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Your brain, did it feel released from tension tonight?  Tonight, did you visualize a wave/beam/sphere of interconnectedness radiate from you to others, from others to you?  'Round about 8pm Pacific Standard Time?  Hope feels amazing after years of helplessness."},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://trytheavanzino06.blogspot.com/feeds/1501399292260007530/comments/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID\u003d20388424\u0026postID\u003d1501399292260007530","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20388424/posts/default/1501399292260007530"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20388424/posts/default/1501399292260007530"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http://trytheavanzino06.blogspot.com/2008/11/midnight-on-night-of-nights.html","title":"Midnight on the Night of Nights"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"mda"},"uri":{"$t":"http://www.blogger.com/profile/03776044107637575099"},"email":{"$t":"mavanzino@gmail.com"},"gd$extendedProperty":{"xmlns$gd":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005","name":"OpenSocialUserId","value":"09978777135171101054"}}],"thr$total":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20388424.post-234564960915591358"},"published":{"$t":"2008-09-20T03:24:00.002-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2008-09-20T20:45:43.756-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"What's up with my hair"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"My hair is a mess of greatness.  It's a beautiful bit of God's handiwork.  And what fills my brain has a direct effect on the appearance of my hair.  That is of course scientifically totally wrong, but I really would like it to be fact.   My grandmother, Else Christensen, told my mother while I was in the womb that she wanted a blond curly-headed boy.  I heard her.  The being that eventually "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://trytheavanzino06.blogspot.com/feeds/234564960915591358/comments/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID\u003d20388424\u0026postID\u003d234564960915591358","title":"2 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20388424/posts/default/234564960915591358"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20388424/posts/default/234564960915591358"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http://trytheavanzino06.blogspot.com/2008/09/whats-up-with-my-hair.html","title":"What's up with my hair"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"mda"},"uri":{"$t":"http://www.blogger.com/profile/03776044107637575099"},"email":{"$t":"mavanzino@gmail.com"},"gd$extendedProperty":{"xmlns$gd":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005","name":"OpenSocialUserId","value":"09978777135171101054"}}],"thr$total":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","$t":"2"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20388424.post-6220450914868142822"},"published":{"$t":"2008-08-06T01:07:00.005-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2008-08-23T03:19:26.962-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"My Life as a Doughboy"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"Even as the flour is licked off my leg by the dog, you will never really get the dough out of my head.  The many facets of life shining each week since Halloween 2007 come down to one prescient fact - my dog loves leftover flour on his dad and our family loves slicing into the many three pound loaves of potato, wheat, sourdough and olive bread which gather on our baker's rack every day.  Consider"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://trytheavanzino06.blogspot.com/feeds/6220450914868142822/comments/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID\u003d20388424\u0026postID\u003d6220450914868142822","title":"3 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20388424/posts/default/6220450914868142822"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20388424/posts/default/6220450914868142822"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http://trytheavanzino06.blogspot.com/2008/08/my-life-as-doughboy_06.html","title":"My Life as a Doughboy"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"mda"},"uri":{"$t":"http://www.blogger.com/profile/03776044107637575099"},"email":{"$t":"mavanzino@gmail.com"},"gd$extendedProperty":{"xmlns$gd":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005","name":"OpenSocialUserId","value":"09978777135171101054"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HWr3nqk4CA8/SJtBgkHZelI/AAAAAAAAAPU/cRmUAsVsRd0/s72-c/DSC03643.JPG","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","$t":"3"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20388424.post-8048241197114780535"},"published":{"$t":"2008-05-13T08:19:00.009-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2008-05-24T12:18:21.503-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Conehead"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"It's all over now, all fine, but for a week or so we had a conehead.  The night before his surgery, I didn't know that neutering was what it was... I was expecting a more human-like vasectomy, but we found photos online and realized that \"extirpating\" the testicles was what awaited him the next morning.  (It was a very good idea by the way, and he doesn't even know what he lost, he doesn't seem "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://trytheavanzino06.blogspot.com/feeds/8048241197114780535/comments/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID\u003d20388424\u0026postID\u003d8048241197114780535","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20388424/posts/default/8048241197114780535"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20388424/posts/default/8048241197114780535"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http://trytheavanzino06.blogspot.com/2008/05/conehead.html","title":"Conehead"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"mda"},"uri":{"$t":"http://www.blogger.com/profile/03776044107637575099"},"email":{"$t":"mavanzino@gmail.com"},"gd$extendedProperty":{"xmlns$gd":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005","name":"OpenSocialUserId","value":"09978777135171101054"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HWr3nqk4CA8/SDW8ztzj7dI/AAAAAAAAAO0/JY-zDzN-UOk/s72-c/DSC03612.JPG","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20388424.post-5907959661922581019"},"published":{"$t":"2008-03-10T10:59:00.012-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2008-03-11T10:26:30.180-07:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"The Cats and the Dogs"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Cease the Dearth!  New news..."},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"Oh the times they are a-changin'.  Buddies with girlfriends becoming husbands with pets and now becoming fathers with blooming babies.  Around here, the plum tree in the backyard, whose leaves once gave lovely shade to the hanging chair till it dropped them all so that the garden looked like a warm lava pit, now is gaining stubble again in the rising afternoon sun.  It's been over six months "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://trytheavanzino06.blogspot.com/feeds/5907959661922581019/comments/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID\u003d20388424\u0026postID\u003d5907959661922581019","title":"2 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20388424/posts/default/5907959661922581019"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20388424/posts/default/5907959661922581019"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http://trytheavanzino06.blogspot.com/2008/03/cease-death-new-news.html","title":"Cease the Dearth!  New news..."}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"mda"},"uri":{"$t":"http://www.blogger.com/profile/03776044107637575099"},"email":{"$t":"mavanzino@gmail.com"},"gd$extendedProperty":{"xmlns$gd":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005","name":"OpenSocialUserId","value":"09978777135171101054"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HWr3nqk4CA8/R9Zd9Gu5rWI/AAAAAAAAAOE/IUxu8bzMhBY/s72-c/DSC03015.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","$t":"2"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20388424.post-8524078315325070734"},"published":{"$t":"2007-12-20T00:12:00.000-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2008-02-27T00:06:56.641-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"The Cats and the Dogs"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Moments"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Life is fine."},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"hmmm... huuummmmm.....Pistachios are a great thing to have in a large bowl.When you want music you can't go rummaging in more than one place... unless you separate them by genre into different rooms... hmmmm....Make soups.  Everything fits into soup, there are no exclusions.  Just add spices.If you keep giving gifts to the neighborhood squirrels, they will give you gifts back. Peanuts beget moss "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://trytheavanzino06.blogspot.com/feeds/8524078315325070734/comments/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID\u003d20388424\u0026postID\u003d8524078315325070734","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20388424/posts/default/8524078315325070734"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20388424/posts/default/8524078315325070734"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http://trytheavanzino06.blogspot.com/2007/12/life-is-fine.html","title":"Life is fine."}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"mda"},"uri":{"$t":"http://www.blogger.com/profile/03776044107637575099"},"email":{"$t":"mavanzino@gmail.com"},"gd$extendedProperty":{"xmlns$gd":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005","name":"OpenSocialUserId","value":"09978777135171101054"}}],"thr$total":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20388424.post-1959908057549618880"},"published":{"$t":"2007-11-23T01:43:00.000-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2008-02-26T23:49:25.982-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Friends and Family"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Thanksgiving comes more than once a year"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"Lots of thing goin' on in the old duder's head, in the walls of the treehouse.  Movement, changes, arrivals, settling... it's more like the bear den just dug deeper into the ground, beneath the native tree roots, wider into the peat, more earth pushing down above us, endless space for growth around us.Happy Thanksgiving, all of you."