[CS-FSLUG] Sandra on the list

[Josiah Ritchie]

On Mon, 27 Sep 2004 22:15:46 -0600
Sandra Capri <scapri at spro.net> wrote:

> Ok,
> now that I've been *outed* as a lurker, I'd better do a real intro :-)

Welcome, It's always good to draw another lurker out into the open. Glad to
have you :-) 

> I've lived in the Treasure Valley (near Boise), Idaho, USA all of my
> life.  

A good safe distance from those weather monstrosities floating up the
coast. (Sorry, I haven't got my spell checker working on sylpheed here
yet.)

> I grew up in a non-Christian family.  My late father was Jewish,
> but mostly non-religious, and my mother was raised in a somewhat
> religious family, but she is more interested in new-age type religions. 
> I was just starting into drugs and new-age stuff myself, when the Lord
> saved me just before I turned 15 years old.  That was in 1978 (no
> calculators!), and the Lord completely changed my life "all things are
> become new"!

Praise the Lord! I'm sure everyone here would love to hear more of your
testimony if time permits.

> I'm an Electrical Engineer at Hewlett-Packard, doing ASIC design, and
> have been a Linux and Open Source advocate for many years now, both at
> work, personal life, and at church.  I have converted our Christian
> school's network and fileserver to Fedora Core 2 (no catcalls, I happen
> to like the distribution formerly known as RedHat!).  I'm running Fedora
> Core 2 at work, and Fedora Core 1 here at home (haven't had time to
> upgrade yet, so just might wait for Core 3 here at home).

I really enjoy working with HP's printers. I have to admit I had to look up
ASIC. Google said it was an acronymn for Australian Securities &
Investments Commission or American Society of Irrigation Consultants. So I
found a second opinion at Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASIC

>From what I read, sounds like you could have your hand in just about
anything HP put out. Do you specialize in a certain type?

> I am attending the same local non-denominational church I was saved in. 
> I've been married for 18 years to a Christian man (he's on a mission's
> visit to our church in Albania), and have a 4 month old Golden Retriever
> named Ciao Esher Capri.  Ciao, as the Italian greeting, and Esher as in
> the Hebrew for "Happy", as in "Happy is that people whose God is the
> LORD".  He's adorable, but a major handful!  I hope to train him to be a
> pet therapy dog, as we did for 5 years with our last Golden (we lost him
> in April due to a tumor of the spleen).

I have a couple friends from Albania. They both went to college with me.
Sounds like some cute dogs.

> Hope this wasn't too tedious to wade through :-)

Not at all :-)

JSR/