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		<title>Laughter keeps us young</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Here I am, pining for my lost youth&#8230;&#8221; - Shannon, getting ready for the day, sighing at her reflection &#8220;No worries, Honey! They&#8217;re downstairs eating breakfast.&#8221; - John, being helpful and making his wife laugh]]></description>
		<link>http://www.straffin.com/2011/06/11/laughter-keeps-us-young/</link>
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		<title>Well, they ARE by the same composer&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I need to write that down somewhere: dah dah da-dah, dah da-dah, dah dah da-DAH, dah dah daah daah DAAH. Because every time I think about how it goes, I think: daah daah, da-da-da-DAAH dah, da-da-da-DAAH dah, da-da-da-daaah.&#8221; - Amanda, explaining her tendency to confuse two popular movie themes (A gold star if you can [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.straffin.com/2011/01/08/well-they-are-by-the-same-composer/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Any sufficiently advanced technology&#8221; and all that</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I&#8217;m frankly stunned by the quality of what&#8217;s streaming over the Internet to my television right now.&#8221; - John, Upon firing up Netflix streaming for the first time &#8220;That&#8217;s because you&#8217;re a geek who understands how things have changed. The rest of us just expect magic.&#8221; - Shannon]]></description>
		<link>http://www.straffin.com/2010/12/26/any-sufficiently-advanced-technology-and-all-that/</link>
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		<title>Why I love this woman so much</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;You know, sweetie, I won&#8217;t be wearing my wedding ring during my triathlon &#8230; you may want to be there to beat back the female competitors.&#8221; - John, 3k into a 5k run with Shannon &#8220;Just run faster than they do &#8230; I mean, it *is* a race, after all &#8230;&#8221; - Shannon, 17 years [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.straffin.com/2010/07/09/why-i-love-this-woman-so-much/</link>
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		<title>Well&#8230; that depends on what the meaning of &#8220;wash&#8221; is&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;This hasn&#8217;t been washed&#8230; or if it has, it was with a stick of butter&#8230;&#8221; - Shannon, upon retrieving a pot that the girls &#8220;washed&#8221;]]></description>
		<link>http://www.straffin.com/2009/12/05/washed/</link>
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		<title>Amanda&#8217;s 9th &#8220;Half-Birthday&#8221; quotes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[First stop: the North Carolina Museum of Life and Science, as we approach their newly opened &#8220;Dinosaur Trail&#8221; &#8220;It&#8217;s starting to get a little Jurassic-y around here!&#8221; Next stop: the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, leaving the &#8220;Warhol&#8217;s Polaroids&#8221; exhibit (which was more of historic interest than artistic, IMHO)&#8230; &#8220;Well, he sure had [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.straffin.com/2009/12/02/amandas-9th-half-birthday/</link>
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		<title>Haiku? Haiku!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, we&#8217;re studying the Eastern Hemisphere in homeschool this year and we&#8217;ve just about finished with Japan. Apparently, the entire household has been somewhat taken by haiku as we&#8217;ve been extemporaneously composing them for about a few days now. Here&#8217;s what we&#8217;ve got so far&#8230; Amanda wrote: Playing with some string Sitting on her favorite [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.straffin.com/2009/10/07/haiku/</link>
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		<title>Poultry profits?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(During a conversation in which Shannon and I seriously consider getting some hens to raise in our pet-less, fenced-in backyard) &#8220;We could name one &#8216;Henny&#8217; and one &#8216;Penny&#8217;&#8230;&#8221; - Emily &#8220;&#8230; and one &#8216;Nickel&#8217;!&#8221; - Amanda]]></description>
		<link>http://www.straffin.com/2009/09/19/poultry-profits/</link>
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		<title>Yeah, yeah&#8230; enough already&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I just love the word &#8216;asymptote&#8217;. I mean, how many words have &#8216;m-p-t&#8217; in them?&#8221; - John, after just having used &#8220;asymptotically&#8221; in a sentence at lunch with Dave &#8220;Um&#8230; &#8216;empty&#8217;?&#8221; - Dave, John&#8217;s best-work-friend (or work-best-friend, or&#8230; whetever), after about five seconds of thought &#8220;Okay, other than that one&#8230;&#8221; - John, somewhat embarrassed &#8220;Scrumptious?&#8221; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.straffin.com/2009/08/03/yeah-yeah-enough-already/</link>
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		<title>Heard from the past&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(The following items were heard back in February 2009, written on our wipe-off board, photographed from there with my camera-phone, then quickly forgotten about. I just found them again and now present them here for your enjoyment.) &#160; Apparently, Olympics &#62;&#62; American team-sports &#8220;Is the USA in yellow?&#8221; - One of the girls, while watching [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.straffin.com/2009/05/26/heard-from-the-past/</link>
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