End-of-the-Month Highlights Day

New photos have been added to the Life, 2024 album. Also, I have now been doing End-of-the-Month Highlights posts for 10 years!

• Events
  • Maia started a weekly gymnastics class on W 1/3.
  
  
  • Solo dad dinner at Local Provisions on H 1/4.
  
  
  • Rebecca took the kids to visit Tom and Peggy on S 1/7.
  
  
  • Family dinner at Fire Works Pizza on H 1/11.
  
  
  • Rebecca and the kids got COVID boosters on S 1/13. Dinner at Kiwa Grill with Tammy and Patrick.
  
  
  • First real snow, M 1/15 - T 1/16, an inch during the day then 2-3 more overnight. Ian and Maia got to go sledding in the common area.
  
  
  • Snow day on W 1/17. Went to the monthly HOA meeting in the afternoon.
  
  
  • Another snow day on F 1/19, this time with 5 inches of snow. Rebecca took the kids down to Richmond to see the Edwardses for the weekend. Solo dad dinner at Local Provisions.
  
  
  • Went to an art event at Maia's school on T 1/23.
  
  
  • Date night at Local Provisions for the first anniversary of their grand opening on W 1/24.
  
  
  • Took the kids to see my parents on S 1/27. Soup Night (chickpea and chicken) with Tammy and Patrick in the evening.


• Projects
  • Solved the problem of my high cloud costs on T 1/2.
  
  
  • Updated ancient urizone.net software dependencies (Spring 3.2 to 6.1, Java 8 to 17, Tomcat 8 to 10). Deployed a new IPv6 version of the URI! Zone webserver on S 1/7.
  
  
  • Updated ancient paravia.com software dependencies (PHP 7.3 to 8.2, MediaWiki 1.35 to 1.39). Deployed new IPv6 version of the two Paravia servers on H 1/11.
  
  
  • Started studying for the AWS Security Specialty cert on F 1/12.
  
  
  • Upgraded all of my database instances from MySQL 5.7 to 8.0 on W 1/17.
  
  
  • Upgraded all of my servers to use free auto-renewing SSL certificates from Let's Encrypt on H 1/18.
  
  
  • Passed the AWS Security - Specialty exam on T 1/30.


• Consumerism
  • Enjoyed reading Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky.
  
  
  • No amazing new shows, movies, or music this month.
  
  
  • Not playing any games at the moment.

January's Final Grade: B+, the most productive month I've had since Ian was born