ode to the juniper berry
I learned today that Carl Johnson passed. As Phil Enis said, he was a good guy. I worked with him as a staffer at NARUC and as a staffer on the joint board and I liked him a lot.
Despite probably only seeing each other 5 times a year, plus another 5 or 10 interminable conference calls and a few collaborative projects, I felt pretty close to him. Maybe this was because he was always Carl - he either like you or he didn't and you either liked him or you didn't.
It seems like just the other day we were stuck in red boiling springs, tn, drinking too much (moonshine, natch) and trying to not hurt anyone with our innate sense of curmudgeonlyness.
I know he was a wisk(e)y drinker (and how), but I will always remember him chuckling (it was hard to get much more than that out of him, even when I was really on) about my spontaneously composed poem entitled "ode to the juniper berry" delivered with an upturned finger on the glass and the stiff upper lip of a right and proper gin drinker.
dulce et decorum est indeed, you bastards.
Carl, I miss you - that you managed to bring the best out in me says something about your character, or lack thereof.
Despite probably only seeing each other 5 times a year, plus another 5 or 10 interminable conference calls and a few collaborative projects, I felt pretty close to him. Maybe this was because he was always Carl - he either like you or he didn't and you either liked him or you didn't.
It seems like just the other day we were stuck in red boiling springs, tn, drinking too much (moonshine, natch) and trying to not hurt anyone with our innate sense of curmudgeonlyness.
I know he was a wisk(e)y drinker (and how), but I will always remember him chuckling (it was hard to get much more than that out of him, even when I was really on) about my spontaneously composed poem entitled "ode to the juniper berry" delivered with an upturned finger on the glass and the stiff upper lip of a right and proper gin drinker.
dulce et decorum est indeed, you bastards.
Carl, I miss you - that you managed to bring the best out in me says something about your character, or lack thereof.
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Carl was a great guy. I always really enjoyed both working and hanging out with him. I hope he is in a better place now ... visiting his dry sense of humor on Evel Knievel.
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