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	<title>Back in Bridgeport</title>
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		<title>A Grand Opening Has Me Opening Up</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/hammill/2010/11/18/a-grand-opening-has-me-opening-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Nov 2010 20:43:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Hammill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Readers, I&#8217;m going to admit to something that may make you think differently of me. I don&#8217;t tell everyone this, so you should feel special that I&#8217;m opening to you like this. I fought with myself over whether or not I should write this. I couldn&#8217;t sleep last night. I tossed and turned, wondering should [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Someone&#8217;s got Some Raking to Do</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/hammill/2010/11/17/someones-got-some-raking-to-do/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/hammill/2010/11/17/someones-got-some-raking-to-do/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Nov 2010 00:04:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Hammill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Before I left Bridgeport, I think the only time I used the word foliage was during a spelling bee. I still don&#8217;t use the word. But I sure did hear it a lot while I was in Los Angeles. Tell someone that you&#8217;re from Connecticut, and you&#8217;re bound to hear the following questions, &#8220;So, how [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Snow? Already?</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/hammill/2010/11/08/snow-already/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Nov 2010 21:21:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Hammill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[snow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[weather]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.ctnews.com/hammill/?p=188</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been asked numerous times since I&#8217;ve been back home if I was ready for the cold weather and more specifically, the snow. My usual response was, &#8220;I am not ready for the cold, but I actually sort of miss the snow, and won&#8217;t mind seeing it the first time.&#8221; This morning, I woke up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Voting Issues Everywhere I Go</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/hammill/2010/11/05/voting-issues-everywhere-i-go/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/hammill/2010/11/05/voting-issues-everywhere-i-go/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Nov 2010 00:40:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Hammill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bush]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[election day]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[foley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gore]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[malloy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[prop 8]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vote]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.ctnews.com/hammill/?p=184</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s Friday and we&#8217;re still not positive who our governor is. Or are we? Is it Malloy? Is it Foley? I don&#8217;t know. It&#8217;s difficult to keep up with this whole thing, even with my constant refreshing of the front page of CTPost.com and the Google Alerts flooding my inbox. I&#8217;ve heard all kinds of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Phone Call with the Man They Call &#8216;Baba Booey&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/hammill/2010/11/03/a-phone-call-with-the-man-they-call-baba-booey/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/hammill/2010/11/03/a-phone-call-with-the-man-they-call-baba-booey/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Nov 2010 19:30:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Hammill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.ctnews.com/hammill/?p=175</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[An added plus to being back home is once again living on Eastern Standard Time. The benefits of life on the EST are too great to throw together into a list. Let&#8217;s just say there&#8217;s a lot. Although football in the Pacific time zone may be heaven, I&#8217;m happy to trade it for the chance [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Q&amp;A with Doree Lewak, Author of &#8216;The Panic Years&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/hammill/2010/10/22/qa-with-doree-lewak-author-of-the-panic-years/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/hammill/2010/10/22/qa-with-doree-lewak-author-of-the-panic-years/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Oct 2010 23:03:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Hammill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[doree lewak]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[interviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[panic years]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[turning 30]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.ctnews.com/hammill/?p=172</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m continuing my efforts to turn to people much smarter than me for help with tackling turning 30. Yesterday, it was Colin Sokolowski, author of The Accidental Adult who was kind enough to exchange emails with us for some insight on the milestone age. Today, I turn to Doree Lewak, author of The Panic Years: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Q&amp;A with Colin Sokolowski, Author of &#8216;The Accidental Adult&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/hammill/2010/10/21/qa-with-colin-sokolowski-author-of-the-accidental-adult/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/hammill/2010/10/21/qa-with-colin-sokolowski-author-of-the-accidental-adult/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Oct 2010 22:27:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Hammill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Accidental Adult]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Colin Sokolowski]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[interview]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.ctnews.com/hammill/?p=164</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As I mentioned in a post earlier this week, I&#8217;m turning to people much smarter than me to help tackle this whole turning 30 thing. The first expert to offer some insight is the very funny Colin Sokolowski, author of The Accidental Adult: Essays and Advice for the Reluctantly Responsible and Marginally Mature, a book [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m a 30 Year Old Man. That Sounds Weird.</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/hammill/2010/10/21/im-a-30-year-old-man-that-sounds-weird/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/hammill/2010/10/21/im-a-30-year-old-man-that-sounds-weird/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Oct 2010 21:47:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Hammill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[30th birthday]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[flipside]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mario the baker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pinkberry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[yankees]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.ctnews.com/hammill/?p=161</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As of yesterday, the answer I will give when asked my age from this point until October 20, 2011 is &#8220;I&#8217;m 30 years old.&#8221;  I&#8217;m a 30 year-old man. Weird.I remember when 30 was the line for what was considered &#8220;old.