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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 00:59:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Stirling</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You know, I deliberately avoided taking Statistics when I was in my undergrad because the whole concept is mind-numbing to me.  That’s not to say that I don’t appreciate the utility of the discipline; statistics are very, very important and I’m glad that there are people that know how to create them accurately.  I just [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=exercisingmonsters.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8830240&amp;post=2131&amp;subd=exercisingmonsters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Early Morning on the Train</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 12:47:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Stirling</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m on a train headed into the city. It&#8217;s still dark out, but we&#8217;re driving toward the slowly brightening eastern horizon. This section of seats is all but empty, and the few people in it are all asleep or feigning sleep well enough to keep away unwanted social interaction. Everyone here looks old this morning. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=exercisingmonsters.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8830240&amp;post=2127&amp;subd=exercisingmonsters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Skyrim is Better Than the Golden Globes</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 03:13:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Stirling</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(This is the lamest return to blogging ever.) Last night, I took a stand.  Erin wanted to watch the Golden Globes, that marathon of celebrities celebrating themselves all over us.  I argue that watching award shows supports the concept of celebrity worship and idolatry, much as I argue that buying US Weekly keeps the Kardashians [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=exercisingmonsters.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8830240&amp;post=2123&amp;subd=exercisingmonsters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On the Lake</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 02:35:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Stirling</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[pillar and post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stratus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[time away with the one you love]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When you have a child, sometimes you forget what it feels like to just be with your spouse, alone, away, not responsible for feeding, changing, and consoling.  That doesn’t mean you don’t still love your baby to death, that you don’t treasure every moment with her, that you want things to change.  You just don’t [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=exercisingmonsters.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8830240&amp;post=2115&amp;subd=exercisingmonsters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Twisted Paths: Part 4</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 00:30:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Stirling</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every once in a while, I like to survey some of the stranger incoming searches that have led people to Exercising Monsters.  These search terms are brief glimpses into the minds of people that ended up disappointed that they got here. buttocks blown off:  Also “butt blown off in war.”  I guess this happens more [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=exercisingmonsters.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8830240&amp;post=2110&amp;subd=exercisingmonsters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Christmas:  A 2011 Retrospective</title>
		<link>http://exercisingmonsters.wordpress.com/2011/12/31/christmas-a-2011-retrospective/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 14:28:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Stirling</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve been staying away from blogging for a while, I think just to keep my priorities straight through the busy holiday season.  Time has been at a premium.  It’s been all I can do to try to keep up with Abby as she revels in her new toys and books, simultaneously making it impossible to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=exercisingmonsters.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8830240&amp;post=2101&amp;subd=exercisingmonsters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An Antidote to Yesterday</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 21:28:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Stirling</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m sorry that I am such a grumpy old sod.  I come from a long line of grumps, if that excuses it at all.  (I know that it doesn’t.) But, as is so often the case in my life, something always comes up to lift my spirits.  In this case, it was one of my [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=exercisingmonsters.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8830240&amp;post=2095&amp;subd=exercisingmonsters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hmmph</title>
		<link>http://exercisingmonsters.wordpress.com/2011/12/20/hmmph/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 01:04:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Stirling</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m in a foul mood today.  I don’t really know why.  I feel old and useless.  Maybe it’s the fact that I am between classes and I can’t seem to get focused on finding material for my thesis.  Maybe it’s the fact that I had a lead on a job that has since disintegrated for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=exercisingmonsters.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8830240&amp;post=2093&amp;subd=exercisingmonsters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Belated</title>
		<link>http://exercisingmonsters.wordpress.com/2011/12/19/belated/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 00:36:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Stirling</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[31 is too old to live]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://exercisingmonsters.wordpress.com/?p=2089</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Yes I should have blogged by now.  I have had many a party, many a gathering, and many an event in the last week, and I am overdue for sharing those things in a humorous way, but I am also completely spent when it comes to energy. Also, I am now officially 31, which is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=exercisingmonsters.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8830240&amp;post=2089&amp;subd=exercisingmonsters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Two Unrelated Regrets</title>
		<link>http://exercisingmonsters.wordpress.com/2011/12/11/two-unrelated-regrets/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2011 23:55:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Stirling</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[battered fish fail]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[UFC 140]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[UFC 140 went off last night, and again, I didn’t bother to get the Pay Per View.  It’s not like I’ve lost interest in MMA, or that the card wasn’t decent.  I just didn’t get on the ball to see if there was anyone else within a 30 minute drive of my house that wanted [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=exercisingmonsters.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8830240&amp;post=2087&amp;subd=exercisingmonsters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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