*Sigh*

It's snowing again today. It really is such a bother, because I can't go anywhere when it's snowing, but I still have to waste large portions of time shoveling. I'm just hoping it doesn't pile up too much. I really don't want to have to do a lot of "heavy lifting" type shoveling, or have to use the snow blower. It's nice, but you have to go over everything again with a shovel to get everything, which is obnoxious. There's also a rather stiff north wind blowing which doesn't help either. It's 24 degrees out, but the wind is coming in at about 12mph, so like I said, it still feels quite cold; and it's a penetrating cold! All in all, it's not very nice out at the moment, and I'm really sick of shoveling. Everything else about winter is great (particularly the temperature since I hate the intense summer sun). But, the laws of physics have remained unchanged, despite the weather. Therefore, I will go experiment on those laws in yet another useless lab for my physics class. :P

The Owner, Heirron

Oh, Nothing Really

Hello,
I'm rather tired at the moment, and not feeling very energetic. I'm in a very distinct mood, and I often feel like just playing something on the piano that fits my mood perfectly when I'm like this. However, I can't compose worth beans and I couldn't improvise a decent sounding phrase if my life depended on it. So I usually just go and play something. However, this time I decided to write a little something, so here it is. I'm sure the title of this is making more sense now. This isn't really anything, just something I sort of quick wrote and proof read once. I'll post it below, and then I'm going to go play the piano. ;)


I Guess I’ll Stick with Writing

I feel rather distant and tired.
If my composing weren’t all expired
I’d play something new I want to hear.
I can’t write music, but I mustn’t fear,
Words often do as I command,
Though why I cannot understand.

Of course, they don’t always cooperate,
And spelling is sometimes and issue.
But music’s worse, where I can’t get a note
That wasn’t written by someone great.
So words are what I must pursue,
Though I shouldn’t blurt them just by rote.

Apparently my expression’s better
When I work with word and letter.


The Owner, Heirron

Discovery *cough cough*

So I've found this amazing new thing: I believe it's called a cold. Yes, that's right. I've come down with a full fledged, no holds barred, cold. It started last Wednesday when I noticed a tiny little thing in the back of my throat that was making me cough some. From that point on my voice got progressively worse until Friday night at which point I could barely talk. However, that was about the only symptom, and since it had come pretty quickly I was hoping it'd go pretty quickly too. . . . .nope. On Saturday, my voice was feeling a bit better, or at least working a bit better. That's about all that happened that day. On Sunday, however, I landed myself with a stuffy nose and have had it since. Have you ever heard that the nasal cavities are large? This is true. Between Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday, I feel as though I've dredged about three gallons of snot out of my nose and throat (that is, one gallon for each day). It's really gross to say the least, though I'm sure that's something you picked up on. Aside: last night I dreamed we had eggnog. Anyway. . .

At the moment I also feel somewhat sick to my stomach, and have come close to vomiting a number of times. This is certainly not because there is actually something wrong with my stomach, but because I have been coughing so much it has been riled. This also started to develop on Sunday, though it did not really hit hard until Monday. Grr, hold on a moment while I go blow my nose. :-S . . . . . . . .Don't worry, nothing major. Only a little driblet that time. ;) Where was I? Oh yes, and then on Monday, more or less the whole day (and now on Tuesday too), I've been wracked by rather violent coughing. But here is what is most frustrating: I feel as though there is a little piece of something stuck in a fold in my throat right near my epiglottis, but since Wednesday when I first felt it, it won't come out. It is incredibly agrevating, and I am sure that it is what is causing the coughing. However, I've no way to know if there's actually something there or if it's just, oh I don't know, some kind of sore or something.

I've also missed a good number of things since becomming ill. They include, work (Saturday), church, piano lesson and fencing (both on Monday). I'm probably not going to make it to fencing this week, but oh well. I wouldn't want to get anyone else sick, or stress my body and thereby slow down its recovery. So there you have it! A brief (sort of) chronical of my cold in non-technical terms. :D I hope you all enjoyed it, and aren't you all glad I didn't use the, "enough to feed an army" anaolgy to describe how mucy snot I've been pumping out of my head? ;)

Have a great Thanksgiving, and please don't get sick!

The Owner, Heirron

Yay!!

"My heart stands in awe of Your word. I rejoice at Your word as one who finds great treasure," (Psalm 119:161b-162).
Truly the Bible is a joyous and wonderful book that expounds to us the joys and wonders of God. Truly it is something living that God has given us to tell us His thoughts and feelings. Gah! I can't even express it in words! You all must read psalm 119. It's very amazing. :D


However, this is not what I was going to write about. :) I'll get to the point now. Here's the story: the past couple of weeks I've been reading Macbeth for English, and I am now having to write an essay. Ironically enough, I am doing my essay on the subject of blood, and more specifically, all the terrible things that result from the wrongful spilling of blood. Thus, I wanted to see what the Bible had to say on the subject, so I did a search in psalms of the word "wicked," and I ended up reading Psalm 34. These verses in particular stuck me,

"The righteous cry out, and the LORD hears them; he delivers them from all their troubles. The LORD is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit. A righteous man may have many troubles, but the LORD delivers him from them all; he protects all his bones, not one of them will be broken." (verses 17-20)

