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		<title>Rules, if you will.</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are a few things that I try to live by that I haven&#8217;t put into words until now. These aren&#8217;t easy to follow. Never, ever, ever Do anything that in any way de-values another person. Tell someone that they are stupid. Tell someone that they have a bad idea. Insinuate that another person is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mirabelle Eloise Gratigny</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 04:25:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Gratigny</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a girl! At least the doctor *thinks* it&#8217;s a girl. As the doctor was moving the little thing around and our skeleton, I mean baby, was being shown on the black and white screen&#8230;. I was thinking one word. Pink. We&#8217;re going to have a pink room! Am I disappointed that we&#8217;re having a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where do you Find Creativity?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 16:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Gratigny</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Creativity is something that you do on a daily basis. It doesn&#8217;t matter what you do. There is creativity involved in anything that you do. When I was doing interviews of designers there was a question that we asked everyone. &#8220;How do you create when you don&#8217;t feel inspiration?&#8221; There&#8217;s a few things I&#8217;ll do. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Father&#8217;s Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 05:33:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Gratigny</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m going to be a father. This is the last father&#8217;s day of my life that I won&#8217;t be a dad. I was musing today about this. About being a father in a few months. It&#8217;s still something that doesn&#8217;t seem very real to me. I know in my head that I&#8217;m going to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When did you use it last?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jun 2010 16:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Gratigny</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you didn&#8217;t use it in 6 months&#8230;. throw/give it away.  How much stuff do we hold onto because we just might need it someday?  A few weeks ago a friend said something that struck me. He said that stuff can take life away from you. This comment really made me start thinking about the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Charlemagne Raleigh Gratigny</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 16:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Gratigny</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bring on the comments. Really. Bring them on. I want to see what you have. He&#8217;s going to be made fun of. Check, heard that. Actually about 500 variations of all of the ways that Charlemagne is going to be made fun of because of his name. Really? My friends are telling me this. Hmmm. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I was on the local news today</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 04:36:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Gratigny</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lunch was a a new restaurant in town, and the &#8220;Action News&#8221; was there&#8230; DayPortPlayer.newPlayer({articleID:"12612",bannerAdConDefID:"22",videoAdObjectID:"21",videoAdConDefID:"9",playVideoAds:"true",categoryID:"3",accPos:"CCTVI.NEWS.LOCAL",accSite:"KHSL",playerInstanceID:"27574A89-06D1-CD92-4444-22719C5099EC",domain:"khsl.web.entriq.net"}); You can read more about the restaurant here.]]></description>
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		<title>I can&#8217;t resist</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Gratigny</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I usually don&#8217;t buy things right when they come out, but I&#8217;ve decided to go for the Motorola Droid. Since I use primarily Google offerings for mail and calendar, having a Google OS just makes sense. Since the iPhone is the standard, here&#8217;s a video I found interesting.]]></description>
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		<title>Be an Open Book</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 16:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Gratigny</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few years ago I was working late at night at the Red Lion Hotel here in Redding. I was looking at the paper, and there was a celebrity who had recently done something in their personal life that was published in the paper. As I was reading that article, it hit me&#8230;. That celebrity [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Known Pain and Suffering</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Gratigny</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How many times have you wondered why people just won&#8217;t stick up for themselves. They talk big about how they hate their job and they want to tell their boss where to put it. They tell you all of these things that they are going to do when they see their boss next. It rarely [...]]]></description>
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