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	<title>When Paranoia Is Not Enough... Dementia!</title>
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		<title>September&#8217;s First Unnecessary Q&amp;A</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Because I&#8217;ve had bad luck finding oddball questions recently, I&#8217;m changing the format of the weekly Q&#038;A a little. From now on, the first four questions will be static questions repeated each week. Only the fifth question will vary from week to week. Q: What really pissed you off this week? A: Incompetent Weather Forecasting. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.darkwysteria.com/Dementia/?p=1738</link>
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		<title>Cryptogram Poem:  Eighth Stanza</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Solve the cryptograms below to find the clues for thirteen words. Solve each clue to find thirteen specific words. Place the thirteen words in the proper spaces below to create the eighth stanza of a poem. Check out the Ultimate Solutions Page for the solution when you think you have it. (All poems on this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.darkwysteria.com/Dementia/?p=1718</link>
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		<title>Can Q&amp;A Get Any More Bizzare?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Q: If you were an operating system, which one would you be? A: Windows, of course. Both Unix and Linux are slim and problem free &#8212; that doesn&#8217;t describe me at all. Mac OS X is classy, sexy, and all the cerebral, with-it people love and adore it &#8212; that&#8217;s way out of my league. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.darkwysteria.com/Dementia/?p=1714</link>
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		<title>Cryptogram Poem:  Seventh Stanza</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Solve the cryptograms below to find the clues for thirteen words. Solve each clue to find thirteen specific words. Place the thirteen words in the proper spaces below to create the seventh stanza of a poem. Check out the Ultimate Solutions Page for the solution when you think you have it. (All poems on this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.darkwysteria.com/Dementia/?p=1695</link>
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		<title>Ridiculous Questions and Ludicrous Answers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Q: What 10 songs and/or what 10 movies would you want with you if you get stranded on a deserted island? A: Well&#8230; I wouldn&#8217;t want any. Because if I&#8217;m on a deserted island then my iPod, iTouch, iPad, laptop, DVD and/or MP3 player would run out of power within the first few hours of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.darkwysteria.com/Dementia/?p=1707</link>
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		<title>Cryptogram Poem:  Sixth Stanza</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Solve the cryptograms below to find the clues for eleven words. Solve each clue to find eleven specific words. Place the eleven words in the proper spaces below to create the sixth stanza of a poem. Check out the Ultimate Solutions Page for the solution when you think you have it. (All poems on this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.darkwysteria.com/Dementia/?p=1691</link>
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		<title>Friday the 13th Q&amp;A&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Q: Potato chips or Tortilla chips? A: This came from the ever-amusing wheezywaiter (Youtube), his own bad self. I don&#8217;t really have anything bad against tortilla chips, but it is definitely potato chips FTW! Plain, simple, crisp, and salty &#8212; they&#8217;re the best. You can use them with dips AND salsa and they come in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.darkwysteria.com/Dementia/?p=1681</link>
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		<title>Cryptogram Poem:  Fifth Stanza</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Solve the cryptograms below to find the clues for twelve words. Solve each clue to find twelve specific words. Place the twelve words in the proper spaces below to create the fifth stanza of a poem. Check out the Ultimate Solutions Page for the solution when you think you have it. (All poems on this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.darkwysteria.com/Dementia/?p=1686</link>
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		<title>A Sick Bunch of Questions from A Sicko Blogger.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Q: What does a novel need to have in order to make you really get in to it? A: I have to have a main protagonist (preferably male) who is likable. He (or she) has to be honorable and &#8220;nice&#8221; &#8212; someone good that you want to succeed or win. I don&#8217;t care if they [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.darkwysteria.com/Dementia/?p=1671</link>
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		<title>A Quick and Whiney Post&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just wanted to let everyone who is excitingly (]]></description>
		<link>http://www.darkwysteria.com/Dementia/?p=1667</link>
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		<title>July&#8217;s Final Glory (From a Q&amp;A Point of View)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Q: What&#8217;s your favorite Summer food? A: I don&#8217;t have a favorite Summer food, actually. I like ribs, but I eat those year-round. It&#8217;s true that most people consider them Summer food and holiday food (Memorial Day, 4th of July, Labor Day), but I do not. Ask me about my favorite Fall food in a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.darkwysteria.com/Dementia/?p=1656</link>
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		<title>Cryptogram Poem:  Fourth Stanza</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Solve the cryptograms below to find the clues for fifteen words. Solve each clue to find fifteen specific words. Place the fifteen words in the proper spaces below to create the fourth stanza of a poem. Check out the Ultimate Solutions Page for the solution when you think you have it. (All poems on this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.darkwysteria.com/Dementia/?p=1647</link>
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		<title>Hot Questions / Muggy Answers for a Similar Kind of July!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Q:  What are five things that get you through the summer? A:  Air conditioning &#8212; number one!  Cans of Spiders-Die-Like-The-Filthy-Pigs-That-You-Are Bug Spray (lots of them) &#8212; number two!  Islands as Sanctuary &#8212; number three!  Multiple showers throughout the day &#8212; number four!  Lack of clothing by others as titillating scenery enhancement &#8212; number five! Q: [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.darkwysteria.com/Dementia/?p=1633</link>
