<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xml:lang="en"><title>Latest entries from wheresmyplan.blog-city.com</title><rights>Copyright 2009 wheresmyplan.blog-city.com</rights><subtitle></subtitle><author><name></name></author><updated>2009-11-20T19:13:00Z</updated><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/"/><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/index.rss"/><id>tag:wheresmyplan.blog-city.com,2009:1</id><entry><id>tag:wheresmyplan.blog-city.com,2009-11-20:links.412191533</id><title>Thursday Think &apos;n&apos; Share 2.3</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/thursday_think_n_share_23.htm"><![CDATA[Impatient to get this week's Think 'n' Share? Me too! Something light and something heavy follow...]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/thursday_think_n_share_23.htm"/><dc:creator>JohnSherck</dc:creator><author><name>JohnSherck</name></author><updated>2009-11-20T00:53:00Z</updated><published>2009-11-20T00:53:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:wheresmyplan.blog-city.com,2009-11-18:links.412191292</id><title>The Blasphemy Contest results</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/the_blasphemy_contest_results.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/the_blasphemy_contest_results.htm"/><dc:creator>JohnSherck</dc:creator><author><name>JohnSherck</name></author><updated>2009-11-18T20:03:00Z</updated><published>2009-11-18T20:03:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:wheresmyplan.blog-city.com,2009-11-17:links.412191290</id><title>Challenging Beliefs</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/challenging_beliefs.htm"><![CDATA[Prompted by Blasphemy Day, which was back in September, I guess, I think about the difficulty of having our beliefs challenged.]]></content><dc:subject>belief</dc:subject><dc:subject>iconoclasm</dc:subject><dc:subject>blasphemy</dc:subject><dc:subject>center for inquiry</dc:subject><dc:subject>skepticism</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/challenging_beliefs.htm"/><dc:creator>JohnSherck</dc:creator><author><name>JohnSherck</name></author><updated>2009-11-17T05:39:00Z</updated><published>2009-11-17T05:39:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:wheresmyplan.blog-city.com,2009-11-16:links.412191134</id><title>Not what we had planned. Not by a long shot.</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/not_what_we_had_planned_not_by_a_long_shot.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/not_what_we_had_planned_not_by_a_long_shot.htm"/><dc:creator>JohnSherck</dc:creator><author><name>JohnSherck</name></author><updated>2009-11-16T05:37:00Z</updated><published>2009-11-16T05:37:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:wheresmyplan.blog-city.com,2009-11-16:links.412190929</id><title>The Great Computer Debacle Update</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/the_great_computer_debacle_update.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/the_great_computer_debacle_update.htm"/><dc:creator>JohnSherck</dc:creator><author><name>JohnSherck</name></author><updated>2009-11-16T04:00:00Z</updated><published>2009-11-16T04:00:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:wheresmyplan.blog-city.com,2009-11-15:links.412190868</id><title>Down with the Sickness(es)</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/down_with_the_sicknesses.htm"><![CDATA[How I'm feeling, in terms of illness and in terms of the illness of my computer.]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/down_with_the_sicknesses.htm"/><dc:creator>JohnSherck</dc:creator><author><name>JohnSherck</name></author><updated>2009-11-15T04:23:00Z</updated><published>2009-11-15T04:23:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:wheresmyplan.blog-city.com,2009-11-13:links.412190777</id><title>Infridayenza</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/infridayenza.htm"><![CDATA[Sick of being sick already.]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/infridayenza.htm"/><dc:creator>JohnSherck</dc:creator><author><name>JohnSherck</name></author><updated>2009-11-13T22:32:00Z</updated><published>2009-11-13T22:32:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:wheresmyplan.blog-city.com,2009-11-13:links.412190635</id><title>Thursday Think &apos;n&apos; Share 2.2</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/thursday_think_n_share_22.htm"><![CDATA[Family. changes, and peace. Read, think, comment, please.]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/thursday_think_n_share_22.htm"/><dc:creator>JohnSherck</dc:creator><author><name>JohnSherck</name></author><updated>2009-11-13T03:14:00Z</updated><published>2009-11-13T03:14:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:wheresmyplan.blog-city.com,2009-11-11:links.412190319</id><title>Grrrr.</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/grrrr_1.htm"><![CDATA[A moment of idiocy, hours of frustration.]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/grrrr_1.htm"/><dc:creator>JohnSherck</dc:creator><author><name>JohnSherck</name></author><updated>2009-11-11T23:23:00Z</updated><published>2009-11-11T23:23:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:wheresmyplan.blog-city.com,2009-11-10:links.412190038</id><title>Tuesday Thankfulness</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/tuesday_thankfulness.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/tuesday_thankfulness.htm"/><dc:creator>JohnSherck</dc:creator><author><name>JohnSherck</name></author><updated>2009-11-10T13:20:00Z</updated><published>2009-11-10T13:20:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:wheresmyplan.blog-city.com,2009-11-09:links.412190019</id><title>Book Review: Born to Run</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/book_review_born_to_run.htm"><![CDATA[Book Review: Born to Run--A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen by Christopher McDougall]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/book_review_born_to_run.htm"/><dc:creator>JohnSherck</dc:creator><author><name>JohnSherck</name></author><updated>2009-11-09T14:16:00Z</updated><published>2009-11-09T14:16:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:wheresmyplan.blog-city.com,2009-11-06:links.412189690</id><title>Food Friday -- Burgers and Fries</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/food_friday__burgers_and_fries.htm"><![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.]