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A photo of our dining table with a Warhammer Quest game set up on it. There's lots of cards and dice everywhere, and in middle are a bunch of variously-shaped tiles connected together that look like the inside of a set of buildings. There are four hero miniatures at the right (one heavily-armoured warrior woman with a sword, a vampire hunter with a long leather coat and a big hat, a steampunk dwarf, and a priest with a rich red robe and a big staff) plus four groups of hostile miniatures at various points on the board (four three shambling zombies, four skeleton warriors, a vampire, and Radukar the Wolf himself who is a vampire and has two big wolf pelts including the heads draped over his shoulders).

A photo of three of the heroes standing in a group with a horde of monsters coming into the room from two of the doors: six zombies and Gorslav the Gravekeeper who is this freaky emaciated undead thing from one door, and three of the skeleton warriors followed by the Vargskyr (a massive demon/bat thing that is over twice the height of anything else) from the other door.

Another Warhammer Quest journey with @wobin today, and oh my GOD was it a shocker. 😫 We played a Scavenge journey where you go around searching for loot and fighting off hostiles, but Radukar the Wolf (the MAIN big bad of the whole game) made his first appearance, my character Cleona was so badly wounded she ended up out of action (thankfully she didn't end up dying), everyone was constantly failing attacks they should have easily made, and we rolled so poorly on the end of turn event table that we ended up at the "Nightfall" point (where all the monsters are much more powerful) FOUR turns earlier than we should have otherwise. 😬 It was an absolute rollercoaster, even outside of Cleona being taken out of action everyone else had multiple times where they'd taken so much damage they were only two short of being taken completely out of action, only to claw their way back and then get wounded all over again, then right at the end it was a mad scramble to get everyone to the exit point. As is frequently the case, hero of the match went to my dwarf Dagnai Holdenstock who was able to be inspired early and just slaughtered his way through everything. He got an upgrade in the post-game phase where damage from his weapons can't be ignored, which is going to be REALLY good because there are three or four types of hostiles that have some sort of "Roll the D12 and on a (certain number) or higher, damage is reduced by X amount" and it bit us so many times.

Posted on 20 July 2024, 22:07

A photo of the card signed by several of the oncology staff at SASH:

"I am so sorry for your loss of beautiful Beanie. He was such a sweet and brave boy and a pleasure to look after. I hope the loving memories of Beanie will help you heal your broken hearts."

"Please accept our deepest condolences for the loss of your sweet boy Beanie. Words cannot describe how difficult it is to say goodbye to such a beloved companion but we hope you find comfort in all of the wonderful memories that you share together & know he is resting peacefully."

"I am saddened to hear of your loss, Beanie was so sweet and always a pleasure to look after. I hope fond memories ease some of your pain during this difficult time. Sending love & hugs."

"Thinking of you during this difficult time Beanie was such a beautiful soul who brightened up the room every time he entered. I hope you find comfort in knowing you shared so many beautiful memories."

Plus two printed out photos of Beanie himself, a small very scruffy blonde dog. In one of them he's just standing there, but the other is a selfie with him looking directly at the camera and our main doctor lady who was treating him with her head poking out behind his head and doing a silly duck-face look and the whole photo is adorable.

Oh my god we got the sweetest card in the mail from SASH today (Small Animal Specialist Hospital, the place where Beanie was going for his chemotherapy). 😭 He was such a little celebrity, all the staff would take photos with him because he was such a cutie and so well-behaved (I have no idea why he couldn't be that well behaved with us 😜), and @yayKM had one nurse exclaim "Oh I can't wait to meet him!" one time when she went to reception to let them know we'd arrived.

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Posted on 17 July 2024, 20:47

A photo of a white IKEA organiser/drawer/thing, the sort with the open front and wicker baskets as the "drawers". This one is sitting on a little stand and is in a 2x2 configuration for the baskets.

Saturday night status: assembling IKEA furniture. Let nobody claim we don't know how to party!

our house ikea darkroom tidying and rearranging

Posted on 13 July 2024, 19:49

A photo of a small scruffy blonde dog lying in a patch of sunlight, with his back up against a set of white IKEA wardrobes. It's winter here so the sun is coming in at a nice low angle and it looks hella cozy.

