Local history writer, music fan, beginning musician. Plus other stuff.
Oh yeah: he/him. My grownkids are LGBTQ.
Long-term addiction recovery. From Upstate NY (hence the "on the Hudson,") now in southeast PA.
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Last Notes npub15a7mw2lxldyt374smduwg7d87r3jma00j2dk4eqm67wr0gqyrjjst25r5c Carl Johnson @nprofile…g5cv Just a nit to pick with the example, not the point: HMV was, as far as I can tell, entirely British (EMI) and I can't confirm they had more than a handful of shops in the US. npub15a7mw2lxldyt374smduwg7d87r3jma00j2dk4eqm67wr0gqyrjjst25r5c Carl Johnson As of April 9, I have 488 km of riding on the season (my whole last season was 2000 km) – and a lovely new bike, a Cervélo Caledonia. I went over to the electronic shifting/disc brakes / wide tires cult, and I am not regretting it. I come back from rides so much less fatigued! npub15a7mw2lxldyt374smduwg7d87r3jma00j2dk4eqm67wr0gqyrjjst25r5c Carl Johnson On this day in 1984, I woke up hung over for the last time. I made a pledge I'd made before, but somehow this time it stuck. 42 years sober, 15,342 days without drinking or drugs. If you're struggling, this is to tell you it can be done. npub15a7mw2lxldyt374smduwg7d87r3jma00j2dk4eqm67wr0gqyrjjst25r5c Carl Johnson @nprofile…etv2 I didn't like it when it was going on post-9/11. But in that case they quickly figured out there was no actual mission. npub15a7mw2lxldyt374smduwg7d87r3jma00j2dk4eqm67wr0gqyrjjst25r5c Carl Johnson @nprofile…g5cv Thanks, that's appreciated. Despite having had friends who worked there, I had to block the New York Times for what long seemed to be anti-trans antagonism. npub15a7mw2lxldyt374smduwg7d87r3jma00j2dk4eqm67wr0gqyrjjst25r5c Carl Johnson @nprofile…vv5n I thought that was incredible. He seemed to capture that world so perfectly. npub15a7mw2lxldyt374smduwg7d87r3jma00j2dk4eqm67wr0gqyrjjst25r5c Carl Johnson @nprofile…vv5n We've been on such a Godard kick lately . . . npub15a7mw2lxldyt374smduwg7d87r3jma00j2dk4eqm67wr0gqyrjjst25r5c Carl Johnson @nprofile…t2ea Been there, but it's been a minute ;) npub15a7mw2lxldyt374smduwg7d87r3jma00j2dk4eqm67wr0gqyrjjst25r5c Carl Johnson in 1921, this Nosferatu-adjacent creature was meant to entice you to buy sardines. Presumably. npub15a7mw2lxldyt374smduwg7d87r3jma00j2dk4eqm67wr0gqyrjjst25r5c Carl Johnson @nprofile…g5cv Is Guardian anti-trans? (Meant as a genuine question, not a challenge. We've considering where to redirect our subscriptions, having quit Washington Post.) npub15a7mw2lxldyt374smduwg7d87r3jma00j2dk4eqm67wr0gqyrjjst25r5c Carl Johnson @nprofile…t2ea After years of ignoring the Euro-hate for our American water-boiling ways, we experienced an electric kettle at an AirBnB and decided it would, in fact, change our lives, and got one ourselves. It almost eliminates the wait for anything but the steeping. (We're French press people.) npub15a7mw2lxldyt374smduwg7d87r3jma00j2dk4eqm67wr0gqyrjjst25r5c Carl Johnson @nprofile…yk9j We can hope! npub15a7mw2lxldyt374smduwg7d87r3jma00j2dk4eqm67wr0gqyrjjst25r5c Carl Johnson "Let us show you a knife" really didn't take off as a marketing catchphrase. Let's bring it back. npub15a7mw2lxldyt374smduwg7d87r3jma00j2dk4eqm67wr0gqyrjjst25r5c Carl Johnson Beauty advice from 1913: Sage tea and sulphur. npub15a7mw2lxldyt374smduwg7d87r3jma00j2dk4eqm67wr0gqyrjjst25r5c Carl Johnson My latest #localHistory post looks at my hometown's biggest park, Collins Park, long a center of community along the #MohawkRiver. As some old pictures show, it was sometimes hard to tell apart from the river during floods. I also found a surprise (short-lived) race track once on the grounds of the park. npub15a7mw2lxldyt374smduwg7d87r3jma00j2dk4eqm67wr0gqyrjjst25r5c Carl Johnson I've been a still photographer for decades, but have never had any affinity for video. 