&#8221; It was a punchline. The following are statements I&#8217;ve definitely made at some point [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Last Day of My 20s</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/hammill/2010/10/19/the-last-day-of-my-20s/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/hammill/2010/10/19/the-last-day-of-my-20s/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Oct 2010 20:40:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Hammill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This is it. Goodbye 20&#8242;s. To celebrate this event, I&#8217;m doing absolutely nothing. Nothing is better than spending my day staring at the walls of my bedroom, which is how I imagined this day would be. So I guess that&#8217;s a plus. Along with the nothing, I&#8217;m also in search of help from people who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Just When You Think You&#8217;ve Heard it All</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/hammill/2010/10/18/just-when-you-think-youve-heard-it-all/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/hammill/2010/10/18/just-when-you-think-youve-heard-it-all/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Oct 2010 18:49:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Hammill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[back to work]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fairfield public library]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Job Search]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[McIntyre Group]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.ctnews.com/hammill/?p=154</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[While there&#8217;s a shortage of jobs in today&#8217;s economy, there&#8217;s absolutely no shortage of advice. People like to be helpful, especially when a friend or loved one is in need. Since losing my job in December 2008, I&#8217;ve heard more advice then I can remember. Some of it was helpful. Some of it wasn&#8217;t. Over [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Five Days Away From 30</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/hammill/2010/10/15/five-days-away-from-30/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/hammill/2010/10/15/five-days-away-from-30/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Oct 2010 17:40:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Hammill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.ctnews.com/hammill/?p=152</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m entering the last weekend of my 20s and I&#8217;ve got nothing planned. Nothing. It&#8217;s tough to celebrate when you&#8217;re not really sure exactly what you&#8217;re celebrating. Last month when I realized I was a month away from turning 30, I actually had myself convinced that I wasn&#8217;t scared to turn 30. The reason: The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My New Office?</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/hammill/2010/10/15/my-new-office/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Oct 2010 16:49:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Hammill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fantasy baseball]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[general manager]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[job]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rbi baseball]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.ctnews.com/hammill/?p=147</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The much younger Tim Hammill dreamed of playing baseball for the New York Mets. Becoming a professional baseball player and playing for the team you grew up rooting for happens all the time, right? Around the age of 16, when I was batting ninth on a Kolbe Cathedral baseball team that racked up seven wins [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Taste of Los Angeles Comes to Town</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/hammill/2010/10/12/a-taste-of-los-angeles-comes-to-town/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/hammill/2010/10/12/a-taste-of-los-angeles-comes-to-town/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Oct 2010 23:02:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Hammill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Borders in Fairfield has become my home away from home office. With the free wi-fi, numerous tables and plenty of outlets to plug my laptop in, it&#8217;s an ideal spot to get some work done. Also, unlike the actual home office it lacks a bed and TV, making it impossible for me to lie around [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One Month Away from My 30th Birthday</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/hammill/2010/09/20/one-month-away-from-my-30th-birthday/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/hammill/2010/09/20/one-month-away-from-my-30th-birthday/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Sep 2010 23:21:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Hammill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[birthday]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[october]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[turning 30]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.ctnews.com/hammill/?p=138</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[October 20th, 2010. That day, which is now just one month away, was one of my greatest fears. That&#8217;s the day I turn 30. For the last year, all I thought about was that date and how little I&#8217;ve accomplished in my 29 years of life. 30! I&#8217;m going to be 30 and look at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Follow Up: As Promised, the House is a Little Less Patriotic</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/hammill/2010/09/20/follow-up-as-promised-the-house-is-a-little-less-patriotic/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/hammill/2010/09/20/follow-up-as-promised-the-house-is-a-little-less-patriotic/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Sep 2010 21:57:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Hammill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[decorations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[halloween]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mother]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.ctnews.com/hammill/?p=136</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Way back on May I informed you of my mother&#8217;s Memorial Day/4th of July/Summer decorations. These decorations included an Uncle Sam nutcracker, American flag place mats and stars and striped dish towels. When I woke up that May morning and found that we were up to our ears in red, white and blue, I asked [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Eventful Summer Comes to an End</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/hammill/2010/09/10/an-eventful-summer-comes-to-an-end/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/hammill/2010/09/10/an-eventful-summer-comes-to-an-end/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Sep 2010 18:06:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Hammill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.ctnews.com/hammill/?p=131</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m now prepared to say that summer is coming to a close. The unofficial end of summer, Labor Day came and went and I was not ready to call it fall. Football season began last night and that wasn&#8217;t enough for me to declare autumn&#8217;s arrival. This morning, as I stood on my porch, I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What are KIPPERS?