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A photo of a Warhammer Underworlds game board. The artwork looks like a bunch of huge tree roots and on one side they look like they're going down into a river of blood. On the side closest to the camera are six zombies and a zombie master in a flowing purple cloak, and on the other side are six beastly goatmen.

First game of Warhammer Underworlds in a while, and my first outing with the Exiled Dead! @yayKM won 9-7 with Grashrak's Despoilers, and I realised I was playing a couple of things wrong and also misread one of my objectives. It was a lot of fun though, and the shenanigans with Exiled Dead are fantastic.

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Posted on 13 May 2023, 23:46

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

Yesss, first porridge of the season. It's meant to be fairly miserable this weekend so I figured it was a good time for it.

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Posted on 13 May 2023, 9:17

A photo of a small scruffy blonde dog lying with his head over the side of my lap, fast asleep.

Beanie's currently asleep on my lap, doing a big snore.

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Posted on 11 May 2023, 15:05

A photo of the front of the box of the new Warhammer Underworlds release. The artwork has a guy in golden armour with a big blue cloak with a hood standing there with a staff and casting some sort of magic, and below that are two more similar figures fighting off freaky-looking misshapen daemons.

Yesssss, very excited to put the warbands in Wyrdhollow together and take them for a spin, they look like great fun, lots of magic-casting!

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Posted on 10 May 2023, 13:57

A photo of the mostly-disassembled innards of a Pirate MIDI "BRIDGE4" controller sitting on and around a magnetic iFixit mat. There's a selection of screws, and next to the circuit board is the TRS jack that's been ripped off it.

Well, fuck. I managed to break the MIDI-out jack on my MIDI controller. I guess this will be a good test of my soldering skills. 😬 I've been watching a bunch of That Pedal Show on YouTube and was rejiggering my pedal board (I ended up removing everything from the effects loop except for the looper pedal, put the flanger before the boost/overdrive pedals, and it all sounds amazing), and I leant the amp forwards a bit so I could get behind it to plug the effects loop cables back in. The jack sticks out far enough from the MIDI controller that a significant portion of the 13kg weight of the amp ended up on jack and just ripped it straight off. 😢

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Posted on 6 May 2023, 21:46

A photo of a small scruffy blonde dog lying curled up on the floor in a big patch of sunlight.

Autumn and winter are definitely Beanie's favourite seasons because the sun is low enough that it starts streaming into the spare bedroom.

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Posted on 5 May 2023, 11:24

A photo of a small scruffy blonde dog lying on the floor on his side. His ears normally flop down on either side of his head but he's gotten them both to be outstretched, the one that's not sitting against the floor in particular is perfectly balanced so it's just sitting in mid-air.

Beanie looks like he's mid-run, but he's lying down. I don't think I've seen him manage to get his ears in that position before. 😂

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Posted on 4 May 2023, 12:04

A photo of a small scruffy blonde dog lying partially on his side on a lounge, with his front paw tucked under his jaw.

Beanie is sleeping extra cutely this afternoon.

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Posted on 2 May 2023, 17:02

A photo of the bottom of my guitar pedal board. There's a large silver power supply attached to the bottom with lots of cables coming out of it, with a FAR smaller black one (the old one) sitting on top. Just eyeballing it, by volume I reckon the new power supply is probably like six or seven times larger, if not more.

I bought myself a new and properly chonky power supply for my guitar pedal board, because the old one had five outputs and I had eleven pedals and was doing lots of daisy chaining and if I had the looper and MIDI controller pedals going at the same time as everything else, the voltage would sag and the volume would massively drop. Check out the size different between the two. 😅 (Old one on top, obviously.) The new one has eight outputs, but the price increase to go up to the one with twelve was _significant_ so I didn't bother. It's got a USB-C out so I can run the MIDI controller off that instead of taking up an output, and the daisy chaining isn't a problem for the noise suppressor/overdrive/distortion/fuzz pedals because they collectively use a TINY amount of power compared to most of the others.

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Posted on 2 May 2023, 13:22

A photo of a long and narrow white cardboard box with an image of a stainless steel Apple Watch on the front of it.

New Apple Watch! I'd been using @yayKM's one since mine died as she can't wear hers regularly so it didn't really matter, but she's going to be going into the office more often now and it's super-handy for notifications and such. I was going to wait for the Series 9 later this year, but on reflection I was fine with the Series 5 as it was and @yayKM was going to need her old Watch significantly before the expected September release date of the new one. The backup and restore process from the old Watch to the new is slick, I was up and running with the Series 8 within a matter of minutes with all of my configuration and data exactly as it was on the old one. The physical size of the new Watch is only 1mm larger (41mm versus the 40mm of the old one), but there's much less bezel so the physical screen area is significantly larger, 904 sq mm for the new versus 759 sq mm for the old and it's very noticeable. I can only imagine how comically oversized the 45mm Watch would look on my dainty little wrists (or better yet, the Apple Watch Ultra).

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Posted on 28 April 2023, 14:52