},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://trytheavanzino06.blogspot.com/feeds/1959908057549618880/comments/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID\u003d20388424\u0026postID\u003d1959908057549618880","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20388424/posts/default/1959908057549618880"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20388424/posts/default/1959908057549618880"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http://trytheavanzino06.blogspot.com/2007/11/thanksgiving-comes-more-than-once-year.html","title":"Thanksgiving comes more than once a year"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"mda"},"uri":{"$t":"http://www.blogger.com/profile/03776044107637575099"},"email":{"$t":"mavanzino@gmail.com"},"gd$extendedProperty":{"xmlns$gd":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005","name":"OpenSocialUserId","value":"09978777135171101054"}}],"thr$total":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20388424.post-221564930880775463"},"published":{"$t":"2007-10-01T01:58:00.000-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2008-02-26T23:39:34.908-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"The Cats and the Dogs"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"All My Children"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"Yes, I still love the 5 felines from my previous post Cats Under the Stars.  But I have room in my heart for more, including the 5-string banjo, and here's the story of two of them.  What follows is something perhaps only cat lovers have patience for and maybe only those who know my two cats, which right now is no one else but their mama, Kelli, and the cat-whisperer, Amanda Allen.  When we first"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://trytheavanzino06.blogspot.com/feeds/221564930880775463/comments/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID\u003d20388424\u0026postID\u003d221564930880775463","title":"2 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20388424/posts/default/221564930880775463"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20388424/posts/default/221564930880775463"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http://trytheavanzino06.blogspot.com/2007/10/all-my-children.html","title":"All My Children"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"mda"},"uri":{"$t":"http://www.blogger.com/profile/03776044107637575099"},"email":{"$t":"mavanzino@gmail.com"},"gd$extendedProperty":{"xmlns$gd":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005","name":"OpenSocialUserId","value":"09978777135171101054"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_HWr3nqk4CA8/RwDE2wxWqFI/AAAAAAAAAM8/clmJI2PjCVU/s72-c/DSC02165.JPG","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","$t":"2"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20388424.post-5245529570356404005"},"published":{"$t":"2007-09-10T00:00:00.000-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2008-02-26T23:41:26.753-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Purpose"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"My Life as a Donkey"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"\"Hi there!  How are ya?  Nice, that's awesome...oh man, I'm excellent, really.  Well, my name's Matt and I work on behalf of the Democratic National Committee, and we're out in your neighborhood tonight to build support to win back that White House and EXPAND our congressional majorities, cuz I don't have to tell you - after six years of Bush's failed leadership we need a totally new direction in"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://trytheavanzino06.blogspot.com/feeds/5245529570356404005/comments/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID\u003d20388424\u0026postID\u003d5245529570356404005","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20388424/posts/default/5245529570356404005"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20388424/posts/default/5245529570356404005"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http://trytheavanzino06.blogspot.com/2007/09/my-life-as-donkey.html","title":"My Life as a Donkey"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"mda"},"uri":{"$t":"http://www.blogger.com/profile/03776044107637575099"},"email":{"$t":"mavanzino@gmail.com"},"gd$extendedProperty":{"xmlns$gd":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005","name":"OpenSocialUserId","value":"09978777135171101054"}}],"thr$total":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20388424.post-1362029354004550396"},"published":{"$t":"2007-08-24T08:56:00.000-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2008-02-26T23:47:42.285-08:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"A Month of Hot Oregon Weekends"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"What you do apparently when you get to Washington is go to Oregon, a lot.  Or is it that all of your friends who have run north from California or south from Washington all of a sudden really really need you to come see them, all at once, in one month?  Like Oregon will close if you don't see it before the first fall leaf lands.  I could write a list of all that's happened this monumental Summer "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://trytheavanzino06.blogspot.com/feeds/1362029354004550396/comments/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID\u003d20388424\u0026postID\u003d1362029354004550396","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20388424/posts/default/1362029354004550396"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20388424/posts/default/1362029354004550396"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http://trytheavanzino06.blogspot.com/2007/08/month-of-hot-oregon-weekends.html","title":"A Month of Hot Oregon Weekends"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"mda"},"uri":{"$t":"http://www.blogger.com/profile/03776044107637575099"},"email":{"$t":"mavanzino@gmail.com"},"gd$extendedProperty":{"xmlns$gd":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005","name":"OpenSocialUserId","value":"09978777135171101054"}}],"thr$total":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20388424.post-8903568043987982088"},"published":{"$t":"2007-07-31T12:07:00.000-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2008-02-26T23:40:26.012-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Moments"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"It's nearly August"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"I am sleeping on a floor without a futon, windows full of sun to the east each morning.   It's hard to get out of bed before 11am when you are just then adjusting to a good level of comfort on the thermarest and the mummy bag and you didn't get back from work until 11pm, the next day starting 14 hours later.  It's like the dial of your daily life gets turned clockwise about 4 hours, and there is "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://trytheavanzino06.blogspot.com/feeds/8903568043987982088/comments/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID\u003d20388424\u0026postID\u003d8903568043987982088","title":"1 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20388424/posts/default/8903568043987982088"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20388424/posts/default/8903568043987982088"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http://trytheavanzino06.blogspot.com/2007/07/its-nearly-august.html","title":"It's nearly August"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"mda"},"uri":{"$t":"http://www.blogger.com/profile/03776044107637575099"},"email":{"$t":"mavanzino@gmail.com"},"gd$extendedProperty":{"xmlns$gd":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005","name":"OpenSocialUserId","value":"09978777135171101054"}}],"thr$total":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","$t":"1"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20388424.post-1163377186988211067"},"published":{"$t":"2007-07-04T15:21:00.000-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2008-02-27T00:01:37.957-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Moments"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"In Deep End - Dance"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"About a month ago, in the heart of an already challenging time up in Washington, my singular '95 Chevy was impounded, towed, released and towed again to a shop called Clary's where it sat way too long to get fixed after a sudden CLANGdropBLAMrattlerattle over Interstate 5 disabled her and kept her from going into anything greater than third gear, much less into reverse.  Insert new transmission "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://trytheavanzino06.blogspot.com/feeds/1163377186988211067/comments/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID\u003d20388424\u0026postID\u003d1163377186988211067","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20388424/posts/default/1163377186988211067"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20388424/posts/default/1163377186988211067"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http://trytheavanzino06.blogspot.com/2007/07/in-deep-end-dance.html","title":"In Deep End - Dance"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"mda"},"uri":{"$t":"http://www.blogger.com/profile/03776044107637575099"},"email":{"$t":"mavanzino@gmail.com"},"gd$extendedProperty":{"xmlns$gd":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005","name":"OpenSocialUserId","value":"09978777135171101054"}}],"thr$total":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20388424.post-1447642356678547044"},"published":{"$t":"2007-05-17T17:45:00.000-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2008-02-26T23:37:48.678-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Purpose"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Memory"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"The 'core' of discovery...."},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"These changes we make...My friend Kevin asked me once what I would have seen myself doing right now if you had all the choices in front of you (he's an old mate with 20 years of history with me, and I couldn't have ever predicted he would create and conduct a Grammy-winning boychoir).  I told Kevin that I would have been a cultural anthropologist and archeological writer,  excavating old ruins "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://trytheavanzino06.blogspot.com/feeds/1447642356678547044/comments/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID\u003d20388424\u0026postID\u003d1447642356678547044","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20388424/posts/default/1447642356678547044"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20388424/posts/default/1447642356678547044"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http://trytheavanzino06.blogspot.com/2007/05/core-of-discovery.html","title":"The 'core' of discovery...."