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		<title>Got a Problem?  Get in Line.</title>
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There&#8217;s a big risk I will start sounding like Lewis Black in this post.  I have had it up to here with ho-hum service providers who haven&#8217;t felt a sense of urgency since the last time they stood in a slow fast food lane.
It&#8217;s one thing when the waiting customers are adults.  Another matter altogether [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I Get It</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ 

This week someone thought they had to explain to me that &#8216;kickin&#8217; it&#8217; meant hanging out.  Thanks.  Gee, I thought people were actually going out back and kicking something.  Each other?  A ball?  Please.
One thing I know about &#8212; is &#8216;kickin&#8217; it.&#8217;  Chillaxin&#8217; &#8211; I&#8217;m pretty good at that, too. I&#8217;m also not bad at hangin&#8217; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Deep Thoughts in the Garden</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This picture has absolutely nothing to do with this post.  You see, the post was going to be about gardening &#8211; about how some people are good gardeners because they can commit to consistent effort and other people are, well, like me.  But I write about what I&#8217;m thinking about and what I&#8217;m thinking about [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jwilberg.com/2010/07/deep-thoughts-in-the-garden/</link>
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		<title>Good Enough</title>
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A project is a thing of beauty in your mind&#8217;s eye.  It&#8217;s the implementation of it that&#8217;s the bear.  Yesterday&#8217;s project was repainting our sauna.   It looks like a little house &#8211; about 9&#8242; by 15&#8242; with a peak that you need an extension ladder to reach. 
The project started out hopeful and cheery like most [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jwilberg.com/2010/07/good-enough/</link>
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		<title>Hello.  Can I Come In?</title>
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For years, I&#8217;ve complained about human services agencies with locked front doors.  Agencies that require you to push the little doorbell, then talk to the receptionist, then get buzzed in, and then sign in.  One agency I frequent even asks me to include my license plate # on the sign-in sheet.  When they let me [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jwilberg.com/2010/06/hello-can-i-come-in/</link>
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		<title>Girls Rule!</title>
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I&#8217;m not saying sexism is dead, but it&#8217;s been a long time since I walked into a meeting feeling apologetic because I didn&#8217;t bring the coffee pot.  This is a bit embarrassing but I actually had a secretarial job once that included not only making the coffee but having a hot cuppa joe in my hand [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jwilberg.com/2010/06/girls-rule/</link>
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		<title>Show of Force</title>
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If you&#8217;ve got a lot of fire power, it&#8217;s hard to resist the urge to show it off.  Hence, the Blue Angels and the Thunderbirds and the whole concept of Shock and Awe which I&#8217;m kind of ashamed to admit I&#8217;ve used in various efforts to try to beat out competition for one thing or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jwilberg.com/2010/06/show-of-force/</link>
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		<title>Pssst! I Know Why You Can&#8217;t Get Good Board Members</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yippee!!  You&#8217;ve got a live one.  Someone who actually wants to be on your board of directors.  What&#8217;s next?  Wining and dining?  Flowers?  Nope.  If you&#8217;re like many nonprofits, you&#8217;re going to spoil the mood with an application and an interview, maybe a couple of each, with references.
I hate this.  I figure if I&#8217;m going to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jwilberg.com/2010/06/pssst-i-know-why-you-cant-get-good-board-members/</link>
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		<title>Pants on the Ground</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My son is trying to get some traction in his life/work/career.  He&#8217;s 23, Nicaraguan, and wants to be an actor.  He&#8217;s also kind of short which hasn&#8217;t helped his acting life but that&#8217;s beside the point.  Right now he&#8217;s working on a landscaping crew with 8 or 9 other guys, all African-American, most of whom come [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jwilberg.com/2010/05/pants-on-the-ground/</link>
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		<title>Framed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ever been framed?  I don&#8217;t mean framed as in having a nice portrait done. I mean framed as in being falsely accused of an offense.  I have.  And it&#8217;s not a nice experience. Here&#8217;s what happened. 
Several years ago, I was the planning director for a large organization looking to hire a community organizer to work [...]]]></description>
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