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 |                              FEB-25-2026                               |
 |                                                                        |
 |  So, time for me to fess up. I am not actually living at the dawn of   |
 | the digital age. I am writing this in 2026 and have just been playing  |
 |  make believe. It is getting more and more difficult to keep up this   |
 | charade, and it's likely that everyone has seen through it anyway. So, |
 | what does this mean? I am going to start dating my entries. Cool, huh? |
 | Don't worry dear reader, I will not be changing my ramshackle writing  |
 |         approach, nor will I be adding images to the website.          |
 |                                                                        |
 |  In other news, I've been having a blast sharing recipes with all of   |
 |  you and I have added three more since my last update. I added Pizza   |
 | Burgers and Italian Dunkers over the weekend; yesterday I added Wacky  |
 | Cake, a delicious depression era recipe that comes together almost as  |
 |   fast as a boxed cake mix. The recipes I add all have one thing in    |
 | common--they are near and dear to my heart. A lot of them are simpler  |
 | recipes I learned or enjoyed in my youth, but some are just (like the  |
 |                figgy pudding recipe) are more complex.                 |
 |                                                                        |
 |  I have been getting positive feedback about all the new construction  |
 | here. There is new art popping up all over the page, so make sure you  |
 |  have a look around. It seems that the full-color ASCII art is quite   |
 |   striking and "too legit to quit." I am glad you enjoy it, and even   |
 |    happier that I am hearing from you. I love it when you sign the     |
 |  Grizzbook. Even if you signed it before, go ahead and sign it again.  |
 |                           Come on... sign it!                          |
 |                                                                        |
 |      Also, check out the new entry in Grizz's World of Computers.      |
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 |                                                                        |
 |  I have been having a nice weekend. It started with my favourite Star  |
 |   Trek episode (Balance of Terror) coming on. A short while later the  |
 |  pizza arrived (chicken bacon ranch with tomatoes). The movie for the  |
 |   night was Romancing the Stone. It was about a romance novelist who   |
 |   ends up going on a cheesy romantic jungle adventure/treasure hunt.   |
 |  Kathleen Turner and Michael Douglas have great chemistry, which made  |
 |  the movie very engaging. There were lost of laugh-out-loud moments!   |
 |                                                                        |
 |  Saturday was Valentine's day. This year Alli and I made presents for  |
 |   each other. She really likes puzzles, so I took a puzzle (one with   |
 | missing pieces) and painted some pieces red, pink, and purple. I glued |
 | the pieces together in a heart shape about 4 layers deep. I then took  |
 | more glue and really caked it on the top so it find it's way into some |
 |   of the bigger cracks. Finally, I spread the glue out with a brush.   |
 |  Once it dried, it gave the piece a nice glossy finish. Before giving  |
 | it to her, I drilled a hole through it and fished some ribbon through  |
 |         for hanging. I am really happy with how it turned out.         |
 |                                                                        |
 |  She made me an activity book with word finds, dot to dots, coloring   |
 | pages and a mad lib! She always built in some love notes. I like it a  |
 |                                  lot!                                  |
 |                                                                        |
 | I am continuing to work on the site's redesign and am actually nearing |
 |  the end of the journey. Today I revised the poetry page, and I have   |
 | been working my way through the second joke page. Only that, the third |
 | joke page, and the links page remain uncompleted. I am taking it slow  |
 |  because I don't want to burn myself out on this. I made a delicious   |
 |  trifle (inspired by one on BlueMSX's site) and will likely be adding  |
 |  that to the recipe page sometime this week. I am also making sure to  |
 |  continue doing updates, like this one, and am also planning to do a   |
 |  review of Rainbow Brite and the Star Stealer later today-- so watch   |
 |        for that! I hope your weekend has been as good as mine.         |
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 |                                                                        |
 |     I had a great night Friday getting on-line with the Compaq and     |
 |    browsing the site in the 1.44MB and Hotline webrings. There were    |
 |     so many cool sites and some really weird ones too! We enjoyed      |
 |     visiting our local movie theature on Saturday. I had popcorn and   |
 |   Diet Coke while I took in a buddy cop movie. It was a great time.    |
 |                                                                        |
 |   Less great, our bathtub is leaking from the overflow pipe. I spent   |
 | quite a bit of time enlarging the access hole beneath the tub so I can |
 | get my fat hands up in there. After cutting through the 3/4" plywood I |
 | found cement board on the top side of it. I was able to break that out |
 |  with a large pair of water pump pliers. By the time I got the access  |
 |   hole cut, I was too tired to do the troubleshooting steps. I guess   |
