This weekend was jam-packed with happy happenings that I barely did any studying. Started Saturday morning with my usual Fall Saturday morning routine – watch a lot of College Gameday. The Gameday crew was in town at USC and I so wanted to be there but couldn’t. A friend of mine and I vowed that next time they’re in town, we are going to be there. So hopefully the crew visits again next year.

I did about an hour of reading and review of IS-IS, then on to getting ready for my friend’s wedding (for which I was one of nine groomsmen – we had a lot of friends in college!) The wedding was awesome, except for one “minor” incident where all the groomsmen and one little miss packed a small elevator and got stuck for what seemed like an eternity. I seriously thought I was gonna die. Ok maybe not, but it was a pretty scary moment. Finally we got a hold of the management and they heroicaly got us out of that pickle. Other than that, we had a blast and acted like we used to when were in college – oh for only that moment, at least. The family and I got back home at 11:30pm and I started to watch the SC game which I recorded on DVR – the best invention by man since..ummm… man was invented.

Sunday was Church day so we went to church.

I guess I haven’t really caught up with sleep because I’m extremely tired today. But I’m hoping to get through route redistribution this week, so I’ll have to suck it up and get through the first part of my readings. There’s approximately 77 pages of detailed information to go through, minus end of chapter reviews and configuration exercises. So if my basic math skills can still be trusted, 77 pages divided by 7 days equals 11 pages/day. That works out pretty good for me because, for one, I can’t read more than few pages in one sitting without my mind going to lala land by the 7th or 8th page. Eleven pages of reading, spread out a whole day, helps me get into the pages in more detail and ensures that I give myself the best chance to retain data. It’s also my habit to supplement my readings with extra materials from Cisco docs and other online sources like wikipedia while reading my main study source. So by the end of the day, I would have read twice what I have planned on reading. My day to day schedule at work, with changing circumstances, also contribute to how much and how well I take in new information. I’m very tired today so it will be an uphill battle trying to digest new information. But then, so is it for everyone else. So I’m not complaining.

This is the schedule that I’m gonna try my hardest to follow for this week:

Mon, September 15: Read pp. 372-382 – Redistribution overview
Tue, September 16: Read pp. 383-394 – Redistributing RIP, Ridistributing OSPF
Wed, September 17: Read pp. 394-404 – Redistributing EIGRP, IS-IS, default-metric, passive-interface
Thu, September 18: Read pp. 405-416 – Controlling routing update traffic, Distribute List, Route Map.
Fri, September 19: Read pp. 416-427 – Configuring route maps, Redistribution using AD,
Sat, September 20: Read pp. 428-439 – Configuring DHCP, DHCP Server
Sun, September 21: Read pp. 440-448 – DHCp Server Options, Relay Agent, DHCP Client

Hopefully, the week following that, I can start an in-depth review and notes as well as do the configuration exercises.