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		<title>I&#8217;m 91% Addicted to Blogging</title>
		<link>http://www.marusin.com/2007/09/11/im-91-addicted-to-blogging/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2007 17:53:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Who would have thought with the lack of updates around here that I would be that addicted to Blogging? 91%How Addicted to Blogging Are You? By no means am I Josh Bancroft, though&#8230; That last 9% is the hardest! :)]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Who would have thought with the lack of updates around here that I would be <em>that</em> addicted to Blogging?  </p>
<p><a href="http://mingle2.com/blog-addiction" style="color: #D64B32; text-decoration: none; display: block; width: 286px; height: 128px; padding-top: 50px; padding-left: 17px; background: url(http://mingle2.com/img/bb/blog_addiction/badge.jpg) no-repeat; font-family: Times New Roman, sans-serif; font-size: 30px;">91%<span style="display: none;">How Addicted to Blogging Are You?</span></a></p>
<p>By no means am I <a href="http://www.tinyscreenfuls.com">Josh Bancroft</a>, though&#8230;  <a href="http://www.tinyscreenfuls.com/2007/09/im-100-addicted-to-blogging/">That last 9% is the hardest!</a>  :)</p>
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		<title>Soaked by the Chocolate Rain</title>
		<link>http://www.marusin.com/2007/08/04/soaked-by-the-chocolate-rain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Aug 2007 07:37:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Damn you, Merlin Mann!!! :) I have found myself obsessed with all things &#8220;Chocolate Rain&#8221; since listening to MacBreak Weekly #51 this past week. You can&#8217;t tell me this isn&#8217;t the catchiest song you&#8217;ve ever heard when my 2.5 year old daughter is singing it (or maybe that&#8217;s a testament to how much I&#8217;ve been [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Damn you, <a href="http://www.43folders.com">Merlin Mann</a>!!!  :)</p>
<p>I have found myself obsessed with all things &#8220;<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwTZ2xpQwpA">Chocolate Rain</a>&#8221; since listening to <a href="http://www.twit.tv/mbw51">MacBreak Weekly #51</a> this past week.</p>
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<p>You can&#8217;t tell me this isn&#8217;t the catchiest song you&#8217;ve ever heard when my 2.5 year old daughter is singing it (or maybe that&#8217;s a testament to how much I&#8217;ve been playing it for the last several days).  Oh, and if you&#8217;re looking for the lyrics so you can perform your own version, look no further than <a href="http://cookingforbrevitt.typepad.com/blog/2007/06/chocolate_rain_.html">over here</a>!</p>
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		<title>Where&#8217;s the Cicada buzz on the blogsphere?</title>
		<link>http://www.marusin.com/2007/05/24/wheres-the-cicada-buzz-on-the-blogsphere/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2007 15:21:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If I were a betting man (and thank goodness you can&#8217;t put money down on future blog buzz in Vegas), I would have totally thought that the Cicada infestation that is going on right now would be the hottest thing on the web. With that said, I&#8217;m starting off the meme&#8230; Who&#8217;s eaten a Cicada [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If I were a betting man (and thank goodness you can&#8217;t put money down on future blog buzz in Vegas), I would have totally thought that the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicada">Cicada</a> infestation that is going on right now would be the hottest thing on the web.</p>
<p>With that said, I&#8217;m starting off the meme&#8230;  <strong>Who&#8217;s eaten a Cicada this year?</strong>  Personally, I haven&#8217;t but I&#8217;m pretty sure <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/marusin/tags/westerly" title="Pictures of Westerly">our dog</a> is going to town.  From what I have heard, <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&amp;node=&amp;contentId=A16056-2004Apr15&amp;notFound=true">they have an almond-flavor and very high in protein</a>.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m interested in this (but don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ll be indulging).  :)</p>
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		<title>I&#8217;ll Take The First Buyer!</title>
		<link>http://www.marusin.com/2007/03/19/ill-take-the-first-buyer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2007 17:26:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Any takers?  :)</p>
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		<title>Things Iâ€™ll Admit About Myself (Day 5)</title>
