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	<title>Andi Newton</title>
	
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	<description>Writer. Artist. Fountain pen user. But mostly writer. And cat person.</description>
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		<title>Don’t Let the Silence Fool You</title>
		<link>http://www.andinewton.com/journal/?p=245</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 16:15:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andi Newton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Geocaching]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[a mind like a sieve]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[geocaching]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[just a quick note]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I realize I haven&#8217;t posted about any geocaches recently, but you shouldn&#8217;t take that to mean Chad and I haven&#8217;t been out looking for any. Quite the opposite, in fact. Since my last post, we&#8217;ve almost doubled our find count, up to 27, and even completed our first geocaching challenge. In fact, we went geocaching [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Easter Eggs, Beaver Dams, and Chad on a Swing</title>
		<link>http://www.andinewton.com/journal/?p=232</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2012 22:51:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andi Newton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fountain Pens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Geocaching]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wildlife]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brave brave Sir Chadwick on a swing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gardening]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[geocaching]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seriously I sucked at finding Easter eggs as a kid]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[NOTE: This geocache blog might contain spoilers. As with all things geocaching, proceed at your own risk. &#160; I need a bigger backpack. I decided this after our geocaching outing Sunday. Ever since we started caching, we&#8217;ve been making mental notes of things we should take with us to make caching easier. Gloves, for one, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Steps to Everywhere</title>
		<link>http://www.andinewton.com/journal/?p=228</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2012 16:03:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andi Newton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Geocaching]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[don't blink]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dr who]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[geocaching]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[steps to everywhere]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[where story ideas come from]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[NOTE: This geocache blog might contain spoilers. As with all things geocaching, proceed at your own risk. Chad and I finally got a chance to do some more geocaching last Saturday. It was a gorgeous, sunny day, and we knocked out six easy caches in downtown Kernersville. Because this post would get way too long [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Death Spiral No More, and Three K’ville Caches</title>
		<link>http://www.andinewton.com/journal/?p=221</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2012 23:27:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andi Newton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Geocaching]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[geocaching]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ran my fountain pen dry too]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sick Andi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sneaky sneaky hides]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[So, I&#8217;d only planned to do a geocache blog post, but I have bigger news than that. I FINISHED A STORY! I haven&#8217;t done that since &#8220;Through Ashes Returned&#8221;, which garnered me a very nice rejection letter that sent me into a tailspin that&#8217;s lasted &#8212; oh, dear &#8212; about nine months. (Wow, has it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Bridge Not Too Far</title>
		<link>http://www.andinewton.com/journal/?p=218</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2012 21:48:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andi Newton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fountain Pens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Geocaching]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[geocaching]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Happy Pi Day!]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[I blame it all on Mark Rainey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lamy 2000]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[scary stories set in cemeteries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shiny New Bridge]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Snagged another geocache after work last night. Just one. It was a little less than a mile from the house, so we took advantage of the gorgeous weather to skip the gym and walk to the cache site instead. Of course, we were a fair ways from the house when I realized we&#8217;d forgotten to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Modern Day Treasure Hunters</title>
		<link>http://www.andinewton.com/journal/?p=213</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2012 21:56:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andi Newton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conventions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Geocaching]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[geocaching]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[okay go check out Dork Tower but that's your last hint]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[StellarCon 36]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stephen Mark Rainey]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I know. I&#8217;ve been a total slacker about doing a StellarCon 36 blog post. For that matter, I was a total slacker about doing a blog post that I was scheduled to be a guest at SC36. Sorry. I promise to make it up to you. For now, suffice it to say I had a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Heartwarming Knit</title>
		<link>http://www.andinewton.com/journal/?p=209</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 22:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andi Newton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Knitting and Assorted Craftiness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[crafts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[it's surprisingly easy to lose yourself in knitting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Knitting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[scarf]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When I was a kid, my stepmom tried to teach me how to crochet. That didn&#8217;t go as well as either of us hoped. I eventually learned how to crochet a stitch, but I could never double back to make a second row, much less a third or fourth. None of my crochet projects ever [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Getting in Tune with my Ukulele</title>
		<link>http://www.andinewton.com/journal/?p=203</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 22:07:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andi Newton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Everyday Stuff]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ukulele]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[autotuner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chromatic tuner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[headstock tuner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[I bet I'll like playing even more once I get calluses]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ukulele]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I had a good day yesterday. The day before, too, and it had a lot to do with this little gadget: For the uninitiated, that&#8217;s a ukulele auto-tuner. Also known as a chromatic tuner or a headstock tuner or possibly a few other names. I&#8217;m pretty new to this stuff myself. One thing I do [...]]]></description>
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		<title>By Popular Demand: The Flying Cow!</title>
		<link>http://www.andinewton.com/journal/?p=202</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2011 23:11:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andi Newton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Everyday Stuff]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wildlife]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christmas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Flying Cow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[My husband is really strange but I love him anyway]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yes I wanted a ukelele]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Chad got me lots of great gifts for Christmas this year, including a fountain pen display case, an F nib for my Pelikan M205, a Franklin-Christoph pen holder/journal cover, a ukelele, and a flying cow. Yes, a flying cow. When I posted a picture of my Christmas goodies to Twitter, someone asked what the black [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reflections on my First #NaNoWriMo</title>
		<link>http://www.andinewton.com/journal/?p=199</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 21:34:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andi Newton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NaNoWriMo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Your characters should never have lives more boring than your own]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s December 1st, which means that midnight last night was pencils down and check your word count for hundreds of thousands of writers participating in NaNoWriMo. For once, I was one of them. I didn&#8217;t manage to write 50,000 words, but I did knock out a little over 21,000. And now I&#8217;m going to throw [...]]]></description>
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