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		<title>Words are hard</title>
		<link>http://www.rain-man.org/2012/05/09/words-are-hard/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 04:06:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Valdez</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a little more than three and a half months, I&#8217;ll find out if I get my student visa for study in Japan. In the meantime, things will happen.

I&#8217;ll write more on here
Get back into self-study of Japanese
Lose some weight (currently about 20 pounds overweight)
Maybe post a video at some point

Now  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Let&#8217;s chat, shall we?</title>
		<link>http://www.rain-man.org/2012/03/26/lets-chat-shall-we/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2012 04:41:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Valdez</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following was a conversation that took place the evening of Monday, March 26
xocraziekittyxox: hey you
Chris: hi me?
xocraziekittyxox: heyoo&#8230; wanna chat wiht a pissed off single girl?
Chris: DO I?! OF COURSE!
xocraziekittyxox: im sure it seems random but this asshole i was dating cheated on me  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gee, I love you too, Amazon</title>
		<link>http://www.rain-man.org/2012/03/16/gee-i-love-you-too-amazon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2012 14:50:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Valdez</dc:creator>
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The name I&#8217;ve used for more than a decade online is Stupid Dufus. From chatrooms to e-commerce sites, it&#8217;s a name i&#8217;ve stuck with. There is no true meaning behind the name&#8211;it&#8217;s simply an amalgamation of two similar words.
Anyway, the name I signed up with at Amazon a long time ago is Stupid  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Annual trip to Japan</title>
		<link>http://www.rain-man.org/2012/03/02/annual-trip-to-japan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Mar 2012 20:38:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Valdez</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[2007 - Made my first trip to Japan. I visited a friend, and he acted as an interpreter and tour guide.
2008 &#8211; Visited my former Japanese teacher and his wife. Daytime I was on my own; at night we partied.
2009 &#8211; Went with friends from Texas where I acted as tour guide and a poor excuse for an  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Twilight should be on the banned books list</title>
		<link>http://www.rain-man.org/2011/11/21/twilight-should-be-on-the-banned-books-list/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 01:26:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Valdez</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[About two years ago, a good friend of mine and former roommate from college (a very attractive girl) invited me to go see &#8220;Twilight: New Moon.&#8221; She&#8217;d read all the books and seen the first movie, and this was her second viewing of the second movie. I figured, &#8220;Whatever.&#8221; I should&#8217;ve figured, &#8220;SHOOT  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christmas, it approaches; Thanksgiving, it&#8217;s going away</title>
		<link>http://www.rain-man.org/2011/11/09/christmas-it-approaches-thanksgiving-its-going-away/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 15:38:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Valdez</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanksgiving is coming soon, but Christmas is what I&#8217;m writing about today. Oh, and the picture is something I drew Dec. 25, 2004.
So, yes, Christmas. It&#8217;s wonderful, because my name is in it. It&#8217;s also wonderful because people have commercialized it over the years which means free stuff. That now  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Give Japanese dramas a chance</title>
		<link>http://www.rain-man.org/2011/10/26/give-japanese-dramas-a-chance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 21:37:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Valdez</dc:creator>
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There&#8217;s a Japanese website well-known in Japan called 2channel. It&#8217;s an anonymous message board home to the heartwarming story of Densha Otoko (電車男, Train Man). The original Japanese story can be found here. It&#8217;s about a socially inept nerd, or otaku, who saves a woman on a train one night. Their  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Birthday, Christmas in November approaches</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 19:30:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Valdez</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My birthday occurs the first week of November each year. And every now and then, I&#8217;m gifted with a night of election results. Those are the worst gifts to give anyone, by the way.
This year, that&#8217;s not the case, as it&#8217;s not most years. This gives cause for joyous celebration. Last year, I can&#8217;t  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Japanese regimen</title>
		<link>http://www.rain-man.org/2011/10/12/the-japanese-regimen/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 18:54:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Valdez</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since my return from Japan last year, mayn people have what I do in order to keep up and imrpove my Japanese language ability. Honestly, not as much as I should. Most of my practice these days is reading and writing, with very little aural practice.
One of the most frustrating things when I started  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RIP old cell phone</title>
		<link>http://www.rain-man.org/2011/10/10/rip-old-cell-phone/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 03:29:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Valdez</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most people who know me understand that I love technology. From computers to games, I&#8217;ve always had an interest in these things. It comes then as a surprise to all that my cell phone is six years old and can only do voice and text. (And it can only store a maximum of about 30 text messages.) Why  [...]]]></description>
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