Update 2009
Posted by Aragoen Celtdra on 8th January 2009
Well there really isn’t much update for me. I got sick during the holiday break and I haven’t gotten over the laziness since then. But… but… I have been reading BGP a few sections at a time since then. Just been too lazy to blog about my progress. Also, I got distracted with playing around with Ubuntu, RANCID, MRTG, and RRDtool, for the last couple of weeks. So, really, the learning did not stop.
I just need to get back in gear and get my priorities in order. I need to refocus my efforts towards finally seating that darn BSCI exam. One thing I’ve been taught about goal setting and achievement is that you take pieces of the overall goal one small piece at a time and slowly work your way towards the whole. How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time – I was always amused by that saying. Because its true. Except, elephant meat is hard. One bite will almost surely chip a tooth or two. Well I’m slowly chipping away. One thing I need to do more of is labbing. I’ve almost completely neglected that part of my studies. Too much reading and not enough practice.
I just had another quick and fun project at work to help setup site to site vpn with another company that we’re working with. This time I wasn’t alone in implementing since I had to work with the other network engineer of the aforementioned company. All in all the experience was cool. I was way more compfortable with the project this time around compared to when I was doing it all by myself. I also found that looking at the configuration was a lot easier since I knew what I wanted to look for in the configs and knew what elements are involved when configuring a simple and straightforward ipsec vpn.
Supposedly my boss also wants me to start a new interesting project.
He said “would you like to tack on another challenge”.
“Yes, of course”, says the I. ”
“I want you to learn as much as you can about QoS, and implement it.”
“Nice!”, I thought. No specificity. No directives. Just learn and do it. I’m sure he’ll give me more directions as to what he wants later. But at least I get to have an excuse to learn something new and have a reason for it 
. Anyway, he says the project is not going to be overly complex or even big. Basically just to ensure certain applications have clear sailing when all is said and done.
Anyway, I still need to refocus and revisit my goals. Probably time to renew my new year’s resolution. By the way, last years new year resolution, I totally accomplished it and ran with it. This year, I’m just renewing it and hopefully it’ll carry me through the next.
Yeah. That’s what I said.
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