R Scott Jones

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2025-05-08 16:24:08

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@nprofile…7s4z These rankings never make sense. “Natural environment” category is heavily influenced by air and water quality (where you are talking about minor differences in measurements between the states, and averaged across the entire state in spite of the localization of many of these issues), but that category somehow doesn’t include access to parks and public lands? Okay.

2025-05-07 12:33:30

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@nprofile…a0z2 Happy bday!

2025-05-06 22:02:21

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@nprofile…yjz2 Tell me more about how this works. Library patrons can book a free session with you? How long do the sessions last? Do you have a link I can look at?

2025-04-16 23:56:56

Made some progress on my county quest last weekend. Light blue are counties I revisited, darker blue are newly completed ones. My full map is at the link. https://mob-rule.com/user/rscottjones
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2025-04-10 17:55:39

Pretty excited to see ourselves still classified as “young people.” 😜 But yeah, during the first weeks of the pandemic, we worked on a plan (both financially + work-wise) for taking a “mini retirement.” We made some big moves, saved the money, years later made a 95-day trip happen!
🎁: To Escape the Grind, Young People Turn to ‘Mini-Retirements’ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/us/young-people-work-mini-retirement.html?unlocked_article_code=1.-k4.1Glf.zyC_mQyzi1u0&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

2025-04-05 14:10:55

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@nprofile…843t Subscribed. Where are you thru hiking?

2025-04-03 23:25:50

I was able to complete a frustrating task that’s been on my to-do list since September without nearly any of the tremendous hassle it *should* have entailed and you’re goddamn right that I’m planning on celebrating tonight 🤣

2025-03-20 17:52:13

Classic vibes
#the100pics
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2025-02-26 17:35:24

Question for #fediverse smarties:
I'm considering setting up a personal mastodon instance at a subdomain of my website. If I decide to switchaway from mastodon to some other #ActivityPub software flavor in the future, can I still use that same subdomain, or will I have to change it to avoid AP weirdness? I'm hoping to create a sort of permanent address/identity.
#socialweb #activitypub #MastodonAdmin #fedi

2025-01-18 08:33:19

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@nprofile…fakd @nprofile…j7fc @nprofile…men0 It does seem a bit weird to use a federated service but then have to manage multiple accounts. Like, isn’t the point that we just needed one account to see everyone’s stuff?

2024-12-08 02:51:45

Our first day in Dubai was a scheduled zero day (nothing planned; time for rest/“chores”). But we did check out the Burj Khalifa—the world’s tallest structure since 2009. At 2,722 feet tall, it surpasses the 2nd tallest building (Taipei 101, which ironically we also saw earlier this week in Taipei).
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2024-11-23 19:26:14

We’re off! 🛫
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2024-11-17 13:46:30

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@nprofile…zfuh Micro.blog might be a good option for you. I use it to POSSE to Mastodon, Bluesky, Threads.
Also check out echofeed, which can cross post from any blog with an rss.

2024-11-13 18:36:46

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@npub16gl…syzj Journalism needs to figure out that social media has not been good for journalism.

2024-11-10 19:54:07

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@npub1c5c…644a Thank you!

2024-11-08 23:47:21

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@npub1qe5…8ugl What is the economic model of “independent media?” Sounds great, but it’s not like it hasn’t been tried thousands of times, with very few survivors and virtually none doing day-to-day reporting. So what’s the financial model that works for this in 2024?

2024-11-01 18:21:31

Hidden in plain sight.
📷 Sipapu Natural Bridge, Utah, Mar 2017
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2024-10-26 14:40:09

S goes the curve 📷 Mogollon Rim, Arizona (Oct 2022)
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2024-10-16 17:25:03

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@npub1zuq…lyy9 @npub1nd8…2zkd If you don’t find something you like, perhaps micro.blog would be a good alternative, even though you won’t be self hosting. Based on Hugo and also cross-posts to Mastodon/Bluesky,” plus lots of other features.

