Beyond the Basic Stuff...

So I just finished working through my newest book, "Beyond the Basic Stuff with Python". Good stuff. It covers a lot of more advanced Python stuff, along with best practices and object-oriented Python stuff. I'm going to go through it again just to make things sink in, after that I'll either log into my DataCamp.com account and work on Python stuff there, or get another book. I have a couple of them picked out but I haven't made up my mind which one to get. One of them is over a thousand pages long (yikes!). This is all still a means-to-an-end, since I want to start working with Ansible eventually. I've also been going over my old CCNA book trying to refresh my memory on working with Cisco routers and switches. It's a little frustrating going through that material and realizing how rusty I am, and how much I have to do still to be proficient. On top of that I want to work through another book I have that's about Mikrotik and RouterOS. Since I have a Mikrotik router that's the backbone of my entire setup it would behoove me to learn how to use it better, so I don't have to bug my coworkers with basic stuff when I run into an issue. I have a long way to go. On a side note, I got some work done on my bicycle last weekend and I'm planning on taking it for a ride tomorrow. It'll be the first time I've ridden it in a few months, and since I want to start getting more exercise I (hopefully) will be riding it more often. The weather in the Bay Area is perfect right now so it should be an enjoyable experience. Today is a gym day so I won't be riding today, instead I'll be pumping some iron. Earlier this week I tweaked a muscle in my left arm so I'll have to take it easy a little bit. It's not hurting right now and I want to keep it that way. If I can stop eating like a pig I might actually lose a few pounds this year, but boy it's difficult to hold back when I eat. I've always had a big appetite, which doesn't work in my favor most of the time. Plus I don't regularly eat my vegetables like I should, so losing the padding I have around my waist is a slow process. I have some vacation time scheduled for the middle of May which I'm looking forward to. I'll be driving to Oregon, and this will be the first "big" road trip in my truck. I don't anticipate any issues, so it should be a fun drive. I'm going to take my bike with me, and if the weather is warm enough we might go kayaking on the river there in Eugene. Should be a fun, relaxing trip out of town, and it'll be good to see Mom and Doug again. I'm still looking for a good business idea. I've read some business books over the years about "how to sell", but the part I'm stuck on is "what" to sell. I've got a fair amount of computer networking experience under my belt, but I haven't yet figured out how to leverage that into a profitable business. The best thing I've come up with so far would be to sell my services racking servers, setting them up, doing the networking stuff etc. but that would conflict with my daytime job so I can't really pull the trigger on that yet. Maybe someday I'll figure it out.