A Modern-Day Explorer – The Obituary

Jon (Jonco), 73, died December 28, 2021.

He was the son of the late Benjamin and Ruth. He was preceded in death by his nieces; Melissa and Renee, and his grandbaby Samantha. He is survived by his wife of 53 years, Pat, son Dave (Staci), daughter Kris (Seth), brother Paul (Janis) sister-in-law Gail (Mike), as well as his grandchildren; Renly (Melanie), Seth (Sarah), Vince (Mady), and Logan (Joe). He was also loved by many nieces, nephews, cousins, extended family, friends, and more.

Jon and wife, Pat, owned a series of small grocery stores in St. Louis City for 40 years. He always had a passion for computers and any sort of tech, and upgrading to the latest and greatest. He was a people person and loved communicating, from starting his own newspaper as a child to building web-sites, to writing blogs that are viewed worldwide. He was a loyal, long-time member of the Brotherhood of Gluttons and loved getting together with his Glutton friends. He was a father figure and mentor to many – always willing to lend an ear and give the most open-minded advice he could, even if it wasn’t what you wanted or expected. He loved his dog, Buster. He especially loved getting together with family and playing games.

He and Pat visited 48 states together, most notably an Alaska cruise for their 50th anniversary. He loved all things to do with St. Louis, and they had many dates there. He was a modern-day explorer – searching and scouring the web for entertaining bits and pieces to share with his thousands of blog followers. He celebrated talent in all forms. He was extremely creative, smart, witty, and loved being behind a camera or microphone. He was a story teller, a eulogy giver, a trivia master, a foster parent, a pro shopper, a videographer, a movie lover and movie maker, a magic enthusiast, an Elvis fan, a dinner group member, a photo-bomber, a drone pilot, an athletic supporter, a teacher, a learner, an inventor, a thinker and a consumer of all parts of life. He loved adventure; flying, skydiving, hot air balloon riding, scuba diving, motorcycling, and driving his Tesla. Above all, he was a humorist – he looked for the funny in everyday life.

His list of life advice for others (in his own words): “Find things to laugh about. Spend time with family and friends. Don’t let someone ruin your day. Treat people the way you want to be treated. How you react to things that happen in life is much more important than the things that happen. Practice random acts of kindness. Pay for someone’s meal at a restaurant drive-thru. Remember that you’re not always right and they’re not always wrong; people say things from their own perspective.”

Jon supported many causes and especially those causes that were important to his friends and family, so in that regard – any donations should be directed to your local charity of choice.

Shameless Plug Sunday

From time to time we open up the B&P Shameless Plug Line, where you can plug your own website or just a site you want to help promote.

Tell us about your site in a couple of lines in a comment and give us a link.

 Limit to 2 links please for those with multiple sites and no R or XXX adult stuff.  Other rules and disclaimers here.

What’s your shameless plug?

B&P Problems

Apparently, some posts aren’t showing up for several hours and then a bunch will show up all at once. They’re supposed to be spread out about an hour apart. I think it is a plugin related problem but I’m not sure. Plugins are being updated fairly often and that has a tendency to muck things up for other plugins on occasion. The posts are showing up in a timely manner for me but apparently not for everyone else which makes it hard for me to troubleshoot the problem.

So for the time being I’ll be deactivating some plugins including the Like Button plugin. You also might see Test Posts pop up from time to time.

Website News

After a couple of updates, we were able to reactivate the Jetpack plugin yesterday and it seems to be working okay. It had been disabled for several weeks because it was causing problems with comments. The old Like button was also disabled for the same reason. The old Like button still isn’t working so we’ve enabled a new Like button that is part of Jetpack. Hopefully, there won’t be any problems, but if there are we will disable the plugin once again.

Big Peach Pit Stop Update #2 – Dinner

Dinner at Hooters with me (Jonco), Richard, DJ, Gary, and the ever so lovely Arianne.  We enjoyed 2+ hours eating and talking and catching up. Thanks to Richard for picking up the tab for dinner.  A great bunch of people that are very comfortable to be around.  

DJ heads on down to Florida to see his 96-year-old mom who still lives on her own and I’ll be heading back to St. Louis Sunday morning. This truly was a pit stop for DJ while just a nice diversion from my daily routine.

I feel really grateful that these people and the ones we were with earlier all got to know each other through Bits & Pieces. I truly appreciate the people I’ve met here and at the BABBQs in St. Louis and our gathering in Las Vegas as well as the people I’ve met on my travels.  There are still quite a few people I look forward to meeting in person.

 

Big Peach Pit Stop Update #1 – Lunch

Lunch group from L to R:  Lilly and Mike (Chef-Bor-R-Doom), me (Jonco), Keith (Keith), Richard (Rick), Barry (Infidel) and last but not least, Don (DJ).  Click to enlarge.

A big thanks to Barry for covering our lunch tab.  Following a nice long lunch and good conversation with some nice folks DJ and I were treated to a ride in Mike and Lilly’s Model 3 Tesla.  Pics by DJ.  Click to enlarge.

 
   
It is really an interesting ride with its ultra-quiet engineless engine and autopilot mode.  It has a 310-mile range on a full charge and there are charging stations popping up all over the country.  The super-charging stations take about 45 minutes to charge and it costs between $5 and $9 to use. They can also charge it overnight at their home.   DJ and I were very impressed.  We’re thinking about splitting the cost on one.  We each would get it every other day. Some details might still need to be worked out.

Big Peach Pit Stop this weekend

The Big Peach Pit Stop in Atlanta Georgia will be tomorrow, Saturday, October 20, 2018.  The plan is to meet for lunch at 11 am at Ted’s Montanna Grill located near the Mall of Georgia at the Marketplace at Mill Creek.

Then tomorrow night we’ll meet at the Hooters at the Mall of Georgia at 6 pm.  Anyone who wants to join us at either of those events is welcome.  It would help if you reply to this so we have an idea of how many might show up for either gathering.

What we’re doing between those events has not yet been determined.

DJ and I will be arriving separately on Friday evening. Our hotel is located near the Mall of Georgia. 

 

 

B&P login question…

I’ve had two people in the last 2 or 3 weeks tell me they have to login with their name and email each time they want to leave a comment.  The site isn’t remembering their login info like it used to. I’ve not made any real changes to the site that would affect the login procedure.

Is anyone else having that problem?  Or, does anyone have any idea why it might be happening?

 

UpdateI’ve made a few changes in the comment system.  Let me know if these help

See my comment in the Comments for details.