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		<title>Buy Glasses&#8230; Online!?</title>
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I&#8217;m smart, frugal, and internet savvy, so you&#8217;d think this concept would have occurred to me before now.  After all, you can buy nearly anything online nowadays, usually for much less than you&#8217;d pay at a store.  Until very recently, though, I had it in my head that you simply couldn&#8217;t buy glasses [...]]]></description>
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		<title>To Lasik, or Not to Lasik?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[That is the question.  Ever since my wife and I put our finances in order, we&#8217;ve been looking forward to pursuing larger goals like becoming debt free, paying our son&#8217;s way through college, or the ever-popular buying a house.  More immediately, though, I&#8217;ve been entertaining the idea of getting laser eye surgery.
I&#8217;ve had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>7 Things We Did to Improve Our Finances</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If every year of my life had an ostentatious title, this year would have been the &#8220;Year of Personal Finance.&#8221;  I&#8217;ve always had a good head for math, so you&#8217;d have thought that I&#8217;d already know tons about finance.  It wasn&#8217;t until just a few months ago, though, that I started really learning [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Better Than The Alternative&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Imagine that you&#8217;re in my shoes for a moment.  Your job requires you to work at one of the company&#8217;s conferences.  It&#8217;s a four-day-long event that wholly consumes a weekend, during which you&#8217;ll be working about 15 hours a day.  On top of that, you&#8217;re expected to work a normal week both [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Project Paradox, Now in Five New Flavors</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m a multi-faceted guy.  Professionally, I do SEO and web development, but I also have a personal life.  In my free time, I like to play RPGs.  I also enjoy talking about movies and music that I like.  Until now, Project Paradox has featured all of these interests in the same [...]]]></description>
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		<title>8 Random Things You May Not Know About Me</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the mood for a meme?  My friend Adam was kind enough to tag me with the classic, &#8220;8 random things you may not know about me,&#8221; chain, so here&#8217;s my contribution:

I&#8217;ve always been a genius with math.  Remember that guy in calculus who spent the entire class playing card games on his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top 5 Strangest Facts About Me</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m a regular reader of ProBlogger, so I couldn&#8217;t help but catch Darren&#8217;s &#8220;Top 5&#8243; group writing project.  I was pondering what to write about all morning until it finally hit me at lunch.  As I was pouring hot sauce onto my hot dogs, I decided it would be fun to list the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Off the Market</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For my friends and family following my employment progress, I&#8217;ve got bad news and good news.  The bad news is that it turns out I hate contract work.  There&#8217;s just something about the inconsistent pay and poor project management that I couldn&#8217;t stand in the long term.  Thus, I chose not to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Too Much Good Luck</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Life&#8217;s full of ironies.  Two days ago I was unemployed with no immediate prospects.  Most of the promising interviews I did a month ago had fallen through, leaving me back at square one.  Then, out of nowhere, I get two job offers only hours apart.  Comedy, they say, is all in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.projectparadox.com/personal/journal/too-much-good-luck.php</link>
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		<title>Recent Distractions from Blogging</title>
		<description><![CDATA[No doubt a lot of my friends and readers out there are curious about what&#8217;s been going on with me.  At this point, the blog&#8217;s been silent for the better part of a month.  I told my wife that I haven&#8217;t posted in that long and she gave me a very well-deserved &#8220;For [...]]]></description>
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