When I read, "The LORD is close to the brokenhearted and save those who are crushed in spirit." I thought to myself, "there have definately been times when reading that would have been a great encouragement." Then, in a blinding wonderful burst of realization, it came to me that if there have been times when I've been "crushed in spirit," but now I'm not, then the LORD did save me! Reading that was reading a promise fulfilled in my own life! It was about the most amazing thing ever! Oh! I should also note that for a while now, if I've got a lot of stress about something, I've been reading the Bible and praying for God's help. Right now I am living proof that He has, and that those verse are true. :D Realizing that was one of the most incredibly joyous and wonderful thing that's happened to me. :D It gives me incredible confidence in the Bible, and I now know that I will always be able to look back at that passage and know that it is true, and know that God will keep His word. :D


There, among the entertaining trivialities, I have now made three meaningful posts. ;)

The Owner, Heirron

Blizzard

Unfortunately, I have no news about new games, but rather that it was snowing rather hard here for a while today. It really was coming down very hard, and some of it even managed to stick to the ground. Not a terribly encouraging sight to one who has two driveways to shovel during the winter. :P But oh well, I'll survive, and I certainly didn't have to do any work due to this snow. In the end it didn't amount to more than a light dusting. The temperature has been relatively low recently too. It's even been getting down into the thirties during the day, and (obviously) colder during the night. I'm rather hoping that there isn't any snow in earnest for a while yet. But so long as the internet keeps working I don't mind getting snowed in. ;) Just kidding. That would suck. Anyway, seeing as how I was on the topic of blizzards, I thought I'd post a poem a wrote a year or two ago on the subject. Here it is!

A Winter’s Morning
By Aaron Finley

In the frost bitten dead of night,
The wind, it blows with all its might.
Dawn came with never any glow
Since snowy clouds were hanging low.
Still, wind froze giving no delight.

In my house sealed snug and tight
I sip hot tea and smile at fright.
The cold cannot get me I know,
In my warm home.

Here there is a wonderful sight.
Wind outside that could give frostbite.
I drink in warmth, I am below
A roof through which no wind can blow.
There is no cold that tea cannot fight
In my warm home.


The Owner, Heirron

Got 'er Done

I've finally come up with the ending to my piece. There are one or two little rough spots that still need some smoothing out (and some that don't. . .hehe), but it's pretty much finished. :D Also, it has a happy ending which I think works very nicely after the rather turbulent and dark second half of the piece. There isn't a terribly large amount of happy material in the thing, but it wins out in the end. :) I'm also excited that I managed to stuff two cadenzas into the piece. But don't worry, they're not very difficult. I just need to work out a good fingering for the second one. :P I'm also quite happy with the left hand that I came up with for the second to last section. It sounds much better than what I had planned out originally, and it's easier too--my favorite combination. Hmm, I think that of the people I would send this to, only Varda reads this blog for sure, so Jenn, once I get it written up I'm going to need your help looking for typos since I'll often have to be writing the music in the wrong clef and asking the performer to read the music in the other clef. :P Also, since I wrote the piece it'll be hard for me to look at and play what I've written instead of what I know should be there, so, I'm depending one you! (and everyone else even thought they're likely not reading this hehe) Anyway, I should be going now, so, have a great day, and a merry new, um, more of today!

The Owner, Heirron

Really Odd

Something very strange just happened to me. I was sitting in the office readying my physics lesson, when suddenly my phone buzzed (vibrated really, but you get the picture). Anyway, it meant I had received a text message. I don't have texting, and therefore don't really do it, but I do get them from time to time. I figured it was from my brother or something, but it turns out it's from some mysterious sender. I was unable to dig a number out of it, and since I couldn't reply I assume one wasn't sent. Here is the message exactly:
From: Unknown
Message: hola. i heard about you, and i wanted to say hi. Umm, I'm kinda unsure, so maybe you come check me out online. I have a profile at friends-box.org
End

I am now wondering if there is phone-spamming beginning, because that is almost what this seems like. The cryptic knowledge of me, inconsistent capitalization, and lack of any way to identify this person are all very suspicious. Either this person assumes I already know about him/her, he/she is slightly less than intelligent, or it is some generic ploy to get me to look at friends-box.org. Btw, I went to the site, and to get in you have to be a member and over 18. Leery of those requirements, the fact that I've never heard of the site, and since I had no way to find this person, I certainly did not sign up. Anyway, there's nothing really I can do except imagine wild and improbable things about crazy ninja skills and alien invasions unless Señior "unsure" gives me something to work with other than an advertisement. But I thought it was interesting enough to tell the lot of you about it. :) If I'm abducted, or something exciting like that happens I'll be sure to blog about it at my first opportunity. ;)

The Owner, Heirron

November

Well, it is now November. A month in which many important things will happen. For example, the 2008 presidential election. Also, this month holds in store several birthdays for my family, and for everyone, Thanksgiving. I haven't really worked on my composition in a while, though I did change the L.H. for the last bit that I have written out, and I like it more. The one I had previously was to busy and muddy sounding. Oh! And I just had a cool idea for it. :) Anyway, I've got the A section written up, so I ought to be sending that out to all your musical people I know. My RPG is also moving along nicely, though I seriously need to hammer out some details for the plot line and get something a tad more specific planned out, though of course I do not want to plan things out too carefully or I may find myself guilty of railroading. I've also done some more drawing recently, and I'm quite happy with several of them. I need to get them on the computer and update my facebook album. :P I've been going through the Wheel of Time series on my mp3 player, and it's pretty sweet. In the evening, or while I'm mowing and so forth I can pop that in and listen to it. Oh! I don't know if any of you have heard of it, but the movie Fearless with Jet Li is amazing! The trailers make it looks like just a fighting movie, and while the fighting is cool, the storyline and characters are the focus of the movie. I highly recommend it. That is so long as you don't mind reading subtitles. The movie is in Chinese, but I did not think it detracted at all. Anyway, that is mostly what has been going on with me of late, so yeah! There you have it.

