http://blog.markstudy.org This is what's on my mind... what's on yours? Mon, 08 Sep 2008 00:39:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The real damage is done by those millions who want to “survive.” The honest men who just want to be left in peace. Those who don’t want their little lives disturbed by anything bigger than themselves. Those with no sides and no causes. Those who won’t take measure of their ... http://blog.markstudy.org/2008/09/07/live-big/ I hate buying airplane tickets…  It just seems SO expensive these days. I took a minor gamble on our tickets out to CA this summer…  Bought slightly more expensive tickets on a different airline because of a slightly better flight schedule and the chance to get some money back if the ... http://blog.markstudy.org/2008/07/02/track-airline-price-changes-after-the-fact/ I should be ecstatic, right?  The Celtics, the basketball team that I loved growing up, trounced the Lakers, their rival of so many years.  I remember playing Lakers vs. Celtics on our old family computer and exulting when Bird, McHale and Parish consistently beat Magic and Kareem…  at least when ... http://blog.markstudy.org/2008/06/18/sports-teams-of-my-youth/ So today was Pastor G’s last sermon at CCFC (for the foreseeable future) and though it wasn’t his main point, one thing that stuck with me from the sermon was that I have all but forgotten my testimony.  Not the “Jesus saved me” bit, but the part where I believe ... http://blog.markstudy.org/2008/06/08/from-my-vantage-point/ In Life/Work direction, my most recent exercise (which has taken several weeks thus far) has been to tell five stories of times when I have felt most happy and/or fulfilled, look at the qualities my counselors heard in those stories, and organize their feedback into general themes that are true ... http://blog.markstudy.org/2007/10/30/who-am-i/ So far so good… I’ve been annoyed for a while by my lack of disk space. Thinkpads don’t ship with recovery CDs. Instead, they devote about 5 GB of space on the hard drive to a hidden recovery partition. That’s a lot of space! I wanted it ... http://blog.markstudy.org/2007/09/15/ahh-disk-space/ Wow. Has it really been three weeks since we returned from Taiwan? And I’ve made zero posts in that time. Nothing deep today… Just writing a quick update on life. There and back again: Part I For starters, I had a really grand time in Taiwan. Fortunately ... http://blog.markstudy.org/2007/09/02/there-and-back-again-and-there-and-back-again/ Well, I’m minutes away from leaving the apartment…  First to church and then immediately to the airport where I’ll get on the plane with a borrowed copy of Harry Potter and soon I’ll be back in Taiwan for the first time in 15-20 years! Wow!  2 weeks of vacation with You-Know-Who ... http://blog.markstudy.org/2007/07/29/headed-out/ Too chool: www.simpsonizeme.com http://blog.markstudy.org/2007/07/21/simpsonized/ Hopefully you can’t tell the difference (‘cause everything still works?) but I’ve just upgraded my WordPress installation to 2.2.1… A little overdue considering I was way back on 1.5.something. I notice, of course, that my photos haven’t worked for a while. I’ll probably try to upgrade it ... http://blog.markstudy.org/2007/07/08/talents/