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		<title>Bargains on Christmas Clearance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This morning I realized that we had no breakfast meats in the house and decided to take a quick trip to the grocery store. When I pulled my cart around the corner I came across an assortment of carts and boxes filled with clearance items leftover from Christmas. They had candies and toys for up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Farewell 2011, and Welcome 2012</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The past year has been full of tragedies, dramas, comedies and some good things, too.  I can&#8217;t help but wonder what will 2012 hold for us that will top all the newsworthy moments of 2011? I hope the events are good, with peace, prosperity and good health bestowed on my family and friends.]]></description>
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		<title>Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and All That</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Politically correct or not, I still wish people Merry Christmas. I also wish people who do not celebrate Christmas (like I do) to have happy holidays. There are several different holidays being celebrated this time of year, so I hope that whatever you celebrate that it is a joyous occasion.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.alicepretchet.com/chrono/2011/merry-christmas-happy-holidays-and-all-that/</link>
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		<title>Winter Vacation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today is the first day of winter break for all the schoolchildren here. They get two and a half weeks off from school and do not have to report back until January 4. That is a very long time to be out of school. I don&#8217;t remember ever having longer than a week off for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.alicepretchet.com/chrono/2011/winter-vacation/</link>
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		<title>Learning About Portugal</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A friend of mine is married to a man who was born and raised in Portugal. He came to the U.S. to attend college, got an engineering degree and was hired by an American company to work on aeronautics. He must be very good at what he does. When the company offered him a promotion, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.alicepretchet.com/chrono/2011/learning-about-portugal/</link>
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		<title>Chasing Motorcycles</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My female Jack Russell Terrier has decided that motorcycles are evil and must be chased.Thankfully, she never leaves the house without be leashed, so she cannot really chase them.But she will run hard to the end of the leash, barking madly, then running in a large arc back and forth across the yard until the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.alicepretchet.com/chrono/2011/chasing-motorcycles/</link>
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		<title>Crock Pot Recipes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Somehow I came across a Facebook group for people who use crockpots. I thought that was interesting, that so many people use crockpots and that they are such a subculture of the cooking world that they felt they needed a Facebook page to enhance their activtities. So, I liked their page and checked out some [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.alicepretchet.com/chrono/2011/crock-pot-recipes/</link>
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		<title>Free Blogs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Several years ago when Google introduced their free blogs, I had no idea what they were about or why anyone would want one. I had to be prompted by peers to even look at my first blog. Then I decided to try it and created one for myself. I had hoped that my family would [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.alicepretchet.com/chrono/2011/free-blogs/</link>
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		<title>Private Messages</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Does anyone remember the evolution of private messages? When computers first came out, the internet was not something intended for home and personal use. It was for businesses. When we started bringing computers home and using them to communicate with friends and family, the demand for private messages began. I remember when Yahoo introduced their [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.alicepretchet.com/chrono/2011/private-messages/</link>
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		<title>Keyboards</title>
		<description><![CDATA[All these years of computing and I never really gave much thought to keyboards. I would just buy a computer and use whatever keyboard came with it. Most of the keyboards were laid out and intended to mimic a standard typewriter, with an added section  on the right for a number pad laid out like [...]]]></description>
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