Still here…hunkered down!

Just figured I’d post up a quick update – I am OK and hunkered down. This is beginning week #3 (I think) of being cooped up in the house. Definitely feeling a little cabin fever now, and last week I lost track of what days were what lol!

I have been getting out; in fact I think I’ve seen more of my neighbors and neighborhood (from a safe distance) more in the past 2 weeks than I have in the past 9 years I’ve lived here. I went from driving 60+ miles a day, to using my car maybe twice a week, if that. I have gotten out on the motorcycle, which has been nice to ride around, but the weather has not cooperated much lately. Its been great to walk around the neighborhood during my lunch hour.

In addition, I’ve been on more video calls in the past 2 weeks than I ever have, probably over my entire lifetime. Its interesting how people who were covering up their cameras 3 weeks ago are now defaulting to them being on.

As someone who almost purposely lives under a rock to a degree, I’ve more or less stayed off the news. It’s all sensationalized; and what little I learn via Twitter or via work has been enough to keep me informed.

I’ve mostly been keeping busy with projects, and hope to get some new posts up soon with recent updates. I even got a new piece of Franklin Institute ephemera to post up.

Last but not least – one thing I do know; once this blows over, I plan to hit up as many of those little niche museums as I can. I’ll make a seperate post to call out a few that are within a reasonable distance from the Philly area, but I hope to support them as much as I can!

Rare and Sobering Thrift Shop Find

As you can likely tell from various posts here, I find that rooting around in the paperwork and photograph piles at thrift shops can reveal some interesting stuff, whether it be cool postcards of the past, photographs of notable things, and so on. Often a lot of the stuff comes from cleanouts of homes of the deceased, likely resold at auctions and flea markets, which honestly surprises me sometimes, as you’d think next-of-kin would want or cherish family photographs and ephemera, especially stuff that dates back to first-generation US immigrants and beyond, or of historical value.

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