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		<title>Sweet Tea</title>
		<link>http://deanbarlow.com/2012/05/sweet-tea/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 02:31:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My favorite sweet tea is the sweet tea from McDonald&#8217;s. I love the fact that I can get a large sweet tea from McDonald&#8217;s for only one dollar. The thing that bothers me about it though, is the thought of exactly how many calories are IN that large sweet tea? I just found out that [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>My favorite sweet tea is the sweet tea from McDonald&#8217;s. I love the fact that I can get a large sweet tea from McDonald&#8217;s for only one dollar. The thing that bothers me about it though, is the thought of exactly how many calories are IN that large sweet tea? I just found out that there are 280 calories in a large McDonald&#8217;s sweet tea. There are 15 calories in a teaspoon of sugar. So that means that there are almost 19 teaspoonfuls of sugar in a large sweet tea! </p>
<p>When I go to any other place that sells sweet tea, it is not nearly as sweet. In fact a lot of the times I order a sweet tea and I would have to say that the tea that I get had no sweetener in it at all. So I end up dumping three or four sweetener packets into the tea.</p>
<p>I wish that McDonald&#8217;s would sell a sweet tea that had a sugar substitute in it. I like the Truvia and the Splenda sweeteners, and if they would use those sweeteners in their sweet tea I would not be so worried about the calorie count in it. Now that I know how many spoonfuls of sugar there are in their sweet tea I might start ordering the tea unsweetened and just add my own Truvia or Splenda. I gotta watch my weight!</p>
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		<title>Here&#8217;s your sign</title>
		<link>http://deanbarlow.com/2012/05/heres-your-sign/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 00:58:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever noticed that in rural areas that most houses do not have any address signs other than a number on the rural mailbox at the end of the driveway? And sometimes that number is written on the side of the mail box that is facing the opposite way of regular oncoming traffic? That [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Have you ever noticed that in rural areas that most houses do not have any <a href="http://www.mailboxandbeyond.com/" title="address signs" target="_blank">address signs</a> other than a number on the rural mailbox at the end of the driveway? And sometimes that number is written on the side of the mail box that is facing the opposite way of regular oncoming traffic? That never made a lot of sense to me, because that would indicate that the rural mail carrier is driving on the wrong side of the road, and it seems to me that is illegal &#8211; even for mail carriers!</p>
<p>To make matters even more confusing, sometimes the mail box is on the opposite road of the house that is receiving the mail, and that makes it even more difficult to find someone&#8217;s house if you don&#8217;t already know where you are going! That is why I think that every rural house should have an <a href="http://www.mailboxandbeyond.com/AddressPlaques.html" title="address plaque" target="_blank">address plaque</a> at the end of their driveway with their entire house number clearly visible from both directions.</p>
<p>Properly placed <a href="http://www.mailboxandbeyond.com/AddressPlaques.html" title="address plaques" target="_blank">address plaques</a> are not just to make life easier for visitors coming for a social visit, they are important because in rural areas it can be difficult for rescue services to respond to an emergency if the location is not clearly marked. Every house should have clear identification, down by the road, and on the house itself. It could save a life!</p>
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		<title>I think it is more widespread than imagined</title>
		<link>http://deanbarlow.com/2012/03/i-think-it-is-more-widespread-than-imagined/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2012 15:32:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dean</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Automotive]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few years ago a good friend of mine died of some form of cancer. At the time no one told me exactly what the cancer was, but I&#8217;m beginning to think it was Mesothelioma because he ran a cement company. I&#8217;m thinking that because I just found out that there is asbestos in insulation, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A few years ago a good friend of mine died of some form of cancer. At the time no one told me exactly what the cancer was, but I&#8217;m beginning to think it was  Mesothelioma because he ran a cement company. I&#8217;m thinking that because I just found out that there is asbestos in insulation, roof shingles, cement, brake linings, flooring products, and textiles. The &#8220;textiles&#8221; part really worries me &#8211; because &#8220;textiles&#8221; generally refers to fabrics. Does that mean carpets and fabrics?</p>
<p>I really didn&#8217;t realize that asbestos was in so many products that we come into contact with on a daily basis! And I just found out that the symptoms often don&#8217;t surface until as many as 30 to 50 years after the exposure to the asbestos! </p>
<p>With the baby boomers were born, there was a massive housing explosion that created a lot of these products to be put into the general population. I think that the repercussions are yet to be fully seen. </p>
