July 2024 in review

This is the twenty-first post in my Month in review series. At this point I had to search how to spell ordinal numbers correctly.

Sunshine and rain is a very common weather pattern, and it brings me lots of joy!

It was Independence Day in the beginning of the month. The backyard fireworks in the city were less loud and intense than I remember last year was. It’s not a big celebration in our friends and neighboors community. We took a few days off work to make a longer long weekend.

My fiancée and I went to the Santa Fe Opera together, and then we went back another time and brought some friends. It’s something to see and experience at least once. Santa Fe Opera is world-class. People dress up. And they have picnics and elaborate tailgating dining setups in the parking before the show. The stage has traps, elevators, and a huge rotating platform. It’s an open-air amphitheater. Shows are timed to begin shortly after the sunset, which blesses the audience with their money’s worth of a natural light show.

We also saw Despicable Me 4 at the movie theatre, that was funny!

The theme of the month is: light.

Month activities

Photography

Month favorites

• Got an orange belt in Aikido.
• I go to the community pool a lot.
• I learned how to make graphical programs in Python using tkinter.
  • I made myself an app to fetch, download and organize ofx/qfx transactions and PDF statements from banks web apps.
  • I also wrote a small tool for my customer at work with a graphical interface to help with data entry and migration.
• I also started on a learning path to master Javascript, Typescript and React.
  • My goal is to understand this very popular programming language better,
  • and to be able to create business applications anywhere, including in Grafana.

Next month goals

Stay tuned for August updates:

• My fiancée has a dance performance.
• More programming and systems administration (how exciting).
• A visit to Los Poblanos farms near Albuquerque.