Monday, April 25, 2005

Pizza!!!
The University of Sheffield Gospel Choir is having it's annual concert on Thursday, and I'm in it!!... well looking forward to it.

And I've just ordered all the pizzas for the choir and our guest performers. I've just ordered £175 worth of Pizzas.. (50 pizzas, that is..)

I feel odd after that..
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Saturday, April 23, 2005

New Song
I've got a new song in the works! One of a few. Unfortunately I have no real means of letting you know much about it, as my connection's a bit slow to put an mp3 up, and there are no lyrics yet.

However I can tell you that it's interesting- it sounds completely electric, although I have no electric guitar! I just have an acoustic, and sound software that lets me use such effects as distort and wah-wah to my heart's content.

Older members might appreciate the significance of the fact that it's called "Deus Ex Machina" :p. It's hard to try and write words to a song name though.. far harder than writing the name to the words..
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Thursday, April 21, 2005

Ooh now.. this seems new....?
I haven't posted here in AGES!!!

How're you all doing? Eh, you all seem fine. You'll do great.

Err.. yeah.. it's 12:22 AM and I need to be up at 6:25, so better make this brief.

Err.. update... OK.

In terms of work, I'm still at the warehouse, but hopefully not for too long now.

I terms of plans for next year, I think I'm going to do Form2, the second year of the course I did last year. But not completely sure on that just yet.

In terms of women, things didn't go anywhere with Hazel, about 6 months ago now... nothing happened with Keren,.. 2 months ago?.. wow, that went quick.. so in short not much has [i]really[/i] happened..

Err.. it's now 12:29 am.. think I'll call it a night. Though I think I'll find it's already called that.

I leave you with a random bit of warehouse banter-

Roger: You shouldn't eat too much cheese- it'll give you nightmares,
Dan: Especially if you eat it late at night
Roger: It's not late at night now, though, is it?
Dan: No, but it will be...

(Warehouse banter isn't really THAT funny, but when you're at work in a mind-numbingly boring job it suddenly becomes hilarious..)
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Wednesday, February 9, 2005

I'M 22!!!! I'M 22!!!! I'M 22!!!!
Urgh.. would love to write more but I'm tired.

Sorry not been all that active.. the pressures of having a more active social life are getting to me I suppose :p

Last week I spent 6 out of 7 days with a visit to the pub. That's one afternoon and 5 evenings... All for different reasons/meeting different people too..
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Wednesday, January 5, 2005

Too many questions...
..Where am I actually going with my life?

What kind of job do I really want to do?

Do I really need a "decent" job?

Should I wait and see what happens or go out and grab something by the horns?

Why is it that who I know I am and know I ought to be, doesn't seem to be who I am to other people?

Bleh.. Why is it that I'm only nearly 22 and already I feel like I'm running short on time.

I know exactly what the problem is- I have no sense of perspective right now.. I have a whole life ahead of me, and no need to worry -at least to this extent- about such things right now.

But I do worry, extensiively.. Needlessly..

.."God help me" is about the only thing I can think to say.. but ironically it's as much a cry of desparation as it is also a glimmer of hope..
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Sunday, January 2, 2005

Random Thought of the day (some Christian content, as usual)
OK.. so Pride is bad, right?.. well, at least that's what churches seem to focus on as being the bad part of attitude towards self. Pride is bad. The better way of putting it is probably "inflating your ego" is bad.. because that sounds a bit more specific than pride.

But then, a lot of Christians also seem to think that putting yourself down is a good thing. Considering yourself as less than you're worth and not standing up for yourself.. is a good thing. We call it "turning the other cheek" and "being humble".

Actually, neither believing yourself to be above everyone, or below everyone, are particularly good ways to be. The reason for that is that God simply is not in the equation. Either way, the deciding factor in whether you are good or bad is your own achievements, regardless of whether we consider them as good.

And really, anyone who places their security in themselves has no ground to stand on because ultimately we are all fallen and imperfect. Regardless of how faithfully we commit to being better than imperfect, it's simply not possible for us. Everyone gets hurt by the world they grow up in, and everyone contributes to the hurt of the world in some way.

It's only when we put our security and our view of ourself in God's hands that we can really humble ourselves, and also be confident in ourselves. God made us individually, and thus he knows better than anyone- even ourselves, who we are and what we were made to be. Only from him can we actually see the true image of who we are.

Even Jesus had the same principle- God told him who he was, in that he told him that he was his son. God told him what he was to do, as Jesus said that he only did what God told him to. Jesus knew he was the son of God-- I'd say that's pretty reasonable grounds to be confident in yourself- in fact he'd be an absolute fool not to.

But the point is that he was confident in the fact that he was God's son- not in the fact that he knew all the scriptures, or that he'd healed X amount of people. He wasn't confident in what he had done, but in who he was- and that sort of confidence only comes from God. Most of the people around him, when asked who Jesus was, gave a completely wrong answer.. Like Elijah, or one of the prophets.

So yeah..

Forget about what you've done and how good you are at whatever you're good at. Or however bad you may think you are. None of it should decide how confident you are- you should be confident because God has called you his own.
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*lets out an unenthusiastic woop of joy*
I'm back in Sheffield, aaaand...

I have dial-up...

uh.. "woohoo"?..

OK, so the fact that I have an internet connection at all is pretty good. but it just means I have to tolerate the slow connection speeds for the time being..

hopefully we'll soon be getting tesco broadband..

but until then at least I'm not completely unable to communicate with whoever may be reading this..

*BIG WAVE TO ALL THE PEOPLE*
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Thursday, December 30, 2004

   Update of note
Well, this is a slightly interesting update.

At the moment I have two housemates- Daniel and Chris. Until last week there was also Ed (short for Edmund rather than Edward) but he moved out on Christmas eve.

Right now, I'm at Daniel's parents' home in Stanstead Abbots, in Hertfordshire, which is near a town called Ware, which happens to be where our friend Jacqueline is from, who we met up with today, and we also met her boyfriend, whose Dad is from my home town!

For the first part of this week I've been at home in Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire. And tomorrow we're off down to London for New Year, where we're meeting Ed, whose parents have a flat there.

There are 3 Koreans also staying with us at Daniel's home, named Jo, Charity, and Chi-eh (or something to that effect)

I'm still working in the warehouse, but I'm currently plooting my escape to other things.. what other things, I'm not so sure right now.

It turns out that Hazel wasn't actually interested in me- but heh.. it's been so long since I've updated on here that you missed the last months of that one..

Things are all going well, and hopefully we will have broadband in our house fairly soon- somewhere in the next few weeks.

Until then, hope you had a merry christmas, and HAPPY NEW YEAR!!
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Saturday, September 4, 2004

I'm on day release from
Well, my Mum and Dad have dial-up at home.. may as well make some use of it.

Things this week have been pretty slow and relaxing.. which are always good things for a week to be.

I finally have my PS2 back! It kind of got left behind with my brother when I moved away last year- this year he's got his own.

Damn this keyboard. I can barely type a sentence or two without having to go back and correct the mistakes. It's a good 5 inches lower than the one I've been using all year, and thus it's weird to try and type with.

Now.. if you'll excuse me.. it's time to return to the oriface (orafice? oriface?... it's a HOLE whichever way it's properly spelt, dammit) from whence I popped out my head just now.
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Sunday, August 29, 2004

Moving time!!!!
OK.. well, this is kind of it for a while. No more Dan L for a month at the very least, maybe longer.

See you all at some point :p

-Dan
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