Update 06.25.09
Posted by Aragoen Celtdra on June 25th, 2009
Well, I’m still stuck on Spanning Tree. Sort of. I’ve read and understood most of the concepts. I just don’t feel any motivation to take notes on the last part, MST. If I do, I’m tempted to just write a high overview of the concepts. I started reading the next section of the books. That is, Inter-VLAN routing. Then I plan to move on to CEF concepts. I had planned to get these both covered this week, but unfortunately things have gotten much slower for me in the study front.
I’ve been dedicating about an hour and a half to working out everyday. Well, really its about 45 minutes of working out but theres 10 minutes of warm up here, and another 10 minutes of stretching there, then cooling down, then cleaning up. So that takes a good chunk of my evening already. To top that, my wife also has to take some online classes to keep her teaching credentials up to date. So the time that she has to study I have to help watch the kids. She’s been very generous about allowing me to study for hours at a time in the past, but now, I have return the favor.
Nowadays I have to make up for the lost study time by studying at work during break or slow periods. Even that doesn’t add up to a lot because I have been pretty busy at work.
Today though I had a little shot of motivation when a good buddy of mine, some french dude from france 
, passed his BCMSN exam today. Or yesterday, depending on what time zone you’re in. Head over to Nicolas Michel’s page and offer your congratulations when you get the chance. He’s a motorcycle racer so that makes him pretty cool 
June 28th, 2009 at 5:54 am
Hi Aragoen,
I stumbled across your site a few days ago and all I can say is WOW. You have obviously put in alot of hard work and dedicated lots of time not only on your study but in creating this awesome blog. You have inspired me to take the plunge and document my journey towards CCNP certification and I am sure you have inspired others.
My blog is at http://rootbridge.wordpress.com if your interested buts its only fresh with a couple of posts but hopefully I can expand its knowledge base as my study progresses.
Congrats on obtaining CCNA and look forward to following you on your journey to CCNP and what ever follows on. No doubt I’ll be back over here reading your notes.
Thanks for the inspiration and good luck
Deacon..
June 30th, 2009 at 11:06 am
@Deacon: Thank you! I am humbled. Hopefully my notes will come useful for you own studies. Will be following your progress as well. Good luck.
July 3rd, 2009 at 9:54 pm
I stumbled upon on your site and decided to take the same approach to blogging my way to CCNP and CCIE. Congrats on your acheivements so far.