The Owner, Heirron

1st Quarter Done!

Yay! I'm so happy! I'm done with the first quarter of work. :D I was up doing schoolwork until about 11PM last night finishing it, but it's done! Not only that, but on time too! :) This is very exciting for me, and I'm incredibly happy to have it not hanging over my head anymore. Hopefully I'll be more free this weekend than last week end, and Carpenter, I will definately be able to do something on Halloween. :D Other than that, I worked a lot last week (relatively a lot). Though it turned out to be less since on Thursday and Saturday I got to go home early since there was practically no business. Imagine! Slow on a Friday and Saturday evening! At least I'm improving my skills at making tray sculptures. Hehe, it's pretty fun, and people think they're cool, though I think in some way, deep in their minds, it rankles that I'm not doing anything useful at the time, even though I only do them when I have nothing else to do. lol Kind of like when I organize all the little numbers that people get when waiting for their food, and then take out all the prime numbers and give them their own stacks. lol I must say though, it sure beats cleaning the bathrooms which I usually have to do if I'm there late enough. :P

The Owner, Heirron

A Poem, But the Real Thing

So I kind of jumped the gun in posting my poem. Below is the revised, and better version of it. All I can hope is that Carpenter gets on and reads it so that we have someone other than Miss "Baseball sucks and your poetry is like, totally weird." ;)

Mr. Cubs

In professional sports I know a team
Of players that are as exceptional as they seem.
No need have they of any revision,
They’re as one man without division.
Together they are known as Mr. Cubs;
No group of meager subs,
But he is one polished well
Enough that he can sell
Many tickets to his adoring fans.
And he smiles wide into the stands
So broadly and with teeth so white,
With jacket so clean and pressed so tight
That the crowd cheers just as loudly as it is able.
After seeing Mr. Cubs it surely won’t be brought to table
That at any point he would ever fall behind
His opponent. His fans never fail to remind
All who pass that he would
Almost never loose, and how could
His fans claim to be the ones to dictate
What other teams Mr. Cubs would eradicate?
So in their claims they must be right;
Their alibi surely has not a chink in sight.
Sadly, when the rout is difficult for Mr. Cubs
And there is not always a steaming bath in tubs
Before a game; when there is some pressure
He makes a most piteous gesture
To his fans; he cannot help but choke and splutter
When in a game of great and utter
Importance to those who pay to come and see.
They promised every game to win, but gee,
Who can begrudge them a loss or three when
Every last shoe on every foot has been
Polished up so very bright
And his toothy smile has been so white?
Mired in high expectations deep
They could do with a little sweep.
No matter what, the fans never loose their hope
And every year manage somehow to cope
With a little loss, because Mr. Cubs will
Promise so much every season to instill
High hopes in all who after him follow.
Whatever he says his fans seem to swallow.
With his good looks he can always do this,
And if he sometimes fails to keep a promise
It can always be glossed over;
Mr. Cubs knows the fans, and moreover
Knows they will never become mad
That he, once or thrice, did something bad.

After all, there always is next year
To fill with promises for all to hear.

Thus, I think this team must be the best
For it surely has no fault in truth or jest
For which one could justly bring him down.
Oh no, nothing that could ever make one frown.


The Owner, Heirron

A Poem

Having just read the poem Carpenter put up, I figured decided to post mine as well. :) Personally, I think his is better, and it is without question of a nobler cause. Mine is more what one would call light entertainment, and is supposed to be in a Chaucerian style. It is intended to be somewhat subtly humorous, with thinly, if at all, veiled sarcasm. Anyway, I hope you enjoy this little bit of likely unmerited satire! :)


Mr. Cubs

In professional sports I know a team
Of players that are as exceptional as they seem.
They carry themselves in perfect unison
As one man without any division,
And he is known to all as the Cubs;
No group of meager subs,
But he is one and polished well
Enough that they can sell
Many tickets to his adoring fans.
And he smiles to those in the stands
So broadly and with teeth so white,
With jacket so clean and pressed so tight
That the crowd cheers just as loudly as it is able.
After seeing Mr. Cubs is surely inconceivable
That at any point they would even fall behind
His opponent. His fans never fail to remind
All who happen to pass that he would
Almost never loose, and how could
His fans claim to be the ones to dictate
What other teams Mr. Cubs would eradicate?
So in their claims they must be right;
Their alibi surely is air tight.
Sadly, when the rout is difficult for Mr. Cubs
And there is not always a steaming bath in tubs;
When on the poor fellow there is some pressure
He makes a most piteous gesture
To his fans; he cannot help but choke and splutter
When in a game of great and utter
Importance to those who pay to come and see.
They promised to win it all, but really,
Who can begrudge them a loss or three when
Every last shoe on every foot has been
Polished up so very bright
And his toothy smile has been so white?
No matter what, the fans never loose hope
And every year manage somehow to cope
With a little loss, because Mr. Cubs will
Promise so much every season to instill
High hopes in all who after him follow.
With his good looks he can always do this,
And if he sometimes fails to keep a promise
It can always be easily glossed over;
Mr. Cubs know the fans, and moreover
Knows they will never become mad
That he, once or thrice, did something bad.
After all, there is always next year
To fill with promises for all to hear.
Thus, I think this team must be the best
For it surely has to fault in truth or jest
For which one could justly bring him down.
Oh no, nothing that could ever make one frown.


