<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-363019717834033662</id><updated>2011-07-07T15:34:27.495-07:00</updated><title type='text'>the pate profiles</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thestateofpateprofiles.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/363019717834033662/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thestateofpateprofiles.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>John</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16503876485275732537</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://lh5.google.com/image/johncpate/Rd-dwUPpf3E/AAAAAAAAAQ4/C7dG0fvjyeg/s160-c/CloseUp.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>2</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-363019717834033662.post-593234618988076392</id><published>2009-08-21T18:36:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-08-21T18:39:03.030-07:00</updated><title type='text'>the man behind the curtain</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Hi, I’m John&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;(this is when you say “Hi John”)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;I’ll wait...........&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;I’m a 30 something who spends his working days in a cubicle smaller than some of your closets.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;I’m a dad.&amp;nbsp; It’s one of the hardest and most rewarding experiences of my life.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;I’m a husband.......and you’ll soon realize that I married up.......way up.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;I’m a Christ follower.......or at least my best attempt to be so.....most of the time.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;I’m a grad student......but not for much longer.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;I’m a closet creative.&amp;nbsp; I like &lt;a href="http://thestateofpate.blogspot.com/2008/09/playroom-mural-update.html"&gt;painting&lt;/a&gt;, I’m a decent musician, and I’m a pretty good communicator.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;This is where I chronicle all of my mundane adventures. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;I’ll try to make it interesting......I’ll try to be original.....I’ll try to be funny........but no promises......ok.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Good.&amp;nbsp; You’re in&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;PS: Please excuse the typoes, I’m an impatient proof reader.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/363019717834033662-593234618988076392?l=thestateofpateprofiles.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thestateofpateprofiles.blogspot.com/feeds/593234618988076392/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=363019717834033662&amp;postID=593234618988076392' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/363019717834033662/posts/default/593234618988076392'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/363019717834033662/posts/default/593234618988076392'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thestateofpateprofiles.blogspot.com/2009/08/man-behind-curtain.html' title='the man behind the curtain'/><author><name>John</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16503876485275732537</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://lh5.google.com/image/johncpate/Rd-dwUPpf3E/AAAAAAAAAQ4/C7dG0fvjyeg/s160-c/CloseUp.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-363019717834033662.post-7717958027749073974</id><published>2008-02-19T10:21:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-06-13T06:09:04.235-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff9900; font-family: georgia; font-size: 130%;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;john&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;A hobby enthusiast and avid reader. I love sports but unfortunately am not very athletic….it took me 30 years to admit that.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #33cc00;"&gt;Passions:&lt;/span&gt; recycling, “doing church better”, old school jazz, organ donorship, UNC basketball&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #33cc00;"&gt;Things I can’t live without:&lt;/span&gt; tivo, dairy products, podcasts, sweet iced tea&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: lime;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://thestateofpate.blogspot.com/2009/02/25-random-things-about-me.html"&gt;25 random things about John&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: georgia; font-size: 130%;"&gt;janelle&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;Well dressed on a budget &amp;amp; the personification of bottled sunshine. She juggles being a full time mom, wife, and part-time staff at our church. She only needs to hear a song once to have it memorized and gets a ginormous belly when she is pregnant (to the point where the baby feels cramped after birth).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #33cc00;"&gt;Passions:&lt;/span&gt; word games, baking, Dr. Mario, McDonalds Coke (its just better there she says)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #33cc00;"&gt;Things she can’t live without:&lt;/span&gt; nasal spray, toe socks, dishwasher, her camera (that's why most of the pictures don’t have her in them)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://thestateofpate.blogspot.com/2009/01/25-random-things-about-janelle.html"&gt;25 random things about Janelle&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: georgia; font-size: 130%;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;caden crusoe&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;People think that his hair is cool because we spike it......but that's because he has two crowns the which team up together to form a cowlick that likes which has never been seen since the little rascals.&amp;nbsp; He gets his happy upbeat personality and stubbornness from his mother, while his general laziness and awesome dance moves come from me.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #33cc00;"&gt;Passions:&lt;/span&gt; Boz, Thomas the Trai&lt;span style="color: #33cc00;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;n, lollipops&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #33cc00;"&gt;Things he can’t live without:&lt;/span&gt; PBS cartoons in the morning, diapers (that’s really more for us), gold fish (the crackers)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: georgia; font-size: 130%;"&gt;alaina (lainy) harper&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;Lainy's personality is starting to blossom.....and she is just now starting to &lt;strike&gt;like&lt;/strike&gt; tolerate those with a Y chromosome (including me).&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.thestateofpate.blogspot.com/"&gt;back to the blog&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_At_SqOf9uIE/ShDrEeiA5SI/AAAAAAAADmU/DMfZlNFaF3E/s1600-h/shamrock.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="69" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_At_SqOf9uIE/ShDrEeiA5SI/AAAAAAAADmU/DMfZlNFaF3E/s200/shamrock.gif" width="62" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/363019717834033662-7717958027749073974?l=thestateofpateprofiles.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thestateofpateprofiles.blogspot.com/feeds/7717958027749073974/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=363019717834033662&amp;postID=7717958027749073974' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/363019717834033662/posts/default/7717958027749073974'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/363019717834033662/posts/default/7717958027749073974'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thestateofpateprofiles.blogspot.com/2008/02/john-hobby-enthusiast-and-avid-reader.html' title=''/><author><name>John</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16503876485275732537</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://lh5.google.com/image/johncpate/Rd-dwUPpf3E/AAAAAAAAAQ4/C7dG0fvjyeg/s160-c/CloseUp.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_At_SqOf9uIE/ShDrEeiA5SI/AAAAAAAADmU/DMfZlNFaF3E/s72-c/shamrock.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
