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		<title>A Consideration of Possibilities&#8230;Plus a Free Story!</title>
		<link>http://www.normalityrestored.com/2012/03/28/some-brief-historical-data-plus-a-free-story</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2012 16:24:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kilian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Because I&#8217;m coming to better understand the whole &#8220;below/above the fold&#8221; dichotomy that exists within sites like this one, I will start by saying that you can read one of my short stories, titled Four Homeruns, by clicking this linkey &#8230; <a href="http://www.normalityrestored.com/2012/03/28/some-brief-historical-data-plus-a-free-story">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A New Day Has Dawned Indeed</title>
		<link>http://www.normalityrestored.com/2012/03/07/a-new-day-has-dawned-indeed</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2012 07:23:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kilian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Amazon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Borders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Costco]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Further Evidence that Books are Being Irrevocably Changed]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lee Child]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Digital Age]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The family was in need of several dozen rolls of toilet paper, two gallons of milk, two loaves of bread, 18 eggs, 300 trash bags, and 48 frozen waffles. So, of course, I went to the best place to fill such &#8230; <a href="http://www.normalityrestored.com/2012/03/07/a-new-day-has-dawned-indeed">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Why Can&#8217;t This Band Get Some Love&#8230;Seriously?!</title>
		<link>http://www.normalityrestored.com/2012/02/14/why-cant-this-band-get-some-love-seriously</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 18:47:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kilian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arts of the Musical Persuasion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Award Shows]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Features]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Grammys]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vanaprasta]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The best thing about awards shows, in this day of DVR&#8217;s, is that you can watch 3 hours of show in 30 minutes. I bring this up because the Grammy&#8217;s aired on Sunday. The show itself was not the worst &#8230; <a href="http://www.normalityrestored.com/2012/02/14/why-cant-this-band-get-some-love-seriously">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Word Count: 40,689&#8230;And Some Housekeeping Items of Note</title>
		<link>http://www.normalityrestored.com/2012/02/13/word-count-40689-and-some-housekeeping-items-of-note</link>
		<comments>http://www.normalityrestored.com/2012/02/13/word-count-40689-and-some-housekeeping-items-of-note#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 22:26:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kilian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arts of the Written Persuasion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kilian's Glacial Drafting Process]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spotify]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Website Related Information]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The word count is a bit disingenuous. That is the current word count but it includes a bit of place holder text. For ease, we&#8217;ll just say I am in the 40k range, which is true. So, depending on where &#8230; <a href="http://www.normalityrestored.com/2012/02/13/word-count-40689-and-some-housekeeping-items-of-note">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Have You Ever Been Punched In The Stomach By Words?</title>
		<link>http://www.normalityrestored.com/2012/02/06/have-you-ever-been-punched-in-the-stomach-by-words</link>
		<comments>http://www.normalityrestored.com/2012/02/06/have-you-ever-been-punched-in-the-stomach-by-words#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:08:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kilian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m going to make an admission that embarrasses me most profusely. I have never read Infinite Jest. This is embarrassing because I have actually owned the book for several years. Even now it sits on a shelf in my living &#8230; <a href="http://www.normalityrestored.com/2012/02/06/have-you-ever-been-punched-in-the-stomach-by-words">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m Considering How To Best Explain My Current State of Mind Without Resorting to a Long Winded Diatribe That Meanders On Pointlessly for Quite Some Time Before Breaking Down Into Unintelligible Swearing But I&#8217;m Failing Miserably&#8230;F#$king, S&amp;*t, A$$, F@#k, B!^%h!</title>
		<link>http://www.normalityrestored.com/2012/02/03/im-considering-how-to-best-explain-my-current-state-of-mind-without-resorting-to-a-long-winded-diatribe-that-meanders-on-pointlessly-for-quite-some-time-before-breaking-down-into-unintelligible-swea</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 07:50:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kilian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Random Normality]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Because, as is often the case when I am very, very upset, I have no one to blame but myself. And isn&#8217;t that just the worst, really? When you want to go and just punch some asshole in the mouth &#8230; <a href="http://www.normalityrestored.com/2012/02/03/im-considering-how-to-best-explain-my-current-state-of-mind-without-resorting-to-a-long-winded-diatribe-that-meanders-on-pointlessly-for-quite-some-time-before-breaking-down-into-unintelligible-swea">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Word Count 34,697: The Shell Game Has Commenced</title>
		<link>http://www.normalityrestored.com/2012/02/01/word-count-34697-the-shell-game-has-commenced</link>
		<comments>http://www.normalityrestored.com/2012/02/01/word-count-34697-the-shell-game-has-commenced#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 22:53:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kilian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cutting and Pasting Not as It Seems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kilian's Continuing Struggle to Finish Book 1]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leo Tolstoy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Revisiting Prose from the Past]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[At this point, I&#8217;m essentially re-arranging chunks of text. Most of the stuff that needed serious revision has been duly revised. But that, it turns out (ironically?!), was the easy part. What I&#8217;m doing now is cutting and pasting sections &#8230; <a href="http://www.normalityrestored.com/2012/02/01/word-count-34697-the-shell-game-has-commenced">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Ebooks Should Not be Feared in the Same Manner as Axe Wielding, Midget Clowns</title>
		<link>http://www.normalityrestored.com/2012/01/31/ebooks-should-not-be-feared-in-the-same-manner-as-axe-wielding-midget-clowns</link>
