<div dir="ltr"><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>I can indulge this hobby, though, with time to spare for my two new grandchildren.</div><div><br></div><div>May you all have a ha[[y Christmas, and a prosperous New Year.</div><div><br></div><div>Terence<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, 25 Dec 2019 at 12:19, vu Pham via Linux-users <<a href="mailto:linux-users@linux-sxs.org">linux-users@linux-sxs.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>Jay, your retirement looks very active and fun. I still have more than a decade to get there. :)</div><div><br></div><div>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. <br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div>I wish all the best to everyone.</div><div><br></div><div>Vu</div></div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Dec 24, 2019 at 11:18 PM Jay Nugent via Linux-users <<a href="mailto:linux-users@linux-sxs.org" target="_blank">linux-users@linux-sxs.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Happy Holidays, all !!!<br>
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On Tue, 24 Dec 2019, Lonni J Friedman via <br>
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> Its been mighty quiet here...<br>
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> Happy Holidays!<br>
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> Hoping everyone's 2020 is better than 2019, and may it be the year of<br>
> the Linux desktop ;)<br>
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Here's what's happening in my life... I'm retired now, even collecting <br>
some Social Security - which I never thought would be around by the time i <br>
was old enough to collect it. Did some teaching at a local community <br>
college for a few years teaching Linux/UNIX System Administration. THAT <br>
was a LOT of fun!<br>
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These days I keep adding more Solar power atop the house, add more <br>
batteries to the battery bank, soon will add a Wind Turbine, and have a <br>
lot of fun wiring up more things in the house to run off 12 volts DC as I <br>
don't want to run an AC inverter. Wrote a "Primer" showing how this <br>
'project' has been coming along: <a href="http://www.nuge.com/solar" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.nuge.com/solar</a><br>
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I keep adding more stuff to the Primer from time to time. Have a LOT <br>
of stuff to add -- maybe after the holday season is over.<br>
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My wife and I are both "Preppers" so we've been making sure that we can <br>
live independent of conventional infrastructure for a VERY extended period <br>
of time. Food, water, power, fabricating tools/skills, gardening, <br>
canning, etc. We are making the house MORE energy efficiant and are <br>
considering Geo-Thermal as well. Linux plays into this as a great way to <br>
collect energy usage measurements, track Degree Days and other useful <br>
weather information, solar light-level readings, etc., all collected on <br>
Raspberry-Pi's running Linux. So my BASH shell script writing skills are <br>
being pushed to the limits! (grin)<br>
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As I like to say: You Cannot Manage What You Cannot Measure<br>
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My wife retires in 151 weeks (yeah, she tracks things quite closely). <br>
When that happens we hope to do a lot of traveling around the US, Canada <br>
(she was born there), and Mexico. Perhaps we can visit with a few of the <br>
fine folks we've met on this list :)<br>
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So what has everyone been up to? Hope you all are in good health and <br>
living happy lives!<br>
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--- Jay Nugent WB8TKL<br>
Ypsilanti, Michigan<br>
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