The Story of Mankind, by Hendrik van Loon, read by Kara and Michelle.
You can buy a lovely thick reprint of the original book, with dozens of lively illustrations, from http://mainlesson.com.
Impatient? Get the entire free audio book here: http://librivox.org/the-story-of-mankind-by-hendrik-van-loon/
The Story of Mankind, by Hendrik van Loon, read by Kara and Michelle.
You can buy a lovely thick reprint of the original book, with dozens of lively illustrations, from http://mainlesson.com.
Impatient? Get the entire free audio book here: http://librivox.org/the-story-of-mankind-by-hendrik-van-loon/
Tonight Rockola will be performing The Beatles’ Hard Day’s Night album plus more Beatles songs, yay!!! We love their Beatles album shows. Henry and I have been at the theater all afternoon. Henry gets to do a few percussion and keyboard parts!
Hey, I just checked the Librivox new audio books feed and noticed that our recording of Ward Muir’s “Observations of an Orderly” is finished and ready to download!
Ward Muir brings us into the heart of an English war hospital, describing scenes of cleanliness, triumph, order and sadness. Through the eyes of the orderly we get to see the processes that kept the wards running, and relive some tales from within the hospital walls.
http://librivox.org/observations-of-an-orderly-by-ward-muir/
I recorded two or three chapters of this one and found it fascinating and very touching. I could imagine Lord Peter Wimsey as a patient in this hospital or one like it.
The Story of Mankind, by Hendrik van Loon, read by Kara and Michelle.
You can buy a lovely thick reprint of the original book, with dozens of lively illustrations, from http://mainlesson.com.
Impatient? Get the entire free audio book here: http://librivox.org/the-story-of-mankind-by-hendrik-van-loon/
I “upgraded” to iTunes 9 and iPhone 3.1 a few days ago. If you haven’t yet, DON’T. iTunes now crashes about every third time I sync my iPhone, requiring a force-quit and a restart. See http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2151196&tstart=45 I’m at seven crashes and counting. I send in the crash report every time. Is anyone reading them?
Also, Smart Playlists are broken. The look fine in iTunes, but are shuffled on the iPhone. There is a stupid fix for this: uncheck “live updating” and re-sync. But since I have two playlists which are supposed to “live update” themselves every time a new podcast episode appears, I need to edit/check/edit/uncheck both playlists every day. There is some dispute as to whether this is a 3.1 problem or an iTunes 9 problem. Either way, it sucks. See http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=783556
C’mon, Apple. You can do better. Like, try TESTING YOUR SOFTWARE before releasing it.
The Story of Mankind, by Hendrik van Loon, read by Kara and Michelle.
You can buy a lovely thick reprint of the original book, with dozens of lively illustrations, from http://mainlesson.com.
Impatient? Get the entire free audio book here: http://librivox.org/the-story-of-mankind-by-hendrik-van-loon/
The Story of Mankind, by Hendrik van Loon, read by Kara and Michelle.
27 Rise of the Church – 13:36
You can buy a lovely thick reprint of the original book, with dozens of lively illustrations, from http://mainlesson.com.
Impatient? Get the entire free audio book here: http://librivox.org/the-story-of-mankind-by-hendrik-van-loon/
The Story of Mankind, by Hendrik van Loon, read by Kara and Michelle.
You can buy a lovely thick reprint of the original book, with dozens of lively illustrations, from http://mainlesson.com.
Impatient? Get the entire free audio book here: http://librivox.org/the-story-of-mankind-by-hendrik-van-loon/
Yeah! What a crazy day! We had a news film crew and a rock band in our house, not to mention the excitement of our new game!
That’s Henry in the green shirt. That’s my messy but interesting house. You might spot my new inkle loom, Henry’s Kung Fu diplomas, the portrait of him that Chloe drew, and Dan’s beautiful photo prints. And my millions of books.
Beatles Rock Band is amazing, really amazing. I’m worn out — more tomorrow.
The Story of Mankind, by Hendrik van Loon, read by Kara and Michelle.
25 Joshua of Nazareth – 9:07
You can buy a lovely thick reprint of the original book, with dozens of lively illustrations, from http://mainlesson.com.
