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A photo of an electronic drum kit sitting in a corner, with a mesh snare and three mesh tom pads on it, and four black cymbals. Three of the cymbals are noticeably larger (and also cleaner) than the fourth one, and they're the new ones.

It's aliiiiiive!

Three crash cymbals are go, and the drum module is smart enough to assign a different crash sound to each of the inputs (the default single crash that it came with, the extra "Crash 2" input, AND the third one that's just marked "AUX") if you have it set to the correct cymbal type, so no mucking around needed.

Posted on 16 October 2024, 18:17

A photo of an electric guitar with a white body, black pick guard, and a maple fretboard and headstock. It's VERY handsome.

A photo of an electronic drum kit sitting in a corner, with a mesh snare and three mesh tom pads on it, and three black cymbals. Two of the cymbals are noticeably larger (and also cleaner) than the third one, and they're the new ones.

New gear day! 🎉 A Fender Player II Stratocaster, and upgraded cymbals for my drum kit (CY-16RT ride cymbal and CY-14CT crash cymbal, both Roland).

Mannys only had one of the crash cymbals in stock so I'm still waiting on the second to arrive, as well as a Boss ME-90B bass guitar multi-effects pedal. I haven't had a chance to play with the Strat yet, but MAN the new cymbals are nice, they have a far better feel to them than the stock ones, and the new ride cymbal has three trigger zones on it, so you get the bell sound in the very middle too.

I'm currently trying to see if I can fit another cymbal mount on there to use with the last input on my drum module so I can make use of one of the now-spare CY-8 cymbals as a third crash... 🤔

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Posted on 14 October 2024, 13:58

The Indian family who lives behind us has several kids and they like to kick balls around their backyard, which means they often end up over the fence in our yard.

I just had FIVE kids and the dad show up at our front door and ask if they could get the two balls that'd just ended up in our yard (I'm not 100% sure whether all five of the kids actually live there or not, they tend to have a lot of family visiting). The three girls were all dressed in identical red dresses, those really pretty traditional-looking Indian ones, and the two boys were all neat and tidy and formal-looking with long pants and long sleeves.

I asked if they wanted to have me throw the balls back over or if they wanted to come and get them, and one of the boys said he'd come in, then the other eagerly asked if he could come too. They came into the lounge room and exclaimed with complete sincerity, "Wow, your house looks amazing!" 😂

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Posted on 12 October 2024, 14:27

Yasssssss.

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Posted on 11 October 2024, 10:12

A selfie of me, a white man with a red beard, with a blue curtain over half of my head because I'm sitting directly next to the window and the wind keeps billowing the curtains everywhere. Makes a little hard to work.

I've got all the windows in the house open right now, and while it's absolutely glorious, it's also slightly windy.

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Posted on 18 September 2024, 13:42

A photo of my standing desk in its upright position, with an electric guitar sitting to the left of the desk, a bass guitar sitting to the right of the desk, a MIDI keyboard on the desk, and Logic Pro showing on the main display.

Recording the bass and drums for @[email protected]'s upcoming Christmas song has gotten me into the mood to try record a short little something of my own. 👀

I'm trying to do some kind of cool minor pentatonic thing, we'll see how it actually comes out. 😅 I've got the bass riff recorded so far and it's sounding pretty good, next stop is some lead guitar over the top of it. (The MIDI keyboard may or may not end up being made use of in the final product.)

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Posted on 15 September 2024, 21:12

A photo of our original cupboard doors, there are four of them and they're in a very white thin frame with very cheap looking wood grain as the actual door material (I honestly couldn't tell if it was the real wood or just a faux-wood covering on top).

A photo of the new cupboard doors, only three of them. They're white, in the "quaker" style, and the middle one has a mirror in, which is reflecting me in the middle of taking the photo.

Today we had our incredibly shitty built-in wardrobe in the main bedroom replaced! Looks so much nicer now, inside as well, and it's good to have a mirror that isn't the weirdly lowly-positioned one on the back of the bedroom door.

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Posted on 13 September 2024, 13:45

A photo of a very worn copy of Star Wars: Heir to the Empire. The cover art shows Luke, Leia, and Han's heads and upper body, Chewbacca standing is off to the right and there are three Stormtroopers running with a large fire or explosion in the background. Grand Admiral Thrawn, the blue-skinned, red-glowing-eyed tactical genius, is standing at the left in his white grand admiral's uniform, and above all of them is a man in brown Jedi robes with a big white beard, holding his arms up to the sky with blue/white lines of light or power coming out of his fingertips.

Right, having finished Timothy Zahn's Star Wars novel "Choices of One" which featured Mara Jade, I think it's time to go back to her beginnings for my semi-regular re-read of this EXTREMELY well-loved copy of Heir to the Empire!

My parents bought this for me for Christmas of 1993 so I would have been not quite ten years old. It was the very first proper novel I ever read and I'd absolutely credit it with my love of reading to this day, I read it through and then immediately started it again, and ended up reading it five times over the six weeks of the Christmas holidays that year, haha.

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Posted on 4 September 2024, 23:15

A photo of an older woman with grey hair sitting at an electronic drum kit in the middle of playing. There's an iPad in the middle with the app "Melodics" open, indicating with coloured squares which drum pad should be hit when.

Currently teaching @yayKM's mum how to play drums.

She's a lot better with the coordination than my mum is, but then I found out that she used to play the full church organ that involves using both your hands and feet!

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Posted on 2 September 2024, 10:49

A photo of two flour-covered round golden brown loaves of bread with magnificent splits in the top, sitting on a cooling crack.

I haven't made any bread since March, but aw yiss, still got the touch. 😎

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Posted on 28 August 2024, 11:49