Another month almost done, and so many things still to do! Looking back, work wasn’t absolutely crazy, but there’ve been so many different projects floating around that it has really felt like an intense month. On top of work, in my free time I’ve been working on my own projects as usual, slowly getting there - but still don’t really know if it’s worth the effort.

I’ve had to start learning about forex trading recently, in order to do some work for my employer. Finance has never interested me, especially with all those stupid terms, bullish market etc., but this is actually pretty entertaining. Forex trading is a lot of looking at your daily/weekly/(time period) graphs and watching trends whilst developing strategies; this all seems very close to the data classification and regression work I did in the fuzzy logic and computational intelligence course at university. Anyway, apparently the market is very volatile at the moment, so we’re trying to develop and back-test a stable strategy that copes with bad patches.

Been playing a lot of guitar again lately, I’m hoping that it’ll stick this time and I’ll actually progress. I’ve already noticed a lot of changes in my playing - I started to pay attention to what my hands were doing, and have been actively trying to improve fingering/picking as I notice the bad habits. And yeh, it is already paying off, it seems.