Spent the past couple of days playing Familiar Tales, which my daughter got for her last birthday. It’s a pretty epic campaign based game. We only finished the first chapter, but had a lot of fun doing so. We thought we were doing well on the last mission of the chapter, but then things changed suddenly and we had to fight through hordes of enemies. The biggest problem with the whole game is that it’s so big, and we don’t by have anywhere we can just leave it set up to keep going back to it. Continue reading →

Home after seeing Birds of Tokyo play at the Opera House with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. It was phenomenal. The band were having lots of fun (for most of the show) and the SSO was amazing as always. A couple of tracks gave me tingles, making the hair stand up on the back of my neck it was so powerful. They did a cover of Johnny Cash’s cover of NIN’s _Hurt_that blew my mind. Continue reading →

Yesterday I was reviewing the espresso monitor for BTTR and drew a picture.

My daughter was at Nanna’s, so I thought I’d send it to her. She loves that kind of thing.

I searched for her in messages on the computer, pasted it in, wrote a quick message:

“Hey beautiful, I drew you a picture”

And hit send.

Then I realised I had sent it to the cleaning company we use.

I tried to delete it, and thought I had succeeded. Until I got a message today.

“That’s lovely Nick but not sure if it was meant for Licence to Clean”.

I am officially dead.

This morning our lovely neighbours came over and invited us all to the Botanic Gardens for lunch. The kids and I rode our bikes in with them, and we enjoyed an afternoon of good food and great company.

It was just really nice to stop for a bit.

I’ve been on quite the SEO roller coaster the past month. August core update saw me reach record heights on BTTR, new Helpful Content update seems to have dropped it back down to previous levels.

I’ll just keep plugging away making the site as good as I can. But Google, you’re making things harder than they need to be (for me, anyway).

Last night we went out to dinner to celebrate the boy’s birthday. We ate a lot of meat. It was incredible.

The last two episodes of Ahsoka have been, for me at least, probably the best Star Wars I’ve seen. Absolutely phenomenal.

Daughter had her piano performance today and she smashed it. So very proud of her. And not just because she’s looking over my shoulder as I write this. 🤣🤣

Finished him. He is magnificent.

The detail is incredible. The building was fun. I need more.

Really trying to savour every moment of this Lego build.

Started building my Father’s Day present tonight.

This is the way.

My Father’s Day is all about building a better zoo than my children.

Ingredients prepped to build up an epic pasta for dinner.

I’ve been neglecting the blog, so completely missed that there was a Micro.blog photo challenge.

I don’t know if I would describe this as abstract, but it’s the best I can do at short notice.

The past week there’s been a bit of step change in performance for BTTR.

It has only been a week, so it’s too early to tell if it’s an actual change, but it has me giddy with optimism.

Don’t crush my dreams, universe!

Wow. Ahsoka is perfect.

From the opening crawl (in red!) to the parallels with the Rebels finale at the end of episode 2, it was the perfect Star Wars show. Epic lightsaber battles, stunning locations and droids, and lovable characters, I loved every second.

I have really struggled to get out of first gear today. I’m chugging along, but in fits and starts.

Finally got to go and see Barbie today. It was great. Thoroughly enjoyed it, though nowhere near as much as my wife. I think she had a spiritual connection to the whole thing.

England was the better side overall tonight. But the Matildas were still phenomenal. Kerr’s goal was extraordinary.

A couple of mistakes and a couple of missed chances was all it took for the match to go the other way.

Let’s see them take third.

Yes.