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A photo of a dinner plate with a bunch of thick-cut fries covered in chilli (made with chicken mince rather than beef), with a sprinkling of shredded cheese on top and a dollop of sour cream alongside.

Yessss, @yayKM made chilli fries for dinner tonight and they were gooooood. #adulting

Posted on 6 January 2023, 19:51

A photo of a Roland TV-17KV electronic drum kit that has a hi-hat mounted on an acoustic stand at the left, the standard crash and ride cymbals on the mid-left and mid-right respectively, and then the old hi-hat cymbal has been repurposed at the far right of the kit as a second crash cymbal.

And now that I've replaced the stock hi-hat I have a spare cymbal, so I've hooked up that up at the very right as a second crash cymbal! 😁

our house music darkroom drums

Posted on 5 January 2023, 16:31

A photo of a compact electronic drum kit, with a very shiny metal acoustic hi-hat stand with a black plastic cymbal mounted on it sitting behind the kit.

I've started doing some more advanced stuff on the drums and some of it involves using the hi-hat pedal to open and close the hi-hat, but the stock hi-hat pedal that comes with the drums is fairly mushy and I was having a lot of trouble getting it to register when doing fast switches between open and closed (it's perfectly fine just when it's fully closed or open, just not so much when switching between the two in rapid succession). I did some research and Roland actually have a hi-hat that you mount on a regular acoustic hi-hat stand and it physically moves up and down as a regular hi-hat would. I ordered both the cymbal and the stand earlier in in the week and it arrived today, and man it feels nice to play!

our house music darkroom new toys drums

Posted on 5 January 2023, 14:14

A photo of a small scruffy blonde dog lying upside-down on the floor fully stretched out, fast asleep.

Relaxation status: 100%.

beanie our house dog darkroom

Posted on 4 January 2023, 13:00

A photo of a pork collar butt that's been smoked, it's blackened and looks amazing.

The same pork collar butt that's been pulled apart, you can clearly see the pink smoke ring in it.

A serving of the pork collar butt on a dinner plate along with some green beans and two corn muffins.

A bowl with vanilla ice cream in it that's barely visible under a whole lot of sliced-up strawberries, Ice Magic (chocolate topping that goes hard when it gets cold), and crushed peanuts.

EPIC DINNER SUCCESS. Followed up by ice cream with strawberries that needed to be eaten because they're VERY ripe.

our house darkroom food portrait mode barbecue ice cream ice magic strawberries

Posted on 1 January 2023, 20:31

A photo of a raw 3kg pork collar butt wrapped in netting and covered in coarse pepper and salt, sitting on the grille of a smoker. There's two temperature probes going into the meat and a third measuring the ambient temperature of the smoker itself, all three of which are going into a little box with an LCD (a Thermoworks "Signals") that shows the temperature of each probe. The wood has started smoking already and there's lots of it coming up from underneath the grille.

Starting off 2023 right: doing a pulled pork. Related: every part of me smells like wood smoke right now.

our house darkroom food barbecue

Posted on 1 January 2023, 12:22

Beanie's favourite thing to do is to paw at his blanket across basically the entire room and back again. Occasionally he'll manage to get it out of the door and into the hallway. I stopped this video when he looked up at me after I creaked the chair, but it went on for another like two minutes afterwards.

beanie our house darkroom video

Posted on 30 December 2022, 22:31

A photo of the seven armoured goblins from the Warhammer Underworlds warband Grinkrak's Looncourt. They're all very characterful, the highlights are one wielding a squig that's been attached to a stick, another hiding behind a wooden door while a second one is on his shoulders and pulling back another squig that's about to be launched catapult-style, and a third riding a very large and angry-looking squig and has a large mallet head attached to the pole he's holding. The others just have mostly regular weapons and Grinkrak himself has what looks like a jester's hat on.

(A squid is a small angry creature that consists of mostly teeth.)

A photo of the four shamanistic-looking warriors of the Warhammer Underworlds warband the Gnarlspirit Pack. They're all dressed in leathers and furs and the leader has a large animal skull on his head. His left arm is too slightly larger than normal and looks like something out of the movie Aliens, and is wielding/has growing out of the hand a blade that looks like it may be bone.

And that's the Looncourt assembled and undercoated! I did the Gnarlspirit Pack from the Gnarlwood core box as well, and the keen-eyed (and/or Warhammer 40,000 nerds) amongst you will notice that the leader's arm doesn't quite look right. That's because it's the arm of a Tyranid Genestealer that I put on because the thumb on his regular arm had broken off in the box, so I just chopped the whole arm off and replaced it with this one. Annoyingly I had a similar issue with the head of the leader of the other warbands from that same box, the Sons of Velmorn, the box must have been REALLY banged up in transit. 😕 I'm undecided whether I'm going to actually spend the time to paint up the leader with the replacement arm, haha. (I contacted the place I bought them from and it's no hassle to get new sprues sent out, just annoying.)

our house darkroom games workshop painting gnarlspirit pack gnarlwood grinkrak's looncourt

Posted on 30 December 2022, 22:05

The box of the Warhammer Underworlds warband "Grinkrak's Looncourt". The art on the box has black-clad goblins wielding various weapons. There's also the box for a deck called "Fearsome Fortress," the art on that has stairs up the side of a ziggurat and the field of view towards it is being encroached on by brown vines.

Miniatures for the miniatures god! Plus one of the new Rivals decks, which are a great idea to simplify things because it means you don't have to screw about with deck building.

our house darkroom games workshop warhammer underworlds new miniatures gnarlwood grinkrak's looncourt

Posted on 30 December 2022, 12:36

A photo of a horizontal speaker with a grey mesh grille on it, sitting on top of two vertical pieces of wood that have a 90-degree section cut out of them such that the speaker is angled up at 45 degrees. The whole setup is at the base of my electronic drum kit and so the speaker is angled to aim right at me when I'm sitting on the stool.

I bought an Audio Engine speaker around this time last year to use with my drums (https://virtualwolf.org/media/posts/1906) but it was always just sitting on the floor pointing at my feet so today I decided to build a little stand for it so it'd be angled up at me! I can definitely notice the difference, everything sounds a lot crisper.

our house diy music darkroom drums speaker

Posted on 29 December 2022, 16:16