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.

The Owner, Heirron

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?)

The Owner, Heirron

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