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		<title>View from the top</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My good friend Kipp finally decided to get hitched and it just so happened that his [now] wife is from Hawaii&#8230;so, the wedding was in Hawaii and for obvious reasons Jen and I thought we shouldn&#8217;t miss out on such an occasion. Now I could go on and on about how amazing the wedding was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://silentfool.com/2010/08/14/view-from-the-top/</link>
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		<title>QR Codes &#8211; Technobabble</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Much like life, I&#8217;m not sure where this is headed, but I&#8217;ve been prompted a few times lately that I should start blogging more. Even if it&#8217;s short or possibly irrelevant to my readers. How can I expect people to be faithful readers/followers if I&#8217;m not a faithful poster/writer. So&#8230;with that said&#8230; I just discovered [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://silentfool.com/2010/08/13/qr-codes-technobabble/</link>
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		<title>I take back what I said&#8230;2 years ago.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, I officially have no complaint about Apple and have entered into fan-boy world. Two years ago I went on a rant after Jen&#8217;s Macbook crashed. I was pretty ticked that it was a widely known issue, but Apple wasn&#8217;t doing anything. But today that changed&#8230;they announced a recall that will either replace your existing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://silentfool.com/2010/02/17/i-take-back-what-i-said-2-years-ago/</link>
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		<title>5 Tech Tips for PC users</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I know this happens to countless others. The phone rings, and it&#8217;s a friend/family member/co-worker and their PC just crashed. Now it&#8217;s my job to figure out how 6 months of downloading trash, adware, &#038; viruses could possibly have caused their computer to crash. Not that this will protect you 100%, but I&#8217;ve decided to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://silentfool.com/2010/02/10/5-tech-tips-for-pc-users/</link>
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		<title>Dream Big.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A while ago we played the &#8220;Newlywed Game&#8221; at my church. It was a pretty simple and clean version and one of the questions was this: &#8220;Wives, if your husband could have any car in the world, what would it be?&#8221; My jaw dropped at the responses. Out of 6, only one said anything exotic [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://silentfool.com/2009/07/20/dream-big/</link>
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		<title>10 Lessons from RC</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just glanced at some &#8220;drafts&#8221; on the blog, in other words things I began to post, but never did. Some of the writings probably aren&#8217;t ready for prime time yet, but I thought this one was decent and still rings true to where I am today. I wrote it about 10 months ago, around September [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://silentfool.com/2009/07/15/10-lessons-from-rc/</link>
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		<title>The Simple Things</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Late night inspiration brought about these 12 things that &#8220;I love&#8221;. Well, I don&#8217;t love them like I love God or my wife, but love as in I really like them. Aside from that, they&#8217;re all pretty much based on life experiences, so it&#8217;s really just insight into the simple things that make life just [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://silentfool.com/2009/06/15/the-simple-things/</link>
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		<title>Psalm 116:12</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For the past 4-5 months I&#8217;ve been leading worship at &#8220;The Gathering&#8221; [20's thing at my church]. Not a role I&#8217;m unfamiliar with, but not one that I&#8217;ve actually lead consistently before. Like anything, it&#8217;s a change that has really ended out changing me. I&#8217;ve spent a lot of time thinking about what makes a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://silentfool.com/2009/05/17/psalm-11612/</link>
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		<title>Non-Tradition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve realized that the longer my posts are, the less likely I am to actually publish. Therefore this will be brief. I went to a wedding tonight that was very different from most. For starters, it wasn&#8217;t in a church and it wasn&#8217;t outside. No live music, no singing, no unity candle. But&#8230;it was still [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://silentfool.com/2009/05/16/non-tradition/</link>
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		<title>There is No Why</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tonight I pulled up Netflix instant play and watched this documentary &#8220;Man on Wire&#8221;. It&#8217;s about a french man, Philippe, who back in the 70&#8242;s made it his obsession to walk on a tight rope drawn between the World Trade Center towers. The film is exceptionally well put together, with amazing photography and tons of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://silentfool.com/2009/04/12/there-is-no-why/</link>
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		<title>IMHO #1 &#8211; Life</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s just a quick observation&#8230; One really great thing about the internet is that you can be whoever you want to be. You can say things that you wouldn&#8217;t normally say, talk to people you wouldn&#8217;t normally talk to, and become someone, or at least create the image of yourself that your life is better/more [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://silentfool.com/2008/10/01/imho-1-life/</link>
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		<title>Let Us Know You</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Andy Osenga is quickly becoming one of my favorite musicians. What I&#8217;m posting about here is one of the big reasons why. A year or so ago Andy tried this experiment- he created a short album, completely for his fans and distributed it strictly through his website and iTunes. So, that&#8217;s not that ground breaking, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://silentfool.com/2008/09/18/let-us-know-you/</link>