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		<title>Everybody needs medical insurance</title>
		<link>http://deanbarlow.com/2012/02/everybody-needs-medical-insurance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 00:11:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Several years ago there was a television show that I liked to watch called &#8220;30 days.&#8221; One of the episodes was about the producer and his wife trying to live on minimum wage for thirty days. As part of the deal they had to rent an apartment, furnish it, find jobs, get to and from [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Several years ago there was a television show that I liked to watch called &#8220;30 days.&#8221; One of the episodes was about the producer and his wife trying to live on minimum wage for thirty days. As part of the deal they had to rent an apartment, furnish it, find jobs, get to and from those jobs and make ends meet for an entire month. One of the things that had to do was act as if they had no <a href="http://www.healthcareinsurance.me/">medical insurance</a> during that period of time.</p>
<p>There were a couple of times during that time period that they did go to the hospital&#8217;s emergency room, and because they had no <a href="http://www.healthcareinsurance.me/">medical insurance</a> they ended with a huge bill that they were going to have to try to make payment arrangements on. I was quite impressed with the television show and how that episode in particular highlighted the need for everyone to have <a href="http://www.healthcareinsurance.me/">medical insurance</a> because medical care is very expensive, and beyond the reach of many of the people in the working class.</p>
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		<title>Cutting back on caffeine</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:04:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My wife&#8217;s doctor has told her that it would be a really good idea for her to eliminate caffeine from her diet. She has varicose veins and a sleeping disorder, and her doctor said that caffeine would make both of those problems worse. So over the past couple of weeks my wife has changed her [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>My wife&#8217;s doctor has told her that it would be a really good idea for her to eliminate caffeine from her diet. She has varicose veins and a sleeping disorder, and her doctor said that caffeine would make both of those problems worse. So over the past couple of weeks my wife has changed her routine from two cups of tea daily to one cup, and now she has switched over to decaffeinated tea. Unfortunately she has been suffering from migraine headaches over the past couple of years and the caffeine was helping to treat those migraines. </p>
<p>I asked our pharmacist if there was any over the counter treatment for migraines that does not have caffeine in it, and he said no there wasn&#8217;t. I think maybe we should change her decaf tea to half-decaf and half regular for a while and see if that helps. </p>
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		<title>What do you mean it&#8217;s nothing to worry about?</title>
		<link>http://deanbarlow.com/2012/01/what-do-you-mean-its-nothing-to-worry-about/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 02:09:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My wife has been having a lot of bad headaches lately and she finally convinced her doctor to order an MRA and MRI to see if there is anything physical in her head that might be causing the headaches. She told me that the headaches feel like someone was stabbing her in her head with [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>My wife has been having a lot of bad headaches lately and she finally convinced her doctor to order an MRA and MRI to see if there is anything physical in her head that might be causing the headaches. She told me that the headaches feel like someone was stabbing her in her head with an ice pick.</p>
<p>Well, the results came back in that she has a small anuerysm in her brain, but the doctor said that it is so small that it is nothing to worry about. Well, I guess I&#8217;ll be doing some research on my own to see why the doctor would say that. I thought that all anuerysms were something to worry about!</p>
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		<title>Watch what you eat</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 01:55:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some people are just so stupid it is hard to believe. I was going through old newspapers and noticed a headline about people getting sick from eating a homemade stew. The story was that an ambulance had been dispatched to a residence because &#8220;a person was sick.&#8221; When the ambulance arrived at the house, there [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Some people are just so stupid it is hard to believe.  I was going through old newspapers and noticed a headline about people getting sick from eating a homemade stew.  The story was that an ambulance had been dispatched to a residence because &#8220;a person was sick.&#8221;  When the ambulance arrived at the house, there were a LOT of people sick, and they were all transported to the hospital.  I don&#8217;t know how many ambulances actually were used, I just know that they all ended up at the hospital.  They were calling it a &#8220;mystery illness.&#8221;  Well, it turned out that the people took ill because they had all eaten a stew that was made with some herbs picked from in front of the house that had been sprayed with some kind of pesticide and was not properly washed before used in the food.  I can&#8217;t believe that people are so stupid as to use pesticide on their crops and then not wash it off!  To give them the benefit of the doubt, maybe they didn&#8217;t KNOW that pesticide had been used, but still for goodness sake you should wash your food before eating it, a dog could have passed by and peed on it!</p>
