Christmas

Well I must admit that I didn't get all that I wanted to done this Christmas, but nonetheless, I don't consider it a complete failure. It's becoming a bit of a tradition for me to spend Christmas by myself concentrating on learning something new. The reasoning for chosing christmas is that it is a time of year that has no meaning for me but that seems to occupy almost everyone else around me, meaning that I am left unbothered by interuptions and able to get on with things that take a lot of time and concentration, something that I don't normally (or at least recently) have much of an opportunity to do. This time I decided to teach myself how to code in Python, given that three years ago I spend my entire Christmas break learning how to code c (I wrote a proxy server, nothing exciting but it was a learning curve for me given that I couldn't code a thing before that.). Well I met with some success, I managed to read most of a python book and have a fairly good understanding of Pythons strengths and weaknesses and also a reasonable understanding of how to get things done. Of course the main point, that being actual coding seems to have escaped me, as instead I saw myself spending a lot of time just relaxing and watching a series of relatively bad movies. While that is a little annoying, in the overall scheme of things I think it might have been the right thing to do as it seems to have allowed me time to reflect on a few things and to really recharge. I'm looking forward to getting stuck into a few projects in the next year.