Hi and welcome to a collection of Web pages by and for members of the Batteiger family of Cleveland, Ohio, and a dozen points north, south, east and west. Mostly it's the home of random thoughts, oddball projects and incriminating photos by John Batteiger of San Francisco.

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This Web site was created on a Macintosh computer and premiered online on September 5, 1995. The Batteiger.com domain was registered on Sept. 9, 1999, and the site was overhauled and redesigned on January 1, 2004. I know, I know, it needs it again.

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The munchkin on the home page, by the way, comes from the gate outside the new Cleveland Public Library.