		<link>http://www.marusin.com/2007/02/11/things-i%e2%80%99ll-admit-about-myself-day-5/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Feb 2007 17:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sorry about being a day or two late for the final installment of my &#8220;Things I&#8217;ll Admit About Myself&#8221; series. Liz and I actually went out on Friday night and got home late. Yesterday was full of all sorts of car drama and things that kept me away from my computer. With that said, I [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sorry about being a day or two late for the final installment of my &#8220;Things I&#8217;ll Admit About Myself&#8221; series.  Liz and I actually went out on Friday night and got home late.  Yesterday was full of all sorts of car drama and things that kept me away from my computer.  With that said, I present to you a final look into me&#8230;</p>
<blockquote><p><em><strong>I always follow through on things.  Sometimes it just takes me a while.</strong></em></p></blockquote>
<p>As you can see, these revelations were in no particular order or had some sort of climatic finish.  I just wanted to do a little exercise to step away from myself and observe things/habits which are not-so-apparent.</p>
<p>Was it interesting for you?  Probably not.</p>
<p>Was it good for me?  I can&#8217;t answer that publically (and without blushing)&#8230;  :)</p>
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		<title>Things I&#8217;ll Admit About Myself (Day 4)</title>
		<link>http://www.marusin.com/2007/02/08/things-ill-admit-about-myself-day-4/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Feb 2007 03:12:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While I talk a good talk, sometimes I need my own &#8220;kick in the ass&#8221; I have had about four &#8220;this is gonna be the next big thing&#8221; projects that have been going on for the last year or so.Â  Needless to say, none of them have been &#8220;the next big thing&#8221; (or even have [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.marusin.com/2007/02/07/things-ill-admit-about-myself-day-3/">While I talk a good talk</a>, sometimes I need my own &#8220;kick in the ass&#8221;</p>
<blockquote><p><em><strong>I have had about four &#8220;this is gonna be the next big thing&#8221; projects that have been going on for the last year or so.Â  Needless to say, none of them have been &#8220;the next big thing&#8221; (or even have made the light of day).Â  Someday.Â  Someday&#8230;Â </strong></em></p></blockquote>
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		<title>Things I&#8217;ll Admit About Myself (Day 3)</title>
		<link>http://www.marusin.com/2007/02/07/things-ill-admit-about-myself-day-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Feb 2007 03:49:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of my favorite posts that I have ever written is entitled &#8220;Motivation and Opportunity&#8221;. What&#8217;s that have to do with sharing some info about me? I love when people have a passion that is so strong that it can&#8217;t help but force them to get off of their ass and do something with it.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.marusin.com/2006/06/11/motivation-and-opportunity/">One of my favorite posts that I have ever written is entitled &#8220;Motivation and Opportunity&#8221;</a>.  What&#8217;s that have to do with sharing some info about me?</p>
<blockquote><p><em><strong>I love when people have a passion that is so strong that it can&#8217;t help but force them to get off of their ass and do something with it. </strong></em></p></blockquote>
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		<title>Things I&#8217;ll Admit About Myself (Day 2)</title>
		<link>http://www.marusin.com/2007/02/06/things-ill-admit-about-myself-day-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Feb 2007 03:27:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Carrying on the tradition that I started yesterday, here&#8217;s the second revelation that I&#8217;ll admit about myself this week&#8230; I get annoyed very easily. I&#8217;ve been working feverishly to fix this shortcoming, but if you&#8217;re dumb, lazy or I don&#8217;t like your attitude it&#8217;s gonna take a lot for me to think differently. :)]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Carrying on the tradition that I started yesterday, here&#8217;s the second revelation that I&#8217;ll admit about myself this week&#8230;</p>
<blockquote><p><em><strong>I get annoyed very easily.</strong></em></p></blockquote>
<p>I&#8217;ve been working feverishly to fix this shortcoming, but if you&#8217;re dumb, lazy or I don&#8217;t like your attitude it&#8217;s gonna take a lot for me to think differently.  :)</p>
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		<title>Things I&#8217;ll Admit About Myself (Day 1)</title>