Impatient? Get the entire free audio book here: http://librivox.org/the-story-of-mankind-by-hendrik-van-loon/
The Story of Mankind, by Hendrik van Loon, read by Kara and Michelle.
You can buy a lovely thick reprint of the original book, with dozens of lively illustrations, from http://mainlesson.com.
Impatient? Get the entire free audio book here: http://librivox.org/the-story-of-mankind-by-hendrik-van-loon/
I use my beloved iPhone in the kitchen a lot. I have a power cable for it and a set of little speakers, and it sits on top of the microwave while I listen to iTunes, Pandora, Stitcher, and Public Radio. I used to lean it against my sugarbowl but then whatever app I’m using switches to landscape mode which is useless and annoying. So yesterday, after thinking about it for months, I finally asked Henry if I could borrow a few LEGOs and I made a little stand! It’s perfect:
It’s quite stable and the phone leans back at a perfect angle. Clicking the pictures will take you to my flickr, where you can see close-ups of the stand without the phone in it, in case you want to make one for yourself.
Here’s a little treat for you – Bach’s incomparably lovely Goldberg Variations played on the harpsichord by Janine Johnson and streamed courtesy of Magnatune. (Buy it there!)
The Story of Mankind, by Hendrik van Loon, read by Kara and Michelle.
You can buy a lovely thick reprint of the original book, with dozens of lively illustrations, from http://mainlesson.com.
Impatient? Get the entire free audio book here: http://librivox.org/the-story-of-mankind-by-hendrik-van-loon/
The Story of Mankind, by Hendrik van Loon, read by Kara and Michelle.
22 Rome and Carthage – 23:42
You can buy a lovely thick reprint of the original book, with dozens of lively illustrations, from http://mainlesson.com.
Impatient? Get the entire free audio book here: http://librivox.org/the-story-of-mankind-by-hendrik-van-loon/
The Story of Mankind, by Hendrik van Loon, read by Kara and Michelle.
You can buy a lovely thick reprint of the original book, with dozens of lively illustrations, from http://mainlesson.com.
Impatient? Get the entire free audio book here: http://librivox.org/the-story-of-mankind-by-hendrik-van-loon/
Forgot to say that Dan took us to lunch at the Studio Diner yesterday! I love going there. We went around 2:00 so it was practically empty, and nice and cool, too. My BLT was excellent, made with good ripe tomatoes, curly lettuce (not iceberg), lots of bacon, and thin crisp toasted bread. Henry, the Teenage Eating Machine, who used to barely eat anything, wolfed down an entire 1/2 pound burger with everything except pickles, and a huge pile of fries. And Dan had some kind of open-faced sandwich with meat and cheese, and clam chowder which he said was really good. It was relaxing and fun, a lovely birthday treat!
On the way home we stopped at the craft store so I could get some cotton yarn to start a belt for Henry on my new inkle loom. And then we spent the rest of the day hiding in the air conditioned bedrooms again until Henry had Kung Fu from 6:30 to 9. Chloe came over in the evening and we spent a couple hours scanning more of 1961.
In January 1961, the family went to look at the aftermath of a 45-car train wreck near DeWitt:
The Story of Mankind, by Hendrik van Loon, read by Kara and Michelle.
You can buy a lovely thick reprint of the original book, with dozens of lively illustrations, from http://mainlesson.com.
Impatient? Get the entire free audio book here: http://librivox.org/the-story-of-mankind-by-hendrik-van-loon/
It’s my 40th birthday. Doesn’t that sound old? But I just talked to my 88-yr-old grandmother and she says 40 is young :)
Henry gave me a Barnes and Noble gift card (knitting books here I come!) and Dan gave me a Ravelry tote bag, a wooden darning egg, a Knit Picks gift card, and a Schacht inkle loom, all things I’ve been wishing for! I can’t wait to start a weaving on my very own inkle loom. You may remember that I borrowed one for a while in Spring and really enjoyed using it. Henry requested a handmade belt for his birthday so that’s the first thing I plan to make.
It’s 100 degrees here today, good lord, so we’ve got the AC running in the back of the house (we can close off the bedrooms from the living room) and are hiding back here, all three of us.
I got hired to record an audiobook for a little publishing company, so I’m working on editing the very long Chapter 2 right now. I recorded it last night from 8 to 11 (the aircraft flies over my house less frequently at night).
