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	<description>A little taste of life in West Nowhere Japan</description>
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		<title>Sayonara Shimane</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is raining at 2 AM as I pack up my bags to go.  I had hoped to sleep about two more hours, but my daughter had a different plan.  So after getting her back to sleep, I find myself wide awake and without good reason to stay in bed.  Today is the day that I say goodbye to Shimane, West Nowhere, my home for the last six years.  It was here that my wife and  I shared our first home, where our two children were born, our familial hometown.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sasane.com/blog/archives/2006/03/30/sayonara-shimane/</link>
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		<title>Monkey Attack in West Nowhere</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Either way I am sure that my mental exercises of wild animal defense strategy will continue as long as I live out here...Although I have heard from our neighbor that there are monkeys in the mountain behind our house, I have never seen one in Hamada myself....  In hindsight, we probably should have returned to the car, but it did turn out to be a wonderful hike.Anyway, it was a monkey attack that brought me here, so let me share the link to the story that appeared on Crisscross News Japan today about an attack in Hamada.  Monkey attacks 7 women, man in Shimane; hay fever blamed...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sasane.com/blog/archives/2006/03/10/monkey-attack-in-west-nowhere/</link>
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		<title>Old Lady vs. Mercedes Man</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A pure moment of web zen.There is nothing that I can really say to add to this video, except that you should not miss it.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sasane.com/blog/archives/2006/01/08/old-lady-vs-mercedes-man/</link>
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		<title>Birthday Picture</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today is our daughter's third birthday, and this is the present that our four-year-old son gave to her.  He woke up before all of us this morning, and ran over to her bed to sing â€œHappy Birthdayâ€? to her.  As soon as we all moved to the living room, he took out his markers and paper and made this for her.  What a great little big brother...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sasane.com/blog/archives/2006/01/08/birthday-picture/</link>
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		<title>Scary Christmas!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just came across this photo of His Popeliness on <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&#38;ncid=1778&#38;e=3&#38;u=/051221/1911/u122111aujpg">Yahoo news</a>.  I think that maybe the photo editor over there has a good sense of humor...
Quiz:  Which of the following statements about these photos is correct...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sasane.com/blog/archives/2005/12/23/scary-christmas/</link>
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		<title>Cold Morning</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Frozen pipes?  No problem...
I just don't understand women...  â€œNot relatedâ€?, you say?  I think not.
We awoke this morning to frozen pipes.  My wife, none to pleased with the idea of melting snow for coffee and a bath...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sasane.com/blog/archives/2005/12/18/cold-morning/</link>
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		<title>The Daily Show and Firefox</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Is John Stewart a <a href="http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/">Firefox</a> user?
Did the designers of the Daily Show set borrow the new color scheme from <a href="http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/">Firefox</a>?  Not that Firefox holds the patent on blue and orange, but those shades look awfully close...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sasane.com/blog/archives/2005/12/06/the-daily-show-and-firefox/</link>
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		<title>Vega Dances</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For the last few nights, we have had spectacularly clear nights here in West Nowhere, so I have spent a lot of time standing outside staring up at the night sky, trying to learn the constellations....  Apparently, the earths atmosphere refracts the the light from the stars in random waves, much like a glass of water refracts our view of what is on the other side of it.  The interesting thing, as I see it, is that although the light is refracted many times as it passes through different densities in the atmosphere, it only seems to twinkle instead of jumping around wildly.Now that I know, I want to forget.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sasane.com/blog/archives/2005/10/20/vega-dances/</link>
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		<title>When Coaches Kill</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As a parent, I was absolutely horrified to read this article about a 13 year-old boy who died for losing a baseball game.  
"Saturday after the 63-year-old club manager had him do throwing practice for an hour starting at 5 p.m. and then a total of 300 sprints with other players.  The manager said he had the boy, in his second year of junior high school, and other club members do the exercise as punishment for their losing the game earlier in the day."]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sasane.com/blog/archives/2005/10/07/when-coaches-kill/</link>
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		<title>Persig Meets Mad Max</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In what seems to be a bastard mix of Robert Persig's â€œZen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenanceâ€? and the post-apocolyptic world of â€œMad Maxâ€?, we find the story of a woman motorcycle touring in the wasteland...  As the daughter of a nuclear engineer, she is uniquely qualified as our tour guide through the region surrounding Chernobyl...  She teaches important information like â€œ<strong><em>juggling with plutonium balls will be safe, just don't swollow them by mistake.</em></strong>â€?...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sasane.com/blog/archives/2005/09/20/persig-meets-mad-max/</link>
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