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		<title>Some Cheese With That Whine, Sir?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 22:01:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>V. T. Eric Layton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi there. Haven&#8217;t seen me around for awhile, huh? Well, I&#8217;ve been wallowing in self-pity and singing all those favorite &#8220;woe is me&#8221; show tunes. What in all hell has put me in this place, you might ask? I was so chipper back in the beginning of March. I had just finished my Cisco boot [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=noctslackv2.wordpress.com&#038;blog=17342087&#038;post=1773&#038;subd=noctslackv2&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Another New Bank?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2013 16:51:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>V. T. Eric Layton</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[banking]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s the deal&#8230; When I was a child, and daddy opened my first savings account for me, he impressed upon me the importance of not keeping all my money in one place. Because of this advice, which came straight out of the Depression Era, I&#8217;ve always maintained two independent banking relationships. I normally have a [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=noctslackv2.wordpress.com&#038;blog=17342087&#038;post=1767&#038;subd=noctslackv2&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Spring In the Air; Spring In Your Step</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2013 18:59:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>V. T. Eric Layton</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[beautiful]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m sure many of you reading this wish you were seeing some signs of spring where you are. Here in my part of the world (Florida, USA), the bees are buzzing, the trees and flowers are blooming, the hay fever folks are sneezing, etc. It&#8217;s beautiful! The world is awakening from its winter slumber. Don&#8217;t [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=noctslackv2.wordpress.com&#038;blog=17342087&#038;post=1763&#038;subd=noctslackv2&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>2012 in review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Dec 2012 23:50:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>V. T. Eric Layton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here&#8217;s an excerpt: 600 people reached the top of Mt. Everest in 2012. This blog got about 4,000 views in 2012. If every person who reached the top of Mt. Everest viewed this blog, it would have taken 7 years to get [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=noctslackv2.wordpress.com&#038;blog=17342087&#038;post=1756&#038;subd=noctslackv2&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cyber-life Interrupted by Real Life</title>
		<link>http://noctslackv2.wordpress.com/2012/12/26/cyber-life-interrupted-by-real-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Dec 2012 00:31:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>V. T. Eric Layton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hello happy readers, commenters, lurkers, etc. Beginning very soon, like right away, I&#8217;ll be somewhat absent from here. The reason for this is that I&#8217;ll be spending most of my waking hours (and some of my sleeping ones) for the next 8 or so weeks studying for my Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) examination. If [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=noctslackv2.wordpress.com&#038;blog=17342087&#038;post=1751&#038;subd=noctslackv2&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Monolith&#8217;s Whisper</title>
		<link>http://noctslackv2.wordpress.com/2012/12/14/s-t-a-l-k-e-r-monoliths-whisper/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Dec 2012 22:14:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>V. T. Eric Layton</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[FPS gaming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gabriel Zang]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[S.T.A.L.K.E.R.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Monolith's Whisper]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shadow of Chernobyl]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stalker movie]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As many of you who read here know, I&#8217;m a fan of the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. FPS video game series. I&#8217;ve played these games numerous times with and without modifications. I&#8217;ve even recently read the book on which the series was loosely based. Last night, though, I experienced something new regarding this game. I watched a movie [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=noctslackv2.wordpress.com&#038;blog=17342087&#038;post=1742&#038;subd=noctslackv2&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The (Almost) Lost Art of Making Brown Paper Grocery Bag Book Covers</title>
		<link>http://noctslackv2.wordpress.com/2012/12/10/the-almost-lost-art-of-making-brown-paper-grocery-bag-book-covers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2012 17:13:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>V. T. Eric Layton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night I was thumbing through some books here in my home looking for a specific one. I was looking for Alvin Toffler&#8216;s 1970 treatise on cultural change called Future Shock. I found it, but the book itself is not the story here today. My old 1971 paperback edition of this book was still in [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=noctslackv2.wordpress.com&#038;blog=17342087&#038;post=1730&#038;subd=noctslackv2&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tim Olshansky &#124; Stay Home When You&#8217;re Sick! &#8211; a Reblog</title>
		<link>http://noctslackv2.wordpress.com/2012/12/08/tim-olshansky-stay-home-when-youre-sick-a-reblog/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Dec 2012 18:14:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>V. T. Eric Layton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I saw a link to this article on slashdot.org&#8216;s website earlier today. This has been a pet peeve of mine for years. I&#8217;ve always hated to see co-workers snorting and snotting all over the place. It&#8217;s unhealthy and disgusting. You can&#8217;t always blame your co-workers, though. In today&#8217;s modern work environment, you better be dying [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=noctslackv2.wordpress.com&#038;blog=17342087&#038;post=1726&#038;subd=noctslackv2&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Roadside Picnic by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2012 01:17:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>V. T. Eric Layton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As some of you may know from reading here, I&#8217;m a fan of the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series of PC 1st person shooter games. When I first found out about this game, I did a little research on it and found that it was loosely based on a 1972 Sci-Fi novel called Roadside Picnic written by two [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=noctslackv2.wordpress.com&#038;blog=17342087&#038;post=1715&#038;subd=noctslackv2&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What This Season Means to Me</title>
		<link>http://noctslackv2.wordpress.com/2012/11/28/what-this-season-means-to-me/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2012 18:17:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>V. T. Eric Layton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Philosophica]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For many years, Christmas meant pretty much nothing but an annoying time of year to me. This was from my mid-20s till about my late 30s. Then, after many years of not even acknowledging the holiday, I spent what turned out to be the last Christmas with my mom. For a little more insight on [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=noctslackv2.wordpress.com&#038;blog=17342087&#038;post=1710&#038;subd=noctslackv2&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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