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	<title>Doug's Sounding Board</title>
	<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod</link>
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		<title>Watching critter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some of you know that Nicole is pregnant. The rest of you now know that Nicole  is pregnant. I finally finished setting up a page for various critter (we&#8217;re  calling it critter for now) related items. So if you like gray moving dots (not  like Pong) this is the page for you!
Critter&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2010/02/15/watching-critter/</link>
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		<title>Tuesday Media Roundup #44</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Games: 
Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box &#8211; I&#8217;ve finally finished up the second Professor Layton game. I liked the setting and feel of this game better than the first one. The animation for the cut-scenes are both increased in amount and in quality. I think there are a few cases of poor wording of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2010/01/25/tuesday-media-roundup-44/</link>
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		<title>An upgrade and a cake attempt</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Having successfully upgraded the CPU on my computer it was time to move on to phase two of the upgrade. So I put in the Kingston SSD Boot Drive and popped in the Windows 7 upgrade install. Since I was upgrading from XP I knew I would have to do a complete install and I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2010/01/11/an-upgrade-and-a-cake-attempt/</link>
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		<title>Daily battle</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Everyday is a battlefield, but if you fight with anger, you&#8217;re the problem. If you fight with joy, you&#8217;re disillusioned.&#8221; &#8211; Carlos Santana in Herbie Hancock: Possibilities 
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		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2010/01/03/daily-battle/</link>
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		<title>A little faster on the uptake</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This year it only took ten hours into the new year to realize I need to update the mail filters to reflect that the new year isn&#8217;t in the future anymore and I shouldn&#8217;t be rejecting those e-mails.
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		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2010/01/01/a-little-faster-on-the-uptake/</link>
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		<title>2009 Health Report</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I got rid of the clot in my left leg, but because of damage to the valve I was told I need to wear a compression stocking for at least two years. 
Having healed legs I trained for and completed the Turkey Trot 10K, a new personal distance record. Very slow, but I did it.
From [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2010/01/01/2009-health-report/</link>
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		<title>Tuesday Media Roundup #43</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Books:
I&#8217;ve been avoiding books this year because I&#8217;m supposed to be reading War &#038; Peace. I still haven&#8217;t picked that up again since the first attempt, but it&#8217;s in my backpack to start tomorrow. That being said, I get &#8220;Top Chef: The Quickfire Cookbook&#8221; as a gift and I read that. It has cast bios, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2009/12/29/tuesday-media-roundup-43/</link>
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		<title>I guess I&#8217;ve been too busy (bad sysadmin, me)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This morning I went to update some things on my 7thsign.com page and I found the web server had crashed. How long had it been down? I have been logging in regularly, but never thought to check that the web server had crashed since that has happened only a few times over the years. Looking [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2009/12/15/i-guess-ive-been-too-busy-bad-sysadmin-me/</link>
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		<title>2009 holiday weigh-in</title>
		<description><![CDATA[First thing this morning I weighed in at 193.4. The last few years I lost weight from beginning to end, but then I also weighed more. We&#8217;ll see how it goes this year.
Now it&#8217;s time to eat!
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		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2009/11/26/2009-holiday-weigh-in/</link>
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		<title>Santa Cruz Turkey Trot 2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was undecided on whether I wanted to run in the turkey trot. The training program was for a 5k but the Sunday runs the last couple of weeks were an hour or longer. My pedometer was telling me I was doing close to a 10k, so when I woke up this morning feeling good [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2009/11/21/santa-cruz-turkey-trot-2009/</link>
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		<title>Exercise induced asthma &#8211; a new theory</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the course of taking the same running training program that I took last year when I got my DVT I think I&#8217;ve come to a new realization about exercise induced asthma*. Before I couldn&#8217;t find any pattern and the seemingly random nature could be frustrating. Will it happen this time? 
During the course Tom, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2009/11/17/exercise-induced-asthma-a-new-theory/</link>
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		<title>Tuesday Media Roundup #42</title>
		<description><![CDATA[New TV shows
Glee &#8211; Without a doubt the new show I&#8217;m most enjoying. Fun characters with good song and dance! It&#8217;s the only show where I would be disappointed if it were to be cancelled, and I see myself getting it on DVD.
Cougar Town &#8211; It&#8217;s like getting a Scrubs fix, not in content but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2009/11/10/tuesday-media-roundup-42/</link>
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		<title>Yay for nice people!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We received a refund check from our insurance company. I had it with me Sunday when we went downtown with the intent to deposit it, but instead it was forgotten. When I got home I realized I no longer had it and it must have fallen from a pocket.
Monday I called the insurance company to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2009/11/05/yay-for-nice-people/</link>
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		<title>Oddly quiet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today, in addition to being warm, is oddly quiet downtown. There is very little traffic, there are few people walking around, and I didn&#8217;t even hear any street musicians as I walked around running errands. Was Halloween night that taxing on everyone? 
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		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2009/11/02/oddly-quiet/</link>
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		<title>Storm prep 2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday was sent getting ready for the first big rain of the season. Boards that were still scattered about from the fence building were put away. Loose items secured for the wind. I took down the chimney from the wood-burning stove we no longer have. It&#8217;s always leaked so it&#8217;s good to have it down. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2009/10/12/storm-prep-2009/</link>
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		<title>Fixing Ataris</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This summer Henry was over and wanted to play the Atari 2600. I went to go turn it on and found there was no way for the video signal to get where it needed to go. I removed the VCR from the stack of equipment awhile ago since we don&#8217;t have any more tapes and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2009/10/12/fixing-ataris/</link>
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		<title>Near light</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The kitchen light transformer I got in exchange had the same problems as the first one, plenty of power on the AC side, but nothing on the DC side. So the next day I took the new transformer back to Riverside Lighting to ask them to test it since I didn&#8217;t think I would pick [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2009/09/18/near-light/</link>
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		<title>Props to Riverside Lighting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In July the transformer in the drop-light above the kitchen sink died after 4 years. I was told tat was about the life span for those for the 60 watt transformer for 12-volt lighting and Riverside sold me a 75 watt replacement. They said this one should last longer since I was just using a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2009/09/15/props-to-riverside-lighting/</link>
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		<title>Tuesday Media Roundup #41</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I watched the beginning of the 1956 version of War &#38; Peace but gave up on it because it was far too silly.
Saw part 1 of Black in America 2 on CNN. Now I wish I had seen the first one. 
The Hangover &#8211; Pretty funny and well done trace-your-steps movie. All of the characters [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2009/09/15/tuesday-media-roundup-41/</link>
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		<title>Can I make yogurt with common household equipment?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently saw that a friend got a second yogurt maker. I hadn&#8217;t heard of such a device and I envisioned something like a bread maker where you put in all the ingredients and some time later you have yogurt. After some research I found that yogurt making is a simple process. Heat milk to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2009/09/02/can-i-make-yogurt-with-common-household-equipment/</link>
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		<title>Tainted coke</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just learned that 3 people in the U.S. and Canada have died from cocaine laced with Levasole (levamisole hydrochloride). It&#8217;s a livestock deworming drug that is estimated to contaminate one third of the cocaine supply. Stay safe people! Only use organic, fair-trade cocaine.
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		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2009/09/01/tainted-coke/</link>
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		<title>Things I can do again</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Now that I&#8217;m not worried about internal bleeding I&#8217;ve done two things this week I&#8217;ve avoided since I started being on blood thinners. I rode my scooter, and I rode the Giant Dipper.
I was worried the scooter would be in bad shape after no riding for almost seven months, but the batteries don&#8217;t even seem [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2009/08/12/things-i-can-do-again/</link>
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		<title>Customer service</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m cleaning off my desk and I found a card from cdbaby from when I ordered a CD some time ago. It&#8217;s not part of their standard practice, cards don&#8217;t come with every order, but this card makes sure I will never forget them as an option when I&#8217;m looking for music.
I don&#8217;t remember the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2009/08/06/customer-service/</link>
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		<title>No more clot!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I had my second second opinion. To prepare I didn&#8217;t wear the compression stocking so he would see what my leg is like normally. Surprising to me, even though I could feel the difference in my leg not wearing the stocking, my leg didn&#8217;t look too abnormal compared to the good leg. Anyway, we [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2009/08/04/no-more-clot/</link>
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		<title>The first step towards new paths (and other things)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve been fighting with our decomposed granite paths almost since they were installed. They were installed with a glue sealant on them to help keep them in place so the dogs wouldn&#8217;t track the small particles in. The granite particles make a great abrasive on the wood floors, making them look old after a couple [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2009/07/27/the-first-step-towards-new-paths-and-other-things/</link>
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		<title>Again with the leg</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I saw a vascular specialist/vascular surgeon on Tuesday for a second opinion on what I should do now that my six months are up with the blood thinners. He said I should get of the blood thinners since the clot is gone and any blockage that remains is scar tissue. He also said I should [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2009/07/11/again-with-the-leg/</link>
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		<title>Impact of fiction vs non-fiction</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is probably obvious to most people but as I was making a list of 15 books with the most impact on me the other day and while I was making the list I noticed that most of the books I was listing were fiction. That seemed odd to me since most of the books [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2009/07/11/impact-of-fiction-vs-non-fiction/</link>
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		<title>My understanding of hockey</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Before this last past hockey season I never paid attention to hockey, but Nicole was a fan and we started going to some Sharks games. At first my watching was more from an aesthetic standpoint. The patterns traced out by the players skating around were interesting to watch but as far as following what was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2009/07/11/my-understanding-of-hockey/</link>
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		<title>The continuing adventures of ugly leg</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the good news, I&#8217;ve have the time between my allergy shots extended to 4 weeks. I&#8217;ve felt ready for it for a couple of months. Now I&#8217;m pretty much on the home stretch of allergy shots. Also the doctor reviewed my previous blood test and found that I don&#8217;t have to have any more [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2009/07/01/the-continuing-adventures-of-ugly-leg/</link>
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		<title>Tuesday Media Roundup #40</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Rounding out the first half of the year&#8230;
The Girlfriend Experience &#8211; Looking back on it I can see some of the points it was trying to make and, but while I was watching it I really didn&#8217;t care. It was all kind of an uninvolved jumbled mess.
Casino Royale &#8211; Lots of fun action sequences here. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2009/06/30/tuesday-media-roundup-40/</link>
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		<title>Catching up on reading</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Usually I tend to read non-fiction. This year has been mostly about catching up on the fiction so here&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve had going on since September.
Other
The Family That Couldnâ€™t Sleep: A Medical Mystery &#8211; Based against the background of one family with a very rare prion disease the book goes over the history of prion [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2009/06/11/catching-up-on-reading-2/</link>
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		<title>Tuesday Media Roundup #39</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When free preview weekends for movie channels come around I record pretty much everything I haven&#8217;t seen and then I try to watch them all before the next free-preview weekend comes around. Because of this habit I sometimes watch movies I normally wouldn&#8217;t bother with just because it&#8217;s there.
I should try to do these once [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2009/06/09/tuesday-media-roundup-39/</link>
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		<title>What I&#8217;ve learned about extremely short hair</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It takes less than a second to dry.
You can drive with all the windows open and now worry about messing it up or it getting tangled.
The texture changes every day (so far).
You can feel the slightest temperature change on your scalp and it&#8217;s very directional.
There is still a feeling sometimes that it&#8217;s messed up and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2009/04/08/what-ive-learned-about-extremely-short-hair/</link>
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		<title>State of the Doug</title>
		<description><![CDATA[State of the Doug

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		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2009/04/01/state-of-the-doug/</link>
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		<title>Tuesday Media Roundup #38</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The last one before I&#8217;m another year older.
Saving Silverman &#8211; It could have been funny but mostly something is off and the jokes don&#8217;t work. If it wasn&#8217;t for the nipple fire scene and Neil Diamond at the end it would be a total loss.
Calendar Girls &#8211; This was nice in that it wasn&#8217;t the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2009/03/31/tuesday-media-roundup-38/</link>
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		<title>I found my ties!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A month and a half ago I had an occasion that ideally I would wear a tie to. No problem, get all dressed up and go for a tie. I couldn&#8217;t find one. Not in suit jackets. Not in drawers. Not in closets. All my ties had vanished and there was no time left to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2009/03/28/i-found-my-ties/</link>
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		<title>Nano technology in song</title>
		<description><![CDATA[http://community.acs.org/nanotation/NanoTubePlayer/tabid/131/VideoId/106/The-Nano-Song.aspx
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		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2009/03/17/nano-technology-in-song/</link>
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		<title>Santa Cruz on inauguration morning</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was goign to go to work and watch the inauguration from there but I was getting a late start so Nicole decided we should watch from home. About half way through Obama&#8217;s speech Nicole pointed out that there was no traffic noise and indeed she was correct. When the speech ended Nicole took me [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2009/01/21/santa-cruz-on-inauguration-morning/</link>
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		<title>Pink Rice Krispee Treats</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I won a few glass x-mas trees full of pink star and green tree marshmallows at the company holiday party. Yesterday I made rice krispee treats out of them so I wouldn&#8217;t just throw them all away. I thought the green ones would scare too many people so I chose the pink stars. I figured [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2009/01/21/pink-rice-krispee-treats/</link>
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		<title>Back to normal, but less bumpy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I started at the anti-coagulation clinic yesterday so I&#8217;m not going to have to get a blood draw every few days to check my clotting levels, not I can have a finger-prick test and a little device tells me in 30 seconds. No more waiting at the blood draw center! Also with that I have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2009/01/10/back-to-normal-but-less-bumpy/</link>
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		<title>Happy 2009!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My 2008 didn&#8217;t end very well health wise which didn&#8217;t do wonders for my spirits. I enjoyed my visits with everyone and wished I could visit more but stuck I am on a couch most of the time now. A few days ago I was feeling pretty down and it wasn&#8217;t that physically I wasn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2009/01/01/happy-2009/</link>
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		<title>Tuesday Media Roundup #37</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve fallen behind and I have more movie watching time right now&#8230;
This Film is Not Yet Rated &#8211; A documentary about the MPAA rating system. I knew a good bit about it from following movies over the years but still there were a lot of new information and a lot of it was surprising. I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2008/12/31/tuesday-media-roundup-37/</link>
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		<title>Cancel that calf strain and make it a deep vein thrombosis</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My calf hasn&#8217;t hurt for a little over a week and the swelling has been steading going down, so when I woke up on the 25th to more swelling than ever I thought it would be wise to see a doctor. After all the morning Christmas stuff I mentioned that I would like to go [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2008/12/30/cancel-that-calf-strain-and-make-it-a-deep-vein-thrombosis/</link>
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		<title>Update of the idle leg</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Julie lent me her foam wedge from when she shattered her ankle which has been the perfect tool for keeping my leg elevated. I&#8217;ve spent most of my days since then on the couch with my leg elevated, reading and watching movies and checking to make sure I haven&#8217;t thrown the clot.
In the mean time [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2008/12/30/update-of-the-idle-leg/</link>
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		<title>No Boundaries</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In September Nicole signed us up for No Boundaries, a running training program through Fleet Feet stores and New Balance. The goal at the end of the training was the 5K Turkey Trot. They set up a whole workout routine and twice a week there were runs with a coach. Previously when I&#8217;ve done running [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2008/12/17/no-boundaries/</link>
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		<title>Good company Christmas party!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This past Saturday was Fullpower&#8217;s Christmas party and it is my favorite of the ones I have been to since I started working at Borland. Borland&#8217;s had good food, so-so music, and lots of people I know. Oracle&#8217;s, Agile&#8217;s, and Verisign&#8217;s I skipped because we didn&#8217;t work at the main campus so I didn&#8217;t know [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2008/12/11/good-company-christmas-party/</link>
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		<title>The vote</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It was more crowded at our local polling place than I have ever seen it. There were more voting booths, more workers, and more people to fill them up. Â There was some chaos as I don&#8217;t think all of the poll workers were trained very well, but for the most part it went smoothly.
Now comes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2008/11/04/the-vote/</link>
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		<title>Upgrading a stuck iPod</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My iPod Touch was stuck at version 2.0. Telling it to check for updates would tell me that 2.0 was the latest version and that I was there. Trying to &#8220;Restore&#8221; it to the initial settings and force the upgrade that way resulted in a message &#8220;There was a problem downloading the iPod software for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2008/09/20/upgrading-a-stuck-ipod/</link>
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		<title>Fixed one thing broke another</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago the microwave door wouldn&#8217;t latch shut anymore. Since the hooks in the door were intact and seemed to be moving okay I figured it was the latching mechanism. So I took it apart and took out the latching mechanism but nothing seemed to be wrong. Still, I called around to appliance [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2008/09/17/fixed-one-thing-broke-another/</link>
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		<title>Tuesday Media Roundup #36</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Weeds season 4 finale &#8211; This is the first Weeds finale that didn&#8217;t leave it with the assumption that it might not get renewed fort another season while still ending on quite a cliffhanger. I don&#8217;t know how much longer the show can keep going but at this point I&#8217;ll keep enjoying it as long [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2008/09/16/tuesday-media-roundup-36/</link>
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		<title>Tipping the swing states</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was just noticing that several of the close states, according to electoral-vote.com, have very short legal residency requirements for being elligible to vote. Colorado, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, and Washington all require 30 days to be allowed to vote. Arizona can be thrown in too since it&#8217;s fairly close and only requires 29 days.
I&#8217;m not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2008/09/11/balancing-out-the-swing-states/</link>
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		<title>Another Palin theory</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From everything I&#8217;ve read about her she would fit in perfectly with the Bush administration so I think the party insiders forced Palin on McCain. That way when McCain dies in office she&#8217;s in charge and the party insiders get their control back.
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		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2008/09/03/another-palin-theory/</link>
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		<title>Catching up on books &#8211; Star Wars</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Star Wars: Alliance by Timothy Zahn &#8211; Timothy Zahn, as usual, serves up an exciting Star Wars novel with pacing similar to the original trilogy. It&#8217;s also rare to get a novel set in the original trilogy era so that&#8217;s another bonus.
Star Wars &#8211; Darth Bane: Path of Destruction by Drew Karpyshyn &#8211; This is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2008/09/02/catching-up-on-books-star-wars/</link>
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		<title>Catching up on books &#8211; Jewish books</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Why the Jews? &#8211; The Reason for Antisemitism by Dennis Prager and Joseph Telushkin &#8211; I&#8217;d been asked &#8220;Why the Jews?&#8221; a number of times over the years and I would answer something like: &#8220;Because they saw the Jews as controlling the banks,&#8221; or pulling the strings or doing something else to make things miserable [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2008/09/02/catching-up-on-books-jewish-books/</link>
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		<title>Catching up on books &#8211; Politics and History</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Political Numeracy by Michael Meyerson is an attempt to show the mathmatical underpinnings in the Constitution. A few of the examples hold true but most of them end up being things like illustrations of mathmatical principles in court decisions or other laws. That can still be interesting and most of the time it is, but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2008/09/02/catching-up-on-books-politics-and-history/</link>
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		<title>Snacks to avoid</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Bubble Yum gum &#8211; Hershey&#8217;s Chocolate flavor. So now I know Hershey&#8217;s owns Bubble Yum, but if there&#8217;s some artificial chocolate flavored item from Hershey&#8217;s I expect to taste somewhat similar to Hershey&#8217;s Chocolate Syrup. Instead it&#8217;s more like Tootsie Roll gum which you can hardly call chocolate flavor to begin with.
m&#038;m&#8217;s Premiums &#8211; These [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2008/09/02/snacks-to-avoid/</link>
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		<title>Tuesday Media Roundup #35</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mythbusters Moonlanding Myths &#8211; It&#8217;s been quite awhile since I thought they were testing real myths but in this case they come though in the testing of what consipracy theorists consider the biggest evidence that the moon landings were faked.
Tropic Thunder &#8211; The funniest movie I&#8217;ve seen in awhile and the best Ben Stiller movie [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2008/09/02/tuesday-media-roundup-35/</link>
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		<title>American Olympics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve learned or re-learned what events I like and dislike. For the most part I don&#8217;t really care about team sports. They aer great at their sport but that&#8217;s the kind of thing I get to see all the time. I like watching one-on-one or events with individual achievements. I did like seeing the American [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2008/08/25/american-olympics/</link>
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		<title>Tuesday Media Roundup #34</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been almost three months since the last update and I have 15 movies and one tv documentary here so it looks like I average just over one movie a week.
The Extreme Adventures of Super Dave &#8211; Â I loved the Super Dave shorts when I was a kid so when this came on I had [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2008/08/19/tuesday-media-roundup-34/</link>
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		<title>Recent food</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Buffalo burgers
We tried buffalo burgers recently and I was surprised at the difference between it and beef. The texture in handling it feels sort of clean and loose but it all holds together well. In cooking it seemed to want to brown faster than beef and in spite of it having less fat there is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2008/08/18/recent-food/</link>
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		<title>Reclaiming outside</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We finally had part of our fence replaced in the front. It was leaning at abou a 30 degree angle ever since the winds hit last year and we think it was mostly being help up by the passion flower vines on top. Our neighbor decided it was time before we did and called the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2008/06/14/reclaiming-outside/</link>
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		<title>Tuesday Media Roundup #33</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I found a number of &#8220;B&#8221;movies on DirecTV recently in addition to sme good stuff so I have more than I normally do. Nice thing about the &#8220;B&#8221; movies is they rarely exceed 90 minutes.
The Neanderthal Man &#8211; I had seen this before. A scientist believes that the larger brain case in neanderthals would have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2008/05/27/tuesday-media-roundup-33/</link>
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		<title>weeds and artichokes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Finally a weekend without many planned activities let me catch up on the far overdue weeding. First I got the new weeds in the backyard that grew from the last attempt. Then I moved on to the front yard and managed to get everything but the weeds between the flagstones and the weeds along the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2008/05/19/weeds-and-artichokes/</link>
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		<title>Longshot bug id request</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Â I don&#8217;t have a picture because there are only camera phones in the office and none of them can get close enough to resolve the image. I would draw a picture but my poor drawing skills are more likely to mislead.
It&#8217;s a bright red bug (6-legs), about 2.5-3mm long and probably about 1mm wide. The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2008/05/16/longshot-bug-id-request/</link>
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		<title>Tuesday Media Roundup #32</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A Knight&#8217;s Tale &#8211; With the passing of Heath Ledger I learned that I had not actually seen any of his movies. I probably wasn&#8217;t going to be seeing any until The Dark Knight later this summer until I saw a movie channel was playing A Knight&#8217;s Tale. Aside from names it doesn&#8217;t have much [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2008/05/13/tuesday-media-roundup-32/</link>
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		<title>more from the weekend</title>
		<description><![CDATA[1) As I watched them set up the difference engine I pictured a more practiced person setting it up in maybe half the time. Operators being a skilled profession in a world where the machines were completed and used in Babbage&#8217;s time. Cities would have computational centers that people send their work to.
2) The half-time [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2008/05/12/more-from-the-weekend/</link>
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		<title>A weekend of entertainment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Saturday we went to the Computer History Museum to see the opening of Babbage&#8217;s Difference Engine exhibit. It&#8217;s the second one that&#8217;s been built and it&#8217;s impressive in person. After wandering through the rest of the museum we arrived at the difference engine in time to see them setting it up for calculation of an [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2008/05/12/a-weekend-of-entertainment/</link>
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		<title>more electrical strangeness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I didn&#8217;t think about the connection before, but Monday morning when I came in to work the power strip in my cube was dead and one of the bricks plugged into it didn&#8217;t survive either. I&#8217;m thinking whatever was the fix took out my power strip in the process.
Unrelated to that but still odd is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2008/05/08/more-electrical-strangeness/</link>
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		<title>Maker Faire</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We went on Sunday and after finding parking and then waiting in line for tickets finally made it to the the stuff. The main hall had the stuff from previous issues of Make and Craft magazines. Having kits for sale for the more popular items was a good idea. The stage was little crowded so [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2008/05/07/maker-faire/</link>
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		<title>electrically balanced</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The bathrooms where I work are shared among a several offices. The 30-foot journey to relief brings with it a large charge differential so that when you touch the bathroom door handle you get a large shock. Going out the rear entrance has similar issues. Strangely, the reverse trips don&#8217;t have the same issue. Over [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2008/05/07/electrically-balanced/</link>
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		<title>Tuesday Media Roundup #31</title>
		<description><![CDATA[27 Dresses &#8211; A fun comedy. I hope Katherine Heigl makes continues with the transition from tv to the movies. She was great to watch and her reactions felt very real even as the situations weren&#8217;t very likely.
1408 &#8211; I wasn&#8217;t expecting much from this and I got a good bit more. John Cusack is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2008/05/06/tuesday-media-roundup-31/</link>
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		<title>Tuesday Media Roundup #30</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Forbidden Kingdom &#8211; Jet Li &#38; Jackie Chan, fun story, cool fu! If you haven&#8217;t seen this yet, what&#8217;s your problem?
DCI 2008 Countdown &#8211; Since I&#8217;m a band geek I tend to go for these drum &#38; bugle corps shows. This was a theater event showing the best shows of recent years and some [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2008/04/29/tuesday-media-roundup-30/</link>
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		<title>Santa Cruz Roller Girls vs Redding Angry Beavers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This past Saturday was the second match for the Santa Cruz Roller Girls and it was clear that they practiced a lot on their weak spots after the first match. For the first half Candie Hooligan and Heather Headlocklear were the jammers most of the time which makes sense since they ended up being the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2008/04/15/santa-cruz-roller-girls-vs-redding-angry-beavers/</link>
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		<title>A different primary</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday a different contest popped into my head, one between Brocolli Obama and Celery Clinton. I was surprised to find no reference to it on the internets.
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		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2008/04/08/a-different-primary/</link>
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		<title>Dutch-processed cocoa update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I tried Trader Joe&#8217;s but they had nothing but drinking chocolate. Then I remembered Staff of Life and decided to try there so we went there this morning. On the bottom shelf of the baking section are cans of cocoa. Those are sweetened or natural cocoa. Looking over to the right one shelf (still on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2008/04/04/dutch-processed-cocoa-update/</link>
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		<title>Natual cocoa vs Dutch-process cocoa</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I lose. So there was this really great looking cake that I was hoping I could have for my birthday. Â We went to the store (New Leaf) and picked up all the ingredients we were missing except there was no dutch-process cocoa. No problem, we can get it at another store later. Savemart didn&#8217;t have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2008/04/02/natual-cocoa-vs-dutch-process-cocoa/</link>
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		<title>Tuesday Media Roundup #29</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Babel &#8211; One of those movies where you have several different stories that are all connected. In this case it&#8217;s has a global scale of connection. Not like with a global phenomenon or event, but that the people involved reach around the world. If it was just that it would just be an average movie, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2008/04/01/tuesday-media-roundup-29/</link>
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		<title>Tuesday Media Roundup #28</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Spiderwick Chronicles &#8211; I didn&#8217;t read the book so I have nothing to compare it against. The characters were entertaining, but on the whole I liked them before they encountered the computer generated characters. I liked that the same actor played both twins, that doesn&#8217;t happen often.
The Other Boleyn Girl &#8211; This movie is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2008/03/25/tuesday-media-roundup-28/</link>
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		<title>Ten Years Thinner</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nicole and I decided to try the Ten Years Thinner program by Christine Lydon, M.D. to get us back on track eating and exercising better. Both the diet and exercise are backed up by nutritional and exercise research that pulls it all together into an follow to get manner. The diet is basically a whole [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2008/03/24/ten-years-thinner/</link>
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		<title>grrrr.. gopher season</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With the ends of the rain and the sprouting of plants has also come the return of the gopher. It doesn&#8217;t really eat any of the plants we have in the yard, it just makes a mess as it takes dirt from one place and pushes it to the surface elsewhere. Nice path.. with large [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2008/03/23/grrrr-gopher-season/</link>
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		<title>Roller Derby</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last night we went to see the Santa Cruz Roller Girls in their pre-season opener against the Silicon Valley Roller Girls at the Santa Cruz Civic. The Civic was sold out and the crowd was amped up! By the end of the night my ears were ringing some but that&#8217;s all gone today. It was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2008/03/16/roller-derby/</link>
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		<title>Messed up</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The haircut we gave to Grover: We have our dogs shaved fairly regularly because they get too hot in the summer otherwise, they bring in WAY too much dirt, and it cuts way down on the dog hair. Why not get some clippers and try it ourselves? How hard can it be? I think the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2008/03/10/messed-up/</link>
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		<title>The Presidents edited by Michael Beschloss</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just finished reading this collection of small presidential biographies and seeing the changes over time in this was is very interesting. The styles of campaigning changing from you announcing your candidacy and the party campaigning for the candidate compared to today where the candidate has a lot of work cut out for them. The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2008/03/06/the-presidents-edited-by-michael-beschloss/</link>
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		<title>My favorite use for an iPod Touch (so far)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So far with the iPod Touch I&#8217;ve checked the weather, stocks, browsed the web, played music, watched video (found a nice recipe to use Nero for that). However the most entertainment I&#8217;ve had with it so far is to watch the names of WiFi hotspots that come into and go out of range while someone [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2008/03/05/my-favorite-use-for-an-ipod-touch-so-far/</link>
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		<title>Stopping graffiti</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For awhile now as I ride to and from work I get to look at the increase in graffiti around here. It&#8217;s ugly and it&#8217;s pretty much impossible to stop because catching someone in the act is very very unlikely. So I started brainstorming ideas on how to stop graffiti.

