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	<title>Cheerful Curmudgeon</title>
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	<description>A complete lack of ideas and the power to express them.</description>
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		<title>Server Backups are Important</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I got a frantic email from a friend this week. One of his subcontractors went crazy and trashed several of my friend&#8217;s clients&#8217; web sites as well as my friend&#8217;s own business site. The police have been involved but much damage has already been done. I wish I had been hosting my friend&#8217;s sites. Had I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trouble&#8217;s Brewing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just read a shocking article in the paper about a newly available intoxicant. It starts on the front page and continues for almost the entirety of page A8. That&#8217;s a lot of words for our local rag. Here are a few quotes so you can understand why so many people are concerned:
The clerk at the&#8230; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cheerfulcurmudgeon.com/2010/02/27/troubles-brewing/</link>
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		<title>Around the Bend</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We just watched Around the Bend with Michael Caine, Christopher Walken and Josh Lucas. To say that it was way better than I expected would be a gross understatement. I  thoroughly enjoyed watching the family secrets slowly reveal, the characters slowly grow together, and the idiosyncrasies slowly resolve into sense.
There were moments when I chuckled at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cheerfulcurmudgeon.com/2010/02/20/around-the-bend/</link>
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		<title>Lose Weight, Save Money</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have dropped 24 pounds since last May, which makes me smile. Now, in addition to simply being smaller, I have two more reasons to smile. First, my last blood test for cholesterol levels came back with greatly improved numbers across the board. This means that I will likely be around longer to sponge off [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cheerfulcurmudgeon.com/2010/02/08/lose-weight-save-money/</link>
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		<title>Griffin Up! Save Saab</title>
		<description><![CDATA[David, my younger son, co-organized the St. Louis Saab Convoy last weekend. Despite miserable weather, the St. Louis Swede Speed club got about 25 people to bring a dozen cars out for the St. Louis Save Saab Convoy, urging GM to sell Saab rather than close down the line.
Fox 2 News even covered the event. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cheerfulcurmudgeon.com/2010/01/30/griffin-up-save-saab/</link>
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		<title>199 Pounds!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As anticipated on December 22, today I made it down to 199 pounds for the first time since, well, since heaven-only knows when! To the groans of all, I celebrate with another six word story:
One hundred ninety nine pounds. Yipee!
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		<link>http://cheerfulcurmudgeon.com/2010/01/17/199-pounds/</link>
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		<title>More Bandwidth Than a Station Wagon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Back when I administered VAXen running BSD UNIX at FileNet, &#8220;just&#8221; 25 years ago or so, we didn&#8217;t have a high speed internet connection to use in transferring files between computers. I used a bank of Racal-Vadic 2400 baud modems to run UUCP and shuffle email and usenet articles around. With five modems in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cheerfulcurmudgeon.com/2010/01/14/more-bandwidth-than-a-station-wagon/</link>
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		<title>The Comfy Old Shirt</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Imagine it&#8217;s one of those lazy mornings when you don&#8217;t feel like doing much of anything. You woke up and shrugged into a comfy old shirt. You left your cuffs unbuttoned. The left half of your collar sticks up, since you never bothered to look in the mirror. As for the buttons down the front, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cheerfulcurmudgeon.com/2010/01/10/the-comfy-old-shirt/</link>
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		<title>Goal Achieved!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today, I celebrate. Since I began exercising and eating less on Memorial Day, I have lost 20 pounds! First goal achieved.  
Next goal, which should be pretty quick if the gods of metabolism cooperate: Weigh less than 200 pounds. I cannot remember the last time I weighed less than 200 pounds.
After that, I think [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cheerfulcurmudgeon.com/2009/12/22/goal-achieved/</link>
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		<title>Congrats, Boeing! 787 Dreamliner Flies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Way to go Boeing!

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		<link>http://cheerfulcurmudgeon.com/2009/12/15/congrats-boeing-787-dreamliner-flies/</link>
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