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		<title>Happy New Year from Us to You</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 22:50:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick Houston</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear family, friends and others, For those of you keeping up with our clan&#8217;s currently favorite sitcom, the saluation comes courtesy of the &#8220;Express Christmas&#8221; episode of Modern Family.  As MF’s Claire Dunphy asked after receiving a letter from her mom started just so, who are &#8220;others?&#8221;  If you saw that show, you know.  If [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=patrickhouston.net&amp;blog=6319336&amp;post=212&amp;subd=patrick1350&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Movie recco: &#8216;Of Gods and Men&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://patrickhouston.net/2011/11/18/movie-recco-of-gods-and-men/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 02:15:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick Houston</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Never from this movie would I have expected suspense, but for most of its two hours &#8220;Of Gods and Men&#8221; made me feel like I was watching a Jason Bourne flick instead of one about a gentle group of French monks. Never mind it had no action hero.  Actually, there was no action – and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=patrickhouston.net&amp;blog=6319336&amp;post=175&amp;subd=patrick1350&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m off from NetShelter and on to the next big thing</title>
		<link>http://patrickhouston.net/2011/07/18/im-off-from-netshelter-and-on-to-the-next-big-thing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jul 2011 20:55:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick Houston</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After three years and two months at NetShelter Technology Media, I'm off, and when I say off, I mean off -- as in I've served my last official day. So I'm not just off-off, as in taking a "sabbatical" but I'll soon enough be off to (yet another) new start.

I just don't know where I'll be off to just yet.

There was a time when the suspense of not knowing what or when staring would have startled me awake at night, with a heart hammering to a grunge band beat. These days, however, I'm sleeping like the family dog, sort of. While she'll wake and woof at an unfamiliar oin drop, I'll snooze through calamity's bang, clatter, and cymbal crash.

One of the comforts of leading a life full of varied career experiences is that you begin hear not just your brain but your heart -- those little inklings that keep goading with the hard, if subtle, truths about yourself.And my inner voices have been telling me for a while now, "Hey, it's time to move on."<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=patrickhouston.net&amp;blog=6319336&amp;post=155&amp;subd=patrick1350&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wine recco: 2005 Petit Manou (Bordeaux)</title>
		<link>http://patrickhouston.net/2009/03/07/wine-recco-2005-petit-manou-bordeaux/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2009 19:08:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick Houston</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed and I quietly celebrated our 23rd wedding anniversary recently with a sedate dinner at the Left Bank Brasserie, a chain of five Bay Area locations with a soft spot in our hearts because it manages to nestle into this sweet spot between casual and formal, cheap and expensive, comfort food and haute cuisine. You [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=patrickhouston.net&amp;blog=6319336&amp;post=143&amp;subd=patrick1350&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Movie recco: Clint Eastwood&#8217;s &#8216;Gran Torino&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://patrickhouston.net/2009/02/21/movie-recco-clint-eastwoods-gran-torino/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2009 08:58:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick Houston</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I liked this movie, but only because I like Clint Eastwood so much.  I like Clint Eastwood so much because the he&#8217;s produced  such an extraordinary body of work. And the real greatness of his work isn&#8217;t in his good, bad, ugly, Dirty Harry, every which way you can movies.   It&#8217;s in movies such as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=patrickhouston.net&amp;blog=6319336&amp;post=120&amp;subd=patrick1350&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Travel tip:  How to freshen garments without a journey to the dry cleaners</title>
		<link>http://patrickhouston.net/2009/02/11/travel-tip-how-to-freshen-garments-without-a-journey-to-the-dry-cleaners/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 15:37:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick Houston</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This goes out to my fellow road warriors, namely #1 and TCG’s significant other. In prepping for a trip to the Big Apple, I wanted to pack wool trousers that had been worn but weren’t soiled and didn’t need to be dry-cleaned.  Still, since I was meeting with clients, I wanted to make sure I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=patrickhouston.net&amp;blog=6319336&amp;post=92&amp;subd=patrick1350&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why I love my Steelers (despite how they made me the most unpopular guy in the room)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Feb 2009 19:51:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick Houston</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[N &#38; E &#8216;s traditional Super Bowl party  – the one our dear friends have been hosting for some 20 years now – put me in an unexpected place.  It was though I was the Visitor who got tickets for a seat plop in the middle of the Home stands. I happened to be the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=patrickhouston.net&amp;blog=6319336&amp;post=59&amp;subd=patrick1350&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Words I wish I could use&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://patrickhouston.net/2009/02/06/words-i-wish-i-could-use/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2009 05:14:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick Houston</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a career built on words, there are a few words I&#8217;ve always wanted to use but couldn&#8217;t.  My subject matter was never quite big enough, my life large enough. For example, I have always wanted to use the word &#8220;metastasis,&#8220;  or &#8220;exegesis,&#8221;  or &#8220;protean.  I remember coming across them in Time or NewsWeek or [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=patrickhouston.net&amp;blog=6319336&amp;post=41&amp;subd=patrick1350&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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