More graffiti! I know that sounds [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2008/03/01/stopping-graffiti/</link>
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		<title>First day back</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After one day back at work I can safely say I&#8217;m glad to be there! It&#8217;s rare that I feel this comfortable in a job after a day.
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		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2008/02/19/first-day-back-2/</link>
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		<title>Tuesday Media Roundup #27</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Romantic Comedy &#8211; It&#8217;s not often funny but it can be amusing and it felt more like the kind of characters and story I would see in a 30s movie, but done in the 80s. With the right director I think this could have been really good.
Rambo &#8211; Unlike some of the Rambo movies, this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2008/02/19/tuesday-media-roundup-27/</link>
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		<title>The debates</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Republican:
Anderson Cooper kept things rolling for the most part and for the first half it was all very polite between the candidates. McCain and Romney were givent he most time to talk and Ron Paul was cut off several times after one sentence. Â After awhile Huckabee reminded the moderator and questioners that the other end [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2008/02/01/the-debates/</link>
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		<title>Last day at work</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This morning I planned to bake some things for work as a parting gift to my co-workers. I decided on this &#8220;Death by Chocolate&#8221; recipe (it&#8217;s not really deadly, but it is very good) and what some people call Sugar-Crack cookies (I should write that recipe up). I surveyed the ingredients, went to the store [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2008/02/01/last-day-at-work/</link>
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		<title>Sorry about 7thsign being down</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t knoww hat happened, when I left it was find and when I had a chance to check at work it wasn&#8217;t, but at the time I thought that my computer had just been excluded fromt eh network since it was my last day. That wasn&#8217;t the case though and I just needed to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2008/02/01/sorry-about-7thsign-being-down/</link>
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		<title>Tuesday night&#8217;s shooting&#8230; no really</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday afternoon I was talking to Nicole on the phone and suddenly she interrupted what she was saying with &#8220;Oh shit! I just heard gunshots!&#8221; About 15 minutes later she called back to report that there was a shooting in the street in front of our house and that the guy that was shot was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2008/01/31/tuesday-nights-shooting-no-really/</link>
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		<title>More uses for dollar coins</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, it&#8217;s still as money so anywhere money changes hands should be ok, but outside of post office vending machines you don&#8217;t find it so much. Yesterday I decided to try it in the vending machines at work. The snack machine just dropped it through, but the Coke machine happily reported it was a dollar. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2008/01/26/more-uses-for-dollar-coins/</link>
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		<title>New job time</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m leaving VeriSign (last day is next Friday, Feb 1), and while I&#8217;m sad I&#8217;ll be leaving my co-workers, I am excited to be moving on to a new job at Full Power (starting Monday, Feb 18). That gives me two weeks off before I start. It&#8217;s still local and in fact my commute will [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2008/01/26/new-job-time/</link>
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		<title>Tuesday Media Roundup #26</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Rocky III &#8211; Still working my way through the Rocky movies again. Mr. T starts out pretty menacing but halfway through he turns into a charicature of himself. The central story of a man overcoming loss ofÂ  confidence brought about by learning his accomplishments were a lie works though. Not as good as the first [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2008/01/22/tuesday-media-roundup-26/</link>
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		<title>Finally, one more year</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It seems like an eternity in coming but there&#8217;s only one more year to the Bush administration!
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		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2008/01/20/finally-one-more-year/</link>
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		<title>Dream from last night</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nicole ended up talking to Kevin Smith and somehow ended up communicating that we were frustrated that we couldn&#8217;t talk directly to the presidential candidates. So he lent us his RV so we could drive around to the various campaign events, and having Kevin Smith&#8217;s RV would indicate to those in charge that we were [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2008/01/18/dream-from-last-night/</link>
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		<title>Battery goodness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My old scooter (the one that I was clobbered by the door while riding) had it&#8217;s batteries fade to unusable. The new scooter that was the replacement had a motor problem that took a year to get a new one and I didn&#8217;t think about the batteries going bad but they did. Today I finally [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2008/01/12/battery-goodness/</link>
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		<title>Why I&#8217;m not in marketing&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nicole was telling me about a product called Scargo which is a combination of oils to help scar tissue. My first thought was that the logo should be a snail, followed by the thought that it should come in a snail dispenser that you rub over your skin leaving a trail of the stuff for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2008/01/12/why-im-not-in-marketing/</link>
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		<title>Some campaign thoughts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On the Democrat side, Clinton , as the front runner, controlled the discourse. &#8216;Most electable&#8217; and &#8216;not George Bush&#8217; seemed to be the biggest messages, at least the ones that I received. I think the Clinton campaign must have been coasting after being ahead for so long (one of the dangers of everyone starting so [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2008/01/12/some-campaign-thoughts/</link>
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		<title>Tuesday Media Roundup #25</title>
		<description><![CDATA[National Treasure: Book of Secrets &#8211; Like the first National Treasure movie, this one was a lot of fun though less realistic. Also you have to have seen the first one to appreciate the characters.
RoboCop &#8211; I re-watched this in HD recently. It&#8217;s nice to not have every movie with machines be man vs machine. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2008/01/08/tuesday-media-roundup-25/</link>
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		<title>A candidate I would have liked to have in the race</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Were she not in stage 4 of her cancer I would have liked to have Elizabeth Edwards in the presidential race. I like what she says in her speeches, she&#8217;s a little more liberal, and she seems like a strong and forthright person.
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		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2008/01/07/a-candidate-i-would-have-liked-to-have-in-the-race/</link>
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		<title>New Hampshire Debate</title>
		<description><![CDATA[First I have to say that I like having both the Democrat and Republican debates back to back. I also liked there being distinct discussion and direct question sections. All that said, watching four hours of debates is pretty tiring.
Republicans:
I Â haven&#8217;t really kept up to date with the Repuiblican candidates except blurbs I hear in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2008/01/06/new-hampshire-debate/</link>
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		<title>Storm mess</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday morning there was about 5 minutes of wondering what was going to happen next. Nicole looked out to find her snowman (cloth) laying face-down in some water. She rescued it and pulled it inside to dry. I sat down to put on my shoes and there was a crash outside. Nicole looked and saw [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2008/01/05/storm-mess/</link>
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		<title>Grover is cancer free!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Grover had his final cancer check up this morning and is now declared to be free of cancer! We didn&#8217;t really expect anything to suddenly to pop up at this point but it&#8217;s still nice to have the official word. Now we just need to get the weight off of him and Sage.
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		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2008/01/02/grover-is-cancer-free/</link>
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		<title>Tuesday Media Roundup #24</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Movies:
Protocols of Zion &#8211; A documentary about &#8220;The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion&#8221; and a look at who believes it to be true. Well mostly about who believes it to be true. If you know about the protocols then it&#8217;s mostly seeing how far and wide they have been taken up by people [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2008/01/01/tuesday-media-roundup-24/</link>
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		<title>Yay, new year!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It was a mellow stay at home NYE watching movies and comforting the dogs as the explosions sounded. Unlike previous years where there are a few fireworks, this year there were a lot of explosions. Deeper and louded booms than you normally get on the 4th of July. The dogs weren&#8217;t freaking out but they [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2008/01/01/yay-new-year/</link>
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		<title>Woodstock&#8217;s Pizza</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I was walking by the almost completed Woodstock&#8217;s Pizza I saw they had a sign with their URL on it. I visited and signed up and in return they sent me an evite to try them out last night (they open today) so Nicole and I went.
When we walked in they handed us each [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2007/12/14/woodstocks-pizza/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m switching my preferred transliteration  from Channukah to Chanukah.
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		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2007/12/11/567/</link>
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		<title>fitness and anti-fitness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lately when walking the dogs I&#8217;ve been doing off and on running. The dogs think it&#8217;s great since walking is never fast enough. There&#8217;s a 0.4 mile straight stretch that I&#8217;ve been able to run the whole way and this morning I decided to time it to confirm that the dogs were going at around [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2007/12/05/fitness-and-anti-fitness/</link>
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		<title>Tuesday Media Roundup #23</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some Girls &#8211; An older meet the crazy family kind of movie with. The characters don&#8217;t always seem to make sense but it doesn&#8217;t matter because something funny will come along to distract from that.
Man of the Century &#8211; A black and white semi-period piece. For awhile it seemed like it was going wear out [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2007/11/06/tuesday-media-roundup-23/</link>
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		<title>One day winter transition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It took only one day to start feeling like autumn/winter. One day after the time change and the fog came and it was overcast all day and it got dark early to go with it. Finally!
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		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2007/11/05/one-day-winter-transition/</link>
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		<title>Results of the heat</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, first the rain and then the heat, a few thousand weeds and grasses decided to start up. The weeds I can pull but I can&#8217;t go pulling individual blades of grass and single-leaf clover.
A gopher has Â moved into the yard. I think it&#8217;s feeding on the new bounty of weeds since the previous gophers [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2007/11/05/results-of-the-heat/</link>
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		<title>Weird Al (two weeks later)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On October 12 we saw Weird Al at the Golden State Theater in Monterey. Now that he&#8217;s become somewhat popular he plays bigger venues and they also tend to be seated which allows for better control of the stage production but it&#8217;s not quite as fun as being in a free-form audience.
Highlights for me:

Al looked [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2007/10/28/weird-al-two-weeks-later/</link>
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		<title>George Carlin</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We got a chance to see George Carlin on Sunday and it made for the perfect end to the weekend. Previous times I had seen him albums had been recently released, but this show was leading up to an upcoming HBO special so the material was all new. Enough so that he had his notes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2007/10/09/george-carlin/</link>
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		<title>Top Chef finale</title>
		<description><![CDATA[That was a great finale and I made something that won me a steeping teacup!
(spoilers at the end)
IÂ madeÂ aÂ Â dessert appetizer composed of graham cracker, semi-sweet chocolate, and boysenberry butter. It ended up being a lot less sweet than I thought it would be which was a good thing since I was worried about it being too [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2007/10/05/top-chef-finale/</link>
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		<title>Pound cake update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sampling the cake again today, the cake flavor isn&#8217;t so bland now so I guess if you make this cake you should make it the day before you intend to serve it.
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		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2007/10/01/pound-cake-update/</link>
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		<title>Brown Sugar Pound Cake &#8211; round 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s amazing how things turn out when you use the right amount of sugar. I even used standard baking instead of convection just to be sure I didn&#8217;t change any variables. Ok, instead of greasing and flouring the pan I greased and used powdered sugar. When I went to make the caramel glaze I found [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2007/09/30/brown-sugar-pound-cake-round-2/</link>
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		<title>I&#8217;m bad at 3-day weekends</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently I needed to reduce my vacation time and with the current project load not wanting me to take a block of time off I decided to take off a number of Fridays in a row. Either I have a problem with 3-day weekends that begin on a Friday, or I need more mental notice [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2007/09/30/im-bad-at-3-day-weekends/</link>
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		<title>They Might Be Giants</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Oppenheimer opened and had a lot of fun songs, and really how can you go wrong when you have a song with an air-horn solo.
TheyÂ MightÂ BeÂ GiantsÂ wereÂ tight,Â movingÂ fromÂ oneÂ songÂ toÂ anotherÂ with few breaks in between. There were a few mistakes which probably wouldn&#8217;t have been noticed had they not apologized for them.Â It&#8217;sÂ stillÂ theÂ beginningÂ ofÂ theirÂ tourÂ soÂ IÂ guessÂ they&#8217;reÂ stillÂ workingÂ outÂ theÂ kinks. One thing is for sure and that is they [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2007/09/30/they-might-be-giants/</link>
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		<title>Oops to the cake</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Â The plan was to wake up this morning and make a cake for Top Chef viewers tonight. ITwo weeks ago I saw a recipe I really wanted to try and everything was set to go.Â  I mixed it all up and put it in the oven with a timer set to check 25% short of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2007/09/26/oops-to-the-cake/</link>
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		<title>Shoot &#8216;Em Up</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Â Shoot &#8216;Em Up &#8211; Lots of guns, rediculous gun usage, not even trying on the physics. I was laughing pretty much from beginning to end. The trailer focuses on action and doesn&#8217;t show the humor. I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;ll be in theaters much longer, but maybe it&#8217;ll be on DVD by the end of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2007/09/18/shoot-em-up/</link>
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		<title>Sandworms of Dune musings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Finally I&#8217;ve read the end of the Dune series, and unlike &#8220;Hunters of Dune&#8221;, I thought it was pretty good! The feel of it, the characters, the story, all feel like Frank Herbert and so IÂ feel pretty comfortable in saying that this is the bulk of where his final outline and notes ended up. Hunters [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2007/09/15/sandworms-of-dune-musings/</link>
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		<title>Tuesday Media Roundup #22</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Superbad &#8211; It started off fairly slow but after the first 15 minutes I thought it was pretty funny and it just got funnier as it went on. I also liked the unusual response to alcohol consumption.
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre &#8211; This movie is all over the place. At times it&#8217;s fantastic, at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2007/09/04/tuesday-media-roundup-22/</link>
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		<title>No Aurigids</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I went to sleep at 1AM and the sky was perfectly clear so I set my alarm for the appropriate Aurigids time and when I woke up there was endless fog. Stupid weather!
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		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2007/09/01/no-aurigids/</link>
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		<title>Dog assisted eclipse</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I wanted to see the eclipse last night but I didn&#8217;t want to set an alarm, which would wake up Nicole. So I told the dogs to wake me up between 3 and 4. Grover woke me up at 3:36AM! It was hard to find the moon at first since it was fairly dim out [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2007/08/28/dog-assisted-eclipse/</link>
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		<title>Family Reunion 2007</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The past weekend was great! Nicole came back from the UK Thursday night and the Friday day we drove to LA for a family reunion on my dad&#8217;s side. Nicole held up amazingly well despite the jet lag. Our family met at the Laguna Sawdust Art Festival and wandered before going to the main Laguna [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2007/08/21/family-reunion-2007/</link>
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		<title>Tuesday Media Roundup #21</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Illusionist &#8211; I loved the uncertainty it generated throughout the movie about what was real and what was illusion. Plus you generally can&#8217;t go wrong with Edward Norton and Paul Giamatti and I think it&#8217;s the first movie Jessica Biel is good.
Happy Gilmore &#8211; It&#8217;s been awhile since I&#8217;ve seen it but it&#8217;s still [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2007/08/14/tuesday-media-roundup-21/</link>
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		<title>The wasp is back</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This morning after I walked the dogs but before I went to work I saw the wasp again. It was trapped between the window and the screen actively looking for a way out and that&#8217;s where it&#8217;s going to stay for now. When I went home at lunch to let the dogs out it was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2007/08/14/the-wasp-is-back/</link>
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		<title>Where&#8217;s the body?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday morning I was in the kitchen when I saw something flying with the corner of my eye. I turned to look and saw a black wasp making a course straight for my head. Recalling recent tales of swollen ears from wasp-in-hair action I dodged and ran out of the kitchen. It went back up [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2007/08/12/wheres-the-body/</link>
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		<title>Things work again!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When Nicole left I figured I would spend a day or two replacing the 7thsign hard drive using Nicole&#8217;s computer as the host for the two laptop drives. Her machine was too unstable for that so instead of upgrading her machine to be more efficient and quiet after the drive swap, I had to do [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2007/08/11/things-work-again/</link>
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		<title>Today I used a semi-colon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[During the past few months, when writing, I&#8217;ve had an urge to use a semi-colon. I resist and tell myself that it really doesn&#8217;t know what it wants and restructure things so that no semi-colon is possible. I don&#8217;t know where the urge comes from. I&#8217;ve read the rules on when they should be used [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2007/07/25/today-i-used-a-semi-colon/</link>
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		<title>Slow on the uptake</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At least with regards to keeping current on technology. Before my computer died forcing me to upgrade now, I was planning on an upgrade next year which would have been a 7-year life-span. A few months ago I replaced my video card from 1998, which still worked well, so I could have two monitors. My [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2007/07/22/slow-on-the-uptake/</link>
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		<title>I have a working computer again!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was out for a week and a half and I feel like a feel red-neck with the old motherboard and power supply sitting out in the front yard, but I&#8217;m back! The hard drive getting corrupted wasn&#8217;t the problem, just a symptom of a failing motherboard. I pulled off the power connector from the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2007/07/16/i-have-a-working-computer-again/</link>
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		<title>Tuesday Media Roundup #20</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The final Price is Right with Bob Barker &#8211; I hadn&#8217;t watched the show in years and I mostly watched it as a kid. It was fun seeing this. The excitement of everyone on the show was awesome and a number of cars were won. The value of the final showcase was about $90,000!
Pirates of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2007/07/10/tuesday-media-roundup-20/</link>
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		<title>My computer works again!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thursday night I was playing chess with Peter when I heard a clunk-clunk from the hard drive. Then my computer was frozen. I copied down the state of the chess board and tried rebooting which the computer informed me was impossible becasuee it was an unmountable drive. 
I tried booting into the Window recovery console, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2007/07/09/my-computer-works-again/</link>
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		<title>I guess I could be an airline pilot&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From Overheard in New York:
Pilot: Why, hello, everyone! This is your captain, Bud Howard, and your copilot, Harvey the Rabbit. The FCC or FCA&#8230; Some fancy organization told me to tell you that I have to show you a very low-budget and entertaining movie on how to act on a United flight. Basically, if you&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2007/06/20/i-guess-i-could-be-an-airline-pilot/</link>
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		<title>Why I&#8217;m not an airline pilot&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Thank you for flying ______ Airlines. I hope you enjoyed the in-flight movie, I know I sure did!&#8221;
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		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2007/06/15/why-im-not-an-airline-pilot/</link>
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		<title>A river flows from my head</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tuesday I was feeling the allergies strongly and took my last Allegra.
Wednesday I had my allergy shots for an increased allergy load and I didn&#8217;t make it to the pharmacy to get a prescription refill. My head filled up.
Thursday I got more Allegra in the morening and I had some draining throughout the day. Sudafed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2007/06/15/a-river-flows-from-my-head/</link>
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		<title>Why I don&#8217;t design cruise ships&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
See that windowed deck/bar that goes across the front and hangs over the sides some? I&#8217;d put a moving red light in there to make it an ocean cylon or an ocean Knight Rider. 
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		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2007/06/08/why-i-dont-design-cruise-ships/</link>
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		<title>Thoughts of the day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From when I was in the Chicago O&#8217;Hare airport security line when everyone was taking off their shoes:
Do foot fetishists have to work at keeping their cool going through airport security? 
From when I was brushing my teeth last night:
If we develop intelligent machines, are we going to ban and destroy all copies of movies [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2007/05/31/thoughts-of-the-day/</link>
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		<title>Tuesday Media Roundup #19</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Movies going back to early April!
The Pursuit of Happyness &#8211; Everyone like nothing to something stories. This one avoids sap and forceful attempts at manipulating the viewer and ends up being very enjoyable.
The Holiday &#8211; It&#8217;s like two movies in one and neither could have stood on its own. Kate Winslet&#8217;s story is the more [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2007/05/22/tuesday-media-roundup-19/</link>
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		<title>Kind of caught up</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve kind of missed out on the last month of reading about people&#8217;s lives, even on icb where I&#8217;m just paging through text between meetings. I think I&#8217;m caught up now, mostly. Now there are just evites to go through. I don&#8217;t expect this to get better any time soon since my day job project [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2007/05/20/kind-of-caught-up/</link>
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		<title>Atlanta and the quest for frozen custard</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Similar to the trip to Chicago, work sent me to Atlanta at the beginning of the month for two meetings on two different days. That left me time to wander around before the afternoon meetings happened. I like the MARTA train system they have, it&#8217;s quick and convenient for getting down town. Downtown has some [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2007/05/18/atlanta-and-the-quest-for-frozen-custard/</link>
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		<title>Chicago&#8230;kinda</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Work sent me to Chicago two weeks ago. My co-workers and I flew in at night (late because United likes delays). The escalator leading out of concourse C had a video screen on each side of it. The boot device for the PC driving those screens had failed and you could see &#8220;Operating System Not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2007/05/04/chicagokinda/</link>
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		<title>The reasons for scratching?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I mean besides to take care of an itch. It seems likely that the cause of an itch is often some external irritant so scratching might elliminate that irritant or bring your attention to it. What I noticed the other day though as I was having an allergic reaction is that scratching increases blood flow [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2007/04/19/the-reasons-for-scratching/</link>
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		<title>Montana quarter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just got one of these in change and realized that it&#8217;s the first quarter to feature death. It makes it kind of unsettling.
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		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2007/04/12/montana-quarter/</link>
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		<title>Wok cooking without a wok</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last night I attempted a version of pad thai, and the result was fairly good. In the first couple batches the rice noodles weren&#8217;t cooked enough but it&#8217;s hard to know when they&#8217;re done. The cooktop can easily keep the heat high enough without even going into boost mode, I can kind of simulate putting [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2007/04/10/wok-cooking-without-a-wok/</link>
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		<title>Long time</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The road the crosses the yacht harbor from 7th Avenue and continuing past where it turns into San Lorenzo as it goes by the Boardwalk is being repaved, which is fantastic news. On either side they have the electronic displays explaining that between the dates shown there will be delays. 
On the 7th Avenue side [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2007/04/09/long-time/</link>
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		<title>Sonic and the Secret Rings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I rented Sonic and the Secret Rings and it is definitely the nicest looking Wii game I&#8217;ve played so far. I like how the story is told with lightly animated storyboards. The voice acting doesn&#8217;t make me cringe in pain like with older 3D Sonic games. 
This was supposed to be the 3D Sonic that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2007/04/04/sonic-and-the-secret-rings/</link>
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		<title>Mortal Chocolate results &#8211; Round 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to those who brought chocolate and voted. I&#8217;m glad to have help in this critical research!
Voted most deadly of the chocolate dishes last night was Black bottom chocolate pie prepared by Shelley. Second was the chocolate mousse brought by Ian.
My arms feel their arm workout from mixing the extremely thick cookie dough. That&#8217;s the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2007/04/02/mortal-chocolate-results-round-2/</link>
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		<title>Mortal Chocolate Reminder</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This Sunday at 6:30PM at my house, tasting/voting to hopefully begin at 7PM. If you want to bring something that claims to be deadly chocolate here is a good place to look. 
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		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2007/03/30/mortal-chocolate-reminder/</link>
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		<title>My first Wii injury</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My boss, who is about to leave, used to develop video games and he wanted to see the Wii, so I brought it in this morning so he could try it out.
He was having fun with tennis and then he wanted me to demonstrate bowling. I was careful to avoid the conference room table, but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2007/03/29/my-first-wii-injury/</link>
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		<title>Just not feeling it</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Five people, including my boss, are moving on to other things this week. One of the others is the guy who wrote the server component for a small &#8220;demo&#8221; program that we wrote in December. It was a program that everyone who saw it wanted it, it will never find its way to a consumer. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2007/03/28/just-not-feeling-it/</link>
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		<title>Cold wind</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The crazy cold wind
Makes scooter rides angular
But my hair looks good
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		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2007/03/27/cold-wind/</link>
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		<title>Tuesday Media Roundup #18</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Premonition was&#8230;. not so good. After awhile you&#8217;re wishing for some progress and when you get some progress you&#8217;re like &#8220;uh huh, sure.&#8221; I&#8217;m going to go into a few spoilers here&#8230;.
The moment where it completely lost it for me is when, seeing that she needed to consult someone about premonitions, goes to the local [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2007/03/27/tuesday-media-roundup-18/</link>
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		<title>Weekend of productivity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My main goal this past weekend was to finally re-claim the tv room. That didn&#8217;t quite happen, but I got a lot of stuff put away so the majority of floor space is available again and I&#8217;ll be able to vacuum it tonight to start on the last of the cleaning.
I was also able to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2007/03/26/weekend-of-productivity/</link>
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		<title>whew!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[All caught up on everyone&#8217;s pages. Not everyone in the world, just the ones I normally read.
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		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2007/03/20/whew/</link>
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		<title>Tuesday Media Roundup #17</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tami was visiting and she likes horror movies and thrillers and movies about serial killers and such. So we ended up seeing those types of movies while she was here. I like just about anything so that was fine with me.
The Number 23 I wanted to see because 23 is my favorite number, but not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2007/03/20/tuesday-media-roundup-17/</link>
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		<title>Heading towards normalcy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tami arrived back home yesterday, and I returned to work today. That makes for a more structured, but less entertaining day. In more exciting news, I had a hard drive failure on my desktop machine at home and with a little time here and there during Tami&#8217;s visit, and a little consultation with Eli, Anne, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2007/03/19/heading-towards-normalcy/</link>
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		<title>Mortal Chocolate 2: I have no clever subtitle</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I wish I had graphics skills or a chocolate themed version of the Mortal Kombat theme, but oh well&#8230;
Date: Sunday, April 1, the day before Passover starts
Time: 6:30PM
Making something is not a requirement for attending, but if you feel inclined, I would like for people to make a recipe found here and bring it for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2007/03/06/mortal-chocolate-2-i-have-no-clever-subtitle/</link>
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		<title>Diebold in die-off</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It looks like the Diebold voting machine division is taking a step towards going away.
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		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2007/03/06/diebold-in-die-off/</link>
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		<title>Using both nostrils</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s still a novelty for me and it shows that the allergy shots are working. Today I had to walk home and back to get my spare scooter charger. I managed to walk the 6-mile round trip at 4 miles per hour and I was able to breathe through my nostrils the entire time and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2007/03/05/using-both-nostrils/</link>
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		<title>Updates on the two houses</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In preparation for Nicole&#8217;s brother and his wife visit two weekends ago, we put a new faucet in the other bathroom, put in a new towel rack, and fixed the bathroom vanity door (that I broke when it broke my fall). Unfortunately they didn&#8217;t end up coming but those are in place for others, like [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2007/03/05/updates-on-the-two-houses/</link>
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		<title>Star Wars: Legacy of the Force &#8211; Tempest</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just finished this book last night. Troy Denning knows how to tell an engaging story and is good at getting into the emotional state of Star Wars characters. Which really makes the endings land well. This one is no exception and now I&#8217;m really looking forward to what happens next. I don&#8217;t think the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2007/03/05/star-wars-legacy-of-the-force-tempest/</link>
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		<title>Santa Cruz Skate Park</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The grand opening appears to be today, but I&#8217;m thinking with the wind and rain that will get rescheduled. Anyway, I like that they made it look like a beach. Most of it is a mottled sandy color with a big cylinder painted like a curling wave. I should remember to take a digital camera [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2007/02/22/santa-cruz-skate-park/</link>
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		<title>Tuesday Media Roundup #16</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mo was nice enough to take me to see Alpha Dog just so we could watch Justin Timberlake in his first movie. The movie itself was entertaining and Justin Timberlake is decent on the screen but he comes across too nice to be a gangster. You leave the movie wishing you could hang out with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2007/02/20/tuesday-media-roundup-16/</link>
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		<title>Work is for resting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This past three day weekend was a lot of work. Friday night, Nicole and I drove to Sacramento so we could paint the inside of her mother&#8217;s house to ready it for sale. We managed to paint the ceilings in 4 rooms, fully prep three of those rooms, and paint half the dining room and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2007/02/20/work-is-for-resting/</link>
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		<title>Indian inspired dry-stir-fried chicken</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I found a recipe for Indian dry stir fried chicken but I didn&#8217;t have all the ingredients so what follows is what I came up with instead, which was really good.
Bowl 1
4 bay leaves
6 cloves
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/4 tsp asafoetida

