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	<description>Eating poutine in the South since 2004, eh?</description>
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		<title>Death.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 19:18:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Blog death is kind of a sad thing. Most of us wish for a quick, painless death &#8211; but the way of the blog is a slow, lingering sort of thing. And we don&#8217;t even put them in &#8220;managed care&#8221; facilities, where they can play out their last days with group card games and discussions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Safe To Say &#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 20:31:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; that this safe is entirely safe.
Meet Matilda &#8211; my new safe.  &#8221;New&#8221; is used a bit loosely here; Matilda is probably the better part of a century old, give or take.  She made the hike from Virginia to North Carolina this morning and is now resting gently in my living room.
And why are old [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pick Me Up, Pickup Truck!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 19:59:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was bound to happen.  I&#8217;ve had the &#8220;itch&#8221; lately to get my hands dirty and spin wrenches.  I vacillated between an old motorcycle, and old car, a boat, a various trinkety hobby toys like a radio controlled airplane.  What ended up winning was something I wasn&#8217;t quite sure I&#8217;d ever own.
It&#8217;s a pickup truck.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Anniversary!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 18:43:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[No, not that kind of anniversary, silly.
Today is my 10th eBay anniversary.
On October 4th, 1999, I found a wonderful old book on eBay; a copy of Margaret Atwood&#8217;s &#8220;The Journals of Susanna Moodie&#8221;.  It was a book I had been looking for at length, and I hurriedly filled out the application to become an eBay [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Books We Grew Up With</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 03:04:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My parents are both prolific readers, and I grew up with a veritable library of reading material.  There are many books from my youth that made an impression on me, but perhaps none that inspired my imagination like one particular book.
Clifford Warren Ashley was an artist, author and sailor from Massachusetts.  He authored one of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sydney</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 11:59:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
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		<title>Snow Leopard 10.6.1 &#8211; Vastly Improved</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 19:32:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Apple]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been wondering for the past week while Apple seemed to rush Snow Leopard out the door last week.  Apple enthusiasts like me weren&#8217;t complaining, but there are always concerns about being the first on the block to install a new version of an OS.
My normally overzealous enthusiasm was muted.  I spent a good bit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Auctions, Revisited.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 19:30:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday evening I attended my first auction in many, many years.
Auctions are a peculiar beast.  I remember going to the Gary Hill household farm auctions near Uxbridge, Ontario; a place of wonder where a person could find all manner of antiques, curiosities, trinkets and other goodies.  And the thrill of bidding &#8211; oh, the rush [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Galavanting around Eastern North Carolina</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2009 21:35:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So it&#8217;s my birthday today, and that means I get to do whatever I want.
Well, almost.
Not having the resources to erect a replica of the Canadian Parliament Buildings in my backyard, I decided it would be fun to explore Eastern North Carolina.
Destination: Tarboro.
The tobacco farms in this part of the Carolinas were in full bloom, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I Got Snowed!</title>
		<link>http://www.mikehelms.org/blog/archives/1316</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 21:37:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blog]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Snow Leopard]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Snow Leopard-ed, that is.
If you follow me on Twitter, you know that I bought the second copy of Apple&#8217;s new OS X Snow Leopard sold at Crabtree Mall this morning.  I take some small pleasure in the fact that I rarely make a point of being &#8220;first in line&#8221; for anything &#8230; but this time [...]]]></description>
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