it's been ages since i've updated this thing... months and months and months. what can i say? this transition has been super time consuming. work is keeping me very busy, and night classes at berkeley city college have started... so i have zero time. even now i am just between homework assignments and have a large essay coming up.

i'll try to make more of an effort to come check out LJ every so often, but life is just so busy and fast right now.

i am officially done with my job at the county =) today was my last day! i am boxing up things, and will be hitting the road to oakland tomorrow to start moving into my new place up there.

the beginning of a new chapter...

school is over for the semester =) i aced both of those classes and it nice to just take a nice big breather...

until i realize that i need to start boxing up stuff and think about possibly renting a trailer to move up to oakland next weekend! june 1st is the last day at the county... everything is pretty much on cruise control at this point.

=)

Well, I was up in Oakland this weekend and I secured a decent apartment in Rockridge. It's a pretty nice location, and really quite accessible. That is all =)

The apartment/studio search in the bay area begins... I was originally looking for a place in Walnut Creek in order to simplify the act of transitioning. On some recommendations though I have started looking in the Rockridge area of Oakland. Does anything have any insight or thoughts on the area?

Thank you =)

i'm moving to the bay area =) i will be working for the county for another 3 weeks and then i will have a couple weeks off and i will officially begin my new job in san francisco somewhere between the 11th and the 18th of june.

i'll be looking for apartments in the burbs pretty quickly now... walnut creek will be my foothold...

off to sleep! more to come...

for some reason i felt compelled to upgrade my technician ham license to extra... spent a couple of days studying the question pools and voila, passed both the general and extra exam today down in santa maria.

hope everyone is well an dandy! =)

A brand new, sweety fawn boston-terrier boy... will be entering my life. His name will be "Beto" (pronounced bay-two) or "Betinho" (pronounced bay-teen-you) His full name will be Alberto Santos-Dumont in honor of the true father of aviation.

I hope someday he will come fly with me =)

It's officially time to rest on the cert thing for awhile... passed the RHCE full day lab earlier today. I'm where I want to be for awhile. RHCE,CCNP,LPIC-2,MCSE(bleh)

I've heard that LPI just finished up the LPIC-3 and it will be available this month... I haven't followed up with it, but I may pursue that...

I'm just going to rest for awhile though. I'm really tired.

I'll be up in San Francisco this week for work. Spending a week going through the rapid track RHCE (Red Hat) course in order to gauge whom would be most well suited to attend it from the county.

It's been fun so far... every time I'm up here it just reminds me of how much I really love this city. I'm staying at the Orchard Hotel on the corner of Powell and Bush... kind of a nice spot close to just about everything I could want.

I hope that everyone has been doing well, take care =) !

Took the last of the 4 tests today and passed easily... CCNP has been acquired.

RHCE, here I come.

The updated list is now LPIC-2, MCSE, CCNP... the RHCE will come in January, and the LPIC-3 should be available to test for soon.

Got a perfect score on the BCMSN =) Just one more test left until I have completed the CCNP.

Hope everyone is peachy, tchau.

Passed the BCRAN with a 988/1000 score... that means I'm halfway to the CCNP. The next 6 weeks will be busy... a week of Foundry training in Santa Clara the second week of December, the remaining two CCNP tests on Dec 4 and then Dec 18th... and RHCE rapid-track course for a week in January up at MicroTek in San Francisco.

Whew. I can't wait to take a little break after all of this and before RHCA and LPIC-3. After those I think I'll pretty much be done.

Regards!

I'm just procrastinating hopping in the shower and getting to work... =) It's been a really good year so far. What more can I say? I'm booked solid studying for certs... working on a deal with KSBY to allow for the local soaring association (SLOSA) to put a weather station up at Cuesta Peak. It's looking very promising. Studying for CCNP exams... have the remaining three scheduled every two weeks starting on Monday. Also have Foundry training coming up, the county has recently purchased two of their load balancers which seem to me to be excellent, relatively simple to set up, and well reviewed.

I had a $50k monitoring budget that I officially used $0 of to roll Nagios out with. This leaves me with $50k to spend, and we are really playing with it -- So far we've ordered a few Picotux's and Gumstix's to play with for testing and remote logging/trap reception/diagnosis/who the hell knows.

We are also going to get the entire infrastructure team at the county going to Red Hat courses scattered over the next year. Greg and myself, so far, are interested in just taking the rapid-track to RHCE course and then RHCA classes. The rest of team, that doesn't have all that much experience, I'm getting set up to walk through several courses each over different weeks.

LPIC-3 looks like it's about ready to (finally) be released. Along with the addition of the RHCA, my certification goals have morphed slightly. They are: RHCA, LPIC-3, CCNP, MCSE. So far I have the LPIC-2, CCNA (and 1/4 of CCNP), and MCSE. Don't hate me for my MCSE! The county paid for me to get it!

Anyways... that was an overwhelmingly self-directed post, as usual.

i really like pleasanton... and walnut creek. pleasanton has a really cute downtown and is a really super nice town. i like the 40 minute bart ride to embarcadero. i like that it is out of it enough to been quiet and nice but SF is still so accessible.

i know thats a small write-up for all of the time spent adventuring (lots of adventuring!), but i'm tired and just got home =) ciao!

passed the CIT today... studying for BCRAN now. pretty close to grabbing that CCNP.