2024-10-14 22:15:44

So…rss from a mastodon account only includes one image, even if four are in the original post? Or does something change if the post includes a hashtag? I’m confused, as the original post included four images but only the first one is in the feed (that was cross-posted via microblog, but I checked the original rss and it does only contain one image). #mastodon #mastoadmin https://mastodon.social/@rscottjones/113308024235308489

2024-09-08 21:33:29

🍻 Off to meet up with some friends at a couple craft breweries. Unfortunately, I didn’t quite wrap up the two blog posts I had hoped to publish today, so tomorrow might be a busy day on ye ol’ website.

2024-09-04 22:45:10

Has anyone done an African safari? I’m trying to figure out the minimum lens length I need. I’m guessing my 200mm isn’t sufficient…
#photography #travel #travelphotography #wildlifephotograph

2024-08-27 07:42:56

Five years ago today, I completed my quest to visit all 478 Treasured Places—every national park unit, national monument, and national conservation area in the US—with a short trip to Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument in Montana.
Five years after completing my Treasured Places quest https://rscottjones.com/five-years-after-completing-my-treasured-places-quest/
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2024-08-24 17:49:43

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@npub1a68…qf4k Gateway

2024-07-23 16:31:11

I’ve been slowly collecting stories from people who knew my dad, and one thing that comes up time and again is that he often called them some pet name, like “tiger” or “sport.”
I strongly suspect that this was simply a generic stand-in for their name when it didn’t immediately come to his mind, but they all seem to think it was specific to themselves.

2024-07-21 02:06:45

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@npub16gl…syzj Such an excellent idea

2024-07-18 20:17:53

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@npub1npy…3sf4 Certainly made the photo opportunity better!

2024-07-18 16:36:40

Local mascot poses for tourist photos. OTD 2007
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2024-07-10 18:11:21

I wrote a bit about why I don’t delete a bunch of my “throwaway” photos: In Defense of Not Deleting Photos. https://rscottjones.com/in-defense-of-not-deleting-photos/

2024-07-05 23:07:50

Five years ago today, I enjoyed #FootPathFriday with some new friends.
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2024-07-04 17:13:19

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@npub1ewx…y3dm I logged in yesterday and found two big code text boxes that I had no idea what to do with. So I closed the oven door to let it bake a bit longer. And today it makes a lot more sense 😂

2024-07-04 00:21:02

🥳 HOL-EE SHEEEET! Jen was able to get the time off approved (!!), so we'll be taking a three-month "mini retirement" trip! (https://scribbles.rscottjones.com/post/attempting-a-mini-retirement). We've been plotting and saving for this for four years, but had no idea if we could pull something like it off, and well, here we are! TIME TO CELEBRATE

2024-07-01 16:39:34

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@npub1c35…9pmh Whoa whoa whoa, how do I get in on the pour-one-out emoji?

2024-06-26 19:39:14

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@npub1npy…3sf4 Best one out there, imo (except perhaps for Readwise Reader, but that requires $10/mo and is a more extensive “review your reading highlights” service)

2024-06-26 19:27:56

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@npub1npy…3sf4 I use Omnivore.app, after using both Pocket and Instapaper for many many years.

2024-06-19 05:00:13

🙌 Just booked 3/4rds of a remote campground for a group trip in November. Here was the view from inside my tent during our last stay there (https://rsjon.es/2024/04/14/shot-this-from.html).

2024-06-16 20:39:03

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@npub1npy…3sf4 Lots of great blogs have been posted for #Junited (search the hashtag).
Here's a good rundown of who's been participating: https://birming.com/junited-how-who/

2024-06-15 19:35:46

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@npub1npy…3sf4 Looks like a stunning landscape!

2024-06-10 05:38:51

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@npub1npy…3sf4 Mossy!

