sooo... up at 1am with no signs of getting tired. seriously- this shit is getting old. Everyone I hang out with is in bed by 10, and I am left up at 3 am with nothing to keep me occupied.
boredboredbored.
oh well... back to the debian box.

At least I still have the boots...

ok, so i switched to Cable today. I'm paying a little less than half of my normal monthly bill for much better services. This, however, is beside the point and serves only as back- story to the continuing misadventures of firewall boy in network land ( Read more... )

In descending order of Difficulty ( Read more... )

ok, considering the catastrophic failure that my first visit to the gym was: I decided to do it again! (yay) The immediate goal is to just go m, w ,f... nothing spectacular: just show up and workout. Basically figure out where the hell to start from. I have the input of the wonderful and immensly knowledgable Lara so, perhaps, (in a few weeks) I ( Read more... )

man, what a disappointment. I went and got a membership to the YMCA tonight. As Lara was kind enough to come give me some pointers on how to go about exercising in a non-futile fashion, I went ahead and did what I will loosely refer to as a workout. I had no idea I was as out of shape as I am. Running has never really been my thing so I was not ( Read more... )

I napped incessantly; when I wasn't, I had a great time.

I got sunburned.

I got grilled by customs...

what more can you ask for, really?


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3 days left... I swear I feel like I've been cooped up in a jail cell for the last 2 months... This whole *not going anywhere or doing anything* has been driving me absolutely apeshit. Yes, I get the occasional outing, but lately I've felt like all I do is work and sleep. When the highlight of your week is vacuuming, something is wrong ( Read more... )

Some tidbits of *shudder* wisdom I've learned in the last ten years (in descending order of banalism ( Read more... )

First let me start by saying: the the GCFW (GIAC Certified Firewall Analyst) exam is difficult. The recommendation is that you attempt to take the exam only after having been in Information security for 4 years, which I have not ( Read more... )