 |                    that will be in my next update.                     |
 |                                                                        |
 |   I got a really cool track and car set that I absolutely love. The    |
 |   track itself is flexible and glows in the dark. Ok, so I actually    |
 |  bought 5 sets and hooked them all together. And then I built a turn   |
 |    and an overpass to go with it. The 1:64 scale cars are basically    |
 | stompers- you put a battery in and they go. The track does a good job  |
 |    of keeping them contained. Watch for my upcoming review on them.    |
 |                                                                        |
 |   I am also excited about going to McDonald's for lunch today. I am    |
 | going to get a nugget happy meal and a double cheeseburger. They have  |
 | cool toys in the happy meals right now. They are called changables but |
 |      are basically McDonald's transformers! I wonder which one I       |
 |                              will get...                               |
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 |  I just added some "red reveal" decoder books to the homepage, right   |
 | below the coloring books. These books are really cool. The first one I |
 | ever came across was the Nintendo one I added, and it fascinated me. I |
 | have now found four of them and have made them all available to all of |
 | you to print out. Then, pair it with some red celephane or a red lens  |
 |  to decode the mystery images. With both coloring books and now these  |
 |        ones, maybe I need to add a virtual library to the page!        |
 |                                                                        |
 |   Also in the news, I am planning to add virtual recipe box here as    |
 |                  well, so be on the lookout for that!                  |
 |                                                                        |
 |  Alli and I just got done making some hard candies. Mine were lemon-   |
 | lemon and flavoured with a kool-aid packet. I used too much flavouring |
 | and they are pretty sour. I dusted them with sugar to help. Alli's are |
 | strawberry. She used a super-concentrate and they turned out great. I  |
 |    need to look and see what other flavours are available with her     |
 |    brand, but I do want to try the koolaid again with half as much     |
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 |    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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 |=================|    Thanksgiving and remodeling    |==================|
 |                 +-----------------------------------+                  |
 |                                                                        |
 |   We are, for the most part, feeling better. I went back to work on    |
 |   Monday but really didn't start to improve much untl Tuesday. Alli    |
 |  didn't start feeling much better at all until Wednesday. I've got a   |
 |   little bit of a lingering cough that only affects me when I laugh.   |
 |                     Unfortunately I like to laugh.                     |
 |                                                                        |
 |    I had some extra time off this week. Because of the Thanksgiving    |
 |  holiday the store was closed Thursday through the weekend. So I have  |
 |   been working on our den (where I have my computer set up). I added   |
 | some outlets behind the TV and behind the telephone table I also added |
 |  two phone jacks by my chair-- one of the telephone and a second line  |
 |  so I can get online and not tie up our main line. I guess I have no   |
 |                excuse but to keep this page up to date!                |
 |                                                                        |
 |   I had to do some drywall work for the project too because the wall   |
 |  behind the end table has a foam insulation behind the drywall which   |
 | kept me from being able to just pull the wires through. Instead, I had |
 |  a open up a "chase" by carefully cutting out a strip of the drywall   |
 |  and then re-installing it after the fact. I did put insulation back   |
 |   in, of course. Alli should be putting the second coat of touch-up    |
 |                      paint on in about 15 minutes.                     |
 |                                                                        |
 | We didn't go anywhere for Thanksgiving becaue we didn't want to spread |
 |   around what we were sick with. We made our own little Thanksgiving   |
 |     meal yesterday with turkey, croissants, potatoes, cranberries,     |
 |    stuffing, gravy and pie. Alli used some purple potatoes and when    |
 | mashed they looked like some sort of blueberry goo. They tasted fine,  |
 |  but I couldn't bring myself to eat many of them. Kadence opened the   |
 |                    can of cranberries, so helpful.                     |
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 | It has been a long week. Kadence brought home a nasty bug last weekend |
 | and we are all suffering for it. Alli missed almost the entire week of |
 |    work and I missed most of Wednesday-Friday. We have canceled our    |
 |   Thanksgiving with family next week so they don't get sick from any   |
 |   remaining germs. Not to mention how tired we all still are and we    |
 | don't need to add the burden of hosting a family meal. Instead, we are |
 |  going to have a small bird, some pie, and cranberry sauce. Probably   |
 |                           some stuffing too.                           |
 |                                                                        |
 |    I did get a little bit done this week. While I was laying on my     |
 |   beanbag chair feeling miserable, I organized my bookshelf. I also    |
