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	<title>Running After My Hat &#187; Family</title>
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	<description>Ridiculous Pursuits, Solemn Matters</description>
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		<title>Newest Nodule on the Family Tree</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2012 17:53:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[In the Blood]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[not-quite-Mother's Day]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Her Mom (looking more worried than I think I&#8217;ve ever seen her), her Dad (looking more stunned into tenderness than I&#8217;ve ever imagined seeing him), and grand-niecelet Madison (looking oblivious), 2012-05-12 (two days after her birthday). &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>And Counter-Intuition Replied&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2012/04/and-counter-intuition-replied/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2012/04/and-counter-intuition-replied/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 19:34:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Missus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[whiskey river Fridays]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[distractedness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[I've Seen All Good People]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Lucia Perillo]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[mathematicians]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mathematics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Miami]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Urszula Koziol]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wendell Berry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[William Stafford]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yupno]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[[Video: studio version of "I've Seen All Good People," by Yes] From whiskey river: Not a few, but everyone, makes art. There is no art beyond the sensibility of the people confronting it: art is an interaction between object and beholder. The idea of a human being forced to concede the superiority of a work [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>Real-Life Dialogue: Vita Brevis Edition</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2012/03/real-life-dialogue-vita-brevis-edition/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2012/03/real-life-dialogue-vita-brevis-edition/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2012 17:26:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Everyday Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Humor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Real-Life Dialogue]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Missus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[daily schedules]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[First World problems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[overlapping tasks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tortures of the calendar]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[[The scene: North Florida, USA, the interior of a car -- not their own -- currently occupied by a human couple and a micro-canine. It is around 6:00 pm: He and She, with The Pooch, are on their way home from work. They left work early today in order to rent a car (this one) [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>13</slash:comments>
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		<title>A Face Only a Mother Could Love</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2012/02/a-face-only-a-mother-could-love/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2012/02/a-face-only-a-mother-could-love/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2012 19:40:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Computers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Everyday Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Phones (Cellular and Otherwise)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tech]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Internet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Missus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[home decor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[networking]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re thinking of physically reconfiguring our network equipment here at the house. Currently, the DSL modem and router are upstairs in my office &#8212; at the far end of the house &#8212; where they&#8217;ve been since we moved here ten years ago. Since then, things have changed: The Missus no longer has a desktop computer. [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>ADMIN: Weekend Peregrinations</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2011/11/admin-weekend-peregrinations/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2011/11/admin-weekend-peregrinations/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 10:45:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Family]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Running After My Hat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Online World]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[happy 80th birthday Mom!]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vacations]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m going to be away from the computer on any reliable basis for a few days &#8212; probably for the last time in what feels in retrospect like a very scrambled 2011. You know how careless my attendance (let alone participation) has been for the last few months at your blog, whoever you are? Yeah. More [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Catless</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2011/10/catless/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2011/10/catless/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 10:43:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Everyday Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Looking Backward]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nature & Pets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ruminations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Missus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[I don't know anything sadder than certain autumn evenings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Katie]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Yeah. That, alas &#8212; for the first time in twenty years. We&#8217;d known the day was coming, known it for months now. A sad realization, to be sure. But not the same sort of sadness as to find it suddenly so&#8230; Katie lived longer than the other two indoor cats we had &#8212; somewhere around [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>21</slash:comments>
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		<title>Midweek Music Break: Warren Zevon</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2011/10/midweek-music-break-warren-zevon/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2011/10/midweek-music-break-warren-zevon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 11:15:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Family]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Midweek Music Break]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[birthdays]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Warren Zevon]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://johnesimpson.com/blog/?p=8695</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In a music-rich culture, how do you decide what (and whom) to listen to in the first place? And what keeps you listening to it, over time? My kid brother and I have had this pervasive and often subconscious back-and-forth influence on each other ever since he arrived on the scene. (Well, that first year [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>17</slash:comments>
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		<title>Midweek Music Break: The Fleetwoods</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2011/10/midweek-music-break-the-fleetwoods/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2011/10/midweek-music-break-the-fleetwoods/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 15:25:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Midweek Music Break]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Fleetwoods]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Roches]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Fleetwoods were one of those groups more successful than one-hit wonders &#8212; they had several hits &#8212; but they never quite broke through into super-stardom, either. They seemed to be here, and then not-here.* The group seems to have formed almost by accident: In one version, high-school students Gretchen Christopher and her friend Barbara [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>Perfect Moments: Two Beautiful Women, a Certain Amount of Booze, and Maybe I&#8217;ve Got a Story&#8230;!</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2011/10/perfect-moments-two-beautiful-women-a-certain-amount-of-booze-and-maybe-ive-got-a-story/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2011/10/perfect-moments-two-beautiful-women-a-certain-amount-of-booze-and-maybe-ive-got-a-story/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Oct 2011 17:26:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Looking Backward]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Perfect Moments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ruminations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seems to Fit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Style and Craft]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Missus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[feedback]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[how to keep going]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[why write]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[writer's workshop]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In the mid-1990s, boy, was I ever confused, perplexed, and probably (by many measures) in need of adjustment. Especially about my writing. Here&#8217;s what my quote-unquote oeuvre consisted of then: A non-fiction Op Ed memoir(ish) piece in a regional edition of the New York Times. A published mystery. (Depending on who I was talking to at [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>13</slash:comments>
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		<title>Perfect Moments: &#8220;I Shot &#8216;im, Paw.&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2011/09/perfect-moments-i-shot-im-paw/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2011/09/perfect-moments-i-shot-im-paw/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 18:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Everyday Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hearing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Humor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Looking Backward]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nature & Pets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Perfect Moments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Missus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[raccoons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[when humans and animals collide]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The house in which The Missus and I live now is over twenty years old, as is our immediate neighborhood. But the area in general has only recently started to get built up. Real honest-to-gods wildlife, not yet squeezed out by housing and new roads, can still be spotted here and there &#8212; foxes, a [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>15</slash:comments>
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