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	<title>ButtonMonkey is Terry Eaton</title>
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	<description>Pissing in the Stream of Consciousness</description>
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		<title>New Beginnings</title>
		<link>http://www.buttonmonkey.com/2008/11/06/new-beginnings/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 20:40:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Guitars</title>
		<link>http://www.buttonmonkey.com/2008/11/04/guitars/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 18:59:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>teaton</dc:creator>
		
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		<title>Go away! &#8216;Batin&#8217;!</title>
		<link>http://www.buttonmonkey.com/2008/10/30/go-away-batin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 01:04:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>teaton</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The years passed, mankind became stupider at a frightening rate. Some had high hopes the genetic engineering would correct this trend in evolution, but sadly the greatest minds and resources were focused on conquering hair loss and prolonging erections.&#8221;
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;The years passed, mankind became stupider at a frightening rate. Some had high hopes the genetic engineering would correct this trend in evolution, but sadly the greatest minds and resources were focused on conquering hair loss and prolonging erections.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>From The Captain</title>
		<link>http://www.buttonmonkey.com/2008/10/22/1026/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 14:32:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>teaton</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[An email from Lee Malis of Lee Malis Sailing Adventures:
I don’t know how you all expect me to continue sailing around without you sailing along. I hope you don’t think that I should quit sailing, get a job and become a useful part of society.  Is it possible that your faithful narrator is not [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>An email from Lee Malis of <a href="http://www.sailin.net">Lee Malis Sailing Adventures</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>I don’t know how you all expect me to continue sailing around without you sailing along. I hope you don’t think that I should quit sailing, get a job and become a useful part of society.  Is it possible that your faithful narrator is not at the top of the list of things that you think about? (Hard for me to believe). </p>
<p>Anyone interested in sailing from Florida to the Bahamas I still have space on the boat.  I’ll be leaving October 30th.  This trip is great for someone that wants to get cruising experience for a great price.  I’m asking for $500 per person (plus food). But I have two weeks to get to Nassau.  So it would only be about $500 for two weeks cruising. I’ll probably sail to Eleuthra first, hang out for awhile, and then sail back to Nassau by the 13th of November.  So all you would need to do is have a one-way ticket from Nassau back to where ever you want to go back to.  Eleuthra is a great island to hang out on. You can fly out from Eleuthra too. Nice diving, great surfing, good people and food, not much tourism and Lenny Kravitz lives there and plays at the local Rake and Scrape bar.</p>
<p>After New Years I’ll be taking off on the big adventure and there is plenty of room right now. I’ll have two months to make it to Antigua.  </p>
<p>January – February; sail to Georgetown in the Exumas wait for the first good weather window and jump off for Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.  The trip could take from a week to a month depending on weather so for anyone planning to be on unemployment in January/February this is a great way to spend your unemployment checks!!!</p>
<p>February/March I’ll be cruising the Windward Islands to Antigua and Guadalupe.</p>
<p>May/June I’ll be sailing to Europe and the Mediterranean.</p>
<p>Top ten reasons not to go sailing; </p>
<ol>
<li>Heading off with an aging adventurer with fewer redeeming qualities every year.  (Better to go before I get older).</li>
<li>Conceivably not the best choice for advancement in the corporate ladder to success. (Corporate scum, who cares).</li>
<li>Potentially dangerous. (Whatever).</li>
<li>Cancer from the sun. (Stay inside if you’re worried about the sun).</li>
<li>Could be stuck on a boat with an unpleasant human being for long periods of time.  (The price I have to pay for taking you along, but I’ll deal with it).</li>
<li>The captain could be a bad musician with a lousy singing voice?  (Just don’t tell me!!!  I can get very moody when criticized).</li>
<li>The boat could sink. (This also comes under reason Number 3 which is already answered with a succinct reply).</li>
<li>Sharks could eat you. (Better you than me, safety in numbers).</li>
<li>I can’t afford a vacation.  (If not you, who, if not now, when).</li>
<li>Why would anyone want to sail away with a strange man in a boat.  (As Harry S. Truman would have said if FDR hadn’t said it first. Don’t worry, be Happy. [Ok that’s a lie].  I believe that he would have said, “Don’t be a scaredy cat or something about only having to fear itself.)</li>
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<p>Well that should take care of the naysayers and other undesirable elements out there. The country is in the pits and the economy won’t start picking up for awhile anyway.  So why sit around and be miserable. Come out and go sailing!!! </p>
<p>All of these plans are contingent on the way life treats me and if I can get anyone out there to take a chance and go sailing.  Who knows what can happen when you start sailing the world. Live life and see what happens!!! Someone wise somewhere said some wise words that basically mean do cool stuff and live an interesting life!!! (Of course I think that this plan is cool and interesting). </p>
<p>The cost per week is less than you would pay for a hotel if you went on a vacation somewhere.  And this is way better.  Pretty much I’ll be sailing through some of the best sailing places on this side of the world.  Places that people dream of going if only they could.  Well you can!!!  All you have to do is take a little time off.  The price per week will be about $500 plus food and misc. expenses.  If you want to go for a longer time we can make it less.</p>
<p>Please start transferring money to my account right away!!!! </p>
<p>Your faithful narrator and fearless captain,</p>
<p>Lee</p>
<p>Tel: No Phone after about a week or two. 360 941-6028<br />
Email: <a href="mailto:sailin@sailin.net">sailin@sailin.net</a><br />
Web: <a href="http://www.sailin.net/">www.sailin.net</a></p></blockquote>
<p>Every time I get one of those I just wish and wish I had the time to take off and go. It is always lingering there in the back of my mind. If you need to get away and want to try something different, do this. Do it for me. Do it because I can&#8217;t right now.</p>
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		<title>Photos From A Reunion</title>
		<link>http://www.buttonmonkey.com/2008/10/04/photos-from-a-reunion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Oct 2008 03:24:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>teaton</dc:creator>
		
