I am very far behind on this and I have many, many blog posts to write, but this is what I did tonight.
I am currently reading “Automate the Boring Stuff With Python” (this is basically a required text), taking the Python course on CodeAcademy.com, just about caught up with the present day with the “Talk Python To Me” podcast (I am listening to 140 and the current episode is 148), and I just started taking another online series of courses, Python for Data Science, at CodeCamp.com. The last one is a quick run-through of Python basics, then dives into the Data Science end of the pool, which I am lacking. Most of this I do at work, because, well, things at work are scarily slow. I have to do something or I am going to freak out.
I sit next to a large group of developers. Other than SQL, I am not 100% sure what they develop in. Java, probably. But, they are facing a new project and Python is at the heart of this beast. I heard the original phone call that their boss was on when he was handed the project and told that it needs to be done in Python. He stammered and said he had played with it before, but was not expert. Python has come a long way since 2012 and I am sure he hasn’t looked at it since well before that. 
No one on the team (about 20 people) seem to know a damn thing about it. I heard them discussing all manner of things Python today, trying to figure out how to get their feet under them. There I sat, happily coding away, with a freaking book on the subject on my desk. It gave me a smile.
Tonight I came home to a sick kid. Possibly flu. We will see. So, off to my office I went. What did I do? Wrote a Python script that I have been meaning to do for a while now. It moves photos and videos from my Dropbox Camera Upload folder to a .\\Photos\\year\\two-digit_month folder. It moves Jenny’s, too. Nice and easy, but it exposed me to three areas of the standard library that I do not normally dabble in, so it was good. It could use a little more work to polish it up a bit, but it is perfectly functional and fast. I’d work on it more, but I think I am going to read about the Little Ice Age and early European colonization of the New World.