Aside from the computer as a vocation and hobby, I also maintain tropical freshwater fish (some Tiger Barbs, a catfish, and a West African Ropefish) and saltwater fish (a baby Red Volitans Lionfish named "Spot" in one tank and a Clownfish ("Frazier"), Blue Damsel ("Moe"), and Striped Damsel ("Bandit"), in another), as well as a couple of comets, who live in my half-barrel water garden.   Other expensive (ugh!) hobbies include my audiophile-grade home theater and my container shrub garden.   And the hobbies (like Star Trek and Star Wars fandom) go on and on... 

As a side note to my computing, I've only recently begun using the Linux operating system in earnest as my desktop operating system, and have found its stability to be a blessing!   I'm hoping that the info on my site will encourage others to seek out the alternatives in the OS world as all too often, too much of a "good thing" (or in the case of the predominate operating system, a "bad thing") is not healthy!

I'm not going to lie to you and say it's been a cakewalk learning a new OS, but the time saved from reinstalling, rebooting, reinstalling, rebooting, that other OS has been put to good use to learn a new one!   And to those who tell you that "there are no applications for Linux", let me just say that I'm editing the HTML code for this site using a program called "Kedit" (one of the KDE Window manager's text editors), and I modified the gif image headers from the templates that I'm using, with the world-renowned graphics program called "The GIMP", while having my POP mail and a couple of instances of Netscape 4.7 minimized to check my progress, AND while having my "Star Wars: The Phantom Menace" CD playing.   All of this is running on the SuSE 6.1 distribution of Linux!   And what's the best part?   Linux is FREE and supported by programmers from all over the world! 

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