I may or may not do another post today, so keep your eyes open.
Question: Did anyone watch YC last night? We were busy so I didn't get to see any of it. Did they show Switchfoot? I heard that they couldn't due to copyright and cost issues. Just wondering.
Note: Hehe. This is my 87th post. In honor of that, here's a picture.
This picture didn't quite work out this year. I'm counting on next year.
...Here's the link to YC Alberta 2011. When the evening starts (8:00 MST, 10:00 EST) there will be "watch live stream" button that you can click on. The schedule is somewhat buried, but unfortunately I can't find a link to it. Explore a bit, I'm sure you'll find it.
I'm waiting to watch Bluetree tomorrow, and maybe (if we have time Switchfoot tonight. Sadly, this year most of the "good" bands (see: Disciple, The Letter Black, Worth Dying For) are playing in the afternoons, which I don't think are going to be streamed live. All I can say is that I'm so glad we went last year and not this year.
Contrary to popular belief, I am not dead. I've just lost my motivation for blogging. In fact, I've lost my motivation for a lot of things right now. A quick hint: tags help me blog more often. *wise nod* Very inspiring.
In other new:YC ALBERTA 2011 STARTS IN LESS THAN TWENTY-FOUR HOURS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yes, I'm excited about this. Since I can't be there this year (and there's only three reasons to be there anyway) I guess I'll have to take the next best thing: watching it live on the website, where they'll be streaming it all weekend. I'll post the link either tomorrow morning or afternoon.
I CAN'T BELIEVE IT'S BEEN A YEAR SINCE WE WERE IN ALBERTA!!!!!!! Creepy...
Leauphaun's line of the day: You know you have too many drawings when you forget you have some.
I did this the other day with my writing. I went back and read the half-completed short story-turned-novella I've had on the go for several months and read the second half again (as I can't stand the first half). I was pleasantly surprised at my writing, even to the point where I'd completely forgotten that I'd written several thousand words. It made my, uh, night.
Several months ago, I got an idea for another story, the summery of which sounded something like this:
Two characters (Eldra and Daymond?) must protect a family from a corrupt government that is persecuting them for their faith.
Okay, so the entire summery was a bit longer than that, but you get the idea. Two weeks ago, I woke up one morning and had huge chunks of plot fall into place. I wrote almost half the plot and four character bios on my iPod before I even got out of bed. As of today, the basic outline is over five hundred words, and I'm about half way through the plot. I've decided to cut Eldra from the entire story, as I'm more interested in Daymond right now. (And once more I fall for the bad boy.)
The unusual thing about this story is I'm hoping to focus more attention on character development and the spiritual aspect than the crazy action/fight scenes that I seem to be so fond of.
Two songs in particular seem to be inspiring me: Fades Away's "Right Now (We'll Stand), Skillet's "Hero". If you listen to the lyrics in both songs, the first one is talking about not being a hero, while Skillet's song is about being a hero. That's the direction I want to take with Daymond in this story (and his overall life). Plot details for this new novella will emerge soon.
Also, I have received an award from Barriss!!! Thanks!
To accept the award I need to list seven interesting things about myself.
1. I CAN'T WAIT for the new RED music video to come out. (clip #1 here and #2 here)
2. If rock music wasn't invented, LOTR music would be my favorite, specifically Concerning Hobbits.
3. I've seen Skillet in person one time and twice online, all before Ben Kasica left. *teardrop*
4. I've discovered that Daymond (my anti-hero with heroic qualities) is a more complex character than I'd ever dreamed, even surpassing Eldra (my main character and protagonist).
5. I could live with snakes, if only I never had to see another spider again in my life!
6. I prefer supper foods for breakfast. Leauphaun is the exact opposite.
7. CLU has officially become my favorite TRON: Legacy character, surpassing Sam by miles.
I must pass this award onto 15 other people. I won't list anyone in particular, but if you haven't received this award yet, you are free to take it, as long as you comment with a link to your post.
And speaking of CLU, Leauphaun completed another music video yesterday to Skillet's remixed song "Monster, now titled "Monster: Unleash The Beast". Check the video out below.
This song fits CLU perfectly. I dare you argue that point with me. *disarming grin*
Sparsely busy Yukon abounding of snow cook lakes and abiding snow-capped mountains. Although the altitude is chill and subarctic and actual dry, with long, algid winter, continued sunshine hours in abbreviate summer acquiesce able crops and vegetables, flowers and fruits to grow.
Areas are almost appearance of a appropriate triangle, adjoining the accompaniment of Alaska to the west for 1210 km (752 miles) mostly forth the breadth 141 ° W, the Northwest Territories to the east and British Columbia in the south. chill bank is on the Beaufort Sea. ragged eastern abuttals mostly follows Its bisect amid the Yukon Basin and the Mackenzie River watershed to the east in the Mackenzie mountains. Whitehorse is the territorial capital.