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<p><img src='http://www.buttonmonkey.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/img_2757.jpg' alt='Grandma' /></p>
<p><img src='http://www.buttonmonkey.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/img_2769.jpg' alt='Tim, my brother' /></p>
<p><img src='http://www.buttonmonkey.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/img_2792.jpg' alt='Victory Logan' /></p>
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		<title>To Sum It Up&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.buttonmonkey.com/2008/08/19/to-sum-it-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 18:10:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>teaton</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[This sums up how the new iPhone 3G is performing for me:

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This sums up how the new iPhone 3G is performing for me:</p>
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		<title>Not Dead</title>
		<link>http://www.buttonmonkey.com/2008/07/29/not-dead/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:46:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>teaton</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Contrary to popular belief, I am alive. Once upon a time I used to write here every day. My work life changed&#8212;I wrote less. My personal life changed&#8212;I stopped writing completely. One day I will start again. Until then, small doses can be found on Twitter (when it works) and Flickr.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Contrary to popular belief, I am alive. Once upon a time I used to write here every day. My work life changed&#8212;I wrote less. My personal life changed&#8212;I stopped writing completely. One day I will start again. Until then, small doses can be found on <a href="http://www.twitter.com/buttonmonkey/">Twitter</a> (when it works) and <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/buttonmonkey/">Flickr</a>.</p>
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		<title>Eat Rainbows and Poop Butterflies</title>
		<link>http://www.buttonmonkey.com/2008/04/15/eat-rainbows-and-poop-butterflies/</link>
		<comments>http://www.buttonmonkey.com/2008/04/15/eat-rainbows-and-poop-butterflies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2008 21:14:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nick Sacy
anna and i made a deal. poopoo in the potty = a disney princess dress for her.
Terry Eaton
you manipulative fucker!
Nick Sacy
i can&#8217;t believe i have to bribe my daughter to make her shit in the toilet
Terry Eaton
hahaha
I hope she poops in your shoe and asks for a My Little Pony
Nick Sacy
i&#8217;d give her one [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Nick Sacy</strong><br />
anna and i made a deal. poopoo in the potty = a disney princess dress for her.</p>
<p><strong>Terry Eaton</strong><br />
you manipulative fucker!</p>
<p><strong>Nick Sacy</strong><br />
i can&#8217;t believe i have to bribe my daughter to make her shit in the toilet</p>
<p><strong>Terry Eaton</strong><br />
hahaha<br />
I hope she poops in your shoe and asks for a My Little Pony</p>
<p><strong>Nick Sacy</strong><br />
i&#8217;d give her one for that. or, i&#8217;d buy her two dresses if she shits in her mom&#8217;s shoe</p>
<p><strong>Terry Eaton</strong><br />
￼:)</p>
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		<title>National Air and Space Museum: Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center</title>
		<link>http://www.buttonmonkey.com/2008/03/29/national-air-and-space-museum-steven-f-udvar-hazy-center/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Mar 2008 21:31:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[







The photos above are from our outing today. The SR-71 Blackbird is probably the closest thing I have ever seen to an alien spacecraft. I was hypnotized and photographed it from every angle. It doesn&#8217;t look like it should fly.
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<p><img src='http://www.buttonmonkey.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/img_2341.jpg' alt='SR-71 Blackbird' /></p>
<p><img src='http://www.buttonmonkey.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/img_2353.jpg' alt='SR-71 Blackbird' /></p>
<p><img src='http://www.buttonmonkey.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/img_2536.jpg' alt='Shuttle' /></p>
<p><img src='http://www.buttonmonkey.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/img_2366.jpg' alt='Shuttle' /></p>
<p><img src='http://www.buttonmonkey.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/img_2443.jpg' alt='Enola Gay' /></p>
<p><img src='http://www.buttonmonkey.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/img_2447.jpg' alt='Enola Gay' /></p>
<p><img src='http://www.buttonmonkey.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/img_2483.jpg' alt='Concorde' /></p>
<p>The photos above are from our outing today. The SR-71 Blackbird is probably the closest thing I have ever seen to an alien spacecraft. I was hypnotized and photographed it from every angle. It doesn&#8217;t look like it should fly.</p>
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		<title>Busted Face: Some Context</title>
		<link>http://www.buttonmonkey.com/2008/03/23/busted-face-some-context/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Mar 2008 23:03:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you ever find yourself on the PCH in Malibu and you see a nice place to pull over with a big pile of rocks that would allow you to traverse the fifteen or so feet from the roadway down to the beach but you are clad only in a pair of flip flops, heed [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you ever find yourself on the PCH in Malibu and you see a nice place to pull over with a big pile of rocks that would allow you to traverse the fifteen or so feet from the roadway down to the beach but you are clad only in a pair of flip flops, heed this advice: walk around the rocks, do not try to go down them.</p>
<p>Having grown up riding a skateboard, I always prided myself in my ability to roll with a fall and not hurt my head. However, when you find yourself in a situation where you are falling sideways, your head lower than your feet and your arm in a void between two largish rocks; you have no choice but to break the fall with your face.</p>
<p>The aftermath was a large &#8216;n&#8217; shaped chunk of flesh (torn more than halfway through to the underside of my mouth) under my nose and above my lip on the left-center part of my face. I am aware that most people would have opted for stitches. I chose the DIY method: cleaning the wound and gluing the top part back in place. (Each side was left open to allow anything that may have been missed in the cleaning a final chance to escape during the healing process.)</p>
<p>Lesson learned: Don&#8217;t play on big piles of rocks in flip flops.</p>
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