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		<title>Budapest, Day 3 (part 3) — feeling lost</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 22:02:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Randolph Burrow</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, I left off with The Lovely One and me standing at a stop (returned again southwards from Elizabeth Bridge, back down at Liberty Bridge), waiting for a number 47 or 49 tram to carry us across the Danube to the northern foot of Gellért hill to check out the exterior of some baths. We boarded [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wakdjunkaga.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9439402&amp;post=12681&amp;subd=wakdjunkaga&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Budapest, Day 3 (part 2) — digressive</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 22:32:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Randolph Burrow</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Budapest reminiscences continue (more or less) today. I left off yesterday with us at the Deák Ferenc tér Metro stop, having purchased our seven-day travel passes (even though we had just five days left on our trip, counting this national holiday on Sunday, October 23, 2011). So we continue… Then it was time to reascend [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wakdjunkaga.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9439402&amp;post=12626&amp;subd=wakdjunkaga&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Budapest Day 3 — National Holiday (part 1)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 22:10:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Randolph Burrow</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, finally, I have the start of my continuation of the Budapest trip (late October 2011). The most recent piece, on our Saturday, the second day in town, was here. Sunday had been our day of dread (to be over-the-top in my expression) since I had discovered during my hurried, brief stint of rushed research [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wakdjunkaga.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9439402&amp;post=12584&amp;subd=wakdjunkaga&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Whatʼs going on?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:26:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Randolph Burrow</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Astonishing. Amazing. Thanks to Gwen Hernandezʼs helpful comment, I got my blog to actually shut down* yesterday** instead of merely identifying the open blog as blacked out. And we still got well over 100 hits***. Blacked out. With no blog available. Astonishing. Amazing (in a strange and twisted kind of way). Admittedly, when one googled [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wakdjunkaga.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9439402&amp;post=12563&amp;subd=wakdjunkaga&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>SOPA Blackout</title>
		<link>http://wakdjunkaga.wordpress.com/2012/01/17/sopa-blackout/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 23:48:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Randolph Burrow</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just spent about forty minutes trying to black out this blog for tomorrow, Wednesday, 18 January 2012, in protest over the idiotic legislation in Congress (and supported by the evidently braindead Senator from Iowa but not the other one, at least not yet) — only to discover that WordPress.com users donʼt get plugins (the recommended [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wakdjunkaga.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9439402&amp;post=12549&amp;subd=wakdjunkaga&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Celebratory Beverage</title>
		<link>http://wakdjunkaga.wordpress.com/2012/01/14/celebratory-beverage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 22:34:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Randolph Burrow</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In part to continue the little sequence of posts lately into a trilogy, but really because Janet made a batch of todayʼs topic as a gift for a friend (and had me make the label, that comprises todayʼs special image, for the recycled wine bottle into which she placed said beverage), I thought I would [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wakdjunkaga.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9439402&amp;post=12528&amp;subd=wakdjunkaga&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Free at Last (or very close thereto)</title>
		<link>http://wakdjunkaga.wordpress.com/2012/01/13/free-at-last-or-very-close-thereto/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 20:19:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Randolph Burrow</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wasnʼt going to post anything today (and this blog design I use isnʼt really set for pictures more than text). However, I had to celebrate. Wells Fargo has set us free, as least as far as bookkeeping is concerned: Wells Fargo received our payment yesterday morning (at 9:54, as we know thanks to UPS tracking; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wakdjunkaga.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9439402&amp;post=12495&amp;subd=wakdjunkaga&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Joining the Hall of Shame</title>
		<link>http://wakdjunkaga.wordpress.com/2012/01/12/joining-the-hall-of-shame/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 21:47:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Randolph Burrow</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[1/11/12  Today we pay off our mortgage. $932.05. The escrow returns to us in about fifteen days, a deliberate delay by Wells Fargo that stinks of greed — sucking additional profit through interest from our 27-year loan servitude). Of which Wells Fargo only inherited the loan about five years ago, acquiring it, if I remember [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wakdjunkaga.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9439402&amp;post=12463&amp;subd=wakdjunkaga&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Apple Sucks (Redux)</title>
		<link>http://wakdjunkaga.wordpress.com/2012/01/10/apple-sucks-redux/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 16:45:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Randolph Burrow</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Maybe Apple doesnʼt suck? Except in its Asian hardware… Clearly, tech ace Aaron had it right. My iMacʼs optical drive is fried (great choice of substandard equipment there, Apple guys). I know because I have worked around the problem. Although I was temporarily dwelling within a mile of an Apple store over the New Years [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wakdjunkaga.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9439402&amp;post=12452&amp;subd=wakdjunkaga&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wow. A Post. “On Art and Beauty”</title>
