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	<title>The Lair of the Cubelodyte &#187; The Home Front</title>
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		<title>Invader</title>
		<link>http://cubelodyte.com/2009/06/02/invader/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 02:40:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Cubelodyte</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This year&#8217;s cherry crop is in, but a good quarter of the fruit this year shriveled and rotted just as it began to ripen. Some of the cherries on the edge of this rot zone had tiny little holes in them, which were being exploited by opportunistic ants, gnats, and beetles, as well as providing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Break Time</title>
		<link>http://cubelodyte.com/2009/05/18/break-time/</link>
		<comments>http://cubelodyte.com/2009/05/18/break-time/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 13:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Cubelodyte</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Minor Details]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know I haven&#8217;t been posting nearly as prolifically as I once did, and certainly these last three weeks or so have been something of a particular nadir (thanks to house renovations, the dojo, and the thrice-cursed vortex of time men know as Facebook), but this week it will sink to an all-time low of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ladykiller</title>
		<link>http://cubelodyte.com/2009/04/10/ladykiller/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2009 19:31:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Cubelodyte</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The six-year-old has a thing for the ladies, and they seem to reciprocate. A few weeks ago, he was called a &#8220;chick magnet&#8221;. Puzzled by this new term, he asked for its meaning. This was supplied, and he was asked if he thought he fit the definition. &#8220;Well obviously!&#8221; he said. &#8220;I&#8217;m beautiful! Look at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Las Hormigas Diabolicas</title>
		<link>http://cubelodyte.com/2009/01/09/las-hormigas-diabolicas/</link>
		<comments>http://cubelodyte.com/2009/01/09/las-hormigas-diabolicas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 21:16:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Cubelodyte</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Home Front]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It seems the town I live in was built atop an immense Argentine ant supercolony. My house, my neighbors&#8217; houses, and houses of acquaintances that live just a few miles away are all continually plagued with invasion, and not just for the usual tempting reasons like a stray dollop of jam falling to the floor [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Out Of The Mouths Of Babes</title>
		<link>http://cubelodyte.com/2008/11/13/out-of-the-mouths-of-babes/</link>
		<comments>http://cubelodyte.com/2008/11/13/out-of-the-mouths-of-babes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 23:29:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Cubelodyte</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Home Front]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://cubelodyte.com/?p=696</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The other day a pair of Mormon missionaries came to my door. I was stunned to find them there, since they&#8217;d never once deigned to visit me. I&#8217;ve seen them pedaling around my whole life, and even lived in some pretty Mormon-heavy areas where squads of the short-sleeved bicyclists seemed to patrol the streets, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Screwed</title>
		<link>http://cubelodyte.com/2008/10/03/screwed/</link>
		<comments>http://cubelodyte.com/2008/10/03/screwed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Oct 2008 00:32:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Cubelodyte</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Home Front]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://cubelodyte.com/?p=616</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Flying down the freeway yesterday on the way home from work, the car started handling funny, as if the parking brake was on just a little bit. As I checked to make sure I hadn&#8217;t left the parking brake on (erm.. again) I heard an all-too-familiar blupbupbupbupbup sound alerting me to the fact that once [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Drinking Buddies</title>
		<link>http://cubelodyte.com/2008/09/02/drinking-buddies/</link>
		<comments>http://cubelodyte.com/2008/09/02/drinking-buddies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 21:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Cubelodyte</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Home Front]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[So an eight-year-old and a five-year-old walk into a bar&#8230;
No, that&#8217;s not the setup to a joke, that&#8217;s part of my weekend. The kids wanted to go out and ride their bikes on Saturday, so off they went, having been warned repeatedly not to cross or ride down a particularly busy road&#8230; which of course [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Death Makes Another Visit</title>
		<link>http://cubelodyte.com/2008/06/08/death-makes-another-visit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 01:43:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Cubelodyte</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday was Lulu&#8217;s time to go. She was our oldest cat, pushing 19 years. She&#8217;d outlived two other, later arrivals, and we were beginnng to think she&#8217;d outlive us all, just out of spite (she was that kind of cat). 
Another theory held that she was actually already dead, but still occupying the house as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Did You Feel That?</title>
		<link>http://cubelodyte.com/2008/06/03/did-you-feel-that/</link>
		<comments>http://cubelodyte.com/2008/06/03/did-you-feel-that/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 02:35:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Cubelodyte</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Home Front]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I was minding my own business just now when the house shook. Having only just heard a fairly loud screeching of tires the next street over, my mind immediately jumped to the conclusion that something had exploded nearby, but it turns out it was &#8220;only&#8221; an earthquake.
