On 9/2/22 00:14, krsg...@trixtar.org wrote:
On Thu, 1 Sep 2022 21:46:04 -1000
david <gn...@hawaii.rr.com> wrote:
Mahalo nui loa (thank you very much, in Hawaiian) to our wonderful
Rosegarden developers.
Various career changes happened this year, courtesy of my employer
outsourcing about 16% of its staff and deciding that neither it nor the
outsourcer had any place for me. That just accelerated retirement plans
by a few months. But it certainly gives me more time to make music with
Rosegarden!
--
David W. Jones
gn...@hawaii.rr.com
authenticity, honesty, community
http://dancingtreefrog.com
"My password is the last 8 digits of π."
the last 8? :-))
Yup. Think that might keep the cryptominers busy long enough? ;)
I retired in 2003, two major surgeries, no more smoking and far less drinking
later I can honestly say that I've never been busier or happier. And YES,
Rosegarden is a part of it albeit I would say that my music is at a pedestrian
level (I'm just now building my first midi, of a favorite song).
I'm more centered on making scores with Rosegarden, and hearing them,
without requiring other musicians. Or skills beyond what I already have.
My late father-in-law had spent his life running bulldozers and every manner
of heavy equipment building roads. When he retired he became an aviation fan
starting with RC models and ending with several real airplanes that he flew and
twice crashed, the sight of machinery just made him puke but he had a ball. Me
I had spent my life flying and when I retired I had had my fill of endless
nights with hundres strapped to my butt; now there's nothing I enjoy more than
slowly cleaning up in the woods with my backhoe loader, listening to the birds
and smelling the pines.
My wife's cousin was an engineer at JPL. The guy the science experiment
teams went to after deciding what they needed to measure and how
precisely they needed it measured. He'd take their specifications and
design and fabricate the equipment needed to do that. After he retired,
he kept doing that on the side (need a custom circuit board or silicon?
No problem!) and moved up into the Sierra Nevada foothills on a big
swath of pine forest. So far, he's built a snowboarding course (their
son's a professional snowboarder) and an overlook, graded a trail around
the property edge, etc.
Let's not forget music, which I took up to forestall brain-rot.
Sounds like you and Michael, our famous truck-driving Rosegarden man,
could have a grand time visiting!
My dad was an automechanic all his life and still kept doing it and
handman things. I don't do auto repair stuff anymore, but some handyman
things are fun. Currently sorting out how to mount our assorted bits of
networking hardware on the wall, so we'll still have working internet
after the furniture is hauled out for the floor repairs. Should probably
mount the TV on an arm on the wall, too.
Moral of the story? You'll be busier and for you I certainly hope happier than
ever before. But be warned that it's like a bicycle because if you stop you
keel over; it's also like toilet-paper, the closer to the end the faster it
spools off :-)
I know. Keeping busy is a good way to live longer!
--
David W. Jones
gn...@hawaii.rr.com
authenticity, honesty, community
http://dancingtreefrog.com
"My password is the last 8 digits of π."
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