The Owner, Heirron

P.S. Hopefully that all came out right. It didn't really want to post. :P

Posting

Hey guys. Sorry I haven't been posting much lately. I just don't have time during the day, and by evening I seriously don't want to write anymore. :P However, I do have a fun little thing to say now. Yesterday, Lucas was over (along with other family members of course, but what I have to say pertains only to him) and he very much enjoys using mi flechas, or my bow and arrows. :) Anyway, I have this old crappy bow that's about as tall as Lucas is at the moment, so I string that up for him and we get out my target and he shoots the arrows. He's four now, and is able to shoot them pretty much on his own. I help him some with knocking the arrows, and I sometimes have to remind him how to put his fingers on the string, but I'm really quite proud of his ability and desire to use the bow. In my opinion, as he gets older, he should be gotten increasingly larger bows, so that as he grows up he is more or less used to using a long bow. Then, if he sticks with it, when he is older, he'll a fantastic longbow man. :D It would also be cool if I could get him into sword fighting.

As for myself, I think I am now a better archer than I was before yesterday. After Lucas left I stayed out a while and was shooting my compound bow some. Anyway, I discovered that I was holding the bow string too far away from my face. This made the angle the arrow flew at kind of weird, and would get in the way of aiming properly. So, once I changed that and altered the way I spot my target some, my marksmanship improved a bunch. My target is funny too. I've had it for a few years now, and there is an area in the center--perhaps four or five inches in diameter--that is having a hole beaten through it. It's kind of funny to see, and it definitely means I need a new target soon. Also, my arrows aren't the greatest, and I'd really like to get one of those cool things that you put on the handle part of the bow that makes the arrow leave the bow more smoothly. Anyway, archery is fun. :)

The Owner, Heirron

Wake-skating

I got to try out the new wakeskate! :D It's super cool, and I think it has lots of potential. It's different enough that it'll take a little getting used to and all, but the amount of pop one gets out of the thing is incredible. I was getting some huge ollies out of the thing. Way bigger than I had before. I also got a pretty big wake to wake, and landed a toe-side 180 spin (not to be confused with a shove-it; the board never left my feet) to switch off the wake, which is not nearly as complicated as it sounds, but cool and somewhat difficult nonetheless. Now, it has been quite cool recently, and I am sure you are all wondering about the water temperature. I will not hesitate to inform you that it was squite shockingly cold. However, since the air was quite warm, it was fine once one was up, and after one got back in the boat. So yeah, the water was definately not the sort of temperature one could get used to, but the coldness was totally worth it. :D And there definately will not be any more runs since the boat has been winterized and the track was taken in. lol Anyway, my mom got a bunch of pictures of Todd and myself using the thing, so I'll be making a facebook album of the event soon. :D Tootles!

The Owner, Heirron

Performance

Last Sunday (yesterday), Rigel had a performance that I was helping with, and as I have told many people, and may have even posted here somewhere, I had to do a half-hour of music myself. Well, it was during the dinner portion of the vow renewal and no was really listening, so it went really well. I'm sure they heard, but I don't think they were listening. Which is also why I don't think anyone noticed when I played through the first few pieces again while the rest of the band was still setting up. :) Also, my playing went well overall, I think mostly because I didn't feel under any pressure to play perfectly like I usually do for competitions and recitals and so forth. There was also this amazingly delicious sourdough bread they had there. I ate a bunch of it, and it was super amazingly tasty. I also really need to get a glove of some sort for playing the boron, since scotch tape is really slippery and makes the stick thing hard to hold on to. :P

The Owner, Heirron

Wah! Excitement!

I'd forgotten! Something exciting did happen! Yesterday in fact!I got a new wake-skate for my birthday! (woo) I'm super excited. I just wish I didn't have to wait 6 to 7 months to use it. :P Anyway, it's a Ronix Zariel which is a by-level wake-skate (the only one they make), and weighs almost twice as much as the one we have now, which make sense since it's about the same size, but two layers instead of one. :)

Here is a side view of the board. As you can see, it has two layers. "What is the point of this?", you may ask, and the main thing I know of is that it gives one way more pop when hopping the board out of the water. The are probably other advantages too, and I just don't know about them. Anyway, I'm hoping the extra weight will make it a bit easier to control on spin tricks, and easier to land on too. So yeah, I'm really excited about it. :D

Here's a picture of the graphic.

The Owner, Heirron

P.S. If you're wondering why I got this now, instead of on my birthday, which is over a month away, the reason is that I found out about it. You see, my brother was coordinating this with my mom (it's from my brother, parents, and grandparents I believe), and I using the copier in the office or some such similar task while she was checking her e-mail. Anyway, I'd seen that she had one from Todd, though I didn't look at it. Then, as I was standing there, she says, "Oh, he found the wake-skate already." And I was all like, "What? What wake-skate?" And she was like, "What? Oh, uh, nothing, wake-skate? What wake-skate?" And I totally paused a second, and then was all, "Ooooh, I see." And things proceeded from there. Anyway, it's not like it makes much difference. :)

Gah!

