Two by Two Down One
Posted by Aragoen Celtdra on 20th November 2008
I completed the first part of my two day challenge, Project 2 x 2, last night. I clocked in a very solid 02:02:12 hh:mm:ss of hard work. Indeed it was hard.
After dinner with the family my two-year old wanted to play nascar racing around the house while pushing his little fire truck and baby walker. By 8pm I had bathed him and his mom took over to read him his books.
By 8:30 I’m situated in my home office ready to hack away at some labs. I completed lab section 3-2 of the BSCI Lab Porfolio hacking away multiple-area OSPF configurations with stub areas and authentication. But getting there was not easy. By the time I logged in my two hours, it was already past 12am. It took me over 3.5 hours to complete a 2 hour project.
So what are my excuses for taking so long to complete the task? Well a few really. Some good excuses and some I really need to work on minimizing. My son kept coming in the room asking to play with me. He also likes to turn on the little piano keyboard I have in the room and bang on the keys. Now although I’m proud that he has the same love for music like his papa, discordant notes are not really music to my ears; they’re actually quite annoying after a while 
. Then he followed up by asking me to play him his songs. Then I remembered that I had to learn a song that I’m supposed to play for the retreat that my wife and I will be staffing this weekend. So off to youtube I go to learn the song.
One thing I was (gladly) able to control, though, was surfing the net. With all the things in my mind that I knew I had to do, there was no time nor any interest for me to surf on. Even when I was searching for the song that I had to learn on youtube (and some of you folks know how youtube in itself can be such a distraction) I was focused enough to know that I only needed to listen to a couple of songs I needed to learn and move on to my primary task of completing my two hour challenge. Even though I was already tired by 10pm, my mind was still focused on the labs I was configuring. And I was having fun too. I completed the lab and tonight it looks like I will be able to complete the lab following that one with 30 minutes to go.
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