Hello, and welcome to my gemlog!
       
       Hi, I'm jbehnke747 and I live in Wisconsin, USA. I am 41 years old 
       and new to this part of the Internet. I have a wife and two sons: 
       the oldest is 12 and the other is 6. We also have a dog named Mazie, 
       who is a lab and border collie mix, and a cat named Gracie.
       I was a Windows fan from the time I first learned how to use a 
       computer in the late 1990's but have recently entered the Linux 
       world and plan to stay here. I recently discovered Gopherspace and 
       now Gemini from Distrotube on YouTube and wanted to make somewhat 
       of a home in this part of the Internet, as I find it to be very 
       interesting and fresh. 
       I am making this post using the Lagrange Gemini client (Flatpak) 
       in PeppermintOS (a Debian-based Linux distribution) on a 12-year-old 
       Toshiba Satellite L655 laptop that originally shipped with Windows 7. 
       I inherited this computer from my parents, who upgraded to an iPad a 
       year or so ago. I have a modern laptop, but it is quite small because 
       it is of the 2-in-1 convertible laptop and tablet design, so 
       sometimes I prefer to use this older computer for general computing. 
       It was almost unusable when I got it from my parents because it 
       couldn't handle Windows 7 anymore due to the bloated size of the 
       operating system after about 11 years of updates. I have been able to 
       squeeze some more life out of it by installing PeppermintOS on it, 
       as it is very a very light-weight operating system so it runs well 
       on older machines. I plan to upgrade the RAM to 8GB sometime soon, 
       which should further improve the performance of the machine. If I 
       remember correctly it has 3 GB of RAM now, which is the original, 
       factory stock size.
       What will I write about here in the future? Perhaps a little about my 
       Christian faith? My family and I believe that Jesus is the son of God 
       and that he was crucified, buried, and rose from the grave 3 days 
       later. He ascended into heaven and sits at the right hand of God, as 
       it is written in the Bible. I won't attempt to shove God down your 
       throat because I don't believe that is an effective approach to 
       helping save people's souls. I do, however, hope that you might keep 
       an open mind to my belief that God is real and that Jesus loves you 
       and wants you to know Him. I might also write about my home, which is 
       a small, 3-bedroom house, but has some historical value to it because 
       it was built in or around 1865 by members of a family who migrated 
       west from Portland, Maine. 
       Thank you for reading my first gemlog post. This has been fun, and I 
       hope you will stop by again!
       
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