For the past year and a half I have been going to the sauna weekly. The best part is that for the past 6 months my youngest one wanted to join as well. So she did just that. We have been going weekly to the sauna - and it is so awesome sweating.

My current book reading process has gotten a bit slower for the past months. I have finished some more of the books in the ‘Wheel of Time’ series. In between those books I have also read some other books - currently I am reading the book ‘View from the UN’ written by U Thant.

The datalake has been running for the past couple of months and there has been no issues as of yet. The AWS Batch jobs are running as expected and the data is being sent to S3 correctly. AWS Glue runs over the data in the bucket every two weeks.

So what have I have been doing for the past couple of months? I have been working and learning lots of things regarding datalake technology on AWS. This datalake stuff is very interesting because I needed to convert data from a PostgreSQL database to Parquet-files.

I went on a trip with my family to Florida in the United States for two weeks. It was a wonderful trip with ups and downs. The downs were related to our trip to the United States. Let us start from the beginning.

For the past several months I have been reading the books in the “Wheel of Time” series. I wanted a series of books that were kind of like “The Lord of the Rings” with a rich history. And I found it in these books. I read the first one over several months because I was busy with other things, however I got really into them and I started to care about the characters, so I just had to read them. I’m going to start on the 4th book very soon. I’m currently reading a book named ‘The Ministry for the Future’.