season's greetings

[Jay Nugent]

Happy Holidays, all !!!

On Tue, 24 Dec 2019, Lonni J Friedman via 
Linux-users wrote:

> Its been mighty quiet here...
>
> Happy Holidays!
>
> Hoping everyone's 2020 is better than 2019, and may it be the year of
> the Linux desktop  ;)


    Here's what's happening in my life...  I'm retired now, even collecting 
some Social Security - which I never thought would be around by the time i 
was old enough to collect it.  Did some teaching at a local community 
college for a few years teaching Linux/UNIX System Administration.  THAT 
was a LOT of fun!

    These days I keep adding more Solar power atop the house, add more 
batteries to the battery bank, soon will add a Wind Turbine, and have a 
lot of fun wiring up more things in the house to run off 12 volts DC as I 
don't want to run an AC inverter.  Wrote a "Primer" showing how this 
'project' has been coming along:  http://www.nuge.com/solar

    I keep adding more stuff to the Primer from time to time.  Have a LOT 
of stuff to add -- maybe after the holday season is over.

    My wife and I are both "Preppers" so we've been making sure that we can 
live independent of conventional infrastructure for a VERY extended period 
of time.  Food, water, power, fabricating tools/skills, gardening, 
canning, etc.  We are making the house MORE energy efficiant and are 
considering Geo-Thermal as well.  Linux plays into this as a great way to 
collect energy usage measurements, track Degree Days and other useful 
weather information, solar light-level readings, etc., all collected on 
Raspberry-Pi's running Linux.  So my BASH shell script writing skills are 
being pushed to the limits! (grin)

    As I like to say:  You Cannot Manage What You Cannot Measure


    My wife retires in 151 weeks (yeah, she tracks things quite closely). 
When that happens we hope to do a lot of traveling around the US, Canada 
(she was born there), and Mexico.  Perhaps we can visit with a few of the 
fine folks we've met on this list :)

    So what has everyone been up to?  Hope you all are in good health and 
living happy lives!


       --- Jay Nugent  WB8TKL
           Ypsilanti, Michigan