season's greetings

[Leon Goldstein]

Still here!  Running various vintages of Mint Debian on some old 
laptops.  Also running SuSE 15.1 to keep my RPM skills.  I look around 
pawn shops for the old ones with access covers for RAM and drives.  I 
install a SSD and increase RAM if necessary.

On 12/25/19 9:29 AM, Terence via Linux-users wrote:
> It's good to hear from the list. I too have retired, but following a 
> heart op (two valves replace/repaired, triple by-pass) bought myself a 
> Caterham 7 Superlight R400 to use on road and track. This led to the 
> General Secretarysho pf the Lotus 7 Club, and more work than I care to 
> think about.
>
> I can indulge this hobby, though, with time to spare for my two new 
> grandchildren.
>
> May you all have a ha[[y Christmas, and a prosperous New Year.
>
> Terence
>
> On Wed, 25 Dec 2019 at 12:19, vu Pham via Linux-users 
> <linux-users at linux-sxs.org <mailto:linux-users at linux-sxs.org>> wrote:
>
>
>     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 <mailto: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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Leon A. Goldstein
System L3
Linux Mint 17.3

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