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A photo of the two ballot papers for the 2025 Australian federal election. There is a small green one with seven boxes to number from 1-7 in order of voting preference, which is for the House of Representatives (your local MP in your local electorate), and then there's a massive white one that's so wide it's curving up the sides of the voting booth. This one is for the Senate which is for the whole of Australia, and 20 columns with the various different parties. There's a thick line diving the "above the line" section where you have to number at least 1-6 (but can do more) in order of preference, or you can vote below the line (at least 1-12) for the individual senators from each of those parties.

Democracy: done. ✅

No democracy sausage since it was early voting, but for some bizarre reason when we went in Tony fucking Abbott¹ was standing there with the Liberal² people who were handing out the how-to-vote pamphlets. It was surprisingly busy, we had a minute or two's queue before getting our ballot papers. Then on the way back out, Abbott was talking to a few people outside one of the shops, with a photographer who I assume was from a newspaper. Just bizarre, I'm not sure what they were attempting to accomplish there.

(Footnotes for the non-Australians:

¹ Abbott was one of our worst and most unpopular prime ministers and ended up with his own party voting him out of leadership in 2015.

² Very confusingly, the "Liberal" party here are actually the conservatives).

Posted on 24 April 2025, 11:15

A photo of me, a white man with short brown hair and a very receding hairline, wearing a blue paper mask.

It's yer man, me, having just gotten both a flu jab and a COVID booster! The COVID booster is free, and work is reimbursing flu jabs, woot.

I'm fully expecting to be feeling like warmed-up rubbish tomorrow so the plan is mostly going to be sitting on the lounge playing video games. The last major Baldur's Gate 3 patch came out today and it includes a photo mode so I reckon I can spend a fair bit of time screwing around with that!

selfie me darkroom covid stanhope

Posted on 16 April 2025, 14:04

A photo of me, a white man with short brown hair wearing a mask.

It's yer man, me, with his shiny new bivalent COVID booster!

selfie me portrait mode covid stanhope

Posted on 11 March 2024, 11:59

A photo of me, a white man with a red beard and brown hair that's in need of a trim, wearing a paper face mask.

It's yer man, me, with his shiny new bivalent COVID booster!

And also getting increasingly in need of a haircut, now that I look at the photo.

selfie me darkroom portrait mode covid stanhope

Posted on 13 October 2022, 16:26

Kristina got a new job that she's really excited about (in the same company she's already at), which is also a promotion, so went went out to dinner to celebrate and I got a laksa and it was gooood! (It was no Laksa King, but then very little is, and our local Thai place is not even ten minutes drive from us, versus Laksa King that's in the city and so an hour train trip away. 😛)

darkroom food portrait mode laksa thai stanhope

Posted on 6 October 2022, 20:44

A photo of satay chicken with mixed vegetables on a plate.

A photo of a bowl of vanilla ice cream topped with Ice Magic and crushed peanuts.

I had another rubbish night's sleep last night (my right thigh muscles and lower back have been sore, enough that it keeps me awake if I don't take ibuprofen), so I called the physiologist and managed to get an appointment this afternoon. After a bunch of stretching and questions and testing, he reckoned it was most likely because my back is REALLLLY stiff and it's not quite pinching a nerve but enough that it's causing signalling weirdness to my leg. He gave me a thorough massaging and I've got some exercises to do and will see how it goes and will go in again next week.

So tonight we went out for Thai for dinner and bought some crushed peanuts on the way back to take @[email protected]'s advice with the ice cream and Ice Magic from last time, and HOT DAMN was she on the money! 👌🏻

our house portrait mode ice cream thai stanhope ice magic

Posted on 30 August 2022, 20:05

A photo of beef Pad See Ew on a plate. It looks (and was) delicious!

A photo of dessert which was billed as "banana with sticky rice and ice cream". The banana seemed like it'd been smushed and shaped around a core of bean paste. Not very appetising-looking but was really tasty.

Kristina had a sudden hankering for Thai tonight so we went to our local Thai restaurant and it was excellent as always.

darkroom food portrait mode thai stanhope

Posted on 16 April 2022, 20:02