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		<title>Parenting can be incredibly tiring</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 14:51:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nels Lindahl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of my resolutions for 2012 included actively blogging/writing every day. The joy of parenthood has dramatically changed my sleep and writing schedules. On a side note, did you know that a baby can squeak? Out of nowhere John Paul on occasion just squeaks&#8230; As my new world of eventualities unfolds, I am struggling to find a rhythm between work, personal life, and academic life. For the last few years, I have worked on different sets of tasking without any real interruption. One of my goals for this weekend is to watch the super bowl and complete my Stanford University classes from the Stanford Center for Professional Development. I have already selected a location in my office for the Stanford University advanced project management certificate. As part of my journey into the world of project management certification, I recently acquired Rita Mulcahy’s book, “PMP Exam Prep, Seventh Edition: Rita&#8217;s Course in a Book for Passing the PMP Exam.” At some point within the next 3 months, I plan on taking the Project Management Institute (PMI) Project Management Professional (PMP) exam. After gain the Stanford Certified Project Manager (SCPM) and PMP credentials, I plan on focusing my attention on earning a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thinking about country clubs and golf in general</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 17:50:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[During the course of 2012, I want to spend more time playing golf and less time watching television. Are both cable and satellite television companies swimming upstream against the growing force of internet enabled content? We cut the cord (aka cancelled our satellite and or cable subscription) about a year ago.  For the most part, the transition has been relatively seamless. I have been asking myself the question, “Who really needs to watch several hours of television per day?” Giving up watching live sports on ESPN was probably the hardest part of cutting the cord. Cable news networks are capable of providing hours of mindless background noise, but they rarely deliver truly informative content. We just got a flyer from Xfinity (Comcast) that would provide cable, internet, and phone for about $89.99 a month. It is interesting to see the difference between the on demand video content services provided by satellite and cable companies versus the on demand content that companies like Netflix provide.]]></description>
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		<title>Weekend Activities Reconsidered</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Sep 2011 13:39:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apparently, the Joni plan involves some type of activity during every day of every weekend. My weekend may very well involve a trip to Costco or maybe even Lowes.  After acquiring a Keurig Platinum B70 gourmet single cup coffee maker with 60 samples I have watched my supply of k-cups dwindle. Costco only sells a handful of K-Cup varieties. It would be nice if Costco sold a sweet variety pack. Outside of coffee considerations a trip to Lowes will probably involve looking at ceiling fans.]]></description>
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		<title>Questioning Finding Atlantis</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Mar 2011 14:53:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The National Geographic Channel will be airing a show about Finding Atlantis this week. I am very curios to find out more about the possibility of the lost city of Atlantis being discovered right off the coast of Spain. How did cartographers miss an entire city?]]></description>
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		<title>Notes from 20101129</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 2010 14:08:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nels Lindahl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[* Joni and I just adopted a new (new to us) Australian cattle dog this weekend. Peppercorn the dog definitely is used to flying solo and having the complete run of the house. Puppies are (and will always be) an adventure. Training a dog without the use of treats or fear requires an extreme amount of patience, but the results are well worth the effort. * A few pages for the new novel are starting to turn over (albeit slower than expected). Writing has to become a state of mind for the writer. Being drawn to the page requires a certain degree of passion for the project. Being forced to writer defeats the purpose and ultimately cheats the project. Professional writers certainly end up writing on a schedule and only an endless reserve of passion for the work allows that compromise. * Stream of consciousness writing produces strange and interesting results. Going back and editing prose generated from a stream of consciousness writing session can be challenging. * Over the course of the last few months, I feel that the amount of interesting video content on Netflix has disappeared. Maybe my moving watching tastes are changing. * The new dog [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Notes from 20101114</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Nov 2010 14:30:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[* After watching televised advertisements, I learned Papa Murphy’s now has a Bacon Bacon Bacon Pizza (a pizza with three kinds of bacon). Americas has developed a fascination with bacon and Papa Murphy’s pizza has decided to exploit that fascination for profit. What percentage of people using video recording options to capture content (for time shifting) takes the time to watch commercials? Do live sporting events and AM radio shows provide the only method of actual advertisement and therefore should be more expensive? * If NBC decided to sustain the blockade against Google TV, then the potential for online advertisement revenue will be lost. Say for example somebody wanted to watch full-length episodes of the show Outsourced on the NBC website using Google TV and the blockaded turned away that potential viewer. Not only did NBC fail to gain additional advertisement revenue, but the network also lost the opportunity to diversify the brand by introducing new viewers to other content (generating additional revenue streams). Consider for a moment, that NBC has also disenfranchised anybody who owns or uses a Google TV. Broadcast television stations lack subscription subscribes and have no contractual obligations to hold viewers hostage. Maybe disenfranchisement was the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Notes from 20101107</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Nov 2010 12:59:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nels Lindahl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The (daylight savings extended) day started with a sweet Windows 7 error. What could be more wicked fun than a day full of wicked errors? When a computer profile does not load correctly doing any kind of meaningful work becomes problematic. For the most part doing meaningful work at 3:00 AM MST becomes problematic. Joni thought it was a good idea to pain accent walls and the regular walls in the family room. The exceptionally dark red historic color Joni selected seems to require a minimum of three coats of paint to fully cover our lightly textured white walls. The redesign will also include a major purchase. At some point between now and the first of next year, a new television will be purchased. The purchase will be based on the television purchase paradigm in celebration of the holiday season. We have started to visually evaluate HDTV options. Given the situation two general buying options exists including  buying either a high altitude plasma HDTV or a LED HDTV. A good competitive game is the best part about having Sunday off during football season. The Minnesota Vikings certainly delivered an exciting second half of National Football League (NFL) action this Sunday. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>20100827 Weblog Adventures</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 15:20:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A weblog rule violation almost occurred today. A major post about the phone that cannot be named is resting in weblog draft status. Weblog postings seem to require more and more energy to complete. Over the last few months the Twitter update utility has been providing updates. A recent change in Twitter policy has changed the entire weblog archive policy. All future weblog updates will involve a series of keystrokes instead of automated processes. Why would finding a great Lasagna recipe be difficult? What is better a digital archive or a recipe box? Being able to relax might be the best part of having Friday off from work. The biggest adventure today will probably involve cleaning the Ford Explorer. Somehow or someway the Explorer gets exceptionally dirty. Update: The explorer is now clean. What are the best android applications?]]></description>
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		<title>Saturday Considered</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Aug 2010 18:57:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Laundry problem resolved. Strange shower drain clog corrected. Vegetarian burrito from Chipotle devoured. Reel lawn mower returned to the garage. Saturday considered. Additional Saturday activities planned.]]></description>
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		<title>HTC EVO 4G Shortages</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 12:47:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Who would have ever guessed at the advent of the digital age that technology companies would have a hard time producing portable electronics? With any new technology the process of early adoption always remains problematic. HTC will probably continue attempting to be a functional wireless device manufacturing company. At some point the company will need to ramp up production to meet real work demand. Sprint is struggling to have enough 4G devices in the marketplace. Unless something new comes along in the next few weeks, I will keep waiting for the HTC EVO 4G to become available. Everything could have been somewhat easy, but nothing in the real work every really works out that way. Rob and a few other people have noticed the number of posts on this weblog about the HTC EVO 4G. Then again Rob “The World’s Finest” tends to engage in the process of creating origami. Rob may or may not be the foremost connoisseur of paper based shuriken (ninja stars) on the planet. At some point, HTC will manage to produce enough of the HTC EVO 4G phones to make the commercially available online again for regular consumers who refuse to wait at stores for [...]]]></description>
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