Most of the watershed areas are in his namesake, the Yukon River. Southern Yukon busy with a ample cardinal of large, continued and attenuated glacier-fed aerial lakes, best of which flows into the Yukon River system. Great lakes accommodate Teslin Lake, Atlin Lake, Tagish Lake, Marsh Lake, Basin Laberge, Kusawa Basin and Kluane Lake. Bennett Basin in the aisle of Klondike Gold Rush is a basin abounding into Nares Lake, with best areas in the Yukon.
Canada's accomplished point, Mount Logan (5959 m/19, 551 ft), amid in the southwest region. Mount Logan, and best of the southwest Yukon in Kluane Civic Park and Reserve, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Other civic parks accommodate Ivvavik Vuntut Civic Parks and Civic Park in the north.
Other watershed including Mackenzie River and the Alsek-Tatshenshini, as able-bodied as several rivers that breeze anon into the Beaufort Sea. Two capital Yukon rivers abounding into the Mackenzie in the Northwest Territories are the Liard River in the southeast and the Peel River and its tributaries in the northeast.
Notable timberline breed boundless in the Yukon is Black Spruce and White Spruce. Many copse bedfast by the abbreviate growing division and astringent climate.
Saskatchewan i /səˈskætʃɪwən/ is a prairie arena in Canada, which has an breadth of 588,276 aboveboard kilometres (227,100 sq mi). Saskatchewan is belted on the west by Alberta, on the arctic by the Northwest Territories, on the east by Manitoba, and on the south by the states of Montana and North Dakota.
As of December 2010, the citizenry of Saskatchewan was estimated at 1,049,701. Residents primarily alive in the southern bisected of the province. Of the absolute population, 257,300 alive in the province's better city, Saskatoon, while 210,000 alive in the bigoted capital, Regina. Other above cities accommodate Prince Albert, Moose Jaw, Yorkton, Swift Accepted and North Battleford.
Saskatchewan was aboriginal explored by Europeans in 1690 and acclimatized in 1774; accepting additionally been inhabited by assorted aboriginal groups. It became a arena in 1905. Saskatchewan's accepted arch is Brad Wall and its lieutenant-governor is Gordon Barnhart. Its above industries are agriculture, mining, and energy.
The province's name is acquired from the Saskatchewan River. Earlier, the river was appointed kisiskāciwani-sīpiy ("swift abounding river") in the Cree language.
Quebec (kəˈbɛk) or (kwɪˈbɛk) ;French: Québec (kebɛk) is a arena in east-central Canada. It is the alone Canadian arena with a predominantly French-speaking citizenry and the alone one whose sole official accent is French at the bigoted level. Quebec is Canada's better arena by breadth and its second-largest authoritative division; alone the area of Nunavut is larger. It is belted to the west by the arena of Ontario, James Bay and Hudson Bay, to the arctic by Hudson Strait and Ungava Bay, to the east by the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and the ambit of Newfoundland and Labrador and New Brunswick. It is belted on the south by the U.S. states of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, and New York. It additionally shares amphibian borders with Nunavut, Prince Edward Island, and Nova Scotia.
Quebec is Canada's additional best crawling province, afterwards Ontario. Best citizenry alive in burghal areas abreast the Saint Lawrence River amid Montreal and Quebec City, the capital. English-speaking communities and English-language institutions are concentrated in the west of the island of Montreal but are additionally decidedly present in the Outaouais, the Eastern Townships, and Gaspé regions. The Nord-du-Québec region, application the arctic bisected of the province, is sparsely busy and inhabited primarily by Aboriginal peoples.
Sovereignty plays a ample role in the backroom of Quebec, and the official action amusing autonomous Parti Québécois advocates civic ascendancy for the arena and alienation from Canada. Sovereignist governments accept captivated referendums on ability in 1980 and 1995; both were voted bottomward by voters, the closing defeated by a actual attenuated margin. In 2006, the Canadian House of Commons anesthetized a allegorical motion acquainted the "Québécois as a nation aural a affiliated Canada."
While the province's abundant accustomed assets accept continued been the mainstay of its economy, sectors of the ability abridgement such as aerospace, advice and advice technologies, biotechnology and the biologic industry additionally comedy arch roles. These abounding industries accept all contributed to allowance Quebec become the additional best economically affecting province, additional alone to Ontario.
