<?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>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 23:16:00 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>Black Bean Pot Pie (or something)</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/black_bean_pot_pie_or_something.htm</guid><link>http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/black_bean_pot_pie_or_something.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:07:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=black%5Fbean%5Fpot%5Fpie%5For%5Fsomething</comments><dc:creator>JohnSherck</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The recipe I threw together to help empty our cabinets and freezer.]]></description><category>recipe</category></item><item><title>News of the World</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/news_of_the_world_2.htm</guid><link>http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/news_of_the_world_2.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 02:20:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=news%5Fof%5Fthe%5Fworld%5F2</comments><dc:creator>JohnSherck</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I&#39;m late to the story and don&#39;t have anything profound to add, but I wanted to make an observation about the death of Michael Jackson. Here&#39;s the thing: for over a decade, he&#39;s been something between a one-man punch-line and a freak s]]></description><category>bernie madoff</category><category>michael jackson</category></item><item><title>My least favorite headache</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/my_least_favorite_headache.htm</guid><link>http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/my_least_favorite_headache.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 17:18:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=my%5Fleast%5Ffavorite%5Fheadache</comments><dc:creator>JohnSherck</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Last night, I had quite probably the worst headache of my life. It&#39;s in our nature not to retain clear memories of pain (so I&#39;m told), so it&#39;s hard to make the comparison, but I&#39;m pretty sure this is it. I&#39;ve never had a migraine,]]></description></item><item><title>Fifteen Books</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/fifteen_books.htm</guid><link>http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/fifteen_books.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 11:43:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=fifteen%5Fbooks</comments><dc:creator>JohnSherck</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Fifteen books that have been important to me.]]></description></item><item><title>O Canada</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/o_canada.htm</guid><link>http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/o_canada.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 11:08:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=o%5Fcanada</comments><dc:creator>JohnSherck</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Let&#39;s start the entry with a short quiz, shall we?1) Going away on vacation for a week right before moving, without having the whole house packed up, with just a bit under three days to finish packing when you get back is:A) A bad ideaB) Quite en]]></description></item><item><title>Packing it in</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/packing_it_in_1.htm</guid><link>http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/packing_it_in_1.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 03:40:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=packing%5Fit%5Fin%5F1</comments><dc:creator>JohnSherck</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A photo essay detailing the hard work of packing up a home.]]></description><category>cows</category><category>hand puppets</category><category>packing</category></item><item><title>Book Reviews: Lost in a Good Book and The Well of Lost Plots</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/book_reviews_lost_in_a_good_book_and_the_well_of_lost_plots.htm</guid><link>http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/book_reviews_lost_in_a_good_book_and_the_well_of_lost_plots.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 14:14:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=book%5Freviews%5Flost%5Fin%5Fa%5Fgood%5Fbook%5Fand%5Fthe%5Fwell%5Fof%5Flost%5Fplots</comments><dc:creator>JohnSherck</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[In which I review two books by Jasper Fforde, the 2nd and 3rd books of his Thursday Next series.]]></description></item><item><title>Whew.</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/whew_3.htm</guid><link>http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/whew_3.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 03:45:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=whew%5F3</comments><dc:creator>JohnSherck</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[We sure spent a lot of time driving in the past few days. Thursday: 12 1/2 hours down to Atlanta. Friday: 5 1/2 hours down to Tallahassee. Saturday, we just got to drive around Tallahassee. Sunday: 5 1/4 hours back up to Atlanta (woohoo! we made good]]></description></item><item><title>The Rehearsal Dinner</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/the_rehearsal_dinner.htm</guid><link>http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/the_rehearsal_dinner.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2009 14:27:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=the%5Frehearsal%5Fdinner</comments><dc:creator>JohnSherck</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Last night, Lauren and I went to the rehearsal dinner. Traditionally, the rehearsal dinner is for the families of the bride and groom and the wedding party, but last night&#39;s rehearsal dinner was conceived the same way that Lauren and I had ours:]]></description></item><item><title>Trip Preparations</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/trip_preparations.htm</guid><link>http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/trip_preparations.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 02:21:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=trip%5Fpreparations</comments><dc:creator>JohnSherck</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Lauren and I are getting ready to drive and drive and drive. We&#39;re going from western PA down to Tallahassee for a wedding, driving the whole way in our Prius and stopping briefly in Atlanta to visit a friend on the way there and back. It&#39;s 1]]></description></item><item><title>Share the Load</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/share_the_load.htm</guid><link>http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/share_the_load.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 04:06:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=share%5Fthe%5Fload</comments><dc:creator>JohnSherck</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This weekend, Lauren was reading a book called The Amish in Their Own Words, which from the excerpts she read me seemed pretty interesting. One that caught my attention was one in which a woman described all the ways that her husband interacted with]]></description></item><item><title>Teenage Mutant Ninja Radio</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/teenage_mutant_ninja_radio.htm</guid><link>http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/teenage_mutant_ninja_radio.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 03:54:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=teenage%5Fmutant%5Fninja%5Fradio</comments><dc:creator>JohnSherck</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[We took another trip over the weekend, and on that one as well as our trip to D.C. a week ago, the sounds system in our Prius looked like this:We rock. (Incidentally, the reason for this sound system was because we can&#39;t plug our mp3 player into]]></description></item><item><title>Movie Review: UP</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/movie_review_up.htm</guid><link>http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/movie_review_up.