Semester started two weeks ago. I'm 21 credits short of my BA, which gives 
me two semesters or "a year" to go. Then it's off to get my MA. It's not 
easy working on a degree full-time as a non-trad when you're in your late 
50s with a fam and a day job, but the degree is the only thing keeping me 
from a siginificant increse in in income and getting out of STEM.

This weekend is/was the Goshen (CT) Fair. Haven't been in a few years, 
decided to visit with the fam. I guess the best description would be 
"enshitified." Ten bucks per adult to get in, twelve dollar corn dogs, six 
to eight dollars per person per ride on the Midway, and less vendors of 
interesting stuff. I did however manage to find some nice books from the 
Goshen Library's book sale tent: a 1943 text on avigation (aeronautical 
navigation, autobiographies of Chuck Yeager and Eddie Rickenbacke, a 
coffee table book on American fighter aircraft, and a 1970s text on 
handguns. All for a Buck each. Left a bunch of older Linux books on the 
tables for someone else to grab. I've only been actively seeking pre-MSDOS 
BASIC and assembler books and magazines for the collection.

Took down the VHF-Low band antenna yesterday for a little rework. It's a 
basic 1/4 wave ground-plane design built around a chassis mount SO-239 
connector. I originally cut it for ~40 MHz. Decided to shorten it a bit so 
it'll resonate on the FM portion of the 6 Meter ham band, at which time 
I'll leave it connected to the AN/URC-200.

I see Commodore is back (did they ever go away?) with updated versions of 
the C64. My first computer upgrade (from the Timex Sinclair 1000) was a 
Commodore VIC-20. Even had a VIC-Modem with it. My subsequent upgrades 
went towards Atari with an 800XL and later 130XE simply because my local 
(literally down the road) BBS ran on Atari hardware so I had a source of 
software downloads and system upgrades when the SYSOP decided to improve 
his setup. That's how I got my 130XE. The SYSOP upgraded his box to an 
Atari ST. Never owned a Commodore 64, 128, or an Amiga. Anyway, the 
Commodore 77 Cyberpunk verison looks pretty cool, and I think I'm gonna 
get one. Maybe we'll see some Amateur Radio-related software for it...