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micro.blog đź“· challenge Day 5: reflection
9/11 Memorial. New York City. 12/17/2021
Jason Kratz
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micro.blog đź“· challenge Day 4: nostalgia
My grandfather and great aunt at my grandparent’s basement bar. They loved to party in the 40s and 50s!
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A moment to breathe
Over the last several years, as my mother lost mobility and had a series of health problems, I’ve had to spend considerable amount of time and energy taking care of more and more things so she could maintain some semblance of independence in her house. Over that time her
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micro.blog đź“· challenge Day 3: shadow
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micro.blog đź“· challenge Day 2: curve
2014 Six Hours of The Glen - Watkins Glen, NY
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micro.blog đź“· Challenge Day 1: tree
Picture my dad took when he was in the US Air Force during the Korean War stationed on Okinawa.
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I guess honesty is too much to ask for
I’d love to take this off your hands. My phone number is xxx-xxx-xxxx. My name is Rick Nelson. It has historical remembrance to my life I can get it anytime in the next day or two. I’d love to get it put it back to use. This was
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Too many pokers in the fire
I’ve backed myself into a bit of a quandary. In my desire to keep as many of my mom’s things out of the landfill as possible I’ve listed things on Craigslist and OfferUp that weren’t already being donated. The problem is that now my headspace is
family
Reminders of lives lived
I’ve got to say that clearing out a house of stuff that’s been around your whole life is very, very weird. I’m not exactly a nostalgic person so I’m not really sad about any of it. They’re just things, but they all represent people long
family
A family heirloom has moved on
I’ve been cleaning out my mom’s house at a breakneck pace with the closing of the sale approaching with less than a week to go. One of the pieces I was worried about was my dad’s toolbox. My dad loved working on cars. The toolbox was bought
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The AI hype machine never stops
I read two articles today that showed just how unhinged people are about “AI” right now. It was all doom and gloom, end of the world as we know it stuff. And absolutely ridiculous. I am so damned tired of AI hype. Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen of Axios report
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I want salons, not silos (repost)
Note: this is a post from about a month ago on my “old” blog. Reposting here with some updates at the end due to feedback I had received on the post originally. I'm starting to understand the feelings of my online friends and acquaintances who are coming to