2024-06-08 20:52:48

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@npub1npy…3sf4 Only if you start featuring some company’s $30 litter bags and telling people to use ‘FRANZHATESLITTER’ for the coupon code

2024-06-05 21:20:53

A digital shoebox. I really like this idea I saw on Mike Grindle's site (https://mikegrindle.com/posts/digital-shoebox) about a digital shoebox, which is described on Giles Turnbull's site (https://gilest.org/shoebox.html) as "a bit of website for the odds-and-ends.” It's an archive to put random things you want to keep—old html files, projects, whatever—so you can delete them from other places.
Today’s addition to my #Junited2024 page (https://rsjon.es/junited/)

2024-06-04 10:06:03

Intentionality > Minimalism: https://rscottjones.com/intentionality-minimalism/

2024-05-23 17:44:49

🎂 It's my wife's birthday today. We don't have much planned due to the events of the last few weeks, but boy oh boy do I appreciate having her in my life.

2024-05-23 17:44:49

🎂 It's my wife's birthday today. We don't have much planned due to the events of the last few weeks, but boy oh boy do I appreciate having her in my life.

2024-05-19 15:38:05

❤️‍🩹 Finally starting to shake off some of the daze of the last three weeks, which entailed a half-botched surgery for my wife (with some complications), then my dad's final medical crisis, which led to his death five days later.

2024-05-17 05:07:42

💔 Slowly returning to my life after the death of my dad following a weeklong vigil in the ICU. Damn I miss him.

2024-05-09 07:06:22

🏥 Welp, I’ll be at the hospital all night with my dad, who is having difficulty breathing and battling some sort of infection.

2024-05-05 02:12:24

Another post for #weblogpomo2024 - a post I can send to my friends to get them started on the #smallweb
The easiest ways to start your own personal website
https://rscottjones.com/the-easiest-ways-to-start-your-own-personal-website/
#blogging #personalwebsite

2024-05-03 03:05:45

Here are some default pages you might want to have on your personal website
https://rscottjones.com/pages-you-should-have-on-your-personal-website/
#WeblogPoMo2024 #personalweb #smallweb #blogging #indieweb

2024-05-01 01:36:15

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@npub1svs…p66u Not sure what the cost is, but it’s the one AI use I really appreciate.

2024-04-30 17:13:22

@npub1svs…p66u Has there been any thought towards adding alt text generation via AI? It’s the one feature that I use on Ice Cubes that Mona doesn’t offer…

2024-04-27 16:52:55

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@npub1npy…3sf4 Not a bad way to spend a Saturday!

2024-04-13 01:43:40

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@npub17hj…7a0r Nice! The drive down past Fisher Towers is really nice.

2024-04-04 14:49:54

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@npub16gl…syzj RSS = announcement of distribution
AP = invitation for conversation

2024-04-03 18:12:44

89, fighting four cancers, a memory deficit, calls a small room in an assisted living facility home, and not mobile on his own…but still always in search of happy hour. Even at 10:15am 🍻🍻🍻
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2024-04-02 20:39:53

A helluva good line:
“Remember, kids: Venture capital is the fart that precedes enshittification. It’s best not to linger once you’ve caught a whiff of it.”
cc: @npub1hyk…3p33 https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/112203064511327193

2024-04-01 17:21:50

I put together a /uses page, which is a bit more extensive than just what hardware/software I use.
Online ratings/reviews are worthless these days, so I’m planning on continuously growing this page so folks can ask a *real person* who owns something what they think of it.
https://rscottjones.com/uses/
I was surprised, especially for my outdoors gear, how long I’ve had the time I listed—in most cases, well more than a decade.
Just a reminder that you don’t need the latest and greatest…

2024-03-24 21:52:43

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@npub1npy…3sf4 I spent much of yesterday learning about how to convert my 14 year old MacBook Pro to a simple Google ChromeOS laptop so I could give it to a computerless older dude I know from my local pub.
Feels great to give this thing a new life, and help someone out at the same time.