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		<title>Cryptogram Poem:  Third Stanza</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Solve the cryptograms below to find the clues for fifteen words.  Solve each clue to find fifteen specific words.  Place the fifteen words in the proper spaces below to create the third stanza of a poem.  Check out the Ultimate Solutions Page for the solution when you think you have it. (All poems on this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.darkwysteria.com/Dementia/?p=1619</link>
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		<title>Halfway Thru July With More Half-baked Questions and Under-Done Answers.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Q: What Internet innovation or enhancement would you like to see implemented? A: I&#8217;m on a lot of sites such as Flickr, Twitter, Youtube, Boardgame Geeks, CNN, weather, on and on. I go to these sites every day. But they are all over the place. This site doesn&#8217;t display well in Safari, but looks fabulous [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.darkwysteria.com/Dementia/?p=1599</link>
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		<title>Cryptogram Poem:  Second Stanza</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Solve the cryptograms below to find the clues for fourteen words. Solve each clue to find fourteen specific words. Place the fourteen words in the proper spaces below to create the second stanza of a poem. Check out the Ultimate Solutions Page for the solution when you think you have it. (All poems on this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.darkwysteria.com/Dementia/?p=1608</link>
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		<title>July Weather Starts Out Lame &#8212; Just Like These Questions!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Q: What&#8217;s a habit that you used to have that was almost definitive of you and now you now longer have? A: For decades, I was known by friends and co-workers as THE &#8220;Sweater Queen&#8221;. My bosses risked HR censure continuously by being politically incorrect about it. Even in summer I wore sweaters &#8212; usually [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.darkwysteria.com/Dementia/?p=1576</link>
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		<title>Cryptogram Poem:  First Stanza</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Solve the cryptograms below to find the clues for fifteen words. Solve each clue to find fifteen specific words. Place the fifteen words in the correct order in the spaces below to create the first stanza of a poem. Check out the Ultimate Solutions Page for the solution when you think you have it. How [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.darkwysteria.com/Dementia/?p=1566</link>
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		<title>July Not So Hot Questions and Lamely Muggy Answers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Q: If you had to define yourself in reference to a famous movie star who would it be? A: Ethel Merman gone bad. Q: Fries or Rings? A: Dammit. Another religious question &#8212; and one that I can&#8217;t answer definitively. I mean, fries are wonderful &#8212; hot, crisp, and salty. Island fries are my favorite [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.darkwysteria.com/Dementia/?p=1548</link>
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		<title>June&#8217;s Final Embarassment as Host of Q&amp;A&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Q: Which classic fairy tale character do you relate to? A: Looking at my body and personality, the obvious character will be Quasimodo. Ugly as sin and twice as wide, stupid as lump of pudding, and a constant source of revilement to all that know me. However, IMHO, looking at me spiritually, I&#8217;d say the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.darkwysteria.com/Dementia/?p=1499</link>
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		<title>Cryptogram Haiku:  A Whimsical Battle</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Solve the cryptograms below to find the clues for twelve words. Arrange those twelve words in the proper order to create a haiku about a whimsical battle. Check out the Ultimate Solutions Page for the solutions when you think you have it. Hxb vuejhjwb uzb ur hiu ehohbe ozm eijhgx goz cb jz ozq ib [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.darkwysteria.com/Dementia/?p=1535</link>
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		<title>Questions Better Left Unanswered&#8230; Answers Better Left Unquestioned&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Q: What&#8217;s your biggest complaint about the city you live in? A: Oh, please don&#8217;t get me started. Too late. Every year about this time, we start getting the resource threats in the mail, TV, and radio. You know&#8230; &#8220;conserve water&#8221;, &#8220;turn off appliances&#8221;, stop using resources, stop living. You get tips, cautions, warnings, threats. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.darkwysteria.com/Dementia/?p=1470</link>
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		<title>Review:  A Madness of Angels by Kate Griffin</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This novel was a total surprise. Kate Griffin is a popular young-adult author and &#8220;A Madness of Angels&#8221; is her first adult novel. She simply nailed it. Almost everything in the novel is unique from the characters, to the locations (a mix of real, surreal, and unreal), to the refreshingly different magic system. For those [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.darkwysteria.com/Dementia/?p=1504</link>
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		<title>Cryptogram Haiku &#8212; Investment Woes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Solve the cryptograms below to find ten clues. Solve the clues to find ten words. Arrange those ten words in the proper order to create a haiku about the current economy. Check out the Ultimate Solutions Page for the solutions when you think you have it. Jq&#8217;l h wcnbwbfq, hf heepbnjhqbo bximlb, hfo qrb lcmfo [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.darkwysteria.com/Dementia/?p=1477</link>
