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	<title>Pollywogs!</title>
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		<title>A short note to Comcast&#8230;or how I learned to start worrying and fear my Roku&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, you may or may not know that Comcast has a hard limit of 250GB of data download a month (I assume it is download and not total transfer).  You exceed that once, you get a note saying &#8216;Don&#8217;t do that again.&#8217;  You do it again, and they shut off your internet for a year. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.garrettsocling.com/2011/05/17/a-short-note-to-comcast-or-how-i-learned-to-start-worrying-and-fear-my-roku/</link>
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		<title>It&#8217;s the little things that drive me insane&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[shit like my blog post disappearing into a black hole when I press &#8216;publish&#8217;]]></description>
		<link>http://www.garrettsocling.com/2011/03/22/its-the-little-things-that-drive-me-insane/</link>
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		<title>&#8230;adventures in Customer Service&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not the easiest person to get in touch with when our customers have issues.  Often, by the time I return a call, they&#8217;ve figured out the problem themselves&#8230;but when they do finally track me down with a complicated problem I am thorough, I listen carefully, and I continually drive to the underlying issue.  I&#8217;m [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.garrettsocling.com/2011/02/27/adventures-in-customer-service/</link>
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		<title>Cord Cutters or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Roku</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So we&#8217;ve had Netflix for just about forever: we really like effortlessly getting DVDs in the mail.  It has had a streaming service available that we signed up for pretty much as soon as it was released, but we&#8217;ve never made much use of.  Recently, Kelley started using the streaming service more often, and mentioned [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.garrettsocling.com/2011/01/30/cord-cutters-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-roku/</link>
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		<title>Making soap at home…part three…</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Making Soap at home, Part One. Making Soap at home, Part Two. &#8212; Making Soap at home, Part Three.  -by Kelley We made three more (one pound) batches of soap Friday night. Experimenting with cheaper oils, the first batch we made was 50% olive oil and 50% soybean oil, with a hint of lime essential [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.garrettsocling.com/2011/01/16/making-soap-at-home%e2%80%a6part-three%e2%80%a6/</link>
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		<title>Making soap at home…part two…</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week, we made some soap.  It was interesting, and it takes forever to get to the results&#8230;so as we got our scale in today, I got impatient and made some more!  But I did use some of the original batch first&#8230; After twenty-four hours of saponification and hardening, you should pop the soap out [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.garrettsocling.com/2011/01/12/making-soap-at-home%e2%80%a6part-two%e2%80%a6/</link>
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		<title>Sardines&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, I was a vegan for a while.   Kelley still is (well, kinda).  I&#8217;ve never been militant about it, but I tried to avoid meat and animal products for a variety of reasons.  I wasn&#8217;t vegan for long, as I rather enjoy ranch dressing and saw it as such a slight evil (I&#8217;ve since [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.garrettsocling.com/2011/01/12/sardines/</link>
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		<title>Defective by design&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, as I break my 100th Phillips head bit and strip my 10,000th Phillips head screw, I present to you one small piece of modern insanity&#8230; The Phillips screw and driver were designed to be shit to deal with mechanical limitations that were overcome decades ago&#8230;yet we are still plagued with the antiquated shit design, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.garrettsocling.com/2011/01/11/defective-by-design/</link>
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		<title>Making soap at home&#8230;part one&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, Kelley got the idea to make soap at home.  I thought this was a good idea, as we use very basic soap for a wide range of purposes: showering and occasionally hand washing (but we usually use diluted Dr. Bronners out of a reused pump dispenser), laundry, and hell, I use it as shampoo. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.garrettsocling.com/2011/01/07/making-soap-at-home-part-one/</link>
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		<title>Mah poor, neglected blog&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So I haven&#8217;t been spending much time focusing my aggravation into this blog as of late&#8230; I did a little spring cleaning, and maybe will turn this around.  Not that this was a terribly trafficked website (well, aside from the NSA), but there are still a lot of terrible things going on that need a illuminated.  At least, things [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.garrettsocling.com/2010/12/30/mah-poor-neglected-blog/</link>
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