Prince Edward Island (PEI or P.E.I.; French: Île-du-Prince-Édouard, Scottish Gaelic: Eilean a' Phrionnsa) is a Canadian arena consisting of an island of the aforementioned name, as able-bodied as added islands. The amphibian arena is the aboriginal in the nation in both acreage breadth and citizenry (excluding the territories). The island has a few added names: "Garden of the Gulf" apropos to the pastoral backdrop and abundant agronomical acreage throughout the province; and "Birthplace of Confederation", apropos to the Charlottetown Conference in 1864, although PEI did not accompany the amalgamation itself until 1873 back it became the seventh Canadian province.
According to the 2009 estimates, Prince Edward Island has 141,000 residents. It is amid in a rectangle authentic almost by 46°–47°N, and 62°–64°30′W and at 5,683.91 km2 (2,194.57 sq mi) in size, it is the 104th better island in the world, and Canada's 23rd better island. The island was called for Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn (1767–1820), the fourth son of King George III and the ancestor of Queen Victoria.
Ontario is a arena of Canada's best busy and additional better region. He is amid in east-central Canada. Its basic is Toronto. Ottawa, the basic of Canada, is additionally amid here, is 37.9% of the absolute Canadian population.
Nova Scotia (pronounced ˌnoʊvə ˈskoʊʃə; English: New Scotland; French: Nouvelle-Écosse; Scottish Gaelic: Alba Nuadh ) is one of Canada's three Maritime ambit and is the best crawling arena in Atlantic Canada. The bigoted basic is Halifax. Nova Scotia is the second-smallest arena in Canada with an breadth of 55,284 aboveboard kilometres (21,300 sq mi). As of 2009, the citizenry is 940,397, which makes Nova Scotia the second-most-densely busy province.
The arena includes regions of the Mi'kmaq nation of Mi'kma'ki(mi'gama'gi). Nova Scotia was already home to the Mi'kmaq bodies back the aboriginal European colonists arrived. In 1604, French colonists accustomed the aboriginal abiding European adjustment in Canada and the aboriginal arctic of Florida at Port Royal, founding what would become accepted as Acadia.
The British Conquest of Acadia took abode in 1710, afterward which the name of the basic was afflicted from Port Royal to Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia. The basic of Nova Scotia was afflicted from Annapolis Royal to the anew accustomed Halifax in 1749.
In 1763 Cape Breton Island and St. John's Island (now Prince Edward Island) became allotment of Nova Scotia. In 1769, St. John's Island became a abstracted colony. Nova Scotia included abreast New Brunswick until that arena was accustomed in 1784. In 1867 Nova Scotia was one of the four founding ambit of the Canadian Confederation.
While tourism efforts in the arena highlight all things Scottish, Nova Scotians with Scottish ancestor accept consistently remained a boyhood of the absolute citizenry (present day citizenry is 29.3%). The majority of Nova Scotians are not of Scottish ancestor and, instead, accept ancestors who were English, Irish, French, Mi'kmaq, African, German, Arabic, or Italian.
The Northwest Territories ˌnɔrθˌwɛst ˈtɛrɪtɔəriːz, (NWT or NT; French, les Territoires du Nord-Ouest, TNO) is a federal breadth of Canada.
Located in arctic Canada, the breadth borders Canada's two added territories, Yukon to the west and Nunavut to the east, and three provinces: British Columbia to the southwest, Alberta and Saskatchewan to the south. It has a acreage breadth of 1,140,835 aboveboard kilometres (440,000 sq mi) and a citizenry of 41,464 as of the 2006 census, an access of 11.0% from 2001. In 1967 Yellowknife became the basic as a aftereffect of recommendations by the Carrothers Commission.
Geographical appearance accommodate Great Bear Lake, the better basin absolutely aural Canada, Keller Basin and Great Slave Lake, as able-bodied as the Mackenzie River and the canyons of the Nahanni Civic Esplanade Reserve, a civic esplanade and UNESCO World Heritage Site. Territorial islands in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago accommodate Banks Island, Borden Island, Prince Patrick Island, and genitalia of Victoria Island and Melville Island. The accomplished point is Mount Nirvana abreast the bound with Yukon at an acclivity of 2,773 metres (9,098 ft).
While Nunavut is mostly Arctic tundra, the Northwest Territories has a hardly warmer altitude and is mostly algid forest. About bisected of the breadth is aloft the timberline line.
Nunavut is a breadth of Canada that has an breadth of 2,093,170 km ². Its basic is Iqaluit. Breadth was aboriginal accustomed on April 1, 1999.Di this breadth abounding ample islands such as Victoria Island, Elesmere Island, and Baffin Island
Map of Newfoundland (NFL) and Labrador Geography Area
Map of Newfoundland (NFL) and Labrador Cities
Is the name of the island of Newfoundland in Canada. The island is amid in the eastern Atlantic Ocean and is the better island in Canada. Its basic is St.. John's.
