<?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>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 13:12:00 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>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. The year of the writers&#39; strike, season 2, was pretty much&nbsp;a steaming pile of poo. Season 3 wasn&#39;t very good either, so I was tempted to give up on it, but honestly I haven&#39;t be]]></description></item><item><title>Manny being manny</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/manny_being_manny.htm</guid><link>http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/manny_being_manny.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 17:47:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=manny%5Fbeing%5Fmanny</comments><dc:creator>JohnSherck</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago, some friends of ours--colleagues of Lauren--asked me in very flattering terms whether I&#39;d be willing to serve as--to use Lauren&#39;s phraseology--a &quot;manny&quot; for their 3-year-old twins. 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Both days it was great with a some store-bought French bread (heated up in the oven). For dinner, I made a feast in honor of my in-law]]></description></item><item><title>Fiercely Friday</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/fiercely_friday.htm</guid><link>http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/fiercely_friday.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 18:42:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=fiercely%5Ffriday</comments><dc:creator>JohnSherck</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Wow. What a fiercely windy, beautiful, pre-storm afternoon. The lake has waves to impersonate an ocean, though it doesn&#39;t smell anything like the ocean. The wind is cool enough to be exhilerating without being so cold as to chill. It&#39;s probab]]></description></item><item><title>Foodstuffs</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/foodstuffs.htm</guid><link>http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/foodstuffs.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 13:46:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=foodstuffs</comments><dc:creator>JohnSherck</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[We&#39;ve had a sack of potatoes hanging out on our counter for several weeks now, largely because Lauren&#39;s not a big fan of most potatoes (fried are the exception for her, while I&#39;ve hardly ever met a potato I didn&#39;t like). What to do? A]]></description></item><item><title>Class Acts</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/class_acts.htm</guid><link>http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/class_acts.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 03:49:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=class%5Facts</comments><dc:creator>JohnSherck</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Thanks to what we&#39;ve decided to call a stomach flu early last week, tonight was only my second Master Gardener class. We&#39;re pretty sure we could be learning more in various ways. One of those ways might be to avoid becoming fixated on the lit]]></description></item><item><title>Book Review: Night of Knives</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/book_review_night_of_knives.htm</guid><link>http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/book_review_night_of_knives.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 03:13:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=book%5Freview%5Fnight%5Fof%5Fknives</comments><dc:creator>JohnSherck</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Book Review: Night of Knives by Ian C. Esselmont (A Novel of the Malazan Empire)]]></description><category>fantasy</category></item><item><title>Book Review: The Contrary Farmer&apos;s Invitation to Gardening</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/book_review_the_contrary_farmers_invitation_to_gardening.htm</guid><link>http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/book_review_the_contrary_farmers_invitation_to_gardening.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=book%5Freview%5Fthe%5Fcontrary%5Ffarmers%5Finvitation%5Fto%5Fgardening</comments><dc:creator>JohnSherck</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Book Review: The Contrary Farmer's Invitation to Gardening by Gene Logsdon.]]></description></item><item><title>Man of constant sorrows</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/man_of_constant_sorrows.htm</guid><link>http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/man_of_constant_sorrows.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=man%5Fof%5Fconstant%5Fsorrows</comments><dc:creator>JohnSherck</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Besides the story of the BMV-scare shared yesterday, Tuesday was just generally a bad day. Which is funny in a way, since I was determined to get up early and have a really productive day. I got up before 7 and got ready to go down to the gym to work]]></description></item><item><title>Epic Fail?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/epic_fail.htm</guid><link>http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/epic_fail.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 01:44:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=epic%5Ffail</comments><dc:creator>JohnSherck</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I have always been a passer of tests--it's just who I am. Even when I didn't prepare that well, I still did fine. Today, I had a real fear that my streak--nay, my very sense of self--was at risk. 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The concert was pretty much a dream ticket for me, with Carbon Leaf]]></description></item><item><title>Society&apos;s Projectory</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/societys_projectory.htm</guid><link>http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/societys_projectory.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 19:07:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=societys%5Fprojectory</comments><dc:creator>JohnSherck</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[One of my guilty pleasures is football, especially the NFL sort, and in particular the Cincinnati Bengals. By any measure, this is ridiculous. There are so many things I hate about the business side of football, and, well, there are plenty of reasons]]></description></item></channel></rss>