}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"mda"},"uri":{"$t":"http://www.blogger.com/profile/03776044107637575099"},"email":{"$t":"mavanzino@gmail.com"},"gd$extendedProperty":{"xmlns$gd":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005","name":"OpenSocialUserId","value":"09978777135171101054"}}],"thr$total":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20388424.post-3357779702241983710"},"published":{"$t":"2007-05-16T10:57:00.000-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2008-02-26T23:57:37.473-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Travel"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Washington \u003d Home"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"I faintly remember something about writing a blog a day for April.  Did I say one PER day?  Maybe I meant READING a blog a day...  Yeah,  that's it.... yeah...No matter, it seems life got busy leavin' and now it's no less busy arrivin'.  I began to physically move to Seattle over a week ago, leaving San Francisco on a Sunday afternoon and camping off Lake Shasta that evening, myself and my "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://trytheavanzino06.blogspot.com/feeds/3357779702241983710/comments/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID\u003d20388424\u0026postID\u003d3357779702241983710","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20388424/posts/default/3357779702241983710"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20388424/posts/default/3357779702241983710"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http://trytheavanzino06.blogspot.com/2007/05/washington-home.html","title":"Washington \u003d Home"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"mda"},"uri":{"$t":"http://www.blogger.com/profile/03776044107637575099"},"email":{"$t":"mavanzino@gmail.com"},"gd$extendedProperty":{"xmlns$gd":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005","name":"OpenSocialUserId","value":"09978777135171101054"}}],"thr$total":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20388424.post-6711877326209232759"},"published":{"$t":"2007-04-17T23:53:00.001-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2008-02-26T23:56:36.301-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Mild Rants"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"42"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"So, I took Sunday off of the blogging committment and I know, somewhere in the middle of the US, a good 1,404 miles from here, a lone head drooped and a lower lip was stuck out at the sight of no Sunday words...  yeah right.  :)  It came to me at 10pm and I was curled up with Summerland by Michael Chabon and comfy under a few blankets and atop ten pillows deep in the recesses of my chilly abode, "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://trytheavanzino06.blogspot.com/feeds/6711877326209232759/comments/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID\u003d20388424\u0026postID\u003d6711877326209232759","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20388424/posts/default/6711877326209232759"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20388424/posts/default/6711877326209232759"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http://trytheavanzino06.blogspot.com/2007/04/42.html","title":"42"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"mda"},"uri":{"$t":"http://www.blogger.com/profile/03776044107637575099"},"email":{"$t":"mavanzino@gmail.com"},"gd$extendedProperty":{"xmlns$gd":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005","name":"OpenSocialUserId","value":"09978777135171101054"}}],"thr$total":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20388424.post-8259144486237117135"},"published":{"$t":"2007-04-16T23:57:00.001-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2009-11-10T02:42:25.683-08:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"..."},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"I don't know what a blog would say today except something that mentioned the tragic shooting at the Virginia Tech campus, which involved 33 deaths including the suicide of the gunman himself.  I haven't seen anything on the news outside of my own internet home page, so I don't know if there is sensationalizing or over-reporting going on of this tragedy, the broadcasting-investigations or perhaps "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://trytheavanzino06.blogspot.com/feeds/8259144486237117135/comments/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID\u003d20388424\u0026postID\u003d8259144486237117135","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20388424/posts/default/8259144486237117135"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20388424/posts/default/8259144486237117135"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http://trytheavanzino06.blogspot.com/2007/04/blog-post.html","title":"..."}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"mda"},"uri":{"$t":"http://www.blogger.com/profile/03776044107637575099"},"email":{"$t":"mavanzino@gmail.com"},"gd$extendedProperty":{"xmlns$gd":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005","name":"OpenSocialUserId","value":"09978777135171101054"}}],"thr$total":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20388424.post-3127774987049751320"},"published":{"$t":"2007-04-14T23:22:00.000-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2008-02-26T23:52:39.317-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Mild Rants"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"A Farewell to Catatonic TV watching"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"No, really... I'm done.  Except now there's 2 hours of Soul Train reruns from the 70s.  Look at those flares and those moves!  I didn't know they still had that on!See, I was raised in a house with a TV in every room, so I've known the joy of finding shows worth watching and the drone of having that thing on in the background.  And for a long time I liked it, every humming moment.  But now, I'm "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://trytheavanzino06.blogspot.com/feeds/3127774987049751320/comments/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID\u003d20388424\u0026postID\u003d3127774987049751320","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20388424/posts/default/3127774987049751320"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20388424/posts/default/3127774987049751320"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http://trytheavanzino06.blogspot.com/2007/04/farewell-to-catatonic-tv-watching.html","title":"A Farewell to Catatonic TV watching"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"mda"},"uri":{"$t":"http://www.blogger.com/profile/03776044107637575099"},"email":{"$t":"mavanzino@gmail.com"},"gd$extendedProperty":{"xmlns$gd":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005","name":"OpenSocialUserId","value":"09978777135171101054"}}],"thr$total":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20388424.post-3439167926578832116"},"published":{"$t":"2007-04-13T23:28:00.000-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2008-02-26T23:58:51.928-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Friends and Family"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"A Hero to Myself"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"I hope he's cool with this, and I think I remember him saying it was cool:  today I am posting the words my nephew John Sander Christensen wrote a few years ago.  As he has grown older and is nearing teenager-dom, he has gradually come to realize a few realities of his life and has taken responsibility for himself in ways I never could have when I was his age, and these words are part of that.  "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://trytheavanzino06.blogspot.com/feeds/3439167926578832116/comments/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID\u003d20388424\u0026postID\u003d3439167926578832116","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20388424/posts/default/3439167926578832116"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20388424/posts/default/3439167926578832116"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http://trytheavanzino06.blogspot.com/2007/04/hero-to-myself.html","title":"A Hero to Myself"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"mda"},"uri":{"$t":"http://www.blogger.com/profile/03776044107637575099"},"email":{"$t":"mavanzino@gmail.com"},"gd$extendedProperty":{"xmlns$gd":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005","name":"OpenSocialUserId","value":"09978777135171101054"}}],"thr$total":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20388424.post-1094635855558962043"},"published":{"$t":"2007-04-12T16:42:00.000-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2008-02-26T23:59:58.882-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Memory"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Mild Rants"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"The importance of smoked oysters"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"Tonight, my boys and I revisit some old haunts.  We're in our thirties now, and when we were teenagers we would gather once in a while on Ocean Beach, at Stall 24 (or was it 22, or 26 or 28...) and aim our sights on a spot halfway out from the breaker wall to the ocean and make a fire.  We would \"find\" wooden pallets (most likely from Safeway) not too far away, sometimes we would have to \"find\" "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://trytheavanzino06.blogspot.com/feeds/1094635855558962043/comments/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID\u003d20388424\u0026postID\u003d1094635855558962043","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20388424/posts/default/1094635855558962043"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20388424/posts/default/1094635855558962043"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http://trytheavanzino06.blogspot.com/2007/04/importance-of-smoked-oysters.html","title":"The importance of smoked oysters"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"mda"},"uri":{"$t":"http://www.blogger.com/profile/03776044107637575099"},"email":{"$t":"mavanzino@gmail.com"},"gd$extendedProperty":{"xmlns$gd":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005","name":"OpenSocialUserId","value":"09978777135171101054"}}],"thr$total":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20388424.post-3416344122758264965"},"published":{"$t":"2007-04-11T20:31:00.000-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2008-02-27T00:06:04.755-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Moments"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Travel"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Because I never have read any Kurt Vonnegut and today he died..."},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"It happens this quickly, that there is nothing except the process of art, and the artist himorherself simply dies and that's it, like everyone else, except we somehow want to understand why that particular life seemed special and important and why so many people care.  