2024-03-24 07:57:10

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@npub1npy…3sf4 Muting hashtags works great too!

2024-03-22 16:31:13

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@npub16gl…syzj That’s just a personal blog + rss/email.
There’s no reason we should have to publish the same damn thing on countless systems.
The only benefit big social platforms offer is helping to consolidate discovery onto one server, plus possibility of virality.
But couldn’t we just have an opt-in rss aggregator that provides good search of rss items, allows you to follow topical posts, and assists with interoperability for commenting and resharing? I’m not a developer, but that seems doable 🤷‍♂️

2024-03-22 15:18:33

Hey #photography friends! I need a better photo storage option, and am considering my first NAS.
I'd use it for wireless time machine backups for two #macos laptops, plus photo storage (both folders and Photos libraries). I was considering Synology 224+ or QNAP TS-264-8G-US. Any thoughts on Synology vs QNAP? Any things to concern myself about in choosing, or using, a NAS for editing/storing photos, or time machine backups?
Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.

2024-03-22 04:58:41

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@npub1ckm…gutz @npub1k92…lfa9 But they can’t follow fedi accounts yet, right? Just one-way at present?

2024-03-21 21:49:30

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@npub1xzm…eykm mastodon won’t have a “for you” algorithm though, which is what lots of people like about corporate ad (sorry, “social”) platforms. They want the firehose of stuff fed to them, and they want the allure of the lottery of virality.
It’s the opposite of what I want, so I’m here.

2024-03-11 19:33:59

It took us only 25 mins to unpack from our long weekend #camping #roadtrip last night. That includes unpacking the car, putting away all the gear, emptying the coolers, plugging in everything that needs to recharge, replacing consumed items so bins are ready for next time, emptying our duffel bags, and loading/starting the laundry + dishwasher.
It’s amazing how easy everything gets when you spend the time—just once—to set up a few systems like gear bins + routines that you can repeat each time.

2024-03-02 13:35:37

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@npub12ty…vnqc Nice work!

2024-02-19 15:15:13

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@npub16un…e944 @npub12ty…vnqc @npub120z…33r2 Why’s that? It’s a great way to filter out non-photo posts.

2024-02-18 18:35:21

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@npub16gl…syzj @npub1tn5…vtyg I seem to remember that I stopped using mine when some of the themes I wanted to use didn’t support it, and started using the sidebar for social media instead. I think it got moved to a separate plugin, at least initially.

2024-02-17 19:44:19

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@npub1hyk…3p33 See ya in Phoenix!

2024-02-17 15:58:35

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@npub1npy…3sf4 @npub17hj…7a0r Hey Franz, if you ever find yourself in Los Angeles, there’s a short hike in nearby Malibu Creek State Park to the MASH filming location. Worth a couple hours if you were a big fan
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2024-02-15 19:02:35

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@npub1npy…3sf4 Looks like an idyllic spot!

2024-02-11 20:22:30

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@npub1ks4…x88p Threads isn’t really operable and isn’t even to what you might call a beta-testing stage yet, right? It seems quite reasonable to leave it off the list until it works like the other accounts on the list.

2024-02-03 00:19:52

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@npub1yeu…dxcx Do you know of any instances that are focused on a single topic and limit their users’ posts to only those topics?
I’m transitioning a travel photo-sharing community from a closed platform (with similar restrictions) to Mastodon, but am struggling with whether I can effectively keep a “clean” and well-curated federated feed. Wondering if anyone else has tried this, and if so, what their experience has been. Perhaps you know, or know someone else who might?

