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		<title>Blogging is on hold</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 20:32:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Fickes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m currently on a break from blogging. The last six months have been quite busy and a lot of things have changed. This website isn&#8217;t going anywhere, but a change is coming. I haven&#8217;t decided what I&#8217;m going to do &#8230; <a href="http://ericfickes.com/2011/09/blogging-is-on-hold/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m currently on a break from blogging. The last six months have been quite busy and a lot of things have changed. This website isn&#8217;t going anywhere, but a change is coming. I haven&#8217;t decided what I&#8217;m going to do with the site, but I&#8217;m shooting for a redo sometime between now and 2012.</p>
<p>Got any suggestions? Thinking about dropping WordPress for <a href="http://octopress.org/" target="_blank">Octopress</a>, or maybe even building my own website again and maybe aggregating all my other online accounts to make a sort of Eric Central if you will.</p>
<p>In the meantime, feel free to click around and see what I&#8217;ve already got on the site. You can still find me contributing to the internets on <a href="http://twitter.com/ericfickes" target="_blank">Twitter</a>, and where ever else the nets takes me.</p>
<p><a href="http://ericfickes.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/memes-the-internet-is.jpeg" rel="lightbox[2184]"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-2190" title="internets full of lolcats" src="http://ericfickes.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/memes-the-internet-is.jpeg" alt="" width="500" height="356" /></a></p>
<p>I&#8217;m still here, just busy programming internets.</p>
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		<title>Happy Father&#8217;s day</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jun 2011 17:36:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Fickes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This one never gets old. It&#8217;s the dad life!]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This one never gets old.  It&#8217;s the dad life!</p>
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		<title>McDonalds&#8217; Chicken Nuggets are NOT boneless</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Mar 2011 04:15:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Fickes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[UPDATE 3.24.11- The owner of the McDonalds called and sounded very sincere on the phone, while having no idea how his restaraunt was being run. We were offered more free food, but politely declined. McDonalds&#8217; insurance has now served Tyson &#8230; <a href="http://ericfickes.com/2011/03/mcdonalds-chicken-nuggets-are-not-boneless/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>UPDATE 3.24.11- The owner of the McDonalds called and sounded very sincere on the phone, while having no idea how his restaraunt was being run.  We were offered more free food, but politely declined.  McDonalds&#8217; insurance has now served Tyson Foods Inc with a bone notice.</p>
<div id="attachment_2138" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 610px"><a href="http://ericfickes.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/tysons-bone-notice1.jpg" rel="lightbox[2110]"><img class="size-full wp-image-2138" title="Tyson Foods Inc bone notice" src="http://ericfickes.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/tysons-bone-notice1.jpg" alt="Tyson Foods Inc bone notice" width="600" height="803" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Tyson Foods make McDonalds Chicken McNuggets, and some have bones</p></div>
<p>&#8220;The chicken mcnuggets already come packaged and prepared to our insured location and they are not altered in any way; therefore Tyson Foods Inc. may be liable for said incident.&#8221;</p>
<p>Wow, my image of McDonalds is going right down the tubes.  They don&#8217;t actually make their food, they just heat it up and put it in a bag?  I&#8217;m loving it!</p>
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<p>I&#8217;m not a litigious guy, but I feel like something needs to be said about McDonalds and the bones in their Chicken McNuggets.  Tonight is Friday, so the wife and I took the kids to McDonalds so they could play with their friends on the playground.  Tonight was <em>mostly</em> like every other Friday, except that Fletch received two surprises in his happy meal.</p>
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<li>A Superman action figure ( nicely packed in it&#8217;s own plastic bag )</li>
<li>A chicken bone ( hidden inside of a nugget )</li>
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<p>The chicken bone came as quite a shocker.  Fletch was eating slow as usual and got really weird, then started spitting out his nugget onto the bench.  At first I thought he had a cough and was trying not to choke.  After I cleaned all the mush off the bench I found this CHICKEN BONE!!!</p>
<p><a href="http://ericfickes.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/nugget-bone1.jpg" rel="lightbox[2110]"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-2111" title="chicken bone on top of chicken mc nugget" src="http://ericfickes.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/nugget-bone1.jpg" alt="This bone is on a nugget only for size reference" width="765" height="1024" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://ericfickes.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/nugget-bone2.jpg" rel="lightbox[2110]"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-2112" title="nugget-bone2" src="http://ericfickes.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/nugget-bone2.jpg" alt="Holding the chicken bone from Fletch's Chicken McNugget" width="765" height="1024" /></a></p>
<p>The manager of this location showed zero sympathy that my three year old just bit into a chicken bone and said we have to fill out an incident report.  Notice the form is folded in half.  The manager gave my wife Jenn the form folded in half and said to fill out our name and phone number.  He will fill out the remainder of the form.  He also said this isn&#8217;t the first time this has happened, and that McDonalds will just recall the batch of chicken that our bone filled McNugget came from.</p>
<p><a href="http://ericfickes.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/nugget-bone3.jpg" rel="lightbox[2110]"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-2115" title="nugget-bone3" src="http://ericfickes.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/nugget-bone3.jpg" alt="Jenn filling out the McDonalds incident report for finding a chicken bone in a Chicken McNugget" width="765" height="1024" /></a></p>
<p>Something else I&#8217;d like to point out is McDonalds says on their website their chicken McNuggets are boneless.</p>
<p><a href="http://ericfickes.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/mcdonalds-lie.png" rel="lightbox[2110]"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-2116" title="mcdonalds-lie" src="http://ericfickes.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/mcdonalds-lie.png" alt="McDonalds lies about their Chicken McNuggets being boneless. My son bit into a chicken bone in a Chicken McNugget 2 hours ago, they are not boneless" width="978" height="639" /></a></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">While <em>most</em> chicken McNuggets are <em>probably</em> boneless, I consider this a straight up lie.  How can big corporations like McDonalds get away with bold face lies and nobody does anything about it?  In the past I didn&#8217;t care because I knew their food was shit, so I didn&#8217;t eat there ( even though I <em>did</em> grow up on McDonalds ).  Now that I&#8217;m a parent, my wife and I are no match for the marketing power of McDonalds, their toys, and their Playplaces.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">So, that&#8217;s all I know to do right now, make some noise.  McDonalds will continue selling their mostly boneless chicken McNuggets and silencing anybody who finds the golden nuggets with bones.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 24px;"><a href="http://ericfickes.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/nugget-quarter1.jpg" rel="lightbox[2110]"><img class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-2125" title="nugget-quarter" src="http://ericfickes.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/nugget-quarter1-764x1024.jpg" alt="" width="640" height="857" /></a><a href="http://ericfickes.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/nugget-ruler.jpg" rel="lightbox[2110]"><img class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-2126" title="nugget-ruler" src="http://ericfickes.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/nugget-ruler-764x1024.jpg" alt="" width="640" height="857" /></a><br />
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<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">If you think I&#8217;m crazy, you can ask <a title="McDonalds chicken mcnuggets are NOT boneless" href="http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;q=bone+in+chicken+mcnugget" target="_blank">Google about bones in Chicken McNuggets</a>.  If you&#8217;re into Facebook, there is a group you can join called <a title="Join the Facebook group " href="http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=44270496418" target="_blank">Mc Donalds chicken nuggets DO contain bones!!</a></span></span></p>
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