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		<title>Strange Noises</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jul 2011 03:14:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wade Abbott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[9:30 pm in the Abbott household. All was quiet except for the droning of the television. The kiddos were asleep. Or so we thought. A creaking sound announced the opening of the door to the boys&#8217; room. It was closely followed by the padding of their footsteps on the stairs. &#8220;Mommy and Daddy,&#8221; said Timothy, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thisordinarycitizen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12133561&amp;post=4080&amp;subd=thisordinarycitizen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Space: A Dream Delayed?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jul 2011 03:59:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wade Abbott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Much of my childhood was spent with an eye on the stars. I envisioned myself orbiting the earth on a space shuttle or headed beyond earth&#8217;s gravitational pull on a mission to Mars. I read everything I could about space travel. I even went to Space Camp as an 8th grader in 1987. Side note: [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thisordinarycitizen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12133561&amp;post=4075&amp;subd=thisordinarycitizen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>You know you&#8217;re up too late when&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jul 2011 03:41:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wade Abbott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s another late night of capstone writin&#8217; and research. Not necessarily in that order. I was taking a brief break, so I turned on the ol&#8217; TV tube. (Yes, it&#8217;s actually a tube. We haven&#8217;t graduated to one of those flat-screen thingies. Just call me cheap.) Anyhoo, on comes a commercial that makes me wonder [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thisordinarycitizen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12133561&amp;post=4068&amp;subd=thisordinarycitizen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Zzzzzz&#8217;s</title>
		<link>http://thisordinarycitizen.wordpress.com/2011/07/04/zzzzzzs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jul 2011 03:50:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wade Abbott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hope you had a great 4th of July weekend. We did. It included Friday fireworks, a visit from my folks, pizza and wings, a family trip to the park, and burgers and dogs on the grill. Definitely fun. Definitely a little tiring. Here&#8217;s the evidence: Now, that&#8217;s one exhausted two-year old. Oh yeah, special thanks [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thisordinarycitizen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12133561&amp;post=4059&amp;subd=thisordinarycitizen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Blue Lemon</title>
		<link>http://thisordinarycitizen.wordpress.com/2011/07/02/the-blue-lemon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jul 2011 03:44:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wade Abbott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Big Blue Lemon. That&#8217;s what I now call my 2006 GM piece-o-junk&#8230; I mean Saturn Relay. The latest in a long series of frustration is the air conditioning. For the sake of accuracy, it&#8217;s the lack of AC that bugs me. Don&#8217;t get me wrong, I can live without the AC, but it would be [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thisordinarycitizen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12133561&amp;post=4045&amp;subd=thisordinarycitizen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bubbles and Smiles</title>
		<link>http://thisordinarycitizen.wordpress.com/2011/06/30/bubbles-and-smiles/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2011 03:32:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wade Abbott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This was a highlight of my day: an early 4th of July party with the boys. In a day full of craziness, a day with its usual stress, sometimes all you need are soap bubbles and a smile.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thisordinarycitizen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12133561&amp;post=4036&amp;subd=thisordinarycitizen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Capstone</title>
		<link>http://thisordinarycitizen.wordpress.com/2011/06/28/capstone/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jun 2011 03:57:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wade Abbott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tomorrow is my last day of grad school classes. It will be bittersweet. Sure, it&#8217;s an accomplishment. But I will truly miss my classmates &#8212; my friends who make the communications program at The College of Saint Rose so much fun. While it is my last day of classes, I&#8217;ll still be three credits short [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thisordinarycitizen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12133561&amp;post=4030&amp;subd=thisordinarycitizen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Floored</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jun 2011 03:51:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wade Abbott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s something cathartic about ripping out old carpet to discover nice hardwood floor hidden underneath. I needed a little rainy-day stress relief last week, so I finally decided to rip out the ugly living room carpet that&#8217;s been collecting all manner of dirt. It&#8217;s impossible to clean. Time for it to go. Things were going [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thisordinarycitizen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12133561&amp;post=3994&amp;subd=thisordinarycitizen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Eagles, Beetles and Wishes</title>
		<link>http://thisordinarycitizen.wordpress.com/2011/06/26/eagles-beetles-and-wishes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2011 03:06:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wade Abbott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;No,&#8221; I said as I answered a question from my son. &#8220;I&#8217;ve never seen a bald eagle in this part of New York.&#8221; We had looked up &#8220;eagles&#8221; in the encyclopedia. Two days later, one flew over my head while recording dragon boat footage for my digital video class. Fast forward a couple days, and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thisordinarycitizen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12133561&amp;post=4001&amp;subd=thisordinarycitizen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Petitions in the Rain</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jun 2011 18:35:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wade Abbott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been collecting signatures today for my campaign for County Legislature, (as well as for my fellow candidates). It&#8217;s something I thoroughly enjoy: good exercise and the opportunity to meet some great folks. Except when it pours rain. I was doing my best to ignore those grey clouds a little while ago. However, they didn&#8217;t [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thisordinarycitizen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12133561&amp;post=3996&amp;subd=thisordinarycitizen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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