12/23/97
changed wrong url's (old nicoms) in cetera files. 
Loaded up santa.html.

1/9/98
changed link for bermuda.
added netmind button for registering.

1/23/98
lotsa updates to HMR. titanic and madness to HMR.
added preaching to poems.
added link from games/index to zarf pieces.
yet more bad e-mail address.

1/30/98
more link errors in tombstone and graveyard.
additions (2) to graveyard.

2/4/98
HMR emoticons

2/6/98
uploaded HMR

2/8/98
fixed contents link error in SOP.
uploaded wedding pix; put Ischack Miller in graveyard.
(forgot to put graveyard count at 31)

2/11/98
fixed image link envelope.gif 
added lori to graveyard
added scream to HMR

2/15/98
took out envelope.gif from front page
added ET to HMR
added links to santa
fixed arcana link in index
added known links to webpages for graveyard 
linked to the space under window from poem lists and SOP.
uploaded to WTS/john/ginashow
fiddled with new indexing table.

3/1/98
updated graveyard.
started updating index.

3/3/98
finished and uploaded index, friendlynx, and graveyard.
updloaded these. (put discordian links/images in index)

3/23/98
added Todd Riggs to Graveyard.

4/14/98
updated most files to include index header in wts files.
(forgot to write down additions to poetry!)

4/22/98
massaged lotsa files in prep for wts and added heroes.htm.
(list of heroes, unlinked so far).

5/12/98
added two new guys to the graveyard.

5/24/98 
two more in graveyard. 
fixed default.htm and changed a word in thought4.txt
for Kory.

5/26/98 
added god.html and links to it.

5/30/98
added links to heroes.
changed god.html a little.
added deep impact and lion king to HMR.
made table for updates/newpages/news in Default.htm(l).

6/1/98
added godzilla to HMR.
slightly updated poetry index.

6/7/98
Gina's in a play! It's A Conn. Yank in King Art's Court (a 1940's-ish adaptation of Mark Twain's classic). She plays Sandy, the lovely young lady that doesn't quite steal protagonist Hank's heart. Here's a gif of the flyer (really big, ~200KB) for the play.

John's built a LAN at work and shelves/bedframe at home, and a large garden frame. Ginohn's hauling lots of topsoil, humus(sp?), and manure for the garden, and spending spare time weeding and turning soil. Oh, and we put together a big bike shed out of a plastic kit! It's sorta like gigantic Tupperware.

6/12/98
Two new pages were added today: a sammitch and a game, both by Gina!

6/14/98
Finally, the whole Star Wars trilogy, unabridged, condensed into just three haiku! Wow, that was hard! What's with all these exclamation marks!!?
Gina put another delicious invention on our site: Cocopea Stirfry.

7/2/98
New Wedding stuff! See how John & Gina became not one, not two, but twosquishedrealclosetogether.

Gina is off to Origins in Ohio, John will meet up with her in a coupla days.

We have been searching for a very small puppy dog to add to our family. We saw a beagle at an adoption spot and John nearly kidnapped him.

Note: Check out our info on the mirror of this site.

7/18/98
Kristin Matherly gave us a lovely Tombstone, and Jaime Hink gave John an award for his poetry! WooHoo!

8/6/98
Hey, Ginohn had a puppy! Booda Weber Cooper was born May 23, 1998. Everybody's exhausted and happy except Mango who's not exhausted and is a bit pissed. Booda weighed 6.23 pounds at circa 8 (that's 2 to the 3rd) weeks. He's growing fast though -- a little too fast, we think. Soon he might tower over our small house. He's s'posed to be a cross 'tween a spaniel mix and a terrier mix but who knows? He looks like a cross 'tween a puppy and a polar bear. He likes wading in water and biting people, two very polar bearish traits. Beware: Puppies are like concentrated babies. They move pretty fast, want to put everything in their mouths, and require constant police-like attention. But they're about a gazillion times cuter, too.

It was Gina's birthday last month (19th of July). We went to two amusement parks and just recently to the Denn Family Reunion at Lake Chautauqua. On the way there, Gina opened the glove compartment and out popped her favorite Teletubby, Po! Booda has yet to find Po and tear her into little bits.

Also and such: Jake finally gave us a tombstone. Thanks Jake.

8/9/98
We added three new Haiku Movie Reviews for 3 old films.

We're going to see Sheer Madness tonight. [John thinks Gina was the murderer and will vote as such.]

We just finished reading John Christopher's Tripod trilogy and both of us liked it tons. It's an exciting very realistic sci fi adventure.

8/26/98
Can't decide what order to stick this news in, durn it...

• Beatlefest was a blast, mostly. (John has trouble trying to fit in with a cult for more than a day.)
• Zarcana (formerly Anacra {formerly Arcana}) has a new name, which, curiously enough, is Zarcana.
• Booda's gonna go to puppy kindergarten. He's going to learn how to be even cuter.

The murderer (see 8/9) was really the guy in the suit, which just goes to show you can't trust guys in suits.

