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	<title>The Raven&#039;s Mutterings</title>
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	<description>Wherein Carl Cravens talks about geeky stuff</description>
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		<title>Knitting FO teaser</title>
		<description><![CDATA[FO = "Finished Object".  As opposed to UFO = "UnFinished Object".
In fact, as we speak (so to speak), I (sorta) have no UFOs.  This must be remedied.
I call this a teaser because... I don't have pics, but I promised you an update, didn't I?
Last night, I completed The Hat.  The Hat is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://raven.phoenyx.net/mutterings/2010/01/knitting-fo-teaser/</link>
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		<title>1Q-2010 Men&#8217;s Knit-Along</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ So last Thursday night, a friend and I joined a men's Knit-Along (KAL) online. The project is the "Indoor Felted Boot" from Cat Bordhi's "Socks Soar on Two Circular Needles", sized-up to fit a guy's foot.
This project is cool for me in several ways&#8230; I'd like to learn to knit socks, and this is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://raven.phoenyx.net/mutterings/2010/01/1q-2010-mens-knit-along/</link>
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		<title>Knitting progress</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Boy, lots to catch up on here&#8230;
There's the hat I knit on the loom to match Nathan's scarf.  It came out pretty nice, though it's a little small. That the variegation in the yarn lined up to make a rainbow stripe around most of the hat was a bonus.  The loom knitting is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://raven.phoenyx.net/mutterings/2010/01/knitting-progress/</link>
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		<title>Knitting with Nathan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So my knitting has taken an immediate detour&#8230; I started working on a hat for myself (Eco Alpaca's Charcoal Grey undyed baby alpaca) and it's going well, but Nathan, and Christmas, have side-tracked me.
On the way out of Twist a week ago, Nathan (our 9-year-old) saw some bright orange yarn&#8230; orange and blue are his [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://raven.phoenyx.net/mutterings/2009/12/knitting-with-nathan/</link>
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		<title>Knitting again</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Oh, you didn't know I knit before?  Heh.
So a few years ago (I'm unclear on the time, I want to say "a couple," but thinking about it, it's more like three or four), I decided to try knitting.  I like practical hobbies, and knitting is inexpensive and very portable.  So I practiced [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://raven.phoenyx.net/mutterings/2009/12/knitting-again/</link>
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		<title>My son&#8217;s idea of &#8220;what makes a good mystery&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My son is nine-years-old and in the gifted class.  I'm still kind of embarrassed when I say that, because I don't want to brag, but it's just a matter of life.  When I talk about my nine-year-old fourth grader, it helps to understand that he's read The Hobbit, the entire "Series of Unfortunate [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://raven.phoenyx.net/mutterings/2009/12/my-sons-idea-of-what-makes-a-good-mystery/</link>
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		<title>NaNoWriMo &#8211; not for me</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, NaNo blew my blogging out of the water.  I quickly fell behind on my novel, and didn't feel like I should write blog posts when I didn't feel like working on the novel.
My big problem was that I fell behind, and the further behind I got, the more intimidating and overwhelming the idea [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://raven.phoenyx.net/mutterings/2009/12/nanowrimo-not-for-me/</link>
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		<title>NaNoWriMo: Writing is easy, starting is hard</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This has been a pretty interesting experience so far.  I've never actually tried to write dialog before, and I'm finding it a lot easier than I expected.  I don't find the process of writing hard or unpleasant, but the surprising thing is that even when the writing is going well, I find it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://raven.phoenyx.net/mutterings/2009/11/nanowrimo-writing-is-easy-starting-is-hard/</link>
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		<title>NaNoWriMo: Day 3, back in the saddle</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Alright, 537 words, which is barely a third of my goal for the day, but at least I got back to writing.  After a day of sitting at the keyboard, my shoulder really didn't need more aggravation, but that wasn't the real obstacle.  The show-stopper was my usual problem: I had finished a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://raven.phoenyx.net/mutterings/2009/11/nanowrimo-day-3-back-in-the-saddle/</link>
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		<title>NaNoWriMo: A rough start</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So I did get started, and my first half-hour actually went pretty well.  Wrote 637 words, and at that rate, I'm looking at less than 40 hours to write my entire novel.  An hour and twenty minutes a day?  Barring getting stuck, that's pretty doable.
But I didn't get more than a half-hour&#8230; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://raven.phoenyx.net/mutterings/2009/11/nanowrimo-a-rough-start/</link>
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