Hello from IOWA (yes, the American state with all the corn and pigs!) I am a self-described computer nut. I also love electronics, telephone systems, lawncare and modern TV shows like Alf and Growing Pains. Have you seen the new Columbo series? And, of course, I am a big fan of Star Trek-- I am not sure about The Next Generation yet. Hopefully the next season will live up to the original!

If you visit my FTP (File Transfer Protocol) site you can download some cool software and even a couple programs I wrote. Mine are the ones in the GRIZZSOFT folder. Check out the Codename:Arcturus BASIC program! There are also some photographs I scanned in the Polaroids folders. Here is a link to my FTP.

I also like to color. Recently I picked up a GIANT Care Bears coloring book-- it is as big as the screen on my console TV! I managed to find a few coloring books "on line" in PDF (Portable Document Format) and I will gladly share them with you! You will need a program called Acrobat to view them. Click the links below for any (or all) that you want!

Garfield Coloring Book
Super Mario Brothers Coloring Book
Transformers Coloring Book
Showbiz Pizza's Billy Bob Busytime Book

I like jokes too. Read some jokes, why not? Joke Page 1 Page 2 Page 3

I have also been known to write some pretty good poetry too. Please have a look at some of my best.

What's Going on Grizz?

Another week done and I am enjoying a quiet Saturday morning. We picked up a new sideboard and will be assembling that later today. I am hoping that will solve most of our kitchen storage issues. I need an actual home for some of my state-of-the-art kitchen gadgets, like the bread maker, snackmaster, crockpot, and kitchenaid mixer. This thing is 5' wide, has four doors and three drawers. The drawer space will be really nice for us, and all the drawers that we have are super-crowded.

I've been listening to a lot of "Talking Heads" music lately. They are the right kind of weird for me. They have an album called "More Songs About Buildings and Food." I like both of those things, and usually when I eat food I am in a building. It really hits home for me.

I've been reading a lot of books lately, currently I am reading "Mort Ziff is Not Dead" by Cary Fagan. It's about a boy that is tormented by his older brothers that finally catches a break when he guesses the right number of candies in a jar and wins $1000. The story takes place in the 1960s, so that is a heck of a lot of money for a kid. He decides to take his family on a real vacation to Miami beach to get away from the Canadian winter. The dad jokes that he would like to leave his brothers at home. It has been good so far, and they should be landing in Miami in the next chapter. We have vacationed twice in Miami, and it was the first place that I ever saw the ocean.

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Grizz Reviews Stuff

Big Leauge Chew

This pink, shredded bubble gum tastes as you would expect it, but the novelty of it is that is comes in a chewing tobacco pouch. Now baseball loving kids can imitate their big league heros without to health issues associated with tobacoo products. I gave Kadence some on Friday and she seemed to like it too. I did notice that it lost it's flavour in about 15 minutes, but that is better than you get with the dried up sticks of gum that come with baseball trading cards.

What else is there to say about Big League Chew? If I knew, this review would be longer. 4/5 bases. I know, there are only 4 bases but 4/4 is too good for this product and 3/4 is underselling it. Maybe the umpire keeps an extra base in the trunk of his car in case of emergencies!

Grizz's World of Computers

Faster Modem?

I bought a new modem at an auction. It's not for my laptop so I will have to do some adapting, but they don't make a 9600 bps modem for my laptop! I will let you know more when I get the chance to examine the new modem and the modem slot in my laptop. I've got some reverse-engineering to do!

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