9/22/98
John has a new game out for hard-core strategy-heads. It's called IceTraders and has sort of a combined setting of Star Wars, Foundation, Star Trek, Known Space, and any other famous Si-Fi interstellar setting you can think of.  Honest.

9/23/98
At Origins a couple months ago, John got a little silly with Aquarius, convincing players to keep their Goal cards secret -- even from themselves.  The resulting game-within-a-game is called Aqua-Chicken.  Self-induced paranoia can be fun.

9/29/98
Strategies for IceTraders is up, as if anybody has learned enough about the game to know how to play it well...

10/7/98
Just in time for Halloween (Ginohn's favorite holy day) -- Ouija Dancing!  Therapy for the soul.

Also, try a couple of our Haiku Movie Reviews.  This week we present Ever After and What Dreams May Come.  Any requests?

10/12/98
Today we celebrate the Dread Pirate Columbus, who visited some southern islands of the Americas and chopped off the hands of men over the age of 14 who didn't give him enough gold to please the chiefs of a nation that was paying him and his fellow "civilized" crew for their crimes.  Nuff said.

John has put up three new(ish) poems: one's about the illusion of time, another is about a special kind of lover, and the third is about 3 of John's favorite subjects that begin with the letter G.

Yesterday was one of Ginohn's birthdays and they had a really beautiful day, hiking with Booda and motorcycling and bicycling and dropping by the Hastings fair to see friends.

10/13/98
John has finally completed his poetry list!  Six old poems have been added; one dates back to 1979 (John was just a little tyke then).  Click and try some street rantings, nurseryrhymes, acid flashbacks, a palindromic legend, and yet another villanelle.

Bladerunner (both versions) is now reviewed in haiku form.

10/28/98
Six more Haiku Movie Reviews! Dark City, Phantom of the Paradise, Antz, Slums of Beverly Hills, 12 Monkeys, and X Files.

11/3/98
Aaagh. Multiple jobs hurt.

We got married in a tree once, but this month's heroine's been sitting in one for almost a year.

Ginohn recently went to a nice all-saints dance party, dressed up as Jesus and Eris.  We managed to get together a lot of people for quite the Gordian-knotwork of a Ouija dance.  With practice it could work, that is if you can find thirteen dancers that are willing to practice surrealism together on a regular basis.

11/11/98
John has posted a new wacky game called CheezWiz.  We dare you to play it.  Takes a minute to learn, a lifetime to explain your strange habits.

11/17/98
We've changed our site a little. NEWS is here, all by itself, and the ADS are somewhere else. The HOME screen is still where it's been.
Heather just dropped into the Graveyard! Check out her tombstone.  Meanwhile, Eric Zuckerman has been ruminating over what epitaph he should use for ONE WHOLE YEAR.  Hey, EZ, how about "easy"? How about "epitaph"?

Tonight Ginohn is planning to catch the dregs of the Leonid meteor shower, some of which is viewable all over the world as each timezone comes 'round to 2:00am and Leo rises.  Asia has the best view, because they will be turned toward Leo while the Earth is sliding through the thickest part of the comet trail.

11/25/98
Happy ThanksIndians! (Thanks, Indians.) John's been blowing a real didge and driving Booda crazy, and Gina's been sewing real hats. Film at 11.

12/1/98
Aric just landed in the Graveyard, with an epitaph that someone should've thought of already.  Too bad; Aric called it. Actually it's not against the rules to use someone else's word but there have been no duplicates yet.  BLT, the Graveyard is now 50! (People that is.) Woo Hoo!

12/8/98
One more for the Graveyard -- welcome Kathryn!

Also one of our patrons pointed out a very nice article about last month's Hero, so we've updated Julia's link. If anyone has any interesting links for our other heroes, let us know, thanks.

12/13/98
New Cetera! A list of Hankisms by John that might provoke nice people into thinking evil things (but we hope not). Many thanks to Jim Huger, Huber, or Hu-ever, for giving us our first concept of Hank, the town, the million dollars, etc.

Also, we had the unfortunate chance to see the latest Star Trek movie -- see the latest Haiku Movie Review for a shorter than usual critique.

John would like to shake the hand of the person(s) who created THUNDER ROAD (the ram and wreck survival game), sold by Milton Bradley in the mid-late 1980's. It's a quick, simple game that takes almost no time to learn and is a lot of fun. The infinite gameboard is a clever highlight.  So who invented the game?  We may never find out.  Good ol' Milton only gave himself credit.

12/15/98
John made a bold step toward putting up some oragami pages, but stopped short of actually putting any up. Sorry, Dan.

12/21/98
Made some edits to the Zarcana page; there is a new special Trump listed -- the Catapult (or if using a French deck you may want to call it the Trebuchet, or maybe you can call it the Onager -- if that's how it's spelled). John also made it perfectly clear when and why the deck is reshuffled, we hope.

The Hankisms page is growing by sentences and sentences! Check out the two latest additions: Subgenius and Exodus Ministries, submitted by Saint Chris and Eric Zuckerman, respectively. If you get a hankering to send some, by all means, try us! (be prepared for a stern refusal slip, too.)