2022-02-01 - What am I up to?

There's a big hole in my gemlog covering 2021, as I stepped away from port 1965 in February last year. Despite the pandemic, it wasn't a terrible year. My hobby time became quite a lot less computer filled, and busy in other ways.

• I got into cycling, bought a road bike, and managed to clock up about 1300 miles by the end of the year. There are some really good trails in the Dallas area for long rides. The weather works nearly all year round too!
• I continued to buy dance music vinyl, get my living room DJ thing on, and have a lot of fun with that.
• I finally replaced our nicer DSLR camera lens, and started taking some photos again. Spent quite a bit of time looking through old photos too, from the time before kids and COVID when we used to travel :-)

I still work fully remote, spending most of my time on an open source project used in High Performance Computing (HPC). I do systems level programming for Linux, as well as open source community / politics stuff quite heavily for work, and have decided that's quite enough of those worlds for me, these days. After over 20 years being a Linux enthusiast in my spare time it has become less appealing to tinker with on the sofa in the evening.

• I've somewhat reluctantly returned to being but a simple Windows user outside of work time, as I want to do things with music, photos and the like rather than fiddle with the computer for its own sake.
• I still hang out on the fediverse, and generally like to avoid the big corporate web world when there are nicer alternatives that don't get in the way.
• I am quite far removed from my days of FSF membership, distro hopping, and things like that.
• I have an old Sun Blade workstation for a nostalgia fix, and to dampen any passing urges for unix fiddling.

2022 is going to be a rather crazy year! We've decided it's time to escape Texas after 11 years and head back to the UK. Lots to do by summer so that a move can happen in school holidays for the kids. But first, I need to file our taxes... arghhh.

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