		<comments>http://www.normalityrestored.com/2012/01/31/ebooks-should-not-be-feared-in-the-same-manner-as-axe-wielding-midget-clowns#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 17:50:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kilian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Random Normality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Amanda Hocking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Game of Thrones Art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jonathan Franzen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The "facebookz"]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Digital Age]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m going to preface this whole post by saying I just got back from the gym and, excepting the last two weeks, I haven&#8217;t regularly exercised for&#8230;how old is my daughter&#8230;oh yeah, five.  Suffice it to say, I&#8217;m still in &#8230; <a href="http://www.normalityrestored.com/2012/01/31/ebooks-should-not-be-feared-in-the-same-manner-as-axe-wielding-midget-clowns">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m Staying Pessimistic to Blunt the Inevitable Heartbreak to Come</title>
		<link>http://www.normalityrestored.com/2012/01/24/im-staying-pessimistic-to-blunt-the-inevitable-heartbreak-to-come</link>
		<comments>http://www.normalityrestored.com/2012/01/24/im-staying-pessimistic-to-blunt-the-inevitable-heartbreak-to-come#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 07:19:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kilian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Television]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fringe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Game of Thrones (TV Series)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Once Upon a Time]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pushing Daisies]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My guess is I&#8217;m not the only one watching Once Upon a Time. I mean, it&#8217;s not like I&#8217;m looking at the ratings or anything&#8230;OK, I do check on them from time to time&#8230;but Once Upon a Time seems to be &#8230; <a href="http://www.normalityrestored.com/2012/01/24/im-staying-pessimistic-to-blunt-the-inevitable-heartbreak-to-come">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Word Count: 23,475</title>
		<link>http://www.normalityrestored.com/2011/12/01/word-count-23475</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 20:09:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kilian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Death of publishing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kilian's Novel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Long overdue completion of text]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It is, perhaps, odd that I write a post today. There isn&#8217;t really a compelling reason for me to be posting something today&#8230;or, at least no more compelling reason than just about any other day. And, sure, I could just &#8230; <a href="http://www.normalityrestored.com/2011/12/01/word-count-23475">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A Brief Plea for Help</title>
		<link>http://www.normalityrestored.com/2011/05/15/a-brief-plea-for-help</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 May 2011 07:36:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kilian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arts of the Written Persuasion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kilian's Epic Failure as a Writer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pleas for Help]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Networking]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Assuming this missive reaches any out there in the ether known as the interwebz, I humbly submit the following request. &#160; Let&#8217;s say, hypothetically, that I was taking part in a sort of social experiment.  Said experiment is cheifly populated &#8230; <a href="http://www.normalityrestored.com/2011/05/15/a-brief-plea-for-help">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m Cheap&#8230;but, Not Really</title>
		<link>http://www.normalityrestored.com/2011/05/11/im-cheap-but-not-really</link>
		<comments>http://www.normalityrestored.com/2011/05/11/im-cheap-but-not-really#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2011 04:47:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kilian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Random Normality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bookmines]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Game of Thrones (TV Series)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HBO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Coming End of Mining Books]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I had previously wondered whether or not I could concievabley spend $15 a month for HBO in order to watch Game of Thrones.  It turns out that, for reasons wholly unrelated to HBO (more on that later), I can&#8217;t.  There are, of course, &#8230; <a href="http://www.normalityrestored.com/2011/05/11/im-cheap-but-not-really">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Should I Spend $15 a Month to Watch One Show?</title>
		<link>http://www.normalityrestored.com/2011/04/15/should-i-spend-15-a-month-to-watch-one-show</link>
		<comments>http://www.normalityrestored.com/2011/04/15/should-i-spend-15-a-month-to-watch-one-show#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2011 17:23:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kilian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Television]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Excessive Expense for Little Use]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Game of Thrones (TV Series)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HBO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sean Bean = Man Crush]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Directv is offering a &#8220;preview weekend&#8221; of HBO starting today. I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;m being over dramatic by claiming it is a plot solely dedicated to extract an extra 14 dollars and 99 cents from me every time I pay &#8230; <a href="http://www.normalityrestored.com/2011/04/15/should-i-spend-15-a-month-to-watch-one-show">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>For Many Reasons, I am Optimistic</title>
		<link>http://www.normalityrestored.com/2011/04/14/for-many-reasons-i-am-optimistic</link>
		<comments>http://www.normalityrestored.com/2011/04/14/for-many-reasons-i-am-optimistic#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2011 19:23:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kilian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Random Normality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Book Retail]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Interconnectedness of Things Not Seemingly Connected]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Optimism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As I wrote the other day, I have free time this week. I could be cleaning the kitchen, or mowing the lawn, or doing any number of productive things with my time. Technically, I&#8217;m not working for six days.  Yesterday, &#8230; <a href="http://www.normalityrestored.com/2011/04/14/for-many-reasons-i-am-optimistic">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The End of an Era&#8230;Wait, Nevermind</title>
		<link>http://www.normalityrestored.com/2011/04/12/the-end-of-an-era-wait-nevermind</link>
		<comments>http://www.normalityrestored.com/2011/04/12/the-end-of-an-era-wait-nevermind#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2011 17:33:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kilian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Random Normality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Book Retail]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Borders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Liquidation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Many of you are aware, I&#8217;m sure, about the quasi-doom of my employer, Borders.  At present, the company is in a Chapter 11 reorganization.  Total store closures will be in the 225ish range.  None of this is news anymore as &#8230; <a href="http://www.normalityrestored.com/2011/04/12/the-end-of-an-era-wait-nevermind">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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