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		<title>Another Sunday, Another Crappy Q&amp;A Post By A Questionable Blogger</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Q: What really got you excited last week? A: OMG! I haven&#8217;t been this excited since they started producing Hershey Milk Chocolate in the form of a suppository! I had this horrible &#8220;situation&#8221; with the yard. My bad back and an abundance of rain had allowed the flower beds to be more weed than rose [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.darkwysteria.com/Dementia/?p=1459</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Hz Xbmmvpkn&#8221; &#8212; B xbmmvpkn qfbq QFTZ fbst ntijntn vjdd et b itkqbjl hjljhrh BLN hbwjhrh dtlcqf, iplqbjl itkqbjl ibxjqbdjybqjpl, iplqbjl mxtijaji ifbkbiqtkm mrif bm lrhtkji bln mxtijbd ifbkbiqtkm, lpq fbst ktxtbqjlc ifbkbiqtkm pk ifbkbiqtk mtgrtlitm, bln lpq et b xbmmvpkn qfbq zpr fbst rmtn xktsjprmdz. Pqftk qfbl qfbq &#8212; jq&#8217;m ZPRK xbmmvpkn. Erq zpr&#8217;dd [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.darkwysteria.com/Dementia/?p=1434</link>
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		<title>Nuqa Gqaliamvrw Ameuimvaqat Omvaqmav Vaqnx</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Parf&#8221; &#8212; Eroecomk &#8220;PARF&#8221; xamtx wui vu vpa Parf fzka vpzv pzx &#8220;fufirzq&#8221; parf xurivoumx div muv vpa parf wui maatat uq zxcat guq. Mu nzvvaq ypzv liaxvoum wui zxc om vpa parf xazqep dzq, ov yorr zryzwx qaviqm &#8220;fufirzq&#8221; omguqnzvoum zmt zxc wui og vpzv xurjat wuiq fqudran. Ypam wui eroec um &#8220;MU&#8221; ov [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.darkwysteria.com/Dementia/?p=1418</link>
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		<title>Hockey at Islands &#8212; FTW!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[I apologize for grammar and spelling in this blog, but my hands are still stiff and swollen from where a little old lady and two kids bit me. Sorry.] So my schedule for the upcoming week looked like I might not be able to get back to Brea Islands (my happy place) until Wednesday. Even [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.darkwysteria.com/Dementia/?p=1441</link>
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		<title>Xuvqnqhqkng kv Vjuieunhpa Unwkenhujux Qnhujnuh Hujmg</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Elxyhux&#8221; &#8212; Yn elxyhux yjhqwpu kj lkgh ljkfqxug nk nuc nucg. Htu yehtkjg regh ju-lyjyltjygu qnvkjmyhqkn ypjuyxa qn htu ljufqkeg fujgqkn kv htu yjhqwpu ynx julkgh qh. Kt&#8230; htua XQX wtynsu htu xyhu kv htu ynnkenwumunh ynx htu hqhpu, gk Q seugg HTYH&#8217;g nuc! &#8220;Vuyhejux&#8221; &#8212; Qh&#8217;g nkh juyppa htqnsg htyh yju kv yna qnhujugh [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.darkwysteria.com/Dementia/?p=1414</link>
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		<title>If It&#8217;s Sunday&#8230; It Must Be Q&amp;A Day&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Q: What&#8217;s your most favorite dessert? A: Tiramisu. And Tiramisu has another first with me. It&#8217;s the only ingest-able of any form that I can stand that has a coffee flavor to it. I hate even the smell of coffee (it makes me nauseous). But for some reason I love Tiramisu! (For those who don&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.darkwysteria.com/Dementia/?p=1399</link>
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		<title>Tiny Realities:  Grasticlaire the Witch Scenario in the Maeryderan DnD Campaign</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I run a home-spun DnD Campaign with a specific rule-set and world (The World of Maerydera). I currently have one group going through it&#8217;s major story-line. They are nearing completion with it. At their current point in the story-line, they are rescuing Melodian&#8217;s children. In Maerydera, Melodian (aka Muusean) is the Goddess of Inspiration. During [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.darkwysteria.com/Dementia/?p=1372</link>
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		<title>Virtual Realities:  An Oblivi-Wow Quickie&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just wanted to put up a quick post with two interesting (to me) screen shots I took recently. I need to get back into Oblivion &#8212; it&#8217;s been a few weeks. I also am committing to returning to my former love: adventure games. So I am going to pick up where I left off [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.darkwysteria.com/Dementia/?p=1328</link>
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		<title>Ywdfahev Qehox au Feamr Niqy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ferjfdw Hfedahveu Gehm in evv dqezox ad ebboeqx Trd yexdoq in uiuo Nqajaz Piqzwheu Feaq vamo nveyox &#8212; owox vamo xebbfaqox Foeqdx tidf tqepo euz hivz Toqgfeu lovv-deuuoz you Au dfo neq-nvruj xdobbox dfow zlovv Leqqaiq uiyezx Iu lauz-tvexdoz boemx Feaqvoxx dadeux, joudvo foeqdx Dfo yajfdw Joihfx Nrqqw Xfoivau Au vejiiu euz jqiddi zlovv Dfo [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.darkwysteria.com/Dementia/?p=1320</link>
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		<title>Another Dose of NTIM Questions and TMI Answers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Q: Which old movie would you like to see remade with the current fantastic cinematic technical achievements? A: Ironically, my two favorites &#8212; &#8220;The Wizard of Oz&#8221; and &#8220;Alice in Wonderland&#8221; have already been remade. Both remakes of Oz &#8212; &#8220;The Wiz&#8221; and &#8220;Tin Man&#8221; are incredible enough to be probably impossible to top. And [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.darkwysteria.com/Dementia/?p=1281</link>
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		<title>Virtual Realities &#8212; World of Warcraft Identity Crisis</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been so immersed in World of Warcraft these past many weeks that I have been hard pressed to stop to blog about it. But I have been semi-faithfully taking screen shots. So I&#8217;m going to catch up this weekend with a number of posts and screen shots of what&#8217;s been going on. I&#8217;ll start [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.darkwysteria.com/Dementia/?p=1288</link>
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		<title>Wind Wood</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Once, long ago in a time when epochs could be counted on one hand; Giants dwelt in the World along with the smaller ones. The World was huge and all the Lands that made up the World were wide and grand and wonderful. And for ages all the various races lived in peace and harmony. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.darkwysteria.com/Dementia/?p=1317</link>
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		<title>Book Review:  Implied Spaces by Walter Jon Williams</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m having trouble reading lately&#8230; I have too many irons in the fire and keep getting diverted from one activity to another without finishing anything. Regardless, I was able to finally completely read a novel this week; partly because I forced myself to focus and partly because this particular novel got me hooked. &#8220;Implied Spaces&#8221; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.darkwysteria.com/Dementia/?p=1268</link>
