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A wide-angle photo taken from just inside the doorway of the separate structure that's in our back yard. Directly in front of the camera is a white standing desk in standing position with a 27" iMac sitting on it, underneath are an assortment of boxes and wire drawers. Immediately to the right is another collection of boxes, all my various Kill Team (Warhammer 40,000) game stuff, then a desk with a mess of miniature painting things on it. The wall above the desk has two floating shelves attached to the wall which are packed with miniatures in various states of painting.

Phewww, just spent the last several hours doing some extremely-long-overdue cleaning out of our back room.

I pulled apart the extremely shitty Fantastic Furniture desk that we've had for... probably longer than we've lived in our house, which is just shy of thirteen years, and replaced it with @yayKM@aus.social's old IKEA manual standing desk that was sitting in pieces (which I reassembled without any instruction manual 💪🏻). It's now permanently in the standing position so there is a ton more room underneath it, and I was able to finally pull out my old Late 2013 iMac from its box and set it up. I'd love to get Linux Mint installed on it but my first attempt of booting off an SD card resulted in an "Unable to find a live medium containing a live file system" message, and I can't be bothered looking into it further right now.

I also nearly filled our red bin with crap that could get thrown out, and we've booked a council cleanup to get rid of the larger things that can't go in the bin.

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Posted on 5 April 2026, 17:18

A photo of a mostly-assembled single bedframe. Main components of it are thick black metal U-beams that make up the four sides of the frame, with another one running down the middle. There are wooden panels on the outer sides that attach to the metal to hide the frame itself (the panels themselves are solid wood too and quite hefty), and four panels of wood that the mattress sits on which have holes drilled in them to allow the mattress to breathe. These panels get screwed into the U-beams of the frame itself, and the whole bed is raised on four solid round wooden legs, with an extra leg right in the middle of the centre U-beam to provide even MORE support. The whole thing would have to weigh like 90kg, it's ridiculous.

And then this evening I put together the world's most overengineered bedframe, which weighs more than I do.

(We got this one specifically because a) we're sick of having to replace cheap bedframes because the slats either warp or the whole thing starts creaking, and b) all the other ones were too low to fit our storage boxes under them.)

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Posted on 10 May 2025, 18:36

The "middle chaos" photo of our home office: there is a standing desk pulled entirely out from the wall, four ethernet cables running from the wall into the router that's sitting under the standing desk, plus a bunch of cables and external hard disks, a Mac mini, and a vacuum cleaner in the middle of the room, as well as a printer sitting on the chair. Beside the standing desk is a bookshelf with the bottom two shelves empty where the printer, Mac mini, and external hard disks live.

The finished glorious neatness: the standing desk is back against the wall, the printer, Mac mini, hard disks, and router are neatly back on the bookshelf, and the big power board has all its power plugs neatly labelled. Four of the cables (the three hard disks and the Raspberry Pi) are actually fed into a cable organiser that takes them up behind the bookshelf, and the four ethernet cables are neatly tied together. The only slightly messy bit are the four power cables coming down from the standing desk into a second powerboard, but even they're mostly tied together.

We had the electrician in yesterday to run a bunch of new ethernet cable for our new network setup with the additional wifi access points. Yesterday evening after dinner we went out and bought two big 12-port Arlec powerboards with two USB-A and two USB-C ports in them to neaten up the lounge room power setup, and the office too because I was going to move the router there but we'd run out of ports on the existing boards. I spent the rest of yesterday evening after we got home doing the lounge room, at lunch today I wall-mounted and tidied up the access point in the back room, and then this evening pulled EVERYTHING in the office apart and redid it all.

Witness the absolute chaos of the middle of it, and then the glorious neatness afterwards, I even labelled all of the power cables to indicate what they're for!

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Posted on 12 February 2025, 22:41

A photo of a smallish room, with stuff against all of the walls but in a neat and tidy and actually arranged fashion, and without a bunch of dust and leaves on the floor.

Did some cleaning and tidying for the final day of 2024: I finally got around to donating Beanie's old stuff to our local vet who were very grateful and assured me they'd be put to good use. The woman who helped me bring the stuff in said in particular that some of their clients have, and I quote, "geriatric dachshunds", so Beanie's old ramp will be particularly helpful, haha.

I also went through the horrifying mess that was the cable box and got rid of all of the cables I had a ton of duplicates of and didn't need anymore (mostly things involving USB-A), and we took all of that plus the rest of the e-waste that'd been sitting there gathering dust to the local e-waste recycling place, and finally I did some long overdue vacuuming as well, phew.

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Posted on 31 December 2024, 15:48

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!

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Posted on 13 July 2024, 19:49

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::

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Posted on 3 June 2024, 19:43

A photo of our lounge room with our very nice new La-Z-Boy (which I always read as "lay-zed-boy") lounge. There's a three-seater facing a TV that's sitting on a wooden TV stand, and two single chairs. They're a fairly light grey/cream sort of colour which might have been a mistake but there weren't really any others we liked at all when we were looking.

New lounge! 🎉

The thing I'm MOST looking forward to is being able to sit on it for an extended period of time without getting a sore back. Which is very convenient timing since Starfield has just come out, and next month also has Forza Motorsport and Cities: Skylines II launching as well. 😁

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Posted on 9 September 2023, 21:26

A photo of our lounge room. There's a box window towards the middle of the photo with a wooden TV stand and TV in front of it and bookshelf speakers flanking the TV, a round table with a lamp and various doodads in the corner to the left of the TV stand, plus a couple of other little side tables. The middle of the room is completely empty now due to the lack of lounge.

We're getting a new lounge delivered tomorrow (the old one is eight years old and has gone completely saggy because it was a comparatively cheap one) so this afternoon we moved the old lounge out to under the patio to make space for the new one, and MAN does everything echo in here now, christ!

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Posted on 8 September 2023, 14:07

A photo of a short (maybe 60cm long? idk I didn't measure it) white floating shelf attached to a wall. There's three others visible, all with miniatures in various states of paintedness on them.

Hung up yet another one of the spare floating shelves we had. And we've still got one of the same size left!

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Posted on 27 December 2021, 13:49

A photo of a corner of our garage with all of our new garden equipment mounted on the wall with hooks: the "Power Head" that holds the battery for the edger, hedge trimmer, and line trimmer attachments, as well as the leaf blower. There's also a small fire extinguisher, and small garden fork and spade.

A photo of the inside side wall of our garage with a bunch of vertically-hanging hooks attached to two wooden planks up near the ceiling. There's various tools hanging off them (a couple of saws, a couple of clamps, a level, bolt cutters, a broom, etc.).

That was an excellent last mental-health-Friday off. Got all the new garden equipment (sans mower) mounted tidily on the wall in the garage, and also put in a bunch of new hooks in on the other side to similarly neaten up the stuff that was hanging there.

I also took the opportunity to take the new blower for a spin to clean the floor of the garage out a bit. It's got a "Turbo" button, and HOO BOY am I glad I had the arm strap attached because it was actively pushing backwards against me!

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Posted on 15 October 2021, 19:16