</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/hammill/2010/09/02/what-are-kippers/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/hammill/2010/09/02/what-are-kippers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 22:50:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Hammill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Boomerang Generation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[KIPPERS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Parasite Single]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peter Pan Generation]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.ctnews.com/hammill/?p=127</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Do you know what KIPPERS are? It&#8217;s alright if you don&#8217;t know. This won&#8217;t be on the test. Give up? Okay, I&#8217;ll tell you. KIPPERS is an acronym, not a lefty who pitched out of the bullpen for the Pittsburgh Pirates in the 90s (that&#8217;s Bob Kipper), that stands for &#8220;Kids in Parents&#8217; Pockets Eroding [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Before Football Season Starts</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/hammill/2010/09/02/before-football-season-starts/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/hammill/2010/09/02/before-football-season-starts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:58:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Hammill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[College Football]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Football]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pro Football]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[USC]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.ctnews.com/hammill/?p=122</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Back in May when I began to set up shop in my new/old home I pulled out a pen and notebook and wrote down some goals for the summer. At the very top of that list I wrote the following &#8220;Find a full-time job before football season starts.&#8221; Three months ago, I&#8217;d say that was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I Think I Could Say I&#8217;ve Made Some Major Major Mistakes</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/hammill/2010/08/27/i-think-i-could-say-ive-made-some-major-major-mistakes/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/hammill/2010/08/27/i-think-i-could-say-ive-made-some-major-major-mistakes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Aug 2010 02:45:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Hammill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[20-somethings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alexandra Petri]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Major Major]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Miss Universe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York Times]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Washington Post]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I did not watch Miss Universe on Monday night. I can honestly say that I didn&#8217;t know it was on. If I did, I probably would&#8217;ve caught some portion of it; you know just to brush up on geography, of course. While I was busy watching Matt Leinart not complete passes in the preseason edition [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lots of Laughs for the Newer, Bigger Version of Me</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/hammill/2010/08/26/lots-of-laughs-for-the-newer-bigger-version-of-me/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/hammill/2010/08/26/lots-of-laughs-for-the-newer-bigger-version-of-me/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 19:01:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Hammill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grandmother]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gym]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Knicks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Losing weight]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My grandmother&#8217;s passing last week brought together my very big family. How big you ask? We&#8217;re talking nine children, 26 grandchildren and 29 great grandchildren. Yeah, that big. While sadness brought us all together, laughter could be heard throughout the events celebrating the life of my grandmother. That&#8217;s fitting, considering her knack for making all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One Last One-Liner. One Final Smile.</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/hammill/2010/08/20/one-last-one-liner-one-final-smile/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/hammill/2010/08/20/one-last-one-liner-one-final-smile/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Aug 2010 01:35:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Hammill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This past Saturday I went to Bridgeport Hospital with my father to visit my grandmother, Edna Hammill. Unfortunately, on this visit she was not very responsive to us. She was understandably tired and weak as the last three months of trips in and out of the hospital had taken their toll on her. After almost [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Been A Long Time</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/hammill/2010/08/17/its-been-a-long-time/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/hammill/2010/08/17/its-been-a-long-time/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 22:39:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Hammill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I shouldn&#8217;t have left you. (Yes, I just went Rakim on you.) It really has been a long time since I last posted. Sorry. I&#8217;m sure some of you were worried sick about me, since the last post I wrote was about  my frustrations from the job search and that was well over two weeks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Some Frustrations From the Job Search</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/hammill/2010/07/29/some-frustrations-from-the-job-search/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/hammill/2010/07/29/some-frustrations-from-the-job-search/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 11:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Hammill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[craigslist]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[groundhog day]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Job Search]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[missed connections]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.ctnews.com/hammill/?p=101</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Every day I find myself searching for that ever-elusive job on the same eight or nine websites. I&#8217;ve got alerts set up, RSS readers, everything these job sites offer I&#8217;m into. If they decided to go old school with messenger pigeons or beeper pages I&#8217;d opt into those too. Thus far, my search has proved [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The High School Reunion I Almost Didn&#8217;t Go to</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/hammill/2010/07/27/the-high-school-reunion-i-almost-didnt-go-to/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/hammill/2010/07/27/the-high-school-reunion-i-almost-didnt-go-to/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 18:27:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Hammill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bridgeport]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[high school reunion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[kolbe cathedral]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Madison Ave]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mike tyson]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Saturday night, Kolbe Cathedral&#8217;s classes of 1997 through 2002 got together at Angelo&#8217;s Pizza on Madison Ave. for a reunion. Since I&#8217;m a graduate of the class of &#8217;98, I was there too. But I almost didn&#8217;t make it. I spent the three weeks leading up to the event trying to convince myself to go. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Daily Beast: Get America Back to Work</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/hammill/2010/07/19/the-daily-beast-get-america-back-to-work/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/hammill/2010/07/19/the-daily-beast-get-america-back-to-work/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 18:56:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Hammill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tax-cut]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Daily Beast]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Unemployed]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Daily Beast released a manifesto today put together by sixteen notable economists and historians demanding urgent action on unemployment.  This, of course, caught my attention because I&#8217;m one of the 6.8 million who have been out of work for 27 weeks or more. While I&#8217;m not familiar with any of the sixteen notable people [...]]]></description>
