Still crazy after all these years

[Collins Richey]

It's just great to hear from all the old reprobates from Caldera days.
None of us are getting any younger. Unlike some of you, I'm hoping
never to retire. I've passed my 10 year anniversary with
Echostar/DishNetwork now, and I'm still loving my work. Although my
team does all the unix work (tiny bit of Solaris and RedHat Linux
systems), most of what I do is dealing with vendor stuff - VMware,
NetApp, EMC, Cisco, CommVault, Oracle,HP Blades and other servers,
etc. 99% of our installs are virtual machines. There's never a
shortage of something new to learn, so much so that I find myself
doing very little any more with linux-related things at home. At work
the occasional need for Bash and Perl scripts is the closest I get to
traditional admin work. My phone is an Iphone, my most frequent
computing device is an Android pad, but I do still have a Netbook
running PCLinuxOS and this beast where I'm typing, a CentOS7 box. Boy
has RedHat ever screwed up what used to be an easy to use system!
Forget anything you used to know about Linux!

Denver has been getting unusual weather as well. Three weeks ago we
ended several weeks of near sprngtime - up to 70 degrees. February, on
the other hand, has broken records for snowfall set in 1912, and we've
had lots of nights near zero.

I'm having a grand time at work, reading mystery stories, and learning
languages (Lithuanian is the latest). My wife (now retired) and I have
resumed square dancing. We first met at a square dance weekend in
Estes Park. My daughter and her husband also live in Denver, so we see
them frequently. Our only vacation in recent years was to their
wedding a couple of years ago in a redwood grove near Crescent City,
CA.

I'll end with a politically incorrect joke, one of the best I've
heard. Feel free to be offended.

A Republican candidate was stumping in an area known to be a hotbed of
Democrats. He knocked on the door of a farmhouse and told the farmer
he'd like to make a speech. The farmer went to get his wife. Meanwhile
the candidate was searching around the farmyard looking for a platform
to stand on. Finding nothing but a pile of manure and some scrap
lumber, he piled up some boards on the dung heap and gave his speech.
When he finished, the farmer's wife said: "I don't think I've ever
heard a Republican speech before." The candidate replied: "Ma'am, I
don't think I've ever before given a speech on a Democrat platform!"

Live long and prosper.

On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 9:42 AM, Klaus-Peter Schrage <kpschrage at gmx.de> wrote:
> Am 26.02.2015 um 16:19 schrieb Lonni J Friedman:
>>
>> Klaus-Peter, I'll actually be in your neck of the woods in May.  Going
>> to be spending 2 weeks exploring Germany from Berlin to Hamburg to
>> Munich, and all points in between.
>
> Lonni, if Braunschweig is one of the "points in between" (which it is,
> mathematically speaking, on a straight line between Hamburg and Munich), be
> invited to our home here where we might have a drop of our local beer or
> whatever you prefer.
> Contact me off list when the time comes.
>
> Klaus
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-- 
Collins Richey
     If you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries
     of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for.