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		<title>Because&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 04:59:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Ah!  What a time of year!  The first few months of the year are always incredibly busy for me.  Work is predictably hectic and coaching basketball is in full swing, so there is precious little time left for doing any new projects around the house or to play much online.  This evening however I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=up2randomthoughts.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9886803&amp;post=608&amp;subd=up2randomthoughts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Calling Out BS in the Google Age</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 13:41:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Modern Technology]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This past weekend, I had the entire family over, mostly to watch our beloved football team in the playoffs, but also to have one last meal before my youngest son returned to his Spring semester at college.  Now whenever my children (all in their twenties) get together, it can be a rather loud, rough-and-tumble affair, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=up2randomthoughts.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9886803&amp;post=599&amp;subd=up2randomthoughts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>If You Were Me&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://up2randomthoughts.wordpress.com/2012/01/07/if-you-were-me/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 14:44:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Travel ideas]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Holiday ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[travel]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have returned from a most restful and peaceful holiday getaway.  Of course, the irony is not lost with my previous post, which proclaimed &#8220;I&#8217;m back!&#8221;, whereupon I then immediately proceeded to disappear from it all.  While I certainly needed and enjoyed a semi-comatose uneventful existence in a tropical setting, it was refreshing only in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=up2randomthoughts.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9886803&amp;post=591&amp;subd=up2randomthoughts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m Back!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 06:41:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Holiday Sentiments]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Overloaded]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paperwork]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Er&#8230; um&#8230; well&#8230; sort of anyway. I&#8217;ll be brief.  I&#8217;ve been out of town the past several weeks on some pressing business matters. I am exhausted, the paperwork is sky high in my office, my social calendar is completely filled with holiday parties, and my wife and I are hosting one next week as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=up2randomthoughts.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9886803&amp;post=577&amp;subd=up2randomthoughts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thank You Totsy Mae!</title>
		<link>http://up2randomthoughts.wordpress.com/2011/12/06/thank-you-totsy-mae/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 03:35:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Thank You]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Appreciation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gift]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Totsy Mae]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[About a month ago I was reading through a blog I regularly visit, Totsy Mae  and I participated in a little gift-giving contest fun she planned to do over the course of a few blog entries that would follow.  The original article is here: Six Word Saturday: Tis the Season to be Giving. It was all [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=up2randomthoughts.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9886803&amp;post=564&amp;subd=up2randomthoughts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Best. Funeral. Ever.</title>
		<link>http://up2randomthoughts.wordpress.com/2011/12/01/best-funeral-ever/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 03:33:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[humor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Funerals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Funny Memories]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Rooster Crowing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Talking Watches]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; I bumped into an old friend the other day, a co-worker from an organization I used to work with a number of years ago.  The obvious pleasantries about work and family were exchanged as we caught up on each others lives. It was mostly small talk not worth writing about here, but we did [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=up2randomthoughts.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9886803&amp;post=544&amp;subd=up2randomthoughts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Be Back Soon &#8211; Part # &#8230; (I forget)</title>
		<link>http://up2randomthoughts.wordpress.com/2011/11/23/be-back-soon-part-i-forget/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 14:38:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Holiday]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dave Brubeck]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Take Five]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; This time of the year is always hectic for me under the most normal of circumstances.  Take a combination of my normal workload in the field of Finance, combine it with my favorite hobby/avocation of coaching High School basketball, add in the Winter Holidays of Thanksgiving and Christmas looming ahead, and voila!  Overload.  I&#8217;ve [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=up2randomthoughts.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9886803&amp;post=539&amp;subd=up2randomthoughts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sacred Music &#8211; Ethereal and Sublime</title>
		<link>http://up2randomthoughts.wordpress.com/2011/11/15/sacred-music/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 06:21:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Meditation]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Schubert]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spirituality]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; I just returned from another visit to Victoria&#8217;s blog, whereupon I was intrigued by this week&#8217;s Monday Morning Writing Prompt topic of Sacred Music.  Last week was quite extraordinary for me, two funerals and a wedding.  There was no shortage of Sacred Music to be heard and felt as a result.  This particular writing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=up2randomthoughts.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9886803&amp;post=518&amp;subd=up2randomthoughts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Random Wedding Reflections</title>
		<link>http://up2randomthoughts.wordpress.com/2011/11/13/random-wedding-reflection/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Nov 2011 06:21:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Classical Music]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Loengrin Treulich Geführt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Musical reactions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Opera]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reflections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wagner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wedding March]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Yesterday was the wedding day of the daughter of friends of ours.  The venue was beautiful, the weather quite nice for November, and the reception an immensely enjoyable occasion.  All in all, it was a long but fun day.  Sitting in the Chapel, we were treated to delightful music from a chamber ensemble and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=up2randomthoughts.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9886803&amp;post=501&amp;subd=up2randomthoughts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ha!  I&#8217;m Nearly Famous!</title>
		<link>http://up2randomthoughts.wordpress.com/2011/11/08/ha-im-nearly-famous/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 20:39:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Shameless Self Promotion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Narcissistic Nonsense]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Self-indulgent Silliness]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; What a crazy week it has been.  Imagine my luck while stumbling around WordPress the other day, lurking about in a favorite blog of mine, Lorna&#8217;s Voice, just minding my own business, reading and commenting pretty much like I do any other day of the week, when all of a sudden I set off [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=up2randomthoughts.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9886803&amp;post=490&amp;subd=up2randomthoughts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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