OK, I'm "It"
Thanks to Denise, I’ve been tagged. For my readers who don’t know Denise, she was in the singles group at Homewood when I went there to get to know they church before they shipped me off to Africa. Being single at the time myself, we hung out in the same circles and had a lot of fun. Neither of us are singles now, but we’re still buds. It’s good to have re-connected through blogland. She’s now living with her family in one of the four places that I’ve lived (listed below).
So, here are my answers:
Four Jobs I've Had:
Grocery bag boy at Big Star supermarket in Florence, Alabama (and we even took them to your car!)
Deli clerk at Kroger in Nashville (Had to get a job once mom and dad had to start sending two kids to Lipscomb.)
Recreational Therapist at Abilene State School (I got to play with some really neat people for 20 hours a week.)
Secretary to a missionary-in-residence at ACU (Yes, guys can do that. Right, Alan?)
Four Movies I Could Watch Over and Over:
Chariots of Fire
Star Wars—episodes 3-6
Lord of the Rings—all episodes
Toy Story 2 – I have kids, so I have watched it over and over.
Four Books I Could Read Over and Over:
Matthew
Mark
Luke
John
I just LOVE the main character (‘cause he loved me first.)
Four Places I've Lived:
Killen, AL – born and bred
Auckland, New Zealand (They don’t call it GodZone country for nothing.)
Abilene, TX – Grad school that changed my life.
Tabligbo, Togo – Home for the past 4 ½ years and less than 3 months to go. After here, the adventure really begins!
Four TV Shows I Watch:
(Only when I can borrow the DVDs)
Alias
24
Lost
CNN News (on those rare occasions when I’m near a satellite TV)
Four Places I’ve Been on Vacation:
The Great Smoky Mountains National Park – This has become my family's default vacation spot.
Tanjung Pinang, Bintam Island, Indonesia – Ask me to tell you a funny honeymoon story sometime.
Coconut Grove Beach Resort (Elmina, Ghana) – Best getaway place in West Africa
Dano, Burkina Faso – No reason anyone would want to getaway there, except to see good friends.
Four Websites I Visit Daily:
My Yahoo – For news, sports, and weather
Bloglines – This is where I find out who has posted since my last check.
BBC News – Good way to catch up on the world and it loads quickly with a dialup connection
Mike Cope's blog – Doesn’t everyone?
Four Favorite Foods:
(Maureen says I eat everything, so it’s hard to pick a favorite; but these are four I really like.)
Bak Qua – Spicy Chinese BBQ pork
Fajitas – or just about anything TexMex
Singapore Chili Crab
Fried Catfish
Four Places I’d Like to Be Right Now:
In bed with my wife (OK, I saw that someone else had said that, but it’s true. In fact, I’m going right now. I’ll finish this later.)
At home with my kids.
In Alabama, talking with my mom
Worship at Homewood
People to Tag:
Randy
Bryan
Murphy
3 Comments:
Got me...I'll start working on it. Go get in bed with your wife.
-RV
How does bloglines work? Does it check all your favorite blogs for you so you don't have to hunt them all down every time?
Yes, you have to register each blog that you want to check--most all blogs put out what is called an RSS feed, and this is what it uses. Bloglines has some tools that can detect RSS feeds, but for most "Blogger" blogs, the feed is the URL + /atom.xml. So my feed is http://abparker.blogspot.com/atom.xml
The Bloglines page is divided into two frames. One lists your subscriptions and shows how many unread posts there are. If you click on it, then the unread posts appear in the right pane. Sometimes pictures don't download, and you have to go to the site itself if you want to make comments. Some blogs only put out the first few lines in the RSS feed (this is a Blogger option), so you have to go to the site to read the whole post. (I think this makes sure their hit counter gets hit!) You list subsciptions as public or private. They provide HTML script so that you can list your public subscriptions in your own blog, and that way you don't have to go in and edit the HTML in your template everytime you want to add a friends blog to your list of links. I like it. Hope you do.
Read my initial impressions of Bloglines in this old post -- http://abparker.blogspot.com/2005/06/got-bloglines.html .
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