Bowl 2
1 tsp corriander
1 tsp cumin
1 tsp ginger powder
1 tsp minced garlic
1 tbsp cashew butter
5 tbsp + [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2007/02/19/indian-inspired-dry-stir-fried-chicken/</link>
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		<title>Back to a simpler theme</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This one doesn&#8217;t try to do as much and so it loads more quickly. Also I think it&#8217;s better written. I think if I want the pop-up functionality it had then I should write it myself and in a more standard way so it behaves better.
Also I added a plugin that should allow you to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2007/02/13/back-to-a-simpler-theme/</link>
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		<title>Next weight milestone</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve crossed below 195 as of this morning and measuring my body fat as I do at 5lb intervals, it&#8217;s at 19%. That&#8217;s pretty surprising since my last 5lb milestone was back on November tenth and I was at 23 or 24%. I attribute the body composition change to walking the dogs more for my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2007/02/13/next-weight-milestone/</link>
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		<title>Hunters of Dune ramblings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When frank Herbert died he left a safe deposit box with notes and a detailed outline for what would be the seventh Dune novel. When Brian Herbert &#038; Kevin J Anderson started writing their prequels the details of the 7th novel were found and that shaped their Butlerian Jihad series to fit in. Now that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2007/02/10/hunters-of-dune-ramblings/</link>
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		<title>Chicken Piccata Candida Style</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week I made chicken piccataÂ and this week Nicole wanted it again. The difference is that this week started a candida diet so some changes had to be made. The first was no white wine. No problem, I can substitute water or chicken broth. The second change was using brown rice flour instead of wheat [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2007/02/08/chicken-piccata-candida-style/</link>
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		<title>Top Chef (season 2 spoilers)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Having finally seen the season finale of Top Chef, I&#8217;m disappointed. I really wanted Marcel to win since I think he pushes himself and creates the more interesting dishes. Unfortunately he&#8217;s not as good at kitchen management which is part of being a chef and that was his downfall. Of course it doesn&#8217;t help when [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2007/02/02/top-chef-season-2-spoilers/</link>
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		<title>Grover is still all clear</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Grover had his latest cancer check-up this morning and was again pronounced all clear. In addition to the poking and prodding he had a chest x-rays and blood drawn. We&#8217;ll find out the blood results tomorrow. Our only cause for concern is he recently started having partial seizures on the left side of his face [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2007/01/30/grover-is-still-all-clear/</link>
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		<title>Blog software upgrade</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Friday when it was late and I was tired I attempted to upgrade the blog software I use to WordPress 2.1. It was broken until I had a good night&#8217;s sleep and was able to tackle it again Saturday morning. The result is not really much difference for the outside user except that it should [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2007/01/29/blog-software-upgrade/</link>
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		<title></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hello? Is this thing on? How do I work this thing&#8230;
&#160;
StupidÂ Why didn&#8217;t that get rid of it?
&#160;
StupidÂ machinesÂ hateÂ me.
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$@#$%!
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		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2007/01/27/498/</link>
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		<title>Another Diebold foul-up</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This time Diebold had pictures of the key to the voting machine cabinets on their site. How many times do they have to screw up before they stop being adopted?
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		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2007/01/26/another-diebold-foul-up/</link>
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		<title>Awesome oddness of quantum physics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Researchers have stored an entire image on a single photon (for a very short while). 
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		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2007/01/25/awesome-oddness-of-quantum-physics/</link>
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		<title>Moroccan Chicken</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last night&#8217;s dinner experiment was Moroccan Chicken. It was very easy to prepare (you don&#8217;t have to let chickpeas soak overnight when you buy them in cans) and ends up being very tasty. The recipe should scale down easily too. The only mishap this time is I forgot the lemon juice at the end.
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		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2007/01/22/moroccan-chicken/</link>
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		<title>Hope it&#8217;s a slow week</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week was only 4 days of work but it felt like two work weeks. Saturday was full of errands and after the seemingly long week and the day of errands we flaked on plans and just vegged out at home.
After having played the Nintendo Wii briefly after Thanksgiving, Nicole and I decided it would [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2007/01/22/hope-its-a-slow-week/</link>
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		<title>Chicken and Sausage Gumbo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[That was last night&#8217;s dinner and the recipe is here. It&#8217;s spicy but not too hot and is very tasty. This recipe is a keeper. The only problem is that it doesn&#8217;t specify how much oil to use to begin with. I guessed at 1/4 cup which was enough for browning the chicken but didn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2007/01/16/chicken-and-sausage-gumbo/</link>
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		<title>Effects of the cold</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sunday and Monday when I woke up (6:15AM) the temperature outside was 23 degrees F. Saturday was 27, this morning it was warmer at 25. Many of the plants in the area are freezing, including a good portion that were doing well from the landscaping. I&#8217;m hoping they will bounce back, Nicole thinks they&#8217;er dead [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2007/01/16/effects-of-the-cold/</link>
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		<title>Calling for snacks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I like trying new snack foods. Most of the time the new thing isn&#8217;t so thrilling, but sometimes I find something I really like. I hadn&#8217;t seen three snacks I really liked in awhile so I decided to call the makers and ask what was up&#8230;
Lay&#8217;s Sensations Sweet Chili &#038; Sour Cream &#8211; I think [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2007/01/12/calling-for-snacks/</link>
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		<title>Dr. Feelgood</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Starting on Thursday I&#8217;ve had various MÃ¶tley CrÃ¼e songs in my head. Not continuously, but they keep returning. So now here I am constructing paper recycling bins and listening to Dr. Feelgood.
Tangentially related, when did Yngwie Malmsteen get fat, and how does that not interfere with his playing?
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		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2007/01/07/dr-feelgood/</link>
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		<title>Tuesday Media Roundup #15</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I rented 18 Fingers of Death because, well, I can&#8217;t pass up a title like that. It&#8217;s about a kung-fu actor trying to get his next movie made. It&#8217;s written and directed and stars James Lew and it&#8217;s based on the his experiences in hollywood. Unfortunately it&#8217;s not nearly as amusing as it tries to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2007/01/02/tuesday-media-roundup-15/</link>
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		<title>I&#8217;m ready for this new year!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last year was loaded with chaos. I&#8217;m looking forward to things being more normal and catching up this year.
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		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2007/01/02/im-ready-for-this-new-year/</link>
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		<title>Fantasy of Lights</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After years of driving by the pretty lights in Los Gatos and trying to remember to look them up when we got home, we finally learned they are in Vasona Lake Park and that they are called Fantasy of Lights. Even better is that we actually made it there this year and can report that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/12/29/fantasy-of-lights/</link>
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		<title>The New World of the Atom</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I needed a quick read while brushing my teeth so I chose this book I&#8217;ve been carrying around since I was probably in elementary school. I remember picking it up at a library book givaway but it&#8217;s one I never got around to reading. It&#8217;s hard to tell if it&#8217;s trying to get young people [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/12/28/the-new-world-of-the-atom/</link>
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		<title>Female Chauvinist Pigs &#8211; Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last year something built up (I don&#8217;t remember what specific event was the tipping point, maybe it was just a bad week) and made me think wtf is going on with all the sex and fake sex and flashing and the reporting of it all. And the participants, is this truly the result they were [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/12/26/female-chauvinist-pigs-women-and-the-rise-of-raunch-culture/</link>
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		<title>Sage discovered the other dog</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Not Grover, but her reflection. For years we&#8217;ve noticed that Grover seemed to be able to use the mirror to look elsewhere in the room and recognize the real world correspondence. Sage never was interested in the images in the mirror, almost like she couldn&#8217;t see anything.
A few weeks ago when Nicole was getting ready [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/12/23/sage-discovered-the-other-dog-2/</link>
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		<title>Chapterhouse: Dune ramblings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So I&#8217;ve now completed the last Dune novel that Frank Herbert wrote. Reading it reinforced my notion that Heretics of Dune is much like the original Dune. It is re-introducing you to the universe they live in since it is now drastically changed. Chapterhouse: Dune fits in to the mold of being like Dune Messiah [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/12/12/chapterhouse-dune-ramblings/</link>
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		<title>Tuesday Media Roundup #14</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week I finally got the chance to see Stay thanks to flannel and cindy. It&#8217;s a bit convoluted and as it gets towards the end you&#8217;re thinking it&#8217;s just going to keep spinning more and more out of control, but right when you&#8217;re on the verge of writing off the whole thing it resolves [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/12/12/tuesday-media-roundup-14/</link>
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		<title>Weekend productivity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We got a Christmas tree on Friday nght and got it set up. It didn&#8217;t even take long to assemble the cheap stand that the guy running the tree lot called &#8220;marriage enders.&#8221;
Saturday all the decorations came out including the Christmas village and a tree that lights up. The batteries were corroded in so I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/12/04/weekend-productivity/</link>
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		<title>Tuesday Media Roundup #13</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My parents watch a lot of movies when tv gets slow. Generally you never knoww hat you&#8217;re going to get to see when you visit. Often it&#8217;s something I never knew existed and sometimes that thing is good and sometimes it&#8217;s pretty bad. This time it was Save the Last Dance 2. I thought it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/11/28/tuesday-media-roundup-13/</link>
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		<title>From last night&#8217;s fortune cookie</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The education of the will is the object of our existence.&#8221;
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		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/11/27/from-last-nights-fortune-cookie/</link>
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		<title>Damn, I ate a lot!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Before Nicole and I went down to my parent&#8217;s house for the Thanksgiving weekend I weighed 199.6. My goal by the end of the weekend was just to not have crossed over 201 but I didn&#8217;t think it was a realistic goal.
We arrived Wednesday night and had tri-tip and potato kugel. After 4 helpings of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/11/26/damn-i-ate-a-lot/</link>
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		<title>Stuff Happens</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Stuff Happens is a history play by David Hare that looks at the very recent history of the Bush administration&#8217;s path to engagement in Iraq. A lot of it is made up of actual quotes and conversations that members of the administration have had and it&#8217;s filled in with reasonable conjecture. It&#8217;s a quick read [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/11/26/stuff-happens/</link>
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		<title>Tuesday Media Roundup #12</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I finally saw The Producers (2005 version) and after a rocky start where Bialystock and Bloom meet I think it works out really well. That was my least favorite part of the original movie too but I think it worked a little better there. I liked the expanded role for Ulla and the places where [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/11/21/tuesday-media-roundup-12/</link>
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		<title>Grover checkup</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Grover had his checkup with the oncologist this morning. After feeling around the doctor said it all felt good and the radiated area looked good. So next checkup is in a month, then 6 weeks, then a few at every other month and then every three months. He didn&#8217;t say after that but I&#8217;d imagine [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/11/21/grover-checkup/</link>
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		<title>Grover status update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Grover has finished all his radiation therapy and he didn&#8217;t get sick at all during it. He did seems a little uncomfortable for a few days but for the most part he was fine. And the groggy dog routine was always funny after a treatment. They painted a target on him that they had to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/11/17/grover-status-update/</link>
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		<title>Making an arrow through a block of wood</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I think it was second or third grade when we made these  at the Jewish Community Center. 
We all started out with blocks of wood and a smaller sheet of wood to cut the arrow out of. I recall the group leaders drilling all the holes but they were perfectly fine with us handling [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/11/17/making-an-arrow-through-a-block-of-wood/</link>
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		<title>More pictures of my collectables</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The collactables are gone or soon to be gone but I took pictures to remember them by.
You can see them here when you scroll down to my first name tag. And after that, some pictures of t-shirts. Two of them are from the Cowell Coffee Shop, there&#8217;s the Orbital Mind Control Lasers from KarlB and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/11/17/more-pictures-of-my-collectables/</link>
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		<title>Pancreas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s the song of the day (says me)
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		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/11/15/pancreas/</link>
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		<title>What you&#8217;re never told about landscaping</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When you bring in some fill-dirt to modify the shape of your yard, one thing you&#8217;re never told is that there are dormant plants and seeds just waiting to pop out. Since our yard has been done I have seen a number of plants (and weeds) in our yard that weren&#8217;t already there and weren&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/11/14/what-youre-never-told-about-landscaping-2/</link>
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		<title>What you&#8217;re never told about landscaping</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When you bring in some fill-dirt to modify the shape of your yard, one thing you&#8217;re never told is that there are dormant plants and seeds just waiting to pop out. Since our yard has been done I have seen a number of plants (and weeds) in our yard that weren&#8217;t already there and weren&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/11/14/what-youre-never-told-about-landscaping/</link>
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		<title>Weird Al &#8211; Straight Outta Lynwood</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yay! Nicole got me the new Weird Al album! Those reading might think it&#8217;s strange that I didn&#8217;t have it before yesterday but from September through the end of the year I don&#8217;t buy anything. That way when people ask what I might like as a gift I don&#8217;t have to say &#8220;I dunno&#8221; because [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/11/13/weird-al-straight-outta-lynwood/</link>
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		<title>An interesting idea&#8230; from Newt Gengrich?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In January 2006 Discover magazine changed ownership to be owned by Bob Guccione Jr. The change in content was immediate. Now a large percentage of the content is human interest stories about how a scientist felt about their research instead of abou ttheir research, tongue-in-cheek articles like the fight between Fahrenheit and Celcius, and a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/11/13/an-interesting-idea-from-newt-gengrich/</link>
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		<title>Scrubs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve now watched every episode of Scrubs and now I&#8217;m ready for the new season that starts at the end of the month. I&#8217;m glad I have two comedies to watch now (My Name is Earl is the other) and I&#8217;m really liking half-hour shows right now since it&#8217;s easier to find time to watch [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/11/13/scrubs/</link>
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		<title>Done voting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We got the new color in the arrow ballots, and while they are more clear in what you are selecting, they are HUGE. They don&#8217;t even fit in the rickety voting booths. You have to juggle an over-sized envelope/folder, your voter&#8217;s guide, and maneuver this thing so you can color on the small part of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/11/07/done-voting/</link>
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		<title>Sudafed brings strange dreams</title>
		<description><![CDATA[But I still can&#8217;t remember much of them. About all I can remember from last night&#8217;s was that it took place about 20 years in the future and where Lulu Carpenter&#8217;s and the place next to are on Pacific was instead a public access restroom but it was open to the public. There was no [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/11/06/sudafed-brings-strange-dreams/</link>
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		<title>Weekend update: more lemons, less grass</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This weekend we planted a new ponderosa lemon tree to replace the old dead one. Hopefully this one makes it. It already has unripe lemons on it. Also all the dead weedy grass where the lemon tree is was removed, yay!
Then to top it all off we went to Ikea and got curtains. Tonight those [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/11/06/weekend-update-more-lemons-less-grass/</link>
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		<title>Replaced my scooter&#8217;s front brake cable</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I was leaving work last week my brake cable broke and the motor wouldn&#8217;t run. I called Rick at the Folks Cafe (formerly Volks Cafe) and he explained that power gets cut to the motor when the brake lever is pressed so unless I was holding it up it wouldn&#8217;t run. Good to know [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/11/04/replaced-my-scooters-front-brake-cable/</link>
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		<title>New dentist!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was tired of my old dentist, Dr. Wickum. Mo told me about Dr. McClure. I didn&#8217;t call. After awhile I just stopped going. A few weeks ago I finally called and got to see Dr. McClure and I&#8217;m so happy now. He&#8217;s the first dentist I&#8217;ve actually liked! The hygenist seemed to take great [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/11/03/new-dentist/</link>
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		<title>Dog/house sitting?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Does anyone want to dog/house sit November 22-November 25? Not too likely, I know, but I thought I&#8217;d ask. We want to go to my parent&#8217;s hosue, we want to not take the dogs and we want to not board them.
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		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/11/02/doghouse-sitting/</link>
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		<title>Heretics of Dune ramblings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This one is fairly strange coming after God Emperor of Dune. 1500 years after Leto, the God-Emperor, dies there is no centralized ruling body for humanity. Conflicts still happen but they are fewer by far. There are powerful bodies but without a government to influence, what is the point of their power? You either get [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/11/01/heretics-of-dune-ramblings/</link>
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		<title>Slow Halloween</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Not slow at work, work had a costume party with much beer so there was a lot of loud people running around in costume. Also not for my stomach. I&#8217;ve been eating well but yesterday I decided to eat tons of sugar and it was great! 4 cup cakes, 6 mini Hershey bars, 4 cookies, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/11/01/slow-halloween/</link>
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		<title>Tuesday Media Roundup #11</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While I was off I got a chance to see a few movies and I finished watching season 1 of Scrubs (thanks to Cathi for pointing me there).
First up is Many of the Year. It was entertaining overall but as a whole it was uneven in just about every way. The story had awkward subplots, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/10/24/tuesday-media-roundup-11/</link>
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		<title>Vacation was good (for me)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had all of last week off. Originally my sister was going to be here for it but her work exploded into a nightmare that leaves them without a manager going into the holiday season. She&#8217;s at 60 hours for the week and on her 9th consecutive day. Not only doesn&#8217;t she get a fun [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/10/23/vacation-was-good-for-me/</link>
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		<title>LJ IM</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to Cathi I learned that there is LJ IM. And based on this page I could set it up in Trillian using Jabber.
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		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/10/21/lj-im/</link>
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		<title>Santa Cruz Band Review</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I saw in teh Friday Sentinel that the Santa Cruz Band Review would be happening on Saturday. I haven&#8217;t had enough marching band in my life lately so Nicole and I went to check it out. After seeing about 50 bands and getting a little sunburned there is now satisfaction. Some were very good, some [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/10/21/santa-cruz-band-review/</link>
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		<title>Two new places to dine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A couple Fridays ago we went to the Davenport Roadhouse at the Cash Store which is to say, it&#8217;s new and improved. The food is actually good and reasonably prices and the wait staff is fun! Also the decor inside is much nicer than it used to be. I&#8217;d definitely drive up there for a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/10/18/two-new-places-to-dine/</link>
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		<title>Lime-Cured Beef Salad (Goi Bo)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This recipe was our latest attempt in Vietnamese cooking. It turned out very tasty served over your average white rice. The only difficulty was finding mint. We visited three different stores to find mint. I guess it took two stores to find the fish sauce too. Anyway, it&#8217;s good and simple and most of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/10/18/lime-cured-beef-salad-goi-bo/</link>
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		<title>How I roll</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I&#8217;m not reading while brushing my teeth (I take a long time) I often hum along to my Sonicare. Sometimes it&#8217;s the same tone, usually it&#8217;s harmonies. Today on the way to work on my way to work on the electric scooter, I found myself going not at full speed so the tone of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/10/12/how-i-roll/</link>
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		<title>A little more on the God Emperor</title>
		<description><![CDATA[He destroyed all the spice so that humans would invent a way to navigate fold-space without needing the Spacing Guild&#8217;s monopoly with it&#8217;s prescient navigators. Also to remove people&#8217;s dependence on spice in general and not be able to be ruled by its necessity. 
The Fish Speakers (Leto&#8217;s all woman police force) are all Atreides [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/10/11/a-little-more-on-the-god-emperor/</link>
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		<title>God Emperor of Dune ramblings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Gerald will think I&#8217;m crazy, but I think this is possibly the best Dune novel thus far. It doesn&#8217;t stand on its own like Dune does but it&#8217;s just  about great in every way. It&#8217;s about humanity, what it means to be human, and where they should go in the future, and where we [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/10/10/god-emperor-of-dune-ramblings/</link>
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		<title>Shrinking bottles</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When we were working on the Mpemba effect we needed to boil water. It wasn&#8217;t a full kitchen, just a sink, a refrigerator, and a microwave. We also had those 15.7fl.oz. bottles of water. First we dumped out a little and put it in the microwave with the top off and after a short time [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/10/10/shrinking-bottles/</link>
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		<title>The Mpemba Effect</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just found the experimental results from our testing of the Mpemba effect at my last job. I learned about the Mpemba Effect from Trivial Pursuit when the answer to &#8220;According to the MPemba Effect, what does hot water do faster than cold water?&#8221; was &#8220;Freeze&#8221;. Sure enough, after looking it up, hot water tends [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/10/07/the-mpemba-effect/</link>
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		<title>Sage is cast free&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[of her cast. Terry signed it this past weekend as you can see here
 but that only lasted a few days as the vet came today to free her. The brown thing on the end is duct tape which I had to apply since she wore a hole through the bottom. I actually had to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/10/04/sage-is-cast-free/</link>
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		<title>Tuesday Media Roundup #10</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nicole was gone last week so I took the chance to watch V for Vendetta while I was brushing out the dogs. The movie doesn&#8217;t just look good, but I was drawn in by the main characters. The rest could have been cardboard cutouts with moving jaws and it would have worked just as well. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/10/03/tuesday-media-roundup-10/</link>
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		<title>Breaking the fast</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I was looking for what to make to break the fast this evening I stumbled across a tremendous page of Vietnamese recipes. Seeing as how aside from Lee&#8217;s Sandwiches there is no Vietnamese food in Santa Cruz I decided to give it a shot. I made Ginger and Garlic Rice with Chicken (Com Ga) [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/10/02/breaking-the-fast/</link>
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		<title>Adding to my nerdiness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some people are surprised at my low (42%) nerd score. Let me help assure you of my nerdiness through a little nostalgia&#8230;
The other day I decided to search to see if any information was out there for the TRS-80 Color Computer. My first computer was the TRS-80 Color Computer. You can see a picture here [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/10/01/adding-to-my-nerdiness/</link>
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		<title>Weeding-&gt;raw hands</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today I got about 6 solid hours of weeding in and my hands are feeling it. I know I should wear gloves, but the gloves make it harder to get a hold of things to pull out. Maybe if there were microfiber gardening gloves. Is there such a thing? I think I&#8217;ll have to look [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/09/30/weeding-raw-hands/</link>
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		<title>How can it be Friday?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t feel like I&#8217;ve done enough, just some errands and sit in meetings all day.
Since I&#8217;ve started a more sensible eating plan I&#8217;ve been losing some weight I should lose. This morning I was finally below 210. My plan? I eat when I&#8217;m hungry, not when I&#8217;m just &#8216;not full&#8217;. I don&#8217;t eat until [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/09/29/how-can-it-be-friday/</link>
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		<title>Tuesday Media Roundup #9</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was archiving things off my hard drive on to dvd and I was reaching for the disc folder so I didn&#8217;t just leave it laying around to collect dust, but that made the top of the tower of of jewel cases fall down, some with discs in them. As I was picking up the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/09/26/tuesday-media-roundup-9/</link>
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		<title>Star Wars: Legacy of the Force &#8211; Bloodlines</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the on-going Star Wars saga in writing, this takes place in the latest series which is about 35 years after Star Wars: A New Hope (Episode 4). As the second book of a 9 book series I really wasn&#8217;t expecting so much to happen. It seems wide open now, like anything could happen. 
As [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/09/24/star-wars-legacy-of-the-force-bloodlines/</link>
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		<title>One nostril back, two nostrils forward</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had my annual checkup with the allergist to discuss how my shots are going. I told him I didn&#8217;t think I was doing as well allergy wise as I was about a year ago when I was still on weekly shots. Around that time I was about to switch to once every two weeks, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/09/21/one-nostril-back-two-nostrils-forward/</link>
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		<title>Sage&#8217;s peg leg</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sage&#8217;s log of a leg, courtesy of linkaloo

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		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/09/20/sages-peg-leg/</link>
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		<title>Dog update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After consulting with the oncologist and being given the option of another more extreme surgery and 4 rounds of radiation a week for 4 weeks, we decided on the radiation. The surgery might change his gait and will take a few weeks to recover from and leaves the radiation as the only future option. The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/09/20/dog-update/</link>
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		<title>Children of Dune ramblings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Now that I&#8217;ve finished Children of Dune I better understand that Dune Messiah was a necessary story to tell first. Children of Dune takes place nine years after Dune Messiah. 
More Dune ramblings to skip.

