You folks will understand this. It’s been a weird year. A totally shitty & weird year. I lost my mom in February. I lost my best friend, Johnnie Walker, in July. No, I’m not finished describing my year. I’ll do that with a New Years meme. And I hope no more deaths.
Back to losing Johnnie: I had planned to change the year on this header. All of us loved the wonderful sendoff his family had for him. I did the eulogy and it went well. But here, on this blog, I found his picture jarring. This space has always been about the present. Things change. Times change. So we removed Johnnie from the header and put Harvey Wallbanger instead. Harvey hasn’t been here since 2015 but that’s not so long ago and, he did have two advantages. We are still very close and he’s still alive. No one knew Johnnie better than I and I know he wouldn’t care. He was into the recording sessions. I doubt he ever read a post here on the blog or more that once on our web page WTIT.net. In fact the only DJ who has helped here was Harvey. In 2008 & 9, he did a weekly post on the old blog. The one with the twins and my singles stories. using this backup computer sucks because no site recognizes me and my password “hints” are on the other computer. OK, I didn’t back up everything. It was called “Harvey Has a Take” …I think. If I were on my main computer I’d figure it out. and it was done after I did my dating profiles meme. Here’s is the old header:
Thanks for taking a minute to listen to me ramble. You gotta keep moving. Peace & love. Join us next time here at the same blog.
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From what you’ve told us about your friend, I’m sure he’d consider “still alive” a major advantage. 🙂
Sometimes I think moving on and being a bit irreverent is the best way to revere someone.
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Yep, he’d crack up for sure. I know he’d understand whichever choice we made.