<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0"><channel><title>Latest entries from wheresmyplan.blog-city.com</title><link>http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/</link><description></description><copyright>Copyright 2009 wheresmyplan.blog-city.com</copyright><generator></generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:13:00 GMT</lastBuildDate><image><title>Latest entries from wheresmyplan.blog-city.com</title><url>http://server1.blog-city.com/images/bc_v5_logo_small.gif</url><link>http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/</link></image><ttl>360</ttl><docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss</docs><item><title>Thursday Think &apos;n&apos; Share 2.3</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/thursday_think_n_share_23.htm</guid><link>http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/thursday_think_n_share_23.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:53:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=thursday%5Fthink%5Fn%5Fshare%5F23</comments><dc:creator>JohnSherck</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Impatient to get this week's Think 'n' Share? Me too! Something light and something heavy follow...]]></description></item><item><title>The Blasphemy Contest results</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/the_blasphemy_contest_results.htm</guid><link>http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/the_blasphemy_contest_results.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:03:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=the%5Fblasphemy%5Fcontest%5Fresults</comments><dc:creator>JohnSherck</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[As I said yesterday, I wanted to reveal and discuss the winner and runners-up in the CFI Blasphemy contest. To recap, entrants were asked, in 20 words or fewer, to skewer religious belief. Also, as I mentioned yesterday, they were asked to do it in a]]></description></item><item><title>Challenging Beliefs</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/challenging_beliefs.htm</guid><link>http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/challenging_beliefs.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 05:39:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=challenging%5Fbeliefs</comments><dc:creator>JohnSherck</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Prompted by Blasphemy Day, which was back in September, I guess, I think about the difficulty of having our beliefs challenged.]]></description><category>belief</category><category>iconoclasm</category><category>blasphemy</category><category>center for inquiry</category><category>skepticism</category></item><item><title>Not what we had planned. Not by a long shot.</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/not_what_we_had_planned_not_by_a_long_shot.htm</guid><link>http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/not_what_we_had_planned_not_by_a_long_shot.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 05:37:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=not%5Fwhat%5Fwe%5Fhad%5Fplanned%5Fnot%5Fby%5Fa%5Flong%5Fshot</comments><dc:creator>JohnSherck</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I really didn&#39;t want to write another &quot;how our lives are going post&quot; hot on the heels of so many others, but this was a day that a) drained me enough that I couldn&#39;t think well even if I wanted to and b) pretty much demanded to be w]]></description></item><item><title>The Great Computer Debacle Update</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/the_great_computer_debacle_update.htm</guid><link>http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/the_great_computer_debacle_update.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=the%5Fgreat%5Fcomputer%5Fdebacle%5Fupdate</comments><dc:creator>JohnSherck</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Well, my wonderful wife was, once again, very helpful, figuring out what drivers we needed and downloading them, burning them to a disc, and installing them. And she neither charged me a one-time fee nor tried to sell me a 1-year contract. So I am wr]]></description></item><item><title>Down with the Sickness(es)</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/down_with_the_sicknesses.htm</guid><link>http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/down_with_the_sicknesses.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 04:23:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=down%5Fwith%5Fthe%5Fsicknesses</comments><dc:creator>JohnSherck</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[How I'm feeling, in terms of illness and in terms of the illness of my computer.]]></description></item><item><title>Infridayenza</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/infridayenza.htm</guid><link>http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/infridayenza.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 22:32:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=infridayenza</comments><dc:creator>JohnSherck</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Sick of being sick already.]]></description></item><item><title>Thursday Think &apos;n&apos; Share 2.2</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/thursday_think_n_share_22.htm</guid><link>http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/thursday_think_n_share_22.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 03:14:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=thursday%5Fthink%5Fn%5Fshare%5F22</comments><dc:creator>JohnSherck</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Family. changes, and peace. Read, think, comment, please.]]></description></item><item><title>Grrrr.</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/grrrr_1.htm</guid><link>http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/grrrr_1.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:23:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=grrrr%5F1</comments><dc:creator>JohnSherck</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A moment of idiocy, hours of frustration.]]></description></item><item><title>Tuesday Thankfulness</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/tuesday_thankfulness.htm</guid><link>http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/tuesday_thankfulness.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:20:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=tuesday%5Fthankfulness</comments><dc:creator>JohnSherck</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I&#39;ve seen some friends on Facebook doing a thing where each day they post something they&#39;re thankful for. I&#39;m guessing that will be hard to pull off without getting pretty banal by the time Thanksgiving gets here, but I thought I might tr]]></description></item><item><title>Book Review: Born to Run</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/book_review_born_to_run.htm</guid><link>http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/book_review_born_to_run.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:16:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=book%5Freview%5Fborn%5Fto%5Frun</comments><dc:creator>JohnSherck</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Book Review: Born to Run--A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen by Christopher McDougall]]></description></item><item><title>Food Friday -- Burgers and Fries</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/food_friday__burgers_and_fries.htm</guid><link>http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/food_friday__burgers_and_fries.