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2009 10:15:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=movie%5Freview%5Fup</comments><dc:creator>JohnSherck</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Despite causing me to rant like an old man, the film was quite good.]]></description></item><item><title>Early June Odds and Ends</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/early_june_odds_and_ends.htm</guid><link>http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/early_june_odds_and_ends.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2009 04:05:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=early%5Fjune%5Fodds%5Fand%5Fends</comments><dc:creator>JohnSherck</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[What I've been up to: this and that.]]></description></item><item><title>The first day of the rest of my life...</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/the_first_day_of_the_rest_of_my_life.htm</guid><link>http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/the_first_day_of_the_rest_of_my_life.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 04:03:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=the%5Ffirst%5Fday%5Fof%5Fthe%5Frest%5Fof%5Fmy%5Flife</comments><dc:creator>JohnSherck</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[All of my exams are graded, grades are in, comments are written. The only teaching I&#39;ll be doing for a long while looks like this:In case you couldn&#39;t tell, I am teaching the dog how to hold down the couch. She&#39;s a quick study.]]></description></item><item><title>Chances in Jeopardy</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/chances_in_jeopardy.htm</guid><link>http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/chances_in_jeopardy.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 13:16:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=chances%5Fin%5Fjeopardy</comments><dc:creator>JohnSherck</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Sometimes, things don't work out like you'd hoped. Take our trip for Lauren to audition for Jeopardy! as an example.]]></description></item><item><title>10-year Reunion</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/10year_reunion.htm</guid><link>http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/10year_reunion.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 04:29:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=10year%5Freunion</comments><dc:creator>JohnSherck</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Lauren had a great--albeit exhausting--weekend at our alma mater for my 10-year reunion. Wow, does 10 years fly by! It was great to see some some of my good friends (most of whom I&#39;ve seen within the last year or so) and other friends&nbsp;to who]]></description></item><item><title>Yesteryear</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/yesteryear.htm</guid><link>http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/yesteryear.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 15:25:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=yesteryear</comments><dc:creator>JohnSherck</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Rural north-central Ohio (and other places) c. 1902.]]></description></item><item><title>They Don&apos;t Love You Like I Love You</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/the_dont_love_you_like_i_love_you.htm</guid><link>http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/the_dont_love_you_like_i_love_you.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2009 02:11:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=the%5Fdont%5Flove%5Fyou%5Flike%5Fi%5Flove%5Fyou</comments><dc:creator>JohnSherck</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Maps]]></description></item><item><title>All the Fixin&apos;s</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/all_the_fixins.htm</guid><link>http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/all_the_fixins.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2009 04:35:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=all%5Fthe%5Ffixins</comments><dc:creator>JohnSherck</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Getting some things fixed and trying to get others fixed.]]></description></item><item><title>Last Day of Classes</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/last_day_of_classes.htm</guid><link>http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/last_day_of_classes.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2009 03:48:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=last%5Fday%5Fof%5Fclasses</comments><dc:creator>JohnSherck</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Written earlier today:I&#39;ve just finished my last class on my last day of classes, the last day of classes at this school and potentially the last day of classes of my teaching career (who knows?). It still doesn&#39;t feel like the end, though, w]]></description></item><item><title>Hello Mr. Ranger, Sir</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/hello_mr_ranger_sir.htm</guid><link>http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/hello_mr_ranger_sir.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 00:48:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=hello%5Fmr%5Franger%5Fsir</comments><dc:creator>JohnSherck</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[In the news: You can now legally carry a concealed, loaded&nbsp;firearm in national parks, and I have to say it&#39;s about time. Maybe if bears know that we might be packing, they&#39;ll think twice before snatching our picnic baskets.]]></description></item><item><title>The horror...</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/the_horror.htm</guid><link>http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/the_horror.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 14:08:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=the%5Fhorror</comments><dc:creator>JohnSherck</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I guess there&#39;s not much of pressing importance going on in the country, given what some Republicans are spending their time on (from CNN):Members of the Republican National Committee appear to have reached a compromise that would let GOP leaders]]></description><category>democrats</category><category>republicans</category><category>socialist</category></item><item><title>The Butcher</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/the_butcher.htm</guid><link>http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/the_butcher.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 04:13:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=the%5Fbutcher</comments><dc:creator>JohnSherck</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[My best friend was recently telling me about a butcher in Tuscany, to whom he took a group of study-abroad students this semester, named Dario Cecchini. A fifth-generation butcher whose parents wanted him to not be a butcher, he ended up pressed into]]></description></item><item><title>Back up and back down</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/back_up_and_back_down.htm</guid><link>http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/back_up_and_back_down.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 04:04:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=back%5Fup%5Fand%5Fback%5Fdown</comments><dc:creator>JohnSherck</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Odd, isn&#39;t it, how back up and back down are not antonyms? In certain circumstances, they could actually be similar. Back in and back out aren&#39;t opposites either. It&#39;s a strange world we live in.However, the backing up I wanted to do with]]></description></item></channel></rss>