<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0"><channel><title>Memoirs @ www.leastbest.com</title><link>http://www.leastbest.com/</link><description>(Memoirs) </description><copyright>Copyright 2008 www.leastbest.com</copyright><generator></generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 01:39:00 GMT</lastBuildDate><image><title>Memoirs @ www.leastbest.com</title><url>http://server1.blog-city.com/images/bc_v5_logo_small.gif</url><link>http://www.leastbest.com/</link></image><ttl>360</ttl><docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss</docs><item><title>Of Memory and Jellyfish</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.leastbest.com/of_memory_and_jellyfish.htm</guid><link>http://www.leastbest.com/of_memory_and_jellyfish.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2007 12:32:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://www.leastbest.com/console/comments/popup/?f=of%5Fmemory%5Fand%5Fjellyfish</comments><dc:creator>Randall Bott</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Memory is a funny thing.When I was eighteen my friends and I would pile into my car and drive a few miles out into the country and park on a country road.&nbsp; We&#39;d walk along a railroad track, across a trestle and down a dirt path back into the]]></description><category>jellyfish</category><category>summer</category></item><item><title>Moving Memories</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.leastbest.com/moving_memories.htm</guid><link>http://www.leastbest.com/moving_memories.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 18 Sep 2006 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://www.leastbest.com/console/comments/popup/?f=moving%5Fmemories</comments><dc:creator>Randall Bott</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Moving to a new house forced me to go through boxes and boxes of junk.  Due to my hobby of genealogy I have become the family historian.  The family have been giving me photographs and movies that I never found the time to sort out.Going th]]></description><category>life</category></item><item><title>Dunkin&apos; Donuts Debacle</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.leastbest.com/dunkin_donuts_debacle.htm</guid><link>http://www.leastbest.com/dunkin_donuts_debacle.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 09 Jun 2006 04:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://www.leastbest.com/console/comments/popup/?f=dunkin%5Fdonuts%5Fdebacle</comments><dc:creator>Randall Bott</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I love Dunkin' Donuts coffee.  For the past twelve years I have gone there every working day and ordered exactly the same thing, an extra-large decaf with cream.  Two out of seven times I get the wrong order.   Last week I went th]]></description></item><item><title>Prism</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.leastbest.com/prism.htm</guid><link>http://www.leastbest.com/prism.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2005 03:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://www.leastbest.com/console/comments/popup/?f=prism</comments><dc:creator>Randall Bott</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Looking at my daughter is like looking through a prism.Right now she is typing on her keyboard and I see a beautiful, intelligent thirteen years old.  Other times I look at her and see glimpses of the woman she will someday be.Often I look at her an]]></description></item><item><title>Halloween Walk</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.leastbest.com/halloween_walk.htm</guid><link>http://www.leastbest.com/halloween_walk.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2005 03:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://www.leastbest.com/console/comments/popup/?f=halloween%5Fwalk</comments><dc:creator>Randall Bott</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Halloween week is always busy for me.  I always take my last week of vacation to be with the family.  My daughter is big into the holiday and we make the most of it.This year we started out by going to Carlisle Township and the Metro Parks Hallowee]]></description></item><item><title>In Search of Roy Book Binder: part 2</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.leastbest.com/in_search_of_roy_book_binder_part_2.htm</guid><link>http://www.leastbest.com/in_search_of_roy_book_binder_part_2.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2005 04:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://www.leastbest.com/console/comments/popup/?f=in%5Fsearch%5Fof%5Froy%5Fbook%5Fbinder%5Fpart%5F2</comments><dc:creator>Randall Bott</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[My friend Tom called and invited me to the Philadelphia Folk Festival.  Being raised by an agoraphobic gives me an altered sense of distance and going to Philadelphia seemed equivalent to going to Afganistan.  He explained that since it was the for]]></description></item><item><title>the bmv</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.leastbest.com/the_bmv.htm</guid><link>http://www.leastbest.com/the_bmv.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 18 Sep 2005 04:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://www.leastbest.com/console/comments/popup/?f=the%5Fbmv</comments><dc:creator>Randall Bott</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago I got another car and headed down to the Bureau of Motor Vehicles.  I was getting a twofer as I needed my drivers license renewed too.  I haven't been to the Bureau in Elyria in years as I normally go to Wellington.I walked in and w]]></description></item><item><title>Greektown</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.leastbest.com/casino_royale.htm</guid><link>http://www.leastbest.com/casino_royale.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2005 04:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://www.leastbest.com/console/comments/popup/?f=casino%5Froyale</comments><dc:creator>Randall Bott</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[What a trip!]]></description></item><item><title>Father&apos;s Day Rag</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.leastbest.com/fathers_day.htm</guid><link>http://www.leastbest.com/fathers_day.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jun 2005 11:32:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://www.leastbest.com/console/comments/popup/?f=fathers%5Fday</comments><dc:creator>Randall Bott</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago on a family outing we drove past a van selling wares on a vacant street corner.  It looked a tad seedy and had a large banner saying, &quot;Do-Rags $5.00&quot;  I turned to the wife and daughter and said, &quot;That's what I need. ]]></description></item><item><title>Lack of Pryor Restraint</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.leastbest.com/lack_of_pryor_restraint_1.htm</guid><link>http://www.leastbest.com/lack_of_pryor_restraint_1.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2005 16:33:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://www.leastbest.com/console/comments/popup/?f=lack%5Fof%5Fpryor%5Frestraint%5F1</comments><dc:creator>Randall Bott</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[When I was a kid we only had three channels, 3, 5 and 8. Later we got UHF (Ultra High Frequency)and added channels 43 and 61.  