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Of the basic flavors, I prefer chocolate ice cream to vanilla ice cream, and I dislike strawberry ice cream.

June 7, 2025, at home

I still have many VCR-format videotapes, but no videotape player. I even have videotapes with the PAL format from Austria, which I couldn't play here in the United States even if I had a video player due to incompatibility. I watched one tape long ago at my cousin's home in Austria of a pop concert tour of Rainhard Fendrich that we had attended with her and her then-husband in Vienna, Austria, in 1997. Yeah, I brought the tape with me on a subsequent vacation to Austria so that we could watch it together.

My dad purchased a videotape recorder in the mid-1970s. I remember that one of my earliest recordings from when I was 15 years old was of George Harrison and Paul Simon performing on the show Saturday Night Live in 1976. Also in the 1970s, I recorded a music show with promotional films of ABBA and Thin Lizzy, and a live concert by the Electric Light Orchestra.

June 7, 2025, at home

Ladies, today would be a good day to travel to the forest to visit the bear you would prefer to encounter than a man.

On a hunting trip in Canada long ago, my uncle shot and had mounted a record-setting, 650-pound black bear. My mom and I nicknamed him Max after the boxer Max Baer, whose son, Max Baer Jr., played Jethro Bodine on the TV sitcom "The Beverly Hillbillies." Both my uncle and his father (my grandfather) were pugilists.

June 7, 2025, at home