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		<title>Fdfeotlhue Axnn</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Uo nffrn ducf i nuddz ebluef Vlt i jtlah rih ol xnf obun qluef Obf Klnoid Nftquef wuw uo vutno U nlxhw ducf obfr pxo ofh ourfn altnf I edlxw kllkfw lxo i tiuhpla oxtw Ur gxno nuhjuhj tihwlr altwn U ricf nlhjn auob pdffkn ihw pdllkn U nlrfourfn atuof auob Ikkdf dllkn Fdfeotlhue axnn [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.darkwysteria.com/Dementia/?p=1247</link>
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		<title>Another Round of Questionable Questions and Dubious Answers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Q: Email or Postal Mail? A: Adult Diapers. If I&#8217;m looking for fast information or to send multimedia or other files to someone else, it&#8217;s all about Email. However, I really miss getting greeting cards and personal hand-written letters in my physical at-the-curb mail box. I miss admiring the beautiful and clever stamps that used [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.darkwysteria.com/Dementia/?p=1251</link>
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		<title>Y Wyvvyci qtun &#8220;Anwxaib Vwyfiv&#8221; jo Zyxdit Mug Zaxxaynv</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Jo dki dani oue&#8217;hi cud yxx ouet funwedydaugv bugi ygb benwib yxx dki igitco agdu agqxydagc y zutnkuxi qtun dki seygden quyn&#8230;&#8221; Ytavdabi nybi xaddxi tejjagc civdetiv zadk kav qagcitv, yv aq ki ziti vwtagpxagc yxfkinafyx wuzbitv agdu yg yxinjaf. &#8220;&#8230;ygb oue&#8217;hi vdyjaxalib dki zutnkuxi cydi zadk gicydahi-nyvv nyddit, dkig agqxydib y vuewfug uq ixifdtugv [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.darkwysteria.com/Dementia/?p=1221</link>
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		<title>Moronic Questions For The Ides of May</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Q: Do you have any phobias? A: Arachnophobia: Fear of spiders. This is a major phobia. Agoraphobia: Fear of open spaces or of being in crowded, public places like markets. Fear of leaving a safe place. This is a lesser phobia. Claustrophobia: Fear of confined spaces. Fear of being trapped and pinned so that I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.darkwysteria.com/Dementia/?p=1219</link>
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		<title>Why I Am Leaving Facebook.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Most of the members using Facebook, and most of the people using other sites such as CNN, are not understanding the severity of this new &#8216;arrangement&#8217; that Facebook and other major internet entities have established. The majority of users are not understanding the implications and the consequences regarding privacy and security that goes well beyond [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.darkwysteria.com/Dementia/?p=1119</link>
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		<title>Ykx Kif Wih Cilugrokt Zilvmuguma Xowwuhukg!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[O xuzoxux gi xi y jeozn clymm pmit ok gru wihl iw y Zhavgithyl. Peg O xoxk&#8217;g fykg gi ti gi gru ghiepmu iw vyokcgynoktma zikbuhgokt uyzr ykx ubuha mugguh ecokt yk ymvrypugoz zikbuhcoik gypmu. Ci O fhigu y BP vhithyl okcguyx, ecokt Lozhiciwg&#8217;c Boceym Pycoz 2008 Udvhucc gi xi og. Zmubuh, ki? Ci groc [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.darkwysteria.com/Dementia/?p=1197</link>
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		<title>Five Questions and Answers to Help You Ignore Mother&#8217;s Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Q: Are you afraid of the year 2012? A: I am afraid of the mad scientists attempting to create a star on Earth with the use of a Super Laser. I am afraid of the mad scientists attempting to create a black hole on Earth with the use of the Large Hadron Collider. I am [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.darkwysteria.com/Dementia/?p=1164</link>
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		<title>Virtual Realities:  WoW Status &#8212; May 8, 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was going to wait until mid Summer before jumping back into the World of Warcraft. But I had cancelled all my other MMORPG subscriptions a month or so ago and was having major withdrawals. Cataclysm, a new expansion pack for World of Warcraft comes out at the end of the year with some radical [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.darkwysteria.com/Dementia/?p=1182</link>
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		<title>Grid Computing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I picked up a new interest last month&#8230; Grid Computing. Grid Computing essentially allows research entities to use your computer for their projects. They download small applications to your machine that run in the background and use your PC&#8217;s resources when you aren&#8217;t using them. I originally looked into Grid Computing as a potential way [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.darkwysteria.com/Dementia/?p=1155</link>
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		<title>Questions and Answers for a Renaissance Pleasure Faire Sunday</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Q: What five commonly worn items do you think should be banned? A: I&#8217;m assuming this means &#8220;in public&#8221;. Tube tops on overweight women (is it mirrors they lack or just good taste or both?), flip flops (why do the people with the ugliest feet insist on wearing flip flops?), sagging pants &#8212; the &#8220;fashion&#8221; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.darkwysteria.com/Dementia/?p=1148</link>
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		<title>Another Sunday Filled With Odd Questions and Lame Answers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Q: What&#8217;s the weirdest thing that has ever happened to you while you slept? A: Well, I will qualify this to say that this answer is about the weirdest thing that has ever happened to me that I KNOW of. Dig mo? Way back when I lived in this old Victorian-style house in South Bend, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.darkwysteria.com/Dementia/?p=1103</link>
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		<title>Dementia:  Do Individuals Want Variety?  I Say No!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was lamenting to a friend how I&#8217;d like to get cable, but I don&#8217;t want to pay $40 a month just to get the handful of shows I want. The cable companies offer you these fabulous bundles of 100 or more channels for &#8220;one low price&#8221;. XM or Sirius Radio is the same way [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.darkwysteria.com/Dementia/?p=1060</link>
