48 year old in a career opportunity

began programming on the Commodore Vic20 in the summer of 1983 - wrote a little geography and tested my mother and grandmother and dad and uncles, lolol good fun - the old goto loop :))

I used a Commodore 64 throughout the 80's mostly for video games with my kid brothers - bought my first x86 machine and IBM xT with a 15" (deluxe!) clickety clack keyboard and mouse for $1100 CAD$  - great fun with learning DOS, playing RISK, and doing essays to my Dot Matrix printer

Have been a computer geek all my life...now running a ThinkPad - Edge 14" Bilinugual Thai / English keyboard and model originally shipped in Thailand with not Microsoft DOS but rather PC-DOS!!! LOLOL  This is a hard-core low-level tank and it's lasted my into it's now 7th year with an Core i3, 8GB RAM, and 120GB SSD this thing flies with Linux Mint like a Rocket Ship!!!  Yeah, thanks Mint Team, I really can't say thanks enough!!!  

I'm loving Linux and used Ubuntu since 2013 although I dabbled with it when they were mailing out CDs in the early 2000's.   

My previous Linux experience goes back to the late 90's when I was working at Ryerson University in Toronto and took a course offered by Steve Kanellis, who also ran a University Linux Newsgroup to which I was a member, and where I learned old protocols like gopher, and visited the Toronto Free Net BBS headquarters upstairs on a regular basis.  

Ahh, good memories!  
I hope to make a lot more here on these forums!!!

Peace and Love!
Jason Ducharme