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		<title>Minor Change; And Majors Unheralded</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is not an official blog post. I mean, I haven&#8217;t posted anything here in over a year, so it&#8217;s not like I have nothing to say. I had another daughter. She&#8217;s awesome. I lost my job at Yahoo, but got a new (and better) one at Workday. Our family of four just moved to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		<link>http://ironsoap.org/2014/07/19/journal/minor-change-and-majors-unheralded/</link>
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		<title>The Muse</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By now I ought to be used to surprise. So few of my experiences have matched my expectations. The fascinating dichotomy between my assumptions and reality that has been on my mind the most of late is what I figured would happen with this site upon becoming a parent. Over the years of maintaining ironSoap, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		<link>http://ironsoap.org/2013/04/25/meta/the-muse/</link>
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		<title>On Disneyland and Magic</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Vacations are not something my family has been great at coordinating. By &#8220;my family&#8221; I mean my little immediate family consisting of Nik and Callie and myself; as a kid I remember my parents loading my brother and I up in cars or RVs pretty regularly and taking jaunts to visit family in the Midwest [&#8230;]]]></description>
		<link>http://ironsoap.org/2012/10/02/journal/805/</link>
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		<title>How I Accidentally Walked Thirteen Miles Pushing A Stroller</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nik decided at the beginning of the year to set some goals for herself. Among them was &#8220;Train For And Finish A Marathon.&#8221; This is a lofty goal for a girl whose doctors have told her the congenital herniated disc in her spine prohibits her from running. I like to tease her that this should [&#8230;]]]></description>
		<link>http://ironsoap.org/2012/05/17/journal/how-i-accidentally-walked-thirteen-miles-pushing-a-stroller/</link>
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		<title>Hand?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It was just one of those impromptu trips, the result of a round of &#8220;What should we do today?&#8221; The air was crisp and cold, a turn toward the seasonal from the spring preview that had hung over the Bay Area the previous week. There was some good-natured grumbling about, lamenting the lack of gumption [&#8230;]]]></description>
		<link>http://ironsoap.org/2012/02/27/journal/hand/</link>
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		<title>In Another Ten</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lots of writers, even unpublished ones, like to dispense writing advice. I know this because I&#8217;ve been actively seeking it out for the past six months and&#8230; yeah. There&#8217;s a lot of it. I&#8217;m guessing much of it is dubious, because many of these people seem to write more about writing than they do about [&#8230;]]]></description>
		<link>http://ironsoap.org/2011/12/05/journal/in-another-ten/</link>
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		<title>Christmas Blessings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My family and I are incredibly blessed. I&#8217;m employed and make enough that Nik doesn&#8217;t have to workâ€”even in the two-income-mandatory Bay Area; we have a nice place to live, money for food, clothes, and a few modern conveniences; generally we&#8217;re all more or less healthy. I like to think I&#8217;m aware of how good [&#8230;]]]></description>
		<link>http://ironsoap.org/2011/11/16/journal/christmas-blessings/</link>
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		<title>Reading Analysis</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m trying to read more. I think I mentioned this earlier, but it&#8217;s on my mind lately so I thought I&#8217;d expand on it a little. Most of my time is spent working or with my family. These are good things, reflective of my overall good fortune. These are things I want to do. But [&#8230;]]]></description>
		<link>http://ironsoap.org/2011/10/27/books/reading-analysis/</link>
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		<title>Books, A List</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I saw that in honor of World Book Night 2012, the WBN site is performing a sort of democratic top 100 books list where you choose you 10 favorite books and the votes are all tabulated to create the master list based on popularity. It&#8217;s probably nothing new, but I like that instead of &#8220;Editor&#8217;s [&#8230;]]]></description>
		<link>http://ironsoap.org/2011/10/11/books/books-a-list/</link>
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		<title>Time Machine: Birthday Bash, Home Office Feng Shui</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Originally posted March 10, 2002. Birthdays for the Clinically Insane Try to follow along: My wife&#8217;s stepmother&#8217;s stepfather had his 62nd birthday party today, which we attended. It was a pretty interesting event, mostly because Nikki&#8217;s dad has a pretty small house and there were a lot of people there. I&#8217;m not even going to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		<link>http://ironsoap.org/2011/09/19/meta/time-machine/time-machine-birthday-bash-home-office-feng-shui/</link>
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