Paul&#8217;s children are coming to an age where they can move and act on their own even though mentally they were [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/09/08/children-of-dune-ramblings/</link>
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		<title>A cancerous dog have we</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been avoiding talking about this unless it&#8217;s been directly mentioned. Partially because I just didn&#8217;t want to be thinking about it so much, and partially because when I told people about it I wanted as much information as possible. But I&#8217;m done with that now. We know all we&#8217;re going to know and it&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/09/05/a-cancerous-dog-have-i/</link>
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		<title>Tuesday Media Roundup #8</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Finally I was in one place long enough to sit down and focus on Control Room, the al-Jazeera documentary dating to the start of the Iraq war. It is really interesting watching them try to get information and work hard to present a high quality news report. I like when they reason that the information [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/09/05/tuesday-media-roundup-8/</link>
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		<title>Nicotine pushing bastards!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Cigarettes today have on average 10% more nicotine than 6 years ago. The brands popular with kids have 20% more. 
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		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/09/04/nicotine-pushing-bastards/</link>
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		<title>I suffer from IRD</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
But now there&#8217;s help
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		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/09/04/i-suffer-from-ird/</link>
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		<title>I head-butted a bee</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nicole and I were walking down the sidewalk and I dodged a branch which made me head-butt the bee. The bee fell a few feet but looked a little irritated so I hurried along.
Then down by Aldo&#8217;s at the yacht harbor (they serve dinner now) two little girls were selling jewelry they made. After we [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/09/03/i-head-butted-a-bee/</link>
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		<title>Embedded media question&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Do you like embedded media like videos, or do you prefer links to media?
I&#8217;m specifically thinking of youtube in this case and I wouldn&#8217;t be putting
in some auto-playing control that you have to scramble to turn off. 
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		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/08/31/embedded-media-question/</link>
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		<title>Thicker creamier ozone</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yay! The ozone layer is recovering! I think in general we don&#8217;t know enough to know the cycles of global patterns like temperature and weather and how things interact, but in this case it&#8217;s pretty clear our production of CFCs was the main cause. Now if we can just cut oil use and stop over-fishing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/08/31/thicker-creamier-ozone/</link>
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		<title>Tuesday Movie Roundup #7</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nicole and I were in need of a comedy and Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby was there with the right starting time. We got a lot of laughs out of it so mission accomplished there. It&#8217;s rediculous and silly but always stays on target. I see is compared to Anchorman a lot since [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/08/29/tuesday-movie-roundup-7/</link>
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		<title>R.I.P. Maynard Ferguson: May 4, 1928 &#8211; August 23, 2006</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The last of the biggies from the big-band era passed away yesterday from kidney &#038; liver failure resulting from an abdominal infection. His last and final album that he just finished recording will be coming out this fall. I was hoping to see him again next year when his tour hit Salinas.

I was 16 and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/08/24/rip-maynard-ferguson-may-4-1928-august-23-2006/</link>
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		<title>New Weird Al single</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The first single off of Weird Al&#8217;s upcoming album, Straight Outta Lynwood, is now available for download (for free). It&#8217;s titled &#8220;Don&#8217;t Download This Song&#8221; and can be found on his myspace page. Also from there you can get a link to the animated video on yahoo.
Also while you&#8217;re there you can get a copy [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/08/24/new-weird-al-single/</link>
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		<title>Tuesday Video Roundup #6 (on Wednesday)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I wanted to see Snakes on a Plane on Friday during the work day but last week was a hellish work week and I wasn&#8217;t able to get away. Then over the weekend I didn&#8217;t get a chance. Monday I was very happy when Gerald &#038; Terry asked if I wanted to see the 5:10 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/08/23/tuesday-video-roundup-6-on-wednesday/</link>
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		<title>Out of county experiences</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few weekends ago I accompanied Nicole to Bay Meadows for a day at the races. I&#8217;m not big into horses or horse racing but it was fun. The notable events during the races were one horse I picked to win dumped the jockey at the gate and ran the other way about halfway around [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/08/23/out-of-county-experiences/</link>
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		<title>Dune Messiah</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve now finished Dune Messiah, the shortest of the Dune books. (If you don&#8217;t want to read more Dune rambling, stop now)

The first time I read Dune Messiah I was in jr. high (I think) and it was the hardest of the Dune books to get through. The 250 pages were some of the hardest [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/08/21/dune-messiah/</link>
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		<title>Not too bad for being out of shape</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Stephanie was in town touring for people she hasn&#8217;t seen in years and for Santa Cruz she decided a hike in Big Basin was the thing. Making the trek were Stephanie, Tammy, Brick, Brick&#8217;s friend Mike, Nicole, and myself. Mike led the way for about the first third and I&#8217;m not sure we ever were [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/08/21/not-too-bad-for-being-out-of-shape/</link>
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		<title>Dune</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m re-reading the original Dune series because another is soon to come. (This post is long and rambling&#8230; don&#8217;t read it)

Brian Herbert and Kevin J Anderson are writing the 7th book, part 1 of which is due out later this month. It&#8217;s been so long since I&#8217;ve read the originals that I didn&#8217;t think I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/08/15/dune/</link>
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		<title>The weekend</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Saturday was the day for visiting mo and Jeff. When we got to the hostipal we visited Jeff first since mo was asleep and seeing Jeff was amazing! After just one day he already had a healthy color in his face and he was happy and animated. I never expected such dramatic results.
After Jeff consumed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/08/15/the-weekend-2/</link>
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		<title>Tuesday Movie Roundup #5</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last Friday I left work and my brain was completely numb. Boss #3 is a project manager who doesn&#8217;t really do much except confuse things and send out congratulatory e-mails. He tries to throw in buzz words he knows so he can sound like he knows what he&#8217;s doing but that just makes things worse. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/08/15/tuesday-movie-roundup-5/</link>
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		<title>Tuesday Movie Roundup #4</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just one movie this time&#8230; My Super Ex-Girlfriend. It&#8217;s a light cute movie that has a pretty consistent fun level throughout. Uma Thurman does a good job crossing her character back and forth over the crazy line and Luke Wilson holds up his end of the performance as well. The pacing is quick and doesn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/08/08/tuesday-movie-roundup-4/</link>
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		<title>NorCal Strongman 2006</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday Nicole and I went to the NorCal Strongman competition. This year it was held at the main beach in Santa Cruz. We arrived at around noon with the contest starting around 10AM so we missed the tire flipping and the log lifting but we still got to see the sand-bag carry, the dead lift, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/08/06/norcal-strongman-2006/</link>
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		<title>I fixed my cell phone!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For quite some time one of the plastic tabs that holds the battery in has been broken. The other tab was starting to break away so pretty much any jostling of the phone would disconnect the battery and turn off the phone. That was annoying for anyone who was trying to contact me. Being the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/08/05/i-fixed-my-cell-phone/</link>
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		<title>Upgraded WordPress</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I upgraded the WordPress software to the latest version. The pages seem to load a little faster and the admin interface is definitely nicer. I changed the theme while I was at it. This one is called Boxy But Gold.
I don&#8217;t write anything for two weeks and this is the best I can come up [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/08/04/upgraded-wordpress/</link>
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		<title>Boss shuffle</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So boss #1 is leaving in a couple of weeks so he can finish building his dream home. New #1 boss has that long to come up with the future direction before he takes over. Unlike the other changes, this one might actually impact me some how, but hopefully not too much.
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		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/07/27/boss-shuffle/</link>
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		<title>Star Wars: Legacy of the Force &#8211; Betrayal</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just finished the kick-off book for a new nine book story arc that takes place about 35 years after Return of the Jedi. There&#8217;s some trouble of a possible civil war and Luke is sensing a threatening man that doesn&#8217;t exist yet. Aaron Allston writes the kick-off in a rapid pace of action that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/07/26/star-wars-legacy-of-the-force-betrayal/</link>
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		<title>Sudoku completed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yay! I&#8217;ve now completed all 120 (including 12 training puzzles) in Brain Age for the Nintendo DS. I thought they were all pretty easy until the last seven. Those all took around 30 minutes each.
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		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/07/26/sudoku-completed/</link>
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		<title>A few more pictures</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are some pictures of the window in the area by the kitchen that used to be the dining area. We put 3Form plastic with reeds in it so some light can go between the laundry room and that area while not having to actually look from one room to another.
I forgot the pictures of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/07/26/a-few-more-pictures/</link>
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		<title>More house pictures</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Pictures of the cabinet and drawer pulls in the bathroom.
Pictures of the drawer and cabinet pulls in the kitchen.
Picutes of the living room, library, whatever area.
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		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/07/25/more-house-pictures/</link>
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		<title>Tuesday Movie Roundup #3</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Failure to Launch &#8211; Not quite the typical romantic comedy. Yeah it has the same overall formula, but the situation is unique and that makes the whole thing pretty fun to watch.
Clerks &#8211; I watched this again this past weekend with someone who had never seen that. I&#8217;m not sure how they came to be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/07/25/tuesday-movie-roundup-3/</link>
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		<title>Trophies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We didn&#8217;t get the tv room finished or the shed, but good progress was made on both. A good reason for the slow speed was that the tv room is where we stored pretty much everything during the remodel. Now I have a number of things to unpack and find new homes for and that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/07/24/trophies/</link>
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		<title>Lots of little things</title>
		<description><![CDATA[About 5 days ago I started catching up on about 2 weeks of people&#8217;s posts. After a few days of not seeing many I realized I wasn&#8217;t signed in. 
Entertainment Weekly is fading away and I won&#8217;t renew when the free subscription ends. What used to sometimes top 200 pages is now down to about [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/07/21/lots-of-little-things/</link>
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		<title>The weekend&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Saturday we tried to go to Sacramento to Nicole&#8217;s brother&#8217;s BBQ, but after 2 hours and only getting 80 miles and hearing that traffic was the same the rest of the way we gave up. On the way back home we decided to get lobsters to compensate at 99 Ranch Market so we got two [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/07/05/the-weekend/</link>
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		<title>Certificates eat my brain</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Why are digital certificates so difficult?

What I want: 
A root certificate from which to create a signing certificate
A signing certificate
A certificate to put on a device to validate code signed with the signing certificate
To be able to do all this with openssl or the Java keytool

With the Java keytool I can make a self signed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/06/28/certificates-eat-my-brain/</link>
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		<title>His Excellency George Washington</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Before reading Joseph Ellis&#8217; &#8220;His Excellency George Washington&#8221; I think the most I knew was that he was the first president (two terms), he was the general in the revolutionary war, he had a wife named Martha, and he had false teeth. American history classes never talk about his except to acknowledge he was there [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/06/28/his-excellency-george-washington/</link>
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		<title>Tuesday Movie Roundup #2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift &#8211; I can&#8217;t recall the last time I&#8217;ve seen so many cheesy cliches strung together. This movie was fantastic and is easily the best of the three Fast and Furious movies. More racing and less half-assed cop story to get in the way.
Elizabethtown &#8211; It started off slow [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/06/27/tuesday-movie-roundup-2/</link>
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		<title>What&#8217;s up with the house?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t posted and house updates in awhile because I haven&#8217;t really known what to post. Mostly we&#8217;re waiting for some last few things. In the bathroom I painted the trim behind the &#8220;floating cabinets&#8221; and the bathroom pocket door. Now we just await the glass that will allow us to shower without spraying the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/06/26/whats-up-with-the-house/</link>
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		<title></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Morning dose of fun
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		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/06/21/394/</link>
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		<title>The physical state of me</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As of this morning I weigh 220.8 pounds.
According to a website that uses the Navy&#8217;s method of calculating body fat I&#8217;m at 27%.
Time to turn that around.
I&#8217;ve read that the Navy&#8217;s method is at least and generally more accurate than other body fat measurement techniques that can be easily done.
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		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/06/20/the-physical-state-of-me-2/</link>
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		<title>Tuesday Movie Roundup #1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I think I&#8217;m going to consolidate my movie posts to Tuesday. 
Nacho Libre &#8211; Nachooooooooooooooooooo! It&#8217;s fun. It&#8217;s rediculous. It seems like it wanders aimlessly from time to time like every idea was thrown in and not enough of them were taken out again, but I don&#8217;t care. It was fun!
Scary Movie 3 &#8211; The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/06/20/tuesday-movie-roundup-1/</link>
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		<title>What I learned about dryer vents</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If the dryer&#8217;s heat is working but things aren&#8217;t getting dry it&#8217;s because exhaust air isn&#8217;t working. I knew that already. That&#8217;s bad because it can start fires, but that didn&#8217;t happen here and I knew that too. The likely culprit was the flex hose (knew that) but amazingly there was very little in there. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/06/16/what-i-learned-about-dryer-vents/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Waiting&#8230; &#8211; This movie wanted to be Clerks, it even says so in the credits. It has the same problem for me that Road Trip had. The characters themselves were fun but their interaction fell flat. There were a few good scenes but mostly it was a lot of not caring.
Wallace &#038; Gromit in The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/06/16/389/</link>
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		<title>Forgot two movies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[They weren&#8217;t forgettable, I was just forgetful.
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe &#8211; This goes high on the list of good adaptations of books to movies. The look was great, the characters came out very well, and nothing was left out. One thing I would have added was a little [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/06/12/forgot-two-movies/</link>
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		<title>If I had an ice cream truck&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;d have it play the music from Frogger.
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		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/06/11/if-i-had-an-ice-cream-truck/</link>
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		<title>Movies in the last week</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Break Up &#8211; An unromantic darkish comedy that I think works fairly well. I bought the relationship as feeling real which is what lets this work. It&#8217;s also the only film I&#8217;ve liked Jennifer Aniston in.
The Omen (the original) &#8211; I haven&#8217;t seen the new one yet, but I wanted to refresh on the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/06/11/movies-in-the-last-week/</link>
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		<title>You&#8217;re Pitiful</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s the new Weird Al song, but it&#8217;s not going to be on the next album (which will appear some time this year). You can get it at this mirror or just go to weirdal.com.
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		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/06/09/youre-pitiful/</link>
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		<title>What&#8217;s for dessert?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I know you&#8217;re all wondering what&#8217;s for dessert. Hello Dolly Cake is the answer.
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		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/06/01/whats-for-dessert/</link>
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		<title>Crimes Against Nature</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Crimes Against Nature: How George W. Bush and His Corporate Pals Are Plundering the Country and Hijacking Our Democracy&#8221; is the full title and it&#8217;s the best non-fiction book I&#8217;ve read in a long time. Though at times it seems like conspiracy theory ramblings. I&#8217;m aware of a lot of environmental problems over the years, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/05/31/crimes-against-nature/</link>
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		<title>HR hates magnetic poetry</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I brought in a set of magnetic poetry to work since it wouldn&#8217;t work on the new stainless steel fridge at home. It looked like a few people made use of it before it disappeared today. My guess is that the poems turned naughty as can happen and someone complained. I saw a few that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/05/31/hr-hates-magnetic-poetry/</link>
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		<title>DaVinci Code and X-Men 3</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Saturday Nicole and I saw The DaVinci Code. I&#8217;m one of about 1000 people who haven&#8217;t read the book and I think this was made more for those who have read the book. Sometimes it felt very rushed and uninteresting a the same time. Actually, it was that way until Ian McKellen&#8217;s character arrived [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/05/31/davinci-code-and-x-men-3/</link>
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		<title>How I would change the Highlander Hybrid</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve had the Highlander Hybrid for 5 months now, and overall I like it. It&#8217;s comfortable and it gets better gas mileage than the Passat Wagon despite being bigger and heavier. Like 10% better.
First, to get the most out of the car, you need trips that last longer than 5 minutes. The first 5 minutes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/05/27/how-i-would-change-the-highlander-hybrid/</link>
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		<title>First time in Las Vegas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Julie &#038; Fish were going to be spending two weeks there and rented a house. We were invited to join them for a weekend so after a lot of figuring out, we made the journey.
Thanks to  for watching the dogs and cat for the weekend, and thanks to  for letting the dogs out [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/05/23/first-time-in-las-vegas/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve seen three recent movies!
An American Haunting &#8211; This is the movie version of a theory explaining a well documented haunting in the early 1800s. The movie works well while you&#8217;re watching it and it builds good tension and all seems to fit together. But then awhile after you&#8217;re done your brain starts noticing all [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/05/14/376/</link>
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		<title>6 weird things?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Each player of this game starts with the &#8220;6 weird habits/things about yourself&#8221; and people who get tagged need to write a blog of their 6 weird habits/things, as well as state this rule clearly. In the end, you need to choose 6 people to be tagged and list their names.
The problem is I couldn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/05/10/6-weird-things/</link>
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		<title>Catching up on books</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve read three books in the last month, mostly while waiting for builds at work or while brushing my teeth.
First up is Fledgling by Octavia Butler.  I like stories that give a real world like base for something that stories generally treat as supernatural. It&#8217;s not that I dislike supernatural stories, but once something [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/05/06/catching-up-on-books/</link>
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		<title>Junebug</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We watched Junebug at a friend&#8217;s house recently and I think I&#8217;m the only one who enjoyed it. There isn&#8217;t a lot that happens so it&#8217;s mostly about the characters and trying to figure out why they are all acting the way they are. 
(Sorta Spoiler)
Everything in the movie makes sense if Ashley is having [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/05/06/junebug/</link>
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		<title>Creativity and me</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am not a creative person. A number of people insist to me that I am and will even cite turning my room into a cave as an example, but they fail to persuade me.
A creative person is not someone who has the occasional neat idea. A creative person is someone who takes those neat [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/05/04/creativity-and-me/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[This weekend I pulled another two green-barrel loads of weeds, bringing the total for the month up to four. The remaining weeds are very tiny or grasses and clovers where it&#8217;s hard to get their roots, they are also in open areas where no plants will be going. I&#8217;ve sprayed the back yard for those [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/05/01/372/</link>
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		<title>Long time no house update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The refrigerator is installed now. That&#8217;s the major kitchen change. We&#8217;re still waiting for drawer pulls to arrive and for the downdraft to be installed. We also need to order glass for the cabinet door inserts. We&#8217;re slowly moving everything back into the kitchen.
In the bathroom we have counter tops installed and the sink as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/04/28/long-time-no-house-update/</link>
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		<title>My brain is old!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(I&#8217;m posting more today because I have nothing to do except wait for QA to find bugs for me to fix.)
Last night I bought Brain Age for the Nintendo DS. It was made based on the research of Japanese neuroscientist. He found certain types of exercises stimulated blood flow to various areas of the brain [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/04/19/my-brain-is-old/</link>
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		<title>Evolving for comedy?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve seen a number of studies and surveys that show women having a preference for a man who makes them laugh. I&#8217;ve also read about a study or two that showed that women tend to have a more advanced sense of humor than men. Advanced being more word based and less physical based. This leads [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/04/19/evolving-for-comedy/</link>
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		<title>Mortal Chocolate results</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thank you to everyone who brought chocolate goodnesses and to everyone else who helped eat them.
I only have a few pictures of the desserts because I got too busy.
 brought the Dr. Delicious cake and it was by far the best looking chocolate there. Suitable for service in a restaurant easily. It was delicious but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/04/09/mortal-chocolate-results/</link>
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		<title>Bathroom ventillation&#8230; finally!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today I decided I was up to tackling the bathroom fan in Dar&#8217;s bathroom again. The old fan didn&#8217;t really move much air and it turned out it just blew the air it did move into the attic. I was going to run the vent line through the roof, but then when the contractor did [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/04/09/bathroom-ventillation-finally/</link>
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		<title>Slither</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I saw the trailer for ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/04/08/slither/</link>
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		<title>A Dirty Job</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just finished reading the latest Christopher Moore book, A Dirty Job. Like all of his books I&#8217;ve read, it made me laugh out loud. Get it, read it, laugh, be happy.
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		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/04/07/a-dirty-job/</link>
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		<title>Catching up on reading</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I finally got around to reading &#8220;Dark Lord the Rise of Darth Vader.&#8221; It takes place right after &#8220;Revenge of the Sith&#8221; through probably a few months after. In the beginning he&#8217;s hating his cumbersome suit. By the end the Emperor has put him in situations that let him truly value and embrace the dark [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/04/05/catching-up-on-reading/</link>
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		<title>This Saturday&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Please join me in&#8230;
MORTAL CHOCOLATE!
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		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/03/27/this-saturday/</link>
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		<title>Appliances!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Appliances got installed on Friday. Not all of them, we&#8217;re still waiting on the refrigerator, and dishwasher needs a test run before use, and the remote blower for the down-draft unit needs to be installed. 
That said, the cooktop works very well and I was able bring 1/2 gallon of water to a high boil [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/03/27/appliances/</link>
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		<title>The Frisco Kid</title>
		<description><![CDATA[During our week of not living at home because the floors were being done, my copy of &#8220;The Frisco Kid&#8221; arrived. I have seen this movie probably about a dozen times now and I still love it. I wanted to show this for my birthday movie fest long ago but it wasn&#8217;t available, so yay [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/03/27/the-frisco-kid/</link>
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		<title>Catch-up house update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Two weeks ago we moved out for a week so the floors could be done.  If it was just the kitchen floor then we would have stayed, but we had them coat all the rest of the floors too since the guy who did those didn&#8217;t do the best job on them.
We&#8217;re trying to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/03/24/catch-up-house-update/</link>
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		<title>For my brithday&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Please join me in&#8230;
MORTAL CHOCOLATE!
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		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/03/16/for-my-brithday/</link>
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		<title>Where I&#8217;ve been</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been busy but I have a reprieve. We&#8217;re moved out of the hosue this week while the floors are being done and last week and this week were to be the final weeks of our project at work. Long hours were the norm and the only downtime was the usual 5-6 hours of sleep. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/03/16/where-ive-been/</link>
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		<title>Ultraviolet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I saw this like two weeks ago now. It&#8217;s a fun bad movie, sometimes funny. Every fight scene is almost the same, a group of guys surrounds her and she kills them all. Really, all of them are like that. The environment effects are bad and the whole thing looks like it could be rendered [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/03/16/ultraviolet/</link>
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		<title>Some fixtures are in</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Also there is grouted kitchen backsplash.
First there is a kitchen faucet which is springy and has a front button to switch to spray mode for as long as you hold it. To the right of it is the soap dispenser, and to the right of that is the garbage disposal switch.
The bathroom fixtures in place [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/03/02/some-fixtures-are-in/</link>
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		<title>A little truthiness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A recent report showed that girls are finally outperforming boys in school. A lot of speculation about why has been thrown about, but the reason has finally become clear. Another study just released showed that for the first time girls have surpassed boys in the uptake of cigarettes, alcohol, and drugs. 
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		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/03/02/a-little-truthiness/</link>
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		<title>Kitchen backsplash</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The kitchen backsplash tile is in and today the grout is being done. It&#8217;s nice and sparkly in the morning sun but you can&#8217;t see that in the pictures.
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		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/02/28/kitchen-backsplash/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[I really really fixed the leak under Dar&#8217;s bathroom sink now. The water supply lines where they met the faucet were loose. I was able to hand turn each one at least another half turn.
Also after watching splash patterns with the glass shower doors and how the water gets to the floor outside the shower [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/02/27/351/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was being good and productive this weekend. I returned some lights to Costco, I exchanged a light cover at Riverside Lighting, I put Frontline on the dogs, I got my Allegra prescription refilled, I did the recycling, and picked up everything the dogs had left in the last few days in the back yard [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/02/26/350/</link>
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		<title>The Cookout</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last night I watched The Cookout while I sorted recycling. This movie had potential, but I think the first-time screen writers and directors killed that. The comedy is often forced and that leaves you wanting more drama out of it. I think the direction of a light-hearted drama would have been a good direction for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/02/26/the-cookout/</link>
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		<title>Counters complete</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just one more picture of the end cap. 
Last night we painted the living room and the color looks good but it needs a second coat.
Today the lighting stuff gets installed. 
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		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/02/23/counters-complete/</link>
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		<title>Countertops!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday they installed most of the counter tops. It&#8217;s Caesarstone Oyester, 3cm thick. They have to put in the other end cap/vertical counter and cut holes for the faucet today.
Also some pictures of the bathroom wall tile grouted. I think it looks really good and everything is starting to look like what it&#8217;s supposed to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/02/22/countertops/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[The plasterers were supposed to come yesterday to build out the wall/column in the kitchen that had the wrong measurement in the plans. They didn&#8217;t come. So they were supposed to come at 8AM today to fix it before the counter installers come at 9AM because it&#8217;s supposed to be done before the counters. They [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/02/21/346/</link>
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		<title>More painting accomplished</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Looks like the last paitning adventure killed the power roller. Well, I think I can bring it back if I take it apart and clean it, but I needed to do a second coat ont he living room ceiling and I can&#8217;t give my dad back a broken power roller so I got a new [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/02/19/more-painting-accomplished/</link>
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		<title>Bathroom sink is better</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I replaced the angle-stops, but then I turned the water back on the hot water valve was still leaking slightly. So I turned off the water again and tightened it another turn and now it&#8217;s fine. Buying one of each size it might be worked so now I have to return the others to OSH, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/02/18/bathroom-sink-is-better/</link>
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		<title>Bathroom tile is completed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The bathroom tile is now done and next up is the grout. 
On Tuesday we get the counter tops installed in the kitchen.
This weekend plasterers come to finish the wall  in the laundry room, the patch in the tv room, the wall in the office. Most importantly, they are going to complete the wall [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/02/17/bathroom-tile-is-completed/</link>
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		<title>Kitchen floor</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last Friday the floor guy, John Crow of Crow&#8217;s Quality Flooring, came and installed the kitchen floor. It&#8217;s wide and long oak plank running perpendicular to the short narrow oak elsewhere in the house. Its up flush against the shorts so no cap is needed for the transition. The flooring is going to sit there [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/02/15/kitchen-floor/</link>
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		<title>Pauly Shore is Dead</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Pauly Shore is Dead is like watching someone&#8217;s therapy during a major transition. It also manages to be fairly funny at the same time. It&#8217;s good enough that I&#8217;ve watched all the DVD extras, but part of that might just be fascination at the whole project. If you watch this, be sure to check ou [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/02/15/pauly-shore-is-dead/</link>
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		<title>Club Dread</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We happened across another DVD sale at the local video store and picked up 15 movies for $4 each. 
First up is Club Dread. It&#8217;s a slasher flick parody without going overboard on jokes. That&#8217;s good in that you aren&#8217;t overwhelmed in wackiness, but bad in that it makes it just entertaining enough to not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/02/15/club-dread/</link>
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		<title>New washer and dryer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We got the new GE front loaders delivered on Tuesday of last week but they couldn&#8217;t complete the installation of th dryer because we had the wrong size connection at 3/8&#8243;. According to the install manual it needed a 1/2&#8243; connection. I saw that I couldn&#8217;t just remove the valve because there wasn&#8217;t enough clearance [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/02/13/new-washer-and-dryer/</link>
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		<title>Dining room paint</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For her birthday yesterday Nicole painted the dining room wall brown (Benjamin Moore Stone Brown). I prepped the laundry room for painting with the hope that we would get some done before the new washer and dryer arrive today. Fortunately birthday stuff got in the way.
While we were working the contractors got the tub installed. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/02/07/dining-room-paint/</link>
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		<title>The refrigerator box</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wednesday the refrigerator box was built and that night we primered it. Then yesterday Nicole painted it purple. This morning it was put in place so when the people arrive to template the counter tops everything would be in place.
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		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/02/03/the-refrigerator-box/</link>
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		<title>10 New Commandments Found!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, according to the Weekly World News anyway. Here they are:

