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The Swiss Family Robinson, Chapter 16 part 1 – 21:53

• So ill. Couldn't stop coughing lying down so had to "sleep" (what there was of it) sitting up. #

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• Watched District 9 finally. It had a real story, good acting, and wasn't 100% predictable. #
• Dan made homemade-from-scratch veggie/barley soup for me. <3 <3 <3 #
• And of course there's our free audiobook: http://bit.ly/bVidcW #
• "we hope gamers will be encouraged to go beyond the game and explore the classic text that has inspired us so deeply" #
• Fascinating: video game based on Dante's Inferno. http://bit.ly/beZuDZ #
• My bones hurt #
• Well that was a horrible night. Lay awake for hours because of bad cough and noisy window. Feeling just wretched. #

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• Listening to BBC Radio 4's excellent A History of the World in 100 Objects podcast, ep 12, Standard of Ur. http://bit.ly/acePcP #
• I unlocked "Expert Level Unlocked" in "Hangman RSS"! http://bit.ly/aBk56S #

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Henry came down with a sore throat and hacking cough on Monday, so this has been a quiet week of no school, no Kung Fu, no piano. He’s feeling better now, well enough to go spend the weekend with his dad, but for a few days he was feeling really awful, poor boy. I let him watch a ton of tv, though I tried to get him to alternate candy tv with slightly educational TV. Hooray for James May and Jon Stewart! I let him watch a lot of Battlestar Galatica, but oh my goodness that show is just awful. I seem to remember enjoying at least the first season the first time through, but now I can’t stand it. Probably because I know the story doesn’t ever actually go anywhere satisfying, and every character (except Helo and Adama) becomes unbearably annoying. Ugh. So today I suggested Dollhouse instead, which is actually fun for me to watch the second time through. It’s uneven, but even the bad episodes are 100 times better than the bad BSG episodes. Battlestar got, what, four? five? dreadful tedious pointless seasons and poor Joss had to fight for his 27 episodes of Dollhouse. Sigh.

I haven’t been feeling very well lately, not sure if it’s Henry’s virus or something else but I’ve been coughing and sniffly and tired. So I haven’t been getting much recording (or anything else) done.

Henry and Dan convinced me to try Elizabeth Moon’s “Trading in Danger” and I”m really enjoying it!

Hooray for the Swiss Family!

The Swiss Family Robinson, Chapter 15 part 2 – 22:03

• Getting this odd error screen after every Words With Friends play http://twitpic.com/11foba #
• Fluffy kitty belly http://twitpic.com/11fh4x #
• Reading Elizabeth Moon's "Trading in Danger" and really enjoying it. #
• RT @hughmcguire Audio of "Brothers Karamazov" took 4 years to complete, and brings #LibriVox catalog to 2 yrs of audio: http://bit.ly/cVrxF2 #
• Lol. Grocery store soundsystem is playing "Rock me Amadeus". Er war ein Superstar, er war so populär… #
• word game lovers, try Hangman RSS: http://bit.ly/9oivVi #
• I unlocked "Easy 8 Games Run" in "Hangman RSS"! http://bit.ly/aBk56S #

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• Dear @RealDMitchell, the "tricking the boiler" scene from S06E02 of Peep Show is one of the funniest bits of TV ever made. Thanks! #
• Finally, The Decameron has come to an end. New book in the LibriVox Podcast Feed: Romeo and Juliet! http://bit.ly/aFECGb #

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Hooray for the Swiss Family!

The Swiss Family Robinson, Chapter 15 part 1 – 20:13

• Antiques Roadshow last night, NOVA tonight. Love you, KPBS. #
• (those not in the UK will have to do some hunting to watch "Seven Ages of Britain". Try http://bit.ly/4t7HBn or similar) #
• Just watched 1st episode "Seven Ages of Britain", really excellent! If you love art & history, give it a try. http://bit.ly/cPYfld #
• Happy birthday to @neeruiyer, one of the most enthusiastic LV volunteers EVER! :) in reply to neeruiyer #
• Saving the tiny Spray Toad (my brother works at Bronx Zoo) http://bit.ly/bG4N0e #

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• @Zinny poor fellow, I hope you get to sleep soon & feel better soon. I'll make cocoa again tomorrow. in reply to Zinny #
• @apelad hahahahahahahaha! in reply to apelad #
• @sethish give me your forum username and the new url & I can change that for you in reply to sethish #
• Watching Antiques Roadshow drives home the fact that everything we own is worthless. #
• See @apelad's ebay auction LOLCats #1300: http://bit.ly/ahqNTx , Big Rock Candy Mountain, proceeds to Haiti! #
• @KevinBaird I use evernote on the mac, clip recipes, save serial numbers, pdfs etc. Just use iphone client to view them when necessary in reply to KevinBaird #
• Dear internet, please read this: How to use a semi-colon http://bit.ly/7opl0r #
• Interesting, handing out food only to women in Haiti: http://bit.ly/afdFR0 "women are more likely to ensure that children get enough to eat" #

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Hooray for the Swiss Family!

The Swiss Family Robinson, Chapter 14 – 25:28

Saturday was Henry’s first Lion Dance performance. The team went up to the Encinitas branch of the Kung Fu school for its Grand Opening celebration (I think they changed locations or something). Photos!

Musicians before the show (The drummer is Miss Edwards, Henry’s teacher)

I don’t know his name, but this character seemed to be the lion tamer:

Henry is the head of this green dragon:

The dancers do a fancy twisty move to reveal their faces after the dancing is over:

The performance was so cool! I can’t wait to see another, which should be soon because they have lots and lots of performances booked for Chinese New Year.

