Snakes revisited
Had the trees along the side of my house cut down and the guys doing the work brought me these as presents
Three different snake skins - peg for scale.
Picture doesn’t show it too clearly, but they are all from different snakes. The scales and size change in each one.
Solar Hot Water
Had solar hotwater installed today.
With a Hills Solar 22 tube solar tube collector and a 250L tank. Theoretically we should reduce our power usage by ~40% according to the literature. Only time will tell.
Installing the manifold.
The manifold installed.
Installing the tubes
Installing the tubes
The tubes
The tubes
The tubes
The tank arrives
Installing the tank
The finished tank
Torchlight Gems
I spent too much time playing Torchlight
Below is a table showing all the different socketable gems that can be upgraded.
| Deep | Flow | Pure | Life | Eyeball | Core | Fire | Cold | Skull | |
| Cracked | 1 Armor Degraded/+2 Dexterity | +3 Electric Damage/+2 Electrical Resistance | +4 Damage/+3 Armor | +3 Poison Damage/+2 Poison Resistance | 2 Mana Stolen/+2 Magic | 2 Health per Second/+2 Strength | +3 Fire Damage/+3 Fire Resistance | +3 Ice Damage/+3 Ice Resistance | 1 Health Stolen/+2 Defense |
| Dull | 3 Armor Degraded/+3 Dexterity | +6 Electric Damage/+4 Electrical Resistance | +9 Damage/+5 Armor | +6 Poison Damage/+4 Poison Resistance | 3 Mana Stolen/+3 Magic | 4 Health per Second/+3 Strength | +6 Fire Damage/+4 Fire Resistance | +6 Ice Damage/+4 Ice Resistance | 5 Health Stolen/+3 Defense |
| Discoloured | 6 Armor Degraded/+4 Dexterity | +9 Electric Damage/+7 Electrical Resistance | +14 Damage/+9 Armor | +9 Poison Damage/+7 Poison Resistance | 5 Mana Stolen/+4 Magic | 6 Health per Second/+4 Strength | +9 Fire Damage/+7 Fire Resistance | +9 Ice Damage/+7 Ice Resistance | 10 Health Stolen/+4 Defense |
| - | 10 Armor Degraded/+5 Dexterity | +12 Electric Damage/+10 Electrical Resistance | +18 Damage/+12 Armor | +12 Poison Damage/+10 Poison Resistance | 6 Mana Stolen/+5 Magic | 8 Health per Second/+5 Strength | +12 Fire Damage/+10 Fire Resistance | +12 Ice Damage/+10 Ice Resistance | 14 Health Stolen/+5 Defense |
| Cut | 14 Armor Degraded/+6 Dexterity | +16 Electric Damage/+13 Electrical Resistance | +24 Damage/+16 Armor | +16 Poison Damage/+13 Poison Resistance | 8 Mana Stolen/+6 Magic | 10 Health per Second/+6 Strength | +16 Fire Damage/+13 Fire Resistance | +16 Ice Damage/+13 Ice Resistance | 19 Health Stolen/+6 Defense |
| Polished | 19 Armor Degraded/+7 Dexterity | +19 Electric Damage/+15 Electrical Resistance | +28 Damage/+19 Armor | +19 Poison Damage/+15 Poison Resistance | 9 Mana Stolen/+7 Magic | 11 Health per Second/+7 Strength | +19 Fire Damage/+15 Fire Resistance | +19 Ice Damage/+15 Ice Resistance | 23 Health Stolen/+7 Defense |
| Star | 25 Armor Degraded/+9 Dexterity | +22 Electric Damage/+19 Electrical Resistance | +33 Damage/+23 Armor | +22 Poison Damage/+19 Poison Resistance | 11 Mana Stolen/+9 Magic | 13 Health per Second/+9 Strength | +22 Fire Damage/+19 Fire Resistance | +22 Ice Damage/+19 Ice Resistance | 28 Health Stolen/+9 Defense |
| Flawless | 31 Armor Degraded/+10 Dexterity | +25 Electric Damage/+21 Electrical Resistance | +38 Damage/+26 Armor | +25 Poison Damage/+21 Poison Resistance | 12 Mana Stolen/+10 Magic | 15 Health per Second/+10 Strength | +25 Fire Damage/+21 Fire Resistance | +25 Ice Damage/+21 Ice Resistance | 32 Health Stolen/+10 Defense |
| Perfected | 39 Armor Degraded/+11 Dexterity | +29 Electric Damage/+24 Electrical Resistance | +43 Damage/+30 Armor | +29 Poison Damage/+24 Poison Resistance | 14 Mana Stolen/+11 Magic | 17 Health per Second/+11 Strength | +29 Fire Damage/+24 Fire Resistance | +29 Ice Damage/+24 Ice Resistance | 37 Health Stolen/+11 Defense |
| Named | 48 Armor Degraded/+12 Dexterity | +33 Electric Damage/+28 Electrical Resistance | +49 Damage/+34 Armor | +33 Poison Damage/+28 Poison Resistance | 15 Mana Stolen/+12 Magic | 19 Health per Second/+12 Strength | +33 Fire Damage/+28 Fire Resistance | +33 Ice Damage/+28 Ice Resistance | 42 Health Stolen/+12 Defense |
| The Grand Depths Ember Shard | The Eternal Flow-Ember Shard | The Infinite Pure Ember Shard | The Spire City Life Ember Shard | Etlitch’s Eyeball | The Sea Kings Core Ember Shard | The Fire Queen Fire Ember Shard | The Earthstar Cold Ember Shard | The Pirates Skull |
Badger Badger Badger
It’s A SNAAAAKKKKEEE!!!
A neighbour knocked on the door and told us that there was a snake on our roof. By the time we found it it had changed from a roof snake to a palm snake.
Breakfast was tasty.
Spot the Python.
This skin may be from the same python. But it looks too long for it to me. We have had bigger pythons in the back yard in the past.
Drawing Development
I have no idea how kids are supposed to develop but in the past 6 months Liam has gone from potatoes with arms to full stick figures.
12th Nov
30th Nov
Beer
A client recently sent me some of my own branded beer.
Apparently I’m fantastic enough to get my own beer.
It came from the sky!
Had a visitor the other day. A Red Browed Firetail crashed into my back window and knocked itself out.
Liam touching the bird.
