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		<title>Kindness at Random</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Dec 2009 20:25:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Janson</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[being human]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Pay It Forward&#8221; is a movie in which a young boy, who believes in the basic goodness of people, decides to try to get as many as he can to do good.  Instead of paying a favor back, he asks them to pay it forward and, in that, do something for someone else.
A boy with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Living the Hyperopic Life</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 21:30:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Janson</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[no regrets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[opting for happiness]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[About fifteen years ago, in a former life, I worked with Josephine and Josephine had a plan.   She was driven by a single goal which was to work as hard as she could, climb the corporate ladder and make enough money so she and her husband could retire at forty-five and live the rest of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happiness Served Here</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 16:47:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Janson</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[being happy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[giving joy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[human interaction]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[joy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[positive outlook]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;It&#8217;s &#8216;The Decade of Discontent&#8217;,&#8221; I said a few years ago during a conversation about being in your forties.  And it occurred to me this very well could be.   Professionally, people of this vintage are often on the cusp of deciding to chase the money, continue to chase it, stop chasing it or do something [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Driving Drunk with Both Hands on the Wheel</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2009 15:54:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Janson</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[car distractions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[driving drunk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[driving like you mean it]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[driving on the phone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hands free cell phone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[paying attention]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I wonder what the woman was thinking as she sat on her motorcycle at a stoplight in suburban Chicago a  few weekends ago.  She might have been thinking of her kids, where she was headed or maybe nothing at all.  No one knows but I bet it wasn't about was the car coming up behind her, at speed, as it plowed in and took her life.

The woman who hit her was putting nail polish on.]]></description>
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		<title>How Do You Take Someone&#8217;s Freedom</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 17:08:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Janson</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Alzheimer's disease]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[caring for the elderly]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[indecision]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[independence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[loss]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[loss of loved one]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[loss of memory]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I watch as the slippage peeks out here and there.  I hear the questions repeated and know the previous asking has been forgotten.  I see the slow, gray veil of confusion imperceptibly descending little by little.
I am powerless to stop it; powerless to stem the damage to the mind.
How do I tell them [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Number Beyond Imagination</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2009 17:31:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Janson</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[big numbers]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[stimulus package]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trillion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I am a numbers person. Having studied math in college, I have always found all different manner of numbers, equations and formulas fascinating. There have been a lot of big numbers bandied about lately &#8212; usually with dollar signs bolted on to the front &#8212; and I got to thinking about how big those numbers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Love Story</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Feb 2009 20:53:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Janson</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[commitement]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[marriage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[valentines day]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It was the early nineties and the first time I saw Cortni, I was blown away.  She had eyes like a cat with a regal aire that command the attention of the young men in the office.  Carla, a co-worker, and I were across the room one day watching this phenomenon. She leaned over to me and whispered,  "look at those wolves."  I turned to her and said "I'll get her."  And I did.]]></description>
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		<title>I am a Human Tesla Coil</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jan 2009 18:54:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Janson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Essays]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[colorado]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[human tesla coil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[static electricity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[static shock]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[winter]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[t happens every year. As we descend into shorter days and longer nights. As the earth&#8217;s axis tilts the northern hemisphere away from the sun and the light and radiant heat strike the U.S. at a more oblique angle, things change. The air cools, water condenses and when the temperature gets cold enough, it freezes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Void the Warranty</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Dec 2008 19:40:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Janson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Essays]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[diy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[do it yourself]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[electronics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hacking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[instructables]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[make]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[void warranty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[warranty]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not a big fan of branding. I have a tendency to try to remove, cover or otherwise erase the brand names and logos that appear on the things I have, wear or buy. I&#8217;m not a big fan of items that do just one thing either. What if that one thing is something you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Question of Faith</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 19:39:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Janson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Essays]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[critical thinking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[faith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[life's answers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[questioning faith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[who's driving the train]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Steve is a boy of six. He is a nice boy by all accounts and isn&#8217;t one to get into trouble. I don&#8217;t know him. I just know someone who does. But who he is isn&#8217;t important. What happened is.
It was after school on a typical Spring afternoon. Steve was finishing up his day and [...]]]></description>
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