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A photo of ten serves of my Mexican lentil rice in individual tupperware containers. It's got rice, lentils, black beans, corn, and green beans in it, and there's some tomato paste and one of the spices is smoked paprika so it has a reddish hue.

A photo of an open-faced cheese and tomato toastie on two slices of my home-made bread. The cheese is golden-brown and looks delicious, and on top of the cheese is a bunch of chopped up capsicum. The bread is sitting on a white dinner plate.

A photo of fifty-four small round miso chocolate chip cookies sitting on two cooling racks.

The deliciousness continued today with a batch of my Mexican lentil rice for weekday leftovers, a toastie for lunch on my bread from yesterday, and then finally miso chocolate chip cookies to have with my afternoon coffee!

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Posted on 30 November 2025, 16:11

A photo of all of the walls of the Tomb World terrain bluetacked onto pieces of cardboard so I could airbrush the primer onto them. The designs on the walls have a geometric alien-robotic look, and in many places it looks like the alien-robotic section has been exposed underneath regular walls that have been damaged or rotted away. It's not Egyptian exactly, but the pillars on the corners of where all the walls connect to each other have that inverted-obelisk design to them. One section has a bunch of Necron warriors (think the un-fleshed machines from the Terminator movies) dormant in their recharging alcoves. The whole lot has been undercoated in black then a white applied from a high angle so it catches the tops of all the surfaces and fades down darker as it goes down.

Definitely making progress here, the terrain — sans the scatter pieces — has been primed and zenithalled (yes that's now a word)!

My plan is to drybrush some pure white to bring out the details a bit more, then hopefully I can get away with painting just the crumbling wall parts that are covering the Necron walls and I can leave the Necron walls themselves as they are, just with some details picked out, and it'll look cool and clean and futuristic behind the crumbling. I'm not sure how it'll work in practice, it might still look unfinished, I'll have to try a test piece first.

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Posted on 30 November 2025, 13:42

A photo of two round golden brown loaves of bread dusted with flour sitting on a cooling rack.

A photo of an outdoor table with various foods on it: sliced up steak, sausages, and several varieties of salads.

A photo of a light brown Cocker Spaniel (I think? I forgot to ask) sitting on a low lounge and partially atop a cushion.

Today has been a day of deliciousness, it started with bread and then we went over to a friend's place for a barbecue and got to hang out with their dog. 🎉 Then we finished off the barbecue with cake (not pictured), and I am very full right now.

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Posted on 29 November 2025, 21:51

A photo of all of the walls of the Tomb World terrain sitting attached together on my painting table. The designs on the walls have a geometric alien-robotic look, and in many places it looks like the alien-robotic section has been exposed underneath regular walls that have been damaged or rotted away. It's not Egyptian exactly, but the pillars on the corners of where all the walls connect to each other have that inverted-obelisk design to them. One section has a bunch of Necron warriors (think the un-fleshed machines from the Terminator movies) dormant in their recharging alcoves.

Right, the Tomb World terrain has been liberated from its sprues, next stop is priming!

The new connection method Games Workshop has for this terrain seems to be pretty improved over what they did for Into The Dark, I didn't do any filing or sanding for the Tomb World terrain here and everything has mostly fit together without issue.

(Necrons in the middle for scale.)

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Posted on 23 November 2025, 10:02

A photo of the full Hivestorm game board with all the terrain on it. It's all ruined industrial-looking concrete buildings with rusty pipes everywhere, and along the top of the ruins and in various spots down the sides there is snow that's fallen and collected so it looks extra desolate.

A close-up shot of the rear of the largest piece of ruined building terrain. There's a solid-looking red metal door at the bottom that's been partially smashed in, and pipes snaking along the outside going up that are broken off in various places. It used to be a three-storey building but the first floor has been completely blown apart and has just a relatively small section of flooring still showing, and the second storey is barely enough for a single miniature to fit on. There's snow on all of the tops of the ruin.

A close-up of the middle of the board where theres some of the smaller scatter terrain. There are some pieces of wall (or possibly floor) that have been blown into the ground vertically that are providing cover, and the very battered top off a large metal vat sitting on top of a small mound of other pieces of ruin. Two of my all-women Astra Militarum squad are in the middle facing off against three hulking and disgusting-looking Plague Marines who are clad in pustulant green armour.

In what might be a new record for me, I have a set of Kill Team terrain finished in slightly over a year since I bought the box. 😅 This is all from the Hivestorm box, and I'm really happy with how the weathering came out. I used Dirty Down's rust effect for the first time for this, it required a little trial and error before I got it looking how I wanted, but on the bright side it was easy enough to reactivate with water and just re-do it where I didn't like how it first came out.

Big props to @RollleafD@dice.camp for the underlying drybrushing technique, and I can't claim credit for the snow idea because I saw that, uh, somewhere else online, but I think I did a pretty excellent job of it.

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Posted on 19 November 2025, 18:45

A photo of a standard-looking silver 16" M1 MacBook Pro sitting on my desk. It has two Deep Space Nine stickers on it, one shows has Garak the Cardassian from the chest up standing there smiling with his hands up as if in greeting, he's looking very pleased and it says "Friend of Garak". Behind him is a rainbow. The other sticker is Major Kira holding a Bajoran phaser upwards in front of her and pressing a button on top of it, with the caption "This machine kills fascists." (Presumably she's setting her phaser to kill.)

This toot is brought to you by my ex-work MacBook Pro that I installed Asahi Linux on! (I figured I'd chuck a couple of stickers on it to distinguish it from my completely and utterly identical-looking M4 MacBook Pro work machine that arrived last week.)

Gotta say I'm extremely impressed with the job the Asahi team has done, the installer was a breeze, it all Just Worked and I even have working brightness and audio keys (and audio!) out of the box! I decided to go for the KDE environment, partially because I haven't used that since 2003 when I took this screenshot of KDE 3.1 back under Mac OS X when I was mucking around with running XWindows inside it, and partially because that's the Asahi team's main focus in terms of polish. I haven't pushed it yet but just doing light browsing and general poking around getting things set up, the battery life is exactly what I'd expect the machine to be under macOS; right now it's reading 85% charge and 10 hours of battery life remaining, and it's completely cool and silent.

I haven't looked into the keyboard shortcut swapping yet (having Ctrl-C be copy everywhere except in a terminal session where you have to remember to use Ctrl-Shift-C irritates the bejesus out of me every time, and in general I find the ergonomics of having the Command key position being the primary modifier to be far superior to Control) but that'll probably be my next mini-project. I got 1Password working, although they don't have a proper distribution of aarch64 binaries yet so I'm having to start it in a terminal session like some sort of barbarian. The browser extension works fine at least.

[EDIT] Well that was easy, someone wrote a thing called Toshy that takes all the hard work out of remapping everything!

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Posted on 26 October 2025, 20:14

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.

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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