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		<title>Virtual Realities:  Oblivion Update &#8212; April 14, 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Astral got to Level 28 this last week. This, of course, is causing a more gnarly class of monsters to spawn throughout the land and dungeons. I had almost gotten to where I felt I no longer needed a meat shield. But I ran into a few situations (six ogres in one spot and three [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.darkwysteria.com/Dementia/?p=1078</link>
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		<title>Dementia:  I&#8217;ve Figured It All Out&#8230; And It Sucks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been worrying over a lot of stuff lately. I&#8217;ve been worried about growing old. I&#8217;ve been worried about not being able to get the weight off. I&#8217;ve been worried about my looks (looks that were never good at best). I&#8217;ve been worried about how my ankles swell up if I don&#8217;t exercise enough. I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.darkwysteria.com/Dementia/?p=1071</link>
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		<title>Useless Questions and Questionable Answers Continue</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Q: What&#8217;s your favorite musical instrument? A: The violin. I worship those that can play that instrument &#8212; an instrument that not only sounds gorgeous but looks gorgeous. My second favorite instrument is the alto sax &#8212; another instrument both beautiful looking and beautiful sounding. My Mother tried to force me to play the piano [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.darkwysteria.com/Dementia/?p=1042</link>
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		<title>Dementia:  Best Wishes&#8230; Really?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So a friend sent me an email last week and he signed it &#8220;Best Wishes&#8230;&#8221;. I felt honored. But then a day later he sent out another email to a few of us and, once again, signed it &#8220;Best Wishes&#8230;&#8221;. I was dumbfounded &#8212; but not as much as later in the day when a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.darkwysteria.com/Dementia/?p=1058</link>
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		<title>Virtual Realities:  Castle Status for April 10, 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The stats to the right (click to enlarge) says it all &#8212; levels gained, gold earned, but no achievements. I would like to thank all my Castle Age Friends who almost daily send me gifts. I really appreciate it. I know that we all have hundreds of Castle Age Friends and that we are each [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.darkwysteria.com/Dementia/?p=1047</link>
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		<title>Five Useless Questions Accompanied by Five Useless and Disturbing Answers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I continue to find not-so-intriguing, yet highly provocative questions out there on the web&#8230; here&#8217;s this week&#8217;s irritating dose. By the way, if any of you come across weird questions, send them my way&#8230; maybe I&#8217;ll answer them. Q: Describe a habit visitors to your home have that annoys you. A: I hate coffee. But [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.darkwysteria.com/Dementia/?p=1000</link>
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		<title>Virtual Realities:  Oblivion Update &#8212; April 3, 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Astral went up three or so levels in the last couple of weeks of game play. He is now Level 22 and running into some pretty nasty stuff in the wilds and dungeons. This last week I concentrated on cleaning up some of the starter quests. So I bought a horse and gave it the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.darkwysteria.com/Dementia/?p=1012</link>
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		<title>YouTube Favorites &#8212; Comedy Edition!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A month or so ago I provided links of some of my favorite musical finds on YouTube. This month I thought I would pass along some of the funny stuff. Again, YouTube is hit and miss with &#8220;miss&#8221; being the norm. But there is a lot of extreme talent out there. Here are just a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.darkwysteria.com/Dementia/?p=1006</link>
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		<title>Tiny Realities:  Heiliger Vater Makeover!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, 4th Edition AD&#038;D gaming at The Realm in Brea (FaceBook Site and Official Web Site) continues to be a blast. We are actually playing two separate sessions and two separate story-lines now. I&#8217;m meeting lots of new Players and a lot of them also play RPG video games. One Player actually works at Gamestop [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.darkwysteria.com/Dementia/?p=983</link>
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		<title>Still More Random Questions &#8212; Still More Disturbing Answers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Q: Describe something that people you&#8217;re with in public do that irritates you. A: I have friends that will steal ALL the sugar and sweetener packets from the table they&#8217;re at (and sometimes the table they&#8217;re next to). They say it&#8217;s okay because the restaurant expects it. Yeah&#8230; the restaurant does expect thieves to steal [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.darkwysteria.com/Dementia/?p=928</link>
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		<title>Virtual Realities:  Dragon Age Status &#8212; March 25, 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had a lot of &#8216;bumps&#8217; with Dragon Age these past few weeks. First, I was conflicted over whether to go back and pick up with my Human Rogue and bring him forward through the story-line (the rogue is my favored class) or to continue with my Human Warlock who has played through half the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.darkwysteria.com/Dementia/?p=941</link>
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		<title>Virtual Realities:  Castle Age Status &#8212; March 22, 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today I will achieve Grand Dragon Slayer. I will then turn my attention towards achieving Grand Hydra Slayer (a goal in which I have not even reached the half-way mark yet). Grand Hydra Slayer will be way more difficult because, unlike Dragons which only require 100,000 points of damage each to qualify for the kill, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.darkwysteria.com/Dementia/?p=935</link>
