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		<title>Meeting the Janitors (Author)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Saturday I visited my local Barnes &#38;  Noble with my kids. It turns out it was &#8220;writers day&#8221; or something, and they had at least a dozen local authors doing signings in the store. My daughter overheard on the intercom that Tyler Whitesides, author of Janitors, was in the store. One of her friends [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In defense of wealth &#8211; Part 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A lot of noise has been made lately about Mitt Romney and Warren Buffet&#8217;s tax rate being so low, while Buffet&#8217;s secretary&#8217;s tax rate is much higher. For starters, I don&#8217;t know what the secretary makes, but it has to be much higher than what I make, because I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve ever paid more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In defense of wealth &#8211; Part 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thom</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Strategies]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know defending the rich is not a popular thing to do right now, but&#8230;heck, I&#8217;ve never been popular anyway. Right now, due to relocation for work and the current housing market (caused as much by well-meaning politicians trying to help poor people who, oddly enough, can&#8217;t afford houses), I&#8217;m carrying two mortgages. That&#8217;s okay. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s a wonderful wife</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thom</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gratitude]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve probably talked about this before, but I don&#8217;t think I could ever talk about it enough. If my life is at all pleasant, enjoyable, and headed in the right direction, it&#8217;s because I have a wonderful wife. We&#8217;ve been through a lot in our twelve years together. We&#8217;re on our third house, my fourth [...]]]></description>
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		<title>And now a word from our sponsor</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Several years ago our family became vegetarian, then vegan. Mostly, anyway. We don&#8217;t force the kids to, especially since there are so many food-related activities at school. And I find it difficult when there are work parties and lunches. But at home we are, because we can control what we eat at home. The reasons [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: Neuromancer, by William Gibson</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Having read and enjoyed several of William Gibson&#8217;s more recent novels and loved them, I thought it might be a good idea to jump back in time and read &#8220;Neuromancer&#8221;, the novel that both started his career and the cyberpunk genre. It was an interesting trip. For someone who had started at the beginning and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Morning cramming</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently read my brother&#8217;s blog post on using mornings to greater advantage. For me, mornings are a great time to get some things done that won&#8217;t get done unless I can schedule a specific time every day to do them. I try scheduling things for evening, but even if only one evening a week [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Richard and the Bee</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thom</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gratitude]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Human Experience]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As a parent there are times you just have to cross your fingers, pray, and hope for the best. We had such a situation this week. Our youngest&#8211;and most shy&#8211;child decided to enter the school spelling bee. His division would include not just first graders like himself, but first, second and third graders together. And, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Goals for 2012</title>
		<link>http://www.thomstratton.com/2012/01/goals-for-2012/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thom</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Planning]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I told you&#8217;d I&#8217;d be back with specific goals for this year! And you doubted me! And with good reason, since here it is, nearly the end of January, and I&#8217;m just now getting them done. That&#8217;s my secret&#8211;if you procrastinate long enough you only have to keep your resolutions for eleven months instead of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who is the hero?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thom</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Human Experience]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aragorn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brandon Sanderson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Frodo]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[hobbits]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sam]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve recently been listening to a podcast on writing presented by Brandon Sanderson and several other writers, in which they discuss a different aspect of writing each time, in about fifteen minutes per post. In one such post the were covering heroes, protagonists, and main characters when it came out that they didn&#8217;t consider Aragorn [...]]]></description>
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