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		<title>My Five [Tech]</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My boss/pastor asked me to send out a little survey to find out some information about leaders in our denomination. They were fairly simple questions like &#8220;What are the top 5 books you&#8217;ve read in the past 3 years&#8221;. I think it will be interesting to hear what comes back in the results. That led [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://silentfool.com/2008/09/04/my-five-tech/</link>
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		<title>Iphone test post</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m testing out the new wordpress iPhone app. If this works right, I&#8217;ll be in blogging heaven! And it does!!!]]></description>
		<link>http://silentfool.com/2008/07/22/iphone-test-post/</link>
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		<title>iPhone Day.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After a year of waiting, I&#8217;m finally going to become an iPhone owner this week&#8230;but not like you might think. When the iPhone came out I debated getting one, but at the time I didn&#8217;t need a new phone, Jen did. So she got one and I was forced to envy hers. Christmas rolled around [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://silentfool.com/2008/07/09/iphone-day/</link>
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		<title>House Hunting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For the past 6 months Jen and I have been house hunting. Actually, more like the past 2 years, but we didn&#8217;t really get too serious about it until 9-10 months ago. We got a Realtor and began casually looking here and there. We weren&#8217;t really sure what exactly we were looking for at the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://silentfool.com/2008/07/02/house-hunting/</link>
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		<title>curse of white suburban worship</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I say the word &#8220;Worship&#8221;, what pops in your mind? If you&#8217;re like me, the first thing that comes to mind is a suburban megachurch on a Saturday night. The worship leader playing the latest Tomlin or Redman tune while the crowd raises their hands to the heavens. Is that worship? Well, yes, I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://silentfool.com/2008/06/16/curse-of-white-suburban-worship/</link>
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		<title>no man&#8217;s land</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well&#8230;today sucked. That&#8217;s pretty much the only way I know to sum it up. Jen&#8217;s youngest sister is graduating from hight school tomorrow and to be there for occasion, Jen was scheduled to fly out today and fly back Monday. &#8220;Was&#8221; is the keyword. About 45 minutes into the 2 hour &#038; 15 minute drive [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://silentfool.com/2008/06/05/no-mans-land/</link>
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		<title>meaning to do this for some time</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve started and stopped writing several posts over the past few weeks and never hit the &#8220;Publish&#8221; button for whatever reason. I think the biggest part of it is that I let things pile up until I feel like I have something worthy of blogging, but by that time, there is just so much I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://silentfool.com/2008/06/03/meaning-to-do-this-for-some-time/</link>
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		<title>I&#8217;m a Girly-Man.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I can&#8217;t explain it, but over the past few weeks and months I&#8217;ve been having these moments. I just get flushed with emotions and my eyes well up with this salty substance that I&#8217;ve been told are called &#8220;tears&#8221;. I quickly wipe them away and try to think about manly things like baseball, dirt, or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://silentfool.com/2008/05/05/im-a-girly-man/</link>
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		<title>k2 + cssedit = design bliss</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, this site has undergone minor surgery. I modified my k2 theme and worked on some customization. It&#8217;s a far cry from what I have in my mind, but it&#8217;s a change and change is good. I also took the liberty of giving Jen&#8217;s site a revamp. I used this little program called CSSEdit, which [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://silentfool.com/2008/02/26/k2-cssedit-design-bliss/</link>
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		<title>something new</title>
		<description><![CDATA[alright, are you sitting down? I have some big news&#8230; I have a job. No, not a 2 month gig that has unreal hours with unreal pay. A real, 9-to-5, sitting-in-an-office-chair, job. I would have mentioned the prospect earlier, but to be honest, it was somewhat of a whirlwind. A week and a half ago [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://silentfool.com/2008/02/11/something-new/</link>
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		<title>3 things I&#8217;m excited about addicted to.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[1. Amazon Prime &#8211; right before the holidays I read a post from some guy saying that he didn&#8217;t shop at any B&#038;M (brick &#038; mortar) stores, but did all of his shopping on &#8220;Amazon Prime&#8221;. Prime? Never heard of it. So I did a little digging and basically Amazon Prime is a subscription to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://silentfool.com/2008/01/22/3-things-im-strikeexcited-aboutstrike-addicted-to/</link>
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		<title>Mac&#8217;s Aren&#8217;t Perfect</title>
		<description><![CDATA[And I thought my Vista issues were rough&#8230; Yesterday Jen&#8217;s Macbook crashed&#8230;hard. She was having some trouble with it responding and went to reboot&#8230;when she did, she saw the folder with question mark flashing (pictured above). I did a quick Google search using her iPhone (no internet on my computer, because I was using HER [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://silentfool.com/2007/12/20/macs-arent-perfect/</link>
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		<title>Vista that which I hate, despise, loath, etc</title>
