November 2022
Published on at update , 2 mins.
๐ Personal
November was a regular month without many highlights apart from attending a family wedding (big event) and some meals and a long overdue board games gathering with a few friends (first after covid!).
My right shoulder pain from last year came again and I started some therapy sessions (still a few more in December) but not a lot of progress shown so I think this will need further work ๐.
๐จโ๐ป Professional
On the work side thing were business as usual for the whole month if it wasn’t because the last day of the month it was disclosed that 13% of the company workforce was going to be fired. Horrible news that continued with a stream of farewells and Linkedin postings of “Open to Work” from ex-colleagues.
In fact, this has not finished because the stream of people leaving will continue until the first weeks of January, very likely.
โค๏ธ Community
On the community side I could attend two events:
- the 24th edition of the Valencia DataBeers event about open government
- the 18th edition of the gvSIG Conference (just one morning, though)
Thanks to Elastic support I could do two relevant things for me: one to multiply by 3 my donations in the Giving Tuesday and second I did my first contribution to the https://cibervoluntarios.org NGO, giving a lecture about safe browsing to a small group of seniors from my own hometown.
๐ Reading
In November I finally had the time to read a fiction novel. As it already usual after a long time of no-reading, Juan Gรณmez-Jurado can take me out of my inactivity with his last work, this time the thriller Todo Arde.
๐ Listening
Apart from the music podcasts I mentioned in the October 2021 update, I can highlight the following podcast episode from this month: