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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.

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

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.

our house diy darkroom esp32

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.

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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. 😅

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Posted on 10 August 2024, 17:52