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		<title>At the Movies</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/hammill/2010/07/16/at-the-movies/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/hammill/2010/07/16/at-the-movies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 20:54:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Hammill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[demolition man]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[inception]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[leonardo dicaprio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Los Angeles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[movie theaters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[movies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sandra bullock]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stadium seating]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stratford]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trumbull]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In 1993 my brother and I went to see Demolition Man starring Sylvester Stallone, Wesley Snipes and Sandra Bullock. The futuristic action film was entertaining and still is when you catch it on cable, but more memorable than the actual film was where we were watching it &#8212; in Bridgeport. For the first time, &#8220;let&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two Months Later</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/hammill/2010/07/15/two-months-later/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/hammill/2010/07/15/two-months-later/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 00:45:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Hammill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bridgeport]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carlos Beltran]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gym]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HDTV]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Los Angeles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York Mets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yoga]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Exactly two months ago I jumped on a plane and said goodbye to Los Angeles to begin a new chapter in my life here in Bridgeport, the place where it all started. Over the last sixty days a lot of things have changed but somethings remain the same. Here&#8217;s a little breakdown of what&#8217;s new [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Taylor Lautner and I Have in Common</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/hammill/2010/07/02/what-taylor-lautner-and-i-have-in-common/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/hammill/2010/07/02/what-taylor-lautner-and-i-have-in-common/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jul 2010 11:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Hammill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Matt Lauer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taylor Lautner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Twilight]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vampires]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Taylor Lautner and I have something in common. If you don&#8217;t know who Taylor Lautner is, I&#8217;d say you&#8217;ve somehow spent the last two years of your life successfully avoiding vampire movie enthusiasts and females between the ages of 9 and 29. If that&#8217;s you, I&#8217;ll catch you up to speed &#8212; He&#8217;s the dude [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Around Here I&#8217;m the IT Guy</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/hammill/2010/06/30/around-here-im-the-it-guy/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/hammill/2010/06/30/around-here-im-the-it-guy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 21:45:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Hammill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IT Guy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tag Sale]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been over a month since I returned home and I&#8217;ve yet to find a job. Well, actually, I do sort of have a job. My job is the IT guy for my house. When something that has a plug or battery isn&#8217;t doing what it should be doing, I&#8217;m the guy who gets the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m Looking at You, LeBron</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/hammill/2010/06/30/im-looking-at-you-lebron/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/hammill/2010/06/30/im-looking-at-you-lebron/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 19:41:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Hammill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Knicks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lakers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LeBron James]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Los Angeles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NBA]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[LeBron James needs to come to New York. I&#8217;m not saying that because I think he&#8217;ll become the global icon and the NBA champ that he dreams of being if he comes to the Big Apple. How would I even know that? I&#8217;m saying King James needs to come to the Knicks because I&#8217;m selfish. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Driving on June 25th Proves to be Difficult, Again</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/hammill/2010/06/25/driving-on-june-25/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/hammill/2010/06/25/driving-on-june-25/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 22:45:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Hammill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brazil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Los Angeles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Madison Ave]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael Jackson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pequonnock St]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Portugal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[St. Augustine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tornado]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World Cup]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For me, and possibly for many of you, June 25, 2009 is one of those &#8220;I remember where I was and what I was doing&#8221; days. There aren&#8217;t many of those kind of days. ESPN just did a documentary on June 17, 1994, that&#8217;s another one of those days for me &#8212; Along with every [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Earthquake?</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/hammill/2010/06/23/earthquake/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/hammill/2010/06/23/earthquake/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 20:28:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Hammill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Earthquakes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New Haven]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Toronto]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Reason number three on my list of &#8220;Nine Reasons I&#8217;m Happy to be Back in Bridgeport&#8221; was &#8220;No more earthquakes.