I am the one God of all faiths. Thou shalt stop bickering about it.
Thou shalt not make thee a graven image upon toast or other comestibles and declare it to be holy.
Thou shalt not make war to obtain thy neighbor&#8217;s resources.
Thou shalt hold thy mother [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/02/02/10-new-commandments-found/</link>
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		<title>Finally some kitchen updates!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You can see some results from my painting in the kitchen. That cleared the way for the contractor to install the cabinets. Unfortunately, two of the upper cabinets were damaged and they will build us new ones. Also the trash drawer was built wrong so they need to fix that too, but that doesn&#8217;t interfere [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/02/01/finally-some-kitchen-updates/</link>
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		<title>Why I shouldn&#8217;t paint</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We needed to get the kitchen painted this weekend so the contractor could start installing the cabinets. Nicole was sick so that left it up to me. Saturday I got the ceiling in the kitchen and dining area, and the ceiling in the living room primered. The Wagner Power Roller helped a lot since I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/01/30/why-i-shouldnt-paint/</link>
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		<title>Recovering</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Saturday my left nostril wouldn&#8217;t stop draining. I figured some plaster dust got up there and was irritating things. I went to bed at midnight at got up at 2am Sunday morning because my nose was still a mess and I kept waking Nicole up. 
So I watched Moonlighting and Hell Boy and sorted recycling. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/01/24/recovering/</link>
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		<title>Movie roundup</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Hebrew Hammer &#8211; Parody of the blaxploitation style with lots of Jewish jokes. I thought it was really funny and I&#8217;d say check it out. You probably won&#8217;t miss too many jokes if you aren&#8217;t Jewish.
Grandma&#8217;s Boy &#8211; Half geek comedy, half stoner comedy. Not great, but it has enough funny throughout. Mostly made [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/01/22/movie-roundup/</link>
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		<title>Bathroom paint</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Monday the bathroom got coats of primer and we were going to paint but we didn&#8217;t make it to the paint store before they closed. So Tuesday Nicole painted the bathroom. Yay! It looks good!
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		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/01/19/bathroom-paint/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today had a number of good things:
The bike cages at work were activated again so we can lock up our bikes (scooter) again.
The Coke machine has been so allowing coins to flow through it very well fo rthe past few weeks. I generally dislodge them with a coffee straw and get a free Coke. Today [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/01/17/330/</link>
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		<title>Things I learned from Hostel</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In addition to being entertaining I also found Hostel to be educational with respect to travelling near Bratislava&#8230;
Avoid groups of children. They&#8217;ll jack you up for money or candy.
Avoid hot women buying offering you drinks.
Avoid creepy old men, who knows what they want?
Avoid young men, they just have work on their mind.
There are no old [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/01/17/things-i-learned-from-hostel/</link>
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		<title>No more VW</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The VW was towed today by a car donation agency (a few hours later than the window they set up). It hadn&#8217;t been started in three weeks. We jump-started it and it was running rough, and if the jumper cables were removed it would die. Looks like the alternator died while it was sitting there. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/01/16/no-more-vw/</link>
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		<title>Tile preview</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I took some pictures of the kitchen backsplash, and the tile we&#8217;re going to use in the bathroom.
This afternoon we should be able to paint the bathroom.
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		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/01/16/tile-preview/</link>
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		<title>Yay hot water!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We have hot water now! The plumber came back yesterday to check into the lack of hot water problem. He experimented with running a temporary dedicated gas line to the water heater, but that didn&#8217;t help though he did determine that out gas pressure was a little too low, especially if the house heater is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/01/14/yay-hot-water/</link>
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		<title>Hang &#8216;Em High &amp; The Family Stone &amp; Hostel</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hang &#8216;Em High
The is the second old Clint Eastwood western I&#8217;ve seen, the first was The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly. I think I liked this one better. The characters feel real and have difficult decisions to make, even the minor ones seem to stand out.
The Family Stone
I just wanted to say that I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/01/14/hang-em-high-the-family-stone-hostel/</link>
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		<title>State of the house</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I know they all seem like state of the house, but it seems like there are a lot of little things to mention.

We got an on-demand water heater (Takagi K-2). The old water heater was in an outside closet that took up part of the office. The floor sloped slightly in so if the water [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/01/12/state-of-the-house/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[The kitchen has walls now. If you stand in the middle of it you feel like you&#8217;re in a padded cell.
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		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/01/09/323/</link>
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		<title>Catching up on remodeling</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Between the holidays, and buying a new car, I haven&#8217;t had time to take or post many pictures. That works out though because contractors and sub-contractors also take time off for the holidays so not much gets done.
Anyway, here are pictures of the kitchen and bathroom that cover the highlights of the last few weeks.
You [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2006/01/06/catching-up-on-remodeling/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[


In the year 2006 I resolve to:
		Invent a better pizza.

		Get your resolution here



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		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/12/30/321/</link>
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		<title>Test Drive</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Chevrolet HHR wagon &#8211; I saw there was a funky wagon in Consumer Reports and when we parked at the auto mall there it was. We walked up to take a look and they asked if we wanted to drive it. We did and it&#8217;s a pretty good car overall. It has a lot of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/12/28/test-drive/</link>
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		<title>New car (the fast way)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Two weeks ago we were told that the transmission and clutch are in need of replacing. No one does rebuilds of them because with 5 different manual transmissions used for the 97 Passat it just doesn&#8217;t make sense unless you are VW. The cost of a new one installed is $3500. The average yearly cost [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/12/28/new-car-the-fast-way/</link>
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		<title>Aeon Flux</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I saw Aeon Flux the other day and it was bad in many ways, but the kind of bad that&#8217;s fun. The script was bad, most of the acting was bad, most of the ideas behind it was bad. What was good? It was clear a lot of work went into making the look and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/12/22/aeon-flux/</link>
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		<title>Thank you Peter!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Liana had Peter call me to offer insurance advice about my scooter accident. I forgot the specifics because I was running errands at the time but I called back for more specifics and put them to use and I was successful! I will be compensated for the day off work and my medical co-pay and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/12/22/thank-you-peter/</link>
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		<title>Security?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At work we have these little devices where you press a button and it gives you a code to type in. I don&#8217;t use the services that make use of that so I just press the button a few times a day. The thing that makes me feel it isn&#8217;t as secure as it should [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/12/19/security/</link>
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		<title></title>
		<description><![CDATA[I heard back from the insurance company of the door opening woman and they said that since her coverage was lapsed when the accident occured that wouldn&#8217;t give me anything. I didn&#8217;t really expect them to but I figured it was worth a shot. So now I have to try and get money directly from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/12/15/315/</link>
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		<title>The Whole 10 Yards</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The Whole 9 Yards&#8221; was a fun movie so as I sat down to watch &#8220;The Whole 10 Yards&#8221; I was hoping for more of the same. Instead it&#8217;s mostly pretty boring. I didn&#8217;t care what happened to any of there characters and none could hold my attention except for those played by half of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/12/14/the-whole-10-yards/</link>
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		<title>Minor remodel update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Not much videual has happened in the last week so I put it all here as a one week update. A lot of the work has been framing what needs to be framed and getting all the plumbing in and planning for electricity and such.
The kitchen has the openings framed to the size they need [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/12/12/minor-remodel-update/</link>
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		<title>Injury update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So I went to the doctor on Thursday and he said internally everything was fine and to keep taking ibuprofen and icing my bruises. Then they bandaged every cut. I iced everything and rested and Friday morning my hips were feeling slightly better than the day before. My neck and shoulders were really tight though, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/12/11/injury-update/</link>
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		<title>Scooter accident!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was riding home to meet the window guy so he could measure all the windows. I crossed the Cayuga intersection and then a door was open in front of me. I think I tried to swerve some, but I hit it and went down. I think I hit my left side first and then [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/12/08/scooter-accident/</link>
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		<title>Non-house related</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I saw Rent this weekend. I wasn&#8217;t super interested but I liked the song in the trailer so I went. I liked it all, the look, the characters, the music. The songs weren&#8217;t catchy enough so that they were constantly in my head afterwards, but that&#8217;s ok. The problem I had with it was I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/12/06/non-house-related/</link>
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		<title>More landscaping (never seems to end), and a little more destruction</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s been a few more days of work and the results have more plants and a fountain!
A little more destruction and some joke doorsin the kitchen and .
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		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/12/05/more-landscaping-never-seems-to-end-and-a-little-more-destruction/</link>
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		<title>More destruction</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday they finished destroying the bathroom including the ceiling. You can see the lame duct work they had for the bathroom fan. It&#8217;s supposed to be a short straight run, not a 25 foot (7.62 meters for any non-English unit people) run of flexible vent tube.
They also did more kitchen destruction. Opening up walls, removing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/12/01/more-destruction-2/</link>
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		<title>No more bathroom</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The bathroom and the closet are just empty shells now. 
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		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/11/30/no-more-bathroom/</link>
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		<title>Bye bye rooms</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The kitchen is destroyed. Today the bathroom and closet get it and here are the before pictures and a picture of the plans.
Now I think I can not have to worry about moving things around when I go home. Yay!
More plant pictures soon too. 
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		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/11/29/bye-bye-rooms/</link>
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		<title>8 Mile</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I watched &#8220;8 Mile&#8221; while sorting recycling and I enjoyed it (the movie, not the sorting). If Detroit is even somewhat like it&#8217;s portrayed int he movie, then man in it one bleak place. I felt like I was watching a movie that takes place in a depressed Eastern European hell-hole.
The rap battles were a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/11/28/8-mile/</link>
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		<title>Ready for demolition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My body is tired. From Wednesday through this morning, (and leaving out a Fry&#8217;s trip and Thanksgiving dinner) if I was awake I was pretty much working on moving and packing things to get ready for the demolition on the kitchen that starts today.
Here are plans and before pictures of the kitchen. Tomorrow I should [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/11/28/ready-for-demolition/</link>
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		<title>How not to do Black Friday</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My previous experience with black friday is generally going to stores to watch people go crazy trying to buy stuff. This year I tried out the crazy. On Thanksgiving I saw some Fry&#8217;s ads for amazing deals that would be happening on Friday so I considered going early, around 6AM. I was talking to Terry [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/11/26/how-not-to-do-black-friday/</link>
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		<title>How to make snow</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I opened my freezer this afternoon to, what looked like at first a complete frosted mess. My first thought was that the frost-free cycle had broken so I closed the freezer door because I didn&#8217;t want to deal with it. Then I decided to look again and realized that I didn&#8217;t have to tug against [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/11/25/how-to-make-snow/</link>
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		<title>Movie round-up</title>
		<description><![CDATA[West Bank Story &#8211; a 20 minute musical take-off of West Side Story about rival fast food joints in the west bank and the families that run them. Kosher King and Hummus Hut.
Dungeons &#038; Dragons 2 &#8211; This one felt more like a campaign being run than the first D&#038;D movie. I think that makes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/11/24/movie-round-up/</link>
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		<title></title>
		<description><![CDATA[What&#8217;s your honest reaction to this story from The Week:
Waco, Texas
Church tragedy: The pastor of a Texas church was electrocuted this week when he grabbed a microphone while standing in a baptismal pool. About 800 people watched helplessly as the Rev. Kyle Lake, 33, of University Baptist Church in Waco, began flailing after he stepped [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/11/18/300/</link>
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		<title>Sort of a Flintstones question</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the Pebbles &#038; Bam Bam show&#8230; you know, the one where Pebbles &#038; Bam Bam are teenagers. How come Bam Bam isn&#8217;t super strong anymore?
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		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/11/18/sort-of-a-flintstones-question/</link>
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		<title>Some new landscaping pictures</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been awhile since we&#8217;ve had updates, but it&#8217;s also been awhile since work has been done while we decide on the next parts to do. I also included some pictures of the house from the driveway that can be compared to the before pictures I think.
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		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/11/18/some-new-landscaping-pictures/</link>
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		<title>Where have I been?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Work mostly. Wake up at 5 or 6 and start working. Go to work and work some more. Come home, work into midnight or 1. That&#8217;s been my week and I&#8217;m feeling kinda tired, but it&#8217;s over now. Yay! After all that work to get things ready for a demo they decided that the client [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/11/11/where-have-i-been/</link>
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		<title></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I was on Pacific Avenue waiting for Nicole outside of the cosmetics shopand thumbing through a book. After a few minutes of that I notice a bee is trying to land on me. I quickly move about 10 feet away, which usually gets bees to go about their business. This bee found me again [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/11/06/296/</link>
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		<title>Plants in our landscaping!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We have plants and stuff now. Not all of them, but it&#8217;s coming together. We opted for smaller plants that can grow into their places. Sorry I haven&#8217;t updated in awhile. I&#8217;ve been getting to work while it&#8217;s still too dark to go taking pictures, and coming home late to similar lighting conditions.
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		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/11/04/plants-in-our-landscaping/</link>
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		<title>The Sweetest Thing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was cleaning up more stuff in the tv room so I put this on. Christina Applegate, Cameron Diaz, and Selma Blair are women who like to go out and score with men. But then Christina (Cameron Diaz) meets a guy she actually likes and fails to follow through. So the rest of the movie [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/10/30/the-sweetest-thing/</link>
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		<title>Jersey Girl (1992)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Did you know there was a &#8220;Jersey Girl&#8221; before Kevin Smith&#8217;s &#8220;Jersey Girl&#8221;? I didn&#8217;t, and neither did Tami when she got it for me (on-line). Anyway, I gave it a go on Saturday while I was goign through stuff piled in the tv room. It starts out with characters that are pretty irritating, but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/10/30/jersey-girl-1992/</link>
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		<title>hula hoops and dogs are fun</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We went to the school for the normal game of frisbee with the dogs and after awhile I noticed that there was a hula hoop laying in the grass. After a few more minutes I picked it up and tried to get the dogs to go through it but they weren&#8217;t having any of that. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/10/29/hula-hoops-and-dogs-are-fun/</link>
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		<title>Bride &amp; Prejudice</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last night we watched Bride &#038; Prejudice and I enjoyed it overall. There was a montage that made no sense at all and I think might be the worst one I&#8217;ve ever seen. It&#8217;s like they gave up on trying to make it make sense. Anyway, the songs and the dance numbers were fun and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/10/27/bride-prejudice/</link>
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		<title>Finishing up the hard-scaping</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So now the hard-scaping is basically done. Paths, irrigation lines, big rocks, etc. The next phase is to get some plants in there. I think that starts next week, though it might start this week. Right now they are removing the excess dirt they did not use.
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		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/10/26/finishing-up-the-hard-scaping/</link>
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		<title>The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last night we watched The Aquatic Life. I didn&#8217;t really have any expectations going into it except that it seemed Jacques Cousteau inspired and it might be funny. The first half mostly just reminded me of watch Cousteau shows in the 70s and then it started to get more and more rediculous (in a good [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/10/25/the-life-aquatic-with-steve-zissou/</link>
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		<title>The Amityville Horror</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This weekend I decided to see The Amityville Horror again. The original, not the recent remake. I hadn&#8217;t seen it since I was a kid and I think it still holds up fairly well as a horror movie. I think the 70s were a great time for horror movies since they had to rely more [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/10/24/the-amityville-horror/</link>
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		<title>Monday mornign landscape update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Now we have a new fence, and some irrigation starting to get put in place.
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		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/10/24/monday-mornign-landscape-update/</link>
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		<title>Interview questions revisited</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently Dan posted a rant on interview puzzles. The other day I overheard someone a few cubes away telling the one about the 3 and 5 gallon jugs. I just figured he was talking to someone he knew like his kids or wife since he talks to them a lot. 
Then I heard him say [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/10/21/interview-questions-revisited/</link>
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		<title>We have boulders!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Boulders of various size now inhabit our yard. Also some more flagstone paths have been laid down and a fence is gone.
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		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/10/21/we-have-boulders/</link>
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		<title>An actual vegetation change</title>
		<description><![CDATA[And some piles and anti-piles were made yesterday. I like coming home and not knowing what has changed during the day.
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		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/10/20/an-actual-vegetation-change/</link>
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		<title>Stone set in</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The flagstones have been better arranged and set and the back step has been mortared in place.
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		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/10/19/stone-set-in/</link>
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		<title>New path!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The cement for the new path was poured yesterday and it looks really good. Also the side yard has been cleaned up.
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		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/10/18/new-path/</link>
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		<title>Found and Quotes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So soon after posting about Dirty Found, I was again in the book shop and discovered that Found #4 just came out. It&#8217;s worth it for the Rod Serling letters alone. Also in it is their tour schedule; here&#8217;s some relevant stops:

Oct 26 &#8211; Seattle &#8211; University Books &#8211; 7:30PM
Oct 30 &#8211; Santa Cruz &#8211; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/10/17/found-and-quotes/</link>
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		<title>More on the tree</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It was sad to have this large fairly old organism removed, but it will be replaced with 3 trees that are easier on the things around it like the driveway, the sidewalk, the utility lines, and any cars parked near it shouldn&#8217;t get sapped now.
One bright side about the tree being gone (aside from it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/10/17/more-on-the-tree/</link>
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		<title>No more tree and a new step</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just four pictures. Two of the now missing large tree in front, and two bad ones of the new step in front of the back door.
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		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/10/17/no-more-tree-and-a-new-step/</link>
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		<title>Paving stones!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The paths look pretty much the same as they did yesterday though they continued to work on them. The big change today is the paving stones that were added. I was also wondering where the old stepping stones were dug up from since i never encountered them in the back yard. I do know where [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/10/14/paving-stones/</link>
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		<title>We have paths</title>
		<description><![CDATA[They aren&#8217;t bonded yet, but they are there. 
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		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/10/13/we-have-paths/</link>
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		<title>Remodel update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Pictures of the progress after 6 days are now available. If you somehow missed the others, you can click up to the parent album from there, or just go here.
Yesterday we also picked out our kitchen and bathroom fixtures, sorry, but no pictures of those. Also we finally lined someone up to remove the tree [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/10/12/remodel-update/</link>
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		<title>Dirty Found</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I go to Bookshop Santa Cruz I make sure to check if there are any new issues of Found Magazine, usually to be met with disappointment. It isn&#8217;t the most regular of publications. I was happy to find that they publish a &#8220;Dirty Found&#8221; magazine filled with all the things that people sent in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/10/10/dirty-found/</link>
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		<title>Friday&#8217;s pictures before work starts today</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I uploaded the progress pictures for work done after 5 days.  It&#8217;s good to see shape coming to the fields of dirt.
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		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/10/10/fridays-pictures-before-work-starts-today/</link>
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		<title>World Chill</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I like the new take on the old Coca Cola jingle, &#8220;I&#8217;d like to buy the world a Coke,&#8221; which now starts &#8220;I&#8217;d like to teach the world to chill&#8221; performed by G. Love. It&#8217;s an ad for Coca-Cola Zero rather than regular Coke but without the visual you&#8217;d never know that. 
In addition to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/10/08/world-chill/</link>
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		<title>More landscaping</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have a better structure for the landscaping pictures now. I&#8217;ll update them fairly often. Right now there are the before pictures and after 2 days pictures. I&#8217;ll put up some after 4 days pictures tonight or tomorrow and maybe just do once a week highlights.
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		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/10/06/more-landscaping/</link>
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		<title>NaNoWriMo comes again</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last night I had a dream where I realized National Novel Writing Month was coming again and I was wondering if I would actually get around to writing this year. When I woke up there was e-mail from NaNoWriMo saying it was time to register for this year, so I did. I still don&#8217;t know [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/10/05/nanowrimo-comes-again/</link>
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		<title>L&#8217;Shana Tova</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Happy New Year! I hope it&#8217;s the start of a great year for everyone.
Mine didn&#8217;t start out that well with it being taken up by the end of a 17-hour work day, but that just means I have a lot of room for improvement! Are there any other industries besides software that can get so [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/10/04/lshana-tova/</link>
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		<title>Landscaping has begun</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Starting this morning large chunks of our driveway are being removed to make way for a major overhaul of the front and back yards. Here are some before pictures and maybe I&#8217;ll post daily pictures showing progress. I haven&#8217;t decided yet.
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		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/10/03/landscaping-has-begun/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[



You Are Mexican Food






Spicy yet dependable. 
You pull punches, but people still love you.