Sadly the amount of people who care about any death is always so unequal to the number who have no clue at all.  Yet we strangely"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20388424/posts/default/3416344122758264965"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20388424/posts/default/3416344122758264965"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http://trytheavanzino06.blogspot.com/2007/04/because-i-never-ever-have-read-any-kurt.html","title":"Because I never have read any Kurt Vonnegut and today he died..."}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"mda"},"uri":{"$t":"http://www.blogger.com/profile/03776044107637575099"},"email":{"$t":"mavanzino@gmail.com"},"gd$extendedProperty":{"xmlns$gd":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005","name":"OpenSocialUserId","value":"09978777135171101054"}}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20388424.post-4249123320362036170"},"published":{"$t":"2007-04-10T23:40:00.000-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2008-02-27T00:03:41.770-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Moments"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Travel"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Home, landings, day three and still going!"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"Yesterday, I was at the bar and tonight I am in my small basement room, and a little later tonight a plane lands in Africa so that early this morning the Sahara has already laid itself out beneath and nothing like it will be seen again.  The Sahara is nothing to be messed with, it's a brown canvas that shuns other colors and swallows any new form which may paste itself upon the old master.  It's "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://trytheavanzino06.blogspot.com/feeds/4249123320362036170/comments/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID\u003d20388424\u0026postID\u003d4249123320362036170","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20388424/posts/default/4249123320362036170"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20388424/posts/default/4249123320362036170"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http://trytheavanzino06.blogspot.com/2007/04/home-landings-day-three-and-still-going.html","title":"Home, landings, day three and still going!"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"mda"},"uri":{"$t":"http://www.blogger.com/profile/03776044107637575099"},"email":{"$t":"mavanzino@gmail.com"},"gd$extendedProperty":{"xmlns$gd":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005","name":"OpenSocialUserId","value":"09978777135171101054"}}],"thr$total":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20388424.post-2383414019110028425"},"published":{"$t":"2007-04-09T23:25:00.000-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2008-02-27T00:02:59.017-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Moments"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Monday the day after Easter"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"I have a feeling that if I continue writing a blog a day you may actually come to know something about me, that I will no doubt reveal a thing or two which you didn't know yet, stumbling on my words until a fact comes sprawling out on the pavement from my treehouse door.  I sense that tonight already.  For instance, I am writing with my shoes on now.  I almost never write with my feet not "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://trytheavanzino06.blogspot.com/feeds/2383414019110028425/comments/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID\u003d20388424\u0026postID\u003d2383414019110028425","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20388424/posts/default/2383414019110028425"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20388424/posts/default/2383414019110028425"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http://trytheavanzino06.blogspot.com/2007/04/monday-day-after-easter.html","title":"Monday the day after Easter"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"mda"},"uri":{"$t":"http://www.blogger.com/profile/03776044107637575099"},"email":{"$t":"mavanzino@gmail.com"},"gd$extendedProperty":{"xmlns$gd":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005","name":"OpenSocialUserId","value":"09978777135171101054"}}],"thr$total":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20388424.post-7602114711991067722"},"published":{"$t":"2007-04-08T22:56:00.000-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2008-02-26T23:22:10.454-08:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"A Blog a day, that's all we ask..."},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"I am a Blue Diamond Almond, dull but crunchy, salty and plentiful.  A buttermilk sky and a Brahms piano concerto opened my morning today as my father walked his route and I drove by him, honked at him, and exchanged finger gestures jestfully with him.  It was a good morning and I wish I had written on it.  So, I hereby vow to word-it-up every day till the beginning of May, create a word or too "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://trytheavanzino06.blogspot.com/feeds/7602114711991067722/comments/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID\u003d20388424\u0026postID\u003d7602114711991067722","title":"2 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20388424/posts/default/7602114711991067722"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20388424/posts/default/7602114711991067722"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http://trytheavanzino06.blogspot.com/2007/04/blog-day-thats-all-we-ask.html","title":"A Blog a day, that's all we ask..."}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"mda"},"uri":{"$t":"http://www.blogger.com/profile/03776044107637575099"},"email":{"$t":"mavanzino@gmail.com"},"gd$extendedProperty":{"xmlns$gd":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005","name":"OpenSocialUserId","value":"09978777135171101054"}}],"thr$total":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","$t":"2"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20388424.post-6359965163687676646"},"published":{"$t":"2007-01-28T23:49:00.000-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2008-02-26T23:50:14.318-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Memory"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Friends and Family"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"For Doc"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"  I don't even know what the word mentor means anymore.  Now that I'm all grown up and think I've figured out a majority of life, those who I admire I tend just to call 'friend.'  But when I was a wee lad I was influenced by many good people, most of them were family and the others were my teachers.  And then there was one man and the only man I would call a mentor, William 'Doc' Ballard.  He "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://trytheavanzino06.blogspot.com/feeds/6359965163687676646/comments/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID\u003d20388424\u0026postID\u003d6359965163687676646","title":"1 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20388424/posts/default/6359965163687676646"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20388424/posts/default/6359965163687676646"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http://trytheavanzino06.blogspot.com/2007/01/for-doc.html","title":"For Doc"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"mda"},"uri":{"$t":"http://www.blogger.com/profile/03776044107637575099"},"email":{"$t":"mavanzino@gmail.com"},"gd$extendedProperty":{"xmlns$gd":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005","name":"OpenSocialUserId","value":"09978777135171101054"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_HWr3nqk4CA8/Rb2nPw-gWII/AAAAAAAAAI8/quZ8ntJHXPQ/s72-c/Singing+Boys...BOYS.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","$t":"1"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20388424.post-3750023449332975229"},"published":{"$t":"2007-01-28T00:13:00.000-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2008-02-26T23:39:28.305-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"The Cats and the Dogs"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Top 5: Cats Under the Stars"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"A much-needed homage to my favorite felines, simply five of the coolest animals I know, in no particular order except from #1 to #5, but there are no favorites and the list can change here and there, but ladies and gentlemen, as always, please... NO WAGERING!   Click on the photos, the bigger the better.   And if I sound a little cat crazy, I am, so shoot me.   But stay tuned for more Top 5s "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://trytheavanzino06.blogspot.com/feeds/3750023449332975229/comments/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID\u003d20388424\u0026postID\u003d3750023449332975229","title":"1 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20388424/posts/default/3750023449332975229"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20388424/posts/default/3750023449332975229"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http://trytheavanzino06.blogspot.com/2007/01/much-needed-homage-to-my-favorite.html","title":"Top 5: Cats Under the Stars"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"mda"},"uri":{"$t":"http://www.blogger.com/profile/03776044107637575099"},"email":{"$t":"mavanzino@gmail.com"},"gd$extendedProperty":{"xmlns$gd":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005","name":"OpenSocialUserId","value":"09978777135171101054"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HWr3nqk4CA8/RbxcCg-gWDI/AAAAAAAAAIA/E5PSLoeLqRc/s72-c/scan00014.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","$t":"1"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20388424.post-5623720813950627012"},"published":{"$t":"2007-01-20T01:07:00.000-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2008-02-26T23:54:48.687-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Travel"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"MT for the Masses"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"  Have I ever told you about Montana?  Well, I won't go too deep here, it's a big state with lots of ground to cover.  American western writer Wallace Stegner considered the entire state of Montana to be \"a very big city with very long streets.\"  With less than a million people it may seem true, but you wouldn't know unless you drove those streets.  