Nice week off from school

After turning in my two finals, I have been off from school. We will start the Fall quarter on the 25th. I decided to add a CCNA2(Intro to routing and routers) class to my schedule. It will add five units to my course load but it should be worth it.
I am also planning to study for my Solaris certification test.
Hopefully when all this is done I will be able to have the ammunition needed to land the job "I" want. Of course it is up to the good Lord to direct my paths so I will trust in him.
Later
Alex

Lunch with old friends

Well I had lunch today with a couple of friends(Dave and Jeff) who I used to work with at my old job doing system administration work. It was good to see them and brought back a lot of good memories of the days I was working. I was saddened to hear that the same old crud is still happening at work.
I do feel a sense of relief and trust that God removed me from that situation for a reason and to place me in a better job. I am still waiting for it. :)

Dabbler shirt is here

Well I turned in my finals today and I had a package from Dabble waiting for me when I got home.
It was my dabbler shirt!!
It is a cool tool to collect and organize all the favorite videos you have on the web.
Try it out, you might like it. Meanwhile I will try on my Dabble schwag, I owe them a picture of me in it. I will have to come up with something that will make them laugh.

CISSP Final completed

Well I finished my final all 289 questions. My other final(windows security), I still have about 10 questions left to complete.
I met with some of my classmates, one had completed his final and we were able to discuss some of the answers we came up with and the pages we found the answers. I was disappointed that some of the others who showed up seemed to just want the answers. I am all for helping or pointing in the right direction but don't come to the table unprepared or not willing to do the work. I worked my behind off to research all of my answers.
I decided to just ignore the blatant request for answers and just referred to the chapter were the answer might be located.
Hopefully my grades will come back and be good ones.

30 questions to go on my CISSP final

I am nearing the end of my final I should have them done by noon today.
I will take a break and watch some college football. I am looking forward to watching the Michigan Notre Dame game....heck the whole day is full of great matchups.

I started to work on my other final and got through about 25 questions on that one.
Tomorrow I am supposed to meet some classmates to discuss/defend any questions we may have on our final. Our teacher said it was okay as long no one just comes to get the answers without doing any work. In other words, we will be ethical!!

Back to school night

Well I got to attend my daughters' back to school night. I met all of her teachers. She seems to have a good collection teachers. Her Math teacher was quite entertaining. He appears to be very passionate about what he does. I guess we should all feel that way about our jobs.
Oh wait...I don't have one yet. I will just have to make a mental note for myself.
ENJOY your job!!!

Novell Suse Enterprise10

I attended a half day class on Suse Enterprise 10 put on by Novell.
It looks pretty cool, especially if it delivers on the promises they made.
My next class in school will be on hardening a linux host and by coincidence we will be using Suse as our platform. Can't wait to dig into all the specifics.
Time to get back to work on my CISSP final

Still working on my CISSP final

I am still cranking on my CISSP final. I missed making some entries here because I focused on getting it done. I average about 25-30 questions a day. Some of the answers take time to figure out. When I am done with this I get to start working on the other final I have.
That one is shorter only 69 question instead of 289.

Sept 11, 2006

May the people who died on 9/11 rest in peace. My prayers go out the famlilies who lost
someone on that day.
May God richly bless you.

Good Morning, Sunday

I had fun watching Ohio State run all over Texas last night. Cal looks like they are back from the dead after beating Minnesota last night. Stanford got beat by SJSU. It must be tough on the Stanford Alumni, newly remodeled stadium and bad team.
I got to sleep in this morning because church service did not start until 10:00am today.
We had an all church BBQ after the 1000am service. It was fun, we got to play games and hang out with our church family. My daughter, wife, two nieces, and sister in law all came along.
My daughter Alexis and niece Alexandra won gift cards in the bingo game.
I also got to hang out with my friend Bill Belew, he will be moving to Tennessee in about three weeks, so it was nice just to talk with him.
I am back at school tomorrow to start another week.

working on my CISSP final

Well I am nearing completion of my intensive CISSP(Certified Information System Security Professional) class. Our instructor, Mike Murphy, decided to make our final test a take home project. It is almost three hundred multiple choice questions. Its due in about a week. The final is more like a research project, I think he did that on purpose.
We had to cover so much material in six weeks that he knows our brains were overloaded.
I will take a break to watch the Ohio State/Texas game.

Dolphins Lose WAAAAH!!!!

My team lost its opening game last night. They snatched defeat from the jaws of victory.
It was a bummer. The team had the lead late in the game and some mistakes eventually cost them the game. A questionable call to run the ball on third and two and a stupid hands to the face penalty on the defense gave life tot he Pitsburgh offense.
Who made the call to have Zack Thomas cover a tight end? The guy beat him and ran for a touchdown.
Oh well, there are still 15 games left in the season.
I still think they have a good chance to make the playoffs.

Crokey!! Steve you will be missed

Its been a couple of days now since the untimely death of The "Crocodile hunter" Steve Irwin.
With all the stories coming out about him and his love for animals, friends, and his family it is truly sad to see him gone.
I will always remember the fun I had watching his shows with my daughter and trying to learn
how to say "Crokey" just like he did.
It seemed he could always laugh at himself, my favorite commercial of his was the ESPN one that had him wrestling the gator mascot from the University of Florida. It was hilarious!!
God bless and rest in peace.

Flip this House Addiction is over

Hi,
I have to admit I suffered from an addiction to a show that appears on the A&E network on Sunday afternoons(PST). Well I am glad to say that I have been cured of the addiction. A&E in their infinite wisdom decided for the new season to change the "Flip team" that was featured on the show, Team Trademark
led by Richard C. Davis.
The new teams based in Atlanta and San Antonio do not have the chemistry, dynamics, and know- how that Team Trademark shared every week with its viewers.
I actually watched to see what the new teams were like, my Tivo is still trying to recover from the torture of storing the horrible episodes.
The new team in Atlanta seemed intent on lowballing every contractor they hire. The want to excuse it by saying "Show me some love" and promising them more work in the future if they give them a deal on this project.
The San Antonio team got personal as we got to see the new house the owner of the company had bought for his family. The drama of the budget between husband and wife seemed contrived. I felt more emotional attachment to the son and his saying goodbye to the family turtle. His new home sure does have a huge backyard were he will get to play.

A&E made at critical error in trying to make the show the star and expect it to successful with whomever they plugged into it. I will just have to wait until Richard and crew come back to cable on the Discovery channel with their new show.
Since I have an open slot now, lets see what else is on on Sunday afternoons....

Colleg football is back!!

There is nothing like the return of college football on Saturdays. A person can spend a whole day just sitting there watching game after game after game. The rest of the family can go shopping at the mall, see a movie, have all three meals and still college football is on the T.V.

It was fun to see a higher ranked team get beaten by lesser ranked team...Cal what happened.
Best games of the day that I got to watch, Notre Dame eeking out a win at G.Tech and USC reminding us how good they are.
I believe N.D. is in big trouble when their defense finally runs into a potent offense. Theye will have bad memories of the Ohio state game back in January.

Look forward to Ohio state and Texas next Saturday night. #1 vs #2 Woo-hoo!!!

For the record I am a college football fan, I swear no allegiance to any team. I normally like to root for the road team/underdog in games that I watch.
I did root for USC in the Rose bowl against Texas, I thought it was one for the best games ever played. I just wanted to see a three-peat in college football in my lifetime.
My number one game is still Ohio State-Miami

Gonna be a fun season.