September 4th:

	Here we are, a year later than my previous update.  Plenty has 
changed in our lives.  We bought our house last year, our daughter turned 
4 a couple of months ago, and is starting preschool in a week.  I've 
taken up cycling, which takes up most of my non-family time.

I attempted to set up my lab a few months ago, moving my computer desk and 
setting up my TRS-80/Raspberry Pi rig, but never got much further than 
that.  I never seem to have the time for much!  Had to move all my 
unsorted boxes of computer stuff back into my lab space, which pretty much 
crowded me out.  The tradeoff is we have a great rec room space, and a 48 
inch screen on which to play my Sega Saturn and/or Genesis-SegaCD-32X.

I've also spent far more time on the "consumable" internet than I would 
like (having a tablet will do that), but I'm making a conscious effort to 
stay engaged with the Usenet, Gopher, and BBS worlds, too.  Gotta try 
harder, though... I much prefer the Usenet and BBS message networks to 
Facebook, Google+, et cetera, and Gopher to the nightmare the Web has 
become.  More on that in tomorrow's post.

Yes, tomorrow's post.  If I'm going to stay engaged, I have to 
participate!