So I guess this will be my first test of my Junknet > Mastodon integration. Hopefully it works!
Life has certainly been interesting lately, at least in the social media realm. With Twitter potentially circling the drain, I have set up an account on Mastodon as a backup. While the performance is a little lacking yet, which I totally expect from the likely-unprecedented number of Twitter orphans looking for a new home, I’m really impressed with it so far.
It seems every couple weeks when I schedule some downtime to do updates and go over things, almost 50% of the time I get stuck on something where a patch or update breaks something, and often in some crazy way. With virtualization, there’s an easy fix: snapshots. But what happens when you test something, looks good, and delete the snapshots? Oops.
Just wanted to put up a quick post; after seeing a couple docs for follow-ups so far, while I have to have more tests done yet, things seem to be OK and no cause for concern. Whew!
Since my last update I’ve improved a ton, to the point that I’m more or less back to normal, save for the bruising and weird leg yet.
The next day I had another telehealth appointment, and asked to get checked out. Doc agreed to get a chest xray done. Called the hospital right away and they had an opening. GREAT! Wrapped up some things at work, and jumped into the shower before heading over…
Back in 2014, when work started doing “wellness initiaves” which included a blood test, I was remotely surprised when some of my tests didn’t come back so great. Nothing major, just more “yellow tags” than I expected. While I was still considered “young”, I was definitely into adulthood, and had zero qualms about eating fast food every other day of the week, and things like my daily coffee was thick with sugar.
Seems easy, right? Just…pick up your phone, and carry it out of the room. Well, not so much! Recently I realized that my phone habits were getting a little out of control, and in order to dial it back a bit, I thought that by taking my phone out of my bedroom would mean I actually SLEEP (whatever that is). While it’s mostly true, it’s not so easy…
Just when you think finding 70 year old stuff is cool, finding 111 year old stuff is even cooler! These two letters were both addressed to the same person in Philadelphia, as they were likely a “member” back then. The postmarks on the cards match the dates seen.
In this first letter, they mention the outing at Woodside Park, which was an amusement park located just outside Fairmount Park in Philadelphia.
Letter from Franklin Institute – Dated August 1911Franklin Institute Letter dated October 1928; the mention of “car” likely refers to a Trolley
And with a quick search or two, I believe this may have been the grain elevator the second letter refers to! I’m assuming there was a park or place nearby? (Image from the Philadelphia Free Library)
I was going through some postcards I recently acquired and thought I should post these up. These are the only postcards of the Wanamaker store and Organ that I’ve ever found. The Wanamaker organ is the world’s largest fully-functional musical instrument, and is still at the former Wanamaker’s Store (now Macy’s) in Philadelphia. The organ has been fully restored, and the facade was restored in 2020.
Despite being wedged into a packed couple weeks in my early summer calendar, I managed to get over to the Lancaster area to attend the 2022 Telephone Collectors International (TCI) show, something they haven’t had since before the pandemic.
I always said that perhaps some, if not most of us Gen Xers are still stuck in our childhood. For us, nostalgia is STRONG, given the chaotic and uncertain times we’ve been thrust into recently.