		<description><![CDATA[No exageration, I have spent probably 20-30 hours this week fighting with my stupid computer in an effort to get connected to the local wireless connection. Jen&#8217;s Macbook on the other hand has had no problems. So&#8230;let&#8217;s work through this&#8230; wireless adapter #1 &#8211; incompatible with Vista, crashes the system upon boot. adapter #2 &#8211; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://silentfool.com/2007/12/14/vista-that-which-i-hate-despise-loath-etc/</link>
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		<title>Chicago/Des Moines</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well&#8230;once again, I suck at blogging. I seriously always start with the best intentions, I&#8217;m going to blog more, I&#8217;m going to journal more, I&#8217;m going to take more pictures, play more guitar, read more books, etc, etc. I know that my life is not exactly jam packed with stuff going on, but I STILL [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://silentfool.com/2007/12/03/chicagodes-moines/</link>
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		<title>speedtest</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The image/numbers up above are a little speed test for my new &#8220;turbo&#8221; internet service. 3-4 months ago I called asking about the service, but it was additional $20&#8230;too rich for my blood. Then 4-5 days ago they called offering a &#8220;free&#8221; upgrade&#8230;with the monthly charge of $5. I took it. So I went from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://silentfool.com/2007/10/11/speedtest/</link>
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		<title>fall 07</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Fall is here. It arrived yesterday. For about 2-3 years running now, it&#8217;s been kind of a 2 season rotation&#8230;no fall or spring, just summer and winter. 3-4 days ago it was 92. Today it&#8217;s 56. Feels more like winter I guess really. Last night when I went to take out the trash and heard [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://silentfool.com/2007/10/11/fall-07/</link>
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		<title>leave a message&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For the next few days&#8230; If you call my cell phone and I don&#8217;t answer or&#8230; If you knock at my door and I don&#8217;t let you in or&#8230; If you email me and I don&#8217;t respond&#8230; &#8230;it&#8217;s just because I got Halo 3 today (and it&#8217;s awesome). Life will return to normal&#8230;eventually.]]></description>
		<link>http://silentfool.com/2007/09/26/leave-a-message/</link>
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		<title>selling some stuff.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hey, I doubt that this will do much good considering the very limited audience that reads my blog, but I thought I would post a few things that I&#8217;m about to sell, just in case there is any interest- Guitar- 1974 Guild Starfire IV, $1200 Pics here. PDA &#8211; Dell Axim x51v + extra battery, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://silentfool.com/2007/09/15/selling-some-stuff/</link>
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		<title>time to switch.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ok, I am officially done with Windows Vista. I&#8217;m tired of all the little settings that you have to tweak, I&#8217;m tired of the drivers that don&#8217;t load, won&#8217;t load, or aren&#8217;t available. I&#8217;m tired of it crashing and not working right. I figured out today that my computer has been causing problems for about [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://silentfool.com/2007/09/15/time-to-switch/</link>
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		<title>techno babble</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, I&#8217;m feeling a little tech talk coming on. Be warned, all you non-techie types. First, the iPhone. No, I don&#8217;t have one&#8230;but, my wife does, which is almost as good. Let me just say, this thing is amazing. All the naysayers that have complaints are frankly, just big babies. It truly is life-changing-amazing. We&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://silentfool.com/2007/09/06/techno-babble/</link>
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		<title>give me passion.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lately, I&#8217;ve found myself wishing for more passion in my life.Â  No, not that kind of passion.Â  I just mean, I wish there was something that I was truly passionate about.Â  There are a dozen things that I like or enjoy&#8230;and I would say that I&#8217;m good at most of them.Â  But there isn&#8217;t really [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://silentfool.com/2007/08/24/give-me-passion/</link>
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		<title>11 things i wish i did more.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[read (non-internet sources) call old friends make video projects photograph people sing play guitar journal pray listen to music blog say &#8220;i love you&#8221; It&#8217;s obvious that I don&#8217;t blog very often, but it&#8217;s not by choice. I just can never come up with enough to say or the right way to say it. While [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://silentfool.com/2007/07/18/10-things-i-wish-i-did-more/</link>
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		<title>my workspace</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Inspired by this competition on Lifehacker, I thought I might take a few shots of my workspace and post them for all to see. Follow links to Flickr for notes on the equipment (embedded in pictures)]]></description>
		<link>http://silentfool.com/2007/06/06/my-workspace/</link>
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		<title>let there be light</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Warning: This post is a sure sign of my of geekness&#8230;if you find yourself interested in the post, you may be in danger of becoming a geek yourself. Ok, with that out of the way&#8230;I have a few serious infatuations&#8230;sure I love all kinds of tech, but that&#8217;s so broad and ever changing. Beyond my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://silentfool.com/2007/06/05/let-there-be-light/</link>
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		<title>Heart Still Beats</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just sat down to listen to some music today and this song caught my attention. I&#8217;ve heard it many times before, but for some reason the lyrics really struck me. I guess it deals with a similar topic that I&#8217;ve been dealing with for a while- that no matter what the person looks like, no [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://silentfool.com/2007/05/26/heart-still-beats/</link>