		<link>http://wakdjunkaga.wordpress.com/2012/01/06/wow-a-post-on-art-and-beauty/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 22:34:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Randolph Burrow</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although I have been pondering any number of short little (and several long and humongous) posts to start 2012 (at least since The Lovely One and I returned from a News Years break to Chicago), some of which you are likely to read soon, I have something a little diferent for today. It does, however, remind [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wakdjunkaga.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9439402&amp;post=12443&amp;subd=wakdjunkaga&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>2011 in review</title>
		<link>http://wakdjunkaga.wordpress.com/2012/01/02/2011-in-review/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 18:10:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Randolph Burrow</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here&#8217;s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Syndey Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 46,000 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 17 sold-out performances for that many [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wakdjunkaga.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9439402&amp;post=12437&amp;subd=wakdjunkaga&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Statistically Speaking</title>
		<link>http://wakdjunkaga.wordpress.com/2011/12/31/statistically-speaking/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 10:48:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Randolph Burrow</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wow. We have had nearly 120,00 hits on the blog since I began just over two years ago (and according to ClustrMaps nearly 32,00 discrete visits). Of course, much as I might wish everyone was seeking enlightenment and entertainment from my writing, plenty of those hits are folks looking for clip art on the internet [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wakdjunkaga.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9439402&amp;post=12408&amp;subd=wakdjunkaga&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>500 Words</title>
		<link>http://wakdjunkaga.wordpress.com/2011/12/30/500-words/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 10:48:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Randolph Burrow</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An interesting year closes tomorrow night.  A year ago I was completely involved in my quest to post something daily here on the blog. I did so, and not so surprisingly (at least to me) I havenʼt even posted 150 times this year (considerably less than half the possible days). Things change? A year ago [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wakdjunkaga.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9439402&amp;post=12418&amp;subd=wakdjunkaga&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gramatically Speaking (and — another favorite theme — looking backward)</title>
		<link>http://wakdjunkaga.wordpress.com/2011/12/29/gramatically-speaking-and-another-favorite-theme-looking-backward/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 10:48:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Randolph Burrow</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Todayʼs post arises directly from yesterdayʼs. And as yesterdayʼs got a little bloated with extraneous complaints (about CenturyLink) and (in picture captions in particular) additional information about the Echo smartpen (which I am using to compose longhand right now), Iʼll try to keep this short and as sweet as possible for this human. Yesterday I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wakdjunkaga.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9439402&amp;post=12395&amp;subd=wakdjunkaga&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Toys (and Problems)</title>
		<link>http://wakdjunkaga.wordpress.com/2011/12/28/toys-and-problems/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 10:48:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Randolph Burrow</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I could have gone into more detail about our Christmas celebration yesterday.* I thought about it, briefly, as I was editing (and slightly expanding) what I had originally written. But then CenturyLink kept cutting out my internet connection (predictably — no surprise, there, because my Internet Disservice Provider** leaves me high and dry, disconnected, offline [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wakdjunkaga.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9439402&amp;post=12350&amp;subd=wakdjunkaga&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pretty Nice Christmas</title>
		<link>http://wakdjunkaga.wordpress.com/2011/12/27/pretty-nice-christmas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 18:37:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Randolph Burrow</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Lovely One and I traveled to the middle of Our Fair State to celebrate Christmas with my side of the family, departing on Saturday, Christmas Eve, and returning on Monday/yesterday. The drive both directions was lovely — brilliant days with scarcely a cloud in the sky (Christmas itself was utterly clear with a sky of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wakdjunkaga.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9439402&amp;post=12288&amp;subd=wakdjunkaga&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Apple Sucks!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 18:56:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Randolph Burrow</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a problem with Apple, Inc. Once upon a time, just over two years ago, my iMac worked fine. I especially appreciated being able to insert CDs and have them play or be able to import them into iTunes and play my music on my computer or iPod digitally. All that changed about eight [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wakdjunkaga.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9439402&amp;post=12262&amp;subd=wakdjunkaga&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The 2011 Christmas Letter</title>
