um bocado pequeno do steve

=)

Wed, 19 Dec 2007 19:57:34 GMT

jesus!

Sun, 11 Nov 2007 20:10:00 GMT

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.

ending of a chapter...

Sat, 02 Jun 2007 00:13:35 GMT

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...

ahhh

Sat, 26 May 2007 17:31:46 GMT

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.

=)

apartment update

Sun, 20 May 2007 21:51:49 GMT

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 =)

moving stuff

Sun, 13 May 2007 00:35:22 GMT

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 =)

very quick update!

Fri, 11 May 2007 05:21:54 GMT

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...

ba ba baaa

Sun, 25 Feb 2007 08:55:41 GMT

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! =)

New puppy =)

Sun, 11 Feb 2007 22:33:30 GMT

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 =)

Martin Luther King, Jr. "I have a dream"

Mon, 15 Jan 2007 21:47:57 GMT

RHCE acquired

Sat, 13 Jan 2007 05:17:22 GMT

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.

Up in San Francisco this week

Tue, 09 Jan 2007 06:27:19 GMT

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 =) !

:D so funnY!

Thu, 04 Jan 2007 14:15:13 GMT

CCNP acquired =)

Mon, 18 Dec 2006 21:23:41 GMT

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.

Passed BCMSN (1000/1000!)

Mon, 04 Dec 2006 22:39:55 GMT

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

Hope everyone is peachy, tchau.

I love crazy people

Mon, 27 Nov 2006 06:58:15 GMT

Mon, 20 Nov 2006 22:19:20 GMT

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!

Thu, 16 Nov 2006 14:36:41 GMT

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.

Wed, 08 Nov 2006 08:07:57 GMT

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!

update

Tue, 31 Oct 2006 04:09:31 GMT

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

fear... what is it? this:

Fri, 20 Oct 2006 00:14:22 GMT

http://www.break.com/index/crazy_fitness_chick.html

Sat, 14 Oct 2006 18:02:36 GMT

Once tagged by this entry, the assignment is to write a blog entry of some kind with six random facts about yourself. Then, pick six of your friends and tag them; no tag backs. This explanation should be included.

Tagged by _phaedrus_ and chaosmon

1) I'm a triplet. A lot of people don't know this actually. It's not because I intentionally hide the fact, but it's just because I don't think to mention it. Often I'll mention "my brothers" before I mention that I'm a triplet or that we are all the same age. I guess it would be sort of similar to you mentioning the birthday of your siblings in conversation.

2) My mom died of cancer 3 years ago. My father met a wealthy wife of some kind of a dead hotel mogul from Monterey online less than 6 months after she died and they are married now. She is crazy and all of my brothers and family pretty much loathe her, but she may be keeping my father alive so we accept her.

3) I am a humanist and I am I drawn to buddhist scripture. I make an effort to read a daily buddha vacana. I am unable to convince myself that there isn't a Creator.

4) I am passionate about technology. It's a magnet-like attraction that has always been there. I stopped including what I know, because there is so much more that I don't. I've kind of hit a state over the last 10 years where I'm constantly learning and rehashing and renewing... it's like a well that never fills up all the way but the water keeps getting purer.

5) I have fond memories of fishing for catfish and crabbing with my grandfather by his house on the Chesapeake bay. I'm an east-coaster by blood - Maryland, specifically.

6) I love the arts. So much so that it evokes incredibly emotional responses from me. Human beings are capable of so much creation and expression, it often brings me to tears.

I think that everyone on my friends list has been tagged already, but in case not... I will tag: nogzor and moorlock and aikien

down in thousand oaks

Tue, 10 Oct 2006 03:09:38 GMT

welp, i drove down to thousand oaks today... getting a week of training on nortel's new series of routers resulting from their tasman purchase. i stopped by the local testing center and finished off my lpic-2 certification (perfect score!) and finally retested for my ccna and got that too...

that means... in the last 5 weeks... mcse 2003, lpic-2, and ccna. the goal is to have finished off my ccnp and and also picked up my rhce within the next 6 months. this is all leading up to something... plus musical certifications is fun!

progress

Sun, 24 Sep 2006 06:21:06 GMT

well... i have officially passed by 6 months probationary period at the county of san luis obispo. i received excellent remarks on my review. so i get my little pay increase and the continued satisfaction of working in, what i consider to be, the ideal environment for this point in my life.

i am continuing to pursue certifications... I have accrued a couple of them so far, and will be tackling CCNP and then RHCE before this time next year.

i believe, quite strongly, that my future will take me to walnut creek and lawrence livermore national laboratory.

in case its new to you

Sun, 24 Sep 2006 00:38:00 GMT