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:12:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=food%5Ffriday%5F%5Fburgers%5Fand%5Ffries</comments><dc:creator>JohnSherck</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[You do not want to miss the vicarious experience of our making and eating of burgers and sweet potato fries. And you'd be better off making both for yourself just as soon as you're done reading.]]></description></item><item><title>Thursday Think &apos;n&apos; Share 2.1</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/thursday_think_n_share_21.htm</guid><link>http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/thursday_think_n_share_21.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:56:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=thursday%5Fthink%5Fn%5Fshare%5F21</comments><dc:creator>JohnSherck</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[It's baaaaack! Read, think, share!]]></description></item><item><title>To Do</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/to_do.htm</guid><link>http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/to_do.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 05:04:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=to%5Fdo</comments><dc:creator>JohnSherck</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[To do: Write a To Do listExercise Finish Born to RunClean officeComposeMake monkey bread Make risotto and apple crisp for dinnerDo recs for common app online DishesGo to grocery store, bankHaiku stuff to Elliot Clean up and catch up with e-mailsCompo]]></description></item><item><title>Book Reviews: Darwin&apos;s Radio and Ships of Merior</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/book_reviews_darwins_radio_and_ships_of_merior.htm</guid><link>http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/book_reviews_darwins_radio_and_ships_of_merior.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 05:26:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=book%5Freviews%5Fdarwins%5Fradio%5Fand%5Fships%5Fof%5Fmerior</comments><dc:creator>JohnSherck</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Book Reviews: Darwin's Radio by Greg Bear and Ships of Merior (and Warhost of Vastmark) by Janny Wurts.]]></description></item><item><title>Why?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/why.htm</guid><link>http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/why.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 03:49:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=why</comments><dc:creator>JohnSherck</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I&#39;ve mentioned before that I am a &quot;manny&quot; for 3-year-old twins. I find it totally fascinating--and sometimes rather funny--to watch the 3-year-old mind at work. For instance...We were in a building today when boy-twin saw a woman going]]></description></item><item><title>Catching up is hard to do</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/catching_up_is_hard_to_do.htm</guid><link>http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/catching_up_is_hard_to_do.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 01:25:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=catching%5Fup%5Fis%5Fhard%5Fto%5Fdo</comments><dc:creator>JohnSherck</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[In case you hadn't noticed, it's been a while since I posted. Sorry about that. Here's what I've been up to.]]></description></item><item><title>Make more and more or take from the store?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/make_more_and_more_or_take_from_the_store.htm</guid><link>http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/make_more_and_more_or_take_from_the_store.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 03:45:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=make%5Fmore%5Fand%5Fmore%5For%5Ftake%5Ffrom%5Fthe%5Fstore</comments><dc:creator>JohnSherck</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Yesterday, I referred to an interesting article on the cost-effectiveness of making basic foodstuffs at home. The author&#39;s method there was to ignore the value of one&#39;s own labor but meticulously calculate the costs of ingredients and the ene]]></description></item><item><title>Time to make the bagels...</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/time_to_make_the_bagels.htm</guid><link>http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/time_to_make_the_bagels.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 03:32:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=time%5Fto%5Fmake%5Fthe%5Fbagels</comments><dc:creator>JohnSherck</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Over the weekend, I made bagels. Really, really good bagels.]]></description></item><item><title>No cents to me</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/no_cents_to_me.htm</guid><link>http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/no_cents_to_me.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 04:16:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=no%5Fcents%5Fto%5Fme</comments><dc:creator>JohnSherck</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I found myself somewhere between bemused and mystified today when I stopped in to our local bank to deposit some checks. One of the checks was rather substantial, as on of the things I did on the trip referred to in yesterday&#39;s post was to stop a]]></description></item><item><title>Developing Professionals</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/developing_professionals.htm</guid><link>http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/developing_professionals.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 04:24:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=developing%5Fprofessionals</comments><dc:creator>JohnSherck</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[If you&#39;ve noticed that I haven&#39;t posted in a few days, you&#39;re not alone. I noticed it too. For a fair portion of that, starting last Tuesday, I was traveling the highways and byways of the eastern Midwest, right into the Mid-Atlantic (I g]]></description></item><item><title>Say what?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/say_what_1.htm</guid><link>http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/say_what_1.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 02:19:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=say%5Fwhat%5F1</comments><dc:creator>JohnSherck</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Last Friday, my activity with the twins I&#39;m mannying was to bake peanutbutter cookies. It seemed like a good call, as they were relatively easy to make but had things the kids could--more or less-do: roll balls, smoosh with a fork. Oh, and eat. T]]></description></item><item><title>After Apple Picking</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/after_apple_picking.htm</guid><link>http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/after_apple_picking.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 04:02:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=after%5Fapple%5Fpicking</comments><dc:creator>JohnSherck</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[We went apple picking today. Here's the brief story of our trip.]]></description></item><item><title>TV Tuesday -- Heroes</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/tv_tuesday__heroes.htm</guid><link>http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/tv_tuesday__heroes.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=tv%5Ftuesday%5F%5Fheroes</comments><dc:creator>JohnSherck</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I just wanted to sound off on the new season of Heroes. 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