Grow Cube

My cousin just introduced me to this wonderfully annoying game called Grow Cube, and it's brother game, Grow RPG. The main point of the game is to choose the different items in the right order to see the full simulation. It is actually really really fun. If you'd like to check it out, there is now a like to it in my Links column (way down at the bottom) titled "Grow Cube" from there you can find the Grow RPG. It took us about an hour to figure out the cube, but it was well worth it. Enjoy!

To Be a Fool

The Fool's Prayer

Edward R. Sill

The royal feast was done; the King

Sought some new sport to banish care,

And to his jester cried: "Sir Fool,

Kneel now, and make for us a prayer!"

The jester doffed his cap and bells,

And stood the mocking court before;

They could not see the bitter smile

Behind the painted grin he wore.

He bowed his head, and bent his knee

Upon the monarch's silken stool;

His pleading voice arose: "O Lord,

Be merciful to me, a fool!

"No pity, Lord, could change the heart

From red with wrong to white as wool;

The rod must heal the sin: but Lord,

Be merciful to me, a fool!

" 'Tis not by guilt the onward sweep

Of truth and right, O Lord, we stay;

'Tis by our follies that so long

We hold the earth from heaven away.

"These clumsy feet, still in the mire,

Go crushing blossoms without end;

These hard, well-meaning hands we thrust

Among the heart-strings of a friend.

"The ill-timed truth we might have kept--

Who knows how sharp it pierced and stung?

The word we had not sense to say--

Who knows how grandly it had rung?

"Our faults no tenderness should ask,

The chastening stripes must cleanse them all;

But for our blunders--oh, in shame

Before the eyes of heaven we fall.

"Earth bears no balsam for mistakes;

Men crown the knave, and scourge the tool

That did his will; but Thou, O Lord,

Be merciful to me, a fool!"

The room was hushed; in silence rose

The King, and sought his gardens cool,

And walked apart, and murmured low,

"Be merciful to me, a fool!"

King Kong

Well, I finally watched King Kong last night. It was truly a Peter Jackson picture. And, like a PJ picture, it was the traditional 3 hours long. Though there were a few parts that weren't quite up to my expectations (not that I really know what I expected) it was a very good movie.

last concert

Well, right now I'm at the Runway 36 concert down here at the Munchies. It's the last concert of the semester, and it'll be soo strange not having them all summer. At least we'll be able to keep busy with Cornerstone and Yeshuapolooza planning and all. I'm sure the summer will go by quickly. Before we know it we'll be having the church campout. How is it that time seems to go by soo much faster after you reach 20? Maybe it's just the way my life has been going? I don't know.

This band is good. And loud. But that's a given for almost any concert here, huh?

Well, I think I'll get off now and go mingle a bit.