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		<title>Virb.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I thought i might just pass along this link to a new site I found called Virb. It&#8217;s yet another social networking site, much like myspace, but unlike myspace it actually looks nice and has good clean coding. I know that it is a long way off from competing since it seems to be more [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://silentfool.com/2007/05/17/virb/</link>
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		<title>summer days are here again</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Summer is here and it feels great.Â  It&#8217;s been warmer than usual for the past week or two, settling in around the low 80&#8242;s consistently.Â  Yesterday we planted our garden which is quickly becoming one of my favorite days of the year.Â  Besides the obvious thoughts of the crops that will be harvested in a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://silentfool.com/2007/05/16/summer-days-are-here-again/</link>
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		<title>nothing new, #252</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well&#8230;in the past 2 1/2 weeks since my last post&#8230;pretty much nothing has happened. It was cold and rainy for several days and finally broke out of it and has been in the 70&#8242;s for the past few days. I&#8217;ve been watching just about every Reds game I can. I don&#8217;t know why but for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://silentfool.com/2007/04/26/nothing-new-252/</link>
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		<title>global warming (or lack thereof)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t know why global warming has become such a hot topic lately (pun not intended) but it seems everywhere you turn someone is talking about it.Â  The thing I don&#8217;t get is why it has become such a partisan topic.Â  What does being a democrat or republican have to do with your scientific beliefs [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://silentfool.com/2007/04/09/global-warming-or-lack-thereof/</link>
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		<title>That&#8217;s Amazing.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have found myself repeating this phrase a lot lately &#8211; &#8220;That&#8217;s Amazing.&#8221;Â  Most of it has came while watching the mini-series &#8220;Planet Earth&#8221; on Discovery.Â  If you haven&#8217;t had the chance yet, I highly recommend you watch it&#8230;it&#8217;s just incredible.Â  There are just so many places and things on this planet that we&#8217;ve never [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://silentfool.com/2007/04/09/thats-amazing/</link>
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		<title>random ramblings.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lots happening in middle America these days. Headed away this weekend to help out with a youth retreat. for those that don&#8217;t know, a youth retreat is a weekend for the teenagers at church &#038; their friends to get away from &#8220;normal&#8221; life and focus on getting to know God and each other better&#8230;or at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://silentfool.com/2007/03/29/random-ramblings/</link>
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		<title>my world vs theirs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I sometimes forget that I live where I do. After spending a couple years at college (one of the most wired schools in the nation) then spending another 2-3 years touring the US, I guess I just assumed that m y town had went through the tech boom just as I had. I assumed that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://silentfool.com/2007/03/16/my-world-vs-theirs/</link>
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		<title>calendars</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I blogged a couple weeks ago about my fascination with office supplies, although that post was recently lost in the server transfer. Long story short- I like office supplies&#8230;particularly pens. Another topic that I haven&#8217;t spent much time on thus far is my fascination with good design. I like design so much in fact that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://silentfool.com/2007/03/13/247/</link>
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		<title>untitled.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I went to a funeral today. One of the older gentlemen in my church passed away and I was asked to run the sound. My immediate response was that of disdain. I barely knew the guy&#8230;and funerals are so depressing. But, I remembered some of the things that I&#8217;ve thought about in the past&#8230;and about [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://silentfool.com/2007/03/06/untitled-2/</link>
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		<title>lost time.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You may have noticed that the site was down for a couple days&#8230;and once it returned there were some recent blog entries missing. It&#8217;s a long story, but basically my account got shuffled to another server by accident and some of the settings didn&#8217;t get changed like they should have in the mix. So, i [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://silentfool.com/2007/03/02/lost-time/</link>
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		<title>more than words.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What good is it for a man to have a bookshelf filled with books he hasn&#8217;t yet read?Â  What good is it for a man to read those books yet never absorb the knowledge held within them?Â  What good is it for a man to have great knowledge but keep it locked up inside himself? [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://silentfool.com/2007/02/06/more-than-words/</link>
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		<title>organizing life.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After a week of deleting, renaming, and general shuffling around I have nearly completed the organization of my MP3 collection.Â  I was inspired to get to work a couple weeks ago after seeing my friend Josh&#8216;s music collection.Â  He informed me of a program called Libra that allows you to setup multiple music libraries in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://silentfool.com/2007/02/05/organizing-life/</link>
