We sometimes feel like immigrants when we journey back to our homeland. It is had to put into words. Sara at Musings of a Missionary put up a nice list (24 items) in a post called “You know you’re in reverse culture shock when” and I’ll put a few things from her list here, but [...]
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No Comments Scott Pagel on Jun 8th 2010
1 Comment Scott Pagel on May 27th 2010
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2010 Taipei 101 Run Up – Turn that Frown Upside-Down Edition
Woke up today to read an email from the organizers that I was actually one of the 2000 participants in the 2010 Taipei 101 Run Up! I immediately went out and climbed 72 flights of stairs to celebrate! Of course… that probably didn’t cancel out the homemade mac and cheese I shoveled down the night [...]
2 Comments Scott Pagel on May 11th 2010
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2010 Taipei 101 Run Up :-(
Didn’t get the email I hoped for today… Checked this list to confirm I wasn’t one of the 2000. I think I’ll still keep climbing stairs though so the motivation brought about by the possibility of being one of the 2000 still worked! Maybe some of those on the list won’t finish the next step [...]
No Comments Scott Pagel on May 10th 2010
A few years ago, I participated in a charity event where I took financial pledges with the promise that I’d climb the 2046 stairs of Taipei 101 to the 91st floor observation deck. I’d have done that event every year but haven’t heard of any organized climbs since then. Maybe they happened, but I didn’t [...]
No Comments Scott Pagel on May 5th 2010
In the last paragraph… I’d put the word “experts” in quotes. Sand in the Gears » There’s no program for fixing rotten
1 Comment Scott Pagel on May 1st 2010
There are a few blogs I read that make me anxious. The busier I am the more anxious they make me. When I see new posts from some blogs hit my feed reader… my heart rate rises… perceptibly. I want to drop everything and read them… but the posts on these blogs can’t be read [...]
3 Comments Scott Pagel on Apr 22nd 2010
I first heard Jennifer Knapp at a church in Joplin, MO. It was the world’s loss when she quit making records in 2001 and playing concerts in 2002. She’s been in the news lately for her comeback. Great post by fellow musician Shaun Groves with some insight into “the industry”, Jennifer’s break, and Toyota cars [...]
No Comments Scott Pagel on Apr 21st 2010
