I’ve been slacking on the labbing lately. In the last month I might have done (3) 6 hour sessions on the rack. I’ve been un-motivated lately, but that might be aggravated by the fact that I have no real place to sit at my apartment. I bought a cheap stool at Wal-Mart to sit at the kitchen island, but that’s not comfortable for more that 10 minutes. I have tried folding my Aero Bed in half to sit on, but something had to give. I’ve been eyeballing a desk from BioMorph, who makes some pretty sweet desks. I prefer to have a low desktop to work on, and the split desktop which is fully adjustable seems ideal. To go along with that I am on the verge of getting an Aeron from Herman Miller. The icon of the “dot bomb” era is amazingly comfortable. I was in love the first time I sat in one at a Sheraton Inn.
On another note, Christmas was a success and I managed to score 3 more books from my Amazon wish list. I got these three:
- Internet Routing Architectures (2nd Edition) (Networking Technology)
- Internetworking with TCP/IP, Vol 1 (5th Edition)
- Interconnections: Bridges, Routers, Switches, and Internetworking Protocols (2nd Edition) (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series)
My job may be allowing me to attend the bootcamp I won from the InternetworkExpert.com CCIE scholarship. I am interested in their new bootcamp – CCIE Routing & Switching Advanced Foundations Bootcamp. This objectives of this bootcamp more closely reflects where I am at right now. I’m shooting for the February class. I’ll know in the next week if it is a “go”.
Some of the training I am going through at work is stuff that I already know including basic, CCNA level routing and switching. I am trying to negotiate a deal where I do my own self-study to prepare for the CCIE lab exam. I sat through the first 3 days of class before we went on break, but when a class starts with a definition of classes of IP addresses, I tune out. If I have to sit through 6 weeks of that kind of stuff I will shove the closest sharp object in my eye. It’s like graduating college, only to return to grade school.
