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	<description>Tales of the Trials &#38; Terrors of Getting Older</description>
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		<title>bookmark: the complete guide to sharpening</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Complete Guide to Sharpening &#8211; by Leonard Lee An excellent book on sharpening all sorts of things, mostly tools related to woodworking. There are a couple of sharpening tools and techniques not covered, but considering the copyright date of 1995 that is not surprising. Since the sharpening techniques given in the book work very [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://oldfartslog.com/?p=1037</link>
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		<title>why gambling sucks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How the hell can you go for week after week after week of getting no numbers in the lottery? Well, not exactly true. On rare occasions I manage to get one number. How does that happen? Cripes. Sure makes you wonder why the hell you play the damn thing in the first place. In reality, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://oldfartslog.com/?p=1031</link>
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		<title>life? don&#8217;t talk to me about life</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It sure seems like you should have figured out your life by the time you have hit sixty, doesn&#8217;t it? &#8216;Fraid not, chillun. Ain&#8217;t no closer now than when I was sixteen. I have a marriage that didn&#8217;t work out because I never was, and never will be, the man that my wife really wanted [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://oldfartslog.com/?p=1026</link>
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		<title>bookmark: breakfast at tiffany&#8217;s</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Breakfast at Tiffany’s: A Short Novel and Three Stories – by Truman Capote I had not had the opportunity to read Breakfast at Tiffany’s before. I have a couple books of Truman Capote’s short stories, but that particular story was not included in any of them. I bought this book just for that one story. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://oldfartslog.com/?p=1018</link>
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		<title>sorting out the phish</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes sorting out valid emails from phishing emails can be very confusing. &#8220;Phishing,&#8221; for those of you who have been under a rock for the last few years, is the practice of spammers sending emails that appear to be from legitimate sources. These emails usually state that there is something wrong with your account and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://oldfartslog.com/?p=1015</link>
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		<title>up off my butt</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s a beautiful summer day here today; the kind of day that somehow reminds me of the summers of my youth. Maybe that’s just selective memory. They say that as we get older our memories tend to retain the happier memories more than the nastier ones, so maybe I’m just forgetting about those sweltering, summer [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://oldfartslog.com/?p=1011</link>
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		<title>eye, eye, eye, eye</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sigh. It just keeps getting better. A trip to the optometrist yesterday could have been cheerier, but I suspect anything to do with my physical being is going to be less cheerful with each passing year. I wear contact lenses, mostly because I can see “better” with them than with glasses. Let me explain “better.” [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://oldfartslog.com/?p=1008</link>
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		<title>a penny spent</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently purchased a tool for my workshop. It wasn’t cheap, but it wasn’t even close to a monthly rent payment. In the past, I loved buying new “toys” and would do so when even remotely possible. This inclination did not do my financial situation any good at all, but the things I bought made [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://oldfartslog.com/?p=1004</link>
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		<title>bookmark: american gods</title>
		<description><![CDATA[American Gods – by Neil Gaiman This was a good tale generated from a fascinating concept; the idea that the immigrants who came to the United States brought with them their religious beliefs and in so doing brought their gods along, too. After generations, those beliefs fade and are challenged by new cultural paradigms engendered [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://oldfartslog.com/?p=995</link>
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		<title>reading, reading, reading</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lately I’ve been on a real book reading jag. My television watching has dropped to almost nothing and my magazines are stacking up. I suppose it has a lot to do with the books on writing which I recently read. They really made me appreciate what an author can do. I read a mix of [...]]]></description>
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