So, imagine if you took the population of San "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://trytheavanzino06.blogspot.com/feeds/5623720813950627012/comments/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID\u003d20388424\u0026postID\u003d5623720813950627012","title":"1 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20388424/posts/default/5623720813950627012"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20388424/posts/default/5623720813950627012"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http://trytheavanzino06.blogspot.com/2007/01/mt-for-masses.html","title":"MT for the Masses"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"mda"},"uri":{"$t":"http://www.blogger.com/profile/03776044107637575099"},"email":{"$t":"mavanzino@gmail.com"},"gd$extendedProperty":{"xmlns$gd":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005","name":"OpenSocialUserId","value":"09978777135171101054"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HWr3nqk4CA8/RbHdUQ-gV3I/AAAAAAAAAFs/LIhveqZMIhs/s72-c/DSC00927.JPG","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","$t":"1"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20388424.post-2572547253885185200"},"published":{"$t":"2006-12-31T22:10:00.001-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2008-02-26T23:54:25.163-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Purpose"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Travel"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"from NYE '06"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"  Oohhh baby.  Mountains.  It's the dawn of a new year, so it's time to get the hell out of town.   I took my little streetwise car on a long overdue 1200 mile air-out east in order to find my brother and sister and nephew in their small alley-filled prairie town in Montana in time for Christmas.  Haven't been on an American road trip since 2000, and I looked forward to the early morning wakeup "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://trytheavanzino06.blogspot.com/feeds/2572547253885185200/comments/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID\u003d20388424\u0026postID\u003d2572547253885185200","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20388424/posts/default/2572547253885185200"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20388424/posts/default/2572547253885185200"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http://trytheavanzino06.blogspot.com/2007/01/from-nye-06.html","title":"from NYE '06"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"mda"},"uri":{"$t":"http://www.blogger.com/profile/03776044107637575099"},"email":{"$t":"mavanzino@gmail.com"},"gd$extendedProperty":{"xmlns$gd":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005","name":"OpenSocialUserId","value":"09978777135171101054"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HWr3nqk4CA8/RbHgfQ-gV5I/AAAAAAAAAGY/hiyLNl8fDf0/s72-c/DSC01022.JPG","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20388424.post-8063398833627243788"},"published":{"$t":"2006-12-04T18:12:00.000-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2008-02-26T23:50:14.319-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Friends and Family"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Friends, Links, and Friend's Links"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"To be back in the Bay Area, land of the cold and the heated, minus snow and plus earthquakes, with a smattering of disappointing sports teams which are causing me to be totally disillusioned with whatever obsessive rooting interest I had nurtured, there remains to be celebrated: the beer.My Only-and-Therefore-Top 5 Breweries I've Had Wireless Internet and Good Beers at since returning to the "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://trytheavanzino06.blogspot.com/feeds/8063398833627243788/comments/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID\u003d20388424\u0026postID\u003d8063398833627243788","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20388424/posts/default/8063398833627243788"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20388424/posts/default/8063398833627243788"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http://trytheavanzino06.blogspot.com/2006/12/friends-links-and-friends-links.html","title":"Friends, Links, and Friend's Links"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"mda"},"uri":{"$t":"http://www.blogger.com/profile/03776044107637575099"},"email":{"$t":"mavanzino@gmail.com"},"gd$extendedProperty":{"xmlns$gd":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005","name":"OpenSocialUserId","value":"09978777135171101054"}}],"thr$total":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20388424.post-8885781741682850038"},"published":{"$t":"2006-12-01T16:49:00.000-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2008-02-26T23:52:39.318-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Mild Rants"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"One more for the Vault."},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"Taking into account some preordained need to write with a beverage, I can’t say I know what I am doing typing on my cute Mac or penning within a leather journal on such a consistent basis from brew pubs with a free wireless connection.  I wish everywhere here was filled with huts and strangers drinking tropical dandies with umbrellies and conversation taking itself out for a walk among locals and"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://trytheavanzino06.blogspot.com/feeds/8885781741682850038/comments/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID\u003d20388424\u0026postID\u003d8885781741682850038","title":"2 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20388424/posts/default/8885781741682850038"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20388424/posts/default/8885781741682850038"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http://trytheavanzino06.blogspot.com/2006/12/one-more-for-vault.html","title":"One more for the Vault."}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"mda"},"uri":{"$t":"http://www.blogger.com/profile/03776044107637575099"},"email":{"$t":"mavanzino@gmail.com"},"gd$extendedProperty":{"xmlns$gd":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005","name":"OpenSocialUserId","value":"09978777135171101054"}}],"thr$total":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","$t":"2"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20388424.post-757491579393245611"},"published":{"$t":"2006-11-29T15:16:00.001-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2008-02-26T23:52:39.318-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Mild Rants"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"A little ramble for the rumble"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"Putting together now the pieces of a recent move, I’m thinking about significance and what constitutes a journal and a blog, and where do the routes meet and diverge, and why?  You don’t need me to write about politics, yet I can say that Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi from San Francisco has a lot of work to do to fight with the mandate of what we all have desired a voice for – change; however"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://trytheavanzino06.blogspot.com/feeds/757491579393245611/comments/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID\u003d20388424\u0026postID\u003d757491579393245611","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20388424/posts/default/757491579393245611"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20388424/posts/default/757491579393245611"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http://trytheavanzino06.blogspot.com/2006/11/wow-two-postings-on-two-consecutinve.html","title":"A little ramble for the rumble"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"mda"},"uri":{"$t":"http://www.blogger.com/profile/03776044107637575099"},"email":{"$t":"mavanzino@gmail.com"},"gd$extendedProperty":{"xmlns$gd":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005","name":"OpenSocialUserId","value":"09978777135171101054"}}],"thr$total":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20388424.post-8861869591330866594"},"published":{"$t":"2006-11-28T09:41:00.000-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2008-02-26T23:49:18.065-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Friends and Family"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Drifts of Perspective and a word"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"The sun shines pretty hard these days as it works to fight off the cold that has gripped the Pacific Coast.  Cold always wins, and all heat fleets, thus it was, is now, and shall be evermore.  I took a drive up to Ashland Oregon on the weekend to visit some good friends and meet new ones at a coastal house with a hot tub on a bluff, a journey that was decided upon one minute and began the next "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://trytheavanzino06.blogspot.com/feeds/8861869591330866594/comments/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID\u003d20388424\u0026postID\u003d8861869591330866594","title":"3 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20388424/posts/default/8861869591330866594"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20388424/posts/default/8861869591330866594"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http://trytheavanzino06.blogspot.com/2006/11/take-high-road.html","title":"Drifts of Perspective and a word"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"mda"},"uri":{"$t":"http://www.blogger.com/profile/03776044107637575099"},"email":{"$t":"mavanzino@gmail.com"},"gd$extendedProperty":{"xmlns$gd":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005","name":"OpenSocialUserId","value":"09978777135171101054"}}],"thr$total":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","$t":"3"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20388424.post-706645677663956379"},"published":{"$t":"2006-11-16T14:05:00.000-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2008-02-26T23:37:36.275-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Memory"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Seriously..."},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"Been too long a while since I blogged it up, but the treehouse is being remodeled inside and out.I understand that there are serious and highly important issues to choose to write about, and with just some minimal thought and attention to the morning paper, your favorite under-the-radar information service, or your own inquisitive mind one can’t help but be stirred to act upon or at least write "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://trytheavanzino06.blogspot.com/feeds/706645677663956379/comments/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID\u003d20388424\u0026postID\u003d706645677663956379","title":"1 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20388424/posts/default/706645677663956379"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20388424/posts/default/706645677663956379"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http://trytheavanzino06.blogspot.com/2006/11/seriously.html","title":"Seriously..."