Hey guy(s), sorry it's been so long. My life has become very busy, and yet managed to remain completely boring, though I'll admit that's not stopped me from posting in the past. Regardless, today I worked a 4-7 shift, and my advise to you is never, ever go to Culvers when there is a $1 burger sale. :P Seriously, it was really bad. By then end of my shift we'd run out of numbers to give people, though as I was leaving it looked like it was going to be slowing down a bit. Anyway, that was about the most ridiculous three hours of my life. But, I should stop wasting time and go read some more US gov. Sounds exciting doesn't it? :P

The Owner, Heirron

More About Bibles!

Finally! I've gotten around to making this post. :)
Now, what has struck me is that the Bible really is the best way to get to know God. What has also been driven home, is that reading the Bible is not just an intellectual endeavor. God speaks to us through His word, sometimes very powerfully. For example, a couple of weeks ago now, I was feeling very down one evening because I had a bunch of schoolwork to go over and send in, and of course my college application, and all that sort of thing that clearly wasn't going to get done that night. So feeling as sad as I was, I thought I'd go read my Bible some and talk to God about it. For a passage to read, I decided on the book of James. I'd been looking up all the references to the word "serpent" earlier I believe, and for some reason James stood out in my mind. So I flipped open to it, and editorial header for the first chapter is, "Trials and Temptations," or "Profiting from Trials." Anyway, I read through it, and it was wonderfully helpful. God came through for me when I needed Him. A similar thing happened with Psalm 28. I was once again feeling rather down, and I thought I'd read a Psalm, so I opened up to Psalm 28, which is a Psalm of crying out to God for help, with an interlude for call destruction upon the wicked, and praising God because he's heard the Psalmist's plea. So that was also very helpful to me, especially since I could directly pray it as written, or at least the first part.

Now, part of the reason I am mentioning this is to point out that I have discovered that aside from being intellectual, reading the Bible can be quite experiential. I think it is easy to assume that it is not, and until recently, I think I more or less fell into that category. Also, I believe I recall hearing that it has happened among some of the "extreme" (for lack of a better word) charismatic groups, reading and studying the Bible has been downplayed in favor of some sort of spiritual experience. Beyond the dangers of seeking spiritual experience without proper guidance from the Bible, the idea that the Bible isn't an experience, I have realized, is rather silly. What could possibly be better than to hear the very words of God himself? Also, rather than coming across as abstract emotions and feelings of possibly dubious origin, when one reads the Bible, one may hear the voice of God speaking of things specifically talking of certain things, and precisely dealing with problems (like he did for me), or giving words of praise, or faith, or instruction (for an example, please read 1 Corinthians 13, one of my favorite chapters in the Bible), or whatever.

So anyway, that is my spiel on reading one's Bible. And don't take my example on how often to do it either. :P Despite all this revelation regarding it, I have a hard time not letting other things crowd out my Bible reading time. So I would love it if 1) you all are more responsible than I am now and read your Bibles every day, and 2) if I became more responsible than I am now and read my Bible every day. lol

The Owner, Heirron

Oops

So, I neglected to go to work today. You see, I was supposed to work from 16-19, but when I'd called yesterday to get my schedule, the person I talked to said I worked on Wednesday, not Tuesday. Now, I certainly could have checked the schedule for myself, and I should have known something was wrong since I've asked for Wednesdays off, so please don't think I'm trying to pass blame. In fact, I was feeling really bad about it for a while.
I first realized this problem around 5:23PM today while I was at fencing. Culvers called my house, and from there my mom called me, told me the situation, and I called Culvers. The lady I talked to sounded pretty peeved, and I felt really bad, so at 7:30PM, when I'd taken my shower and everything, I went over to apologize in person to show that I care and wasn't just blowing off my hours. Fortunately, they were pretty nice about it, and I certianly intend to not let it happen again in the future. So that was my little adventure for the day, and I'll definately not be missing my shift from 2:30-7:00PM this Saturday. :)

The Owner, Heirron

Pretty Cool

Good news everyone, I now have a picture camera! That's right, now I too can annoy people by snapping unexpected photos of them. :D And how much do you think I paid for this camera? You guessed it, zero dollars! You see, it has about a half row of defective pixels that make a bit of a pinkish line in most pictures. Thus, my parents got a new camera, and I got the old one. :) So it's not like it's the best camera in the world, but I'm no photographer, and it should be more than adequate for any of my relatively casual needs. Because of it I may actually start putting albums up on facebook since I'll be able to take my own photos. I've already started to do that in fact, as most of you have seen with the anime album I put up recently. Also, there will be another album soon with my recent drawings (which are much, much better). It will be up as soon as I can get my drawing pad back from the Carpenters. lol I knew you'd all be terribly excieted about this (especially Elecia), so I thought I'd give you a bit of a "teaser" about it (especially Elecia). hehe ;)

Anyway, that's all for now!

