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		<title>Overload Circuit 17B: Total Denial</title>
		<link>http://www.thomasso.com/2010/07/09/overload-circuit-17b-total-denial/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jul 2010 04:15:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomasso</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tonight I am taking it off. I am just going to sit around and rest, have some dinner and not think about anything academic. It has been a week of extremes for me. With a presentation that was delivered on Tuesday, that also involved a day of Hell, not baring the heat wave but a shorting out of an electric forklift, the day ended with myself wanting to hide underneath a rock for the rest of the day. That feeling of loss of control was overwhelming, yet I was in the driver's seat, and it made no sense to me as I tried to navigate home with only one headlight that was dimmed by a faulty module switch under the hood of a newly acquired Pathfinder SUV. ]]></description>
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		<title>When Kindness Becomes a Deadly Tool</title>
		<link>http://www.thomasso.com/2010/05/13/when-kindness-becomes-a-deadly-tool/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2010 23:02:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomasso</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a new weapon in the work place I found out, and it packs a punch. No, this is not the kind of device that you set and you can then take over the world with and everyone then has to pay you a hundred bucks. No, this is not the kind of instrument [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Work&#8217;n Hard &#8211; Just an Update</title>
		<link>http://www.thomasso.com/2010/05/05/workn-hard-just-an-update/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2010 21:42:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomasso</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Official Announcement: Yes, I'm at work, but I'm on my break - honest.

Now for the post:

If you are sensing a little "ick" in my writing in this post, it is because I am typing it on a Microsoft Window$ Machine, believe it or not, with XP as its OS. I know, why? But most businesses I know are still running this garbage. What can you do, it is their call.]]></description>
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		<title>Tom the Hermit Crab &#8211; Through the Sand I Go, One more Wall to Climb &#8217;till the Ocean I Go.</title>
		<link>http://www.thomasso.com/2010/04/25/tom-the-hermit-crab-through-the-sand-i-go-one-more-wall-to-climb-till-the-ocean-i-go/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 00:36:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomasso</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hello. I'm still doing the "loner" gig, staying at home, tucked away in my little room with all of my books, notes and thoughts. One more exam to go then I can rest for a few days before the cycle starts all over again.]]></description>
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		<title>The Knot is Now Too Tight: I Need More Rope.</title>
		<link>http://www.thomasso.com/2010/04/11/the-knot-is-now-too-tight-i-need-more-rope/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Apr 2010 04:08:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomasso</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Exams are now within days, hours and seconds away from starting. Classes are going at a fever pitch, and it seems everyone else around me wants a piece of Thomasso's time as I struggle to get the last few assignments off for marking.  perhaps the biggest mistake, if you can call it that, was my agreement to help out a old colleague of mine with his legal practice.  No, I am not getting into law, nor am I working as a lawyer - he needs a criminologist. I just happened to be one, and one who is well versed with criminal law. But I didn't see the time aspects of his needs with his workload, and the amount of research he needs for his up coming cases, coming. Time is one thing that I do not have a lot of at the moment.]]></description>
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		<title>As I Walk Through the Valley of Steel</title>
		<link>http://www.thomasso.com/2010/02/19/as-i-walk-through-the-valley-of-steel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2010 04:51:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomasso</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is going to be one of those posts where I may regret writing it. Normally I don't like talking about the personal details of my life in terms of up to the minute details with commentary and graphics, but today is sort of a milestone of sorts. As the title says, "As I walk through the valley of steel," this means, I am alive and well, and all is going great. Work is going so great too, that in fact, I have surpassed even my own expectations there. The Valley of Steel is all the steel shelving that I see everyday at my work. So, steel shelving is playing a big part in my life right now.Heck, it is even dominating it!]]></description>
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		<title>Once Again I am Happy it is the Weekend</title>
		<link>http://www.thomasso.com/2010/02/12/once-again-i-am-happy-it-is-the-weekend/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Feb 2010 04:34:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomasso</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am tired and sore from all the classroom time I have logged in the past week. On top of work, reading over 300 pages of high intents text about statistics is enough to drive anyone into a state of craziness. Between all of my classes I have to deal with work too as we have taken on new contracts that are extremely demanding. But my classes are my biggest chunk of the daily pie chart of time, and the search for sleep is getting out of hand as that part of the pie chart is getting nibbled away. Yes, I complain about this a lot—I know that. What can I say, I'm a whiner when I'm tired.]]></description>
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		<title>Rush, Rush, Rush-Push, Push, Push-Go, Go, Go!</title>
		<link>http://www.thomasso.com/2010/01/29/rush-rush-rush-push-push-push-go-go-go/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 06:08:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomasso</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love it when all of a sudden everyone around me starts realizing that the deadlines are right around the corner, and they have fallen behind, that they start to pass the buck onto me--do you find that for yourself too? A really good example is when you are part of a team and your project is due, and you have some team members who are "a bit slow," and when the day finally arrives to submit, they freak out and start blaming everyone else except themselves as they show up unprepared. I have fallen victim to two such scenarios already this month, and my reaction has not being pretty.]]></description>
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		<title>Post New Years Disorder</title>
		<link>http://www.thomasso.com/2010/01/04/post-new-years-disorder/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 03:56:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomasso</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now that everyone is nicely in debt, suffering from the flu, and ready to get back to work, I now must take a step back and see the world that I am part of and ask myself why people do what they do, especially pondering the question of why is everyone so pissed off this time of year? Since the new year has started I have noticed a shift in the people around me, and more so from those who I work with, but this also applies to some of my friends too. However, I think there is more to it than meats the eye?]]></description>
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		<title>I had no Idea?</title>
		<link>http://www.thomasso.com/2009/12/30/i-had-no-idea/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 05:04:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomasso</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today sure started off the same as any other average day. I woke up, performed my ablutions, hopped in the vehicle and did the commute to work. Opened up the building, turned on the lights, fired up the Dell, watched Bill Gate's operating system slowly sputter up to greet me on the login page, and then I checked for incoming emails. In all, a very average start to a average day.]]></description>
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