Favourite spot in the house.

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Posted on 25 June 2024, 12:45

A photo of the head of a vacuum cleaner with a little fuzzy roller inside it, with a bright green light shining out from it highlighting exactly how much of our dog's hair is on the floor (spoiler alert, it's a lot, and he's not even a big dog).

We bought a new top-of-the-line Dyson handstick vacuum cleaner to replace our probably eight year old one that was starting to die and not doing a great job of, well, vacuuming anymore. The new one has this genuinely useful (and quite horrifying) feature on the hard floor head where it shines a bright green light out at an extremely low angle so you can see exactly where you haven't vacuumed yet, and how much shit you're about to clean up. 🤢 On the upside, my nose is now the clearest it's been for AGES.

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Posted on 14 June 2024, 22:36

A selfie of me, a white man with short hair and a short red beard, taken from a very low angle next to my desk chair. On my lap is a small scruffy blonde dog lying with his head draped over the side of my leg.

Furry hot water bottle: deployed.

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Posted on 12 June 2024, 16:00

A wide-angle photo of a room that's empty apart from a large white IKEA cupboard at the right. On the far side of the room the view looks out into the backyard, and there's sunlight streaming in.

The same room, but now there's a second IKEA cupboard next to the first, a waist-high chest of drawers, and a white nightstand. There's a bed at the left, and the top light is on because the view out the window into the backyard is black because it's now night time.

About five hours of this afternoon involved unpacking a bunch of stuff from a battered old IKEA cupboard and extremely shitty Fantastic Furniture desk, then assembling a new IKEA cupboard, chest of drawers, and night stand. Between all the walking back and forth with that plus my regular workout on the elliptical, I've done 12.5k steps now. ::collapses::

our house ikea darkroom tidying and rearranging

Posted on 3 June 2024, 19:43

A photo of a compact Breville Bambino Plus espresso machine in black and silver, a tall-ish and narrow black Eureka Mignon Specialita grinder, and a rather long but short black Nespresso machine, all sitting side-by-side on our kitchen benchtop.

@yayKM bought herself a Nespresso machine because she is not REMOTELY awake enough in the morning to use the full espresso setup and wanted something with minimal steps that was not instant coffee. So now we can do: • Espresso • Nespresso • Moka pot • V60 pour over • Cold brew I think we're probably good for coffee-making methods at this point. 😅

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Posted on 30 May 2024, 12:36

A photo of two small black cube-shaped objects with a vertical slot cut out of the front of them. The one on the right has a larger slot which is holding a blue circuit board with three bright LEDs lit up in blue, green, and yellow. The one on the left has a smaller slot which is holding a smaller circuit board (the ESP32) with a USB-C port on one side of it. (The holder on the left is showing what's on the back side of the holder on the right.)

There are three short wires looping out to connect from the ESP32 on the back to the LED module on the front.

I still need to write up a full blog post about my latest ESP32 adventures, but suffice it say they've consisted of indoor air quality sensors, RGB LED modules, teeeeensy little ESP32 boards, and my very first 3D-printed things! From top to bottom, the LEDs show the outdoor dew point, outdoor air quality, and indoor air quality (or office air quality for the other one), where blue is good and it goes through the spectrum to red is bad, and on the left you can see the back side of the holder where the ESP32 lives. I used Tinkercad to design and print the holders, and got a friend to actually print them out. The first ones didn't QUITE fit the LED boards so I had to go back and slightly tweak them, and the second round was a great success. I airbrushed them black because the resin he used was this weird pale almost-flesh colour that looked terrible, haha.

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Posted on 29 May 2024, 21:22

A photo of a Blackstar ID:CORE V4 20 guitar amp, it's a compact black box with silver trim on the front mesh and knobs on the top panel. There's nothing for scale but it's pretty compact, 37cm wide × 29cm high × 18cm deep.

Putting my union referral bonuses to good use. 😎

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Posted on 28 May 2024, 10:36