The Owner, Heirron

Angry

So, I'm in an extremely foul mood right now because I just took a physics test and only got 25 of 30 questions right. Now, had it been a hard physics test, perhaps that would be okay, but it was super easy. In fact only one question was actually difficult (which, incidentally, I got wrong). The other four wrong answers were the result of absolutely retarded errors. Thinking in two problems, for example, that acceleration increases when an object's initial velocity is greater than zero! It wasn't even disguised under anything! Grrr. It just makes me really angry that, had I not been an idiot, I would have gotten a 97% on test instead of, of, . . . . . . .83%
/tear :(

/sight
I guess I'll just have to take this lesson to heart and not make stupid errors any more. >:S

The Owner, Heirron

Not So Sure

I don't really know why, but I'm really fuzzy eyed and tired this morning. I mean, I didn't get to bed until about 12:30AM, but I didn't get up until almost 9:00AM. However, I did have my alarm set for 7:30AM and was just hitting my ten minute snooze button for about an hour and a half, so that might have something to do with it.

Another thing I'm not so sure about is playing an entire half an hour of piano music all on my own. Digging up every last little bit of my current, and even semi-current, repertoire, I could only get about 25 minutes of music. I mean, add in a couple of minutes for inbetween time, but I can get five minutes out of that. Anyway, I'm going to learn the first movement of a Celmenti sonatina that's really easy. The main thing I'm worried about though is just being able to keep up my concentration. I tend to have a problem with that, and I'll need it for peices like Liebestraum and Rachmaninoff's prelude in C# minor. :P

But there you have it. A little update about me. :)

The Owner, Heirron

Children

I have noticed this before: children are wonderful.
I would even hazard to say that they are superior beings to adults, and here is why: they are innocent. They have innocent, vivacious, curious, joyous, trusting minds and personalities. I think this is the primary reason why they are so lovable, and why it is so terrible to be mean to them.

I'm sure that's completely obvious, and you all had that all figured out long ago, but it just "formalized" itself in my mind, that the wonder of children is their innocence.

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Bach

Yesterday, (Sunday), I went to a performance of the first six preludes and fugues in Bach's Well Tempered Klavier. That alone would have been cool enough, but the performer, from the Madison Bach Society, did a bunch of talking about the pieces, and about Bach before he played. Also, he was playing on a harpsichord that one of the guys in the audience had built. Though the performer clearly knew all about it too. It had a really cool sound (of course), and there were two sets of strings, one tuned an octave higher than the other. He could switch between one or the other, or play both at the same time! There was also a lute stop, which also had a very cool effect.

Another cool thing about it was the tuning. Instead of using the modern even tone tuning (each not is exactly the same distance apart), he was the Well-Tempered tuning used in Bach's time. Now, contrary to what you might think, our current tuning is not necessarily better than the Well-Tempered tuning. In fact, the Well-Tempered tuning was used almost exclusively up until WWI, and by WWII and after, everyone had switched almost exclusively to the Even Tone tuning. What the WT tuning does is give each key its own "character," whereas in ET they all sound the same. This has a very cool affect, and makes much of the classic music sound worlds better, though I'm not sure what it would do to some of the more modern pieces (ones by Rachmaninoff, for example).

AUG! I need to leave for my piano lesson! Ha, well, I got to play the harpsichord too, and it was way different than a piano and super cool, and I totally want one now, but I have to go! Hope that was interesting. :)

The Owner, Heirron

Really Fast

Okay, time for a really fast update (i.e. I don't have much time).
So, what's been happening with me? Lots of school mostly. However, I have started piano lessons again, and I'm playing some really cool pieces. Also, this and last week I managed to make it to fencing twice, so I'm hoping I'll be able to keep that up. Rigel (the band I'm subbing as piano player in) had a wedding performance last Sunday. Overall it went quite well, and it was extra cool because the wedding was Renaissance themed. Last night I got a bit farther in my piece, which is exciting. I'm into the second to last section, and I wrote a cadenza for it! That's very exciting for me. Finally, I have more to say about how reading the Bible is fantastic and amazing, along with a person experience that I thought was cool. But! that will have to wait until I have more time. :P (This evening perhaps?)

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Oh Dear

/sigh
Well, I believe it has happened. I think I have become addicted to a morning cup of coffee. This past week and perhaps the week before (I can't remember), I have had a cup (or two :P) of coffee in the morning to help me shake off that annoying morning weariness. Yesterday, however, I missed my habitual cup of coffee, and for the rest of the day I felt usually tired and cranky. Yes, that's right, I just called myself cranky. :P Anyway, I was rather surprised to learn this, and so I naturally didn't allow myself to miss my coffee this morning. Hopefully things will go better for me today. ;)

The Owner, Heirron

Bibles!

Ya'll should read yours! Not that you don't, or more, not like I know whether or not you do, but regardless, I'm just saying you should. :) But what's up with this out of me all of a sudden? Well, I've been reading my Bible more recently for school assignments and stuff, and it's just a marvelous book that should be read frequently and fervently. And in case you know which classes I'm taking (none of them are Bible classes), I've been reading the Bible because of school because any sort of philosophical argument seems baseless and irrelivant without some sort of Biblical support to me.