&#8221; After looking at the front page of CTPost.com just a few minutes ago, I guess maybe that was inaccurate. Apparently, my move from southern California to southern Connecticut did not rescue me from the threat [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If I Lived in Italy</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/hammill/2010/06/23/if-i-lived-in-italy/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/hammill/2010/06/23/if-i-lived-in-italy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 16:23:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Hammill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Italy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reuters]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters posted a cleverly titled story today, &#8220;No Country for Young Men&#8221; about the struggles of young Italians.  We thought things were bad here, with so many young people still living at home, but things seem to be worse over in Italy. According to the story, &#8220;Nearly a third of people in their early 30s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Moving Home Brings on Angry Comments</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/hammill/2010/06/22/moving-home-brings-on-angry-comments/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/hammill/2010/06/22/moving-home-brings-on-angry-comments/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 21:36:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Hammill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Angry Comments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[boomerangers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Boston.com]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google alerts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grown Ups]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Huffington Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PR]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Once I started this blog, I decided it would be wise to create a Google alert to keep tabs on all the stories written about people like me who have moved back home. That was a wise decision by me because I&#8217;m inundated with Google alerts. Do you know why? Because we are so hot [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Running into Familiar Faces</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/hammill/2010/06/17/running-into-familiar-faces/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/hammill/2010/06/17/running-into-familiar-faces/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 00:54:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Hammill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Facebook]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Westfield Trumbull]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wikipedia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[XBOX]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I walked around the mall, what we used to call the &#8220;Trumbull Mall&#8221; but what is now officially called Westfield Trumbull (Look it&#8217;s even got its own Wikipedia page), not because I needed to pick up a Twilight t-shirt from Hot Topic or because I was craving a footlong sandwich from Blimpie, although I did [...]]]></description>
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		<title>World Cup, Brazil Fans Just Getting Started</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/hammill/2010/06/15/world-cup-brazil-fans-just-getting-started/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/hammill/2010/06/15/world-cup-brazil-fans-just-getting-started/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 23:20:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Hammill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brazil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bridgeport]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Madison Ave]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World Cup]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In an earlier post I listed nine reasons I&#8217;m happy to be back in Bridgeport. Number six on that list was the World Cup. My two previous homes, Los Angeles and Boston didn&#8217;t offer the World Cup-viewing atmosphere that I grew accustomed to here in the North End. While both of those cities offer huge international [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why are You Back in Bridgeport?</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/hammill/2010/06/07/why-are-you-back-in-bridgeport/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/hammill/2010/06/07/why-are-you-back-in-bridgeport/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 23:02:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Hammill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t been back in Bridgeport for very long, 22 days to be exact, but I&#8217;ve already run into a lot of familiar faces. I&#8217;d say I&#8217;ve run into a lot of old friends, but I wouldn&#8217;t classify everyone I&#8217;ve had the pleasure of participating in small talk with as &#8220;friends.&#8221; I wouldn&#8217;t classify these [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Memorial Day</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/hammill/2010/05/31/happy-memorial-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 May 2010 19:39:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Hammill</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Living with parents]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Memorial Day]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As I mentioned in my first post, one of the things I&#8217;d cover in this blog was getting used to my new roommates. My new roommates, of course, are mom and dad. On Friday, I was reminded of one of my mother&#8217;s unique qualities &#8212; she has decorations for EVERY holiday. I mean every single [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nine Reasons I&#8217;m Happy to be Back in Bridgeport</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/hammill/2010/05/28/nine-reasons-im-happy-to-be-back-in-bridgeport/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/hammill/2010/05/28/nine-reasons-im-happy-to-be-back-in-bridgeport/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 May 2010 13:45:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Hammill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Leaving Los Angeles was very difficult. I loved it there. There are so many reasons why I&#8217;d highly recommend living in LA. I&#8217;d be happy to offer some of them to anyone who&#8217;s considering making the move. LA&#8217;s not perfect though. Not even close. As tough as it was to say goodbye to the City [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Starting Over in a Not-so-New Location</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/hammill/2010/05/27/starting-over/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/hammill/2010/05/27/starting-over/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 15:45:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Hammill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Boomerang Generation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bridgeport]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Job Search]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Recession]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A change of scenery can be a good way to start over. That&#8217;s what this blog aims to be about &#8212; starting over in a new location. This new location, however, isn&#8217;t exactly new to me. I lived the first 17 years of my life here in Bridgeport. After 12 years away, living in Los [...]]]></description>
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