Channel 43 was always snowy and had mostly reruns of old tv shows. Saturdays was Superhost, Marty Sullivan in real life, s]]></description></item><item><title>Munchkin on speed</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.leastbest.com/munchkin_on_speed.htm</guid><link>http://www.leastbest.com/munchkin_on_speed.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 21 Mar 2005 04:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://www.leastbest.com/console/comments/popup/?f=munchkin%5Fon%5Fspeed</comments><dc:creator>Randall Bott</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[It's no secret that I talk very fast.  The reasons for this are a blog entry all its own.  My friend Paul told me once that I speak at 80 miles per hour with gusts up to 120!When I was in ninth grade the class had to do an oral report.  The report co]]></description></item><item><title>Enchanted Luncheon Meat</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.leastbest.com/enchanted_luncheon_meat.htm</guid><link>http://www.leastbest.com/enchanted_luncheon_meat.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 14 Jan 2005 04:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://www.leastbest.com/console/comments/popup/?f=enchanted%5Fluncheon%5Fmeat</comments><dc:creator>Randall Bott</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[When I was a kid things were a little tough. My mom did a great job considering she had seven children ranging from two to seventeen. It was hard enough being a widow but having two year old triplets when my dad died must have been exhausting.Money w]]></description></item><item><title>Midgets and me</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.leastbest.com/midgets_and_me.htm</guid><link>http://www.leastbest.com/midgets_and_me.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 03 Jan 2005 04:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://www.leastbest.com/console/comments/popup/?f=midgets%5Fand%5Fme</comments><dc:creator>Randall Bott</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Now that the new year is in full swing I've been thinking of things that I want to do. I've gone through the yearly weight loss pledge and how this year I'm going to exercise more. I've resolved to pay off debts, get organized and a bunch of others.]]></description></item><item><title>Recharging the battery for 2005</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.leastbest.com/recharging_the_battery_for_2005.htm</guid><link>http://www.leastbest.com/recharging_the_battery_for_2005.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Dec 2004 01:51:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://www.leastbest.com/console/comments/popup/?f=recharging%5Fthe%5Fbattery%5Ffor%5F2005</comments><dc:creator>Randall Bott</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This time of year is very special to me.  Normally work at ETDS is brutal this time of year.  From Thanksgiving we work twelve hour days and with the commute it turns into fourteen hour days.  The weather is usually pretty bad and worst of all we]]></description></item><item><title>My First Bra</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.leastbest.com/my_first_bra.htm</guid><link>http://www.leastbest.com/my_first_bra.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Dec 2004 04:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://www.leastbest.com/console/comments/popup/?f=my%5Ffirst%5Fbra</comments><dc:creator>Randall Bott</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Christmas was wondrous when I was a child. With seven brothers and sisters it was a hectic and exciting time.By the middle of December the tree was up and glasses of fudge had been passed around. All of the presents were around the tree tantalizing u]]></description></item><item><title>Have a glass of fudge</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.leastbest.com/have_a_glass_of_fudge.htm</guid><link>http://www.leastbest.com/have_a_glass_of_fudge.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Dec 2004 17:22:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://www.leastbest.com/console/comments/popup/?f=have%5Fa%5Fglass%5Fof%5Ffudge</comments><dc:creator>Randall Bott</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[My mother makes the best cheesecake and her oatmeal cake is fought over by all the children but things were different forty years ago.  In the sixties it was the fudge.After Thanksgiving my mother would set up her kitchen like a laboratory.  She w]]></description></item><item><title>How I became a Cigarette smuggler (almost)</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.leastbest.com/how_i_became_a_cigarette_smuggler_almost.htm</guid><link>http://www.leastbest.com/how_i_became_a_cigarette_smuggler_almost.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 15 Dec 2004 01:25:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://www.leastbest.com/console/comments/popup/?f=how%5Fi%5Fbecame%5Fa%5Fcigarette%5Fsmuggler%5Falmost</comments><dc:creator>Randall Bott</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[In the mid-seventies I channeled some of my obsession from chess to the martial arts. Over the past few years I had made a conscious decision to break out of my overwhelming shyness and fear. The acting in high school hadn't panned out. In high schoo]]></description></item><item><title>My brother and sister</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.leastbest.com/my_brother_and_sister.htm</guid><link>http://www.leastbest.com/my_brother_and_sister.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Dec 2004 04:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://www.leastbest.com/console/comments/popup/?f=my%5Fbrother%5Fand%5Fsister</comments><dc:creator>Randall Bott</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The holidays are different now that I'm older. My brother Brad died five years ago this week. His death affected me more than I could ever write here. A year and a half earlier my sister Debbie succumbed to a brain tumor. Her death was tragic but aft]]></description></item><item><title>A stone in a field</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.leastbest.com/a_stone_in_a_field.htm</guid><link>http://www.leastbest.com/a_stone_in_a_field.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 04 Dec 2004 04:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://www.leastbest.com/console/comments/popup/?f=a%5Fstone%5Fin%5Fa%5Ffield</comments><dc:creator>Randall Bott</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[As a child we never traveled much. My mother suffered (and suffers) from agoraphobia. It is as though an invisible fence was drawn around our house and she cannot breach it. It is slightly better now but when I was young it was severe.On one of the f]]></description></item><item><title>What&apos;s in a name?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.leastbest.com/whats_in_a_name.htm</guid><link>http://www.leastbest.com/whats_in_a_name.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Dec 2004 04:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://www.leastbest.com/console/comments/popup/?f=whats%5Fin%5Fa%5Fname</comments><dc:creator>Randall Bott</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I've had a few people ask me whey I use the name Leastbest.  As always there is a story.When I was a young driver for ETDS I was told my boss wanted to see me in the office.  I walked in and two supervisors were there.  I was told to sit down and the]]></description></item></channel></rss>