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		<title>Wiiiiiiiiii!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, as you can see I found a Wii.Â  Actually I found 4.Â  It all started on Tuesday&#8230; *begin dream sequence* I woke up and checked my email and a few websites I frequent.Â  One of those sites is this &#8220;Wii Tracker&#8221; which basically is just a list of places that carry the Wii and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://silentfool.com/2007/01/25/wiiiiiiiiii/</link>
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		<title>art [as in music]</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This isn&#8217;t the first and it won&#8217;t be the last rant about contemporary worship music you&#8217;ll hear from me.Â  I&#8217;m sick and tired of the burnt out praise and worship choruses.Â  period.Â  just as an example, here are two songs&#8230;the first is a common song sang at my church: Let the poor man say I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://silentfool.com/2007/01/18/art-as-in-music/</link>
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		<title>let your yes be yes&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am a relatively patient guy I think. If someone can&#8217;t hold their word for one reason or another, I usually give them the benefit of a doubt, quietly forgive, and continue on. However, sometimes people continue to &#8220;change their minds&#8221;, forget, or otherwise not do what they say they were going to do and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://silentfool.com/2006/12/27/let-your-yes-be-yes/</link>
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		<title>if only in my dreams&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My 26th Christmas is quickly drawing to a close. Today was my first Christmas not at home in Winchester with my family. It wasn&#8217;t as hard as I thought it might be, but it&#8217;s something I really would like to avoid in the future&#8230; I have a good home in Ohio, a good family, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://silentfool.com/2006/12/26/if-only-in-my-dreams/</link>
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		<title>site upgrade.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m now into what is likely the 6th or 7th version of this site.Â  I was just getting tired of the old look and had been thinking about an upgrade for a while, I just hadn&#8217;t found the inspiration, time, or theme that i liked.Â  fortunately all three of those things converged today and what [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://silentfool.com/2006/12/20/site-upgrade/</link>
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		<title>last.fm</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you haven&#8217;t already checked out last.fm you really should. (well, if you&#8217;re into music and tech that is) last.fm is essentially a streaming music service, but it&#8217;s oh so much more than that! It&#8217;s like myspace in that it&#8217;s somewhat social and you have your own profile page, but instead of pictures and comments [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://silentfool.com/2006/12/19/lastfm/</link>
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		<title>twelve</title>
		<description><![CDATA[twelve. that&#8217;s the number of hours I worked on Saturday. I&#8217;m not one for complaining, but it was a really long day and there are 2 more like it just ahead. Boston has welcomed us with open arms. The crowds have been amazing, the sushi is never ending, and the subway (or &#8220;T&#8221; as it&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://silentfool.com/2006/12/12/119/</link>
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		<title>blue like jazz (extended)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[listening to: &#8220;Everybody Hurts&#8221; by REM It has been a very introspective couple of days. I keep thinking about the things that Donald Miller said in his book and wondering if I can really make the changes in my life that I desire. Several times he wrote about trials in his life and coming to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://silentfool.com/2006/11/27/blue-like-jazz-extended/</link>
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		<title>blue like jazz</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today, after over a year of procrastination I finished the book &#8220;Blue Like Jazz&#8221; by Donald Miller. I started it a long time ago, would read a chapter or two and put it down, put it off, then forget. I&#8217;ve been carrying it around with me about like my bible&#8230;thinking, I&#8217;m going to read it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://silentfool.com/2006/11/26/blue-like-jazz/</link>
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		<title>it&#8217;s (not) a small world.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;It&#8217;s a small world after all It&#8217;s a small world after all It&#8217;s a small world after all It&#8217;s a small, small world &#8221; I know that song is supposed to connect us with the fact that we are all human and we are all the same, but I can&#8217;t help but contradict it and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://silentfool.com/2006/11/23/116/</link>
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		<title>hodgepodge</title>
		<description><![CDATA[updates all around tonight. life: We open the &#8220;Radio City Christmas Spectacular&#8221; tomorrow night in Chicago. It&#8217;s been a great couple of weeks and I&#8217;m looking forward to those a head of me. So far my experience with the cast and crew has been a very good one, minus a couple here and there. We [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://silentfool.com/2006/11/10/hodgepodge/</link>
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		<title>superpowers.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve had this theory for a while now that there is something out there that I am just naturally a genius at. Like someday I&#8217;m going to pick up some instrument or some hobby or something and I will be a complete natural. I remember the first time I picked up a violin I thought, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://silentfool.com/2006/10/30/superpowers/</link>
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		<title>Podcast Episode 1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, I finally went through with it and created a podcast. You&#8217;ll have to forgive the &#8220;amateur-ness&#8221; of it and the &#8220;um, uhhh&#8217;s&#8221;. It was made in just a few minutes with some rough cuts just to see how it would work out. Anyway, it&#8217;s 3 1/2 minutes long (3mb) and mainly I talk about [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://silentfool.com/2006/10/08/podcast-episode-1/</link>
