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		<title>Because it&#8217;s five o&#8217;clock somewhere.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 11:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David DeMar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At 10:00 AM PST today (1:00 PM for all you East Coast dwellers), Microsoft will be publicly unveiling the details of the newest iteration of its Xbox gaming console.  I plan to be incredibly drunk before the end of the presentation.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=the-amateur-professional.com&#038;blog=32190942&#038;post=3434&#038;subd=daviddemar&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How I learned to stop worrying and love the bowel movement.</title>
		<link>http://the-amateur-professional.com/2013/05/20/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-bowel-movement/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 11:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David DeMar</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Parenting]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Defecation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Diaper]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Exxon Valdez]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Flying Spaghetti Monster]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gulden]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human gastrointestinal tract]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[La Brea Tar Pits]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The kind of waste my child eliminates on a daily basis (oftentimes twice a day) could easily precipitate the kind of clean-up efforts that would make the Exxon Valdez look like a spilled bottle of soda.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=the-amateur-professional.com&#038;blog=32190942&#038;post=3430&#038;subd=daviddemar&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>No plan ever survives contact with the enemy.</title>
		<link>http://the-amateur-professional.com/2013/04/29/no-plan-ever-survives-contact-with-the-enemy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 11:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David DeMar</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Parenting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[childbirth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lehigh Valley Hospital at Cedar Crest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[newborn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pregnancy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robert Burns]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rocky Balboa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Silent Hill]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I kind of accidentally became a father this weekend.  Well, "accidentally" might bring up the wrong connotations here; this was coming eventually - everyone knew it - I just wasn't expecting it to happen in the middle of nowhere, Pennsylvania!<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=the-amateur-professional.com&#038;blog=32190942&#038;post=3418&#038;subd=daviddemar&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Curtain call.</title>
		<link>http://the-amateur-professional.com/2013/04/26/curtain-call/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 11:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David DeMar</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[LARP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Legacy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Faire Play]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Games]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Live action role-playing game]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roleplaying]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[About this time last year I attended Legacy, a live-action role playing game held at the Faire Play campsite in Montrose and run by several of my friends , for the first time.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=the-amateur-professional.com&#038;blog=32190942&#038;post=3412&#038;subd=daviddemar&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Die Reichswagen Uber Alles!</title>
		<link>http://the-amateur-professional.com/2013/04/25/die-reichswagen-uber-alles/</link>
		<comments>http://the-amateur-professional.com/2013/04/25/die-reichswagen-uber-alles/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 11:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David DeMar</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[I Don't Know What the Fuck is Going On]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blitzkreig]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[German language]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hugo Boss]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Schutzstaffel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Volkswagen Golf]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World War II]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ladies and gentlemen, I encountered what can only be described as Die Reichswagen on the way to a doctor's appointment.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=the-amateur-professional.com&#038;blog=32190942&#038;post=3408&#038;subd=daviddemar&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>It can&#8217;t be any worse than Superman Returns.</title>
		<link>http://the-amateur-professional.com/2013/04/24/it-cant-be-any-worse-than-superman-returns/</link>
		<comments>http://the-amateur-professional.com/2013/04/24/it-cant-be-any-worse-than-superman-returns/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 11:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David DeMar</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Movies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[brandon routh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[christopher reeve]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DC comics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[henry cavill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[man of steel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[superheroes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Superman]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When it comes to superhero movies, I tend to have questionable taste.  I draw the line at the Ghost Rider and Green Lantern movies, though; I have standards, even if they're low ones.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=the-amateur-professional.com&#038;blog=32190942&#038;post=3404&#038;subd=daviddemar&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>Putting things into perspective.</title>
		<link>http://the-amateur-professional.com/2013/04/23/putting-things-into-perspective/</link>
		<comments>http://the-amateur-professional.com/2013/04/23/putting-things-into-perspective/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 11:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David DeMar</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Strong At The Broken Places]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[be excellent to each other]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[boston marathon bombig]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CNN]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nigeria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[violence]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I'm not going to sit here and argue that the recent Boston Marathon bombing wasn't that bad.  At the same time, things could have been much, much worse - and we need to thank our lucky stars for that.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=the-amateur-professional.com&#038;blog=32190942&#038;post=3400&#038;subd=daviddemar&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>It goes with everything.</title>
		<link>http://the-amateur-professional.com/2013/04/22/it-goes-with-everything/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 11:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David DeMar</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mental Health Day]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[YouTube]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[acappella]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[guile's theme]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[street fighter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stupid human tricks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[video games]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[So I was sick all day yesterday, which left me wanting to more or less drown myself in the toilet bowl.  The only reason I didn't was because I would have had to clean it first. I mean, let's be honest - who wants to die with their lungs full of dirty toilet water?<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=the-amateur-professional.com&#038;blog=32190942&#038;post=3396&#038;subd=daviddemar&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>The cruellest month.</title>
		<link>http://the-amateur-professional.com/2013/04/19/the-cruellest-month/</link>
		<comments>http://the-amateur-professional.com/2013/04/19/the-cruellest-month/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 11:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David DeMar</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[I Don't Want to Live On This Planet Anymore]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[What fresh Hell is this?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Abraham Lincoln]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Adolf Hitler]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Birthday]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Martin Luther King Jr]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oklahoma City bombing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[T.S. Eliot]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Waco siege]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I hate April.  I have for years.  This week only solidifies how much fear and loathing I experience every calendar year when this bastard month rolls around.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=the-amateur-professional.com&#038;blog=32190942&#038;post=3392&#038;subd=daviddemar&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The light at the end of the birth canal.</title>
		<link>http://the-amateur-professional.com/2013/04/18/the-light-at-the-end-of-the-birth-canal/</link>
		<comments>http://the-amateur-professional.com/2013/04/18/the-light-at-the-end-of-the-birth-canal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 11:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David DeMar</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Parenting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pregnancy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[advice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[childbirth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[humor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[labor]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My wife is as round as a beach ball. In just a few weeks we'll be making that fateful trip to the hospital, where she'll attempt to squeeze something the rough shape and size of a Cabbage Patch Doll out through a hole the circumference of a Valencia orange, and all I can say is "better her than me!"<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=the-amateur-professional.com&#038;blog=32190942&#038;post=3389&#038;subd=daviddemar&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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