 | messed with my clock (the one I reviewed a couple weeks ago) and have  |
 |  managed to fix the hands so that they do not catch on each other. It  |
 |        has been keeping accurated time for nearly two days now.        |
 |                                                                        |
 |  I am only doing a small update to the page this week-- just what you  |
 |  are reading now and a new poem in the poetry section. Also, earlier   |
 | this week I uploaded an activity book from Showbiz Pizza, so make sure |
 | that you check that out. I was originally planning no updates for next |
 | week, but with the cancelation of our Thanksgiving I will be able to   |
 |              provide an update for all my fans out there.              |
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 | We are officially ready for winter! The furnance is running great, the |
 | sprinkler system is drained, the grass is mowed short, and the garage  |
 | has been rearranged so our vehicles can go in. Next thing you know if  |
 | will be Thanksgiving, then Chanukah, and then the goyiche new year. I  |
 |  am doing a test run tonight, making a whole chicken, some biscuits,   |
 |                                                                        |
 |  We went to see Kadence's play last night, a musical with a bunch of   |
 | Abba songs in it. Most of the kids couldn't sing, but our Kadence and  |
 | her friend Gary sang like angels. They played some sort of domestics,  |
 |  I think, we were never really introduced to their characters-- they   |
 |   were just there to sing and background act. In one scene they were   |
 |   pretending to take money, and Kadence was the best at it. Years of   |
 |                           practice I guess.                            |
 |                                                                        |
 |   My knee is still healing, but I am starting to do some rehab on it   |
 | because the healing has seemed to just about start going backwards. It |
 | was tougher for me to get up and down the stairs this week than it was |
 | for me last week. It feels like the little muscles across the front of |
 | my knee that took most of the fall are still inflamed and are wanting  |
 | to weaken. So I am using some weird shock therapy device on it and it  |
 |  makes the muscles moved. If I try manipulating the muscle while its   |
 |   being shocked, it really hurts. I think the muscle or tendons or     |
 | whatever are tangled up in their selves because of the swelling. Kind  |
 | of like my elbow gets. The doctor calls that tendonitis. Oh well, I am |
 |           sure the electricity will eventually recharge me!            |
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 | Good news everyone, I got the new part for the furnance and it is back |
 |   to purring like a fiery kitten. It only too about three minutes to   |
 |      change out the limit switch-- just two screws and two wires.      |
 | Everything has been fuctioning well since Tuesday. Good thing since we |
 |                    have already has snow this year!                    |
 |                                                                        |
 |  We went out shopping at the five and dime earlier today. I got some   |
 |  new slippers. They are really comfortable and really brown. I got an  |
 |  ice tea at McDonald's too. We are going to clean the garage tomorrow  |
 | so we can start parking the vehicles inside now that its getting cold  |
 | out. I think I will be making my final mow of the year some time this  |
 |                                 week.                                  |
 |                                                                        |
 | I started reading a new book called "Everything You Want to Know About |
 |    Your Favorite Wrestling Superstars." It has Hulk Hogan, the Iron    |
 | Sheik, Sgt. Slaughter, Kamala, Wendy Ritcher, and Cyndi Lauper on the  |
 | cover. Cyndi is on there because of the rock and wrestling connection, |
 |    she is in the same image as Wendy. I have read about Hogan, Bob     |
 | Backlund, Andre the Giant, and the Von Erichs so far. I wonder if they |
 | have and Andre the Gnat in the midget ranks?!? Anyway, I will probably |
 | be doing a future review on it. I really love wrestling, I watch NWA,  |
 | WWF, WCCW, and AWA. Can you imagine if we ever got a Hulk Hogan vs Ric |
 |                              Flair match!                              |
 |                                                                        |
 | Alli ordered some really good taco pizza last night. Crazy right, taco |
 | stuff on a pizza? They even sent taco sauce packets with it. I read in |
 |  the paper once that a guy named Joe Whitey at Happy Joe's right here  |
 |  in Iowa invented it. I think it was in Davenport. Davenport, Iowa,    |
 |   not a Davenport sofa. I am planning to made one of my world-famous   |
 |   curries tonight. My curries are so good, they made Ghandi end his    |
 |    hunger strile. OK, that's it for this week. Oh, except I put up     |
 | another page of jokes. Check out the Kevin Bacon one, that is a Grizz  |
 |                               original!                                |
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 | It's Halloween week, I just uploaded a spooky poem on that part of the |
 | website. It's almost november, so don't forget to sign up for the DOS  |
 |    and Don'ts newsletter before it's release on the 1st. Link here.    |
 |   I have got some new software I am using to edit my webpage and for   |
 |  general writing, you can read about that in the Computers section of  |
 |   this site. Clinton, Kadence and I went to the wrestling matches in   |