		<link>http://www.marusin.com/2007/02/05/things-ill-admit-about-myself-day-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Feb 2007 02:17:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of weeks back, the &#8220;Five Things About Me&#8221; meme was going around and Gregg tagged me to participate. Things got crazy and I never followed up to put together a list. With that said, I&#8217;ve been feeling guilty and figured that I&#8217;ll take this week to make a meme about myself where I [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A couple of weeks back, <a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&amp;q=five+things+meme&amp;btnG=Google+Search">the &#8220;Five Things About Me&#8221; meme</a> was going around and <a href="http://www.ns-tech.com/blog/geldred.nsf/d6plinks/DOMO-6XC8S3">Gregg tagged me to participate</a>.  Things got crazy and I never followed up to put together a list.  With that said, I&#8217;ve been feeling guilty and figured that I&#8217;ll take this week to make a meme about myself where I admit one fact about myself per day (speading things out over the week means one thing&#8230;  <em><strong>CONTENT</strong></em>!).</p>
<p>With no further ado, here&#8217;s something I&#8217;ll admit about myself&#8230;</p>
<blockquote><p><em><strong>I have just come to the realization that I bookmark (in my own secret/special way) practically every article that is published on <a href="http://webworkerdaily.com/">Web Worker Daily</a>&#8230;  I absolutely love that site and everything about it.  :) </strong></em></p></blockquote>
<p>Was that something shocking or earth-shattering?  Nope.  Will this week get more jucier as the days progress?  Tune in and you shall see!  (how&#8217;s that for a cliff-hanger?)  :)</p>
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		<title>100 Things About Me</title>
		<link>http://www.marusin.com/2006/02/15/100-things-about-me/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2006 19:08:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the nice features that is built into WordPress is that it shows you all of your posts that are still in &#8220;Draft&#8221; mode. What&#8217;s cool is that after converting from Movable Type a month or two ago, it brought over a ton of draft posts that I had originally started and decided to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>One of the nice features that is built into <a href="http://www.wordpress.org">WordPress</a> is that it shows you all of your posts that are still in &#8220;Draft&#8221; mode.  What&#8217;s cool is that after converting from Movable Type a month or two ago, it brought over a ton of draft posts that I had originally started and decided to bail on, come back to, etc&#8230;.</p>
<p>One of the posts that I started <strong>YEARS</strong> ago and never got around to completing was the <a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&#038;lr=&#038;q=%22100+things+about+me%22&#038;btnG=Search">&#8220;100 Things About Me&#8221; meme</a>.  With that said, I never completely filled it out but made a pretty good dent in it.  It&#8217;s kind of fun to look at this because it&#8217;s kind of a time capsule from <em>when I originally started writing the post back in 2002</em>.  </p>
<p>While some things have changed four years later, here are 10 things from my original list that truly are &#8220;about me&#8221;:</p>
<blockquote><p>6.)  I really like to cook</p>
<p>7.)  I love things that &#8220;do their thing&#8221; on their own without any intervention (dishwashers, automated tasks on a computer, cooking something in a crockpot all day)&#8230;  Basically anything that works while I&#8217;m doing something else</p>
<p>9.)  If you give my 5 minutes, I can usually figure out how to play the melody of any given song on a piano (and I don&#8217;t technically &#8220;play&#8221; piano)</p>
<p>10.)  One of my only regrets was passing up the opportunity to see <a href="http://www.gumbopages.com/uncle-tupelo.html">Uncle Tupelo</a> while I was in college</p>
<p>14.)  I worked all throughout high school at a pizza place and it is still one of the best jobs I&#8217;ve worked at/had most fun at&#8230;</p>
<p>24.)  I will not pass up a good burrito</p>
<p>33.)  Everytime The Who&#8217;s &#8220;Who Are You?&#8221; comes on the radio I always listen closely to hear if they bleep out &#8220;<b>Who the f@!% are you?</b>&#8220;.  Some stations still play the original even though they&#8217;re not supposed to.</p>
<p>42.)  About four out of five books I read are non-fiction</p>
<p>63.)  I&#8217;ve been growing a form of facial hair every couple of months for the last year or so as a &#8220;form of rebellion&#8221; (to what I don&#8217;t know?)</p>
<p>65.)  I&#8217;m fascinated by &#8220;subcultures&#8221; (for example Apple Users, Bloggers or even the culture within an office)</p></blockquote>
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