		<link>http://wakdjunkaga.wordpress.com/2011/12/21/the-2011-christmas-letter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 10:48:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Randolph Burrow</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, like so many other Americans, The Lovely One and I indulge in an annual Christmas letter reprising the presumed highlights of the year gone by. My parents began the tradition fifty years ago (more?), and at least some of the time all of their offspring have continued to perpetrate the subliterary ritual. Since I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wakdjunkaga.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9439402&amp;post=12211&amp;subd=wakdjunkaga&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Festival of Lights Begins</title>
		<link>http://wakdjunkaga.wordpress.com/2011/12/20/the-festival-of-lights-begins/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 20:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Randolph Burrow</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Happy Chanukah, one and all. My fair city celebrates the beginning of the eight nights with brief appearances by two of the dimmest, densest and most Dextreme of the Republican candidates vying for the GOP Presidential nomination — Michele Bachmann and Rick Perry.* Although extremely tempted to attend their noxious appearances in Our Town and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wakdjunkaga.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9439402&amp;post=12207&amp;subd=wakdjunkaga&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Budapest, Day 2 (Saturday, October 21, 2011)</title>
		<link>http://wakdjunkaga.wordpress.com/2011/12/05/budapest-day-2-saturday-october-21-2011/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 10:04:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Randolph Burrow</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Todayʼs post takes The Lovely One and me on to our second day in Budapest — Saturday, when we crossed the Danube to Buda to explore stuff that really reminded us of our Prague experience. Previous posts are yesterday, Saturday and Friday. We had flown in under overcast (ground fog — thick, at that) in Frankfurt in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wakdjunkaga.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9439402&amp;post=12183&amp;subd=wakdjunkaga&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Same Thing Again (in a Different Way) — Budapest</title>
		<link>http://wakdjunkaga.wordpress.com/2011/12/04/same-thing-again-in-a-different-way-budapest/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Dec 2011 10:04:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Randolph Burrow</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[All right. So I have posted my original narration of our first day (actually, calendrically two days) arriving in Budapest. About a week after we got home, I wrote what I intended to be the quick summary version of our trip to my brother Stephen in a letter. My summary bloated into nine pages. So I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wakdjunkaga.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9439402&amp;post=12160&amp;subd=wakdjunkaga&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Budapest, Day 1, part 2 (test continues)</title>
		<link>http://wakdjunkaga.wordpress.com/2011/12/03/budapest-day-1-part-2-test-continues/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Dec 2011 10:04:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Randolph Burrow</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is the rest (the exciting part, the part where we are actually in Budapest) of my original composition late that evening, October 21, trying to capture the events of our first big day. It didnʼt help I was utterly jet-lag exhausted (although Janet, who had not slept during the flight east across the Atlantic, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wakdjunkaga.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9439402&amp;post=12115&amp;subd=wakdjunkaga&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Travelogue, day 1 (a test in three parts)</title>
		<link>http://wakdjunkaga.wordpress.com/2011/12/02/travelogue-day-1-a-test-in-three-parts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 22:39:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Randolph Burrow</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am finally getting around to writing about our Budapest trip. But I am trying a little experiment. Today and tomorrow I am running the first day as I recorded it in Budapest (at the end of that first day). But I also composed a variant for my brother Stephen in a letter, and I want to try [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wakdjunkaga.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9439402&amp;post=12082&amp;subd=wakdjunkaga&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Winner (Kind of, Partially, Not Really IMHO)</title>
		<link>http://wakdjunkaga.wordpress.com/2011/11/28/winner-kind-of-partially-not-really-imho/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 21:14:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Randolph Burrow</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although I struggled to write anything, and although a good part of what I did write was, um, “garp,” my NaNaWriMo 2011 experience has ended happily and, officially, successfully. Just check that meter to the right (which I will delete in a few more days) or, more permanently, that NaNoWriMo 2011 Winner&#8217;s Badge toward the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wakdjunkaga.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9439402&amp;post=12052&amp;subd=wakdjunkaga&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thanksgiving Aftermath</title>
		<link>http://wakdjunkaga.wordpress.com/2011/11/25/thanksgiving-aftermath/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2011 23:28:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Randolph Burrow</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wow. Nearly the entire month of November has slipped away without even a breath of a post here. I wish I could say that I have been writing diligently for NaNoWriMo, but even though my word-count (now illustrated in the bright new, but sadly belated widget to the right) is pretty close to the norm, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wakdjunkaga.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9439402&amp;post=12026&amp;subd=wakdjunkaga&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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