Last week, my side of the family drove out to Colorado Springs, Colorado, and we rented a house for the week. The trip was great; seeing family was good, and watching the kids spend time with family they don’t get to see very often was the highlight for me. The mountains were great, but I don’t want to ride a train from 8k to 14k feet of altitude soon.

Family

The last of my biological aunts and uncles passed away two nights before we left Colorado. We had some other unexpected news, and I hope we have better news after the funeral this week.

Work

I took the whole week off, so the only work this week was community work.

Community Work

Djangonaut Space: Week 1 kicked off, and we had our first team meeting. The meeting went well, and I have a follow-up meeting on Monday with one Djangonaut who couldn’t make it.

General Python: I had a ton of messages from Python friends this week asking for advice on upcoming bylaws changes. I wrote up a few drafts, and I might get around to publishing one or the other.

Side projects

Django News Newsletter: We shipped issue #238.

Django Packages: More small updates and more on this sooner.

I wrote a tool to export my Mastodon bookmarks. I tend to revisit these every day, and I wanted a way to create checklists for them and save them. I might find good content from the newsletter or posts I want to follow up on once I have more time.

Writing

I wrote every day but only published for three days, including today. I wrote several drafts, but I mostly spent time with my family.

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Entertainment

📺 Leave the World Behind - I rewatched half of this movie with my mother and sister.

📺 Hellboy - I didn’t realize I had missed this one. I liked it even if I don’t know much about the Hellboy story outside the other movies.

Next week

I am returning to work a day earlier than planned, but it will be a long, short week.