February 2024

Jorge Sanz | 2024-03-05 | 591 words | update

🏠 Personal

February was packed! Wrapping up the month I get to acknowledge how busy our weekends were, including a school carnival parade, the Chinese New Year celebrations, visits to the local Natural Sciences museum, visiting my hometown for the "Sant Antoni" celebrations, and a visit to near farm-school where Bernat will spend a few days later at Easter holidays.

Carnestoltes parade at the primary school

Visiting the Valencia's Natural Sciences Museum

Chinese New Year parade was super busy

Sant Antoni is a celebration for pets and farm animals here

At Parc Adai, climbing a wall for the first time

👨‍💻 Professional

The month was marked by the later Engineering All Hands week at Prague. A colleague is inviting the rest of the folks from the city to work with him on a shared space and I took his word, including a nice (but quick!) lunch at a near hot pot place.

Hot Pot at the Spicy Soul

Then the last week of the month the full Elastic engineering team (around a thousand folks) gathered in Prague, Czech Republic, to discuss, present, and celebrate plans for the next year. It is the only time of the year where I can interact with my colleagues in person and I did my best to enjoy it. It was my first time in Prague so I took Friday to walk the city center around the old town and Jewish quarters.

The main stage getting ready

Prague's astronomical clock is a piece of art

I uploaded an album with more pictures about the Prague and EAH[1] to my gallery site.

1: https://media.jorgesanz.net/gallery/2024/02/prague-and-eah.html

❤️ Community

The community highlight for the month was the opportunity to visit Barcelona for the Geomob meetup. I took the train in the afternoon, attended the event, and got back in the early morning to be back at home before lunch so it was intense. Yet, it was a pleasure to attend the interesting talks and the equally relevant post-talks beers where I could catch up with a "long time no see friend" and others.

Ed Freyfogle kicking off Geomob Barcelona

📚 Reading

The first day of the month I got a gift from my wife. She bougth me a second-hand copy of S. by J.J. Abrams and Doug Dorst[2], a very special book that is made by the main history and a maze of side notes and other assets that wrap the history with more plot layers. I have not idea how long it wil take me to read this thing, to be honest.

2: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/j-j-abrams/s/9780316201643/

Title Page of the book, already with plenty of notes

Apart from that I read the fifth book of John Scalzi's Old Man's War series[3] called The Human Division[4] and started the last book, The End of All Things[5].

3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Man%27s_War_series

4: https://lectura.social/book/26933/s/the-human-division

5: https://lectura.social/book/104974/s/the-end-of-all-things-old-mans-war-6

You can follow my reading activity at my lectura.social[6] fediverse account.

6: https://lectura.social/user/jorgesanz