three layers of drybrushing done in increasingly-light greys and it looks mint, if you were lazy you could totally use that on the tabletop as-is.

Today I went over to a friend's place for a painting day! I got the drybrushing for ALL of my remaining Hivestorm terrain done, and then we finished the day off with a good hour-long splash around in the pool.

our house darkroom kill team games workshop friends painting seven hills terrain hivestorm

Posted on 27 December 2024, 13:10

A photo of two disgusting Plague Marine miniatures, both just undercoated. The one on the left is mid-stride and has what looks like a huge flamethrower slung under one arm, and the one on the right is holding a gnarled staff up in one hand and has his other hand out in front of him casting some foul cloud of magic. Both of them are in pox-ridden Space Marine armour, with tentacles and pustules everywhere, and the one on the right with the staff has a huge mouth with massive teeth in the stomach of his armour.

Right, that's the two Plague Marines that I need to make a squad for the new edition of Kill Team ready for painting! The one on the left with the Plague Spewer is actually a conversion I kitbashed but never painted back when the previous 2021 edition of Kill Team came out, and the Malignant Plaguecaster on the right is even older than that: he dates from the Warhammer 40,000: Dark Imperium box that I bought back in 2018 or so.

I don't technically have a WYSIWYG Plague Champion to use as my leader because my Champion that has a plasma pistol has a powerfist instead of a plague sword. I'm going to use the old Noxious Blightbringer model that's also from the Dark Imperium because because he does have a plasma pistol and is holding a bell in his other hand, rather than having a specific weapon that someone might be confused by, plus it's just an AWESOME model and I've never had a chance to use it. He's on a 40mm base rather than 32mm but I can't be bothered trying to rebase him because he's already fully painted, and we just play casually anyway.

our house darkroom kill team games workshop painting death guard

Posted on 24 December 2024, 22:11

A photo of my standing desk in its upright position, with a bass guitar sitting to the left of the desk, an electric guitar sitting to the right of the desk, a bass guitar multi-effects pedal with a whole ton of knobs and dials on it ON the desk, and Logic Pro showing on the main display.

Doing some more mucking around with my song, I've redone the bass line now. My problem is that each time I come back to the song and listen more I decide I'm not happy with something and need to change it. 😅

our house music darkroom guitar bass guitar

Posted on 24 December 2024, 17:09

A photo of a wooden kitchen cutting board with half of a round golden brown loaf of bread and a slice of the bread with butter and jam on it. The jam has large chunks of fruit in it, and in the background sitting on a cooling rack behind the cutting board are the sliced up pieces of the first half of the loaf.

Holiday step two: home-made bread, and I had some of @mike@chinwag.org's loquat and raspberry jam on it and oh my GOD, that might be one of the best jams I've ever had!

our house darkroom food portrait mode bread

Posted on 21 December 2024, 12:57

A photo of a bowl of ice cream, with Ice Magic, butterscotch sauce, chopped up strawberries, and crushed peanuts on top.

Right, holiday step one: celebratory trashy dessert.

our house darkroom food portrait mode ice cream ice magic strawberries

Posted on 20 December 2024, 20:32