New Pictures!

Posted under Site Update by Mark on Monday 28 January 2008 at 9:23 pm

Ok everybody, I finally took a little bit of time and sorted through a bunch of my pictures from the past year and got them up in my gallery.

I have added 5 new albums with approximately 700 new pictures along with close to 200 new pictures in assorted other albums.  So check them out!  A lot of them were overdue but now there they are for you viewing pleasure.

The new totals…

31 Albums
3286 Photos

The only pictures I have yet to sort and post are all of my pictures of Lorna.  I have close to 2000 to sort through but a lot of them are doubles and triples. I hope to be able to find the…

There’s No Place Like Home for the Holidays… Yeah Right!

Posted under Holidays by Mark on Monday 28 January 2008 at 3:41 am

Ok so, on January 3rd, I started to write this but then I got sidetracked and I’m just now coming back to it like a month later…

Its Jan. 3rd and its 10:15 pm in Honolulu, Hawaii. We left the island of Kauai at 4:40 pm and landed on Oahu around 5:15. We were expecting our connection to take off for Dallas around 6:30 and yet, here we sit in the admiral’s club. It could be worse, ok it could be so much worse and I have nothing to complain about, so I won’t. Just to state the facts though, apparently, our plane’s generator failed during its flight to Honolulu and is now here on the ground being repaired. The…

Better to have loved…

Posted under Thoughts by Mark on Sunday 20 January 2008 at 6:37 am

“They” say that it is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved at all. What “They” don’t say is that it is more painful to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all. While this pain is not explicitly stated in what “They” say, anyone who can affirm this saying knows that pain goes hand in hand with ‘loving and losing’. From this, we can understand that the deeper meaning of this phrase is that those who experience an opposition in regards to love, are better people for it. We can broaden this scope to include all things and should. For example, a baseball player would never improve his skills if there didn’t…