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	<title>Battles With Boredom &#187; Personal</title>
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		<title>Hmm&#8230; That&#8217;s Interesting</title>
		<link>http://blog.nikolaidis.com/2012/01/02/hmm-thats-interesting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 14:17:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I get frustrated&#8230; a lot. Not genuinely angry, mind you, but suffice to say people often do things that tick me off. For the next 30 days, I will take a different approach. Instead of getting angry or frustrated immediately, I will make my best effort to say &#8220;hmm, that&#8217;s interesting,&#8221; and understand what led [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Eagle Died A Chicken</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 22:34:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Evolution]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A man found an eagle’s egg and put it in a nest of a barnyard hen. The eaglet hatched with the brood of chicks and grew up with them. All his life the eagle did what the barnyard chicks did, thinking he was a barnyard chicken. He scratched the earth for worms and insects. He [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: &#8220;The Way of the Superior Man&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://blog.nikolaidis.com/2011/12/26/book-review-the-way-of-the-superior-man/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2011 14:34:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last year, my bible was &#8220;The 4 Hour Workweek&#8221; by Timothy Ferriss. Now I see that it is the &#8220;new testament,&#8221; and David Deida&#8217;s &#8220;The Way of the Superior Man,&#8221; is the old. I cannot remember a time in my life when a book was more appropriate for the current state I was in than [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Daily Exercise Goal Achieved (or &#8220;Hat Retrieved&#8221;)</title>
		<link>http://blog.nikolaidis.com/2011/12/26/daily-exercise-goal-achieved-or-hat-retrieved/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2011 14:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Evolution]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last month I set a goal to do some sort of short form, intensive exercise every day for 30 days. Today is day 30. And now, as of this morning&#8217;s 50 kettlebell swings, I have retrieved my hat.]]></description>
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		<title>All I Want for Christmas</title>
		<link>http://blog.nikolaidis.com/2011/12/16/all-i-want-for-christmas-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 19:05:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[All I want for Christmas]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: Living the Martial Way</title>
		<link>http://blog.nikolaidis.com/2011/11/30/book-review-living-the-martial-way/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 00:56:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aikido]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A review of "Living the Martial Way : A Manual for the Way a Modern Warrior Should Think," by Forrest E. Morgan.]]></description>
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		<title>Daily Exercise</title>
		<link>http://blog.nikolaidis.com/2011/11/26/daily-exercise/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Nov 2011 12:44:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Evolution]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s be honest, New Year&#8217;s resolutions rarely work. That&#8217;s why I don&#8217;t make them anymore. However, from time to time, when I find something worthwhile, I will still resolved to do it. I have mixed results. Therefore, leveraging a new technique I just learned, I have vowed that I will resolve to get some exercise, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nidan</title>
		<link>http://blog.nikolaidis.com/2011/08/21/nidan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Aug 2011 02:49:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aikido]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This weekend I attained a goal I set for myself sometime between 15 and 20 years ago, namely, second degree black belt (nidan) in aikido.]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Birthday, Blog</title>
		<link>http://blog.nikolaidis.com/2011/04/26/happy-birthday-blog/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2011 11:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Happy 5th birthday, blog.]]></description>
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		<title>Slow Carb Diet &#8211; Round Two</title>
		<link>http://blog.nikolaidis.com/2011/02/24/slow-carb-diet-round-two/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.nikolaidis.com/2011/02/24/slow-carb-diet-round-two/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2011 13:54:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health & Fitness]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[After some consideration, and a week off, I've decided to try the Slow Carb Diet once again. ]]></description>
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