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A screenshot of the iOS Fitness app showing the summary of my workout, which was 43 minutes, 1,979 active kilojoules, and an average heart rate of 150 beats per minute.

For the first time I think possibly this year I've actually been able to watch an entire episode of something on my iPad while using the elliptical! 🎉

You have no idea how happy this makes me, since COVID hit I was doing it every day after work until I buggered up my right knee towards the end of last year. Ended up going to a physiotherapist followed by like two months of twice-weekly exercise physiologist. Tomorrow's my last regular visit, then I'll just pop in for a check-up every fortnight for a bit, then it should be smooth sailing!

I'm still not at the amount of incline and resistance on the elliptical that I was doing before, but that's just a case of building up to it now.

Posted on 12 May 2022, 18:40

A photo taken from the end of a train station platform, looking down the tracks. It's overcast and slightly foggy, and the weeds between and on either side of the track are a little overgrown.

Oh shit, I am waiting for a train! (We've got a team event today and work is flying the people in to Sydney who don't actually live here. It'll be good to finally meet the people face-to-face who've joined since we changed to full-time remote.)

schofields darkroom train station

Posted on 29 April 2022, 9:18

A photo of a Breville "the Bambino Plus" espresso machine and a Eureka Mignon Specialita grinder alongside a stainless steel container for holding coffee beans. The espresso machine is very handsome, it's all black and shiny chrome, and the grinder is all black and looks very retro 1950s.

Yasssss, birthday haul. 🎉 I still need to tweak the grind fineness—and the single dose attachment I'm getting from my parents on Sunday will help with reducing the amount of beans I end up wasting because I ground too much—but man, even with that it's a night and day difference between the old machine and the new. I had no idea espresso could be so thick and rich!

our house darkroom coffee presents

Posted on 20 April 2022, 10:25

A wide-angle photo of the inside of a big community hall with blue-grey carpet and a bunch a wooden-topped trestle tables, with plenty of people sitting at them.

We've gone out to dinner at an allegedly German beer hall, except it's actually in a Croatian cultural centre and the tables are trestle tables and it's possibly the daggiest place I've ever eaten.

schofields darkroom restaurant

Posted on 1 April 2022, 19:07

A photo of a table with lots of home-made terrain on it, all either rocky or scrap-looking metal constructs. On this side are Chaos Space Marines, painted in green, next to regular Space Marines which are shamefully unpainted (and also held together with Blu-tac). On the other are Tyranids and Necrons.

Look out, we're playing Warhammer 40,000! Pretty sure this is the first time in seven years...

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Posted on 26 February 2022, 15:15

A photo of the inside of a restaurant. It's warm and light, with a nautical blue and white feel, and the ceiling lights have ropes wrapped around the cables hanging from the ceiling.

Aw yiss, out for dinner at our favourite Greek restaurant.

darkroom castle hill greek

Posted on 23 February 2022, 18:59

A photo of four sets of ten female heads for Warhammer 40,000-sized miniatures. One set has mohawks and cybernetic implants, one has a selection of "grizzled veteran" headgear like a beret, a beanie, sunglasses, one has a cigar, etc. The third set all have berets on, and the last have no headgear at all.

Woohoo, the replacement female heads for my miniatures arrived today. They're metal but surprisingly good quality, can't wait to get them all painted up. (I think I'm going to wait for my airbrush stuff to arrive before I get stuck in.)

our house darkroom painting astra militarum space marines statuesque miniatures

Posted on 18 February 2022, 9:54

A photo of a Warhammer 40,000 Space Marine, a big heavily-armoured warrior holding a big gun, that's been undercoated in black and has a zenithal highlight of white done from the angles on the top so it looks like the light is shining on him from above. The gradient is smoooooth.

We were over at a friend's place today and he has an airbrush. I had a play around with it, and that's it, I'm getting one. Look at the damned smoothness of this zenithal highlighting!

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Posted on 12 February 2022, 19:00

A photo of a bowl of spaghetti with bolognese sauce on top, all covered in grated Parmesan cheese.

I made myself a batch of Quorn-based spaghetti bolognese yesterday, had the first one for lunch today and it's excellent. I'm not sure I'd really have noticed it wasn't beef if I wasn't paying attention!

our house darkroom food portrait mode spaghetti bolognaise quorn

Posted on 9 January 2022, 12:36

A photo of four boxes of Warhammer 40,000 miniatures. Kabalite Warriors and Wyches for the Drukhari (think sadistic space elves), and Neophyte Hybrids and Acolyte Hybrids for the Genestealer Cults (the Neophytes are broadly human but with heads that are slightly too bulbous and alien-looking, the Acolytes are humanoid but with 3 arms and heads more like the alien from the movie Alien).

I think my favourite thing about Warhammer 40,000: Kill Team is that you you can dip your toes into ALL the factions without having to spend an arm and a leg making a full army (plus the subsequent time expenditure of painting them). It's pretty much, "Buy a couple of boxes of the basic troops and bam, you've got a squad."

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Posted on 5 January 2022, 10:17