I must iterate that the reason why I haven't been posting any music or artwork of late is because I haven't been in the best of times, financially and in other areas. Still, I am persisting, I am fighting for the future I believe in.

Please, pray for me, and/or send some good thoughts to me. These will be much appreciated. <3

UPDATE 20.09.2013 at 15:16 BST:

I have since moved north; this seems to be the only way I could see forward. Many are doubting me but some believe that something wonderful will come up for me. Regardless, I am fighting still. I trust in the good Lord. Suffering is my friend.

I am logging in from one of the public libraries, and I will not be online as much as I would like to. Which means, for a time, there will be no songs or artwork coming from me.

Please, keep the prayers and good thoughts coming. I beg this of you...

T. x

The GOOD:
They finally have it for Mac.

The BAD:
See image.

I basically had to guess in order to open the playlist, mixer and piano roll for the first time. All the text in the command boxes is missing.

(Now don't get me wrong, I ordinarily use it on a PC, but considering I'm at uni and would like something to upload over these computers, the Macs work better for me. Plus, you don't have as many software restrictions on Macs at uni as you do on PCs.)

The UGLY:
I CANNOT GO ON THE IMAGE-LINE FORUMS FOR SOME ODD REASON. It keeps prompting me to log out and log in as another user.

EDIT 19:02: Video proof is right here.

Technically, it's the Guardian Witness. It's a part of that online newspaper, the Guardian. THAT online newspaper.

BUT STILL!

I have a lot to tell. For starters, I am not going through the best of times. Lots of things are closing in on me and I want to believe, and do what I know I can. This too, in the face of things looking bleak and people telling me to give up on what I believe to be a blessed future. Please, pray and/or spare a good thought for me. It'll be much appreciated.

For my part, I will fight for what I believe the future can bring.

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I have been working stuff on FL Studio 10 while at home and on my own laptop. Because there's no internet, I cannot share sneak peaks. And because that laptop is decrepit, I cannot bring it to the library. But I can tell you this:

The debut album, Singing to the Heavens, is now 50% COMPLETE!

Some of you may know from my video to Terre des Hommes Libres that this song is going to be in the album. It will need a little remastering, but TDHL is essentially a single.

That being said, now that you're given such a song, you'd better not miss the actual album once it's complete!

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In other music news, I have been throwing this idea out on Tumblr, and I would like to hear your thoughts on this.

I would like to do a selection of songs -- hymns and other things -- with just the bodhrán and voice. It'd be solo voice in most cases; there'll be very few cases where I'd call for layering. So it's just me, accompanying my singing with my own drumming.

Would that be something you'd all like to hear?

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And before I call it a night, I have another work in progress. This one takes after the Seven Deadly Sins and takes place... in Sheol. This is the first in a series of drawings I would like to complete. Not revealing anymore details for now, but oh man, you're gonna love what this series of drawings has to offer. Blood, lust, bloodlust, anger and madness, gluttony and feeding on souls, plucking eyes out of jealousy, oh my!

Bluntly... if you're not running Windows, or don't have a setting to reduce your videos to low resolution..... good luck even uploading your stuff there.

Non-premium users, like myself, only have a bitspace limit of 2GB.

Times like these, I wish the university computers had Windows Movie Maker installed.

If you haven't already seen them, check them out --

Fiat Voluntas Tua
Knights of the Tank Table

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With internet down at my place and my computer making weird noises, I've been using the university computers a lot lately. That means good news and bad news.

GOOD NEWS: More drawings can be done, and I may hopefully be able to brush up on my shading, proportions and sense of balance.

BAD NEWS: I cannot run FL Studio for the time being. While the Macs here have Garageband, I can't say I even know how to use it. I wonder if there's an option of mouse-clicking the notes into the piano roll like we can do with FL Studio... There are no MIDI controllers either.

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I'm not going through the best of times, but I trust that Our Lord will lead me through this. I just want to thank all of you, friends and supporters, who have stuck by me to this day. The little, wonderful things you do make my day!

Ta for now,
T. x

This one is in celebration of having finished an assignment!
And it's good to be back to PC.

I wonder what the final result will turn out to be.

I can FINALLY type the word "bodhrán" according to its proper spelling without it displaying a bunch of gibberish. Thanks to the people who worked really hard -- the longer-than-expected downtime was well worth it.

It fills me with joy and pain all at once to see what Round 1 has brought. There were some people whom I had hoped to see sail through Round 1, and they did it. However, when people like PeterSatera and RealFaction have been bested in Round 1, you know that it's quite the different ball game.

As far as how well the people from Versilian are doing: only Samulis has made it. He's collaborating with Bosa and they are known as the Bardic Kings, for those of you who didn't get the memo. SkyeWintrest and Nimble have been knocked out...

It is fascinating, watching the ADM as an observer for a change, instead of taking part. Now granted, circumstances have led me not to take part, but I still take interest in it, because between now and next year, who knows what everyone will bring? Who knows what even I could bring to the table (considering I would like to take part in the 2014 ADM)?

Still, while there are people who work tirelessly to calculate, gather statistics and gather the pieces together, I watch this from the point of view of a mere musician. After observing the events of the ADM, all the way through to the end, I would like to plant seeds for next year's pieces. Just mere seeds, nothing more -- so that when the time comes, they may grow and hopefully blossom into beautiful flowers.