}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"mda"},"uri":{"$t":"http://www.blogger.com/profile/03776044107637575099"},"email":{"$t":"mavanzino@gmail.com"},"gd$extendedProperty":{"xmlns$gd":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005","name":"OpenSocialUserId","value":"09978777135171101054"}}],"thr$total":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","$t":"1"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20388424.post-116003602535612351"},"published":{"$t":"2006-10-05T01:09:00.000-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2008-02-26T23:50:56.947-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Friends and Family"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Travel"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Vino"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"  Back to Slovenia for a long weekend, land of nothing but wine as far as I have written, and happy people drinking it and celebrating with it.  Celebrating what?  Oh nothing more than their view on the hill, one another, and their fortune in living here.  Many of these smiling and sturdy people are staying for the long haul (January 1 2007 \u003d conversion to the Euro).  They like the tourists, who "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://trytheavanzino06.blogspot.com/feeds/116003602535612351/comments/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID\u003d20388424\u0026postID\u003d116003602535612351","title":"1 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20388424/posts/default/116003602535612351"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20388424/posts/default/116003602535612351"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http://trytheavanzino06.blogspot.com/2006/10/vino.html","title":"Vino"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"mda"},"uri":{"$t":"http://www.blogger.com/profile/03776044107637575099"},"email":{"$t":"mavanzino@gmail.com"},"gd$extendedProperty":{"xmlns$gd":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005","name":"OpenSocialUserId","value":"09978777135171101054"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HWr3nqk4CA8/RbBrVw-gVwI/AAAAAAAAAEs/Q7neEzcuQG0/s72-c/24040032.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","$t":"1"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20388424.post-115824774401587798"},"published":{"$t":"2006-09-14T08:26:00.000-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2008-02-26T23:33:45.354-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Travel"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Munchin"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"  Like any place, Munich is hard to leave but even harder to stay while you watch someone else leave.  That’s the beauty of how it feels to be there, and anything less than the full compliment of your friends and you feel as if something is missing.  After the wedding a few didn’t make it back to Munich at all, went back to their ports of call, but luckily a few had some extra days in Bayern, "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://trytheavanzino06.blogspot.com/feeds/115824774401587798/comments/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID\u003d20388424\u0026postID\u003d115824774401587798","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20388424/posts/default/115824774401587798"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20388424/posts/default/115824774401587798"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http://trytheavanzino06.blogspot.com/2006/09/munchin.html","title":"Munchin"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"mda"},"uri":{"$t":"http://www.blogger.com/profile/03776044107637575099"},"email":{"$t":"mavanzino@gmail.com"},"gd$extendedProperty":{"xmlns$gd":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005","name":"OpenSocialUserId","value":"09978777135171101054"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HWr3nqk4CA8/RawEjw-gVkI/AAAAAAAAACY/9p8gTPTYGUE/s72-c/24040007.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20388424.post-115809640276286104"},"published":{"$t":"2006-09-12T14:25:00.000-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2008-02-26T23:33:45.355-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Travel"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Me and my Cornfields"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"  What I’ve come to learn from nearly 50 days in east southern Germany I can relate in terms of the greatest natural resource here.  It’s all about corn.   I’ve realized that the depth of a cornfield and its growth are deceiving, I respect the orderly nature of its planting, and the fact that they stand up to numerous peltings of rain and mud.  Taken as a whole, cornfields are beautiful, slightly"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://trytheavanzino06.blogspot.com/feeds/115809640276286104/comments/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID\u003d20388424\u0026postID\u003d115809640276286104","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20388424/posts/default/115809640276286104"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20388424/posts/default/115809640276286104"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http://trytheavanzino06.blogspot.com/2006/09/me-and-my-cornfields.html","title":"Me and my Cornfields"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"mda"},"uri":{"$t":"http://www.blogger.com/profile/03776044107637575099"},"email":{"$t":"mavanzino@gmail.com"},"gd$extendedProperty":{"xmlns$gd":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005","name":"OpenSocialUserId","value":"09978777135171101054"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_HWr3nqk4CA8/Ra8yBg-gVtI/AAAAAAAAAD8/y1TulM55zMc/s72-c/24050026.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20388424.post-115703014922829880"},"published":{"$t":"2006-08-31T06:15:00.000-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2008-02-26T23:50:56.948-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Friends and Family"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Travel"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"… and a Wedding."},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"If you are already married and therefore rightfully partial to the backdrop of your own ceremony, let me say that a close second will have to be the remote winey hills of eastern Slovenia.  It’s shocking and worth so many words and photos and more words just because I had no idea that this existed where it exists.  Bam upside your head gorgeous, and right feeling.Every good wedding calls for "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://trytheavanzino06.blogspot.com/feeds/115703014922829880/comments/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID\u003d20388424\u0026postID\u003d115703014922829880","title":"1 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20388424/posts/default/115703014922829880"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20388424/posts/default/115703014922829880"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http://trytheavanzino06.blogspot.com/2006/08/and-wedding.html","title":"… and a Wedding."}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"mda"},"uri":{"$t":"http://www.blogger.com/profile/03776044107637575099"},"email":{"$t":"mavanzino@gmail.com"},"gd$extendedProperty":{"xmlns$gd":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005","name":"OpenSocialUserId","value":"09978777135171101054"}}],"thr$total":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","$t":"1"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20388424.post-115576625165573322"},"published":{"$t":"2006-08-16T15:10:00.000-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2008-02-26T23:50:56.949-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Friends and Family"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Travel"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"…Reunions…"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"  I have carried precious cargo, but rarely the father of a bride in a rented car, and I didn’t break him nor try to, though I did stall the car a few times which he thought very funny, and asked if I knew what I was doing and offered to help.   We needed a guide to get us to the city of Ptuj (pi-too-ey, yes, just like that) and John was born in a town just over those mountains over there, and "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://trytheavanzino06.blogspot.com/feeds/115576625165573322/comments/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID\u003d20388424\u0026postID\u003d115576625165573322","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20388424/posts/default/115576625165573322"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20388424/posts/default/115576625165573322"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http://trytheavanzino06.blogspot.com/2006/08/reunions.html","title":"…Reunions…"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"mda"},"uri":{"$t":"http://www.blogger.com/profile/03776044107637575099"},"email":{"$t":"mavanzino@gmail.com"},"gd$extendedProperty":{"xmlns$gd":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005","name":"OpenSocialUserId","value":"09978777135171101054"}}],"thr$total":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20388424.post-115576620509138992"},"published":{"$t":"2006-08-16T15:09:00.000-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2008-02-26T23:50:56.950-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Friends and Family"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Travel"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Roadtrips…"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"  My week and a half in Slovenia and then Munich was freedom, a great pause in the Great Film Project and a sweet and sturdy wedge filled with friends, plus a nice continuation of the life I had left exactly a year ago.  It’s best said with picture accompaniment.The autobahn was not as lovingly fast as usual, Germany rolling slowly by in raining grey from top to bottom, until we crossed over into"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://trytheavanzino06.blogspot.com/feeds/115576620509138992/comments/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID\u003d20388424\u0026postID\u003d115576620509138992","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20388424/posts/default/115576620509138992"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20388424/posts/default/115576620509138992"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http://trytheavanzino06.blogspot.com/2006/08/roadtrips.html","title":"Roadtrips…"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"mda"},"uri":{"$t":"http://www.blogger.com/profile/03776044107637575099"},"email":{"$t":"mavanzino@gmail.com"},"gd$extendedProperty":{"xmlns$gd":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005","name":"OpenSocialUserId","value":"09978777135171101054"}}],"thr$total":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20388424.post-115548091351062779"},"published":{"$t":"2006-08-13T07:54:00.000-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2008-02-26T23:33:16.959-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Travel"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Day 3 and Beyond"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"I can’t complain.  