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		<title>Wait Wait&#8230;.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I spent the evening at a live taping of &#8220;Wait Wait Don&#8217;t Tell Me&#8221;, the public radio news quiz show, in New Orleans tonight. I came away with a great appreciation for what they do to get the show on the air.
The total recording time ran close to two hours, which means that almost half [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lucy and Ethel Play in the Garden</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Remember how, on I Love Lucy, no matter how simple a task the girls set out to accomplish, it always turned into a huge production that (usually) ended badly?
That&#8217;s how I feel about things around my house. Jonathan and I both enjoy projects, and we&#8217;re actually getting a lot better about tackling one at a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.cowboyinbrla.com/?p=338</link>
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		<title>Updating the map</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Not that this changed really in the last several months, but it&#8217;s been a while since I filled out one of these to see where all I&#8217;ve been.

Click here to create your own.
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		<link>http://blog.cowboyinbrla.com/?p=337</link>
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		<title>Holiday Musings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s two days before Christmas, and this is usually the time of year, rather than Thanksgiving or New Year&#8217;s, that I take stock of the year and life. Thanksgiving is really a Yankee holiday, anyway, and New Year&#8217;s always has seemed too busy with other things &#8211; in recent years, getting ready for the Christmas [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.cowboyinbrla.com/?p=336</link>
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		<title>Biting my tongue&#8230;twice</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I hate being snarky. OK, I obviously don&#8217;t completely hate it, since I do it often enough, but I don&#8217;t really like myself as much when I am. Still, every once in a while I have to vent and I guess it&#8217;s better to do it here than at the object of my, well, snarkiness.
One [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.cowboyinbrla.com/?p=301</link>
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		<title>Updates &amp; recaps</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;d honestly thought finishing the legislative session would have freed me up to have more time for my blog. Instead, it seems like it&#8217;s been non-stop one project after another.
First was the anniversary party for my folks, which took us up to July, and I hit the ground running launching our new software company. It&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.cowboyinbrla.com/?p=298</link>
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		<title>Done, Over, Finis</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m done.
Not with the blog, mind you; just with my annual 3 months of grueling work when I actually have to be in the office every day, all day (and well into the evening or night). This year&#8217;s legislative session went well enough for us, with few major glitches (a few here and there, but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.cowboyinbrla.com/?p=295</link>
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		<title>This one&#039;s for Mick</title>
		<description><![CDATA[State (and other) geographic borders always intrigue me. Rivers seem the logical choice in many cases, because it&#8217;s easy to see where the line is &#8211; in the middle of the water. Nonetheless, lots of state borders are straight lines. In the late 1700&#8217;s and into the 1800&#8217;s, advances in optics and other equipment made [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.cowboyinbrla.com/?p=293</link>
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		<title>Golden Oldies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Remember the scam that record clubs used to be?
As I recall, several of the major labels had them, but over the years they got consolidated into separate entities serving all the labels. They&#8217;d offer you some great deal&#8211;10 albums for $4.99, or something like that&#8211;as long as you agreed to buy, say, two more albums [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.cowboyinbrla.com/?p=291</link>
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		<title>A Blast from the Past, or, Facebook Etiquette</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Is it rude to say &#8220;Sorry, but there&#8217;s NO FUCKING WAY I would ever approve a friend request from you&#8221; to someone on Facebook?
In some respects, I suppose I had a miserable time in high school. Of course, I didn&#8217;t know it at the time. I wasn&#8217;t happy; I knew I was gay, I&#8217;d already [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.cowboyinbrla.com/?p=289</link>
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