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		<title>First harvest of 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[First harvest of 2010.  Some French Breakfast radishes and an Early Scarlet Globe. I think I picked them a bit early, but I couldn&#8217;t wait! 

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		<link>http://www.wrighters.net/blog/articles/2010/05/15/first-harvest-of-2010/</link>
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		<title>Book Review: The Big Short</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I remember sitting in my office at Lehman Brothers sometime around September 15, 2007 and telling one of my coworkers that I couldn&#8217;t wait to read the book that someone wrote about the entire financial mess.   Lehman had just declared bankruptcy and the entire financial system looked like it was about to collapse.  I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.wrighters.net/blog/articles/2010/04/21/book-review-the-big-short/</link>
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		<title>Review: ATC Best Recipes and Reviews 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I got the magazine version of The Best of America&#8217;s Test Kitchen Kitchen: Best Recipes and Reviews 2010 (that&#8217;s a mouthful) a few months ago.  I have been working my way through the recipes and have tried about ten of the 64 recipes so far.   If you aren&#8217;t familiar with America&#8217;s Test Kitchen, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.wrighters.net/blog/articles/2010/03/28/review-atc-best-recipes-and-reviews-2010/</link>
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		<title>Book Review: Respectable Sins</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I received a copy of the venerable Jerry Bridges&#8217; latest book Respectable Sins: Confronting the Sins We Tolerate as a gift from my parents recently and slowly but steadily made my way through it.  This is a very practical book that attempts to point out to Christians the sins that we have allowed to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.wrighters.net/blog/articles/2010/03/21/book-review-respectable-sins/</link>
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		<title>Easy way to combine pdf files into one</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a bit of a techie post, but I wanted to document how I do this since it seems to come up once or twice a year and I always forget the steps.
I had to submit a form via email to get reimbursed for my flex spending account and had to include scanned copies [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.wrighters.net/blog/articles/2010/03/13/easy-way-to-combine-pdf-files-into-one/</link>
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		<title>Community Supported Agriculture with Cedar Valley Sustainable Farms</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After watching Food, Inc. recently we started to investigate alternatives to the local grocery store for obtaining our meat products.  We recently signed up for a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) meat share with Cedar Valley Sustainable Farm.  The farm is a family run farm in Ottawa, IL.  Their meat share program allows [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.wrighters.net/blog/articles/2010/03/06/community-supported-agriculture-with-cedar-valley-sustainable-farms/</link>
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		<title>Pretending to be a Christian</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I saw several links to this story on the New York Times Freakonomics blog this past week about a family in Texas that pretends to be Christians so that their children can socialize with other members of the community.

We are agnostics living deep in the heart of Texas and our family fakes Christianity for social [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.wrighters.net/blog/articles/2010/02/28/pretending-to-be-a-christian/</link>
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		<title>iPhone App Review: YouVersion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A review of the YouVersion iPhone bible]]></description>
		<link>http://www.wrighters.net/blog/articles/2010/02/20/iphone-app-review-youversion/</link>
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		<title>Making a perfect latte on a Rancilio Silvia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I bought a Rancilio Silvia espresso machine about 5 years ago and have been slowly modifying my technique to make a latte.  This is a great machine that can produce a very high quality shot and has enough power to make good quality micro-foam as well.  It has only one drawbacks as far [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.wrighters.net/blog/articles/2010/01/30/making-a-perfect-latte-on-a-rancilio-silvia/</link>
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		<title>You gotta love the Choo Choo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had the girls just to myself for the weekend with Laura gone for a few nights.  We hit the choo choo in Des Plaines for lunch on Saturday.  Nothing&#8217;s better than getting your lunch delivered on an electric train.
They just don&#8217;t make restaurants like this anymore.
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		<link>http://www.wrighters.net/blog/articles/2009/11/09/you-gotta-love-the-choo-choo/</link>
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