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		<title>There&#8217;s No Crying in Baseball</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 01:07:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I forgot to tell you, I&#8217;m on a softball team. No really. I&#8217;m actually on a softball team. Now, I realize that I am gay. And that as a card carrying member of We Who Wear Sensible Shoes, I&#8217;m predisposed to being identified with certain stereotypes*. Like Subarus. Bi-level hair. U-hauls. And yes &#8211; the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Ode to a Toad</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Mar 2009 03:45:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s done! My Toad is done. The toad ass is no longer crooked. The toad lips &#8211; after some major reconstructive surgery &#8211; is done. The toad toes have been painted. 11 hours (literally) of Toadness has paid off. Now it&#8217;s going to be fired in the kiln. Unfortunately I still have to wait. They [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>I Just Want World Peace</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 00:18:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I promised myself I wouldn&#8217;t cry. But ack! I just opened a card from my mother. Inside is a small gold chain crucifix. The card reads: From Grammie, Pops and Mom. SOB!!!! My beloved Grammie and Pops passed away. Pops was 30+ years sober when he passed in the same program as me (and my [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>March 10, 2004</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 15:01:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m lucky. I have two birthdays. My real, official one &#8211; which is in January. And my other one. My sobriety birthday. That&#8217;s today, and I&#8217;m turning five. Not as in five days, or five months. Five Years. Years. Today I have five years of sobriety. I keep having to say it again because I [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>What To Do?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 01:39:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not sure what to do with my next post. It&#8217;s already written. A family member heard of what I was writing and said &#8220;You know I never say this, but don&#8217;t post it. Just don&#8217;t. It&#8217;s a bad idea. It&#8217;s too personal. I never say this, but just don&#8217;t.&#8221; I&#8217;m going to try posting [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Social Networking 2.0</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2009 00:35:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[If you were looking at laptop screen right now you&#8217;d see that my Firefox theme is green. You&#8217;d see that I have three programs open. You&#8217;d see that damned annoying Desktop Wizard saying I have several unused shortcut items and would they like to delete them for me? (Hell no. I don&#8217;t have shortcuts to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Toad Mode</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 01:27:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[So remember last year when I went to a pottery place for some mother-daughter bonding and made a duck out of clay? And then several months later when my prepaid session was coming up and I freaked out and couldn&#8217;t think of one damn thing to make (I don&#8217;t do kitties) and the only demented [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>A Little Incentive</title>
		<link>https://bitterdiva.wordpress.com/2009/02/28/a-little-incentive/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2009 22:57:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The clippers came out. Trouser Season is officially over. Not because it&#8217;s suddenly turned nice and warm and tropical here &#8211; because right outside my window there are 30mph winds and I can see that every available surface is shiny and wet. It&#8217;s over because when I was jokingly showing someone how long it&#8217;s been [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Place Holder</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2009 01:08:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t disappeared again. I&#8217;m swamped with photos and activities but hoo-doggy do I have some things to share. Just letting y&#8217;all know. Be warned.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Disappearing</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 03:44:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I tend to disappear a lot. When I disappear from friends here on the island, several things happen. It&#8217;s actually quite systematic and well-documented. The first few days I get phone calls. Usually updates on the weekly events, requests for dinner dates, activities, &#8216;Hey, I thought of you yesterday because I saw a goat (crazy [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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