• @Zinny also @lileks! in reply to Zinny #
• @Zinny you should follow @apelad, he has amusing and interesting things to say in reply to Zinny #
• @Zinny oops! Hello! How was your day? (I'm @kayray by the way, heh) in reply to Zinny #
• @Knitnmom Yes, the spinach/chicken casserole was a big hit! (I doubled sour cream and skipped mayo.) in reply to Knitnmom #
• Kindly fellow water-store customer loaded my 5-gallon water bottles into the car for me. Thanks, random stranger! #
• @Aravis83 wheeee! Downloaded! in reply to Aravis83 #
• Love taking photos with swanky new camera; hate deciding which ones to keep/upload #
• Sitting down to record the first chapter of a solo project that I planned to finish in December 2009. Oops :) #
• @hughmcguire use Brizzly on web, twitterrific on phone & RT the old-fashioned way. in reply to hughmcguire #
• RT @miette Cameron hired a linguist to create the language, but not a writer to give them anything worth saying. (so true) #

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• @Zinny i was going to ask you if there was a twitter client! in reply to Zinny #
• RT @hughmcguire: "There will never be another voice like his." Whch is exctly the lousy knd of goddamn thng that ppl say. http://j.mp/cZUxtn #
• @Aravis83 just got home, will check out little Cedric's next chapter tomorrow :) #
• RT @KevinBaird DVD authors: if you block the Next and Menu buttons on the commercials, I will rip your discs to correct these errors. (amen) #
• Teenage boy told me my Honda Fit is a "sweet ride". Really? I guess it's not a typical mom-car… #
• @tergiversant Hahah Henry used to have a Buzz Lightyear who'd start talking if the toys in the toybox shifted! Creepy! in reply to tergiversant #
• KMXT in Kodiak is playing Peter and the Wolf. Haven't heard it in years but remember every note. Mine was narrated by Boris Karloff! #
• Using mail.app is unbearable. Back to gmail on the web and its "conversations". #

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• RT @bookclubgirl Betsy-Tacy reissues make Publishers Weekly's Cuffies Awards! http://bit.ly/dwB1Ea #
• Words With Friends is so slow today. Everybody come pay Depict while you wait for your words to submit ;-) #
• @Knitnmom trying that spinach/chicken casserole tonight! #
• @bonnyglen i was more of a grammar girl… Conjunction junction, what's your function? A noun is a person, place, or thing! in reply to bonnyglen #
• @robtillotson Thanks, Rob, that did the trick. So FED UP with gmail's "conversations". in reply to robtillotson #
• Oo just thought of a workaround, can make "archive" label, which will show up as a mailbox in mail.app #
• REALLY fed up with gmail. Have set up mail.app, but my archived stuff ("All Mail" in gmail) doesn't show up. How can I make it show up? #
• Woke up feeling a lot better (again). Does that mean I'll feel horrible tomorrow (again), or am I on the mend? #
• "It's a god-awful small affair/To the girl with the mousy hair…" There are FAR worse songs to have stuck in your head (the UOGB version) #
• @katelinnea I love my Egyptian Magic hand/face cream. Made of beeswax & olive oil, smells faintly of honey. Works better than anything! in reply to katelinnea #
• Lol! RT @suttonhoo Spectacular. How to suck at Facebook http://bit.ly/c6Pbwy (and that's why I stay away from facebook) #

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Today I woke up feeling a lot better, still sniffly but not bone-crushingly tired like yesterday. So hooray! Maybe I’m on the mend. Or maybe tomorrow I’ll feel horrible again. Who knows?

Drove Henry to his Drama class first thing in the morning, then to piano, then we made two grocery stops, then home and I grilled a bunch of chicken and played some WoW, then out to Henry’s kung fu lesson, then home and made some of the chicken into a casserole with spinach, sour cream, mozzarella, and parmesan. Then Dan played Settlers of Catan with us while dinner cooked, and then I took Henry back out to a Lion Dance rehearsal and now we’re home and I’m all worn out.

Yesterday I discovered a new iPhone game which is pictionary-esque and TONS of fun, and it’s free. It’s called “Depict”. It’s on the OpenFeint network, so add me as a friend and we might get to play together (kayrayovac). So far it’s nearly as fun as Words With Friends! (I’m kayrayovac there, too, so start a game with me if you like.)

Hooray for the Swiss Family!

The Swiss Family Robinson, Chapter 13 – 31:49

• @dancapistan Well, potentially! I hope I do like him as Sherlock! in reply to dancapistan #
• I bet all of my imaginary money on tonight's Final Jeopardy & got the answer before they showed the painting (Cezanne) :) #
• @dancapistan will check out Sherlock on dvd! But if I love Jeremy Brett, will I hate Robert Downey jr? :) in reply to dancapistan #
• Just found super-fun free iPhone game! "Depict" — pictionary-esque, play with friends or random strangers, great interface, tons of fun! #
• RT @someecards Let's honor the life of an author who openly despised all of us. [RIP JD Salinger] #
• RIP J.D. Salinger. You weren't phoney. #
• Felt great yesterday; today woke with sticky eyes & runny nose again, & really tired. Sigh. #

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Woke up feeling just rotten and felt rotten all day, achingly tired and weak and sniffly. Bah. I did manage to do some edits on a couple of my recordings for ignatius press and recorded some stories for the English teacher in Poland. And, um, I did laundry and drove Henry to and fro and made some type of dinner. And we played Settlers of Catan with Simon tonight, that was nice.

Henry’s in bed and we’re watching Peep Show. Hilarious.