Happy New Year. It’s hard to believe. The past few months have flown by so fast at times it didn’t seem real. The weather in Northern Virginia, like the weather in so many places around the world, has been unusual this past season. It has been very warm and rainy. Christmas night I took my dog Buddy for his nightly walk at about midnight… in a T-shirt. Yes it was that warm. The forecast is predicting a sharp turn downward in the temperature so winter may arrive soon. I guess we will wait and see…
2015 brought with it health challenges for my son David and my daughter Tina, as well as for my wife and me. Finding answers has sort of been the theme of the health journey, enduring tests and waiting for results to see what is next. I think some very deranged people must have stayed up all night to create some of the strange and uncomfortable tests used in the medical profession. And it is not as if great improvements have been made in recent years with the tests: the hospital gown still has to be tied up in the back and leaves your butt hanging out.
My children at home have grown into their teen years. They are very athletic and active with their school sports. I have been attending weekly study sessions at church. And Farima is in her senior college year. So at least once or twice a week I wave to myself as I drive by taking this child to there, and that child somewhere else only to race to work or a meeting usually with few minutes to spare. Busy busy. When a quiet moment appears I soak every second of it up and it is my portion until the next. Farima and I particularly enjoy our date nights and time alone. Silence, solitude, and calm… all very precious commodities.
My work has been busy as the FCC swerves one way and then another. Broadcast radio and television are things of very rapid change these days. Trying to stay ahead of the curve has given me a lot to study and posed some interesting brain teasers. I am grateful for the work though, and the study will keep me younger.
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As the new year presents itself I am scanning the to do list and see that I would really like to update both this blog, and our blog at carlfarima.com, with new family photos from near and far… and maybe some links to the older photo galleries from years gone by. I have some new shots from David and Tina that would be cool to add. And the kids here have had their school pictures and other Kodak moments that have added to our albums. It seems with all the cameras (cell phones) there are hundreds of pictures and videos. To get them up on the web the better shots have to be selected and then photo-shopped (or Gimp’d, Snapseed’d, or Pixlr’d) before putting them online. It all looks so simple when I start out, but the reality is that I take an hour or two to get 8 or 10 pictures online.
I have dug deeper and deeper into Linux and Chromebooks, trying to unravel their mysteries to save money on laptops and software. These too are challenges that keep me younger. So far I have found there isn’t anything that Microsoft or Apple can do with their software that a $250 Chromebook can’t do with FREE software. Actually with Bodhi Linux and it’s Moksha desktop a Chromebook will run circles around Windows 10 or Apple OS. I will admit it takes some patience and fiddling to figure it all out. But even with what little time I have, I still have more time than money!
In any event… my 64th Birthday is staring me in the face from next month. It doesn’t seem possible. I’m very grateful for the journey. I’m guessing their’s a destination, but right now the journey is all consuming.