2024-02-03 00:19:52

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2024-01-20 22:25:30

Brought my dad out of his assisted living facility for a #beer and to watch some #NFL. He’s essentially the only one in the facility that gets out to the bar, which is the place he feels most comfortable”normal.” He was on #hospice two years ago but we started bringing him out here, and well, we’re still going. He’s a mini celebrity here, especially among the bartenders and regulars.
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2023-12-30 15:40:48

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@npub1c5c…644a @npub1npy…3sf4 @npub12p5…kgf8 If you love the outdoors and/or history, then the National parks are definitely worthwhile! I’ve spent my life visiting all of them (until the latest additions this last year) and it’s right up there with the most rewarding endeavors of my life. Hope you enjoy the river!

2023-12-30 03:05:59

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@npub1c5c…644a @npub1npy…3sf4 @npub12p5…kgf8 Makes sense! I’m a big fan of camping in my Subaru (https://rscottjones.com/how-i-camp-in-my-car-during-road-trips/ ). We’re even considering buying a hybrid minivan and turning it into a microcamper. Hope you enjoy your time in the gorge—such great scenery up there!
There are 2 new national park units in IL & MS, so I think we’ll head towards those, plus stuff along the way, and spend a few days near New Orleans, but weather will be the key factor

2023-12-29 21:51:09

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@npub1c5c…644a @npub1npy…3sf4 sweet, where ya headed? I’ve done some hiking around Portland, but haven’t backpacked around there. Heading out for a 10 day camping (car not backpacking) road trip in about a week myself. Still figuring out the direction and details tho

2023-12-29 16:49:53

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@npub1npy…3sf4 @npub1c5c…644a I don’t post many hiking pics here, but always enjoy seeing both of your adventures. Keep sharing when life allows!

2023-12-19 18:04:16

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@npub1a68…qf4k Wow, an incredible shot, JC!

2023-12-16 09:35:14

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@npub1npy…3sf4 enjoy your time off!

2023-12-12 21:25:11

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@npub1psa…xhme @npub14s3…pjsw can’t wait!

2023-12-12 20:54:21

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@npub18jg…mm9c that one sure is

2023-11-08 01:07:41

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@npub120z…33r2 CANNOT WAIT for hashtag follows. It’s the feature I’ve been waiting for most.
Still looking to release that soon?

2023-09-27 21:10:36

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@npub1yk6…4zz4 surfs up?
I’ll see myself out.

2023-09-02 05:10:56

Picked up my first #ebike tonight and rode the 2 miles home. Whoa! She’s not a looker, but this cargo #bike from REI suits my needs and budget, and I enjoyed the quick ride even in the #Phoenix heat. #biketooter
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2023-08-10 18:31:23

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@npub10lc…7wpc put the effort into elections and local initiatives, which will have outsized outcomes

2023-08-10 18:31:23

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@npub10lc…7wpc put the effort into elections and local initiatives, which will have outsized outcomes

2023-07-05 14:15:52

@npub12ty…vnqc what's the best way to get started with pixelfed? I joined awhile back but I don't know many people on the platform and so there's not much in my feed. Is there a way to follow hashtags? What am I missing?

2023-07-01 22:56:23

Visited a couple local #history #museums today and was reminded that when the two WWII-era japanese internment camps in Arizona were established, they immediately became the 3rd and 4th largest “cities” in the state. 😮
We visited all ten camps for #GoQuesting2112:
https://goquesting.com/quests/japanese-internment-camps-from-wwii
#travel #goquesting

2023-06-22 00:55:13

You can quickly tell which #Notion experts are sharing what they actually use **and have therefore vetted in real life usage** versus those who are just selling a quick template to make a buck—just look at their "travel" template.
I've yet to come across one I'd ever actually use! Makes me wonder if I should actually release the template I've been using for years now.

2023-06-10 04:17:45

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@npub12ty…vnqc whoa!!

2023-05-26 04:57:32

Every time I go to the doctor they ask me if I have any allergies and I always include “yard work” in the list, which usually earns a laugh.
But someone years ago decided to do me a solid and actually added it to my official health chart and now my life is appreciably better.

2023-05-21 17:31:58

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@npub1a68…qf4k Nice shot, JC!