Category Archives: Personal

plan, then deviate

The conclusion I’ve come to with the whole “personal discipline” thing is that you need to use structure to break up the massive task of being disciplined about everything all at once into small bite-sized chunks. So the challenge now … Continue reading

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Back from Vacation

It’s official! I’m a newly-minted MBA! And what a wonderful graduation, and a great vacation! Highlights: plenty of Yuengling and Middleswarth chips in PA Mike walked in State College saw the site of Pickett’s Charge in Gettysburg drove by the … Continue reading

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MBA Breather

MBA-A-Day is going on vacation so I can relax and celebrate getting my actual MBA, as of Friday, May 14th. I’ll be back with the rest of the articles after a well-earned rest.

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bullets: 12/31/09

Just a few quick bullet-pointed updates: The fall semester is over! It was among the most valuable and enlightening semesters of my MBA…I wrote a full-fledged business plan, learned how to identify and evaluate new business opportunities, gave numerous short … Continue reading

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stories, travel, career

Just a quick update, I have been writing, just not publishing here much. I sent a couple of short fiction pieces out for publication in the last few weeks, of which one has already been rejected–I’m actually not too surprised, … Continue reading

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on vacation

markdalius.com is on vacation until next week. Hopefully I’ll have some good stories to tell from Napa and Sonoma. See you then! –Mark

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old content, blog ads

As I mentioned a few weeks ago, I’m experimenting with the blog. You may have noticed a few Google ads over on the right-hand column; I’m trying out Google AdSense to see if it’s worthwhile. At best, it will be … Continue reading

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more content on the way…

I was pretty good about sticking to the MWF schedule for a week, but spending the weekend in PA threw me a bit. Plus, got a work project that I’m wrapping up…rest assured, new content is on the way. –Mark

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wine glass shelf

This is the result of months of browbeating Kara until she would let me do this. She actually likes the results, and it’s both stylish and functional: I have seen commercial shelves like this one, which use a wire hanger … Continue reading

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