Multitasking effort for the day: making lunchbox snacks while testing the Ankarsrum mixer. Can confirm they taste pretty good.
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First play through of Striga in The Witcher: Path of Destiny, and my first two player game. There was a bit of confusion on Lauren’s part around the secret objectives which meant she wasn’t playing …
Have enjoyed watching a bit of football this season. The Bulls didn’t make the finals and lost tonight, but at least we managed to get to the match.
Another playthrough of The Witcher: Path of Destiny today. Stuck with The End of the World story as I convinced the boy to play with us this time around, and wanted it to be simple for him to learn. …
At the behest of the boy, today we played Monopoly. We played the Avengers version, which adds some really interesting elements that made it the most interesting game of Monopoly I have played in a while. I lost, completely, but had some fun doing it. There were still tears (but not mine).
I must have it.
Also, I want a bigger version. Maybe not life-sized, but make it 5,000 pieces. Let’s go, Lego.
Boy’s first trial soccer match today. The team came out strong. He scored the first goal of the year, and had a couple of extra shots. It looked like this year could be different.
Then he fell over and hurt his arm. Came off. Swollen and in a lot of pain. Team completely lost its momentum and conceded 5 unanswered goals by the time we took him to the doctor.
He’s had an X-ray, and it doesn’t look like a fracture right now, but we need to wait for the full results.
Friends, it has been a wild day.
Been a few weeks since the last board game play. Today we pulled out Wingspan, and I managed to demolish the family thanks to a collection of birds giving me extra bonus cards. Personal best score of 99.
Ended up in the Wayback Machine for the Giz AU archives today looking for something, but I wasn’t prepared for the grief seeing my old fur ball smiling on an article…
Played Harry Potter House Cup Competition today. Took much longer than needed because everyone was getting up and down.
But once we got into it, had some fun. The boy was grumpy at the end because he made a choice based on a misreading of a card’s symbol. But ultimately, I won. 😊😊🎲
Gorgeous day for a stroll around Sydney…
Had a quiet year on the board game front in 2024. Need to try and make more time for it this year.
My wife got Wingspan for Xmas, and we just played through for the first time all together. It was so good. Such a beautiful game. Can’t wait to play again.
I was not expecting this result. Absolutely for sure 100% definitely thought Jedi Survivor would be my most played game. Shocked.
Perfect gift for a middle-aged Star Wars geek, really.
Played Back to the Future: Back in Time today with my daughter. And just as we were getting a rhythm, Marty disappeared from the photo and we lost.
Next time.
Got concerned when I heard scratching at my back door today. Just this guy saying hello.
Got to head out to the women’s Sydney vs Melbourne City A-League match today with Ninja. It was a gorgeous day and a good match of football. Should try and get to more matches.
I have to laugh, because I did forget I had to vote that day. That is until about 2pm when our neighbours walked past and announced they were heading to vote. I swore, then quickly went and voted, before walking home with the neighbours and their dog.
Sadly, I was too late for democracy sausage.
I’m testing a robot vacuum at the moment that just won’t quit. It has been vacuuming my 3 bedroom house since about 10am. It had to stop and go to recharge, then it kept going.
I just looked in the settings and I think I found the problem: It’s programmed to vacuum until the end of time.
We’re getting one of our side fences removed today. Our neighbour needs to do some landscaping before the new fence goes in, so my desk is going to have a nice view of their backyard for the next week or so.
So here’s something fun: I took the data I collected from my massive SIM mobile plans comparison table and pivoted the info to look at some different angles.
Factoring in current discounts, this is the average price per day across all plans, by provider.
I’ve been struggling a fair bit recently, but managed a nice bushwalk down at Minnamurra on Sunday. It was a perfect day for it, and helped me manage my stress significantly. But that was …
I’ve been getting more and more frustrated with AI-generated slop recently, but these images produced by the OPPO Reno12 for my review have just pushed me over the edge. Why does this crap exist? Who …
Was playing around earlier this week and broke my BTTR email. Trying to get it back online – if you sent me an email in the past 2-3 days, I probably didn’t get it…
