http://blog.markstudy.org This is what's on my mind... what's on yours? Wed, 02 Jul 2008 10:39:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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/ So this morning I went to my first session with S and L Walker, for “personal Life/Work Direction.” It feels like a really indulgent thing to do, but there have been many people who have benefited from their wisdom and insight before, and the company is helping with the ... http://blog.markstudy.org/2007/07/04/lifework-direction-1/