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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!

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. 😁

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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!

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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. 😎

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Posted on 29 July 2024, 20:27

A photo of a bottle of "Bunnahabhain" Islay single malt scotch whiskey.

Oh man, @yayKM bought me this bottle of whisky as a surprise and MAN is it nice!

(She also didn't realise it was a 1L bottle and not 750mL so I'm going to be drinking it for a while, haha.)

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Posted on 22 July 2024, 20:43

A photo of our dining table with a Warhammer Quest game set up on it. There's lots of cards and dice everywhere, and in middle are a bunch of variously-shaped tiles connected together that look like the inside of a set of buildings. There are four hero miniatures at the right (one heavily-armoured warrior woman with a sword, a vampire hunter with a long leather coat and a big hat, a steampunk dwarf, and a priest with a rich red robe and a big staff) plus four groups of hostile miniatures at various points on the board (four three shambling zombies, four skeleton warriors, a vampire, and Radukar the Wolf himself who is a vampire and has two big wolf pelts including the heads draped over his shoulders).

A photo of three of the heroes standing in a group with a horde of monsters coming into the room from two of the doors: six zombies and Gorslav the Gravekeeper who is this freaky emaciated undead thing from one door, and three of the skeleton warriors followed by the Vargskyr (a massive demon/bat thing that is over twice the height of anything else) from the other door.

Another Warhammer Quest journey with @wobin today, and oh my GOD was it a shocker. 😫

We played a Scavenge journey where you go around searching for loot and fighting off hostiles, but Radukar the Wolf (the MAIN big bad of the whole game) made his first appearance, my character Cleona was so badly wounded she ended up out of action (thankfully she didn't end up dying), everyone was constantly failing attacks they should have easily made, and we rolled so poorly on the end of turn event table that we ended up at the "Nightfall" point (where all the monsters are much more powerful) FOUR turns earlier than we should have otherwise. 😬

It was an absolute rollercoaster, even outside of Cleona being taken out of action everyone else had multiple times where they'd taken so much damage they were only two short of being taken completely out of action, only to claw their way back and then get wounded all over again, then right at the end it was a mad scramble to get everyone to the exit point. As is frequently the case, hero of the match went to my dwarf Dagnai Holdenstock who was able to be inspired early and just slaughtered his way through everything. He got an upgrade in the post-game phase where damage from his weapons can't be ignored, which is going to be REALLY good because there are three or four types of hostiles that have some sort of "Roll the D12 and on a (certain number) or higher, damage is reduced by X amount" and it bit us so many times.

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Posted on 20 July 2024, 22:07

A photo of the card signed by several of the oncology staff at SASH:

"I am so sorry for your loss of beautiful Beanie. He was such a sweet and brave boy and a pleasure to look after. I hope the loving memories of Beanie will help you heal your broken hearts."

"Please accept our deepest condolences for the loss of your sweet boy Beanie. Words cannot describe how difficult it is to say goodbye to such a beloved companion but we hope you find comfort in all of the wonderful memories that you share together & know he is resting peacefully."

"I am saddened to hear of your loss, Beanie was so sweet and always a pleasure to look after. I hope fond memories ease some of your pain during this difficult time. Sending love & hugs."

"Thinking of you during this difficult time Beanie was such a beautiful soul who brightened up the room every time he entered. I hope you find comfort in knowing you shared so many beautiful memories."

Plus two printed out photos of Beanie himself, a small very scruffy blonde dog. In one of them he's just standing there, but the other is a selfie with him looking directly at the camera and our main doctor lady who was treating him with her head poking out behind his head and doing a silly duck-face look and the whole photo is adorable.

Oh my god we got the sweetest card in the mail from SASH today (Small Animal Specialist Hospital, the place where Beanie was going for his chemotherapy). 😭

He was such a little celebrity, all the staff would take photos with him because he was such a cutie and so well-behaved (I have no idea why he couldn't be that well behaved with us 😜), and @yayKM had one nurse exclaim "Oh I can't wait to meet him!" one time when she went to reception to let them know we'd arrived.

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Posted on 17 July 2024, 20:47

A photo of a white IKEA organiser/drawer/thing, the sort with the open front and wicker baskets as the "drawers". This one is sitting on a little stand and is in a 2x2 configuration for the baskets.

Saturday night status: assembling IKEA furniture. Let nobody claim we don't know how to party!

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Posted on 13 July 2024, 19:49

A photo of a small scruffy blonde dog lying in a patch of sunlight, with his back up against a set of white IKEA wardrobes. It's winter here so the sun is coming in at a nice low angle and it looks hella cozy.

Favourite spot in the house.

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Posted on 25 June 2024, 12:45

A photo of the head of a vacuum cleaner with a little fuzzy roller inside it, with a bright green light shining out from it highlighting exactly how much of our dog's hair is on the floor (spoiler alert, it's a lot, and he's not even a big dog).

We bought a new top-of-the-line Dyson handstick vacuum cleaner to replace our probably eight year old one that was starting to die and not doing a great job of, well, vacuuming anymore. The new one has this genuinely useful (and quite horrifying) feature on the hard floor head where it shines a bright green light out at an extremely low angle so you can see exactly where you haven't vacuumed yet, and how much shit you're about to clean up. 🤢

On the upside, my nose is now the clearest it's been for AGES.

our house darkroom vacuum cleaner

Posted on 14 June 2024, 22:36