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		<title>loose change</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago I stumbled upon this film called &#8220;Loose Change&#8221;. I dare not call it a documentary since a documentary is defined as: based on or re-creating an actual event, era, life story, etc., that purports to be factually accurate and contains no fictional elements. I had thought about blogging after I watched [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://silentfool.com/2006/09/30/loose-change/</link>
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		<title>why i hate digg.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Three months ago if you asked me about digg.com I would have sang it&#8217;s praises. I would have told you about how it&#8217;s one of my favorite sites and that it puts all other tech-news sites to shame. well&#8230;it&#8217;s not 3 months ago and sadly, things have changed. They released digg 3.0 a couple months [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://silentfool.com/2006/09/21/why-i-hate-digg/</link>
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		<title>mysecret.tv</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the blogs that I read regularly pointed me to this relatively new site called mysecret.tv. The idea is that people come to the site and anonymously share some sin in their life (a lot like postsecret). The page reads: Why you are here It&#8217;s been eating at you. It keeps you up at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://silentfool.com/2006/09/08/mysecrettv/</link>
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		<title>us open.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I like tennis. I don&#8217;t know why&#8230;it&#8217;s not exactly a little person friendly sport. I guess it&#8217;s just something I grew up around. I&#8217;ve been watching the US Open on the USA Network. I&#8217;ve watched just about every year for as long as I can remember. Usually I don&#8217;t get to watch that much, but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://silentfool.com/2006/09/06/us-open/</link>
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		<title>insomnia part 1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t understand sleep sometimes. It seems that I can never get enough of it, yet whenever I actually try to go to bed at a decent time I always end up tossing and turning until inevitably I get up and stir around for a while until I can&#8217;t keep my eyes open any more [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://silentfool.com/2006/09/03/insomnia-part-1/</link>
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		<title>constant apology</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I know there&#8217;s no real need to say it, because it&#8217;s probably expected at this point, but regardless, I am sorry for the lack of posting. It&#8217;s not that I haven&#8217;t had the time or the motivation of words to speak, but moreso the lack of motivation to share what&#8217;s on my plate with the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://silentfool.com/2006/08/29/constant-apology/</link>
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		<title>weekend chaos</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, it was a good weekend, not exactly restful, but good none-the-less. Friday night we went to a movie with our friend, Justin and did a little shopping. We saw &#8220;Miami Vice&#8221; which after some contemplation, i&#8217;ve decided, wasn&#8217;t that good. (i found this review that sums up my thoughts pretty well: Filmcritic.com ). Saturday [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://silentfool.com/2006/07/31/weekend-chaos/</link>
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		<title>community.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is yet another post that I began some time ago, but never finished. Here&#8217;s what I wrote a couple weeks ago: Do you ever wonder why the church does the things that does? Do you ever wonder if we&#8217;re doing it right or wrong? Some of these thoughts have been passing through my mind [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://silentfool.com/2006/07/24/community/</link>
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		<title>big ?&#8217;s</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a site that I visit regularly to get my daily dose of tech news called &#8220;digg&#8221;. Recently they opened up the channels for more than just tech news, so now it covers just about anything under the sun. Inevitably, there are some pretty heated discussions about politics and religion that follow. I don&#8217;t tend [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://silentfool.com/2006/07/22/big-s/</link>
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		<title>peace.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tomorrow morning is the funeral of someone in my Church. She passed away Sunday&#8230;after I found out, I wrote this: A woman in my church passed away today. She has been fighting cancer for the better part of the past 2 years and lost the battle somewhat suddenly. When they announced it tonight I think [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://silentfool.com/2006/07/21/peace/</link>
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		<title>Web 2.0</title>
		<description><![CDATA[mmmhmm&#8230; I have a new addiction&#8230;it&#8217;s called &#8220;Web 2.0&#8243;. There are some disagreements about what exactly Web 2.0 means&#8230;but to me it&#8217;s just a term used for the newer generation of websites that are more interactive. I don&#8217;t mean you go to them to play games, but rather you decide what you want from them. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://silentfool.com/2006/07/11/web-20/</link>
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		<title>my week in brief.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[a week of traveling has finally ended for Jen and I. We left one week ago for the &#8220;U.P.&#8221; (upper peninsula of Michigan) and did the whole wedding thing (read below) and it went great. Of course even better than the wedding was my golfing performance earlier that morning. I shot a 45 (9 holes) [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://silentfool.com/2006/07/06/my-week-in-brief/</link>
