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		<title>The Drive-Thru Daiquiri Dilemma</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re on Day Two-Million-And-Five of a heat advisory down here in Shreveport.  The Weather Channel tells me that, just wait &#8217;til tomorrow, it&#8217;ll be over then.  I know I&#8217;ll wake up tomorrow and, just like the past two weeks, the heat advisory will have been extended another day.  I&#8217;m tempted to break [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My New Truly Mobile Office:  The iPad</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I mentioned that Angie had bought me an iPad for my birthday.  We all know what the iPad is, right?  Kind of like a big iPhone, but without the ability to place a phone call?  I know I mocked it a bit when it first came out, thinking it as nothing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://waltershumate.net/?p=704</link>
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		<title>Babies, Edits and Begging For Money</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I know, I know, it&#8217;s been a few weeks.  I have some really good excuses, though.  In order of importance:

We had our second child.  Did you know that a new baby requires almost constant care including, but certainly not limited to, feeding, changing and &#8220;lovey-time&#8221;?
I finished the second draft of Steamsteel.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://waltershumate.net/?p=701</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Editing hasn&#8217;t been put on the backburner so much as it&#8217;s been taken off the stove altogether.  Abby&#8217;s due fifteen days from now, if we wait that long.  For all I know, we go in tomorrow.  Angie&#8217;s doctor is on vacation next week, so it&#8217;s either tomorrow or July 9.  I&#8217;d [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://waltershumate.net/?p=699</link>
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		<title>Writing Exercise: A Picture Frame</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have a few minutes to kill before I have to get back to work, so let&#8217;s see what comes out of ten minutes&#8217; worth of writing.  As usual, Write Or Die is keeping me honest.
Writing Prompt: A Picture Frame
Sarah was almost finished packing the last box of the last room of the house [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://waltershumate.net/?p=693</link>
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		<title>Not A Very Lazy Sunday At All</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just spent the past two hours cataloging serial numbers of Flip UltraHD video cameras.  I&#8217;ll be teaching high school students how to use them to make science-themed videos this summer.  I&#8217;m taking a break before I begin the long, mind-numbing task of creating blogs for each of the students.  I couldn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://waltershumate.net/?p=691</link>
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		<title>So Sleepy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ll probably only read 10-20 pages and make edits today; I only got 3 hours of sleep last night.  Have you ever woken up in the middle of the night, unable to go back to sleep, and not really know why?  Yeah, that&#8217;s what happened to me last night.  I&#8217;m doing blog [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://waltershumate.net/?p=688</link>
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		<title>Oh, So Now You&#8217;re Monosyllabic</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a character in Steamsteel, an outsider to the world of humans.  He&#8217;s humanoid, but he looks different enough to be considered &#8220;alien&#8221;.  He&#8217;s a gifted swordsman because, really, who doesn&#8217;t like their different races to be proficient the martial arts?  It&#8217;s good enough for Star Trek, it&#8217;s good enough for me.
I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://waltershumate.net/?p=681</link>
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		<title>Great Googly Moogly: Or, Editing is HARD, Y&#8217;all</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s June 7th, and I&#8217;m eleven pages into the first edit of Steamsteel.  That&#8217;s eleven Microsoft Word pages, out of 101 total.  Everything I&#8217;d read, every piece of advice that everyone has given to me told me it&#8217;d be difficult; even then, I wasn&#8217;t prepared for the soul-achingly deliberate process.  It&#8217;s analogous [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://waltershumate.net/?p=679</link>
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		<title>Editing Eve</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s not been a lot to say, lately.  I&#8217;ve been resting the past two weeks, getting ready for summer classes and the first edit of Steamsteel.  Both begin tomorrow, so my somewhat lazy days have come to an end.  Five weeks from Friday, Abby will be delivered via c-section, so any free [...]]]></description>
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