It's been freeeezing in Canberra this week! I had to turn the little space heater on on my office a couple of times this week — even after putting on a bunch of layers! The exception being the stunning days we had this weekend.

Abby is back from overseas and it's really nice to have another human in the house again! The dogs are also super happy to see her, and are probably glad that I'll now stop talking at them all day.

I finished the main campaign of Remnant II over the week and it was a blast! I didn't realise going in, but the world is procedural and the order in which you visit each section of the world seems to be random — so future play throughs should feel pretty fresh! While playing through, I was taking a look at the studio behind the game, and it turns out they share a lineage with the creators of Darksiders — one of my favourites from generations past.

Work replaced my ye olde intel Mac this week with a machine running an M1 Pro — and it's true — the performance difference is incredible! I can finally invoke LaunchBar, type a few characters and confidently hit return to have an app open up (instead of inputs being dropped while LaunchBar woke up). Along side a snappy processor, it also has 32GB or RAM — a welcome change for any situation that calls for Docker. The only thing I would mark it down for is that it's do damn quiet! I was so used to the white noise of the Intel based machine's fans running all day that something feels off when my room is entirely silent!

I picked up a new record over the weekend — one of my absolute favourites from The Mars Volta, The Bedlam In Goliath. The art is stunning and I can't wait to listen to this through a million times.

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