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		<title>anticipation.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A good friend of mine is getting married this weekend. I&#8217;ve known him since before I can remember not knowing him(if that makes sense). His father is the pastor at my church, they came to the church when I was only two and they&#8217;ve been here ever since. For 24 years now we&#8217;ve been friends, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://silentfool.com/2006/06/28/anticipation/</link>
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		<title>dreams.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever had a dream one night and found yourself thinking about that dream for the whole next day? It happens to me every once in a while. It&#8217;s not the completely wild, crazy, I can fly dreams that get me, it&#8217;s the simple ones. The ones where the dream could actually happen. I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://silentfool.com/2006/06/26/dreams/</link>
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		<title>rut.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have a horrible habit of saying one thing and doing the complete opposite. 2 months ago i wrote down all of these grand things that I was going to do when I arrived home. Well, I&#8217;ve been home for a month now and I&#8217;ve completed about 3 of the 20 things I wanted to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://silentfool.com/2006/06/21/rut/</link>
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		<title>v4.7</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In continuation of my obsession with the evolution of silentfool.com, i&#8217;m considering redesigning the site. it seems that i probably spend more time changing the layout than i actually do blogging. oh well, it&#8217;s my site so i can do whatever i wish, right? I&#8217;m also considering a podcast to go along with the new [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://silentfool.com/2006/06/13/v47/</link>
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		<title>benchmark.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[benchmark- A standard by which something can be measured or judged My latest life theory is that there is a true lack of &#8220;benchmarks&#8221; in life. I think this can go all the way to the core of our being all the way to how we spend our money. And while audio equipment isn&#8217;t the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://silentfool.com/2006/06/13/benchmark/</link>
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		<title>shift is change.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I know, I know&#8230;it has been a while. I must apologize, although I think by now most who read this site have come to expect large gaps in time. It is not intentional and not for the lack of time but rather the lack of a direction for my thoughts. I have had dozens of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://silentfool.com/2006/06/01/shift-is-change/</link>
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		<title>cue the fat lady&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By tomorrow at this time I will have ended my 3 year career with Barney. I must admit it&#8217;s somewhat of a bittersweet feeling in my gut. We&#8217;ve had so many breaks on tour it has been difficult to differentiate this from any other but I think it&#8217;s finally beginning to sink in that this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://silentfool.com/2006/05/12/cue-the-fat-lady/</link>
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		<title>untitled.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are a thousand thoughts that have crossed my mind since my last post&#8230;and I would love to just ramble on about those thoughts, but I am just completely blinded right now- blinded by the inevitability that I am going home in just 9 days. I have these unquenchable cravings just to do such normal [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://silentfool.com/2006/05/03/untitled/</link>
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		<title>#91</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a while since my last real post and I must apologize. It&#8217;s not that I haven&#8217;t had time to post, nor that I haven&#8217;t had anything on my mind. I just sometimes get a little scared of this site because I have no idea how many people read it (or who those people [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://silentfool.com/2006/04/23/91/</link>
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		<title>countdown</title>
		<description><![CDATA[i added a little countdown to the end of tour on the right bar. it isn&#8217;t working exactly right, so tour doesn&#8217;t end EXACTLY when it says, but it&#8217;s close enough! woohoo&#8230;27 days!]]></description>
		<link>http://silentfool.com/2006/04/15/countdown/</link>
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		<title>NT Church.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re a believer, if you attend church regularly, you should read this. It will make you think. The Purpose of The Church I&#8217;m beginning to wonder if we have any idea what &#8220;Church&#8221; is supposed to be like.]]></description>
		<link>http://silentfool.com/2006/04/03/nt-church/</link>
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		<title>I Love Hate Like NY</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We pulled in to New York City a couple days ago and Jen and I have been out doing the tourist stuff. As soon as we got here we ran out and got tickets to a broadway show. Seeing a show was the one thing we hadn&#8217;t done yet, so we knew before hand it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://silentfool.com/2006/03/24/i-love-hate-like-ny/</link>
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		<title>my new axe.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A couple weeks ago I started the journey of looking for a small-scale electric guitar. It seemed like an easy enough task, although I have been down this road before with not such great results. However I was pretty optimistic that if I looked in the right places I would actually find something of my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://silentfool.com/2006/03/18/my-new-axe/</link>
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		<title>Let&#8217;s Go To Canada!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t know why, but everytime I come to Canada I can&#8217;t think of this old song by a Christian-Ska band, &#8220;Five Iron Frenzy&#8221;. The song is called &#8220;Oh, Canada&#8221; and it&#8217;s lyrics are just kind of a laundry list of things that makes Canada unique in comparison to the USA. It&#8217;s just&#8230;fun. anyway&#8230; The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://silentfool.com/2006/03/10/lets-go-to-canada/</link>
