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A photo of a magpie lark, a medium-sized black and white bird with a pointy yellow beak, walking around in our back lawn.

Unexpected benefit of the 120mm (5x) lens in my new iPhone: I can take better photos of the interesting birds we get bopping around in our backyard!

Posted on 30 October 2024, 10:47

A photo taken at night looking down a suburban street, there are a bunch of compact two-storey houses most of which have coloured strings of lights hanging down the front.

I love all the Diwali lights all the Indian families have out at this time of year, and then as a bonus they can just keep them on through December and suddenly they're Christmas lights!

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Posted on 29 October 2024, 21:28

A photo of three people sitting around a restaurant table smiling at the camera. There's me, a white man with a short red beard and short brown hair, Kristina, a white woman with short brown hair, and Rebecca, a white woman with long brown hair.

As always Mamak was excellent, and it was lovely to meet @rfernandez in person!

(Although I think @rfernandez's choice of dessert was... not excellent. 😅)

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Posted on 29 October 2024, 20:14

A photo of a field with sheep grazing in it, and behind them are two three-storey unit blocks, and beyond that in the distance a bunch of regular suburban houses.

We're off to Parramatta for Mamak with @rfernandez, and it's SUCH a glorious day that we walked to the train station. Nice to see the sheep still around, for the moment at least.

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Posted on 29 October 2024, 17:52

A photo of a game of Warhammer 40,000: Kill Team. The board looks like the metal of the inside of an ancient steampunk starship, and the terrain is a bunch of walls all connected together in the same steampunk style to form number of interconnecting rooms. At the bottom left closest to the camera are my six converted all-women Space Marines clad in deep red armour, at the far right are the very ancient Egyptian-looking space marines of the Warp Coven, and pretty much not visible at the top behind the walls are six Night Lords Chaos Space Marines, in fairly bright blue armour and with small red bat-looking wings as decorations in various places.

We had our first game of the new edition of Kill Team last night!

Only got through two rounds, and we played without equipment—apart from barricades, just to match it from the last edition—but I'm really liking how streamlined the rules are, the new rules for line of sight and cover are SO much clearer now. In terms of actually scoring anything it was a miserable failure on my part, I didn't get anything at all but that was mostly my fault for fucking up my deployment (and I now have a whole new set of chapter tactics I need to remember as well), but that's fine, this was just a "Get used to the rules" game anyway. I am disappointed at how much of a nerf plasma has had though... even when supercharged, my Assault Intercessor's plasma pistol is only 4/5 damage, Piercing 1.

Side note, the Nemesis Claw "You're obscured if you're within one inch of heavy terrain" rule is SO IRRITATING. 😛 At least they can be shot at now, but obscuring still means that you're very unlikely to deal any damage unless you roll really well AND the Nemesis Claw player rolls really poorly.

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Posted on 27 October 2024, 23:39

A photo of Space Marines, three Assault Intercessors and three standard Intercessors, all of them have a metal-looking nameplate attached to the front of their bases with a gothic-looking font for their names: Sister Miraïs, Sister Lucena, Sister Sarine, Sister Genevane, Sister Arabeth, and Sister Dominea.

They're all wearing standard massive Space Marine armour with big shoulder pads painted in a deep rich red, the Assault Intercessors all look like they're mid-stride and are wielding got pistols and chainswords, and one has a grenade in her hand and looks like she's about to lob it. The other three are holding big boltguns, two look like they're in the middle of firing and the third had hers held upright in one hand while she points commandingly with the other. None of them have helmets and they've all got either mohawks or very short cropped hair and various cybernetic implants. Their guns and chainswords are all black and they've got various brown leather pouches attached to their waists. The bases are done up to look like battlefield mud, it's all dark brown and wet-looking and splattered part-way up their shins, and there's some swampy-looking grasses and green goopy swamp water on the bases too.

It's taken like six months but I finally attached the nameplates to my Intercession squad!

...though I guess now with the release of KT24 it's my "Angels of Death" squad now. 😛

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Posted on 26 October 2024, 21:52

A photo looking out from the patio into our backyard prior to mowing. You can see a bit of the patio at the bottom where there are weeds growing in between the bricks, the edges of the lawn are quite long, and the grass in general looks very scruffy. The side of our house is visible at the left, with two trees in large pots next to it. Behind us is a very dodgy wooden fence that has a distinct lean, with a two-storey red brick house with all its blinds closed behind it looming over everything. To the very right is our little hobby room, a small standalone structure that's sitting alongside the fence. At the very top-right are the big tree in the corner of our yard and the trees from the neighbour's yard poking over.

Exactly the same view as the previous photo, except the lawn is neat and tidy and the patio has had the weeds whippersnipped, and the sun is significantly further into its afternoon arc and the shadow from the house behind us is reaching about half-way into the yard now.

✅ Laundry: washed.

✅ Lawns: mowed.

✅ Edges: edged.

✅ Patio: de-weeded.

✅ Me: ded.

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Posted on 26 October 2024, 16:46

A photo of the box of a 10TB Seagate external hard disk. The enclosure is basically a big featureless black box with a little white bit going over where the front USB port is.

This should keep us going for a while! Good upgrade from 4TB. 😛

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Posted on 26 October 2024, 10:05

A photo of a plate with a fallen-apart rösti on it, with three poached eggs sitting on top.

Kristina had a physio appointment for 7:30pm tonight so she had a late dinner, and I had a hella bachelor dinner: an Aldi rösti with poached eggs that were done in our microwave poaching jobbie.

(I had it with ketchup and it was actually surprisingly delicious. It was also 500g of rösti so I didn't end up eating ALL of it. That's a dinner plate that the food is sitting on, for scale.)

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Posted on 20 October 2022, 20:26

A photo of a small scruffy blonde dog with his head against the side of a lounge, half asleep with his tongue poking out.

Doing a blep. A sleepy, dishevelled blep.

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Posted on 25 June 2020, 23:23