Things I did today

I really like learning things. I probably like the thought of being a semi-pro in a lot of different areas more than the practice and effort that goes into it. Regardless, I'm trying to fix the amount of unread/unused books and training material and slowly go through them. I see them on the shelf or on my browser shortcuts, and I'm still interested, but think "I can't just stop for 30 minutes to do xyz...". So, I decided to just do xyz in 10 minutes I finally create a virtual machine on my desktop computer through Hyper-V and am slowly going through the book "The Linux Command Line" as I really wanted to learn Linux, and we have several Linux boxes at work I often have to navigate around for deploying and changing things. I always feel like I'm fumbling when things aren't quite where I expect them to be. I also saw DataCamp has released "Introduction to Microsoft Fabric", MS's new "end to end data analytics platform" and k...

I did well! I ended up playing piano every day since the first, because I might as well. I had more time and no other surges to be mindful of. Even though I was just playing songs I had learned a year ago, it didn't take that long to get to 90% proficiency. I'm still working on getting the right hand to play as loud as the left hand, which is taking effort.  I also remembered to play while minding the dynamics as written for my last playthrough. I have a terrible habit of playing just about everything mezzo forte or forte. Over the weekend, besides playing piano, I also wrote a board game review, played a few video games, and looked up turkey casserole recipes to use in my new Dutch Oven. I received a few other items that were replacements as the originals were either no longer working well or not working at all - a part of the Instant Pot, a new keyboard, and a new travel coffee cup. I also sadly failed Wordle this weekend. My first word ended in ER which meant I had plenty of...