1000s of pictures of our kids, almost no videos. But we just bought an Insta360 camera to capture #cycling rides, #kayaking, #hiking, etc., and I'm really enjoying it. Still working out how to edit to make it interesting to others, but I really enjoy looking at my favorite routes after I've done them. npub15a7mw2lxldyt374smduwg7d87r3jma00j2dk4eqm67wr0gqyrjjst25r5c Carl Johnson Man, this place has *everything* npub15a7mw2lxldyt374smduwg7d87r3jma00j2dk4eqm67wr0gqyrjjst25r5c Carl Johnson Lou Reed – Rock And Roll Diary: 1967-1980 https://vinyldistractions.com/lou-reed-rock-and-roll-diary-1967-1980/ npub15a7mw2lxldyt374smduwg7d87r3jma00j2dk4eqm67wr0gqyrjjst25r5c Carl Johnson @nprofile…dclf For me the only thing that dampens my enthusiasm for performing his songs, which I love performing, is that someone will inevitably think I'm going to do *that* song. I am not. npub15a7mw2lxldyt374smduwg7d87r3jma00j2dk4eqm67wr0gqyrjjst25r5c Carl Johnson @nprofile…g5cv I get so frustrated by the trope that businesses are rational (and government isn't), parroted by people whose own lived experience inside those businesses is that there's hardly a rational decision made. npub15a7mw2lxldyt374smduwg7d87r3jma00j2dk4eqm67wr0gqyrjjst25r5c Carl Johnson Country Joe McDonald was not only key to my musical discovery in my late teens, but his music has become even more important to me as I have become a musician myself in my later years. I cover quite a few of his songs, including the beautiful "Janis." Between his death and John Hammond Jr.'s, I've lost a couple of personal musical icons this week. npub15a7mw2lxldyt374smduwg7d87r3jma00j2dk4eqm67wr0gqyrjjst25r5c Carl Johnson @nprofile…g5cv To me, the greatest challenge would appear to have been Gene Colan's pencils -- he was in a class of his own, and few were capable of inking him properly. Then someone like Coletta or Heck applied to that just makes it infinitely worse. But on their own? Yeah, they were perfectly fine. (I also have a fixation on romance comics.) npub15a7mw2lxldyt374smduwg7d87r3jma00j2dk4eqm67wr0gqyrjjst25r5c Carl Johnson @nprofile…yk36 There was a reboot sometime in the 1970s, too. I remember he came out of nowhere (to me, a kid) and parents acted like he'd been around forever. npub15a7mw2lxldyt374smduwg7d87r3jma00j2dk4eqm67wr0gqyrjjst25r5c Carl Johnson @nprofile…g5cv And yet Don Heck does have some fans. npub15a7mw2lxldyt374smduwg7d87r3jma00j2dk4eqm67wr0gqyrjjst25r5c Carl Johnson July 1870: Just a couple of months before wildly miscalculating what turned into the Franco-Prussian war. Presented for no particular reason. npub15a7mw2lxldyt374smduwg7d87r3jma00j2dk4eqm67wr0gqyrjjst25r5c Carl Johnson @nprofile…zh2r She's stupefying, all right. npub15a7mw2lxldyt374smduwg7d87r3jma00j2dk4eqm67wr0gqyrjjst25r5c Carl Johnson Lou Reed – Berlin https://vinyldistractions.com/lou-reed-berlin/ npub15a7mw2lxldyt374smduwg7d87r3jma00j2dk4eqm67wr0gqyrjjst25r5c Carl Johnson @nprofile…qt6h Reasonable assumption, but they were British so I think the first name wouldn't have the same connotations. Name picked from an old agriculture inventor, it'd be like naming a band John Deere here. npub15a7mw2lxldyt374smduwg7d87r3jma00j2dk4eqm67wr0gqyrjjst25r5c Carl Johnson Apparently, in the 1892 New York State census, "tally man" was a