Hello and welcome!

If you are retired and are even minimally technically inclined or would like to be, enjoy using a computer, and find yourself using a number of services such as Google docs, RSS readers, photo editors and organizers and so on, may I suggest that you explore self-hosting or homelabbing as a great retirement hobby.

Today I want to introduce you to the two hobbies, how they are different and how they are related. This is intended to be a fairly short video as I only want to introduce you to the concepts, give you some ideas of what you can do in this space, briefly discuss why you should self-host (or build a homelab) and give you some ideas about how to get started.

Putting My Second Act into Perspective

Six months ago I retired after forty years of nursing practice. One of the things I was told when I retired was that I would get bored within three months.

Uh.

No.

As I told a former co-worker, I’m busier now than when I was working. The difference is that I’m doing what interests me, what I want to do, rather than what I’m required to do by someone else. I can work at my own pace rather than meeting ‘productivity’ requirements. Or worrying about performance appraisals, or playing the myriad corporate games.