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		<title>Five More Random Questions &#8212; Five More Disturbing Answers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve found more random questions from various places off the internet to amaze and horrify&#8230; Q: If you could go live anywhere in the real world, where would you go and why? A: Montreal. Beautiful City. Beautiful People. And, yes, I would be more than happy to learn French in order to fit right in. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.darkwysteria.com/Dementia/?p=921</link>
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		<title>Feline Peculiarities&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My two kids, Kelly and G-Bo, never cease to amuse and amaze me. I don&#8217;t think a week goes by that they don&#8217;t do something that is brand new and often unexpected. One of the things that cracks me up is their phases they go through. Phases that have a sudden beginning and an abrupt [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.darkwysteria.com/Dementia/?p=906</link>
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		<title>Five Random Questions &#8212; Five Disturbing Answers.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[People were tagging each other on YouTube with these five questions. No one tagged me. So I&#8217;m crashing this party (but not on YouTube). Q: If you could go back in time and speak to your 15-year-old self, what one thing would you tell yourself? A: Get away from any and all organized religion and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.darkwysteria.com/Dementia/?p=899</link>
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		<title>Virtual Realities &#8212; Warstorm Review and Status</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m actually playing about five games on FaceBook &#8212; I admit it shamefully (there is a reason for that and I will blog about it soon). Castle Age (which I have blogged quite a bit about), Dream World, Champions Online, Social City, and Warstorm. Most of these games are totally mindless and innocuous and really [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.darkwysteria.com/Dementia/?p=901</link>
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		<title>Virtual Realities:  Castle Age Status &#8212; March 16, 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I ignored Battle Rank this week. This week it was all about Keira and Dragons. I got the achievement for slaying Keira but still haven&#8217;t been able to get all the components to summon her as one of my heroes. I still need &#8220;Demon Strength&#8221;. A friend and his family and I are chain-summoning Keira&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.darkwysteria.com/Dementia/?p=886</link>
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		<title>Virtual Realities:  Oblivion Update &#8212; March 9, 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This week Oblivion gave me a lot of pleasant surprises. First, Astral went up more than three levels. He is now Level 17 and actually almost Level 18. I&#8217;ll post his stats on the next update. Secondly, I started to encounter a lot of the content that I had added via user mods. From castles [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.darkwysteria.com/Dementia/?p=872</link>
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		<title>Dementia:  Ultimate Solutions &#8212; California&#8217;s Lame Legislature .vs. the Budget</title>
		<description><![CDATA[California is slowly failing. Our base of welfare recipients is massive and has greatly outgrown our base of welfare providers and gets worse every year. But that&#8217;s not my issue for today. My issue for today is the burgeoning budget and the lame State Legislature that has to approve and implement the budget each year. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.darkwysteria.com/Dementia/?p=868</link>
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		<title>Virtual Realities:  Dragon Age Status &#8212; March 7, 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Reves made it to Level 13 this past week. He&#8217;s getting really powerful with the ice spells. His paralyze and hex spells are also starting to pick up some impetus and mass. I still have a lot of side quests to do across the map, but I journeyed to the dwarven city of Orzammar this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.darkwysteria.com/Dementia/?p=847</link>
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		<title>Virtual Realities:  Castle Age Status &#8212; March 7th, 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The first full week of my friends-only policy still leaves me with too few stamina and energy points. I think I&#8217;m going to have to start pumping more points into stamina and energy and less into offense and defense. I am now only participating in offense, defense, and mana shield drains for direct friends; but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.darkwysteria.com/Dementia/?p=836</link>
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		<title>Dementia:  The Inconsistency of Criminalized Marijuana</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tired over the last few days of thinking about more important issues, I decided to dwell on significant-but-not-really-really-important issues for a while. And so I thought of Marijuana. Before I begin, I want to make it clear that I don&#8217;t use it, wouldn&#8217;t use it if it was legal (tried it once and it did [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.darkwysteria.com/Dementia/?p=830</link>
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		<title>Virtual Realities:  Dragon Age Update &#8212; March 2, 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I got a lot of Dragon Age playing in since the last status. Along with progressing on a handful of the side quests and furthering the the story-lines and relationships for most of my NPC Companions, I also completed the entire add-on, &#8220;Return to Ostagar&#8221;. The add-on wasn&#8217;t spectacular &#8212; it was one of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.darkwysteria.com/Dementia/?p=809</link>
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		<title>Virtual Realities:  Castle Age &#8212; Why I Like It</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So with all the whining I&#8217;ve done over the past few days about Castle Age&#8217;s flaws and bugs, I actually do like the game for a number of reasons. It&#8217;s free. This is actually the least of the positives, so it&#8217;s the first and shortest entry on the list. I certainly don&#8217;t mind paying for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.darkwysteria.com/Dementia/?p=802</link>
