Update: 06.09.09
Posted by Aragoen Celtdra on 9th June 2009
Still on the move. However, it is looking more likely that I will not meet my goal of taking the BCMSN exam in mid-July. I’m fine with that. In the past month I have come to see that for the last year and a half, I have been devoting way too much time on my study pursuit – starting from CCNA to my current status. There have been many things that occurred in the past year that allowed me to realize that I really need to slow it down one more notch. In a way, forces of nature made me come to this. Starting from the birth of my second child, then my mom becoming seriously ill, and now a heightened consciousness towards keeping my health in check.
I’m not stopping though. I just need to make sure that I continue to find that balance. Making sure that I continue spending that extra hour or two after work towards family time. In previous times, that was usually spent on reading, blogging, or labbing.
With my mom’s illness, I needed to make sure that I make that hour-long trip 3 times a week to spend 2-3 hours with my mom in the hospital. This has really taken a lot of time and patience on my part, but it is something that I gotta do. Seeing my mom in her present condition takes a lot of strength out of me and sucks out some of my mojo (lack of a better term). But this is also a time that tells me that I have to dig deeper inside and learn to fight through adversity. At least for my mom, if not for myself.
Lastly, I have taken on another challenge. Some of you who follow me on twitter know that I have been doing P90X. It’s an exercise program designed for coolness. So yeah, I’m trying to gain back coolness I sort of used to have in my earlier days. I call them my glory days – when I used to have a four-pack abs; or used to be able to almost dunk a basketball on an 8′ rim in my neighbors driveway; or pop a wheelie on my bmx bike for a cool 2 1/2 seconds. Coolness… here I come.
Next few posts will be blog notes relating to EtherChannel technology.
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