Happy holidays

[Bill Campbell]

On Sat, Dec 31, 2011, Leon Goldstein wrote:
>Joel Hammer wrote:
>
>>The best to all of you. 
>>
>>Still using linux as my OS after all these years, but, it has gotten so
>>easy with ubuntu I hardly need to bother this list anymore. 
>>
>>Still need windows for tax software and for work. Not much has changed
>>there, unfortunately.
>>
>>My family has expanded a bit in the last few years. Added a son-in-law,
>>a daughter-in-law, a grandson, and soon will have have a 2nd son-in-law
>>and a 2nd grandson. Time flies. I'm sixty-five and having more fun than
>>I should, but, what the heck.
>>
>>Everybody take care and treat yourselves and your loved ones well.
>>
>>
>>Joel
>>
>>  
>>
>re 
>
>>Still need windows for tax software and for work. Not much has changed
>>there, unfortunately.

>You and me both.  I ceremoniously fire up wind'ohs XP once every year to
>install  my income tax software.

I did that before moving all my desktop stuff to Mac OS X almost
ten years ago.

I have XP Pro and Win7 running under VMware Fusion when I need to
test something or write documentation for Windows, and a CentOS 5
VM as well that I use primarily for writing when I'm away from my
office where I do that directly on one of the many Linux servers.

I was using a Windows program to edit ACBL Convention Cards for
duplicate bridge until I found the bridgewinners.com site which
has a very nice on-line editor.

This brings me to my major non-Linux activity these days.  I
started playing duplicate bridge again 2 years ago after a 43
year hiatus, and am about 1/3 of the way to Life Master.

Bill
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