New Beginnings and Old Issues

OK - Yesterday I gave you the background to my New Year's resolutions so here they are - January 1, 2010:

• The first thing I'm going to do is vow to get more exercise
• I vow to keep the area around my weight machine clear of clutter so I can get to it and use it
• I vow to walk or bicycle for at least 15 minutes every day, and failing that, I vow to do 1/2 hour of work around the house
• I vow to take a real vacation this year
• I vow to publish something every day
• I vow to consolidate the things I do and concentrate on a much smaller number of subjects
• I vow to "get out more" and at least try to restart the gatherings I and my peers in the technology community had in our Brunix monthly gatherings

Today is the first day of the new year - and true to form, here is today's writing.

I spent the last couple of hours of 2009 and the first few minutes of 2010 with some friends at my internet partner's home in Port Moody last night. Along with the typical pleasantries and putting up with the 5 dogs they have (dogs are fine, as long as they're someone else's) I got talking with a couple of the people who are on the Brunix mail list about the fact that we have not had a gathering for about a year now. Can't even remember when the last one was!

So, today I'm going to get the mail list back in order and send out some invitations for some time "the second week" (we used to be "second Wednesday" but too many people have stuff going on on Wednesday at the moment it seems - including yours truly) and we'll see how far we get.

The Brunix organization - a loose set of (ex) geeks and other computer and internet and beer afficianados has been going for something in excess of 15 years, ever since the local BC Unix Users Group stopped having its monthly rubber chicken meetings at the Bayshore Inn in Vancouver.

A couple of tables-full of we tech-oriented people (the rest were upper management and marketing types from the likes of Sun and other Unix vendors and customers) decided we liked the idea of getting together every month but didn't need the fixed venue. Beer was the common theme, so Beer and Unix became BRUNIX - and we were off.

Most of our meetings/gatherings have been at one of the various brew-pubs around the Vancouver area, with the occaisional forray into szechuan chinese food or other exotic spots, as long as the list of available beers is reasonable.

We have a facebook group "Brunix" (amazing that there are actually several groups by this made-up name as well as quite a number of people - did we coin it first I wonder?) and so far it has a couple of members from outside the Vancouver area too - interesting!

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