Game Time
Posted by Aragoen Celtdra on September 25th, 2008
The last few days I’ve been stepping up my reading efforts in order to keep pace with the reading schedule I set at the beginning of the week. I’m quite pleased with myself for having almost finished the chapter on BGP ahead of schedule. I began printing other documents from Cisco’s website in order to supplement what I just studied. There’s no doubt that I’ll have to go back and re-read the chapter again, hopefully before next week, because the whole topic is just loaded with juicy details. I’ll definitely have to know and master the ten or so steps for BGP path selection (in order) and know how each of those attributes work. But all in all, it’s been a fun few days. I’ve skipped watching TV altogether since Sunday night (except the time during and after dinner when my 2 year old watches Curious George and Barney.
Tonight, though, is a special night because the USC trojans are playing. So, I’m rewarding myself to a 4-hour night of pure trojan domination as they start their PAC-10 play. The PAC-10 seems to be pretty weak this season (it has yet to be concluded since there’s more football to come in the next 8-10 weeks), but for some reason, PAC-10 teams seem to give us some problems here and there. We seem to take care of the competition when playing out-of-conference powerhouses but couldn’t take care of lowly Stanford, or Oregon State, or even UCLA the past few seasons. But this year, I feel like we can take care of business and go undefeated all the way to the title game on January of ‘09, at the Dolphin Stadium (formerly the Orange Bowl Stadium) in Miami.
So tonight I’m putting down the books, shutting down the laptop, and popping a chilled can of (root) beer 
’cause in 30 minutes, it’s game time!
Update: Well I’m back from watching the game. And if you haven’t already heard, the Trojans lost the game. There goes my dream for a perfect season. And that is why laptop is on and the books are wide open - I’m going to drown all my sorrows with some BGP fun! Fight On!