I don't like to complain, but my stuffing migration is acting up pretty fierce today. The stuffing in my right arm is all going somewhere else, so I can't get into my summer "1986" T-shirt anymore, and they're going to let another Bear wear my shirt. They call me "broad of beam" and then they snicker, but that's not so fair. Hey, I can't help it they way they make us in those factories.

So I can't see too good, either, 'cause my fur keeps covering over my eyes. They ought a trim my eyes like they do them poodles. And my fur does seem kinda scruffy for a Bear of my years. They say I used to get into lots of fights, back when I was staying in the pile for unwanted bears. I don't remember anything about any fights. There's no tellin' how many years ago 1986 really was, in Bear years. I don't care. I'm pretty easy to get along with, for a Bear.

If you ask me, this business of being middle-age is over-rated. My nose is unraveling and they call it a runny nose. You can't win. On good days, I just like to sit and watch stuff. We Bears especially like watchin' the sunshine, and yellin' at the squirrels in the' garden, and sometimes we like to watch "Murder She Wrote." Hey, anybody got a Kleenex?

They can call me "Complainer Bear" all they want, but if you want to get in on my good side, you better just call me C.Bear. The world is a pretty good place to be a Bear, and we have lots of fun adventures together. So we put our heads together and fixed it so you can read all about me and my pals. Hey, it's our page!

"Bear Stories":

• C.Bear's Bird Rescue (2003)
• The Bear Chronicles 2007
• Nice Day for Popslider
• The Elusive Mr. "S"
• C.Bear's Universe
• C.Bear's Kind of Year
• C.Bear and the Weather Gods
• C.Bear's Bad Year
• C.Bear and the Cactipus
• The Bear Union
• The Uffy Brothers
• A.Bear And The River
• A Bear's Tao of Doing Nothing
• C.Bear And The Critters
• Christmas Bear Story
• The Bears Get To Go
• The Bears Get To Go Rafting
• C. Bear Gets To Go See
• C. Bear Goes Pillow Sliding
• C. Bear's Own Story

A Bear's Gallery

Bear Registry: This page shows all of us at once. I wouldn't say we Bears ever whine, but we've been asking for this for a long time, and there was always some excuse.  Too many Bears. Too much hand coding. Our secret: if you want Alex to tackle a big project, get him to turn it into a Scripting project. That always works.Now this is a "database" thingy too, but I guess that's OK because they can say more nice things about us. (Editor's note: you can search by location, origin, or manufacturer too. It's a real database, just for fun. Browse-only.) 

Our Slide Show

digital images by SFW PhotoWorks, Nikon scan, Kodak DC20 and Kodak DC260.
* Crossfade slide show licensed from AnfyJava

Links

Stuffies Day Out! A new site where you can see a whole world of stuffies who like to travel: hey, we get around. Us and our pals are listed there, and also bears and stuffie dogs who have been all over the globe! We've been to Newport News and Portland but we're angling for Hawaii. Never Canada, Europe or Australia ... yet! We like this site.

Our Kind of Music

Well, it's Teddy Bear Picnic, of course, what did you expect? You can play the MIDI song with the link if your browser supports it.

Bear of the Day:

The folks keep lists so they can keep track of who is going to be Bear Of The Day. There are a lot more of us than them. We get to have two Bears Of The Day in each location each day, so that we don't have to wait 60 days for a turn. I guess four Bears a day is too hard for them to keep track of. They even make the list in really big print, so's they can read it without their glasses. Bears don't have it so bad, after all.

Alex made a web page of the whole "spreadsheet", going back ALMOST to the beginning of time,so you can see who's going to be B.O.D. fot the next few months, but we don't try too hard to peek because that spoils the fun. Here's the list:

Bear of The Day

Alex's note: Each BOD list is generated with Frontier script, using pseudo-random picks so that each Bear at the bigger location gets picked once in Column A, and once in Column B. Bears in the smaller location are paired up daily, but they get more turns to balance the list out. So there are really four BOD's each day. The list is exported to and from an Excel Office 2000 worksheet as a complete web page, complete with tabs for all the lists going back to the year 2000. IE 6.0 reads it as an Excel-style worksheet. The sheet uses XML. It may not work on older browsers or all platforms.

© Alex Forbes, 1990-2005