Prebiotic Soda: excerpt

from husband Bill, April 22, 2026

I created and uploaded onto my YouTube channel another taste-test video. This is only a 30-second excerpt.

Prebiotic Soda: excerpt (April 22, 2026)

https://youtube.com/shorts/PRQHUMllMFs?si=xCOwFbbDRHUeZIcF

Please watch the full version:

Taste Test: Prebiotic Soda (April 22, 2026)

https://youtu.be/E_dkhooZnIY?si=i-_-geLUzfhLnBdx

April 22, 2026

Prebiotic Soda Review

from husband Bill, April 22, 2026

I created and uploaded onto my YouTube channel another taste-test video. (3 minutes, 39 seconds)

The background music: excerpts from two of my piano improvisations. I like to sit at my digital piano and just start playing whatever is in my head at that time. I make it up as I go along.

Taste Test: Prebiotic Soda (April 22, 2026)

https://youtu.be/E_dkhooZnIY?si=i-_-geLUzfhLnBdx

Earth Day

from husband Bill, April 22, 2026

Today (April 22, 2026) is World Earth Day. The first Earth Day was celebrated on this date in 1970, as co-founded by environmental activist Ira Einhorn. Seven years later, police raided his closet and found the "composted" body of his ex-girlfriend inside a trunk.

https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna42711922

April 20, 21, 22

from husband Bill, April 22, 2026

Jelly Beans & Drivers

from husband Bill, April 22, 2026

My Favorite Jelly Bean Flavors:
Generic: cherry; orange; grape
Jelly Belly: buttered popcorn; mango; chocolate pudding; black pepper

Least Favorite Jelly Belly Flavors: vomit; sardine ... (Apparently, the vomit bean was an attempt at making a pizza bean.)

Morning Drive Home

from husband Bill, April 21, 2026

En route home from this morning's appointment with my cardiologist (in southeastern Florida), I just stuck my phone out of the car window and shot this short video by twisting my phone at different angles. (47 seconds, unedited)

Car: black 2008 Volkswagen Rabbit. I was NOT driving; my wife was. I haven't been able to drive in several years due to peripheral neuropathy (constant numbness, occasional pain) in both of my feet due to diabetes.

Morning Drive Home (in SE Florida) after My Cardiologist Appointment: unedited (April 21, 2026)

https://youtube.com/shorts/ywxGKhp78Fk?si=iVs1l9e2gp5BlXDt

from husband Bill, April 21, 2026

Cashew is one of my favorite nuts.

from husband Bill, April 21, 2026

From 1992 to 1996, I was a reporter, writer, editor, and researcher for an international weekly magazine on the financial and technical aspects of the chemical industry, as I have mentioned many times. My first position there was titled "Oils, Fats, and Waxes Editor." (I still love that title.)

While I wrote about such substances as Carnauba Wax and High Erucic Acid Rapeseed Oil, in regard to today's celebration, I also wrote about grease, both white and yellow; lard; and tallow (all from an industrial lubrication perspective). I also wrote about biodiesel fuel.

I was later promoted to more complex coverage areas: Flavors and Fragrances Editor; then Heavy and Agriculture Chemicals Editor; and then Market Research Editor.

from husband Bill, April 21, 2026

420

from husband Bill, April 20, 2026

Today Is ...

from husband Bill, April 20, 2026

Excerpt: Protein Soda Video

from husband Bill, April 20, 2026

Here is an excerpt from a taste-test video that I created and uploaded onto my YouTube channel. (27 seconds)

The piano introduction is an excerpt from one of my piano improvisations. I like to sit at my digital piano and just start playing whatever is in my head at that time. I make it up as I go along.

Excerpt: Taste Test, Protein Soda (April 19, 2026)

https://youtube.com/shorts/yvzp860wJaA?si=DM1VUbnNCkYa5mJ4

Taste Taste: Protein Soda

I created and uploaded onto my YouTube channel this taste-test video. (4 minutes, 10 seconds)

The piano introduction is an excerpt from one of my piano improvisations. I like to sit at my digital piano and just start playing whatever is in my head at that time. I make it up as I go along.

Taste Test: Protein Soda (April 19, 2026)

https://youtu.be/DOGPoCNTh3w?si=bsh7azKhLTr9GtU5

April 19, 2026

She Likes Men

from husband Bill, April 19, 2026

Today Is ...

from husband Bill, April 19, 2026

On this date in 1995, Timothy McVeigh killed 168 people in the bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. (He was pronounced guilty and then later executed on June 11, 2001.)

From 1992 to 1996, I was a reporter, writer, editor, and researcher for an international weekly magazine about the financial and technical aspects of the chemical industry.

Shortly after the bombing, FBI agents came to our office in the Financial District of New York City (Manhattan) because McVeigh had a subscription to our magazine. At that time, I was writing about heavy and agricultural chemicals, including the fertilizer ammonium nitrate, which was the explosive chemical that McVeigh used in his truck bomb.

I was NOT questioned by the FBI agents. There was no reason for that.

After all of these many years gone by, it is still disturbing to be tangentially (remotely?) linked to someone that evil, even though I wasn't really linked. McVeigh most probably read what I wrote about ammonium nitrate, but only of its supply, demand, and pricing, nothing more than that.

from husband Bill, April 19, 2026

Being half Italian, I love Amaretto, an Italian almond liqueur. Long ago, I used to drink Bocce Balls (Amaretto mixed with orange juice; no vodka). I also like those Italian Amaretto cookies. Sipping Amaretto straight is nice, too, especially after a delicious Italian dinner.

from husband Bill, April 19, 2026

Being half Italian, I absolutely LOVE eating garlic. However, my religion (Gaudiya Vaishnavism) forbids me from eating it because it causes passion. I still eat it. TRIVIA: The country that consumes the most garlic is South Korea.

from husband Bill, April 19, 2026

Today Is ...

from husband Bill

Today (April 18, 2026) is National Columnists' Day.

(I was a journalist from September 1982 to April 2017.)

My religion is called Gaudiya Vaishnavism, also known as Hare Krishna, which is a sect of Sanatana Dharma, also known as Hinduism. I wrote this column (below) in 2014 about my religion. It was published in almost all of the 24 southeastern Florida weekly newspapers in the chain for which I was working at the time (Forum Publishing Group, Sun Sentinel, Tribune Company).

My column was part of a series of columns written by the editors about living in today's world according to our religious tenets. It was published in our April 16, 2014, editions. At the time, I was one of two Assistant Editors (editor and page designer, and sometimes writer and photographer) for five of our weekly newspapers.

Click/tap on the (scanned) photo below to enlarge it. Also, I did an imitation of my father (1934-1997) in my column photo as an homage to my dad. He often had that smirk on this face.

Also, I wrote a weekly opinion column during my first paying journalism job (1989-1990), when I was the founding editor of the first of three community weekly supplements to a daily newspaper (as a reporter, writer, editor, photographer, and page designer) at the Newburgh Evening News in Newburgh, New York.

from husband Bill

Today (April 18, 2026) is National Animal Crackers Day. I don't particularly like them, but the larger frosted versions are OK. I prefer the former, traditional box design when the circus animals were still in cages (below). In a later version of the box, the animals were let loose due to a politically correct issue.

from husband Bill, April 18, 2026