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We had our air conditioning unit replaced today, the old one worked but holy crap it was loud and the unit that lives in the roof had this incredibly irritating high-pitched whine. You couldn't notice it too much during the day when there was ambient noise, but at night we would have to wear earplugs or it'd keep us up. 😫

Definitely not a great day for it given we just inched over 40˚C, so I can only imagine what it was like up in the roof, I was genuinely concerned for the two tradies who needed to go up there! Now that it's all done though, wow, it feels like we have grown-up aircon. It's so quiet I legit can't hear it over the sound of the fridge, and even on the maximum fan speed it's barely audible! This new unit is a Daikin which apparently interfaces far better with the AirTouch system we got last year, and it seems to use less power as far as I can tell and the temperature control is a lot better.

Posted on 22 October 2025, 20:42

A photo of two round golden brown loaves of bread dusted with flour sitting on a cooling rack. They both have excellent-looking splits on top and look amazing.

And done. 👌🏻

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Posted on 10 October 2025, 12:03

A photo of the corner of one of our spare bedrooms with five guitars hanging on the wall. At the very left two are one above the other, my black Epiphone SG at the bottom and my white Fender Stratocaster at the top, then right of that and down a bit on the wall (to save a little space I staggered the wall mounts a little) is the new red Fender Telecaster, then my Ibanez JIVA10, and finally my Yamaha BB434 bass guitar.

The guitar strap and wall mount for my new guitar arrived today, so that's all put up now too!

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Posted on 7 October 2025, 18:39

A photo taken from our patio looking out into our rather modest backyard. The grass is looking rather overgrown and very weedy, and there is grass coming up from between the bricks of the patio, and the small slightly raised section that's directly in front of the back fence is also completely overgrown with weeds.

The exact same view as the first photo, except the grass is short and neat, the edges are all neat and tidy, and I've gotten rid of all of the grass that was in between the bricks of the patio too. Looks MUCH nicer.

Finally got around to mowing the lawns and doing the whippersnippering, and now I am dead. I was going to do the edging along the driveway too but ran out of steam.

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Posted on 5 October 2025, 13:38

A photo of a bright red electric guitar with a black pickguard and maple fretboard sitting on a stand.

New guitar day! 😍

It's a Fender "Made In Japan Hybrid II Telecaster" (how's that for a mouthful) and damn does it look good in red. I'd been considering getting a Telecaster for a bit though never really thought about a red guitar, but the lead guitarist in We Are Lady Parts had a red SG and I was like "Oh, yes."

The Hybrid series in particular is neat because it has a fourth pickup switch position that runs both pickups in series and so you get a really meaty sound out of it.

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Posted on 3 October 2025, 13:09

A photo of the Anker charger, it's a white cube probably roughly 5cm a side. It has an angled "lid" that comes up from the top of the cube that my iPhone is attached to, a little pop-out shelf at the right where the Apple Watch lives, and behind the lid is a spot for my AirPods Pro case to charge.

I got some more referral bonuses from the union for getting people to join, and have spent this batch on an Anker 3-in-1 Qi2 charger, so I'm now living in the future with wireless charging!

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Posted on 29 September 2025, 12:49

A photo taken in our lounge room showing Megalodon Rising on the TV. The poster art has a submarine with an explosion behind it, and underneath it there is the mouth of a GIANT shark whose mouth-width is nearly as wide as the submarine is long. This was very deceptive because there was no military submarine at any point in the movie!

Tonight we did a bad movie night for @[email protected]'s birthday (it was meant to be last month but sickness got in the way), and we watched MEGALODON RISING.

It's got a 2.1 on IMDB and deserves every bit of it, there weren't remotely enough scenes of things or people being eaten by badly CGI-ed giant sharks and way too much talking. @[email protected] figured out that the naval ship they filmed the movie on was a museum piece at some maritime museum in California, which explained why all the shots of the bridge had exactly one person in the shot at once because they couldn't physically fit more people in the space. 😛 And there were clearly shots that were gotten by just walking alongside the ship in the dock and aiming upwards at the deck, haha. At least the woman who was playing the main character, the captain of the ship, could actually act though!

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Posted on 20 September 2025, 22:10

A photo of the Kill Team: Tomb World box. There's nothing for scale but it's QUITE hefty. The artwork on the front has four Space Marines in their standard huge armour inside some sort of indistinct structure that's lit with a sickly green/blue glow, with a couple of robot/scarab looking things scuttling around.

Who has two thumbs and approximately three metric tons of new plastic that he really shouldn't start on until he's done with the Hivestorm terrain? THIS GUY!

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Posted on 19 September 2025, 11:21

A photo of the box of the Deep Space Nine complete DVD set.

Yessss it is finally mine to own!

Unfortunately it's a US-region DVD set so the next step is going to be finding a region-free drive with which to rip it.

...although I have a vague memory of there being some relatively small number of region changes you were allowed to do on non-region-free drives, and I suspect the Apple SuperDrive I bought back with the original-gen MacBook Air waaaay back in 2008 probably has never had its region set more than once... 🤔

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Posted on 18 September 2025, 12:25

A photo of the box of the Ravagers squad for Kill Team. The squad consists of five large snake-like alien miniatures, very much in the vein of the xenomorphs from the Aliens universe. Most of them are rearing up, and they all have multiple arms that end in extremely large claws, and generally look extremely unpleasant in a "going to eat you alive" sort of way.

Yessss, plastics for the plastic god!

Looking forward to painting these, I haven't actually painted any Tyranids before except for a single Genestealer over three and a half years ago. I have no idea what colour scheme I'm going to use for these though, I wasn't super-happy with the one I did on that Genestealer.

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Posted on 17 September 2025, 14:34