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From husband Bill, Sept. 16, 2026

Play-Doh was initially invented as a way to clean wallpaper.

Sept. 16, 2026

X-ray/Ultrasound

From husband Bill, Sept. 15, 2026

5:30 p.m., Sept. 15, 2026: X-ray(s) of lungs; ultrasound of liver, both at a nearby imaging facility

From husband Bill, Sept. 15, 2026

UPDATE: The ultrasound is of my entire abdomen, including my liver.

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From husband Bill, Sept. 15, 2026

Today is National Créme de Menthe Day. I love my mother's traditional Crème de Menthe brownies that she use to make every Christmas season. (See photo.)

From husband Bill, Sept. 15, 2026

I prefer linguine to spaghetti, but my favorite pasta is bucatini.

From husband Bill, Sept. 15, 2026

I do enjoy cheeseburgers. I am not a fan of American "cheese" on burgers, except from McDonald's. The cheeses I prefer on burgers are blue, Provolone, or Swiss.

From husband Bill, Sept. 15, 2026

I don't think that I have ever eaten cheese toast. It certainly doesn't look familiar to me. I have eaten many a Croque Monsieur, which is similar.

From husband Bill, Sept. 15, 2026

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From husband Bill, Sept. 14, 2026

I like those Krispy Creme vanilla custard-filled or vanilla frosting-filled doughnuts with the chocolate glaze on top. I also like Tim Hortons vanilla custard-filled donuts with the maple glaze on top.

Dunkin' Donuts

Krispy Creme Doughnuts

Notice the spelling difference. When I was a journalist (1982-2017), this was just one of thousands of bits of information that I needed to know, just in case. It only came up once in all of those years.

Oh yeah !!! I also like Krapfen, which are Austrian jelly donuts popular during the days before and on Fasching (Mardi Gras).

From husband Bill, Sept. 14, 2026

What is your favorite hero sandwich? My favorite is turkey, Swiss cheese, mayonnaise, mustard, and ground black pepper, NEVER with lettuce, tomatoes, onions, olives, pickles, etc., and sometimes with jalapeño peppers or banana peppers, also know as vinegar peppers. I call it a hero. It's also called a hoagie, a sub or a submarine, an Italian, a grinder, a wedge, and a spuckie.

From husband Bill, Sept. 14, 2026

Beatles Video

From husband Bill, Sept. 13, 2026

I created and uploaded onto my YouTube channel this video of my favorite song from each Beatles album. (length: 2 minutes, 21 seconds)

I have been an official Beatles fan since the summer of 1964 (age three/3), when my mom took me and one of the two girls who lived next door to a theater to watch The Beatles' first movie "A Hard Day's Night." I may have been a Beatles fan before then; I probably watched their first performance on The Ed Sullivan Show on February 9, 1964. Maybe, I was a fan even before that.

My Favorite Song From Each Album By The Beatles (created: Sept. 12, 2026; uploaded: Sept. 13, 2026)

https://youtube.com/shorts/mTWO_xxnkfo?is=qwJJ5MRjcp9snScx

Sept. 13, 2026

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From husband Bill, Sept. 13, 2026

I am definitely celebrating.

From husband Bill, Sept. 13, 2026

I prefer the most crunchy versions of peanut butter. I used to eat peanuts, but not anymore really.

From husband Bill, Sept. 13, 2026

USA USA USA

From husband Bill, Sept. 13, 2026

Maternal Grandmother - Italian

Maternal Grandfather - Italian

Paternal Grandmother - Swiss and Austrian

Paternal Grandfather - Portuguese

From husband Bill, Sept. 13, 2026

I am more of a fatalist than an optimist or a pessimist. 

From husband Bill, Sept. 13, 2026

Today is National Pet Memorial Day, the second Sunday in September.

From husband Bill, Sept. 13, 2026

A Toast To Us

A Heartfelt Toast: Here is a simple, yet important observation on the recent, decades-long state of the world. Cheers!

Sept. 12, 2026

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From husband Bill, Sept. 12, 2026

I prefer Black & White shakes: vanilla ice cream and chocolate syrup. I like saying it. I typically prefer hardcore chocolate, meaning chocolate ice cream and chocolate syrup.

From husband Bill, Sept. 12, 2026

Two of my favorite video games, loosely speaking, are:

1. Mind you, this was in the 1990s, when I was in my 30s, and not married. I forget the name of the video game, but I purchased it to play on my computer at home. There were a bunch of slutty cartoon women running around in different locations (the forest, the beach, etc.). The idea was to maneuver this cartoon man, who would chase these women and throw blobs of green slime at them to dissolve their clothes so only their bras and panties remained. The basic idea is, at the beginning of the game, you are shown three cartoon women with different colored underwear, and you have to find the matching women by dissolving their clothes. Does anyone know the name of this game because I can't find the name of the game on Google or Yahoo?

2. I loved playing the game Killer Shark at the arcade when I was a kid in the 1970s. You shoot spears at cheezy, low-resolution, cartoon sharks. If you miss, and the shark gets too close, its mouth turns red as if he ate you. If you hit him a few times, he also turns red. It came out in 1972, when I was eleven years old. That was the year my parents and I moved to a house on the water on the south shore of Long Island, New York, so perhaps that affected my choice of game. The game made a quick cameo appearance in the 1975 movie "Jaws."

Here is a short video about the game.

https://youtu.be/eXIXrW61fIk?si=anJOknE6_NoRFIyKr

From husband Bill, Sept. 12, 2026

I am quite happy that Trump and his crew are kicking illegal immigrants off Medicare and finding other related fraud.

From husband Bill, Sept. 12, 2026

Go do something that you can do.

From husband Bill, Sept. 12, 2026

Twin Towers

From husband Bill, Sept. 11, 2026

This is a photo of the World Trade Center towers that I took from a friend's apartment in Jersey City, New Jersey, during a rather festive Christmas dinner gathering in the mid-1990s. A few years later on the day before I started my move to Boca Raton, Florida, from Jersey City in May 1998 (after working in New York City for seven years), I spent two-and-a-half hours sitting on a bench at the base of the Twin Towers, eating my lunch, relaxing, and just staring up at the two massive structures. I was thinking, sadly: "It will probably be a long time before I see them again in person." I never thought that I would NEVER see them again.

From husband Bill, Sept. 11, 2026

Birthday: Mom-In-Law

From husband Bill, Sept. 11, 2026

Happy Birthday (September 11) to my mother-in-law (R.I.P.). We love you and miss you even more with each passing day. This is my favorite photo of Lorna and me. My wife snapped it on July 13, 2008, in a coffee shop in Cambridge, Ontario, Canada, when the three of us were on vacation, visiting my wife's family and friends in and around Toronto. I particularly like that she is small and is holding a big cup, and I am bigger and am holding a smaller cup.

From husband Bill, Sept. 11, 2026