Before I forget yet again:
iippo, you should read Slaughterhouse Five, by Kurt Vonnegut, if you haven't already. There are just too many things in there I read that I thought, "iippo would say something like that!" :D

Wow, I guess thin clouds make rendering very quick, because it finished the large picture in under an hour. Link, if you're interested: http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/46702096/
I think it's a nifty picture :)

I'm currently working on my first quality Terragen Tech Preview image. It's going to be rendered at full quality and all, and I'll be submitting it to dA. I'm really only making this diary entry cause it's really boring waiting for preview renders to load to make sure everything is nice and ready before I hit the key to lock up the computer for a few days :P

I'll tell you, it's really annoying to add a moon to the scene and still get the lighting you want. Sometimes I wish I were a real artist and could just paint the silly picture how I wanted, instead of telling a computer what I mean :D In any case, it's turning out well and I'll have it ready to go as soon as I can make a computer understand "softer clouds" and all that. And maybe some stars. It's getting late, though, and I need to be up by eight tomorrow, so I may put off the stars until tomorrow, which would mean a delay to the render. But I'll have it up in no time :)

Edit: Stars proved to have a bug (strange red dot unrelated to anything but the light source being there), so I'll forego those. The render has been started, after I've been satisfied with everything else. Can't wait to see the result tomorrow morning.

Saw another anti-homophobia banner saying they wouldn't tolerate it from anyone. Seems kind of inconsiderate to me to not tolerate another's fears. I mean, if someone's afraid of heights, I'm not going to tell them they'd better get over it. Everyone has a right to be afraid of gay people too :P

Oh, and it doesn't surprise me at all that Deus is the Princess of Jerusalem. It's just like him. (Mood reference, for when he changes it).

Merry Christmas, everyone!
Prolly ought to stick this in my mood if anywhere, but oh well.

"Putting clothes on backwards is a feat not many can accomplish while drunk"
after many translations through numerous languages, becomes:
"It puts provided that the place and the different method which puts, give fire and is to us this one pj' nej, a possibility so that acquires with a cttj and and great past of the number"

Working on a Terragen piece, but some of it seems kind of off. I'm hoping to make it much larger, but as for now, I'd appreciate any critiques: http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/43539098/?&q=by%3Aaradon-templar&qh=sort%3Atime+-in%3Ascraps

Terragen 2 Tech Preview is to be released in approximately three weeks, on December 15!

http://www.planetside.co.uk/terragen/tg2/tech_preview.shtml

Sometimes people feel like they're entitled, so to speak, to be a bit rash, such as when they're going through a particularly difficult time. The obvious extra stress seems to make it reasonable and expectable that you'd explode. Everyone else around you knows that you're stressed out by external factors and is more agreeable to you, even when you sort of explode.

I think that the understanding and expecting aspect of this is the main cause, not the stress. People feel like they're allowed to explode sometimes, so they don't bother not exploding, even if, stress taken into account, they normally wouldn't explode at the time.

Case in point: my dad's temper is awfully short, and I think it's because he thinks that's alright, not because he's irritated more than usual -.-

[Mekashef] could've helped write Good Omens without any loss of quality. If he ever becomes an author and publishes anything, I want to read it :)

http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/41961947/?qo=2&qh=special%3Apopular
I love the title the most, though.

*cries* Elftown refused my password. I can't freaking log into Elftown with Qwerty anymore, because it's too common. That was my favorite password. Elftown should mind its own business and let people who want simple passwords get hacked -.-

Message to all: Elftown might loose its network for some minutes today. It will be back quickly hopefully...

And after the network is loosed upon the world, there is no telling what can stop it :D

How the heck could I really be born in a family as self centered as mine? I won't say anything about my siblings, I think they're turning out fairly well for the most part, but my parents do nothing but complain about everything. They take personal offense at the slightest thing, even if it was unintentional, and feel as if they were gods themselves. Of course they could never be wrong, and they always know how to do everything better. My goodness, to hear them talk about how incompetent their doctors are, you would think they ought to be the doctors themselves! How about a little respect for people?

Pfft, and I think that if my dad wants more help around the house, he could be a little less sarcastic towards us when we aren't bowing to his every whim -.-

Ugh, sorry to random watchers, I just really wanted to type something out about it >.<

x.x
I can't tell if this was just an accident, and intentional copy, or too much Robert Jordan at work in his subconcious:
(a map, drawn and supposedly invented by a given person)
http://storage.msn.com/x1pxOYwqu4SjF4BrM9amvxNnSJNWf_WZMPEDPBErhCx8JLVk26ARxwZOLOiEEEkz-SUpsdQtNWUgPwKVhwKKJH5mSeSmt6ahUKCj3F7kfEG0BjP3ATPDgZBQZZ1mK18AYzzDzgjnF5l-FWBRSRSjYYdLoACF2rac5gb

(and a map of the world in the Wheel of Time series)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Map-randland.jpg

Exactly :P I'm not insane; I can tell that the voices aren't real, but it's often a good idea to listen to them.
Though I don't like the font >.<

Music Theory is awesome, except for the part about key signatures. I can never get them right very easily, especially not minor keys. In any case, the class is only 13 people, and we're in the band room, which is big enough to house all their band of one class for rehearsal, which amuses me. Sometimes it's so lax in that class that I start to think it's an after-school event, and then I get confused when I hear the orchestra across the hall practicing, because if there's an after school rehearsal for orchestra, I need to be there :D

Random thing that I decided to copy-paste out of homework procrastination and because I thought it was interesting that it wasn't the usual stalker's preferred bad-habits quiz.

Eye color: Green-Brown; Hazelish
Hair Color: Brown
Height: 5'6", I think.
Your Weakness: Ineptitude
Your Fears: Spiders and the like.
Favorite Food: Pizza
Thoughts First Waking Up: Mmmf, half an hour would be nice.
Your Best Physical Feature: Arms
Your Bedtime: Try to be in bed by 10, 11 on weekends
Do you Smoke: Nope
Do you Drink: Nope
Do you Sing: Nope
Do you Shower Daily: Sometimes, depends on schedule.
Have you Been in Love: Nope
Do you want to go to College: Yes
Do you want to get Married: Perhaps
Do you belive in yourself: Yes
Do you think you are Attractive: I wouldn't presume to be, physically.
Are you a Health Freak: No
Do you get along with your Parents: Vaguely
Do you like Thunderstorms: Yes
Do you play an Instrument: Viola ftw.

Humm... The poll on Mainstreet makes me want to try something out. I was going to answer it for when I make stuff on the computer, since I don't draw, but then I realized I do quite a number of them seperately, and the product is no doubt affected as a result. I want to try doing one for each option in the poll, and comparing the results. Dunno when I'll have time for it, though, considering I have school + Fire Emblem + Guild Wars: Factions + Fantasma. If I were to choose between those, Fire Emblem wins over making art :D