I am being paid to work on a film set over the summer, a behind the scenes look at the making of a kidz movie, German style.  I know that TON is sound, DREHEN means the cameras are rolling, PROBE is rehearsal, and the kids have to go though GARTEROBE and MASK before they sit around waiting for a few PROBE before beginning to DREHEN, at which time everyone should be LEISE, BITTE"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://trytheavanzino06.blogspot.com/feeds/115548091351062779/comments/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID\u003d20388424\u0026postID\u003d115548091351062779","title":"1 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20388424/posts/default/115548091351062779"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20388424/posts/default/115548091351062779"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http://trytheavanzino06.blogspot.com/2006/08/day-3-and-beyond.html","title":"Day 3 and Beyond"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"mda"},"uri":{"$t":"http://www.blogger.com/profile/03776044107637575099"},"email":{"$t":"mavanzino@gmail.com"},"gd$extendedProperty":{"xmlns$gd":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005","name":"OpenSocialUserId","value":"09978777135171101054"}}],"thr$total":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","$t":"1"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20388424.post-115546149935241427"},"published":{"$t":"2006-08-13T02:16:00.000-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2008-02-26T23:33:16.960-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Travel"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"The day after day 1"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"Never underestimate the effects that time has on your woes and your hopes.  Time will always carry its scythe, and what is now will give way to what is coming – and it will come.  Even when you are roadkill one night, you won’t always be roadkill no matter how much you believe that you’ll forever awake to flies buzzing around you once more (see previous post).  Together, alone, together again, "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://trytheavanzino06.blogspot.com/feeds/115546149935241427/comments/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID\u003d20388424\u0026postID\u003d115546149935241427","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20388424/posts/default/115546149935241427"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20388424/posts/default/115546149935241427"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http://trytheavanzino06.blogspot.com/2006/08/day-after-day-1.html","title":"The day after day 1"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"mda"},"uri":{"$t":"http://www.blogger.com/profile/03776044107637575099"},"email":{"$t":"mavanzino@gmail.com"},"gd$extendedProperty":{"xmlns$gd":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005","name":"OpenSocialUserId","value":"09978777135171101054"}}],"thr$total":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20388424.post-115499234401979277"},"published":{"$t":"2006-08-07T16:11:00.001-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2008-02-26T23:33:16.960-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Travel"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"From a Pacific beach to a farm in Lower Bavaria, via Toronto and Montreal…The Bad News Bears Begins"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"Last time you found me here I claimed that I never rode the Giant Ferris Wheel though I did eat at the Wendy’s and poured tokens into all the driving games at the Marvel Comics arcade (complete with Incredible Hulk Black Light Mini-Golf, only $10 a round!), all on the sunny slopes of Niagara.  But what of Toronto?  And shall I say it was hot there?  The fans were on overtime, the cats sat in "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://trytheavanzino06.blogspot.com/feeds/115499234401979277/comments/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID\u003d20388424\u0026postID\u003d115499234401979277","title":"2 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20388424/posts/default/115499234401979277"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20388424/posts/default/115499234401979277"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http://trytheavanzino06.blogspot.com/2006/08/from-pacific-beach-to-farm_115499234401979277.html","title":"From a Pacific beach to a farm in Lower Bavaria, via Toronto and Montreal…The Bad News Bears Begins"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"mda"},"uri":{"$t":"http://www.blogger.com/profile/03776044107637575099"},"email":{"$t":"mavanzino@gmail.com"},"gd$extendedProperty":{"xmlns$gd":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005","name":"OpenSocialUserId","value":"09978777135171101054"}}],"thr$total":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","$t":"2"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20388424.post-115125015662490980"},"published":{"$t":"2006-06-25T08:35:00.000-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2008-02-26T23:32:58.404-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Travel"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Niagara...oh man."},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":" It's beautiful, all that majestic water falling, think of the largest waterfall you may have seen, multiplied by 100 and lined up side to side in a horseshoe bowl.  And the fact that the water never, ever stops falling, when no one is there to see it and when the lights all fall dark.  It's enough to just make you want to go there at night and sit on a brick wall next to it all, and have the "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://trytheavanzino06.blogspot.com/feeds/115125015662490980/comments/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID\u003d20388424\u0026postID\u003d115125015662490980","title":"2 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20388424/posts/default/115125015662490980"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20388424/posts/default/115125015662490980"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http://trytheavanzino06.blogspot.com/2006/06/niagaraoh-man.html","title":"Niagara...oh man."}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"mda"},"uri":{"$t":"http://www.blogger.com/profile/03776044107637575099"},"email":{"$t":"mavanzino@gmail.com"},"gd$extendedProperty":{"xmlns$gd":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005","name":"OpenSocialUserId","value":"09978777135171101054"}}],"thr$total":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","$t":"2"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20388424.post-115115062629107274"},"published":{"$t":"2006-06-24T05:03:00.000-07:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2008-02-26T23:31:17.283-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Travel"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Ejector Seat"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"It could be worse, I might be writing you from a prison cell on P.E.I....no, not I.M. Pei.  As far as I know, Prince Edward Island is not Canada's answer to Alcatraz, but I have much to learn about this land up north of the USA, where I landed on Thursday June 22 with enough baggage to move here, a suspicion that got me in trouble at the border.  Nice Border Agent:  \"So, 173 days in Canada, what "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://trytheavanzino06.blogspot.com/feeds/115115062629107274/comments/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID\u003d20388424\u0026postID\u003d115115062629107274","title":"1 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20388424/posts/default/115115062629107274"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20388424/posts/default/115115062629107274"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http://trytheavanzino06.blogspot.com/2006/06/ejector-seat.html","title":"Ejector Seat"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"mda"},"uri":{"$t":"http://www.blogger.com/profile/03776044107637575099"},"email":{"$t":"mavanzino@gmail.com"},"gd$extendedProperty":{"xmlns$gd":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005","name":"OpenSocialUserId","value":"09978777135171101054"}}],"thr$total":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","$t":"1"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20388424.post-113966082560040450"},"published":{"$t":"2006-02-11T04:10:00.000-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2008-02-26T23:32:39.833-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Mild Rants"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"The Burbs"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"I was told once that, in my birth home in San Francisco, I lived in the suburbs.  Yeah, the 'burbs.  How can one live in the burbs in a city only 7 x 7 miles in area?  For example, if someone lived in North York in Toronto I would say they lived in Toronto, and if they lived on Yonge Street in Toronto I would still say they lived in Toronto, because they have a postal code labelled TORONTO.  But "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://trytheavanzino06.blogspot.com/feeds/113966082560040450/comments/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID\u003d20388424\u0026postID\u003d113966082560040450","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20388424/posts/default/113966082560040450"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20388424/posts/default/113966082560040450"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http://trytheavanzino06.blogspot.com/2006/02/burbs.html","title":"The Burbs"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"mda"},"uri":{"$t":"http://www.blogger.com/profile/03776044107637575099"},"email":{"$t":"mavanzino@gmail.com"},"gd$extendedProperty":{"xmlns$gd":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005","name":"OpenSocialUserId","value":"09978777135171101054"}}],"thr$total":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20388424.post-113870358656010090"},"published":{"$t":"2006-01-31T02:22:00.000-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2008-02-26T23:29:15.708-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Purpose"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"The Corps of Discovery"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"\"This day I have completed my 31st year, and in all probability now existed about half the period which I am to remain in this world.  