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A photo of our extremely ghetto "weather station": it's a piece of wood attached to the outside of our back room with a tupperware over the end to protect the sensors from direct rain. The new sensor is dangling down underneath the tupperware and looks almost like it has a microphone on the end of it (it's actually the weatherproofing mesh).

It's aliiiive! I might need to reposition it a little, but I'm fairly sure that it shouldn't be getting any direct sunshine where it's dangling there because there are a bunch of trees just over to the right on the other side of the fence.

I'm quite pleased with the overall architecture of my code for this whole project, it was delightfully straightforwards to find a library for the sensor and integrate it.

Posted on 24 August 2024, 12:53

A photo of a sunny window behind a kitchen sink, with cream-coloured vertical blinds partially open.

A photo of our box window that's in the lounge room, also with nice cream-coloured vertical blinds partially open and the sun coming in.

We FINALLY got the dingy grey vertical blinds in the kitchen and lounge room replaced with nice new light cream-coloured ones today. @yayKM had a seething hatred of the old ones, I didn't think they were that bad but I'll definitely grant the new ones look much nicer, and they brighten the place up quite noticeably at night.

our house darkroom renovations

Posted on 23 August 2024, 21:38

A photo of the box of the Dune 2 Blu-ray and a Pimoroni "HyperPixel" four-inch display, plus the new temperature sensor which consists of a coiled black cable with almost what looks like a silver microphone cover at the end of it where the sensor lives.

New goodies! Dune Part 2 in 4K HDR, a replacement screen for one of our Raspberry Pi-attached dashboards, and a different type of temperature/humidity sensor, the Sensiron SHT-30, that's actually got a weather-proof mesh around it and is specifically designed for outdoor usage.

(Our current BME280 it turns out is not, and despite being protected from direct rain, the humidity after it rains gets high enough that the sensor gets saturated and all the readings end up being wrong. I also found out that you can actually calculate the dew point if you have the temperature and relative humidity so I don't even need the BME280 to do that for me! The only thing that I'll be missing is the atmospheric pressure, I COULD leave the BME280 attached for just that but but I don't actually know that I care all that much about it tbh.)

our house raspberry pi darkroom esp32 dune

Posted on 21 August 2024, 14:35

A photo of a rather tall beef burger with a slice of cheese on it, and a big blob of ketchup dripping out one side.

A photo of a partially-completed jigsaw puzzle. The artwork is of a stylised seaside town with ships on the ocean in the distance, and a some nautical-themed shops in the foreground. It's all done in pastel sort of colours.

For @yayKM's birthday we made home-made burgers, then did some of one of her new jigsaw puzzles!

our house darkroom food portrait mode burger jigsaw puzzle

Posted on 18 August 2024, 21:28

A photo of a big deep frying pan sitting on a stove, it has chilli con carne in it and you can see all the diced onion and capsicum plus the red kidney beans. It LOOKS like beef mince but it's actually Quorn.

Aw yissss. 😎

I followed Quorn's own recipe (https://www.quorn.com.au/recipes/chilli-con-carne-quorn-mince) but doubled it, did three stock cubes instead of two, and did more smoked paprika and less ground coriander seed (mostly because we ran out). It's SO GOOD, the sweetness of the capsicum really comes through.

our house darkroom food portrait mode quorn

Posted on 10 August 2024, 20:49

A photo of three people (a woman with short brown hair, a masc but non-binary person with a magnificent large red beard and glasses, and a man with a shorter beard and glasses) sitting around a dining table, with cards on the table. The non-binary person is in the middle of looking through their hand of cards.

We had a visit from @scarydan and their lovely partner today, for afternoon tea and Munchkin! I managed to win, not through skill of my own but from everyone having expended their "Fuck over another player" cards on everyone else. 😅

our house kristina darkroom friends munchkin

Posted on 10 August 2024, 17:52

A photo of a big white casserole dish with tuna mornay in it, and a crunchy panko bread crumb topping. (It looks delicious and was absolutely as good as it looks.)

And then we made Nagi's tuna mornay recipe and it was goooood, and now we're playing more Guitar Hero and @yayKM is currently having a go!

our house darkroom food portrait mode tuna mornay

Posted on 3 August 2024, 21:11

A photo of our TV showing the end a game of Guitar Hero, with the song being Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody.

The seventeen year-old is staying over for the weekend again, and we played another good three hours of Guitar Hero! This time we did Warriors of Rock and I'd forgotten that they'd added the ability to import a bunch of songs from the other Guitar Hero games into it, so we had quite a variety.

They were very excited to see Queen, Black Sabbath, Nirvana, Def Leppard, and Bon Jovi in the choices, and we played some Stevie Wonder and Creedence Clearwater Revival and they added those songs to their "To listen to" list. 😁

our house lily darkroom gaming guitar hero

Posted on 3 August 2024, 18:17

A photo of my white hairy hand holding a glass of whisky up.

Vale @geordie. You will absolutely be missed.

I was trying to think of how it was we first met, and I can't think of where else it would have been except late '00s Twitter. We used to live in Lane Cove at this time and so were dangerously close to the Malaysian restaurant Mamak in Chatswood, and we introduced him to it and the absolute delight that is the roti tisu and his mind was blown. I still have these two photos of him from when we went, from the end of 2010!

our house darkroom alcohol whisky

Posted on 2 August 2024, 20:44

A photo of a white bowl with vanilla ice cream in it, covered with Ice Magic chocolate topping, chopped up strawberries, and some butterscotch sauce. The rum is there too but it's all in the bottom of the bowl so you can't see it.

I burnt 1020 calories on the elliptical after work watching an episode of The Wheel of Time, so now I've ruined it by having a big ol' trashy bowl of ice cream with a shot of The Kraken coffee spiced rum while I watch an episode of The Expanse. 😎

our house darkroom exercise portrait mode ice cream rum

Posted on 29 July 2024, 20:27