Beyond the Basic Stuff, again...

I'm done with my second round of "Beyond the Basic Stuff with Python" now, and my brain is a little fried from it. The last chapter was about dunder methods, amongst other things, and the way they work can be a little difficult to wrap your mind around if you don't pay close attention. Overall I'm liking the books I've read that were written by "Beyond"'s author, Al Sweigart. I have another one of his books on the way from Amazon now, but that'll wait for a bit while I read through "Beyond" one more time. I want to give the material a good chance to sink in before I move on to anything else. Eventually I'll be ordering a Python tome called "Fluent Python". It's so big you could use it as a weapon, or strap it on as body armor. But for the moment I'm going to try and focus on writing code regularly. The next Al Sweigart book has over 80 programs written in it, so it should be good practice for me. It's tough finding time for everything. I have a paid account at datacamp.com which I've been wanting to resurrect, as that site has lots of Python material. I also want to start working with Ansible, which is written in Python, and hopefully use it to manage my routers, switches and servers. I also am spending a few hours every workday going over my CCNA material - I split my day up between that and my Python books, so I'm spending at least a couple of hours on both each day. I don't do any of this on the weekends, at least not yet so I can give myself a bit of a break. Besides, I have old projects at home that are languishing in the dusty corners of my apartment that deserve some attention. And somewhere in amongst all of that I do my daytime job Thursday through Monday, go to the gym three times a week, run errands and do chores, go for a bike ride once or twice a week, and deal with whatever else comes up during the day. Somewhere in there I'm supposed to be developing a business too, that will make use of all the stuff I've learned over the last several years. That's more of a "someday, maybe" project. I have "immediate" stuff, "urgent" stuff, "not so urgent" stuff, "longer-term" stuff, and "someday, maybe" stuff all competing for my attention. I'll be taking some time off in a couple of weeks and going up to visit family in Oregon. I'm looking forward to that. I'll be taking my laptop and a Python book with me to fill in the quiet time, but I'm not going to put any pressure on myself about it. Whatever I get done while I'm there, I get done. Hopefully the weather will be pleasant and we can all get outside for a while. Should be fun.