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RSS reading.
How do I set this up to have a non-lj blog feed to me? Here would be nice but I'd settle for my e-mail which is where here would feed to anyway.
I've seen the little red RSS button but when clicked it gives me a page of computer coding that I have no idea what to do with.

I think I've mentioned that I am a Luddite in the past. If you missed it, well I am. Luddites are technology ignorant, not necessarily by choice or it's a subconscious choice. Don't make me ask my children. They'll go do this and then that and then this in fast succession. There is a reason I don't have a smart phone even though an old one was offered. How people with them in their back pants pocket don't break them just sitting I do not know. It's magic; how to work them and how to not crack their little plastic bodies.

You Don't Want Me Deleting ALL OF the Internet.* *Eddie Izzard reference.

An American in Britain

So a friend is going to be taking summer classes in the U.K. Today there was this post on Face Book:

Just explained secession of Southern states* to teenagers on a bus. In my defense: they were reading a book and sounded confused. Must.stop.teaching.total.strangers.

Cultural exchange. Drop a teacher into an environment where there's need, the good ones can't help themselves.


*For those not educated in U.S. history: Abraham Lincoln was elected President of the United States on November 6, 1860 - "Government cannot endure permanently half slave, half free..."
7 states seceded from the Union within 2 months forming The Confederate States of America.

March 4, 1861 - Abraham Lincoln is sworn in as 16th President of the United States of America.

April 12, 1861 - At 4:30 a.m. Confederates under Gen. Pierre Beauregard open fire with 50 cannons upon Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina. The Civil War begins.

April 9, 1865 - Gen. Robert E. Lee surrenders his Confederate Army to Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at the village of Appomattox Court House in Virginia. Grant allows Rebel officers to keep their sidearms and permits soldiers to keep horses and mules.
April 18, 1865 - Confederate Gen. Joseph E. Johnston surrenders to Sherman near Durham in North Carolina.
In May - Remaining Confederate forces surrender. The Nation is reunited as the Civil War ends. Over 620,000 Americans died in the war, with disease killing twice as many as those lost in battle. 50,000 survivors return home as amputees.

December 6, 1865 - The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, passed by Congress on January 31, 1865, is finally ratified. Slavery is abolished.

http://www.historyplace.com/civilwar/