Posts belonging to Category 'Planet Mark Update'

You Will Not Even Realize I Have Gone!

Time for another winter break, and a timely one too – it hit -15 last weekend here in my adopted home of Budapest, Hungary. This break has been planned for in advance – and with a long list of updates and improvements now in the capable hands of my colleague Gergely, you will not even [...]

Movitation, Gratitude And Some Horrible Previous Jobs!

A mixed business(ish) post today with a few different thoughts combined. The idea came from something one of my colleagues said yesterday about enjoying the now and reminding ourselves how lucky we are… well, I say colleague – I am actually a guest in the office shared by 2 different companies – a software house [...]

Productivity And A New Home

Mixed bag of a blog post today! I’m actually trying hard to catch up with a huge amount of accumulated content this week (have called it project ‘Catch Up’ since my mind works well in project-sized chunks!). My backlog is in Russian, German and Hungarian – as I only speak English this makes life challenging, [...]

Short Week + My First Ever Bad Beat Story Post!

I’m going to break my 5-year long ‘no bad beat story’ blogging policy today with an amusing anecdote. I actually managed to lose a big pot with quad-aces against a straight flush!! It was in 8-game on Stars… The Stud hi-lo round (not my favorite game) with AA-A to start a 4-handed pot (down to [...]

Titan Introduce Steps + Writing Challenge Update

Having a funny old day, struggled with motivation until the early evening and now motoring away writing at 1000 words and hour…
This post is to let you know about the new Steps Sit N Goes at Titan (+remind you of my free jackpot SNGs token offer for August) and to update on my 30k writing [...]

My 30,000 Word Weekly Writing Challenge!

I guess the words for this blog post will have to count towards my latest challenge – 30k good quality words written this week… writing about a writing challenge, that’s kind of meta-writing, right?

10 Memorable Festival Moments

Just getting back to work after a great time at the Sziget festival last week… I have been going to music festivals for a long time now… around 24 years since my first one alone and plenty before that as a kid being dragged around by parents! Had the idea yesterday to pull together 10 [...]

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