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• Giant inflatable beavers. This is surreal. #
• Red-headed maple leaf mermaids? #
• No Mounties were harmed in the making of this ceremony. #
• Neil Young! Finally some real music! #
• So glad I never ever have to see any of these commercials again. Goodbye NBC. #
• RT @katelinnea RT @KevinMaddenDC: wow. based on my twitter focus group "the marriage ref" may be canceled by morning… / We can only hope. #

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• I love it when @nprscottsimon and Daniel Pinkwater read me a story on Saturday. #
• Excited about "The Secret of Kells" http://bit.ly/9jpQLB #
• RT @KevinBaird Tsunami Advisory from Chile quake. 1st landfall in U.S. will be La Jolla at noon: http://bit.ly/c8F3l3 & http://bit.ly/dAqJ3r #
• Just helped someone from Paris, France with a question about *mac excel* …on Aardvark! http://vark.com/t/2e5163 #
• Rain, rain, beautiful rain, beautiful pea-green rain! I love love love it. #

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• RT @suttonhoo: clown paintings. must take all. some happy, some sad, some a little scary. http://bit.ly/9XbdDf via @ptpower #
• Just watched the RiffTrax "American Thrift Part 2" sample. Hilarious! Bought the short. http://bit.ly/ahnbSf #
• Remarkably tired, but haven't coughed in hours. #
• Ironforge is my favorite city. All cities should be built in a ring around a pit of lava. #
• I will try to take a little walk today. #
• LOL!!! RT @djranny: I just renamed my iPod as "the Titanic" so when I plug it in it says "the Titanic is syncing.". #

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15 How the Colony was Saved – 00:24:44

• One more skater at 9, then a story about *logging*. Honestly, I'd rather see more skating, thanks. #
• NBC promised us figure skating at 8. Showed ONE skater, then skiing for an hour. Skiing is great, but it's not figure skating. #

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Do you love LibriVox? Have you listened to some of our wonderful free recordings? Since you’re visiting my blog, perhaps you are a fan of The Secret Garden, or Heidi, or The Swiss Family Robinson?

Though we are entirely volunteer-run, we are finally feeling a financial strain — our tremendous success has caused us to require ever more server space and bandwidth for our projects-in-progress. Can you make a small donation to help defray our server costs?

http://librivox.org/2010/02/24/librivox-needs-your-help/

Many thanks!

• Support #LibriVox, add a #twibbon to your avatar now! – http://bit.ly/a4GBZl #
• Just heard beautiful brass ensemble piece by Giovanni Gabrieli. Lovely! Thanks, KPBS. #
• RT @hughmcguire LibriVox needs your help, pls consider giving $ to support free public domain audiobooks, & pls RT: http://bit.ly/aX3Tws #

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I’m pretty worn out now, but I felt well enough this morning to go on an outing with Henry. We went to the MOPA in Balboa Park and looked at the beautiful photos, and then walked through the Botanical Building, and then through the Timken Gallery. I love the Timken especially much; I’ve been visiting it ever since I was a little kid and I just love to say hi to my favorite paintings. And then Henry treated me to lunch at In-N-Out!

Boy among the plants:

Botanical Building seen through the fancy railing at the Timken:

14 More Adventures of Captain John Smith – 00:21:58

• . @katelinnea "Feeling Good" is the song! Henry says someone performed it on Dancing with the Stars, so that must be how I know it. in reply to katelinnea #
• lazyweb: who knows the name of the song that Cheltzie Lee skated to in short program tonight? It's terribly familiar, can't place it. #
• sixty degrees (15.5) in the house this morning (we turn the heater off at night 'cause it roars like a freight train and wakes me up) #

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• Could they push Parenthood and that pathetic-looking new Seinfeld show any harder? No, they could not. #
• The more NBC shows the same. damn. commercials. over and over and over, the less I want to watch/buy/believe whatever they're pushing. #
• Proud that, despite the lingering phlegm, I've started to do some short recordings again. I can hear the stuffiness, but not bad. #
• I love someecards :) RT @someecards: I enjoy complaining about Olympic tape delays more than watching Olympic events. http://some.ly/aLEg7Z #
• I found my missing handknit red sweater, what a relief. Dan said it had to be in the house somewhere and he was right. *whew* #

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Ok, time for the next book. “This Country of Ours”, by Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall, is a book of US history for kids, from early exploration and settlement to the presidency of Woodrow Wilson.

