Pro 2A / Shooting / CCW / Hunting 🦌🦆/ Fishing 🎣 /Husband / Father to 2 girls 👯 and one boy⛹🏼.
Metairie, LA
Joined February 2007
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Chris Johnston retweeted
I had a great career as an engineer. Published books. Spoke at many conferences.
Being at home is way harder than working. It’s mentally and physically exhausting. I never thought I’d stay home.
But it’s the legacy that matters and I can see the difference in how well regulated my kids already are and how kind/funny/empathetic they are to others.
Chris Johnston retweeted
Taking the rear bumper off to do plugs is crazy😭😭 No wonder maintenance is expensive in these cars😭
The employee was on a FaceTime call for several minutes before I started recording and remained on the call when I left.
When did this kind of behavior become acceptable at work? I worked in a grocery store as teenager and I would have been fired on the spot for this behavior.
I remember one of my friends in high school had one of these. Anybody want to guess what car this is?
Chris Johnston retweeted
🌀A tropical depression is likely to form in the southwest Gulf within the next day or so. Where it ultimately reaches the northern Gulf Coast remains uncertain. Areas from southeast Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle should monitor closely. #lawx #mswx
ALT Graphic titled “Tropical Depression Likely to Form in the Southwest Gulf.” The National Hurricane Center outlook shows a disturbance in the southwest Gulf with a high, near 100% chance of tropical development. A tropical depression is likely to form within the next day or so as the system drifts east before turning north late this week. Heavy rainfall, coastal flooding, and gusty winds could affect the local area. Where the system ultimately reaches the northern Gulf Coast remains uncertain, with areas from southeast Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle encouraged to monitor the forecast closely.
Chris Johnston retweeted
Nobody talks about the psychological damage of watching something you spent 15 years learning become a button.
It’s not just about losing income. It’s the identity crisis.
You spent years studying, practicing, failing, improving, and becoming the person people came to for that skill.
Then someone with zero experience can press a button and get something that took you years to master.
You can admire the technology and still feel hurt by it.
Because deep down, you’re not just asking, “Will this replace my job?”
You’re asking, “Was all that time I spent becoming good at this still worth it?”
And that’s a much harder question to answer.
Chris Johnston retweeted
We are making Markdown files work natively across Google Drive and Docs.
You can now preview .md files in Drive, open them in Docs, edit them, comment on them, and collaborate without converting the file into a Google Doc!
Chris Johnston retweeted
The absolute worst thing about opening this app is spotting a banger tweet for 0.2 seconds before the feed auto-refreshes and sends it straight into the void.
Gone forever.
Chris Johnston retweeted
🚨WOW!!!
An 81-year-old man was hauling heavy suitcases up a flight of stairs, 14 HOURS A DAY, to pay for his wife's CANCER TREATMENT...
...then the woman at the top of those stairs opened her door, heard his story, and raised him $600,000 to GO HOME to be with his wife!!!! ❤️
His name is Don Johnson.
He's 81 years old, from The Colony, Texas, just outside Dallas.
His wife Josephine has been by his side for 57 YEARS. She's fighting an aggressive cancer.
Three years ago, when the medical bills started piling up, Don went looking for work.
He tried Amazon. He tried Walmart. Nobody would take him.
So he became an independent contractor delivering lost airline luggage to people's front doors.
Sometimes 14 hours a day. Hundreds of miles in a single shift. Driving as far as OKLAHOMA to get a bag to its owner.
He put over 200,000 MILES on his own car doing it.
At 81 years old.
"I appreciate what we do get from insurance, but it doesn't cover it all. And cancer treatment is very expensive."
Then on a September day he dropped a suitcase on the steps outside a home in The Colony.
A woman named Erin Howell heard the noise on her door cam and came outside.
She offered to help carry it, and she asked him a simple question: why is a man your age doing this?
His answer: "It's the only job that will hire me."
Then he told her about Josephine.
Erin could have wished him well and gone back inside.
Instead she started a GoFundMe and a TikTok page called "Help Don Retire."
She wrote that at an age when he should be resting by his wife's side, he was out on the highway lifting bags to keep her alive.
The goal was $150,000.
It blew past that in DAYS.
Then $281,000.
Then $370,000.
Now more than $600,000 and still climbing.
More than ELEVEN THOUSAND people gave.
But here's the part that got me...
Right before all of this, Don's car had started breaking down and he'd already been forced to cut back his hours.
He was running out of road.
And that's exactly when a stranger he'd talked to for five minutes knocked on the whole country's door and AMERICA showed up.
"I left and thought I'd never see her again," Don said. "And it was an amazing thing she did for me, for us."
His wife, Josephine says after 57 years, she's watching "for better or worse" happen right in front of her.
"I'm so happy that he turned out to be the man he is."
And Don? He's not talking about himself.
"I love her dearly, and I just want her to be well. It restores my faith in people. For her and others to do for me, that was a miracle. I look forward to the day that I can help people just like I'm being helped now."
He never asked for a dime.
He just kept carrying the bags.
GOD BLESS Don and Josephine Johnson, and GOD BLESS Erin Howell.
THIS IS THE AMERICA I KNOW!!! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Another great ad for @PHLster!
Democrats in places like Illinois keep passing gun bans, but they never explain who protects this woman when she needs it.
She’s pregnant, armed, and responsible, and that apparently makes her MORE offensive to the left than the criminals their policies keep releasing back onto the street. They trust the government with everything and trust mothers with nothing.
A woman guarding her family isn’t “extreme”. It’s the most American thing you’ll see all day.. 🔥🔥
