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	<title>shyspeak.net &#187; 2005 &#187; December</title>
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		<title>New Year&#8217;s Eve</title>
		<link>http://shyspeak.net/2005/12/31/new-years-eve/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2006 04:28:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Less than three hours until 2006!  I wonder at the mystique surrounding the notion of a &#8220;new&#8221; year.  It&#8217;s refreshing, I suppose, that so many consider the moment when the ball drops in Time&#8217;s Square to be a time of renewal&#8230;starting over&#8230;a new hope.  Personally, I&#8217;m looking forward to putting &#8216;06 behind [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Theme</title>
		<link>http://shyspeak.net/2005/12/30/new-theme/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2005 22:41:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JOS</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The appearance of my blog has changed since my days at Blogsome.  I installed several new themes, but this one, with the scraps of paper taped to the black background (poster board?) is my favorite.  Most of the language used in this theme was German, so I had to translate much of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Afternoon Naps</title>
		<link>http://shyspeak.net/2005/12/30/afternoon-naps/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2005 22:29:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JOS</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s mid-afternoon and everyone is asleep, except, of course, for me (although I suppose I could be sleep-typing this post).  I do feel a bit fatigued because I didn&#8217;t sleep well last night, but generally can&#8217;t nap (I wake up even more tired than I was when I laid down&#8211;kinda defeats the purpose of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ender</title>
		<link>http://shyspeak.net/2005/12/29/ender/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2005 04:41:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JOS</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Ender Wiggins, the child savant responsible for destroying the &#8220;buggers&#8221; in the great war between the earth and these horrible creatures.  Ender is a creation of the author Orson Scott Card.  I&#8217;m reading the first novel in a trilogy called &#8220;Speaker for the Dead,&#8221; which begins where the first tale of Ender Wiggins, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Domain</title>
		<link>http://shyspeak.net/2005/12/29/new-domain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2005 03:31:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JOS</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://shyspeak.net/?p=36</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve moved my blog from blogsome.com to a server on BlueHost.com.  The blogsome site worked well enough and the WordPress interface was very easy to use, but the time it took to load during what I suppose are peak hours was simply unsatisfactory.  So, I&#8217;ve opened an account with BlueHost and am happy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quiet Evening</title>
		<link>http://shyspeak.net/2005/12/28/quiet-evening/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2005 05:23:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JOS</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[My wife and I went to see the movie, &#8220;The Family Stone,&#8221; this afternoon.  It was okay, but not quite what I expected.  Although there were plenty of laughs, it was much more &#8220;serious&#8221; than I expected it to be.  After the movie, we drove to a little Vietnamise restaurant nearby, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>President Bush Caught Eavesdropping</title>
		<link>http://shyspeak.net/2005/12/18/president-bush-caught-eavesdropping/</link>
		<comments>http://shyspeak.net/2005/12/18/president-bush-caught-eavesdropping/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Dec 2005 17:43:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JOS</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[According to the Wall Street Journal, &#8220;President Bush said Saturday he personally has authorized a secret eavesdropping program in the U.S. more than 30 times since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks&#8230;&#8221;  In response to the release of this information, President Bush stated in a radio address from the White House Roosevelt Room that, &#8220;(t)his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Saturday Night</title>
		<link>http://shyspeak.net/2005/12/17/saturday-night/</link>
		<comments>http://shyspeak.net/2005/12/17/saturday-night/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Dec 2005 02:33:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JOS</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Holst&#8217;s, &#8220;Saturn, The Bringer of Old Age,&#8221; is playing in the background as I write this evening.  This particular version was played by the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra and was conducted by Herbert von Karajan.  A very slow, methodic piece of music.  When I listen to it I see a small child ascending [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The VPC</title>
		<link>http://shyspeak.net/2005/12/15/the-vpc/</link>
		<comments>http://shyspeak.net/2005/12/15/the-vpc/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2005 05:53:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JOS</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Drove my Jeep to the Vehicle Processing Center in Dallas yesterday.  As planned, I left about 3 a.m. with a cup of coffee in hand and about 5 hours sleep (thanks, Restoril!).  The drive was uneventful for the first half of my journey.  Just south of Amarillo, shorty after turning off I40 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Packing for Korea</title>
		<link>http://shyspeak.net/2005/12/12/packing-for-korea/</link>
		<comments>http://shyspeak.net/2005/12/12/packing-for-korea/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2005 20:09:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JOS</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Today the movers packed-up my household goods for shipping to Korea.  The packer seemed to think there was less than 500 pounds, but I think he&#8217;s probably off by about 300 pounds.  He&#8217;s going to give me a call after it&#8217;s weighed and let me know.  If the shipment is less than [...]]]></description>
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