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		<title>Virtual Realities:  Castle Age &#8212; Battle Raids are not my Friend.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The last Castle Age rant (for a bit). Tomorrow I&#8217;ll post a happy-happy-joy-joy post about what I like about Castle Age. But for today&#8230; I&#8217;ve stopped participating in the new Battle Raid feature. I will still answer launch calls from all friends. But I won&#8217;t actually engage in Battle Raid invasions from this point on. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.darkwysteria.com/Dementia/?p=791</link>
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		<title>Virtual Realities:  Castle Age &#8212; Elite Guard Blues.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Now that your Elite Guards are tied into most of the quests and monster battles you do, they have become critical to your success as far as damage and experience goes. This becomes a real issue since each Elite Guard only lasts for 24 hours and if you happen to notice you are missing Elite [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.darkwysteria.com/Dementia/?p=785</link>
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		<title>Virtual Realities:  Castle Age &#8212; Too Many Allies &#8212; Not Enough Player Coordination.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I can remember in the old days (um&#8230; just last year) when I could summon the Hydra, unload all my attacks into the critter, put out a call, and then go away. The next day I would come back, unload all my attacks, put out another call, and go my merry way. Everyone joined in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.darkwysteria.com/Dementia/?p=783</link>
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		<title>Dementia:  Brea&#8217;s Going To Have A Tsunami!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So I woke up with it raining this morning. Actually, I woke up to a major cat fight going on in my dining room with both of my cats &#8220;fighting&#8221; a stray cat through the glass sliding doors. Talk about unrewarding. At any rate&#8230; I woke up to rain and decided to check my Internet [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.darkwysteria.com/Dementia/?p=781</link>
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		<title>Virtual Realities:  This Week in Oblivion (02/26/2010)&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It was a good week for Astral the Wizard. He got well into Level 15 and completed quite a few quests. He acquired enough gold to purchase Anvil&#8217;s historical haunted mansion. This coming week, he and Pierre will enter the mansion and attempt to lay the troubled spirits to rest and then they can fix [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.darkwysteria.com/Dementia/?p=754</link>
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		<title>It&#8217;s been a tough week or two&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I apologize for not doing enough &#8220;real&#8221; blogs this past week or two. It&#8217;s been a little rough going. I developed a fairly solid case of the flu the Tuesday before last which stayed with me well into this week. During that time, I also had three major asthma attacks, wrenched my back twice, got [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.darkwysteria.com/Dementia/?p=775</link>
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		<title>Virtual Realities:  This Week in Dragon Age (2/21/2010)&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Reves achieved Level 12 this week in Dragon Age and unlocked a handful of achievements. There were some difficult battles this time. I am not sure whether I am leveling up my character incorrectly or whether I&#8217;m just not taking advantages of the skills I have available. Going up against an Arcane Horror that teleported [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.darkwysteria.com/Dementia/?p=707</link>
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		<title>Virtual Realities:  This Week in Everquest (2/20/2010)&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There was a whole lot of good news and a whole lot of bad news this week for my guys in Everquest. The good news is that Jabberwhacky, my Drakkon Druid, gained two levels. He is now Level 9. He&#8217;s working the system in Crescent Reach. This is the last time you&#8217;ll see him with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.darkwysteria.com/Dementia/?p=694</link>
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		<title>Virtual Realities:  This Week in Oblivion (2/19/2010)&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This week, Astral the Wizard went up another level to Level 14. It&#8217;s more difficult to level a pure mage in Oblivion because you concentrate for the most part on one skill &#8212; Destruction. At the same time, it is easier to level a pure mage in Oblivion if you don&#8217;t mind standing around in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.darkwysteria.com/Dementia/?p=700</link>
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		<title>Dementia:  What Asswipe Ever Thought Robot (Automated) Dialing Was Acceptable?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I got a phone call today. I picked up the phone and a voice said &#8220;This is (insert crappy company here) calling with an important announcement. Stay on the line for the next available Customer Representative.&#8221; I hung up, of course. The next time it went to the message machine and I deleted it. It [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.darkwysteria.com/Dementia/?p=709</link>
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		<title>Tiny Realities:  Heiliger Vater &#8212; Not Dead Yet!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you remember, a few weeks back I posted about my very first live AD&#038;D 4th Edition game. My first 4th Edition character, Reves Brises, died towards the end of the evening. Being Level 1, having no gold to pay for a resurrection, and having no party members who could resurrect him for free; Reves [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.darkwysteria.com/Dementia/?p=675</link>
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		<title>Virtual Realities:  This Week in Oblivion (2/15/2010)&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have played Oblivion (and its expansions and a number of other mods) all the way through once with a rogue/fighter character. I still go in with him every once in a while and kick around. But Oblivion is the most awesome role-playing game (RPG) I&#8217;ve ever played and so I decided to run a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.darkwysteria.com/Dementia/?p=625</link>