It’s very long, but divided nicely into six or seven parts so I’ve divided my recordings likewise. I posted all of Part 1 back in 2008, but if you missed it you can download Part 1 here and catch up: http://librivox.org/this-country-of-ours-part-1-by-he-marshall/.

And now, on with Part 2: Stories of Virginia, from chapter 13 (Captain John Smith) to chapter 21 (The Knights of the Golden Horseshoe). You can read along and view the original illustrations at mainlesson.com. (You can buy a lovely paperback reprint of the original book there, too!)

13 The Adventures of Captain John Smith – 00:22:44

• wow, Johnny Cash makes fake cowboys a lot more fun to watch! #
• Finally the ice dancing begins, and the theme is "country music". Ugh. #
• Home from another really cool lion dance event: http://bit.ly/9gFJx6 #
• RT @sassenach HOW TO: Block FarmVille on Facebook – http://bit.ly/a6ucPr (if I ever visit facebook again (doubtful), I'll do this) #
• Walter Koenig's son Andrew Koenig is missing. Can you help find him? http://bit.ly/b1×3wq (not a stunt, sadly) #
• Just helped someone from Paris, France with a question about *knitting* …on Aardvark! http://vark.com/t/446125 #
• I just did some recording for the first time in over a month. My voice is rusty. #
• RT @DrSamuelJohnson Sexting (n.) Dullard’s Courtship, sending Etchings of one’s Britches thro’ the Ether unto Courtesans & now, Journalists #

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• Oh JR Celski, I'm sorry. But way to skate, Apolo Ohno! #
• Way to skate that quarter-final, J.R. Celski! Woohoo! Keep it up! #
• Don't know why everyone doesn't die in every short track race. Looks *impossibly* difficult not to crash on every corner. (Glad they don't!) #
• Ha! There's a Starkadder family tree on wikipedia: http://bit.ly/cgcBH4 #
• LOL @sordideuphemism: @lenashore @jpinsd When something becomes the most pathetic, lame example of its kind, we call it 'sparkly vampire'. #
• Just helped someone from Hell, MI with a question about *slang* …on Aardvark! http://vark.com/t/6453ba #
• Weekend Edition's top-ten twitter tips should be read by all: http://bit.ly/aeVrou #
• Lovely rain this morning, such a treat #

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• Agreed! RT @lenashore Am I the only person who doesn't give a crap what Tiger has to say? Only person he owes an explanation to is his wife. #
• Who remembers Jane Torvill and Christopher Dean? Marina Klimova and Sergei Ponomarenko? #
• Catching up on Survivor. This is going to be a great season! #
• Space Miner for iPhone is one of the best games I've ever played. #
• Oh, and add to that pirate vs. legal DVD graphic the unbearably clunky and difficult UI of most DVD menus. Solution: Rip, press "play". #
• I ran errands today! Bank, light grocery run, lab for monthly bloodwork. Yay me! #
• Yep. RT @KevinBaird: Reason i rip every DVD i buy RT @FransBouma Legal DVD vs. Pirated Copy: http://bit.ly/bDogen #

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• Question: will the celebrity jeopardy questions be even easier than the college ones? #
• Catching up on "Modern Family" with Henry. #
• Pharmacy says they reversed the big stupid charge; drug company agrees that it was reversed. We'll see. #

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• There have always been Starkadders at Cold Comfort Farm. #
• Oh, excuse me, $5513.60 #
• Great. Because pharmacy screwed up, drug company wants me to pay $5000. Will spend tomorrow on phone. #

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Hooray for the Swiss Family!

The Swiss Family Robinson, Chapter 18 – 27:58

Oh, it’s the end of the book. How sad.

• I liked the Swiss guy's routine better than anyone who skated before him. He had actual musicality, didn't just wave his limbs randomly. #
• Dear everyone on TV — you almost ALWAYS mean "lie" or "lying" when you say "lay" or "laying". Learn the difference! #
• iPhone word gamers: go get Textropolis, it's free today! http://bit.ly/aShZsP #

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relapse today. bad headache all day, plus return of illness in general. bah.