post-work

I’ve run Fedora on my desktops and home server since it was Red Hat Linux, back in 1996. When I started work in tech support, the first task of any support engineer was to install your desktop system. Cakewalk. It was the first time I’d ever run a kernel directly from a software organization, rather than building my own. I was skeptical. That skepticism served me very well in QE.

Now that I’ve got some time to spare, I’ve got some home projects that I might work on.

I’ve got a network server in need of an upgrade, waiting for time that I can take down the computer network for a couple of hours. I’ve got a hosting provider with several sites that needs to be organized. Including ever getting email, and assigning an IP from one of my domains to my home system.

I’ve got a Raspberry Pi in the garage. I’ve been using it to burn arduino images, but it might find another purpose. After all, who can’t use a server or desktop in their garage?

I haven’t gamed much in the past few months, and I miss that. I tend to play Blizzard games, and have been on WoW in particular for… 7 years? 9 years? I’ll settle for a half-dozen guilds and one vanity guild with my wife. I can’t remember the last time I ran an instance.