Artistic persuits are at the center of my life. Aerospace electronics and machining to pay the bills. This year I finally began making progress in coding. I love C. I'm learning shell. I learned from "A C Reference Manual" cover to cover, coded samples of everything, and now I can read and write C pretty well. I also did "The C standard Library" by Plauger The first library I learned was nCurses. Now I'm learning pThreads. My future path is not fully worked out but involves openCL, some implementation of Vector graphics. I'm going to stay in Linux/Gnu and C as much as possible.