I reflected that I had, as yet, done but little - very little indeed - to further the happiness of the human race, or to advance the information of the succeeding generation.\"I viewed with regret the many hours I have spent in indolence, and now sorely feel the "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://trytheavanzino06.blogspot.com/feeds/113870358656010090/comments/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID\u003d20388424\u0026postID\u003d113870358656010090","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20388424/posts/default/113870358656010090"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20388424/posts/default/113870358656010090"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http://trytheavanzino06.blogspot.com/2006/01/corps-of-discovery.html","title":"The Corps of Discovery"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"mda"},"uri":{"$t":"http://www.blogger.com/profile/03776044107637575099"},"email":{"$t":"mavanzino@gmail.com"},"gd$extendedProperty":{"xmlns$gd":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005","name":"OpenSocialUserId","value":"09978777135171101054"}}],"thr$total":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20388424.post-113817261105730825"},"published":{"$t":"2006-01-24T22:40:00.000-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2008-02-26T23:42:35.187-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Purpose"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Time to Samba my way out of the pigpen"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"These antelopes, these bears being antelopes, they crossed one grassy field in search of someone, and they found a someone larger than they expected crouching over a bush heavy laden with hops and nearly as heavy as his sagging eyelids.  They called and stood on hind legs to shout, \".....HEY!.....Yeah, YOU, FATTY!......WHAT'R YOU DOING?!...\"  I had no answer.  But I had many.  The ocean of grass "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://trytheavanzino06.blogspot.com/feeds/113817261105730825/comments/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID\u003d20388424\u0026postID\u003d113817261105730825","title":"1 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20388424/posts/default/113817261105730825"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20388424/posts/default/113817261105730825"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http://trytheavanzino06.blogspot.com/2006/01/time-to-samba-my-way-out-of-pigpen.html","title":"Time to Samba my way out of the pigpen"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"mda"},"uri":{"$t":"http://www.blogger.com/profile/03776044107637575099"},"email":{"$t":"mavanzino@gmail.com"},"gd$extendedProperty":{"xmlns$gd":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005","name":"OpenSocialUserId","value":"09978777135171101054"}}],"thr$total":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","$t":"1"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20388424.post-113723677974047149"},"published":{"$t":"2006-01-14T02:39:00.000-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2008-02-26T23:32:39.833-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Mild Rants"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Curious, George."},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"I know I'm not the only one who felt like my intelligence had been spanked during and after watching the movie Syriana.  I was walking down the wet street after the movie and I felt vacant, like I had just been slapped and had $11 stolen from me.  Because it all began at a point early in the film, when I saw the first scene with Christopher Plummer and my inquiring mind simply wandered back to "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://trytheavanzino06.blogspot.com/feeds/113723677974047149/comments/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID\u003d20388424\u0026postID\u003d113723677974047149","title":"2 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20388424/posts/default/113723677974047149"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20388424/posts/default/113723677974047149"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http://trytheavanzino06.blogspot.com/2006/01/curious-george.html","title":"Curious, George."}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"mda"},"uri":{"$t":"http://www.blogger.com/profile/03776044107637575099"},"email":{"$t":"mavanzino@gmail.com"},"gd$extendedProperty":{"xmlns$gd":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005","name":"OpenSocialUserId","value":"09978777135171101054"}}],"thr$total":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","$t":"2"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20388424.post-113713501858123614"},"published":{"$t":"2006-01-12T22:33:00.000-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2008-02-26T23:26:20.017-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Moments"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Tradition!"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"A fiddler on the roof, a most unlikely sight!  It might not be a thing...but then again, it might. There isn't much going on in the treehouse today, but the views are beautiful.  In a city of hills, there is always something unexpected around the next corner, whether it's bathed in a different light than before or the backdrop of sky alters what is seen.  The clouds are buttermilk these days, "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://trytheavanzino06.blogspot.com/feeds/113713501858123614/comments/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID\u003d20388424\u0026postID\u003d113713501858123614","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20388424/posts/default/113713501858123614"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20388424/posts/default/113713501858123614"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http://trytheavanzino06.blogspot.com/2006/01/tradition.html","title":"Tradition!"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"mda"},"uri":{"$t":"http://www.blogger.com/profile/03776044107637575099"},"email":{"$t":"mavanzino@gmail.com"},"gd$extendedProperty":{"xmlns$gd":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005","name":"OpenSocialUserId","value":"09978777135171101054"}}],"thr$total":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20388424.post-113637035028139499"},"published":{"$t":"2006-01-04T02:10:00.000-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2008-02-26T23:25:53.511-08:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Moments"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"And on the third day, there were..."},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"WORDS!  Let there be words.  And there were.  Juuuuust look at 'em.  I've mastered the help menu and we are now on our way, but only after another photo taken today.I can't help but think how music and landscape are essentially linked, at least for me.  To have one and not the other for too long is akin to enjoying only the outside of roasted marshmallows or never having lime juice for your gin "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://trytheavanzino06.blogspot.com/feeds/113637035028139499/comments/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID\u003d20388424\u0026postID\u003d113637035028139499","title":"4 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20388424/posts/default/113637035028139499"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20388424/posts/default/113637035028139499"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http://trytheavanzino06.blogspot.com/2006/01/and-on-third-day-there-were.html","title":"And on the third day, there were..."}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"mda"},"uri":{"$t":"http://www.blogger.com/profile/03776044107637575099"},"email":{"$t":"mavanzino@gmail.com"},"gd$extendedProperty":{"xmlns$gd":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005","name":"OpenSocialUserId","value":"09978777135171101054"}}],"thr$total":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","$t":"4"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20388424.post-113620046666841568"},"published":{"$t":"2006-01-02T03:10:00.000-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2007-05-25T22:59:37.248-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"This is just the beginning..."},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":""},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://trytheavanzino06.blogspot.com/feeds/113620046666841568/comments/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID\u003d20388424\u0026postID\u003d113620046666841568","title":"1 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20388424/posts/default/113620046666841568"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20388424/posts/default/113620046666841568"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http://trytheavanzino06.blogspot.com/2006/01/this-is-just-beginning.html","title":"This is just the beginning..."}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"mda"},"uri":{"$t":"http://www.blogger.com/profile/03776044107637575099"},"email":{"$t":"mavanzino@gmail.com"},"gd$extendedProperty":{"xmlns$gd":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005","name":"OpenSocialUserId","value":"09978777135171101054"}}],"thr$total":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","$t":"1"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20388424.post-113608969681799509"},"published":{"$t":"2005-12-31T20:22:00.000-08:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2007-05-25T22:59:37.249-07:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"OW!"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":""},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://trytheavanzino06.blogspot.com/feeds/113608969681799509/comments/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID\u003d20388424\u0026postID\u003d113608969681799509","title":"1 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20388424/posts/default/113608969681799509"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/20388424/posts/default/113608969681799509"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http://trytheavanzino06.blogspot.com/2005/12/ow.html","title":"OW!"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"mda"},"uri":{"$t":"http://www.blogger.com/profile/03776044107637575099"},"email":{"$t":"mavanzino@gmail.com"},"gd$extendedProperty":{"xmlns$gd":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005","name":"OpenSocialUserId","value":"09978777135171101054"}}],"thr$total":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","$t":"1"}}]}});