What Kind of Food Are You?
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		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/09/27/268/</link>
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		<title>Great m&amp;m&#8217;s idea!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[m&#038;m/Mars should make a cheap USB printer that will let you print your own design and colors on m&#038;m&#8217;s. They could give you further discounts on stuff by turning in wrappers or something. The technology is there with current ink-jet printers and mass-produces electronics.
I probably should have invented that instead of writing it here.
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		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/09/26/great-mms-idea/</link>
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		<title>Collateral</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I finally watched this last night while I was taking apart ball-clock motors to figure out why they weren&#8217;t working. The movie seemed to flow back and forth between great and disappointing. You would be watching and realize that you had drifted into something not so good and then you would find yourself back into [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/09/26/collateral/</link>
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		<title>The Commandant&#8217;s Own</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Do you like drum &#038; bugle corps music? Do you wish you had a CD of music performed by a very good one? After watching the summer DCI competition in Santa Clara I went looking on-line for more about drum &#038; bugle corps and I stumbled across &#8220;The Commandant&#8217;s Own&#8221; &#8211; The U.S. Marine Drum [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/09/23/the-commandants-own/</link>
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		<title>The Exorcism of Emily Rose</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Saqw this last night with Terry and Gerald. I think we were the only ones in the theater. It had some spooky stuff but not too much. I didn&#8217;t like either one of the actors as lawyers, neither one seemed to carry off the lawyer character very when while they were in the court room. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/09/23/the-exorcism-of-emily-rose/</link>
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		<title>Dynamics of the &#8216;Free&#8217; pile</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We have an area in the front of our house where we put stuff that still has some life in it but it isn&#8217;t worth the time it would take to sell it. When stuff goes out there I also have to put up a sign indicating it is free or it will sit there [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/09/20/dynamics-of-the-free-pile/</link>
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		<title>Airflow and me</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The allergist prescribed to be an air-flow meter (you really need a prescription to get one)  so figure out how bad my exercise induced asthma gets. I haven&#8217;t started tracking anything like that yet, but it my few times using it I&#8217;ve learned that when everything feels free and clear I can exhale at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/09/19/airflow-and-me/</link>
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		<title>True Crime: Streets of LA</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I bought this game because it was in the bargain bin and the novelty of driving around a real model of LA sounded fun. You play a copy who doesn&#8217;t play by the rules so you can drive over anything and take other people&#8217;s cars when yours gets too beat up. This game has a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/09/17/true-crime-streets-of-la/</link>
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		<title>Traffic theme for September 10, 2005</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Honking at people sitting at a red light. There was a lot of impatience out there.
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		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/09/15/traffic-theme-for-september-10-2005/</link>
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		<title>Fitness update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One month since I last reported and my body fat % is down 1% to 25%, my weight is down from 214 to 209.4 which works out to 5.7 pounds of fat lost and 1.3 pounds of muscle gained. That&#8217;s pretty good considering I&#8217;m only getting 1-2 days of exercise per week in and not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/09/15/fitness-update/</link>
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		<title>The terrorists are bugs!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Not to hurt the good name of bugs by association, but I think this comparison really works. It was after watching and reading a lot about terrorists lately and then watching a documentary and reading an article on bug stings and bites that I realized the similarities.
Insect stings cause a lot of pain without causing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/09/13/the-terrorists-are-bugs/</link>
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		<title>A Sound of Thunder</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is the worst movie of the year. I haven&#8217;t even seen close to all of them, but as a person who saw every movie for 6 years, I know the worst movie of the year when I see it. It actually might not be the worst, this movie was made 2 years ago which [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/09/11/a-sound-of-thunder/</link>
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		<title>The 40 Year Old Virgin</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I saw the poster for this movie and thought it didn&#8217;t look too promising. Then I saw the trailer and realized that this is a must-see movie. Yeah, I&#8217;m a little late, but so was he!
I was right, this was a must-see movie for me. I enjoyed it from beginning to end and there characters [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/09/10/the-40-year-old-virgin/</link>
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		<title>I won something!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So I entered the TopCoder Open sponsor track competition (since I work for a sponsoring company I couldn&#8217;t compete in the main competition (not that I had ever heard of it before)) and since there was no prize money for the sponsor track my company said they would give prizes for the top 3 employees. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/09/09/i-won-something/</link>
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		<title>Updated link for Yellow</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It looks like the link DVB gave me for our CinemaSports film, Yellow, is not available anymore (bandwidth exceeded?). Anyway, I&#8217;ve put a copy up in the ftp space I get from my provider so if you couldn&#8217;t download it before, here you go.
Requires QuickTime 7 or QuickTime7 Public Preview 3 (or newer) if you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/09/07/updated-link-for-yellow/</link>
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		<title>I talked to the allergist</title>
		<description><![CDATA[He agreed with my stopping the Nasonex and just continuing with Allegra for now. I also told him that although the allergies were getting better there were times that even with the drugs in effect that stuff still hit me. He felt that my 3rd shot has so much random stuff in it that I&#8217;m [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/09/07/i-talked-to-the-allergist/</link>
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		<title>Testing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[New version of LivePress. 
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		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/09/05/testing/</link>
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		<title>Yellow &#8211; The fruits of CinemaSports</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The film that D4 (Dan, Dallas, David, and myself) made last weekend have been put into a downloadable format here. If you want to see what kind of short film you can make in 10 hours (plus a little post-processing by David this past week) you should watch it. It&#8217;s about 47MB and requires QuickTime [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/09/05/yellow-the-fruits-of-cinemasports/</link>
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		<title>Icelandic Coke</title>
		<description><![CDATA[mo brought me back some Coca-Cola from Iceland it comes in a fairly tall 0.5L can (16.8 fl.oz. for those of you using english units). It has the same 5 ingredients as Coke here, but the feel of it is smoother with almost a soft fuzzy feel. You could get a similar feel by chewing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/09/05/icelandic-coke/</link>
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		<title>Saw</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I wanted to see Saw when I noticed that the dvd box for it was clear and the dvd was printed to look like a saw blade. Now that I have seen it, I&#8217;d had to say that it is a pretty good and suspenseful movie and if you like those then you should see [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/09/05/saw/</link>
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		<title>How to freak out your dogs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was getting the car ready to trade with mo for her journey to bring supplies and maybe help with flood relief. I was already goignt o clean out the inside, but while I was getting gas I noticed the outside of the car was more of a brown than the normal black so I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/09/04/how-to-freak-out-your-dogs/</link>
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		<title>Half a week without allergy meds</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m having a go of not taking any allergy meds right now (unless this get really bad). So far it&#8217;s working out just fine. I&#8217;m sneezing about twice a day and I have to blow my nose occasionally but that&#8217;s nothing compared to before I started getting allergy shots. On meds I sneeze about twice [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/08/30/half-a-week-without-allergy-meds/</link>
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		<title>Pictures of the dogs in the pool!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here are some pictures my dad took of us getting the dogs acquainted with the pool. Overall it went ok and I&#8217;m sure with more time we could get Grover entering and exiting easily.
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		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/08/29/pictures-of-the-dogs-in-the-pool/</link>
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		<title>My first time participating in CinemaSports!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago I had lunch with a group, among which was DVB. I happened to ask if he was goign to do anymore one-day film making like he did earlier int he year for CinemaSports in Santa Cruz. He told me that funnily enough, he was going to do one in two weeks [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/08/28/my-first-time-participating-in-cinemasports/</link>
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		<title>I&#8217;m out of the TopCoder open</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Not that I was really in it. About a week before the competition began my company mailed everyone in the company that a sponsor track was opened for those employed by the companies that sponsor the event. Unlike the main competition I don&#8217;t think there are any prizes for the winners, so my company stated [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/08/25/im-out-of-the-topcoder-open/</link>
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		<title>Disneyland</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nicole and Tami and I went to Disneyland on Monday and got there when the park opened and intended to stay until closing. The food places outside the park don&#8217;t open unti lthe park opens so we ate breakfast in the park at the Carnation Cafe and then went off to the newly re-opened Space [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/08/24/disneyland/</link>
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		<title>Took the dogs swimming</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We visited my parents and sister this past weekend with the intent to get the dogs in the pool (and hopefully to show them where to get out of the pool if they fell in) and to go to Disneyland with Tami. 
Sunday was for the dogs. We got in and tried to convince Grover [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/08/24/took-the-dogs-swimming/</link>
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		<title>A new hearing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ok, I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;s been heard this way before, but Nicole was talking about her picture of an oddly dressed kid with &#8220;Your momma dresses you funny,&#8221; on it and I heard it for the first time (at least to me) as &#8220;Your mom addresses you funny,&#8221; which I did think was funny. 
Nothing to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/08/18/a-new-hearing/</link>
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		<title>Traffic theme of the day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some days there seems to be a lot of the same thing happening traffic wise like last week when the bike lane and sometimes more was blocked at 5 locations on the way home (4.5km). The normal number of occurences is zero.
Today&#8217;s theme was cut off the bike lane to make a right turn.
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		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/08/18/traffic-theme-of-the-day/</link>
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		<title>My first shot at the hand-bike</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What else do you call the thing you sit at and pedal with your hands? Anyway, I figured I&#8217;d try to last an hour but end up finishing my hour on the regular exercise bike. I set it to level one random (I always like random) and after about ten minutes I realized two things. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/08/18/my-first-shot-at-the-hand-bike/</link>
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		<title>Time to get back in shape</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I weigh 214lbs, and 26% of me is body fat. Next summer I would like to do a half-ironman level triathlon. It&#8217;s a long way to go but I think I can do it.
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		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/08/15/time-to-get-back-in-shape/</link>
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		<title>The Skeleton Key</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The 4th and final movie of the weekend for me is The Skeleton Key. I saw this with Nicole and Jeanne &#038; Terry. I haven&#8217;t seen this many movies in a long time. I remember when this kind of thing used to be the normal state of affairs and it felt good to see a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/08/14/the-skeleton-key/</link>
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		<title>The Island</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Neither romantic nor a comedy, but my third movie of the weekend. I&#8217;m not really sure why the critics are trashing this movie, it&#8217;s actuaqlly pretty good. Maybe they, are action movied out this summer like the rest of the audience that isn&#8217;t paying to see it, or maybe it&#8217;s because it went more for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/08/14/the-island/</link>
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		<title>Cheap movie buys</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday we went to the video store and didn&#8217;t rent anything, but then we noticed they had a lot outside that was for sale. Clearing out things that weren&#8217;t renting so much. All the DVD discs were flawless or nearlyflawless and for $25 we got:
The Cider House Rules (VHS)
Collateral (DVD) &#8211; Haven&#8217;t seen it yet
The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/08/14/cheap-movie-buys/</link>
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		<title>Must Love Dogs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Continuing with the romantic comedy track we saw &#8220;Must Love Dogs&#8221; yesterday. I mostly wanted to see it because I like watching John Cusack and Elizabeth Perkins. A lot of movies based on books have an empty feel to them that you can sense even without knowing that it&#8217;s an adaptation. This movie manages to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/08/14/must-love-dogs/</link>
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		<title>Hitch</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yay! I finally saw Hitch and I liked it as much as I thought I would. The funny bits were funny and the non-funny bits were done well. The only odd thing was the high-speed transitions between the two. Not quite the standard romantic comedy. Check it out.
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		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/08/13/hitch/</link>
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		<title>Finally some rest</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After a number of weeks of long hours trying to get this project done enough for a demo to the company big-shots it&#8217;s done. Not that we fixed everything we wanted to fix, it&#8217;s just that we&#8217;re out of time and it&#8217;s going to have to do well enough on its own now. All I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/08/12/finally-some-rest/</link>
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		<title>Star Wars &#8211; Dark Nest: The Joiner King</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Continuing with my not being able to help reading new Star Wars books, I&#8217;ve just finished &#8220;The Joiner King&#8221; by Troy Denning. Writing for the New Jedi Order story arc Troy Denning produced one of the two best books of that series. I looked forward to his return to the Star Wars universe and with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/08/11/star-wars-dark-nest-the-joiner-king/</link>
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		<title>Why I dislike going to Starbucks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s not because I dislike coffee, sometimes I am with coffee drinkers who need their fix, and the chantico is pretty tasty.
It&#8217;s not because it&#8217;s a big corporation and the local coffee house should be supported instead though I do prefer the variety of the local places.
It&#8217;s this: When I go to Starbucks with someone [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/08/10/why-i-dislike-going-to-starbucks/</link>
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		<title>We met up after all</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Peter called my cell phone around 4:15PM and asked if we wanted to get pizza for dinner. I said yes and told him to call back in about 45 minutes so I could get more work done. About an hour later Liana called and asked what the deal was. we suggested Engfer&#8217;s Pizza Works since [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/08/08/we-met-up-after-all/</link>
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		<title>It&#8217;s clear I need to start making more definite plans</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After the long-hours work week cleaning for the weekend started. Then came the wedding and spending the weekend with Nicole&#8217;s family. When they all left errands were run followed by mental collapse. Late Sunday night as I was re-visiting my mail box I saw again that this is the time for Liana and Peter and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/08/08/its-clear-i-need-to-start-making-more-definite-plans/</link>
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		<title>The tiring part is done</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Friday night I got home from work and Nicole and I went to Target to get a goft card for her step-sister whose wedding we would attend Saturday. After Target we went to Ross since we needed a new comforter too. When we returned home we applied ourselves to cleaning the house until around 11:30PM. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/08/07/the-tiring-part-is-done/</link>
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		<title>What&#8217;s the deal with the tank-tops?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been seeing a lot of women wearing tank-tops over other tops lately with the extreme seen yesterday of one woman wearing three tank-tops. Has this been going on for awhile and I just now noticed it? Is this like the dress with pants thing (which strangely I didn&#8217;t think as odd)?
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		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/08/05/whats-the-deal-with-the-tank-tops/</link>
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		<title>I&#8217;m still kind of irritated</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As topteddy was sayng and I was agreeing, a lot of it is that I want to know why he thought I was a nazi? Was it how I was dressed? Was it something I did? Am I projecting this to others? What was it?
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		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/08/04/im-still-kind-of-irritated/</link>
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		<title>Nazi? NAZI?!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[All this week I have been going home around 12:30 PM to let the dogs out and play with them a bit before turning around and coming back to work for a 2PM meeting. It doesn&#8217;t matter that ever day I&#8217;ve come back to find the 2PM meeting pushed to the next day. On my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/08/04/nazi-nazi/</link>
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		<title>Ready for a break</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m ready for the current push for out demo to be done at work. I don&#8217;t mind a push when I know the end date, but when it keeps getting pushed back it gets to be more draining than if you had been shooting for the late date to begin with. I want have time [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/08/03/ready-for-a-break/</link>
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		<title>Is this thing on?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m trying out a WordPress plugin that is supposed to mirror content to LiveJournal. If it is successful then LiveJournal peeps can stop complaining that I&#8217;m inconvenient.
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		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/08/02/is-this-thing-on/</link>
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		<title>Recipe page</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just added a recipe page so I can more easily keep track of recipes I come across and like and that I think others might like. 
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		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/08/01/recipe-page/</link>
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		<title>House of 1000 Corpses</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My sister loves horror movies. She can&#8217;t get enough of them, and &#8220;House of 1000 Corpses&#8221; is one of her favorite. She loved it so much that took the day off work to see the sequel (currently in theaters) &#8220;The Devil&#8217;s Rejects&#8220;. Anyway, I decided I shoudl see why she liked it so much and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/07/30/house-of-1000-corpses/</link>
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		<title>More on intermittent scooter power</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Occasionally when I go over a bump I feel the power cut out on the scooter for a second. I thought it might be where the splice in the line to the motor is from when changing tires on these was an unknown. I just checked that yesterday and all those splices are solid, not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/07/30/more-on-intermittent-scooter-power/</link>
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		<title>Daved Lee Roth was in my dream last night</title>
		<description><![CDATA[He was wearing a t-shirt that read &#8220;I Told You So!&#8220;
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		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/07/29/daved-lee-roth-was-in-my-dream-last-night/</link>
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		<title>Water on Mars!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s frozen, but better than nothing. Time to search for microbes! 
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		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/07/29/water-on-mars/</link>
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		<title>Time for some TTDs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Rip out the old dryer vent and run a new one to the outside
Patch the wall where the new dryer vent is
Put a restraint on the new drain pipe for the washing machine so it won&#8217;t try to push against the wall patch I need to put in.
Patch the wall where all the washing mahcine [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/07/29/time-for-some-ttds/</link>
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		<title>Beds are expensive!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We just bought a new king-sized bed. We picked out the new bed frame and the nice foam (not body molding so you can still roll over) mattress and to get over thinking about how much it was I started thinking of how long the mattress is supposed to last and how much bedding like [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/07/27/beds-are-expensive/</link>
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		<title>Not quite what the bosses wanted&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My company, in celebration of their 10th anniversary, decided to make a trading card contest where you would have to socialize with people around you to get certain sub-sets which in-turn qualify for you to maybe win some prizes based on which sub-sets you collect. The sets are corporate logos (5 cards), the 10-year employees [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/07/27/not-quite-what-the-bosses-wanted/</link>
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		<title>15-hour work day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been awhile since I did that. I made some good fixes and helped others fix or diagnose problems. I had to call the allergy clinic and ask them to put my shots in the refrigerator for tomorrow morning and they did which is good so I don&#8217;t get charged for wasted shots.
I also took [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/07/27/15-hour-work-day/</link>
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		<title>New pens!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I really dislike the Bic-knockoff pens we have in our office. &#8220;Value Plus&#8221; Medium Pt. India, because Bic pens are too expensive? These pens go dry if you set them down for 10 minutes and you have to write a little for the ink to start flowing again. They also seem to be high friction [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/07/25/new-pens/</link>
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		<title>Dumb dogs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When we left to go to the store last night the dogs wanted to go. We didn&#8217;t want them to go so they stayed home, but they decided they would eat something to show their displeasure. When this happens they generally don&#8217;t greet us when we come home because they know they did something they [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/07/25/dumb-dogs/</link>
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		<title>Eulogy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I finally got to see &#8220;Eulogy&#8221; and I laughed pretty much all the way through it. I still haven&#8217;t been to the library to check out their selection, and we just checked for Eulogy because we were returning &#8220;Saw&#8221; (still haven&#8217;t seen).
Anyway, &#8220;Eulogy&#8221; is a darkish comedy about a messed up family coming home for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/07/25/eulogy/</link>
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		<title>Yes, I&#8217;m a geek</title>
		<description><![CDATA[



      Monk
      You scored 70 Holy, 52 Tactful, 77 Natural,  and 40 Arcane!
     



      Awkward at low levels, an unstoppable juggernaught at high levels, you are the monk.  I think an honest attempt was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/07/23/yes-im-a-geek/</link>
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		<title>Plumbing is done!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We haven&#8217;t tried the washing machine yet, but it has a nifty valve for both hot can cold water with a simple lever, and it&#8217;s all in a box in the wall instead of sticking out!
It took the plumber 8 hours to do everything and clean up. Part of that was because his back was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/07/23/plumbing-is-done/</link>
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		<title>The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Most of my books are packed up because we were getting the floors refinished. They remain packed up because there is still a lot of wall work to be done and it didn&#8217;t seem worth it to set up the book cases again only to move them. My books that I haven&#8217;t read are also [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/07/22/the-lion-the-witch-and-the-wardrobe/</link>
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		<title>Beer pen is dead</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Back when I worked at Agile, a co-worker went to Germany for vacation and brought a pen for everyone in the office. They were cheap pens that said Beer on them and have some logo. At first it just sat on my desk but one day I needed a pen and it was closest so [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/07/21/beer-pen-is-dead/</link>
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		<title>Entering work hell</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Work intensified this week and promises to get worse next week. Our CEO wants a demo of our software running on his phone so he can play with it a few days. We aren&#8217;t running on any phones yet! Dan got it building for Palm this morning around 1:30AM though. Yay!
So last night after I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/07/21/entering-work-hell/</link>
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		<title>Religion and evolution aren&#8217;t incompatible</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some ideas, but not complete&#8230;
Many people seem to feel that you either have to belive in evolution, or in creationism, or in intelligent design which is the newest form of creationism.  However, there is room for these things to complement one another. 
Let&#8217;s say life was created. From parents to children, one generation to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/07/20/religion-and-evolution-arent-incompatible/</link>
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		<title>How to make your Windows machine use DMA</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a summary of what to do when no matter what you do your computer resets back to PIO mode from DMA mode thus giving you unhappy computer times.

You&#8217;ve probably done this part but it&#8217;s here to eb complete&#8230; Right click My Computer and select Properties. Then select the Hardware tab and click Device [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/07/19/how-to-make-your-windows-machine-use-dma/</link>
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		<title>Apple update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How many of you thought I was going to talk about computers?
So I got some more fujis because they were better looking and I had to give them another chance. Then I spotted some golden delicious that were actually golden. Usually they are a pale yellow or a light green and are pretty disappointing. Never [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/07/19/apple-update/</link>
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		<title>The Mask of Zorro</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Before &#8220;Batman Begins&#8221; we saw a trailer for &#8220;The Legend of Zorro&#8221; and I was very excited because I quite liked &#8220;The Mask of Zorro.&#8221; Last night I sat down and watched TMoZ again and I liked it just as much as the first time. Everything is just right about this movie and I hope [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/07/19/the-mask-of-zorro/</link>
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		<title>Batman Begins</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As usual, probably spoilers here&#8230;
I think I like this batman more than the previous ones. I liked his back story and how it was told and I would have even liked some more. I liked how his teacher became his enemy. I liked the look of Gotham and how it looked old and modern at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/07/17/batman-begins/</link>
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		<title>30 Days</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve watched the first 5 episodes of &#8220;30 Days,&#8221; the show brought to you by the man who made &#8220;Super-Size Me.&#8221; I think SSM made some good points but I also think that if anyone suddenly more than doubled their calorie intake their body would show similar signs of shock that his did with any [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/07/17/30-days/</link>
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		<title>Charlie and the Chocolate Factory</title>
		<description><![CDATA[MUMBLER!!
It&#8217;s been a long time since I&#8217;ve read the book. Longer than it has been since I saw the older version of this movie. There is more story in this one than the original movie at the very least because you only have oompa loompa songs (which are great). I loved the look, I loved [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/07/16/charlie-and-the-chocolate-factory/</link>
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		<title>Wedding Crashers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Possible spoilers ahead.
I wanted to see this because I like Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn and I wasn&#8217;t disappointed. It starts out at a frantic pace and most of the wedding crashing happens in the first 15 minutes, after which they get tangled up in one family with really funny results. Not every joke works, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/07/16/wedding-crashers/</link>
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		<title>What I learned at the Post Office</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You know those mailers with unsolicited CDs you get if you sign up for a music club? Well I&#8217;ve missed the cut-off a few times to tell them not to send it. No problem they allow you to return it within 30 days if you didn&#8217;t like it, or you can return it unopened. Di [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/07/15/what-i-learned-at-the-post-office/</link>
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		<title>What happened to the apples?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This year started off as a great year for apples. I&#8217;m a fuji fan so this is mostly targetted at that variety but it hasn&#8217;t looked much better in the other piles. The early part of the year has very tasty crispy apples and then they suddenly vanished to be repalced by the enormous, un-ripe, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/07/15/what-happened-to-the-apples/</link>
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		<title>Waiting for the plumber&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;or somebody like him. I woke up at 3 this morning so I could go to work so I could come home at 7:30 to feed the dogs and wait for the plumber to arrive between 8:30 and 9.  It&#8217;s almost 8:30 and I&#8217;m ready. Waiting, waiting, waiting&#8230;
Hopefully the plumber will be able to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/07/15/waiting-for-the-plumber/</link>
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		<title>Save The Last Dance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last night I needed to find the USB floppy drive so I could fix my computer. Since there is a lot of stuff still piled in the tv room from the office flood I needed to look there. I decided to put on a movie while I searched and after finding the floppy drive, instead [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/07/14/save-the-last-dance/</link>
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		<title>Yesterday&#8230; not so good</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At work I worked on changinging some code to work in a more proper but more complicated way. At the end of the day I realized that I did it wrong so I get to do it again today. 
On the way home I turned on to my street and remembered I wanted to go [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/07/13/yesterday-not-so-good/</link>
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		<title>I&#8217;m spineless!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