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		<title>Dementia:  2012&#8230; No One Knows What The Hell They&#8217;re Talking About.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been following this whole &#8220;End of the World in 2012&#8243; debate. Well, I should say I&#8217;ve been trying to follow this whole debate&#8230; it&#8217;s pretty hard when there are so many Nut Jobs and Wackos. I keep bringing up articles on the Internet or renting movies about the subject but they are all loaded [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.darkwysteria.com/Dementia/?p=658</link>
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		<title>Virtual Realities:  This Week in Dragon Age (2/14/2010)&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I got a fair amount of playing done in Dragon Age this weekend (although I&#8217;m still dismally far behind most of my other friends). I exited the Werewolf Underground to change party members. I&#8217;m the guy in the front: Reves, a mage (Level 11). With me now (from left to right) are Shale (a golem), [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.darkwysteria.com/Dementia/?p=614</link>
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		<title>The New Bed&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So a couple of weeks ago we had one of the biggest storms come through Southern California that we&#8217;ve had in a long time. In fact, one weather site said it was the worst recorded storm for this area in 140 years. Wow! Pounding downpours and rain driven by extremely high winds beat on us [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.darkwysteria.com/Dementia/?p=599</link>
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		<title>Virtual Realities:  This Week in Everquest (2/10/2009)&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I returned to my quasi-roots* last month by resubscribing to Everquest. Although I have a Level 55 Barbarian Beastmaster and a Level 40-something Human Monk, I decided this week to work on my Level 9 Human Enchanter. I&#8217;m having trouble playing an Enchanter. I find I have to rest between EACH battle and I am [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.darkwysteria.com/Dementia/?p=584</link>
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		<title>YouTube Favorites &#8212; Vocalist Edition!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When YouTube first hit the Internet, I avoided it. It had no real appeal to me. I wasn&#8217;t interested in videos of your Auntie&#8217;s cruise or childish rants by snot-nosed punks. Years later, I&#8217;m totally hooked with many, many subscriptions. For the most part, the whole venue is hit and miss. For every fantastic video [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.darkwysteria.com/Dementia/?p=540</link>
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		<title>Dementia:  FaceBook &#8212; &#8220;Simplicity&#8221; is a Frickin&#8217; Hassle!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The FaceBook interface has never been very friendly. I think part of the reason for that is that FaceBook grew faster then its support staff could maintain it. While it loaded itself up with features geared to lure you into buying something or spending money for game credits; it never developed features that actually helped [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.darkwysteria.com/Dementia/?p=562</link>
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		<title>My First Dragon Age Love Affair Swiftly Ends in Tragedy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Trouble! Big Trouble! Trouble in the middle of the night, wherein I have to confront a number of huge and disturbing issues including: The Murder of my very first lover in my own bedroom by invading forces. The attack and fall of the entire Castle – my lifelong home. The death of my Father (and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.darkwysteria.com/Dementia/?p=516</link>
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		<title>iPad .vs. Laptop</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last month the iPad was introduced. Lots of excitement. Yes, it&#8217;s a very innovative piece of electronic equipment. You can read lots of articles with pros and cons on it&#8217;s usefulness and cleverness so I won&#8217;t duplicate those debates here. This blog entry is only going to address one issue: The price of the iPad [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.darkwysteria.com/Dementia/?p=536</link>
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		<title>Tiny Realities:  Reves Brises Dead &#8212; Film at Eleven</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Even though I am running a live Dungeons and Dragons (DnD) Campaign as a Games Master (GM) here in North Orange County, California; I sort of wanted to participate in some live DnD as a Player &#8212; not the Games Master. The Realm in Brea hosts various forms of live Role-Playing Games (RPGs) and a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.darkwysteria.com/Dementia/?p=492</link>
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		<title>Dementia:  My White Rabbit Reject</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So hours after the big cement body-plant that I pulled yesterday, I decided to go to Red Lantern for lunch. I needed the warm fuzzy and the Red Lantern in Brea is one of my &#8216;happy safe&#8217; places in Brea. Unfortunately, I was out of cash and I really didn&#8217;t want to drive in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.darkwysteria.com/Dementia/?p=436</link>
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		<title>Dementia:  Cement  Can Be Softer Than People&#8217;s Hearts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So&#8230; it finally happened. I was out for a walk yesterday and I fell &#8212; fell hard&#8230; onto concrete. For all intents and purposes it was a normal walk. I left the house and went up and over through the Ash Street Cottages and then looped back through Brea Promenade. Then I continued East on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.darkwysteria.com/Dementia/?p=427</link>
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		<title>Tiny Realities:  The Conquered Meeples Fail To Grasp Regal Etiquette</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was sitting at Islands last week, sucking down an ice tea, forking Islands fries into my gapping maw one at at time, and watching all the various people at the other tables and booths when it hit me! I got one of those startling realizations that comes to you so unexpectedly and intensely that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.darkwysteria.com/Dementia/?p=300</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[So my left turn signal went out a week or two ago. Okay, it went out a month or two ago &#8212; fine, be argumentative. It&#8217;s a hassle to get it fixed. The last jerk who changed the light torqued the screws in so tight I can&#8217;t get them off with a hand job (shut [...]]]></description>
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