job. npub15a7mw2lxldyt374smduwg7d87r3jma00j2dk4eqm67wr0gqyrjjst25r5c Carl Johnson Otis Redding – The Best of Otis Redding https://vinyldistractions.com/otis-redding-the-best-of-otis-redding/ npub15a7mw2lxldyt374smduwg7d87r3jma00j2dk4eqm67wr0gqyrjjst25r5c Carl Johnson February was a rough month for #cycling around these parts, so yesterday was the first day I was able to get out. Here are some nice highlights from the #SchuylkillRiverTrail near #valleyforge npub15a7mw2lxldyt374smduwg7d87r3jma00j2dk4eqm67wr0gqyrjjst25r5c Carl Johnson @nprofile…d97q Here's a little more information. It says they've opened a hotline but doesn't give the info. npub15a7mw2lxldyt374smduwg7d87r3jma00j2dk4eqm67wr0gqyrjjst25r5c Carl Johnson This is an old #rppc #postcard that I bought at a shop in #Schenectady a couple of years back. Fascinated with it but never sure just what to do with it. It's a real photo postcard showing "Dick on Mohawk River at Schenectady in 1917 while working in G.E." npub15a7mw2lxldyt374smduwg7d87r3jma00j2dk4eqm67wr0gqyrjjst25r5c Carl Johnson @nprofile…dclf I didn't have a color TV until 1992. npub15a7mw2lxldyt374smduwg7d87r3jma00j2dk4eqm67wr0gqyrjjst25r5c Carl Johnson @nprofile…tsn5 All the AI scraping bots produced some real bandwidth problems for me that I didn't see coming, so I had to do a lot of re-work on my sites (I am not a web developer) that made me question it. But then I looked at my friends' sites on the alternatives and ... nah. npub15a7mw2lxldyt374smduwg7d87r3jma00j2dk4eqm67wr0gqyrjjst25r5c Carl Johnson We are all Rensselaer's mayor. [1903] npub15a7mw2lxldyt374smduwg7d87r3jma00j2dk4eqm67wr0gqyrjjst25r5c Carl Johnson @nprofile…dclf This is very much reminding me of an entertaining line of dialogue from "Diner," with a shopper insisting he wants a 21" Emerson black and white. Didn't like color TV, because Little Joe looked green. npub15a7mw2lxldyt374smduwg7d87r3jma00j2dk4eqm67wr0gqyrjjst25r5c Carl Johnson @nprofile…tsn5 Hosting your own site is a pain in the neck but truly seems to be the only option. npub15a7mw2lxldyt374smduwg7d87r3jma00j2dk4eqm67wr0gqyrjjst25r5c Carl Johnson @nprofile…d97q Then if you want to see them blended together, you click on the "All Inboxes" at the top of the message column: npub15a7mw2lxldyt374smduwg7d87r3jma00j2dk4eqm67wr0gqyrjjst25r5c Carl Johnson @nprofile…d97q I think just click down on that side-caret for all inboxes and you'll see them listed individually, like so: npub15a7mw2lxldyt374smduwg7d87r3jma00j2dk4eqm67wr0gqyrjjst25r5c Carl Johnson When I took this – or even ten years ago, for that matter – I could not have imagined that city newsstands would almost completely disappear someday. This is from November 1979, in downtown #SyracuseNY. His name was Pete Mussi, and he was a fixture there for decades. He's holding up the afternoon paper, because at the time a city the size of Syracuse could still support two newspapers. npub15a7mw2lxldyt374smduwg7d87r3jma00j2dk4eqm67wr0gqyrjjst25r5c Carl Johnson @nprofile…d97q If you can stand more of this conversation . . . Hannah Fry happened to post on Instagram the reason American chocolate is bad: npub15a7mw2lxldyt374smduwg7d87r3jma00j2dk4eqm67wr0gqyrjjst25r5c Carl Johnson @nprofile…d97q The chair sure matches the neighborhood! npub15a7mw2lxldyt374smduwg7d87r3jma00j2dk4eqm67wr0gqyrjjst25r5c Carl Johnson @nprofile…dclf Propofol man myself. I could see what Michael Jackson saw in it ;) npub15a7mw2lxldyt374smduwg7d87r3jma00j2dk4eqm67wr0gqyrjjst25r5c Carl Johnson Okay, but can Waze tell you where the henhouses are? Don't think so. npub15a7mw2lxldyt374smduwg7d87r3jma00j2dk4eqm67wr0gqyrjjst25r5c