I used to rather enjoy earthquakes, until I bought [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Logistics</title>
		<link>http://cubelodyte.com/2008/04/06/logistics/</link>
		<comments>http://cubelodyte.com/2008/04/06/logistics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2008 03:29:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Cubelodyte</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Home Front]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://cubelodyte.com/?p=533</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This morning the youngest talked about blasting off in a rocket to space. He asked if space was big. &#8220;Very, very big. As big as the whole universe&#8221;, I told him. &#8220;Would it take forever to see all of space?&#8221; he asked. &#8220;Yes&#8221;, I replied, &#8220;it would take pretty much forever to see everything there [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Hidden Message</title>
		<link>http://cubelodyte.com/2008/02/03/hidden-messages/</link>
		<comments>http://cubelodyte.com/2008/02/03/hidden-messages/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2008 01:13:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Cubelodyte</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I began attacking the very last of the wallpaper left behind by the previous owners of our house. As the first piece came down, it revealed a pair of letters painted underneath: AN. The next piece was heavily glued, but a bit of determined scraping expanded the message to ANGELA. This seemed pretty normal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Death in the Family</title>
		<link>http://cubelodyte.com/2007/11/29/a-death-in-the-family/</link>
		<comments>http://cubelodyte.com/2007/11/29/a-death-in-the-family/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2007 20:41:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Cubelodyte</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We had to put one of our cats down the other day. Two-Face, the crazy one, is no more. She&#8217;d developed an infection (the name of which escapes me) that basically causes painful sores on the inside of the mouth. It&#8217;s not communicable, and veterinarians have no idea what the transmission vector is, but the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Early Adopters</title>
		<link>http://cubelodyte.com/2007/11/20/early-adopters/</link>
		<comments>http://cubelodyte.com/2007/11/20/early-adopters/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2007 16:06:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Cubelodyte</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of houses in my neighborhood have already put up Christmas lights, and they were lit this morning as I began my commute at dawn. Maybe it&#8217;s just me, but it seems a bit gauche to do that before Thanksgiving.
Maybe they&#8217;re retailers.
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Shameful Inadequacy</title>
		<link>http://cubelodyte.com/2007/10/09/shameful-inadequacy/</link>
		<comments>http://cubelodyte.com/2007/10/09/shameful-inadequacy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Oct 2007 15:29:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Cubelodyte</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Home Front]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Meanwhile, back at the ranch, we&#8217;ve finally decided we&#8217;re tired of the boring off-white walls, uninteresting wallpaper, and atrocious, dilapidated flooring. The festivities began with new windows to replace the original heat sinks (and good riddance! Two of them were stuck so badly I literally had to use a hammer to open and close them), [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bragging Rights</title>
		<link>http://cubelodyte.com/2007/09/03/bragging-rights/</link>
		<comments>http://cubelodyte.com/2007/09/03/bragging-rights/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Sep 2007 03:29:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Cubelodyte</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Home Front]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been making and pressure-canning a basic tomato salsa for several years. If the plaudits of family and neighbors are anything to go by, it&#8217;s pretty decent stuff. I make a lot of it in the summer, when the local farms are bursting with fresh Roma tomatoes, so much salsa that the supply generally carries [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Attack of the Justins</title>
		<link>http://cubelodyte.com/2007/08/17/attack-of-the-justins/</link>
		<comments>http://cubelodyte.com/2007/08/17/attack-of-the-justins/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Aug 2007 22:46:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Cubelodyte</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Home Front]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a Justin that lives next door. Several months ago, another family moved in down the block and brought another Justin with them. Thankfully, this one is much more intelligent and far less annoying, so it was with relief that my oldest son started playing with New Justin and his brother more often than the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Cursed by Plenty</title>
		<link>http://cubelodyte.com/2007/07/18/cursed-by-plenty/</link>
		<comments>http://cubelodyte.com/2007/07/18/cursed-by-plenty/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2007 20:03:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Cubelodyte</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Home Front]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last year&#8217;s fruit harvest was pretty lackluster, but the trees in the backyard have made up for that shortfall with an abundance of produce. After the cherries, the next crop to come in was from the plum tree. And come it did, a relentless torrent of tasty spheres. Wave after wave of plums swamped the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Zero Tolerance</title>
		<link>http://cubelodyte.com/2007/06/18/zero-tolerance/</link>
		<comments>http://cubelodyte.com/2007/06/18/zero-tolerance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jun 2007 04:58:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Cubelodyte</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Home Front]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This weekend I resolved to tackle a household repair that has been nagging me for weeks. One of the spigots in the backyard has been leaking for a month or seven, a steady drip-drip-dripping that over the course of its life must surely have established a subterranean slime pool deep under the house, spawning who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Worst Weekend Ever</title>
		<link>http://cubelodyte.com/2007/05/29/worst-weekend-ever/</link>
		<comments>http://cubelodyte.com/2007/05/29/worst-weekend-ever/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2007 20:41:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Cubelodyte</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Home Front]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://cubelodyte.com/2007/05/29/worst-weekend-ever/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I spent much of the Memorial Day weekend doing nothing besides taking drugs, but not in any sort of remotely recreational or positive way. Instead of spending the holiday weekend in indolence, I spent it in anguish, tormented by abdominal pain bad enough to send me to the hospital, supplemented by random lower-back spasms from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Three</title>
		<link>http://cubelodyte.com/2007/05/22/three/</link>
		<comments>http://cubelodyte.com/2007/05/22/three/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2007 19:42:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Cubelodyte</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Geeking Out]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Home Front]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://cubelodyte.com/2007/05/22/three/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[They say bad luck comes in multiples of three. In a way, I hope that&#8217;s so, because I&#8217;ve had my three, and I&#8217;m ready for a more felicitous turn of events.
First, the Mighty Mouse on my home iMac has so much gunk built up in its internal scroll wheels it can&#8217;t be cleaned, no matter [...]]]></description>
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