You&#8217;re a Jellyfish!
It seems that no matter how hard you try to conceal yourself and
your thoughts, everything is still in plain view for others to see. Nonetheless,
you have a knack for keeping people from exploiting this advantage by using your
sharp wit and disorienting charm. You have long limbs and you know how to use
them. While [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/07/11/im-spineless-2/</link>
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		<title>Human ancestors</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been known for a few years that cro-magnon and neanderthals lived in the same areas at the same time. They still don&#8217;t really know why neanderthals went away. But now there is evidence that they may have had offspring together. They found some cro-magnon bones that have distinctly neanderthal features. Maybe when you think [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/07/11/im-spineless/</link>
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		<title>Slow DVD burner</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Why is it going so slow?! It detects the media as 4X and says it&#8217;s writing at 4X, but the speed is more like 1X. On the bright side it is writing reliably, but I want the higher speed!
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		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/07/11/slow-dvd-burner/</link>
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		<title>King Kong &#8211; original version</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We saw the trailer for the new King Kong movie from Peter Jackson coming this December. I didn&#8217;t know anything about it other than it was happening and I was excited to see that it is set in the 30s like the original. In fact, it seems like it will be a better made (effects-wise [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/07/10/king-kong-original-version/</link>
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		<title>Dark Water</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today we went to see Dark Water because Nicole likes ghost movies and I like movies in general. If you&#8217;re looking for a scary movie, this is not it. It&#8217;s not even really suspenseful or creepy. The acting is fine in it, there&#8217;s just no zing. Of course it&#8217;ll probably only be around another week [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/07/10/dark-water/</link>
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		<title>War of the Worlds</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nicole and I saw this yesterday afternoon. And it was pretty good! (Spoilers here) I like that the look of the invaders is pretty close to what&#8217;s in the original novel (at least as far as I can remember). I like that Tom Cruise isn&#8217;t very heroic. I like the scale of the things and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/07/10/war-of-the-worlds/</link>
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		<title>Early morning funny!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This morning at around 2AM our housemate got home triggering the motion sensor light outside which then shone into our room on the wall. Nicole woke me up asking &#8220;Is that a UFO?&#8221; Well I thought it was funny, but maybe you had to be there.
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		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/07/08/early-morning-funny/</link>
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		<title>I rode the Double Shot</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Double Shot is a new ride at the boardwalk that yanks you up a tower, then yanks you back down, then yanks you back up, then bounces you around for a few seconds and then you&#8217;re done. The whole thing takes maybe 20-30 seconds and it&#8217;s a lot of fun! Surprisingly I didn&#8217;t get [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/07/06/i-rode-the-double-shot/</link>
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		<title>Mental clumsiness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday morning as I was preparing to go to work, I had my computer delete the file I had just downloaded.
This morning in trying out the voice recorder function on the mp3 player I just got I deleted the files since I couldn&#8217;t hear them. Then I saw that my headphones weren&#8217;t plugged in. 
I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/07/06/mental-clumsiness/</link>
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		<title>WarioWare Twisted</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I decided I needed a new GameBoy Advance game and having liked the original WarioWare I decided this was going to be it. It uses a gyroscope in it so most of the game action is performed through turning the GameBoy Advance and occasional use of the A button. For those of you who never [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/07/05/warioware-twisted/</link>
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		<title>Wimbledon (the movie)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just saw this at Julie &#038; Fish&#8217;s house and I have to say that it was pretty good. Did you like Bull Durham and/or Tin Cup? Then you should like this movie since it&#8217;s like those except made by the English and &#8230;I won&#8217;t say. It was advertised as romance and drama, but they [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/07/03/wimbledon-the-movie/</link>
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		<title>Drum Corp show!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago I remembered that I wanted to try to see a live drum corp show this summer. I decided to look up the Santa Clara Vanguards to see when they were next playing or maybe to see a rehearsal. I totally lucked out in finding that there was a competition happening on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/07/03/drum-corp-show/</link>
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		<title>Research into expanded storage for 7thsign</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So I bought a PCMCIA cardbus firewire card for the 7thsign laptop with the hope of some time using it to hook up external drives for all the user stuff. Basically never worry about space again. I chose firewire because I&#8217;m running FreeBSD 4.X and it isn&#8217;t so hot with the USB2.0 but it is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/07/02/research-into-expanded-storage-for-7thsign/</link>
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		<title>Ultramarathon Man</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just finished this book that mo game me for my birthday. I haven&#8217;t been reading it all that time, just for the last week. It;s a very fast read about Dean Karnazes and what led him to running ultr-long distances (more than 100 miles at a go).
This is such an enterrtaining book! His story [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/07/02/ultramarathon-man/</link>
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		<title>The new game is P.N.03</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I opened it yesterday which leaves Metroid Prime, True Crime: Streets of LA, and Gladius unopened. I think this game is shorter than Wario World. If this were on arcade controls you would probably finish this game in 1.5 hours. It will fire as fast as you can press the fire button. Normal holding of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/06/29/the-new-game-is-pn03/</link>
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		<title>Sunday</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I woke up on Sunday with a lot of things to do. I started off easy, paying bills and starting laundry. Then I moved on to sorting paper recycling in preparation for a recycling run. While shredding the stuff I don&#8217;t want to just go in a recycling bin it hit the full point so [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/06/27/sunday/</link>
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		<title>Saturday</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nicole went to SF for the weekend for Pride. I went to work in the morning and then came home and for the directions to izzy &#038; jim&#8217;s for izzy&#8217;s birthday party. I stopped by Fry&#8217;s on the way to get Julie&#8217;s graduation present (a way to extend their wireless network) , the new Audioslave [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/06/27/saturday/</link>
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		<title>Done with Wario World</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well by tomorrow anyway. Last week I decided I didn&#8217;t really care if I finished the game so I put it up for sale on half.com. I picked it up for rediculously cheap clearance so I&#8217;m making a small profit, but mostly it&#8217;s just not too thriilling. So if I get to finish it by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/06/27/done-with-wario-world/</link>
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		<title>I just finished reading Revenge of the Sith</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Revenge of the Sith novel I think it the longest of the novelization at just over 400 pages. It&#8217;s alsot he one that strays from the movie the most I think. I like reading the novelizations because you generally find out what had to be cut from the script. In this case it looks [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/06/27/i-just-finished-reading-revenge-of-the-sith/</link>
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		<title>Stripes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last night I watched Stripes for the first time since before college? It&#8217;s been a long time. I bought it because I remember liking it and it had deleted scenes. Image quality isn&#8217;t the greatest, no remastering of the film print here. You get all the grainy glory of a 1981 film. 
So how did [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/06/24/stripes/</link>
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		<title>Sage is a strange dog</title>
		<description><![CDATA[She&#8217;s always liked to burrow in to things and crawl under things. When she was a puppy I would have to get up in the middle of the night becasue she would crawl under the bed and then couldn&#8217;t get out.
Anyway, when we removed all the bricks from the planters Nicole made a 4-brick high [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/06/21/sage-is-a-strange-dog/</link>
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		<title>Little Black Book</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Saw this on Friday night. I&#8217;m not sure why it received such a low rating on the imdb. There are so many worse movie and this one is pretty fun. Especially when they are speaking in Ks. I guess the main complaint people might have is that the ending is a little weak. Something a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/06/20/little-black-book/</link>
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		<title>Morning productivity and house update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This morning I got up and Nicole and I cleaned out the RV. Then I re-assembled the dining table and went on to finally install Darlene&#8217;s bathroom cabinet. I did leave out the shelves since Dar should decide where they go. There are instructions for that too so I&#8217;ll help when she decides. I still [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/06/20/morning-productivity-and-house-update/</link>
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		<title>I started Wario World</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After finishing Sphinx I decided I needed to open another still sealed game that I picked up at extreme bargain prices and Wario World was it.
I&#8217;ve never played Wario game before so I don&#8217;t know what it&#8217;s about but in this case it&#8217;s like a 2D side scroller where you beat things up and collect [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/06/18/i-started-wario-world/</link>
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		<title>RV gray water is full</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The RV&#8217;s gray water tank is full. This is the tank that showers and sinks go to, nothing to icky. I think it filled up quickly from the shower problem and then a lot of testing of the shower. And some washing of dishes too. I&#8217;m going to drain it into the front tree area [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/06/18/rv-gray-water-is-full/</link>
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		<title>Done with Sphinx!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This morning I finished &#8220;Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy.&#8221; I enjoyed it all the way to the end and I with they would make a sequel. I doubt a sequel will ever be made because I think they released it during the holiday rush and it got buried under all the big name games and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/06/18/done-with-sphinx/</link>
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		<title>RV all better</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Drove it over the hill, got there and they said: &#8220;We didn&#8217;t expect you until 4PM.&#8221;
&#8220;Huh,&#8221; I say? &#8220;The guy said come over any time.&#8221;
&#8220;He told us 4PM.&#8221;
&#8220;Well he didn&#8217;t tell that to me.&#8221;
They said we migh thave to wait an hour before they looked at it since they weren&#8217;t scheduled for that right now [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/06/17/rv-all-better/</link>
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		<title>RV Trouble</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday in trying to get ready for Julie&#8217;s graduation Nicole was goign to use the RV shower. This is the first time using the shower in the RV so we didn&#8217;t really know what to expect. The hot water heater was on for the 30 minutes it needed to warm up. Nicole got in, turned [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/06/17/rv-trouble/</link>
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		<title>How some things used to be</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just now I was goign to get a Coke from the vending machine and it didn&#8217;t take my dollar. I automatically went about smoothing it out with techniques developed and perfected in my wee-person years in the arcades and got it to accept my bill. Then I started thinking that this is the first time [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/06/16/how-some-things-used-to-be/</link>
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		<title>Almost done with Sphinx?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So after defeating the Geb Queen I was given more curse stones and went back to playing the Mummy. After I came back to controlling Sphinx I didn&#8217;t bother to save right then because I didn&#8217;t expect another boss fight within 30 minutes of the last one. So I had to do the mummy part [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/06/16/almost-done-with-sphinx/</link>
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		<title>Another loose wire?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The scooter ran great this morning excet for two moments of what felt like the motor cutting out. I&#8217;m thinking there is still another loose wire in there that I need to track down. They were too fast to tell if it was the entire bike losing power or not. I&#8217;m thinking just the motor [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/06/16/another-loose-wire/</link>
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		<title>Scooter is fixed!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I went to OSH and got the longest philips-head screwdriver I could find that still had a small enough tip to work the average screw. I got home and unscrewed the screw that is supposed to hold the wire in with no problem. Then we ate dinner.
After dinner I determined that after I strip and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/06/15/scooter-is-fixed/</link>
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		<title>Intermittent electrical problem is no longer intermittent</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For quite some time there has been a problem where over a bump the scooter will momentarily lose power. At first I thought I was imagining things but then I found it was real. Last week it cut out for a good 30 seconds on my way home and because it was a long time [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/06/15/intermittent-electrical-problem-is-no-longer-intermittent/</link>
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		<title>2nd night in the trailer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The cat was all &#8220;meow meow meow meow meow meow meow&#8230;&#8221; until I turned all the light out. He was also tryign to rub against me and purr. I know he&#8217;s freaked out if he&#8217;s coming to me for love.
Dogs had to go out at 4AM and we all got back to sleep easily again. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/06/15/2nd-night-in-the-trailer/</link>
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		<title>Garden State</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What a fine and funny film! I really liked how you could see him wake up as the movie progressed and the drugs lost their hold over him and he found new things to enjoy. I know a sequel wouldn&#8217;t be the same, but I&#8217;d like to see what happens next to these characters. If [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/06/14/garden-state/</link>
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		<title>First night in the RV</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We grilled our hotdogs and heated up some chili for dinner. Then we actually went inside and cleared away enough stuff to watch a movie (Garden State) to make the cat feel better because we decided it&#8217;s easier to keep him trapped in the part of the house that isn&#8217;t being done. Then made sure [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/06/14/first-night-in-the-rv/</link>
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		<title>All moved out</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This morning we moved the last few things to the tv room, and moved what we need to live to the RV (like food, tooth brushes, towels). I&#8217;m glad that&#8217;s done. Now we just need the floor guys to show up and get to work. Next weekend we can work on moving everything back in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/06/13/all-moved-out/</link>
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		<title>Thoughts on Lost</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Now that I&#8217;ve finally seen the season finale of Lost I have some thoughts coming to me. Spoilers here&#8230;
I think Sawyer will end up dead.
Nicole pointed out to me that the craxy French lady said she heard they were coming for the boy, we didn&#8217;t think the boy was Walt though. Is this why Walt [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/06/12/thoughts-on-lost/</link>
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		<title>Moving heavy things, and other stuff</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Moth of our closet is moved, most of the living room is moved, most of the dining room is moved. We still need to move the stuff in our room and Nicole&#8217;s room and take care of the misc in the other rooms.
Oh yeah. We also need to move the wood burning stove. It&#8217;s awkward [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/06/11/moving-heavy-things-and-other-stuff/</link>
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		<title>Grilled filet mignon and tater tots</title>
		<description><![CDATA[That was tonight&#8217;s dinner. I tried it ont he grill but I think without the meat thermometer it wasnt as warm as I would have liked it. It was cooked all the way through and it wasn&#8217;t rare, but the connective tissue hadn&#8217;t broken down enough. The tater tots were fine of course (new extra [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/06/11/grilled-filet-mignon-and-tater-tots/</link>
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		<title>Tire pressure check</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a few weeks since I got the new tire and I decided I should check the pressure this morning. It was almost 50PSI!! It&#8217;s only rated for 36. I guess that shows it&#8217;s a well made tire considering I&#8217;ve been abusing it and hitting all manner of bumps. I lowered the pressure to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/06/07/tire-pressure-check/</link>
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		<title>Almost done with Dar&#8217;s space</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Put up the towel rack yesterday. Still need to get a medicine cabinet. Put up the doors yesterday. Need to cut some off the bottom of the bedroom door so it can be moved&#8230; It&#8217;s not just hard to move, it&#8217;s stuck.
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		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/06/07/almost-done-with-dars-space/</link>
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		<title>Candy bubble for the dogs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We were in Marini&#8217;s and I saw a bottle of candy bubbles, red (&#8220;cherry&#8221;) flavored. I had to try them, being a fan of the spray candy. 
Spray candy is liquid candy in a spray pump. The beauty is that you feel like you just had candy and it&#8217;s such a small ammount that it&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/06/06/candy-bubble-for-the-dogs/</link>
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		<title>Rules on walls</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In Santa Cruz you can build a large opaque wall if it is set back 6 feet from the front property line (not counting easements to the city, etc.). You can have a fence on the line as long as it is no more than 3.5 feet high and you can see through it (picket [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/06/06/rules-on-walls/</link>
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		<title>A productive Sunday</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Cut up a few more branches to fit in to the green bin (just a few more to go).
Moved all the bricks to the front and put &#8220;free&#8221; signs on it, some curtain things, and some blinds. (The bricks were taken)
Picked out some new outdoor front lights at Riverside Lighting. The only had 3 of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/06/05/a-productive-sunday/</link>
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		<title>Frozen Armadillo Willy&#8217;s food</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The ribs and the chicken reheat really well in the microwave, and generally pretty fast. They don&#8217;t get tough from too much heating. That said, we&#8217;re now out of leftover ribs. Still have quite a bit of chicken though.
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		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/06/04/frozen-armadillo-willys-food/</link>
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		<title>Home Depot visit in under two minutes?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It could have been. We primarily needed to return the medicine cabinet that was too big for Dar&#8217;s bathroom. We didn&#8217;t have the receipt anymore and we bought it at a different Home Depot. They ran the card I put it on and scanned the UPC on the box witht eh nifty wireless remote scanner, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/06/04/home-depot-visit-in-under-two-minutes/</link>
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		<title>Scooter building</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had a dream that I built a new scooter that could go a bit faster (mostly for hills) and had a longer range. I know both are feasible, the obstacles are weight (the motor is heavy) and power (batteries are heavy too). I think I could probably double the battery capacity on my current [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/06/03/scooter-building/</link>
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		<title>Star Wars &#8211; A Musical Journey</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I finally watch this DVD that came with the CD soundtrack for &#8220;Revenge of the Sith.&#8221; This is a cool video! It leads you through all 6 movies by musical themes with video and bits of dialog showing each part. Each video can draw from the 6 movies and aren&#8217;t necessarily shown in the order [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/06/03/star-wars-a-musical-journey/</link>
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		<title>What is wrong with me?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I watched Beauty and the Geek just because of the name. I was just going to watch the beginning but then I watched the whole thing. I couldn&#8217;t look away as they couldn&#8217;t answer the 5th grade questions. I couldn&#8217;t look away at the dancing.
And I had an urge to watch The Real Gilligan&#8217;s Island. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/06/03/what-is-wrong-with-me/</link>
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		<title>Games Magazine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The other day I was feeling like getting a Games Magazine, so I did! The End.
No, I&#8217;ve been going through it and I think I&#8217;m doing better than I used to when I was younger. Though based on some of the obscure stuff you need to pull up answers for on the easy puzzles, the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/06/02/games-magazine/</link>
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		<title>Termites?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There was bubbling in the paint. Looking on exterminator sites, this is one of the indications of termites. The painter sees no evidence and thinks that it&#8217;s from oiled wood (only want to get rid of the oil is to replace the wood). I&#8217;ll call for an inspection to see what&#8217;s up.
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		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/06/02/termites/</link>
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		<title>House work really starts now</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday we had someone come over to draw up plans for the kitchen and the master bathroom/closet. In a few weeks we&#8217;ll get to see what kinds of ideas he has in mind. He thinks it&#8217;s a tricky space. I think that&#8217;s good because people get more creative when they have restrictions on what they [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/06/01/house-work-really-starts-now/</link>
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		<title>Tami goes home</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It was a lot of fun having my sister around and I wish she were around more often. Maybe in a few years when she gets to run her own bevmo store she can get them to open one in Santa Cruz.
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		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/05/31/tami-goes-home/</link>
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		<title>House gets painted!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well the pressure wash happened on Saturday and today work continues. I expect by the end of the week we&#8217;ll have a different looking house. Then we get to move into an RV while the floors are getting done.
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		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/05/31/house-gets-painted/</link>
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		<title>Big-ass hole</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So I was digging a hole in the front yard to make a target for the potato bush that I was going to attempt to move (It didn&#8217;t work out because of the confined space it was planted in). Tami came out and said &#8220;That&#8217;s a big-ass hole.&#8221; I changed the emphasis slightly to &#8220;big [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/05/30/big-ass-hole/</link>
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		<title>House of Wax</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tami and I just went to see this to see Paris Hilton get killed. We ended up seeing a movie that wasn&#8217;t nearly as bad as reviews would say. It does take a little while to get started but it&#8217;s faily interesting once it gets going. It&#8217;s never really scary, just interesting and looks cool. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/05/27/house-of-wax/</link>
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		<title>Shaolin Soccer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Not the crappy American release, but the real one from Hong Kong. Get it if you can. We decided to stay home and watch a movie and since Tami hadn&#8217;t seen this it was the obvious choice even though she doesn&#8217;t like kung-fu movies. She thought it was an odd and strangely entertaining movie though [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/05/27/shaolin-soccer/</link>
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		<title>Team America: World Police</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I finally got a chance to see this because my sister bought a copy while she&#8217;s staying here. I&#8217;ll need to see it again too because I was also really tired and dozing on and off throughout. That said, wjhat I saw I thought was quite funny and a good parody of action films and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/05/27/team-america-world-police/</link>
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		<title>Creativity (article in Scientific American Mind)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is an article on creativity in Scientific American Mind about creativity, what it is, how to get it, etc. Well, it indicates that on the cover but hte cover promises way more than it delivers in general. Anyway, it kind of wandered on the creativity subject leaving me feeling that they still didn&#8217;t really [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/05/26/creativity-article-in-scientific-american-mind/</link>
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		<title>Bill Clinton brain cells</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago in New Scientist there was an article about how they found a brain cell in someone that fired in response to images of Bill Clinton, even drawings of him. This led them to think that this means that brain cells can process much more than previously thought and each cell would [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/05/24/bill-clinton-brain-cells/</link>
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		<title>Super atoms</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the April Discover there was an article on super atoms. Basically they are clusters of atoms that in these clusters act like another element. For instance, 13 aluminum atoms form a stable compound that won&#8217;t oxidize. It&#8217;s tied to how many shells are left open when they are all together. 
I think it&#8217;s really [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/05/24/super-atoms/</link>
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		<title>Leftovers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We have the most leftovers we&#8217;ve ever had. On the bright side We won&#8217;t have to buy meat for a long time!
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		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/05/23/a-reason-tami-likes-santa-cruz/</link>
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		<title>Oops! Bathroom miscalculation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Not in using it, but in the stuff we got to put in to Darlene&#8217;s bathroom. Since the new light is a bit taller (it extends above and below the base), the medicine cabinet (which is the same size as the old one) won&#8217;t fir in the space the old one used to. The top [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/05/23/oops-bathroom-miscalculation/</link>
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		<title>Star Wars!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are probably spoilers contained within&#8230;
I saw it at the 12:01AM show, and the 5 regular shows the next day starting at 9AM. The first show was pretty good, but felt lacking in a number of areas. When I saw it the next morning with the small non-rowdy audience it was a MUCH better movie! [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/05/22/star-wars/</link>
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		<title>So much was done</title>
		<description><![CDATA[stuff stuff stuff. Well we got everything together and the bbq went off almost exactly as planned. Thanks to those who were there! The weather was mild with a nice breeze and the food was good! If it ever happens again we hire people to run the show since the only down side is we [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/05/22/so-much-was-done/</link>
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		<title>So! Much! To! Do!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[And it wouldn&#8217;t be so bad if I weren&#8217;t seeing Star Wars all day Thursday, but I am. 
Make food, get car, get haircut, put up the light and cabinet and towel rack in Dar&#8217;s bathroom, get my sister, get more stuff, move stuff around, set up stuff, stuff stuff, install light stuff, drill stuff, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/05/17/so-much-to-do-2/</link>
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		<title>Industrious weekend (house wise)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Removed the rest of the master bedroom carpet
Got a new light for Darlene&#8217;s bathroom
Got a new mirror/cabinet for Darlene&#8217;s bathroom
Got a towell rack for Darlene&#8217;s bathroom (still have to install all 3)
Pulled up all the bricks in the planters in front
Got a load of fill dirt &#8211; Thanks to Joel and Cathi for the use [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/05/15/industrious-weekend-house-wise/</link>
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		<title>The floor heater is gone!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The old disconnected floor heater is finally out of the hole. I had to crawl back under the house today to disconnect one more copper wire and to flatten some metal I had tried prying in an attempt to remove one of the screws. Then I had to remove the metal frame in the wall [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/05/14/the-floor-heater-is-gone/</link>
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		<title>Property suckiness!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Hulsey property next to ours has been put on the market with a target towards contractors who might want to split up the property and build multiple units. They have 18000 sq. ft. so they could easily put 4 houses on there. 
We need to get out of here fast or figure out some [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/05/14/property-suckiness/</link>
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		<title>More destruction</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last night we pulled the carpet from 2/3 of the master bedroom. That used to be high quality carpet and I learned that then the installation isn&#8217;t too old that it&#8217;s pretty easy to remove carpet tack strips in mostly one piece. The floors in the master bedroom are in really good shape over all. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/05/13/more-destruction/</link>
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		<title>What kind of killer am I?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
You are a Samurai.You are full of honour and value respect. Youare not really the stereotypical hero, but youdo fight for good. Just in your own way. Foryou, it is most certainly okay to kill an evilperson, if it is for justice and peace. Youalso don&#8217;t belive in mourning all the time andthink that once [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/05/12/what-kind-of-killer-am-i/</link>
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		<title>Are there any techno big bands?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m talking about 5, 10, 15, 20 DJs on a stage each with their own set up spinning simultaneously. I&#8217;m thinking they could each have their own focus like drums or melodic or backing. Maybe have 2 DJs for each &#8220;part&#8221; so they can trade and line stuff up. Would you need a director to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/05/12/are-there-any-techno-big-bands/</link>
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		<title>Floor repairs coming</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I got the floor heater completely disconnected this weekend. I will say that it is very sturdy and well made. The floor guy is going to come by today to remove it so he can see what he needs to do to patch the floor which saves me from finding someone to help lift it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/05/12/floor-repairs-coming/</link>
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		<title>Drum &amp; Bass</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So like 4 or 5 years ago or so at the last rave I went to one room where I really liked the music had what I learned was drum &#038; bass. Like 3 years ago I heard in a Borders some music I really liked. I asked at the desk what was playing and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/05/10/drum-bass/</link>
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		<title>Car in the shop</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So last week the car started running hot and running rough. When I stopped for gas I looked under the hood and realized I did something really dumb. When last I added a quart of oil a few weeks ago (it needs a quart every few thousand miles) I forgot to put the oil cap [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/05/10/car-in-the-shop/</link>
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		<title>Something is loose</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This morning I went to ride to work and the motor wouldn&#8217;t run. No reaction at all from the throttle control. However the lights still worked. I didn&#8217;t recall a fuse on any of the wires for the motor so it&#8217;s either the controller or a loose wire.
I popped up the panel in front of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/05/09/something-is-loose/</link>
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		<title>Home Depot for your time wasting needs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday Nicole and I went to Home Depot in Watsonville to get a new medicine cabinet for Dar&#8217;s bathroom. We find the medicine cabinets and even find one we like. Then we find that they don&#8217;t have any so we go to the customer service desk to special order it. 
The CS desk says they [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/05/09/home-depot-for-your-time-wasting-needs/</link>
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		<title>New bigger tire!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So I put on the new bigger tire (3.5&#215;10) with the extra carrying capacity and it was big enough that if I was sitting on the scooter while moving the battery case would hit the tire. That obviously wouldn&#8217;t last long so I loosened the back tire and pulled the wheel back about 1/2&#8243; before [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/05/08/new-bigger-tire/</link>
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		<title>No more medicine cabinet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday we ripped ou tthe medicine cabinet in Dar&#8217;s bathroom. Today we&#8217;ll go to Home Depot to look for a decent replacement. We put the old one in the free pile and someone took the doors. I guess they just wanted the mirrors to hang in their house.
Today I have to pull out the floor [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/05/08/no-more-medicine-cabinet/</link>
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		<title>Dangerous isn&#8217;t desirable?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So I was reading the blurbs on recent studies in New Scientist and one that bugged me was one about whether women were attracted to dangerous stunts boys do to get attention. I think I recall a study from like 2 years ago reported in Discover explaining that they were or why.
Anyway, this one claimed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/05/06/dangerous-isnt-desirable/</link>
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		<title>Walls are scrubbed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Painting will start today on Dar&#8217;s bathroom. Yay! Tomorrow morning I&#8217;ll put on my new scooter tire and that will be yay too! 
Then I&#8217;ll remove the floor heater to prepare for floor repairs and I&#8217;ll start work on the washing machine drain.
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		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/05/06/walls-are-scrubbed/</link>
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		<title>What&#8217;s wrong with people today?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Every once in awhile I hear this from Nicole and others. Sometimes it&#8217;s &#8220;people&#8221; sometimes it&#8217;s &#8220;kids.&#8221; It always makes me laugh inside because for a moment the person saying it sounds like a stereotypical old person from some show. 
In the past I&#8217;ve thought that the people today aren&#8217;t much different from the people [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/05/05/whats-wrong-with-people-today/</link>
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		<title>Goodbye Snip</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I only knew you for a short time but you seemed good and friendly and nice. Your presence will be missed.
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		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/05/04/goodbye-snip/</link>
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		<title>So much to do</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wash Darlene&#8217;s bathroom walls and ceiling.
Get the light working in the computer room.
Get all this code to compile and working.
Put more stuff in the free pile.
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		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/05/04/so-much-to-do/</link>
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		<title>How maleable is our writing?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A recent note from a friend in response to a note from me allowed for a handwriting comparison on their end. It was noted that we have almost the same handwriting except for noted differences in the &#8216;f&#8217; and &#8216;S&#8217; characters. That got me to thinking about how my &#8216;f&#8217; had changed over time. It [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/05/03/how-maleable-is-our-writing/</link>
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		<title>The start of the floors</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So Nicole moved everything out of her room and started to pull up the carpet. I finished removing the carpet when I got home. The floors underneath look to be in pretty good shape overall. We still need to remove the carpet tack strips though. 
Hopefully tonight I&#8217;ll get to the ceiling light in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/05/03/the-start-of-the-floors/</link>
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		<title>Music quiz I found via fleagirl</title>
		<description><![CDATA[


Your Taste in Music:



