season's greetings

[vu Pham]

Jay, your retirement looks very active and fun. I still have more than a
decade to get there. :)

I have found fun in two very different topics: micro-controller and machine
learning.  The purpose is to build some prototype to help people learn
martial-arts more efficiently and less fearfully. People need to know more
of self-defense nowadays.

I wish all the best to everyone.

Vu

On Tue, Dec 24, 2019 at 11:18 PM Jay Nugent via Linux-users <
linux-users at linux-sxs.org> wrote:

> 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
>
>
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