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		<title>I Dispute The Validity Of The Debt</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Saxon Mortgage Services and Ocwen Loan Servicing, LLC are both stupid. And clueless.
Yes, I know they’re both companies, and so technically can’t be stupid, but their systems and employees are both stupid and clueless. When they can&#8217;t figure out that they&#8217;ve made an error, and instead push it off on the homeowner, they&#8217;re moronic.
Try to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bob.ravensbeak.com/2010/02/23/i-dispute-the-validity-of-the-debt/</link>
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		<title>Where Do You Write?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As I write this, my 2 dogs are barking outside; 4 kids are arguing over what music to listen to on the kids’ computer; 3 or 4 others are in the TV room watching something, and the other two are upstairs. It’s a noisy environment to write in.
My desktop computer has internet access, which means [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bob.ravensbeak.com/2010/02/21/where-do-you-write/</link>
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		<title>California Drivin&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have a question that came up as I&#8217;m working on The Sad Girl, and I bet one of my occasional readers can help me.
A couple of people are going to drive from San Diego to San Francisco. I know it&#8217;s an 8-10 hour drive one way, but they&#8217;ve only really got the weekend to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bob.ravensbeak.com/2010/02/17/california-drivin/</link>
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		<title>Tinkering Again</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yes, I&#8217;m tinkering with Adsense again. Since February 2007. I&#8217;ve managed to earn a grand total of $15.68 through Adsense. Granted, for part of that time, I haven&#8217;t had ads running. I&#8217;m not kidding myself; I know what the traffic is like here. But I figure I might be able to make a little bit [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bob.ravensbeak.com/2010/02/16/tinkering-again/</link>
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		<title>Expanding My Horizons</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Now that I&#8217;ve finished a first draft on my first novel, I&#8217;m working on outlining the second. As the first passes around to a few readers, and the plot develops in the second, I&#8217;ve become concerned about the track I seem to be following. Don&#8217;t Stop Believin&#8217; wanders through the adult entertainment industry &#8211; exotic [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bob.ravensbeak.com/2010/01/29/expanding-my-horizons/</link>
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		<title>Decisions, Decisions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been trying to outline my latest book. I want to develop &#8220;The Sad Girl&#8221; into a full-length novel, because I think it will be a good story. But it&#8217;s taken a very dark turn at the moment. I&#8217;m not above writing a dark story about an ugly topic, but at the moment, I haven&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bob.ravensbeak.com/2010/01/23/decisions-decisions/</link>
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		<title>6 Years, 10 Months, 18 Days</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Two thousand, five hundred and twenty-four days.
Three hundred and sixty weeks.
101, 380 words.
Actually, no. I&#8217;m off by two words. Forgot to count &#8220;The End.&#8221;
Yes, roughly 60,576 hours later, Don&#8217;t Stop Believin&#8217; is done, or at least the first draft is. Time to back up that file, and start thinking about another story or two before [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bob.ravensbeak.com/2010/01/16/6-years-10-months-18-days/</link>
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		<title>Of Icons and Idols</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Researchers in Jerusalem announced that they’ve found a burial shroud that almost certainly dates to the early 1st century AD, during the time when Jesus walked the earth. It’s significant because it provides some idea of how the body died (probably TB), but more importantly because of the weave of the cloth. It’s a much [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bob.ravensbeak.com/2009/12/16/of-icons-and-idols/</link>
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		<title>Ghosts of Christmas Past</title>
		<description><![CDATA[December funerals can pretty much suck. You’ve lost someone in the weeks leading up to Christmas, and that can throw a heavy weight into the holidays. It’s hard to share the Christmas cheer when you’re grieving. You can feel guilty about being down, so then you seclude yourself from folks, which is the last thing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bob.ravensbeak.com/2009/12/13/ghosts-of-christmas-past/</link>
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		<title>My Outrage Over Fort Hood</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What's more tragic? That a soldier fired on other soldiers, or that they couldn't return fire?]]></description>
		<link>http://bob.ravensbeak.com/2009/11/09/my-outrage-over-fort-hood/</link>
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