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It's summer and I have a lot of time off. For the last week or so, I've been getting up quite early to re-stain the deck and fences. They're done, which is good, because it's really starting to warm up. Prior to this week, it was cool and a bit rainy. I like that. Otherwise, I've been learning a bit of python and some more bash and batch scripting. I know a bit of Javascript too, and there's a great deal of similarity among them all. I should probably challenge myself by turning to something really different in the future, but I'm not sure what. I guess that will depend on what I want to do and in what context (Windows for work, Linux at home). An update on batch script GUIs: last year, I posted about easy-to-use dialog boxes for batch files and mentioned the Wizard's Apprentice (http://wizapp.sourceforge.net/). It's still the best thing that I've used. However, I recently found a version of Zenity compiled as a portable .exe for windows. You can find it at: https://web.archive.org/web/20160805170156/https://code.google.com/p/osspack32/downloads/detail?name=zenity.exe&can=2&q= There's also a version at Github, which appears to be newer: https://github.com/kvaps/zenity-windows