Often in the winter months it’s cold and I keep my heat low, so I don’t find myelf getting out doing the exercise I should be doing over the weekend. So today I made sure to go for a nice long ride, out to Five Rivers, then Swift Road to School Road in Voorheesville then on the rail trail, which was very rough from the ice, then snuck over Font Grove to Stockbridge/Surrey Mall then over McCormick Road to Cherry Ave – Slingerlands Bypass.

It looks like this winter might be colder and snowier then last, so if I want to ride, I really got to think about the quieter suburban residential streets I can ride on that are plowed. I missed not riding in all week. While Thursday I walked up to the 17th floor of the Alfred E Smith Building, along with the 4th floor of the Capitol and the 9th floor of the LOB, along with doing the down stairs, plus 3 times down in AESOB, Friday I was running late and skipped my steps. It was cold and I was tired.

Besides riding, it’s just been a lot of intensive studying and coding. I have been pouring over the new OpenXLSX C++ library but also playing a around a lot with DuckDB. I just want to live up to my title as Director of Data Services at work, and be an expert at moving around big data as fast as possible and doing interesting things both for work, and coming up with ideas. Plus I want to be a real programmer — not just somebody who is handy around R and can write C/C++ and Python and PHP but not well. The thing about studying C++ and the build process more generally it is really is helping me understand all parts relating to computing.