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/food_friday__burgers_and_fries.htm"/><dc:creator>JohnSherck</dc:creator><author><name>JohnSherck</name></author><updated>2009-11-06T13:12:00Z</updated><published>2009-11-06T13:12:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:wheresmyplan.blog-city.com,2009-11-05:links.412189395</id><title>Thursday Think &apos;n&apos; Share 2.1</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/thursday_think_n_share_21.htm"><![CDATA[It's baaaaack! Read, think, share!]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/thursday_think_n_share_21.htm"/><dc:creator>JohnSherck</dc:creator><author><name>JohnSherck</name></author><updated>2009-11-05T15:56:00Z</updated><published>2009-11-05T15:56:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:wheresmyplan.blog-city.com,2009-11-04:links.412189355</id><title>To Do</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/to_do.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/to_do.htm"/><dc:creator>JohnSherck</dc:creator><author><name>JohnSherck</name></author><updated>2009-11-04T05:04:00Z</updated><published>2009-11-04T05:04:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:wheresmyplan.blog-city.com,2009-11-03:links.412189195</id><title>Book Reviews: Darwin&apos;s Radio and Ships of Merior</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/book_reviews_darwins_radio_and_ships_of_merior.htm"><![CDATA[Book Reviews: Darwin's Radio by Greg Bear and Ships of Merior (and Warhost of Vastmark) by Janny Wurts.]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/book_reviews_darwins_radio_and_ships_of_merior.htm"/><dc:creator>JohnSherck</dc:creator><author><name>JohnSherck</name></author><updated>2009-11-03T05:26:00Z</updated><published>2009-11-03T05:26:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:wheresmyplan.blog-city.com,2009-11-03:links.412189067</id><title>Why?</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/why.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/why.htm"/><dc:creator>JohnSherck</dc:creator><author><name>JohnSherck</name></author><updated>2009-11-03T03:49:00Z</updated><published>2009-11-03T03:49:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:wheresmyplan.blog-city.com,2009-11-02:links.412188696</id><title>Catching up is hard to do</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/catching_up_is_hard_to_do.htm"><![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.]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/catching_up_is_hard_to_do.htm"/><dc:creator>JohnSherck</dc:creator><author><name>JohnSherck</name></author><updated>2009-11-02T01:25:00Z</updated><published>2009-11-02T01:25:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:wheresmyplan.blog-city.com,2009-10-22:links.412187596</id><title>Make more and more or take from the store?</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/make_more_and_more_or_take_from_the_store.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/make_more_and_more_or_take_from_the_store.htm"/><dc:creator>JohnSherck</dc:creator><author><name>JohnSherck</name></author><updated>2009-10-22T03:45:00Z</updated><published>2009-10-22T03:45:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:wheresmyplan.blog-city.com,2009-10-21:links.412187480</id><title>Time to make the bagels...</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/time_to_make_the_bagels.htm"><![CDATA[Over the weekend, I made bagels. Really, really good bagels.]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/time_to_make_the_bagels.htm"/><dc:creator>JohnSherck</dc:creator><author><name>JohnSherck</name></author><updated>2009-10-21T03:32:00Z</updated><published>2009-10-21T03:32:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:wheresmyplan.blog-city.com,2009-10-20:links.412187326</id><title>No cents to me</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/no_cents_to_me.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/no_cents_to_me.htm"/><dc:creator>JohnSherck</dc:creator><author><name>JohnSherck</name></author><updated>2009-10-20T04:16:00Z</updated><published>2009-10-20T04:16:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:wheresmyplan.blog-city.com,2009-10-19:links.412187073</id><title>Developing Professionals</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/developing_professionals.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/developing_professionals.htm"/><dc:creator>JohnSherck</dc:creator><author><name>JohnSherck</name></author><updated>2009-10-19T04:24:00Z</updated><published>2009-10-19T04:24:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:wheresmyplan.blog-city.com,2009-10-13:links.412186159</id><title>Say what?</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/say_what_1.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/say_what_1.htm"/><dc:creator>JohnSherck</dc:creator><author><name>JohnSherck</name></author><updated>2009-10-13T02:19:00Z</updated><published>2009-10-13T02:19:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:wheresmyplan.blog-city.com,2009-10-11:links.412185953</id><title>After Apple Picking</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/after_apple_picking.htm"><![CDATA[We went apple picking today. Here's the brief story of our trip.]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/after_apple_picking.htm"/><dc:creator>JohnSherck</dc:creator><author><name>JohnSherck</name></author><updated>2009-10-11T04:02:00Z</updated><published>2009-10-11T04:02:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:wheresmyplan.blog-city.com,2009-10-06:links.412185226</id><title>TV Tuesday -- Heroes</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/tv_tuesday__heroes.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/tv_tuesday__heroes.htm"/><dc:creator>JohnSherck</dc:creator><author><name>JohnSherck</name></author><updated>2009-10-06T05:00:00Z</updated><published>2009-10-06T05:00:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:wheresmyplan.blog-city.com,2009-10-05:links.412185216</id><title>Manny being manny</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/manny_being_manny.htm"><![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. It seems their regular nanny is ta]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://wheresmyplan.blog-city.com/manny_being_manny.htm"/><dc:creator>JohnSherck</dc:creator><author><name>JohnSherck</name></author><updated>2009-10-05T17:47:00Z</updated><published>2009-10-05T17:47:00Z</published></entry></feed>