Carl Johnson Hey, turns out employment ad scams are nothing new. Here's a beauty from 1927 that I'm absolutely certain was a totally legitimate opportunity and probably neither murder nor multi-level marketing: npub15a7mw2lxldyt374smduwg7d87r3jma00j2dk4eqm67wr0gqyrjjst25r5c Carl Johnson @nprofile…dclf I know my kid went there on a visit last year. Thinking of making a Finger Lakes trip in the spring, so we might get to check it out. We also have an intimate whole foods grocery store (not a co-op), which has become my favorite place to shop in decades. npub15a7mw2lxldyt374smduwg7d87r3jma00j2dk4eqm67wr0gqyrjjst25r5c Carl Johnson Here's another #OldPhoto I took in 1977, one of the earliest photographs I ever took. Love the tone, the composition, the feel of a relaxing moment just reading the newspaper in a public place, waiting for the day to begin. This is in #SyracuseUniversity's I.M. Pei-designed #NewhouseSchool. npub15a7mw2lxldyt374smduwg7d87r3jma00j2dk4eqm67wr0gqyrjjst25r5c Carl Johnson @nprofile…dclf In 2024 I got to visit the co-op in Syracuse that has been there since the '70s. While the food offerings have expanded and they now respect sanitation requirements, the building and vibe remain the same as it was when I was a student. npub15a7mw2lxldyt374smduwg7d87r3jma00j2dk4eqm67wr0gqyrjjst25r5c Carl Johnson @nprofile…9xdf @nprofile…6qgk Hadn't read anything about this. Appreciate the article's need to highlight that they very much knew what they were doing – used to work for an agency that rescued many people who endangered themselves in far less challenging conditions. But sometimes, nature is relentless and all the preparation and skill can't prevent disaster. npub15a7mw2lxldyt374smduwg7d87r3jma00j2dk4eqm67wr0gqyrjjst25r5c Carl Johnson @nprofile…l8hp My hometown was once the site for a firefighters' convention. Somehow they got hold of a paint striper during a drunken night and painted insanely wobbly lines on several village streets. They stayed that way for years. npub15a7mw2lxldyt374smduwg7d87r3jma00j2dk4eqm67wr0gqyrjjst25r5c Carl Johnson Took this picture in 1977, and it fascinates me to this day. It just has that certain something, entirely by accident. npub15a7mw2lxldyt374smduwg7d87r3jma00j2dk4eqm67wr0gqyrjjst25r5c Carl Johnson @nprofile…dclf Gorgeous shots. npub15a7mw2lxldyt374smduwg7d87r3jma00j2dk4eqm67wr0gqyrjjst25r5c Carl Johnson @nprofile…d97q I'm not gonna find out. Got my Unreal PB cups to keep me safe. npub15a7mw2lxldyt374smduwg7d87r3jma00j2dk4eqm67wr0gqyrjjst25r5c Carl Johnson @nprofile…d97q Look what popped up in my feed today: npub15a7mw2lxldyt374smduwg7d87r3jma00j2dk4eqm67wr0gqyrjjst25r5c Carl Johnson On my #Localhistory blog, I explore some of the history of the 1730 building that houses the cutest little library in the world (in my estimation), and one of the places that fundamentally shaped me. Here's the story of Scotia, NY's Abraham Glen house: npub15a7mw2lxldyt374smduwg7d87r3jma00j2dk4eqm67wr0gqyrjjst25r5c Carl Johnson @nprofile…d97q I turn on notifications for most of the people whose posts I want to be sure I see. Those I just follow show up in the "Home" column, but that tends to get a little diffuse no matter what. npub15a7mw2lxldyt374smduwg7d87r3jma00j2dk4eqm67wr0gqyrjjst25r5c Carl Johnson Raspberries – Starting Over https://vinyldistractions.com/raspberries-starting-over/ npub15a7mw2lxldyt374smduwg7d87r3jma00j2dk4eqm67wr0gqyrjjst25r5c Carl Johnson @nprofile…d97q I offer no defense! npub15a7mw2lxldyt374smduwg7d87r3jma00j2dk4eqm67wr0gqyrjjst25r5c Carl Johnson 1977: High school pep rally attendance was mandatory. A pep rally was also the place you'd be least likely to find me – school spirit has never been my thing – but I did take some pictures, apparently, in rare color. This is our senior class president for life getting outfitted in a balloon-covered clown outfit. #oldPhotographs #OldPhotos #FilmPhotography #HighSchool #1970s npub15a7mw2lxldyt374smduwg7d87r3jma00j2dk4eqm67wr0gqyrjjst25r5c Carl Johnson @nprofile…d97q 100% awful. Dangerous sentiment when you live as close to Hershey as I do, but honestly... npub15a7mw2lxldyt374smduwg7d87r3jma00j2dk4eqm67wr0gqyrjjst25r5c Carl Johnson @nprofile…9xdf The fact that "pizza" somehow ended up actually being part of it . . . that's the part that blows my mind and lends itself to your theory. npub15a7mw2lxldyt374smduwg7d87r3jma00j2dk4eqm67wr0gqyrjjst25r5c Carl Johnson @nprofile…dclf yes, this appears to be very common, and Amazon is beyond complicit. They are also actively offering sales without any authorization from the makers. npub15a7mw2lxldyt374smduwg7d87r3jma00j2dk4eqm67wr0gqyrjjst25r5c Carl Johnson @nprofile…ft78 For the part of upstate NY, where we were not so very, but still colder than normal, and for a longer period than normal. For Philly area, way colder than normal. npub15a7mw2lxldyt374smduwg7d87r3jma00j2dk4eqm67wr0gqyrjjst25r5c Carl Johnson @nprofile…ft78 Meanwhile across the pond where I'm sitting it's -9°F, or -23°C, which is not enough degrees in either scale. npub15a7mw2lxldyt374smduwg7d87r3jma00j2dk4eqm67wr0gqyrjjst25r5c Carl Johnson @nprofile…axtk That "mystery bug" sounds like carbon monoxide! npub15a7mw2lxldyt374smduwg7d87r3jma00j2dk4eqm67wr0gqyrjjst25r5c Carl Johnson @nprofile…psjh Ugh. I'm sorry/appreciative that you filled in a hole in my knowledge (what that line about torture, which I've seen quoted elsewhere today, meant.) npub15a7mw2lxldyt374smduwg7d87r3jma00j2dk4eqm67wr0gqyrjjst25r5c Carl Johnson @nprofile…x75d Only watched it once but it was really worth it, and I would advise you not to ruin it for yourself. npub15a7mw2lxldyt374smduwg7d87r3jma00j2dk4eqm67wr0gqyrjjst25r5c Carl Johnson @nprofile…qt6h Right back atcha. npub15a7mw2lxldyt374smduwg7d87r3jma00j2dk4eqm67wr0gqyrjjst25r5c Carl Johnson Photographically, this is terrible, but it's an absolute moment in time, and that moment was 1982/83. It's me (in the center) with my roommate (left) and my other roommate and eventual wife (right). We were kinda adorable, even in the midst of an amount of misery. Absolutely kicking myself that when we got together for our 40th anniversary a couple of years ago, we didn't recreate this photo. npub15a7mw2lxldyt374smduwg7d87r3jma00j2dk4eqm67wr0gqyrjjst25r5c Carl Johnson @nprofile…d97q I'd be shouting that out P-Funk style at all times. npub15a7mw2lxldyt374smduwg7d87r3jma00j2dk4eqm67wr0gqyrjjst25r5c Carl Johnson @nprofile…zwad They weren't specifically hers, and I don't remember the purpose of the sign, whether it was a joke or something that was going on as a fundraiser. npub15a7mw2lxldyt374smduwg7d87r3jma00j2dk4eqm67wr0gqyrjjst25r5c Carl Johnson Still in 1977 – I found some pictures of someone who's been a friend since high school and she was delighted to see them. It eventually occured to me that I may never before have shared many of these pictures that I've looked at thousands of times over the years. npub15a7mw2lxldyt374smduwg7d87r3jma00j2dk4eqm67wr0gqyrjjst25r5c Carl Johnson From my #highschool cafeteria in 1977: a friend of mine successfully stacks 10 waxed milk cartons on top of each other – a challenge, as the sides