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One Month Later...

Can't believe it's been 1 month since our last post. Sorry. My bad. We both started up our classes for the spring semester and have been extremely busy. I guess after NO ONE responded to my reader post a while back I was very disheartened. Oh well. Back to writing this blog for who really cares about it. (bitter much?).

I'll be leaving for a week long vacation next week so I will be absent again for a time but I promise that upon my return I will post those articles I teased about a month + ago. Maybe if I have time around packing and school I'll get one up before I go.. maybe.

So I just wanted to say, to those who continued checking here for updates but are too much of a chicken to comment to us... thanks. We'll be back soon. I promise. Stick with us. (side note: What a crapy way to celebrate our 100th post)

- de Blau Boer

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