80&#8217;s Pop: Highest Influence


Classic Rock: Highest Influence


80&#8217;s Alternative: High Influence


80&#8217;s R&#038;B: High Influence


90&#8217;s Rock: High Influence


Alternative Rock: High Influence


Progressive Rock: High Influence


80&#8217;s Rock: Medium Influence


90&#8217;s Alternative: Medium Influence


90&#8217;s Pop: Medium Influence


90&#8217;s R&#038;B: Medium Influence


Adult Alternative: Medium Influence


Heavy Metal: Medium Influence


Old School Hip Hop: Medium Influence


Punk: Medium Influence


R&#038;B: Medium Influence


Ska: Medium Influence


90&#8217;s Hip [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/05/02/music-quiz-i-found-via-fleagirl/</link>
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		<title>Dark Side M&amp;Ms</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I finally found the Dark Side M&#038;Ms at Toys R Us. I liked the idea of dark chocolate M&#038;Ms. So what do I think? They really don&#8217;t taste all that much different than regular M&#038;Ms. The dark colors are great though!
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		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/05/02/dark-side-mms/</link>
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		<title>Another flat</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So the EZ-Seal made the tire last twice, at four weeks, as any previous tire. The presious tires lasted two weeks and one week, respectively. 
I came back from OSH and after realizing I needed more hardware, hopeed back on the scooter to realize that the tire was low. I saw some EZ-Seal bubbling a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/05/02/another-flat/</link>
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		<title>Hershey&#8217;s Kisses Doubles</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Chocolate and Vanilla Cream. This is vanilla flavored white chocolate where
you can barely taste the vanille and a small layer of milk chocolate on the
bottom. I htink it&#8217;s mostly unsatisfying since it doesn&#8217;t really live up
to its name.
Souble Chocolate. This is milk chocolate with a thin layer of dark chocolate
on the bottom. This ends up [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/05/01/hersheys-kisses-doubles/</link>
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		<title>Scooter lights work!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For the past 2 weeks my scooter lights haven&#8217;t been working. That isn&#8217;t such a big deal during the day when you can do hand signals, but it&#8217;s dangerous at night. Yesterday I took it apart until I found out where the action goes on electrically.
Under the front panel is a mess of wires behind [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/05/01/scooter-lights-work/</link>
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		<title>Hitchhiker&#8217;s Guide to the Galaxy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So I just saw HGttG and I have to say that I liked it overall. I also have to agree with the reviews that say that it isn&#8217;t as funny as the books, but the reasonfor that, I believe, is that the funniest parts of the books are not action or dialog but the commentary [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/04/29/hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy/</link>
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		<title>Kung-Fu Hustle</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last night I saw Kung-Fu Hustle, the latest film from Stephen Chow. I loved this move and will say right up fron that this is the movie that Matrix 2 &#038; 3 wanted to be. I&#8217;m not going to spoil anything here but I will say that the fight scenes are amazing and creative. The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/04/29/kung-fu-hustle/</link>
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		<title>Golden Chicken</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last night we ate at Star of Siam. I ordered Golden Chicken and for some reason I didn&#8217;t get it until several other people were done. I wasn&#8217;t too worried because I had a chicken satay stick from Nicole to keep me from starving. 
Anyway, when it did arrive it was great! It&#8217;s a fried [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/04/28/golden-chicken-2/</link>
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		<title>Past the trouble spot</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I made it past the bug in Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy. The game is getting more action oriented with more things to fight and kill. There are still plenty of puzzles though. If I get stuck on one I can pretty much guarantee that I will wake up and be able to clear it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/04/28/golden-chicken/</link>
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		<title>500km!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This morning as I was pulling in to the parking garage at work I hit 500km on my electric scooter! Also it&#8217;s been over 3 weeks with no flat tire!
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		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/04/27/500km/</link>
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		<title>A small help</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last night Nicole and I went up to visit my Aunt Rita in Oakland. Everythign was packed up and today she&#8217;s on her way to Reno. My dad was there and I helped him move some stuff downstairs for Goodwill to pick up today.  We also helped finish the last of the food in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/04/27/a-small-help/</link>
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		<title>Refinishing floors</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So we decided to try and do it ourselves after not feeling confident that the contractor we were talking to would do what we wanted, and the place that would do what we wanted we expensive enough that we couldn&#8217;t do much else.
We don&#8217;t know when we&#8217;ll start yet but it should be interesting.
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		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/04/26/refinishing-floors/</link>
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		<title>Star Wars tickets!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t know if anyone reading this cares, but Star Wars tickets are on sale. I have mine for all day on the 19th of May on Screen 4 at the Santa Cruz Cinema 9. Join me! Hold a place in line for me for between shows!
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		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/04/25/star-wars-tickets/</link>
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		<title>Adobe Premiere works now</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I finally had a change to ask the internet about the &#8220;Adobe Premiere could not grab a frame buffer error&#8221; I wou;d get when trying to render the movie to a DVD format. It was frustrating because it woul dbe working and then stop. Well I found there is an up date to fix that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/04/25/adobe-premiere-works-now/</link>
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		<title>Nicole the gardener</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Thursday Nicole went nuts on one of the flower beds out front. She ripped everything out, put in good soil, and put in some native plants. It looks better than it ever did! Now it&#8217;s not something you have to avert your eyes from. YAY!
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		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/04/25/nicole-the-gardener/</link>
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		<title>The Holographic Universe</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just finished reading The Holographic Universe because it sounded like it had some neat ideas in it. Overall it did indeed have some interesting ideas, but the support of those ideas throguh much of hte book was very weak.
The basic premise is that there is a theory in physics that explains everything as being [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/04/24/the-holographic-universe/</link>
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		<title>Nicole&#8217;s car</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Word is back from the adjuster that her car is totalled. Nicole is still doing well and still has some soreness and I&#8217;m still grateful that she got out of it with so little damage to herself!
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		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/04/24/nicoles-car/</link>
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		<title>Saturday turbo Passover meal</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Saturday morning, being inspired by my co-worker, Henry, who is making Passover dinner today, and fleagirl&#8217;s mad preparation, I decided I wanted a Passover meal. Not a full seder, just the food. since a seder requires too much planning. 
So I found this recipe for a brisket. However I skipped the next day park and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/04/24/saturday-turbo-passover-meal/</link>
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		<title>My work project is good</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thursday, for the first time at my new job, I actually started really liking my project. I think the last thing fell into place that was confusing to me and now it all feels pretty good!
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		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/04/24/my-work-project-is-good/</link>
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		<title>I&#8217;m tired</title>
		<description><![CDATA[More of a mental tired right now but the physical will come. Too much code to get working by tomorrow night.
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		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/04/20/im-tired/</link>
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		<title>Nicole is fine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[She saw a doctor to make sure she didn&#8217;t have a concussion or any serious internal problems and the doctor said she has some torn muscles around the joint in her shoulder and some bruising on her rib cage. So it&#8217;s just a matter of waiting for her body to fix itself! boing!
We&#8217;re still waiting [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/04/19/nicole-is-fine/</link>
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		<title>One less Miata in the world</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well we think so anyway. The driver&#8217;s side is smashed up really well and the wheel is bent slightly and the leaking from the engine. Today we&#8217;ll contact the insurance company and see what they want us to do. On the bright side now we probably don&#8217;t have to worry about trying to sell it.
Nicole [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/04/18/one-less-miata-in-the-world/</link>
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		<title>major suck!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nicole was visiting her family in Sacramento today (that&#8217;s not the suck part) and as she was starting her way home she got in an accident! She&#8217;s ok but has some pain (not surprising). I&#8217;m waiting to hear what she wants me to do as she&#8217;s going to attempt to drive it to her brother&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/04/17/major-suck/</link>
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		<title>Thanks to mo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For having a great birthday party, and for getting me Ultra Marathon Man and getting me Justin Bua&#8217;s Piano Man
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		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/04/17/thanks-to-mo/</link>
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		<title>More weed wacking</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I did a &#8220;good enough for now&#8221; job on the front yard. About 30 minutes of weed wacking and 30 minutes of clean up. However I think something got lodged in my sinuses since they are all in a bad state right now despite allergy meds.
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		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/04/17/more-weed-wacking/</link>
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		<title>Great ride home</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I rode the whole way home without having to stop, except for at 7th Ave and Capitola Road. And only slight slowing at two other lights. I hit all the other lights and traffic was light. Pretty much full throttle all the way which means 25mph on the flats, 20mph up hills, and 30 mph [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/04/14/great-ride-home/</link>
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		<title>New CDs, no cinn.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had this $2 off coupon for Streetlight so I decided to see if they had a CD I wanted. They had 2, Five Iron Frenzy&#8217;s &#8220;The End is Near/Here&#8221;, and Kermit Ruffins with the Rebirth Brass Band &#8220;Throwback.&#8221; 
On the down side to this little excursion, there were no Original Cinn for me to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/04/14/new-cds-no-cinn/</link>
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		<title>More on the tires</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ever since I got a new tube filled with EZ-Seal I not only haven&#8217;t had a flat tire, but I haven&#8217;t even lost any air. That&#8217;s over a week with no pressure loss at all! Before I had to add air every other day. 
I also drilled two 1/4&#8243; holes and installed my license plate. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/04/14/more-on-the-tires/</link>
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		<title>Dar&#8217;s room is done</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With the painting that is. Nicole and and I finished the second coat last night. This morning I cleared out all the stuff on the floor of the room so the carpet guys have no obstructions when they arrive sometime this morning. Hopefully the paint and carpet don&#8217;t clash.
Oh yeah. Sill have to do the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/04/14/dars-room-is-done/</link>
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		<title>Quiz from linkaloo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I guess I&#8217;ll see her in hell.
The Dante&#8217;s Inferno Test has sent you to the First Level of Hell &#8211; Limbo!Here is how you matched up against all the levels:


Level
Score


Purgatory (Repenting Believers)
Very Low


Level 1 &#8211; Limbo (Virtuous Non-Believers)
High


Level 2 (Lustful)
High


Level 3 (Gluttonous)
Low


Level 4 (Prodigal and Avaricious)
Very Low


Level 5 (Wrathful and Gloomy)
Low


Level 6 &#8211; The City [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/04/13/quiz-from-linkaloo/</link>
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		<title>First coat done</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last night after the grocery store and dinner and laundry I started on painting Darlene&#8217;s room. It looks much better after a first coat. It will definitely need a second coat since the pink is still showing, and in a few spots the light blue that it was before the pink.
I didn&#8217;t take off the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/04/13/first-coat-done/</link>
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		<title>Too much work, not enough working out</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m nearing a big deadline on a project right now so I&#8217;m not really working out so much. I&#8217;m still getting some exercise from working around the house when I get home but nothing too strenuous overall. I&#8217;ve cut back how much I&#8217;m eating to compensate, so now about 14 zone blocks.
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		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/04/12/too-much-work-not-enough-working-out/</link>
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		<title>Yay, it&#8217;s done!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I weed-wacked the back yard (front is this week), washed down the walls in Darlene&#8217;s room and prepped it for painting, and did a few loads of laundry. A good arm work-out but I&#8217;m glad it&#8217;s done.
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		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/04/11/yay-its-done/</link>
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		<title>The Star Wars project</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So I&#8217;m trying to transfer some other laser discs to dvd to get practice for when I try with Star Wars. In anticipation of this I got a newer better video capture card, I got Adobe Premiere Pro, I upgraded to Windows XP so I could run Premiere Pro. There&#8217;s a lot behind this.
Premiere is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/04/10/the-star-wars-project/</link>
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		<title>A setback in Sphinx</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was playing Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy and saved my progress. After a few minutes I was tired and turned off the Gamecube and when I turned it back on I couldn&#8217;t get anywhere from where I saved. I check on-line and sure enough, it&#8217;s a glitch in the game that if that was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/04/10/a-setback-in-sphinx/</link>
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		<title>More birthday thanks!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to Julie &#038; Fish for the gift certificate for Streetlight Records. I bought No Doubt&#8217;s &#8220;Everything in Time&#8221; and Duran Duran&#8217;s &#8220;Astronaut&#8221;. I don&#8217;t know what I&#8217;ll use the remainder for yet.
Thanks for Gerald &#038; Julianne for the &#8220;Intellivision Lives&#8221; compilation for Gamecube. I haven&#8217;t had a chance to play it yet but I&#8217;m [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/04/06/more-birthday-thanks/</link>
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		<title>Back on the exercise bike</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Level 10 was going well. Then I hit 53 minutes and my legs decided they couldn&#8217;t keep up with the pace I wanted anymore. I should probably hold it at level 10 for awhile and start on the hand bike. That&#8217;s probably all about pain.
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		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/04/06/back-on-the-exercise-bike/</link>
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		<title>Jewish stigmata</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Sunday Nicole say the injury on my right wrist/arm and I told her it was from re-assembling my scooter. Then I asked her of the scratch on my back was still there. I felt the scratch Saturday night  and I have no idea how it got there. It&#8217;s long and thin and very [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/04/05/jewish-stigmata/</link>
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		<title>My scooter is registered!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So someone wityh an ecocruz scooter got a ticket for it not being registered. Apparently as of the first of 2005 you need to have any powered 2-wheeled vehicle registered in case a bored officer wants to make an issue of it. Volks Cafe made up some VIN tags and figured out how to get [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/04/05/my-scooter-is-registered/</link>
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		<title>I haven&#8217;t been exercising</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I walked about 3 miles yesterday but that doesn&#8217;t count. I haven&#8217;t made it to the gym since last Wednesday. 
Thursday I walked about 3 miles. 
Friday I ate way too much food. 
Saturday I recovered. 
Sunday was an off day in my workout plan. 
Monday I walked 3 miles though it&#8217;s usually an off [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/04/05/i-havent-been-exercising/</link>
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		<title>I have a new tire</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I got a new tire and tube and have it filled with EZ-Seal. We&#8217;ll see if this holds up to the Santa Cruz roads. I left my scooter at the Volks Cafe so they could bolt on a VIN so I can get it registered with the DMV. Apparently all the 2-wheeled motorized vehicles (even [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/04/04/i-have-a-new-tire/</link>
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		<title>Sin City</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wow! I love the visual style of this movie and I love Robert Rodriguez directing. I liked the stories and how they intertwined, not explicitly, but seeing characters in the same scenes but from the vantage piont of other characters. Sure it was violent, but that was mostly covered in the comic book style.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/04/03/sin-city/</link>
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		<title>Junk food recovery</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So today was just a normal day. Nothing seemed out fo the ordinary. Except in the afternoon I felt like I was having a sugar crash and wanted to take a nap. Instead I made myself go do something and I was fine after that.
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		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/04/02/junk-food-recovery/</link>
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		<title>Gifts to myself today&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jr. Techie finally got some singing magnets! I picked up a large and a small pair since my old set was getting pretty worn.
I also picked up a Five Iron Frenzy CD I didn&#8217;t have. That should be the last one because they&#8217;ve broken up. Looking at their site I guess I still need &#8220;The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/04/01/singing-magnets/</link>
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		<title>I&#8217;d like to thank&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My lovely wife, Nicole for making me swedish pancakes this morning. Mmmmmm&#8230;.
My parents for sending me the books &#8220;Yiddish With Dick &#038; Jane&#8221; and &#8220;When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?&#8221;
My Aunt Rita for sending me the DVDs &#8220;Gross Pointe Blank,&#8221; and &#8220;Shallow Grave,&#8221; and &#8220;Schindler&#8217;s List&#8221; (when it gets here)
Nicole for getting me a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/04/01/id-like-to-thank-2/</link>
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		<title>My food list for the day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I started with a few Red Oval Farms Stoned Wheat Thins (my favorite cracker in the world. Then Nicole made me swedish pancakes and cooked up some nice fatty sausage. 
Then I came to work and I&#8217;m having a coke, and I&#8217;ve had an Original Cinn.
10:50AM &#8211; Another Original Cinn
11:15AM  &#8211; Another cinn down [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/04/01/id-like-to-thank/</link>
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		<title>Everything is hooked up</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last night I hooked up the rest of the game systems, including Nicole&#8217;s old NES. For the first time I briefly played Super Mario World on the NES. This morning I tried all the Atari Carts, including some I had never played but just picked up at a thrift store. Four were dead but the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/03/31/everything-is-hooked-up/</link>
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		<title>Atari in glorious HD</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have this new projector that is capable of HDTV resolutions. I&#8217;m moving where all the A/V stuff lives and that also means moving the game systems. First to hook up is the Atari 2600 and of course I had to test it with a little Yar&#8217;s Revenge. Projector capable of displaying better than the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/03/30/atari-in-glorious-hd/</link>
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		<title>Into the double digits</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just finished level 9 of the exercise bike. On to level 10. 
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		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/03/30/into-the-double-digits/</link>
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		<title>My pie</title>
		<description><![CDATA[find your inner PIE @ stvlive.com
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		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/03/29/my-pie/</link>
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		<title>New projector is set up!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There still a little fine tuning on position and such, but the picture is so beautiful, and it&#8217;s just projecting on the wall! DVDs look wonderful and you can see stuff even inthe dark scenes. Video games are made to look not as good in some ways now in that it is so sharp you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/03/28/new-projector-is-set-up/</link>
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		<title>The office is back together</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At least for now we are done with the office. The floor is still unpainted concrete but it&#8217;s nicer looking and functional again. Later we&#8217;ll pull everything out again and put in a floating floor. There was an article in This Old House that made it look pretty easy. It&#8217;s also been re-arranged to make [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/03/28/the-office-is-back-together/</link>
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		<title>Finally I played my cube</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This morning I was up early and didn&#8217;t have to go to the gym so I decided to hook up the Gamecube to the small tv (the projector is busted). I figured it was about time I tried those bargain bin games I picked up in the past 9 months.
First up was Minority Report &#8211; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/03/24/finally-i-played-my-cube/</link>
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		<title>I wish my nose would stop draining</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I was ripping out the carpet in the computer room and moving everything around I felt fine. The night while my body was resting it was also responding to all the mold and dust in my system and clogging my allergies. Now it&#8217;s all draining.
On the bright side, did I mention I&#8217;m up to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/03/23/i-wish-my-nose-would-stop-draining/</link>
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		<title>Exercise bike</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I didn&#8217;t think I was goign to make it to the end of my cycle today. My legs were tired and I wanted to stop, but I just kept telling myself to go and see how it turns out. I finished level 8&#8230; barely.
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		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/03/23/exercise-bike-2/</link>
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		<title>Dude Where&#8217;s My Car</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been wanting to see this for awhile to find out why it was so popular. The main characters aren&#8217;t believable stoners, and they don&#8217;t play morons very well. The surrounding characters are all more interesting to watch than they are so the movie ends up being a loosely tied together set of skits that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/03/22/dude-wheres-my-car/</link>
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		<title>Done with The Turk</title>
		<description><![CDATA[That was a really good book. I like how it followed linearly in time like it was a biography and the turk was a living thing. I also enjoyed the parallels between the turk and modern chess playing machines. You don&#8217;t even have to know or like chess to enjoy this book.
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		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/03/22/done-with-the-turk/</link>
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		<title>A night off</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last night Nicole asked if I was going to paint. I said I might. Then she said I should do something like play video games since I&#8217;ve been wanting to play lately. I know that really she was afraid I was going to mess up the paint already done or not do a very good [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/03/22/a-night-off/</link>
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		<title>A new workout</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So I learned that my slow reps aren&#8217;t as slow as the very slow reps that people say are good. I also read about a study that showed that all were good and the ones who trained for slow were better at slow motions with resistance and likewise for the other speeds, which makes sense. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/03/22/a-new-workout/</link>
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		<title>Another exercise bike level</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It was hard but I completed an hour on level 7.  Level 8 here I come!
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		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/03/21/another-exercise-bike-level/</link>
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		<title>Sometimes there is a mess (part 2)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sunday we decided that would need to rip out all the moldy smelly carpet, which means we need to pull out everythign in the room. While everything is out it&#8217;s the perfect opportunity to paint the room something that isn&#8217;t yellow. 
We went to OSH and picked out some paint and ran other errands before [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/03/21/sometimes-there-is-a-mess-part-2/</link>
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		<title>Sometimes there is a mess</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Friday afternoon a wet spot was on the floor of the computer room. At first it was thought that one of the dogs had peed in protest since the other one did so earlier in the day. But that night we saw the wet spot grew. Then we saw that the carpet was wet elsewhere and that various paper things on the floor had absorbed a lot of water. ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/03/21/sometimes-there-is-a-mess/</link>
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		<title>Another flat tire</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I got another flat tire on my scooter today. The mile push home was a pretty good work out at least. 
The problem is that the tire is rated for 330lbs. I&#8217;m about 200 and the back part of the scooter is about 70-80 lbs. That&#8217;s all fine until you hit a dip or somethign [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/03/16/another-flat-tire/</link>
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		<title>My allergy story</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve always had allergies. My parents thought abotu getting me tested but I was getting close to puberty and the allergists said that it&#8217;ll all change then so don&#8217;t bother.  After puberty we never thought about tests again.
I knew some people got allergy shots but I didn&#8217;t know that they purpose behind them was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/03/16/my-allergy-story/</link>
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		<title>Recording Star Wars</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I own the original (pre-special edition) Star Wars movies on laser disc. These are the remastered and cleaned up ones done by Lucasfilm in the early 90s. I have a goal of being able to record these to my hard drive and then to a dvd. 
Along the way, I&#8217;ve upgraded my capture card to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/03/15/recording-star-wars/</link>
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		<title>Pirate name</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

    My pirate name is:
    

     Roger Vane
    
  

     You tend to blend into the background occaisionally, but that&#8217;s okay, because it&#8217;s much easier to sneak up on people and disembowel them that way.   [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/03/15/pirate-name/</link>
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		<title>White Chicks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I wanted to see this since I first saw the trailer. The make-up was at the same time not real looking enough and yet I couldn&#8217;t look away, and on top of that it made me laugh. I figured the move would be about the same and while it was, it was also much funnier [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/03/15/white-chicks/</link>
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		<title>I really wasn&#8217;t feeling it</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s workout I just wasn&#8217;t in the mood for it. I went through the motions and did most of the exercises but I didn&#8217;t push myself. I know some exercise is better than no exercise so I did what I could. 
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		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/03/15/i-really-wasnt-feeling-it/</link>
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		<title>Level 6 is done</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was thinking about using the hand bike this morning but then I decided I needed to challenge my but to 60 minutes on the exercise bike. I completed level 6 on random with my increasing RPM throughout. I think I&#8217;m going to stick with the bike for awhile.
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		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/03/14/level-6-is-done/</link>
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		<title>The Pianist</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You might have noticed that I&#8217;m pretty far behind in films. At least I&#8217;m catching up. 
The Pianist was quite good and quite sad at the same time. From my reading and my education about the Holocaust growing up I feel it brought those teachings to life which made it feel more real and more [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/03/13/the-pianist/</link>
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		<title>Freaky Friday</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So I finally saw the Freaky Friday remake. It was surprisingly good! Jamie Lee Curtis and Ms. Lohan both did a good job acting like one another and I was buying into the body switch thing. Hmmm&#8230; Aside from the wedding being the next day I don&#8217;t think they mentioned that it was Friday!
Anyway, check [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/03/13/freaky-friday/</link>
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		<title>The Jacket</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The trailers make it look like a scary movie or a thriller. It&#8217;s none of those things. A few things might startle you, but that is not the intent of the movie. The movie is just presenting an interesting story along the lines of Somewhere in Time although a bit darker.
It was entertaining and I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/03/11/the-jacket/</link>
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		<title>Million Dollar Baby</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nicole and I saw this the day that the Academy Awards happened. I&#8217;m glad that the trailers I saw didn&#8217;t show too much since I wasn&#8217;t expecting it to go in that direction at all. 
I don&#8217;t entirely agree with others about the Morgan Freeman role being completely unnecessary. He had to be there as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/03/11/million-dollar-baby/</link>
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		<title>I talked to a trainer today</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I told him about the slow reps and he suggested that I throw in super-slow reps (about 10 seconds) to keep the body on its toes. Then he got excited and decided it&#8217;s time for him to start with them again.
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		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/03/11/i-talked-to-a-trainer-today/</link>
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		<title>The Turk</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just started reading The Turk by Tom Standage about the 18th century chess playing machine. While I&#8217;m not far into it yet, the review of automata at the time is fascinating. 
I had no idea such interesting devices were created, like a flute playing statue that really did the playing!
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		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/03/11/the-turk/</link>
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		<title>Exercise bike</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I almost completed the hour on the exercise bike with my little routing but just couldn&#8217;t keep it up at the end. Level 6 is going down next time.
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		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/03/09/exercise-bike/</link>
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		<title>No more sugar</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After Sunday I&#8217;m not goign to have ny refined sugar until my birthday. And then not until May 19th (Star Wars) and then not until bbq (May 21st) and then not until the 4th of July. I don&#8217;t know when after that, but that&#8217;s pretty good.
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		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/03/09/no-more-sugar/</link>
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		<title>Now it&#8217;s getting going</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today was my first workout with both the slow reps and using the 60% of max weights. I can feel it in all my muscles now which is good. I haven&#8217;t had that all over tired from working out feeling in a long time.
I also learned that using slow reps (4 counts up, 4 counts [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/03/08/now-its-getting-going/</link>
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		<title>For demon sex</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thank you, mo! That was a good read.
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		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/03/07/for-demon-sex/</link>
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		<title>Needing a Coke</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today shortly before lunch I found a Coke cap that entitled me to a free 1-liter Coke product. I knew that a 10-15 minute walk away, the Grog Shop, was a place that not only carried 1-liter Coke product, but also honored the caps. So I set out on my walk at a good pace [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/03/07/needing-a-coke/</link>
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		<title>Determining what weights to start at&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So I was reading Men&#8217;s Health (got a free issue) and in one of the science/medical blurbs it mentions how you get the real benefit for muscle when you start your weight routine lifting 60% of the maximum you can lift in one rep. So today I went to the gym to deter mine my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/03/06/determining-what-weights-to-start-at/</link>
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		<title>Yesterday and today</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I took off as a rest day. I stretched my calves out since they were pretty sore, and I started trying to stretch out my hamstrings.  The hamstrings have to be done every day to try and gain some semblence of normal flexibility. Right now if I need  flexing my back does [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/03/04/yesterday-and-today/</link>
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		<title>Other things I need to do</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I need to start taking vitamins and minerals again. I need to work on flexibility. I need to actually do stretching after exercises so I&#8217;m nto so tight the next day.
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		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/03/02/other-things-i-need-to-do/</link>
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		<title>First cardio workout</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today I hit the exercise bike, the LifeCycle 9500, for 40 minutes. Next time I&#8217;ll try to up it to an hour, but my legs were ready after 40 minutes. It was only level 6 (out of 20) and I was just thinking that I remembered when 10 was easy.
The basic structure of my ride [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/03/02/first-cardio-workout/</link>
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		<title>My goals</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I suppose I should state my goals up front here. 
Get more fit
See if I&#8217;m the kind of person who can get 6-pack abs
Start working towards another triathlon
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		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/03/01/my-goals/</link>
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		<title>The exercises</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I started out with 10 minutes on the exercise bike for a warm-up. I tried to keep the RPM between 90-95.
Abs:
Ab bench with feet raised &#8211; 2 sets of 10 (hard to do slow)
Back raises &#8211; 1 set of 15, 1 set of 7
Rotary torso &#8211; 2 sets each side at 50 (this one is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/03/01/the-exercises/</link>
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		<title>First day back</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So today was my first day exercising in a little over 1.5 years. There were a few days with ice skating involved in them but aside from that I haven&#8217;t done any real exercise since my last sprint triathlon in July 2003.
My goal today was to find my levels where I should be starting again [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/03/01/first-day-back/</link>
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		<title>My first post</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is my first and hopefully worst post in this blog while I figure out how everything actually works. 
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		<link>http://www.7thsign.com/~salguod/2005/02/27/my-first-post/</link>
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