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		<title>Recreation &#8211; The Simple Things I&#8217;m Forgetting</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2009 20:02:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nat Finn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Social Media, SEO, Copywriting, Analytics, wanting a book published&#8230;I think of little else. I keep tellin&#8217; a buddy of mine that balance of work and recreation is needed in life. If you don&#8217;t do both you&#8217;ll have neither. My buddy calls my advice hypocritical. There&#8217;s a point in that logic. I keep preachin&#8217; it but [...]]]></description>
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<p>Social Media, SEO, Copywriting, Analytics, wanting a book published&#8230;I think of little else.</p>
<p>I keep tellin&#8217; a buddy of mine that balance of work and recreation is needed in life. If you don&#8217;t do both you&#8217;ll have neither. My buddy calls my advice hypocritical. There&#8217;s a point in that logic.</p>
<p>I keep preachin&#8217; it but I never end up doing it. Playin&#8217; &#8217;round and lookin&#8217; up stuff for friends on Twitter, givin&#8217; them samples of music I&#8217;ll listen to makes me realize why I&#8217;ve been listening to music lately:  escapism. I&#8217;m not enjoying it. </p>
<p>I want to enjoy my days a little more. Moreso than that, I want to enjoy all aspects of my day. I want to have this kind of fun:</p>
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<p>Mindless, entertaining fun. I hear this at work to keep my nerves peaceful and to keep office chatter from ears, but I haven&#8217;t been enjoying it. Insert jokes on musical taste all you want, but the point is they&#8217;re having fun. I&#8217;m not. It&#8217;s because I&#8217;m not balanced.</p>
<p>I was gonna exercise and visit friends. But then I was going to blow it off so I could do HTML training. But then I&#8217;ve been watchin&#8217; bad TV because I&#8217;m procrasting. So, instead of doin&#8217; all the good things in my day, I&#8217;m doing nothing.</p>
<p>To hell with that. I&#8217;m going on a walk. It&#8217;s up to 37 degrees. I see pavement n roads n signs of grass out there for the first time since December. It ain&#8217;t Ft. Myers, Margaritaville, but it&#8217;s the best I have to work with. I&#8217;ll be damned if I ain&#8217;t takin&#8217; full advantage of it. Besides, I ain&#8217;t seen my friends since before Christmas.</p>
<p>I need to do it all.</p>
<p>Now where the hell are my guitars?</p>

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