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		<title>2012 is Almost Here</title>
		<link>http://mikes-take.com/2011/12/21/2012-is-almost-here/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 20:11:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Lemons</dc:creator>
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		<title>Work Humor: 12/14/2011</title>
		<link>http://mikes-take.com/2011/12/14/work-humor-12142011/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 14:29:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Lemons</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Turn on the news or open up any newspaper or magazine and the headlines are filled with financial doom and gloom.  Whole countries teeter on the edge of economic collapse.  With that in mind, I thought it might be important to share some important new changes to the economic lingo we hear and use daily. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mikes-take.com&amp;blog=8639751&amp;post=3696&amp;subd=mikestake&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>There is Beauty in Every Season</title>
		<link>http://mikes-take.com/2011/12/10/there-is-beauty-in-every-season/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2011 14:25:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Lemons</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Saturday we had the first real snow of the winter.  It was a wonderful display, and I did snap several pictures of the accumulating snow.  This morning I was greeted to a site that I don&#8217;t see very often.  We had fog the prior night and in the cold temperatures that means the moisture [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mikes-take.com&amp;blog=8639751&amp;post=3687&amp;subd=mikestake&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Siri Gets Caught in the Middle</title>
		<link>http://mikes-take.com/2011/12/09/siri-gets-caught-in-the-middle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 19:07:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Lemons</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mikes-take.com/?p=3683</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This had me laughing so hard, I just had to share it with the masses.  Hope your Friday is going better than this couple&#8217;s apparently is.  A lesson to be learned here is that when we fight, we hurt those around us too&#8230;even if they are a disembodied voice in a slick little piece of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mikes-take.com&amp;blog=8639751&amp;post=3683&amp;subd=mikestake&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Weekly Photo Challenge: Celebration</title>
		<link>http://mikes-take.com/2011/12/09/weekly-photo-challenge-celebration/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 17:07:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Lemons</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When this challenge came up, it was really easy to decide what I was going to feature.  A big part of the reason my writing to this blog slowed down over the summer was in the picture above.  My oldest daughter plays softball.  This photo was taken after her team achieved their first ranking in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mikes-take.com&amp;blog=8639751&amp;post=3677&amp;subd=mikestake&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ethics &#8211; Firefly Style</title>
		<link>http://mikes-take.com/2011/12/07/ethics-firefly-style/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 23:40:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Lemons</dc:creator>
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		<title>Work Humor: 12/7/2011</title>
		<link>http://mikes-take.com/2011/12/07/work-humor-1272011/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 15:13:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Lemons</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Corporate Zodiac 1. MARKETING You are ambitious yet stupid. You chose a marketing degree to avoid having to study in college, concentrating instead on drinking and socializing, which is pretty much what your job responsibilities are now. Least compatible with Sales. &#160; 2. SALES Laziest of all signs, often referred to as &#8220;marketing without a degree,&#8221; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mikes-take.com&amp;blog=8639751&amp;post=3642&amp;subd=mikestake&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Your Mission&#8230;and It Isn&#8217;t Optional!</title>
		<link>http://mikes-take.com/2011/12/05/your-mission-and-it-isnt-optional/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 16:20:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Lemons</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You know how it is&#8230;the alarm goes off at 6:30am, you need to get up.  The weekend is over, you have just lost big in fantasy football to a team with an even worse record than yours.  You have three kids to wake up.  The first snow of the season is on the ground.  The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mikes-take.com&amp;blog=8639751&amp;post=3634&amp;subd=mikestake&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Weekly Photo Challenge: Waiting</title>
		<link>http://mikes-take.com/2011/12/04/weekly-photo-challenge-waiting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Dec 2011 16:48:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Lemons</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I shot this photo this past summer.  My youngest daughter and I were out on our deck watching for the jets that were streaking by as they practiced for the Guardians of Freedom airshow.  You can see in her shadow she has turned towards some noise she has heard and is anticipating the plane going [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mikes-take.com&amp;blog=8639751&amp;post=3628&amp;subd=mikestake&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It Begins&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://mikes-take.com/2011/12/03/it-begins/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Dec 2011 16:44:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Lemons</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every year it is the same.  The temperature turns brisk, and the talk begins.  When will we get our first snow?  As I write this our first real snow of the season has begun to fall.  It is a wonderfully still day so the big flakes of snow just fall straight down.  The white stuff [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mikes-take.com&amp;blog=8639751&amp;post=3622&amp;subd=mikestake&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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