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		<title>Flu season</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 06:08:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Good batteries make good neighbors</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 05:39:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We all know how smoke detectors start beeping when the battery needs to be changed, right?
A couple of weeks ago Susan and I were awakened about 3:45 AM by one of those faint but persistent beeps that we recognized as a call for a new battery.  I got up to see which smoke detector it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bigolddaddy.wordpress.com&blog=1505983&post=1276&subd=bigolddaddy&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sometimes change sucks</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2009 20:21:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In May Zack started delivering the West Seattle Herald to about 30 customers around our neighborhood on Wednesday afternoons.  His first time doing the route by himself was in the pouring rain, pulling papers out of his backpack, checking addresses off his list, trying to keep everything dry &#8211; what a miserable way to start [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bigolddaddy.wordpress.com&blog=1505983&post=1270&subd=bigolddaddy&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fathers Day</title>
		<link>http://bigolddaddy.wordpress.com/2009/06/21/fathers-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 00:01:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Happy Fathers Day to all of you other manly men:

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		<title>Caring for your introvert</title>
		<link>http://bigolddaddy.wordpress.com/2009/06/06/caring-for-your-introvert/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2009 17:50:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For those of us who are married to or otherwise closely associated with an introvert, here&#8217;s a good article from the March 2003 issue of The Atlantic.  I laughed out loud.

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		<title>Dell doesn&#8217;t get it</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 00:43:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Susan and her siblings purchased a new computer for her parents and I volunteered to assemble it for them.  No problem.  In an hour or two I&#8217;d be back outside on a spectacularly beautiful Seattle spring Saturday&#8230;
About 90 minutes later the new computer was in place, desk dusted, and the hairball of cords and plug [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bigolddaddy.wordpress.com&blog=1505983&post=1240&subd=bigolddaddy&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Learning</title>
		<link>http://bigolddaddy.wordpress.com/2009/05/21/learning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 07:04:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This evening Lauren (15) was preparing for a Biology test while the rest of us watched &#8220;Marley and Me.&#8221;  She took a break and came downstairs to give us a preview of what she was studying.
Lauren understands that she is a visual learner and uses flash cards to very good effect.  Somewhere along the way [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bigolddaddy.wordpress.com&blog=1505983&post=1236&subd=bigolddaddy&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Close to home</title>
		<link>http://bigolddaddy.wordpress.com/2009/05/18/close-to-home/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 20:23:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our friend Andrea sent this along&#8230;
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		<title>Renaming our house</title>
		<link>http://bigolddaddy.wordpress.com/2009/05/17/renaming-our-house/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 02:25:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ll never forget visiting the home of a lifelong friend of my grandparents when I was a kid.  It was an estate, actually.  And like any estate worth its salt, it had a name:  Broadfields.
Three details about the house stick in my mind:  1) There were buttons in nearly every room that rang a buzzer [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bigolddaddy.wordpress.com&blog=1505983&post=1211&subd=bigolddaddy&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8230;and to The Republic</title>
		<link>http://bigolddaddy.wordpress.com/2009/05/16/and-to-the-republic/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2009 03:12:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The Republic&#8221; is a Seattle indie rock band.  Following are excerpts from my note to one of the band members.
I can&#8217;t tell you how much we enjoyed seeing The Republic&#8217;s performance last Saturday evening.  Here&#8217;s a little background:

Susan and I are both 57.
She is not as much of a rocker as I am.  In 23+ [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bigolddaddy.wordpress.com&blog=1505983&post=1208&subd=bigolddaddy&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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