One of my favorite things to do is look through the Gospels to find a page of mostly red, and read through it whilst looking up the OT references. :D It's remarkable what you'll find. For example, Isaiah chapter 56 just blew me away when I read it. To jsut sort of find that kind of thing in the OT was very supprising. :)

Another thing that is kind of cool. On TCS, a discussion came up about Todd Bentley. The whole, "is he a Christian?" discussion is not what I'm going to get into, just so you know. But rather, Mr. Bentley supposedly said, "Miracles and healings are evidence. They are signs of the Kingdom, and if we don't have signs then all we have is a bunch of theology." This, of course, is a rather startling statement. Anyway, soon after reading this, I was reading Psalm 19 again (one of my favorites) and I was particularly struck by verses 7-11. They are as follows:

"The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul;
The testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple;
The statutes of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart;
The commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes;
The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring forever;
The judgments of the LORD are true and righteous altogether.
More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold; sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.
Moreover by them Your servant is warned, and in keeping them there is great reward."

The last bit, "Moreover by them Your servant is warned" drove home to me why theology is so important. Without this theology, how do we know what miracles and signs are? How do we know what the kingdom is? Anyway, that was my little insight into Psalm 19. Oh, and it made me think of Mark 13:5. When Jesus' disciples ask him (in different words), when the end times will come, He replies, "Take heed that no one deceives you." This whole thing made me think of that verse just because it's been established that knowing God's word is how to not be deceived. :)

Well, I hope that wasn't too long and boring! ;) Have a great day, and read those Bibles! Yay!

The Owner, Heirron

Apples!

Huzzah! A super fun time of year as come again! Now that the apples on our trees are ripe (actually just the big one at the moment), whenever I feel like it I can just go out and pick myself an apple. :D It's awesome, especially since they're pretty tasty. This will also mean all sorts of apple goodies in the near future. Goodies such as apple pies, apple sauce (excellent; infinitely better than store bought stuff), apple muffins, apple oatmeal cookies (one of which I may just go grab right now :D), and likely other apple things I'm not thinking of. In short, this is all pretty fantastic. What's best is our second largest apple tree gets ripe a bit later than our largest one, so our apple supply will be around for a while yet. Also, one of trees that usually has somewhere between three to zero apples has a good many this year. :) Anyway, just thought I'd share my excitement. ;)

The Owner, Heirron

Fencing Competition

Some of you may know that this last Sunday I went to a fencing competition. Sadly I did rather poorly. However, it was fun to go since there were a couple of A ranked fencers there (i.e. they were really, really good). Anyway, even if one does poorly, these sorts of things are always good to get to because they give one good experience and serve as a motivator. Hopefully, also, I'll be able to begin getting to at least 2 classes per week, as opposed to just one. If I can get that going, I can think about an advanced membership which would be wonderful. :)

The Owner, Heirron

P.S. I've just been reading a US government text books, which is betrayed in the unusually dry tone of this post. :P

Pictures

Well, as I promised long ago, (and which Elicia only remembers, if her) I am posting pictures of me wake-skating now that they are on the computer. :D Some of these are really cool.



This one is pretty standard. I'm just cutting out for a jump, but even so, this is reasonably difficult since I have to be all twisted around like I am and there are no fins on the board.



This one is just pretty hilarious. To happen to catch that moment is priceless. :)



And here I going for the big air. :) I can now easily jump from one wake to the other on the wake-skate. Also, despite what you may think, the board stays with one quite nicely in the air (so long as one executes the jump properly). It is also super fun to do. :D

A trick that I've been working on that can't really be shown in a picture is a pop shove-it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2t1gIZ8MCs&feature=related
Once I get that down a bit better (like, I can land it with any sort of consistency), I want to get be able to do a pop shove-it while jumping the wake. :) It's something of a goal for next summer.

The Owner, Heirron

Sulleepully!

I am very tired at the moment. I had a fencing competition this morning, and that kind of wore me out. Anyway, later on, I had a band practice to attend one of the few vague memories distantly floating around of it, is me being extremely silly. That's about all I remember--that and playing the Boron--but I remember it rather distinctly. Anyway, I've been thinking of floating fields and drowsy caterpillars zooming across a world of swirling moon beams. Actually, I only just now thought of that, but all I had to do was let my mind wander a little bit. :) At any rate, I feel like this was really pointless, but whatever.

The Owner, Heirron

Things In the Works

Sadly, it's not nearly as exciting as the header makes it seems it should be. One thing "in the works" is a get together I'm trying to set up for tonight. I'm optimistic about it, and it should be fun. The Faultersacks have been gone for a while, so it'll be cool to hang out with them.

Also in the works is my new RPG. It only took me about two hours to invent, and I have high hopes for it. Interestingly enough, Michael and I came up with almost exactly the same system independently. We agree that this is simply because the both of us have simply come across the ultimate game system. Of course, they're not quite exactly the same, but the differences are minor, and they have the same base concept. I'm secretly hoping (except for here) that I'll get to try it out tonight.

One last thing in the works is my composition. I've gotten to the last section of it and I'm having some troubles. First, this is pretty much my first composition, so I lack experience and knowledge. Also, some of the things I want to do rather transcend my ability to play, which makes it much more difficult to write. Hopefully, though, I'll be able to come up with something. Once I have that done, the next step will be to write it up on the computer. After all, the organization of my handwritten copy is less than stunning.

The Owner, Heirron

Rainy!

It's a dark, cool, drizzly day today. I love it. :) It's been forever since there's been such a day as this. I've always liked them. Also, it's given me a chance to drink about four or five glasses of tea, another of which I think I will now go get. It's really quite lovely, especially since I'm a bit tired. Although it appears to be getting a bit lighter out, which is too bad. I hope it just stays dark and dreary all day. That would be awesome. But hopefully, so long as it's raining, that will be the case.

