Strange Dream

I had quite the strange dream the other night.
I was apparantly experimenting with some kind of strange gyroscopic, rings spinning within other twirling rings device (quite large, taller than me). When I plugged it in to a power socket it went nuts, electricity started roiling about it and sparking off in all directions. I remember thinking than it was going to explode so I climbed up onto the roof of my house (*shrugs*), possibly along with others. Shortly afterwards there was a huge flash of flame and half the house was instantly incinerated, leaving the rest to burn down slightly more slowly. Somehow I got off the roof alive, though I was quite worried that I was in for some serious trouble for burning down the house. My parents forgave me though (the whole "thank god you're alive!" bit).
My house seemed to get slowly rebuilt, although I think my device was left there (It seemed to be ok still, maybe a bit burned, and possibly stashed on the back of a truck nearby). First it became some sort of multi-storey car park, but it eventually gained a massive room with a full wall bookcase and fancy black leather furniture. The roof was also rather high and was patterned in a fancy manner. This seemed normal to me for some reason.
Strange.

Dammit, my pics are gone.

Ok, I got an e-mail from ripway. They couldn't find my account, so it's presumed deleted. This means I have to search through my old documents to find my heading and host it somewhere else, which I can't be bothered doing just at the moment so my blog can stay ugly and error filled for the moment. Sucks though.
Ok, I was going to say more but again, I can't be bothered right now. I'm also hungry so I'm going to get me some food...

Blogging eh?

Stupid Internet. I can never find the music I'm looking for, except in lists and such. There's so much stuff jammed up there but not the obscure things that I look for. Unless any of you happen to know where I can find the sheet music for or a recording of a traditional Scottish tune called "She's Sweetest When She's Naked", preferably arranged for violin or performed by Laura Risk(violin) and Jacqueline Schwab(piano). Its a pretty gnarly tune, I heard it on the radio this morning.
It's too bad the university orchestra practices on thursdays at the same time wushu is on, I'd go back and play with them if it didn't screw with my other things. At least my viola teacher is back from England now, so I can get some lessons again. Though its hard to progress without playing with an orchestra. Especially at the level I am currently at. I'm sort of at a stage where I'm fairly decent, but not awesome. It takes a lot of practice to make the transition to awesome, and I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to cut it. Not at the moment anyway, unless I can find some reason to do regular practice, like playing with a grounp of some kind. Damn practice.
I'm considering going back to kendo as well, though just once a week on the monday. I finish class at 5 on mondays and now that I'm finished with the beginner class at wushu I don't start that until 8.30. Its quite a long break and I won't feel like doing work much. Kendo starts at 6 and finishes at 8, so it fits in nicely there. Wednesday I won't go coz I have karate, so I'll have to decide if its worth going just the once a week. Also if I can be bothered with 4 hours of training on a monday. I guess I was doing 3 when the beginners class was on so its not that much more. And I do have all my kendo gear sitting around useless up in my room. It was pretty tiring training, and I got whacked in the head a lot, but I did win that duel at the Victorian Championships up in melbourne. My first real duel that was, pretty cool. I got my ass handed to me by some little guy in the next round, but I didn't even have rank yet, so I was feeling pretty good about it. The Kendo training is also rather repetitive and can get a little boring, but it does make you good at those three cuts you practice over and over and over again. I can probably manage once a week. And you do get to wear a cool samurai outfit. Just gotta weigh up the pros and cons:

Pros:
Get good at cutting
Only have to go once a week
Put $120 Kendo uniform to good use
Fill in some time on a monday
Get to whack people with a bamboo stick
Get to wander about in a gi and hakama.
Get some exercise
Already learned all the basic stuff

Cons:
Get whacked in the head a bunch
Really Tiring
Have to pay $60 a semester
Won't get good as fast due to only going once a week
Can get a bit boring
Probably need to buy a new shinai (whacking stick, $60) as old ones were getting a bit crapped up and won't have gotten any better.

Hmm, a toughy. I guess I may as well go, I'll be there anyway. This way I'll be doing something productive rather than mooching about doing work or something.

A Simple Lesson in Sentance Structure

But first, punctunation changes that act as - or with - co-ordinating conjunctions:
Serial Comma: Mozart wrote symphonies, operas, and concertos.
Commas Between Independent Clauses: We have flown, but we prefer to drive.
Semicolon Between Independent Clauses: She grows the flowers; he cuts the lawn.
Colon Between Independent Clauses: She has a crucial job: she is an artist.

The Simple Sentence
The most basic type of sentence is the simple sentence, which contains only one clause. A simple sentence can be as short as one word:

Run!
Usually, however, the sentence has a subject as well as a predicate and both the subject and the predicate may have modifiers. All of the following are simple sentences, because each contains only one clause:

Melt!
Ice melts.
The ice melts quickly.
The ice on the river melts quickly under the warm March sun.
Lying exposed without its blanket of snow, the ice on the river melts quickly under the warm March sun.
As you can see, a simple sentence can be quite long -- it is a mistake to think that you can tell a simple sentence from a compound sentence or a complex sentence simply by its length.

The most natural sentence structure is the simple sentence: it is the first kind which children learn to speak, and it remains by far the most common sentence in the spoken language of people of all ages. In written work, simple sentences can be very effective for grabbing a reader's attention or for summing up an argument, but you have to use them with care: too many simple sentences can make your writing seem childish.

When you do use simple sentences, you should add transitional phrases to connect them to the surrounding sentences.

If you'd like to go further and learn about compound sentances, please refer to:
The Structure of a Sentance

Damn Ripway!

Well my pictures seem to have vanished again due to me forgetting to log into my host for 30 days. Hopefully I can get them back, because I stashed some cool stuff up there and I don't think I have it all on my compy. Oh well, I should have my heading and the apple, which are the important things anyway.
Oh yeah, Sydney was cool, I have a big list of all the stuff we bought as a group and where we got it and such, its a pretty good record of what we did. I'll post it up here sometime. It also has our roadkill sighting count :p. I think it was just under 50. We didn't count stupid birds or anything that was just an unrecognisable paste on the road. Only moderately recognisable corpses counted.
I have also been working on a fighting game in flash, with the working title "Sword Fighter". It's coming along quite well, although I'm currently doing a fair overhaul of my code which doesn't need explaining. Its up to the stage where primitive fighting can be done, so theres at least something mildly amusing to show for my efforts.