were never perfectly flat. This was one of many ways we killed time at lunch. #OldPhotographs #BWPhoto #filmPhotography #OldPhotos npub15a7mw2lxldyt374smduwg7d87r3jma00j2dk4eqm67wr0gqyrjjst25r5c Carl Johnson @nprofile…ml4u @nprofile…cxxr Same, as computer typesetting started to take off, I decided to go to grad school for something else entirely. My boss offered to sell me the business. . . thank goodness I wasn't that dumb. npub15a7mw2lxldyt374smduwg7d87r3jma00j2dk4eqm67wr0gqyrjjst25r5c Carl Johnson Of all the things from my past, the technology that I just cannot believe has completely disappeared is #ColdType pre-press technology – phototypesetting, pasteup, working on light tables to produce mechanicals for anything that had to be printed. These methods are just gone (while letterpress lives on). I made my living at #pasteup for several years. This is from a #journalism institute at #SyracuseUniversity in 1978. #photography #OldPhotographs #Syracuse #OffsetPrinting #FilmPhotography npub15a7mw2lxldyt374smduwg7d87r3jma00j2dk4eqm67wr0gqyrjjst25r5c Carl Johnson @nprofile…j4w6 It was the @. How bizarre. Thanks. Not sure if I'm committing, but good to have AN connection. npub15a7mw2lxldyt374smduwg7d87r3jma00j2dk4eqm67wr0gqyrjjst25r5c Carl Johnson @nprofile…tsn5 I like this one quite a bit, but like you play it seldom. The earlier stuff was more arty and less focused on standard song structures. npub15a7mw2lxldyt374smduwg7d87r3jma00j2dk4eqm67wr0gqyrjjst25r5c Carl Johnson @nprofile…j4w6 Tried to but can't find you. Just getting set up myself. npub15a7mw2lxldyt374smduwg7d87r3jma00j2dk4eqm67wr0gqyrjjst25r5c Carl Johnson #SyracuseUniversity's Hendricks Chapel on a winter night in 1978. I always had a love of low light shots, even though I wouldn't say I was successful at making them very artful. This one, though, definitely evokes the loneliness of crossing the campus on a winter evening. Short handheld with Tri-X 400. There's dust on the negative but I'm not fixing these in post. npub15a7mw2lxldyt374smduwg7d87r3jma00j2dk4eqm67wr0gqyrjjst25r5c Carl Johnson @nprofile…v3h2 Considerably warmer down here generally but we've been getting the same wind. At 15°F, it's currently 30° warmer than in Raquette Lake (I keep Adirondack weather on my list just because). npub15a7mw2lxldyt374smduwg7d87r3jma00j2dk4eqm67wr0gqyrjjst25r5c Carl Johnson @nprofile…v3h2 Sun and little or no wind make a huge difference. Especially no wind. The coldest I remember in Syracuse was a Christmas night when it was -22, but very still, and I had to walk from the bus station to the campus. npub15a7mw2lxldyt374smduwg7d87r3jma00j2dk4eqm67wr0gqyrjjst25r5c Carl Johnson @nprofile…tsn5 It's very fashionable to disregard Boston, but damn, they were a bop! npub15a7mw2lxldyt374smduwg7d87r3jma00j2dk4eqm67wr0gqyrjjst25r5c Carl Johnson A night shot in the eternal snow of a #Syracuse winter, 1978. A taxicab pulling up to a freshman dorm at #SyracuseUniversity at Christmas break. Always a weird lonely feeling as the campus emptied out (I was often one of the last to leave). npub15a7mw2lxldyt374smduwg7d87r3jma00j2dk4eqm67wr0gqyrjjst25r5c Carl Johnson @nprofile…zwad I was, but here in the US, I can't say I've seen any return to paper. Nearly everything for cold drinks here is single-use plastic, and has been for decades. It's disturbing when at least paper can be somewhat more sustainable. (Oddly, paper has made a comeback for hot drinks.) npub15a7mw2lxldyt374smduwg7d87r3jma00j2dk4eqm67wr0gqyrjjst25r5c Carl Johnson Raspberries – Raspberries https://vinyldistractions.com/raspberries-raspberries/ npub15a7mw2lxldyt374smduwg7d87r3jma00j2dk4eqm67wr0gqyrjjst25r5c Carl Johnson @nprofile…uun7 We saw that tonight and honestly it was so perfect it looked fake. npub15a7mw2lxldyt374smduwg7d87r3jma00j2dk4eqm67wr0gqyrjjst25r5c Carl Johnson @nprofile…dclf We managed to only get it once, back at the end of 2021, but it had some somewhat lasting effects that were scary. Hence I'm currently hiding from the world because, vax or not, this flu ain't kidding around. npub15a7mw2lxldyt374smduwg7d87r3jma00j2dk4eqm67wr0gqyrjjst25r5c Carl Johnson @nprofile…dclf Amazing you got this far without it. Hoping for a speedy recovery. npub15a7mw2lxldyt374smduwg7d87r3jma00j2dk4eqm67wr0gqyrjjst25r5c Carl Johnson @nprofile…rd0a Not having to deal with it on a schedule makes it vastly better, though I still feel pressure to get my sidewalk clear as quickly as possible. No room for a snowblower here, near Philly, but not much need for one either. npub15a7mw2lxldyt374smduwg7d87r3jma00j2dk4eqm67wr0gqyrjjst25r5c Carl Johnson @nprofile…rd0a Loved it in the years we lived there, though I never had to shovel it then. In Albany we got way less, but it was all on me. npub15a7mw2lxldyt374smduwg7d87r3jma00j2dk4eqm67wr0gqyrjjst25r5c Carl Johnson @nprofile…dclf I was nearly a decade later, but my school had a Society for Creative Anachronism that would parade around like this. These days we'd just call them cosplayers, I guess. npub15a7mw2lxldyt374smduwg7d87r3jma00j2dk4eqm67wr0gqyrjjst25r5c Carl Johnson @nprofile…unam Glad you did! Always love when I know a spot on first sight. Fixed the video link, I will put up some more on my Instagram. npub15a7mw2lxldyt374smduwg7d87r3jma00j2dk4eqm67wr0gqyrjjst25r5c Carl Johnson Following through on our desire to get out and do much more #hiking this #winter – traipsed through the mud at Bryn Coed Preserve in Chester Springs, PA, a huge spread-out bit of preserved farmland, a nice mix of meadows and woods. Captured the whole thing on an Insta360 camera, my new obsession – which gives me more incentive to get out on foot or on bike. #outdoors #WinterHike npub15a7mw2lxldyt374smduwg7d87r3jma00j2dk4eqm67wr0gqyrjjst25r5c Carl Johnson @nprofile…qt6h Enjoy. And good call on the masking. We're laying as low as possible for a couple of weeks. npub15a7mw2lxldyt374smduwg7d87r3jma00j2dk4eqm67wr0gqyrjjst25r5c Carl Johnson @nprofile…tsn5 Really good for what they're for . . . my record dealer sells a ton of them and uses one when he travels. I gave one to my kid last year. Enjoy it! npub15a7mw2lxldyt374smduwg7d87r3jma00j2dk4eqm67wr0gqyrjjst25r5c Carl Johnson @nprofile…833y I'm still in the non-eureka camp on Bowie. Simply doesn't speak to me, and I don't hear the greatness. Not taking that away from anyone who does, but some fans really take it personally. npub15a7mw2lxldyt374smduwg7d87r3jma00j2dk4eqm67wr0gqyrjjst25r5c Carl Johnson @nprofile…tzf0 Sorry to hear that, but it's honest. Some years are just misery. Then things do get better. npub15a7mw2lxldyt374smduwg7d87r3jma00j2dk4eqm67wr0gqyrjjst25r5c Carl Johnson @nprofile…gsfw If you don't have any particular health complications, a PA is fine or even preferable. They often have more time and listen better, in our experiences. npub15a7mw2lxldyt374smduwg7d87r3jma00j2dk4eqm67wr0gqyrjjst25r5c Carl Johnson My latest #LocalHistory post has more than a tiny element of #PersonalHistory, as it's about my elementary #school (and its predecessor of the same name). I was lucky enough to find some great #ClassPhotos and shots of the #playground, where I spent thousands of hours of my youth.