 | town last night. They had a costumem battle royale. I believe a good.  |
 |                          time was has by all                           |
 |                                                                        |
 |  I am going to make my famous chilli tonight, Kadence is very excited  |
 |  about it. Cohen said he got time off and will be able to come up for  |
 |   Chanukah in Dccember. Jewels probably won't make it back since she   |
 |  lives in Colorado and is wedged between two mountains. I am going to  |
 |  get the sprinkler system drain today and it has gotten very cold out  |
 | suddently. Its pretty easy though, the hardest part is running the air |
 |  compressor hose across the house and down to the basement. It's just  |
 |    hard to admit to myself that it's that time of the year already.    |
 |                                                                        |
 | We woke up to a cold house yesterday. The furnance stopped working and |
 |  it got down to 61 in here. Don't worry, it's nothing major. It has a  |
 |   resetable high-limit switch and, well, it doesn't reset anymore. I   |
 |  have it bypassed currently and am only running it when I can keep an  |
 |   eye on it until I get the new part. The good news is, it's warm in   |
 |                              here again!                               |
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 | I had a bit of a tumble in the garage on Monday and hurt my knee, but  |
 | I didn't break. Still hurts like a mother. Alli got me a monster truck |
 |  coloring book and socks to match! I colored a Halloween picture last  |
 |   night-- there were so many pumpkins! We just watched an episode of   |
 |             Sanford and Son, that theme song is funk-aye!              |
 |                                                                        |
 | With my knee being so sore, I won't be doing much this weekend. Maybe  |
 | I can sweet talk Alli into making waffles tomorrow morning. That would |
 |                             be delicious!                              |
 |                                                                        |
 |    I almost forgot, Joe, myself and some other nuts are starting a     |
 |  newsletter about all kinds of groovy stuff. The website for that is   |
 |                 http://dosanddonts.mywebcommunity.org.                 |
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 | We went to Menards yesterday and picked up soe wood paneling for down  |
 | in the basement. We have an unfinished wall and I really don't want to |
 | do drywall. Three panels should go up pretty smoothly, but I am having |
 |  a fairly relaxing day so I don't think I will be tackling that task   |
 |  until the work week, some day after work I will get it done. We went  |
 |    to the resale store while we were out and had lunch at Hardees.     |
 |                                                                        |
 |  This morning I slept in and am now watching some WWF on the console   |
 |   TV. Jake the Snake just released his boa constricter Damien on his   |
 |  unconcious oppoentent after the match. That doesn't look like fun to  |
 |  me-- even Indiana Jones doesn't like snakes! I made some adjustments  |
 | to the accordian door and I think it works a lot better now. It looks  |
 |                      good too, even Joe says so.                       |
 |                                                                        |
 |   We are going to have leftover hamburger stew for lunch and Alli is   |
 | making some sort of chicken dish for supper. She needs to make a phone |
 |                  call, so I am going to log off now!                   |
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 |=================|   Accordion and door had a baby   |==================|
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 |   I installed an accordian door on my closet today. It looks pretty    |
 | good, white with a faux woodgrain pattern. I think they are some sort  |
 |  of polymer. In bigger news, I need to drain the sprinkler system in   |
 | about a month, maybe sooner if we get a cold snap. I am going to need  |
 | to get the garage cleaned back up soon too for winter parking and for  |
 |   the winter golf league. I still need to do inspections on the two    |
 | furnaces in the house and the plow as well. I am not going to look at  |
 | the hot water heater (other than leak and wiring inspections) because  |
 | it is well beyond its prize and I would be more likely to cause damage |
 |   than prevent it. Alli is making spagheti for supper, I wonder is     |
 |            oregano is her secret ingredient (like on Andy)!            |
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 | Can you believe all the weird phones that have come out since '83 when |
 |     we all got away from Ma Bell? I have seen all kinds of cartoon     |
 |  characters made into uncomfortable looking phones, including Snoopy,  |
 | Mickey Mouse, Pac-man and even Gumby (damn-it)! I do like the Garfield |
 |  one though. He is sleeping soundly, as fat cats do, until the phone   |
 |  rings and BAM his eyes open! Our youngest daughter has one that is a  |
 | hamburger-- it opens like a clam shell and she listens to one bun and  |
 | speaks into the other. I would think a hotdog would be more ergonomic. |
 | She saw a high-heel shoe one the other day and kind of wants that now. |
 | Maybe for Chanukah? Even Sports Illustrated is using a football phone  |
 |                           as a come-on now!                            |
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What is that?

I hear a noise

kind of a low growl

and something scratching or scraping

at the back door...