The Owner, Heirron

Okay Fine

/Sigh
Altogether too easily, my one reader has convinced me that it would be fine to post my most recent poem. Thus, it is below.
The edit has been made. See what you think.

Passage
All things must pass away.
Night to day,
And even night does not stay.
But His love endures forever.

All things must pass away.
The wind ever blows,
The water ever flows.
But His love endures forever.

All things must pass away.
Life gives way to death,
And even death will draw a final breath.
But His love endures forever.

All things must pass away.
But hope is certain, for surely
His love endures forever.

I hope you enjoyed that! Also, I love to get feedback about the things I write, so if you have any comments, feel free to share them. :)

The Owner, Heirron

Passage

Well, I think summer is officially at an end. School has started, it has suddenly gotten colder, and the next few days appear as though they will be cold and possibly rainy too. Also, yesterday was likely the last time I'll be able to get out on the boat this year. But alas,
"All things must pass away" Which!--just so happens to be the refrain used in my latest poem. ;) If you would like to read it, just let me know and I will e-mail it to you. :) I'd rather not post it as I've become paranoid of accidentally publishing my work. Not that that would really be anything significant, but still, that's just the way I am. ;)

The Owner, Heirron

Eeeeiiiiioooiiieerrrrrnnnnuuugggg

That's the sound I make when I move. ;) I went tubing yesterday in really choppy weather and I got pretty battered beaten. And now today I've been out wakeskating for a while (which was awesome), and I'm likely to do some more tonight. Then, tomorrow evening I'll be going to fencing, so on Thursday I suspect I'll be pretty near dead. But I'm looking forward to it. :)

Wakeskate: nothing earth-shattering today, though I did try riding while holding on with only one hand and it felt way better. I also made some progress on my olies, and I'm closer to landing pop-shoveits consistently. I had four attempts in a row that would have been successful if I'd either had my feet farther apart on the bard, or I'd had my weight centered more. It may have helped to crouch some more too, but we'll see. I also tried a wake to wake shoveit. I actually got my feet on the board before I went sprawling into the water, which was more than I expected. lol Anyway, I'm sure that's way more than you wanted to read, but this is a blog so I get to do things like that. ;)

The Owner, Heirron

Just a Thought

I suddenly realized I hadn't mentioned this elsewhere, so I will now.
The artwork at the top of the page, behind the blog title, was created by none other myself. That's, right, I made it. For school, I got a program called Mathematica, which is a very powerful mathematics program. It has very cool and advanced plotting features, and using ArcCos, I was able to produce that graph. :D I am very proud of it, and the other ones like it that I have done.

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LotR Movie Day!

Yesterday I had some friends over and we watched all three of the Lord of Rings movies in a row (extended editions, of course). Obviously we took some breaks, but we did manage to get all the way through all three of them. I was thinking we'd be playing games and stuff during them too, but we actually just watched and commented on them pretty much the whole time. I was rather surprised by that. We started some time between 10:30 and 11:00 AM and got done around midnight, so I think we made reasonably good time through them too. Also, there is speak of a British movie/TV show watching day in the near future, which would also be very fun. ;D Yeah!

The Owner, Heirron

Coffee

It's great! I never used to drink it because of its ghastly smell and taste, but those things no longer bother me, and I have begun to drink it regularly. Apparently early mornings can do that sort of thing to you. :) The weird thing is, I'm really not sure that I like the taste, yet there is something distinctly inviting about a cup of coffee in the morning. I rather suspect it's the caffeine. After all, I really don't like coffee flavored things at all, i.e., almost anything from StarBucks. But that's just fine with me. I mean, I only drink it for the caffeine anyway, so it does its job quite well. I'm also rather proud of the fact that I drink it black, which seems to be a difficult thing for some people to do. However, people are coming over soon, so I need to go make myself look less like a bum who just rolled out of the gutter. ;)

The Owner, Heirron

Hello!

Whoa! You may have noticed in my first "hello" message, that the one before that didn't post. Well, this is it. For some reason it just took a long time. :P

A good day to you all!
As I am sure is evident, this is my first post. As you may have gathered from the title of my blog, I don't intend to do anything terribly special with this, but simply to post things that I fell like posting. For example, I might write, "Today, I thought I was only going to have to mow one lawn, but now it's looking like it'll be three. I find this rather irksome."
Also, as soon as they get uploaded to the computer, I intend to put up some pictures of me on the wake skate. :D So! A little something to look forward to. ;)

Mowing

Today, I thought I only had to mow one lawn, but now it looks like I have to mow three. I find this rather irksome.

The owner, Heirron

Hello!

Unfortunately, the last post I made along these lines mysteriously didn't post. :( So I will try again.

Hello readers, whomever you may be!
As you can see, I have just started this post, and felt like doing something introductory.
As I am sure you gathered from the title of my blog, I do not intend to doing anything particularly interesting or subject related, but merely to post what whimsical things I feel like posting at the time. For example, I might write, "Today, I thought I only had to mow one lawn, but now it looks like I have to mow three. I find this rather irksome."
Also, as soon as they are uploaded to the computer, I intend to post some pictures of me wakeskating. :D So, a little something to look forward to. ;)

The owner, Heirron

Test!

Gar! I'm having a not good time at all with this dang bloging thing. :S We'll see if I can get things figured out.