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		<title>photoshopped.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As I&#8217;ve been looking around for photography tips and digging in a little more to the portrait scene, I&#8217;ve quickly learned that EVERYTHING in our current day is being photoshoped like crazy. Sure the photographers start out with nice photos, but they definitely spend as much, if not more, time retouching pictures than they do [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://silentfool.com/2006/02/24/photoshoped/</link>
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		<title>camera gear for sale.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, I&#8217;ve decided to upgrade my camera to the latest and greatest (Nikon D200) so therefore I&#8217;m going to be selling some gear to recover the expense of it. I know that there aren&#8217;t a ton of people who see this site, but I thought I would go ahead and list what I&#8217;m selling anyways, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://silentfool.com/2006/02/14/camera-gear-for-sale/</link>
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		<title>cornered.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This shot isn&#8217;t exactly &#8220;photoblog worthy&#8221;, but while we were in DC this little squirrel approached us more bravely than any other I&#8217;ve ever seen&#8230;if I saw the same actions coming from something larger like a dog, i might be fearing for my life. This thing litterally ran out in front of us and stopped, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://silentfool.com/2006/02/11/cornered/</link>
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		<title>photoblog released.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At long last I&#8217;m shooting again. Hopefully updates will come somewhat regularly, but don&#8217;t hold your breath. For now you can check out my latest shots here: photoblog]]></description>
		<link>http://silentfool.com/2006/02/11/photoblog-released/</link>
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		<title>marching to zion.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I boarded the Metro here in Virginia to travel into DC for a day of sightseeing. Little did I know that the most memorable thing of the whole day was not a monument on DC&#8217;s Mall, but it was about to happen on the train ride right in front of me. After boarding and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://silentfool.com/2006/02/08/marching-to-zion/</link>
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		<title>created memories.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few months ago I went to this &#8220;party&#8221; that was pretty unique, but not in such a good way. Basically the party consisted of a bunch of people with little in common getting together, eating, drinking (non-alcoholic), and taking pictures. I was sitting on the couch just watching as dozens of flashes went off [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://silentfool.com/2006/02/05/created-memories/</link>
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		<title>holy flakes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s this musician, Andy Gullahorn, whom Jen and I had the chance to hear at Andrew Peterson&#8217;s Christmas concert back in December. He sang a couple songs and when I first heard this one (Holy Flakes), I wasn&#8217;t sure what it meant&#8230;but later I heard it explained and then realized how clever it was. My [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://silentfool.com/2006/01/26/77/</link>
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		<title>notes from the road (pt 1)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, tour is officially off and running. We had our &#8220;soft open&#8221; a few days ago which I think is just code for &#8220;mistakes expected&#8221;&#8230;it has actually gone pretty well despite the multitude of props that we have to handle during the show. We&#8217;re in Atlanta now with our official opening tomorrow. This week we [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://silentfool.com/2006/01/26/notes-from-the-road-pt-1/</link>
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		<title>and so it begins.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[3 years ago, almost to this very day I was sitting in a hotel room in Dallas filled with anticipation about the journey I was about to embark on&#8230;and today I am back at the beginning of a new journey that is about to begin. Barney rehearsals begin tomorrow morning, orientation is tonight&#8230;it should be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://silentfool.com/2006/01/08/and-so-it-begins/</link>
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		<title>in limbo.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[RadioCity ended a few days ago and I arrived home to a bittersweet feeling in my gut. It&#8217;s great to be home, but there&#8217;s just this knowledge hanging over my head that this is just temporary. We leave in just a few days for our next round with Barney and while we&#8217;re looking forward to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://silentfool.com/2006/01/04/in-limbo/</link>
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		<title>photoblog.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, after a year hiatus, I think Iâ€™m going to begin a photoblog again. Last night out of boredom I was looking around for something to do and just happened upon some great templates to use in order to create a nice looking photoblog page layoutâ€¦and since my server is now allowing unlimited databases on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://silentfool.com/2005/12/21/photoblog/</link>
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		<title>Christian &#8211; a definition.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve heard this phrase thrown around for years now: &#8220;He/She is a Christian&#8221; and I&#8217;ve always been quick to believe it, because, well&#8230;I had no reason not to. It&#8217;s only later that I can find out for myself if he or she truly is. This brings me to one of the questions at hand- what [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://silentfool.com/2005/12/19/christian-a-definition/</link>
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