Sermon/church notes I was planning on going to another church today but I got the time wrong and missed it, so a good friend let me listen in to her church service instead over Discord. But things were a bit strange. Speaker: ??? Morning w…

Entry for August 14th, 2021 Enjoying the day I felt a strong pull to worship and sing today. I went and walked around Michigan State's campus and practiced both whistling and singing. I wasn't trying to do it where there were a lot of peop…

Entry for Friday, August 13th, 2021 Music-making I was exploring a program called LMMS while trying to help a friend with some of their music-making efforts. I made some decent progress learning about how MIDIs work and soundfonts, though …

Barbecue This afternoon I went to the park to see my coworkers for the first time in a very long time in person. The event was noted as BYOB so I brought some Mike's pineapple lemonade. I did feel a little like I had a hard time engaging i…

Entry for August 11th, 2021 This entry is backdated...Yesterday was a long day. Heavy rains It's been raining heavily on and off all day, and my basement's started flooding again. My kitchen ceiling started dripping again as well. Faith te…

Soundfonts I've been digging into soundfonts because of a friend who's making a Pokémon Minecraft map. I previously offered to help make a resource pack but also had the idea that it'd be super cool to render her MIDI using a real Pokémon …

Entry for August 9th, 2021 I just wrote 4-5 other blog entries to catch up. Since I backdated them, I suggest reading back if you want to see them. The one from yesterday has a particularly large amount of thought put into it about my walk…

Entry for August 8th, 2021 Church This morning I went to a place called Faith Church in Lansing. The church is based upon the Wesleyan Holiness tradition which is something I'm very familiar with because of Eaton Rapids Campmeeting. I was …

Entry for August 7th, 2021 Forest walk I went on a short morning walk on my parent's forest trail.I dream of one day being able to afford a house with this much natural beauty. In the early morning, there are many verdant green colors and …

Entry for August 6th, 2021 Dream I had a dream where I convinced my dad to allow me to go with him to Japan along with another friend. So we all got on motorcycles and, after a lot of preparation, drove for a while until we reached the par…

Entry for August 5th, 2021 House-sitting After work I went over to my parents house to house-sit while they're on a vacation. It's very peaceful and nice there. Emotions The deep sense of loneliness that I have every so often has returned,…

This entry is for August 4th, 2021 HOORAY!! I'm super-delighted to say that (along with other people in the industry) we've been able to get the Chromium team to delay the changes for native dialogs from cross-origin iframes until at least…

This entry is for August 3rd, 2021. At Eaton Rapids Campmeeting, there was a decision made to sell some of our trees to a logging company. However, the people that did it made a really big mess, left a lot of half-trees laying around, and …

This entry is for August 2nd, 2021 Bathroom My mom came over again and she came bearing gifts -- more themed items for my bathroom! I'm really grateful for her and thankful for her kindness and creative spirit. Here's how my bathroom looks…

This entry is for August 1st, 2021 Church I've been looking for a new church recently. On the recommendation of some family friends, I tried a particular one nearby. I felt very welcomed when I went there! The worship was difficult for me.…

Morning This morning I woke up bright and early, drove over to Horrocks and got myself some breakfast. I also decided to buy a plant as a gift for my mom, so I took it over there! We potted it together and talked about various things. :) A…

This entry is for July 30th, 2021. I seem to be losing my focus lately. I have a lot of stress coming from various different sources, mostly financial at the moment. I still haven't had my roof repaired because it would cost more money tha…

I tackled the pending work (for my job) with a firey passion today and got a ton of stuff done. It felt good and I'm pretty satisfied with how it turned out. But for the rest of the day, I didn't really do too much. Hatena Star There may b…

Friends So uh, if you recognize yourself here, keep in mind that almost nobody reads my blog and the people that do are mostly Japanese anyway so they probably won't know you So there's two friends of mine that I'm going to talk about, let…

Attachments and possessions When you hear that someone has been "thinking about their attachments to the world" or talking about things that sound nomadic, you might have a response similar to "hey now, don't get ahead of yourself". I'm no…

This entry is for July 26th, 2021. Loss, and a better normal It's the first day following ERC, and...there's a feeling of loss that I'm all too familiar with. Campmeeting is a community unlike any other. Love for your neighbor is on full d…

This entry is for July 25th, 2021 Campmeeting I've been attending ERC for most of my life. The short time each year where I've come has lit a fire in my heart, and in the past five years, has emboldened me further. I find healing, reinforc…

This entry is for July 24th (backdated) Code I continued to look into what led to the changes that broke Hatena Star. I started to argue for the update of the iframe sandbox attribute to add a new value (or modify an existing one) to speci…

Entry for July 23rd (backdated) I've fallen behind in writing my blog entries, so I'm going to be writing them from day to day and backdating them. Hatena Star There were recently changes to browser standards that have negatively impacted …

I spent time today working on a new little web application that I've been tossing around in my head for a while. I also went back to campmeeting and I'm really glad I did. This evening we went out to the riverside near the normal end of ta…

July 21st Friend There's an old friend of mine who I've recently started talking to again and we spent about 6 hours chatting. They weren't doing really well so I wanted to see if I could help. Because of that though I missed out on going …

I'm not sure if Hatena Blog is showing the dates correctly but this entry is for Tuesday, July 20th, 2021. Picking up my car So this morning I got a call that my truck's rotors had been replaced again and it was ready to pick up. I had to …

Car I took my truck back to the shop and they said they'd get it taken care of. So that's good. House decoration My mom came over and brought a really pretty picture over! It's hanging in the tiny hall thingy between the living room and th…

Holy cow! Luckily I didn't crash. Have you ever seen a rotor break like this?? It was very alarming. My brake caused my car to veer into the right lane because the left one didn't work (obviously) and it pivoted around the right one. Thank…

Waking up from my nap, that was fun My head popped off my pillow, "Oh no" "I had all day to do productive things and did nothing" Language lessons I didn't waste the whole day, but I wanted to go back to Eaton Rapids and just.. didn't. Not…