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		<title>So many choices</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 22:53:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I never realized when Lisa told me that she needed to get a couple of sets of scrubs for her new job, that buying scrubs would involve so many different choices! I thought that I would surprise her with a pair or two for a Christmas gift, but when I went online to http://www.blueskyscrubs.com/categories/Scrubs/ and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I never realized when Lisa told me that she needed to get a couple of sets of scrubs for her new job, that <a href="http://www.blueskyscrubs.com/"> buying scrubs</a> would involve so many different choices! I thought that I would surprise her with a pair or two for a Christmas gift, but when I went online to <a href="http://www.blueskyscrubs.com/categories/Scrubs/">http://www.blueskyscrubs.com/categories/Scrubs/</a> and saw all of the different ones to choose from I started to think that maybe the best thing to do for her is to give her a gift card to buy her own.</p>
<p>I think it is great that there ARE so many different patterns to choose from; it makes a visit to the hospital or to the doctor less frightening for children, and could be a conversation starter for other folks. It certainly lets the patients know that the nurses and doctors have a personality and a sense of humor! It&#8217;s good to know that the people in charge of your health care have a sense of humor! Makes the whole process a little less intimidating, you know what I mean?</p>
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		<title>I like to read other people&#8217;s blogs</title>
		<link>http://deanbarlow.com/2011/11/i-like-to-read-other-peoples-blogs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Nov 2011 22:51:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One thing that I&#8217;ve been doing lately is spending more time on the Internet, reading other people&#8217;s blogs.  My sister sent me a bunch of  links to her favorite blogs to read, and I&#8217;ve been reading them.  It really is very interesting and fun to see what other people are up to, what they are [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>One thing that I&#8217;ve been doing lately is spending more time on the Internet, reading other people&#8217;s blogs.  My sister sent me a bunch of  links to her favorite blogs to read, and I&#8217;ve been reading them.  It really is very interesting and fun to see what other people are up to, what they are thinking and writing about.  I&#8217;ve even left a few comments on some of the blogs that I&#8217;ve read here and there.  I&#8217;ve also found some interesting sites about nature and science and news.  I think I could easily spend most of my day on the Internet, just reading and absorbing all of the awesome information that is out there!  I find myself clicking on links, clicking on more links, clicking on more links and before long I realize that I can&#8217;t even to remember what the first article was that I was reading about!  Very entertaining!</p>
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		<title>Urban legend</title>
		<link>http://deanbarlow.com/2011/09/urban-legend/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Sep 2011 23:03:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have loved Disney World ever since it opened. I was young teenager when it first opened. If I recall correctly my parents took the entire family down to Florida for Christmas vacation first year that it did open. That was my first experience with a large theme amusement park and I thought it was [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have loved Disney World ever since it opened. I was young teenager when it first opened. If I recall correctly my parents took the entire family down to Florida for Christmas vacation first year that it did open. That was my first experience with a large theme amusement park and I thought it was absolutely fantastic.</p>
<p>For that particular vacation I think my parents made a mistake by taking us to Disney World first because they also took us to other places such as Sea World, Cypress Gardens, and Busch Gardens during the same vacation.</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t know how it ever became an urban legend that Walt Disney&#8217;s body had been frozen using <a href="http://www.princetoncryo.com/">cryogenic equipment</a> and was being stored on one of the Disney properties, but it was something I truly believed was correct! I was quite surprised and to be perfectly honest, but this appointment when I learned earlier today that story was simply an urban legend. Walt Disney was in fact cremated and the first known case of anyone being cryogenically preserved was a couple of months after Walt Disney&#8217;s remains were cremated.</p>
<p>To be perfectly honest I was rather disappointed when I learned that was an urban legend.  I rather thought it was a romantic notion that the night in some future decade been brought back to life somehow!</p>
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