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A selfie of me, a white man with a short red beard and short hair, wearing a pair of sleek, dark, frameless sunglasses.

New sunglasses day! I know this ordinarily would be completely unremarkable, but these are replacing the ones I've had for almost fourteen years that I bought on my very first trip to visit @yayKM when she was still living in the US. They were broken from a small child stepping on them when I was over playing music at my friend's house a couple of weeks ago. 😭 The original pair were the style "Dash AF" style from Native Eyewear which has since been consumed by the horrible massive conglomerate Luxottica but I managed to find an alternative (thanks to Reddit's r/sunglasses in fact) that looks almost identical and the company is still independent, "Parallel 2" from Smith Optics.

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Posted on 18 June 2023, 15:08

WE. ARE. HOME. To add to the overall cursedness of this trip, we had dinner last night in the hotel restaurant, it was EXTREMELY overpriced and not very good, and I subsequently woke up at 1:30am and spent the next two hours being sick. 😑 And just to top it all off, we've come home to a notification from our ISP saying there was a burst water main in one of the points of interconnect that ruined a bunch of networking equipment and we're not expected to have our regular internet connection working until this evening. And of course because the whole area is affected, everyone is tethering and it's all slow as hell.

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Posted on 17 June 2023, 14:47

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

And FINALLY, a batch of cut rounds! ::collapses::

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Posted on 11 June 2023, 14:29

A photo of two golden brown loaves of bread covered in flour, with wonderful-looking splits on top, sitting on a cooling rack.

A photo of two slices of the aforementioned bread with cooked sliced tomato and mushrooms on top, sitting on a white dinner plate. There's just a little scattering of grated Parmesan cheese on top.

A photo of a small scruffy blonde dog sitting on the kitchen floor in a patch of sunshine. He's looking up at the camera and is squinting because the sun is coming in directly behind where I'm standing.

Part three of The Weekend of Deliciousness is bread, for the first time since March! The yeast I've been using expired in June last year so I've just slowly been increasing the amount that I use and it seems to be fine. Lunch was mushrooms cooked in sage, rosemary, thyme, and garlic on top of cooked tomatoes on the bread. And the SECOND I start slicing the bread Beanie is in the kitchen like a shot because he knows there'll be crumb fallout, and he always gets a little end piece of bread when I'm done.

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Posted on 11 June 2023, 14:06

A photo of a small scruffy blonde dog lying on a blue blanket that's on top of his dog bed. His butt is basically hanging off the edge, and his head is at an awkward angle against a power socket in the wall behind him.

He has an entire bed at his disposal, but instead needs to perch on the very edge and snuggle with the power point instead. We have the weirdest dog.

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Posted on 10 June 2023, 23:34

A photo of a small scruffy blonde dog sitting directly in front of a closed bedroom door, staring directly at the door.

@yayKM has some stretches and exercises she does that involve lying on the ground. She's doing them in the bedroom with the door closed tonight because every single time she does them, Beanie needs to come in and either get directly in the way, or hump her (or both).

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Posted on 10 June 2023, 21:37

A photo of a bunch (forty-nine if we're being exact) of smallish golden-brown chocolate chip cookies sitting on two cooling racks.

Next, miso chocolate chip cookies.

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Posted on 10 June 2023, 12:05

A photo of a bowl of porridge with butter and brown sugar on top.

Aw yeah, this weekend is going to be a weekend of making delicious food. First up, porridge.

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Posted on 10 June 2023, 9:45

A photo of a Warhammer Underworlds game board. It has hex tiles on it, and the artwork looks like the bottom of a forest with gnarled roots everywhere. Closest to the camera are the three miniatures of The Wurmspat, they're all humanoid but corpulent with pustulant skin and extra tentacles coming from various places. At the other end of the board are the six goatmen of Grashrak's Despoilers: two are larger and more intimidating looking, one is holding a giant axe in the air and is gripping the head of someone he just decapitated, and the other four are smaller and shabbier, wielding bows and spears.

A photo of a small scruffy blonde dog lying on a lounge, with his head and one side directly against a grey foam tray that holds some of the pieces of Warhammer Underworlds.

We played another game of Warhammer Underworlds tonight, @yayKM's filthy goatmen versus my even filthier and significantly more pustulant devotees of Nurgle. It was the lowest scoring game we've had in ages, I managed to get to 9 glory but only right at the end, and @yayKM only got 2. However, she can take solace in the fact that on no fewer than three occasions she needed to roll a critical success in order to not die (essentially rolling a 6 on a regular six-sided die), and managed to pull it off! Once we'd finished I came back around the lounge to get the bag and put all the pieces away and Beanie had made himself extremely comfortable next to one of the foam trays.

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Posted on 9 June 2023, 22:51

A photo of the box of the Dream Router. The router itself looks like a little squat white cylinder with a ring around the top and a gently curved top and bottom.

New router day! A Ubiquiti "Dream Router". Our current router is a six year-old Netgear D7800 running OpenWRT and appears to be slowly dying because increasingly often the entire wireless radio just... drops. Like, no devices can see any of the networks, then it'll come back a minute later. Last time this happened we actually had to power-cycle the router entirely because it didn't come back at all. And while I like the flexibility of OpenWRT, I've managed to fuck things up on a couple of occasions and it feels more like I'm needing to be a sysadmin versus it just being an appliance.

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Posted on 6 June 2023, 12:53