I Just Want to Go Back Home
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I Just Want to Go Back Home
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When I was cleaning yesterday I realized one of my oldest knitting projects ever is still with me - keeping Paddington’s neck warm. #knitting #fiberarts #memories
If you’ve been following this account’s pics the last few days, I do have a lot of stuffies. There are many, many more than have been pictured.
When I was cleaning yesterday I realized one of my oldest knitting projects ever is still with me - keeping Paddington’s neck warm. #knitting #fiberarts #memories
If you’ve been following this account’s pics the last few days, I do have a lot of stuffies. There are many, many more than have been pictured.
My Mother sure had green thumbs. This photo of the garden was taken before my parents shifted to a retirement village. It was a corner block with no fences, and no back yard, so the beauty of that huge garden could be seen on two street frontages.
Everyone loved her gardens. She was always working out there, all day every day, and people would often stop to chat. She got to know so many people in the neighbourhood.
On the day of her funeral, on the way home from the cemetery, my brothers and I decided to stop at their old house and have a look at the garden which the new owners had maintained.
Lots of other people had the same idea, and we all sort of came together for one last look at that magnificent garden.
My Mother sure had green thumbs. This photo of the garden was taken before my parents shifted to a retirement village. It was a corner block with no fences, and no back yard, so the beauty of that huge garden could be seen on two street frontages.
Everyone loved her gardens. She was always working out there, all day every day, and people would often stop to chat. She got to know so many people in the neighbourhood.
On the day of her funeral, on the way home from the cemetery, my brothers and I decided to stop at their old house and have a look at the garden which the new owners had maintained.
Lots of other people had the same idea, and we all sort of came together for one last look at that magnificent garden.
One distant memory just crossed my mind: seti@home
My home desktop - 1 March 2000 - a Pentium 233 MMX.
The OS was Debian Linux - you can see a printed Tux near the keyboard.
No broadband connection, just a 56k modem.
Iomega Zip drive - so I could download stuff at Uni and bring it back home.
One year later, this became my first 24/7 server.
#IT #SysAdmin #Linux #Debian #Throwback #Memories #Vintage #OldPhotos #OldTimes #OldNerd #OldMe #VintageSetup
Three years ago my neighbor-dads and I did a midsummer ski trip to Slettinden, a mountain we looked at every day from our rekkehus in Tromsø.
After a lot of hiking and navigating some complex steep terrain we felt we had done enough with just 100m to the top. And it was midnight, and we all had families to wake up to in just a few hours...
We did have a huge amount of fun and some wild skiing, picking tiny lines way further down than we thought we would get..🏔️❄️♥️
Three years ago my neighbor-dads and I did a midsummer ski trip to Slettinden, a mountain we looked at every day from our rekkehus in Tromsø.
After a lot of hiking and navigating some complex steep terrain we felt we had done enough with just 100m to the top. And it was midnight, and we all had families to wake up to in just a few hours...
We did have a huge amount of fun and some wild skiing, picking tiny lines way further down than we thought we would get..🏔️❄️♥️
When I return to a place I haven’t seen in years and find it exactly the same, I get the strange feeling I’ve traveled through time. Emotions from a different moment in my life come rushing back, and memories surface.
Tonight, my wife and I went back to the pizzeria we used to frequent when we were dating. It brought us back so vividly that, as we left, I instinctively drove toward my old home. It was surreal - yet incredibly beautiful.
#Nostalgia #TimeTravelFeeling #Memories #EmotionalJourney #LifeMoments #Throwback
Fun Fact: At the end of 2008 / beginning of 2009, I bought a mini laptop — an Acer Aspire One, on sale because no one wanted them. Windows didn’t run on it for even a minute, but every other OS did. Including a version of "Hackintosh", which actually led me to get a MacBook Pro a few months later (which my parents are still using). It ran quite well.
But the OS that worked best and longest on that little guy was PC-BSD. I truly did everything with it. When I was flying around Europe during the most hectic years of my life, it was my trusty companion - always ready, always in my backpack. I have a special memory tied to it that will always make it dear to me, but it’s a private one 😃
Oh, I almost forgot the Fun Fact: its hostname was always "acerone" - from Acer (Aspire) One, of course. But in Italian, "acerone" sounds like "big Acer", and considering its micro size (9 inches), it was truly ironic.
I still remember the first time I saw this at a friend's house. I had the normal C64 and his father had this "portable" version.
And I started dreaming of a computer that could always be with me. Maybe in my pocket.
Late 80ies...
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