July 29, 2004 Well i took the test again today and PASSED!!!! man what a good feeling. I ended up scoring a 854/1000 with a 849 needed to pass, talk about squeaking by. So now that this is out of the way and done with its time to start focusing on the CCDA.
July 29, 2004 tomorrow morning i am going to be retaking the CCNA. This time i am not going to be nervous, i know what i am up against and hopefully more prepared for it this time then last time. After this i can start working on my CCDA, which i heard from my cousin who works at Cisco that it is a bitch of a test.
July 26, 2004 So another weekend came and went, too quickly unfortunatly. Went and picked up a new TV yesterday, finally a new one after having my old one for over 10 years. The new one i got is a Sansui 27″ flat screen TV, it has componet, 3 RCA (two back and one in the front), and a S-Video connection. The picture on it is pretty awesome and the i picked up on at Best Buy for pretty cheap versus some of the other 27″ TV’s they had there. (cough sony cough). Also picked up a new PS2 from the local EB game stop. The one i am using now is my brothers and i am going to need my own from when i move out. During my adventure to pick one up from said Gamestop i am not going to shop there anymore, i rather hit the one in the mall now. The 2 guys were pretty obnoxious and the one idiot kept trying to sell me a xbox. I was almost at the point to say “listen fuck face, i dont want a fucking xbox..just give me fucking PS2 like i asked” but the voice of reason (aka Amanda) chimed in and said “No thanks we already own one”…God bless that girl. We looked at a couple of apartments on Satuday because we are going to be moving out in October. Finally after 26 years its time to move on and get the hell out of the house. We saw one place that i am in love with. Its out by Delaware Park on Delaware Ave. Its a one bedroom and its really nice. The rent comes with heat, water, wireless, basic cable with HBO so that the only thing we will need to pay for month to month is Electric, phone and DSL. Plus it has off street parking which is nice. We are going to look at 2 more places on weds and see if there is anything else around that looks promising. Yesterday was my grandparents 60th wedding anniversary. Its really nice to see a marriage that has lasted that long, especially when nowadays the devorce rate in the US is hovering around the 50% mark. They had a party in their honor yesterday at my Uncle’s place. It was pretty nice and i got to see all the out of town family that came in. The only problem was i had to to deal with the ones that still lived in town. See with my fathers side of the family they pretty much ignore us now including me. I guess it had to do something with a buisness partnership that went bad or some shit. I dont know the details of it but i got included with the aftermath. Which is fine with me, i honestly dont really give a shit anymore whats going on. Maybe with a few of my relatives and the grandparents but with the majority no. I am sick of acknowledging a family full of bigots and hypocrits. Thats all i am going to say on that matter, i am starting to get pissed off. Taking my Cisco CCNA retest this week. I am going to rock this thing for sure. I know what i am up against and i been studying areas that i had a hard time with. I also picked up the Cisco CCDA self study book and plan on taking that as well after i get my CCNA . From there i havent decided if i want to concentrate on VoIP (voice over IP) or Security. Both are up and comming fields, but i just dont know which one i would be interested in more. Eventually i would like to do both but i dont know which one to focus on. Plus I would like to get a Linux cert as well. I really would like to go for a RHCE, but i wont be able to afford it unless work foots the bill. There is also a the CompTIA, LPI and Novell options as well. I dont know anything about the LPI, the comptia i might take, and i would like to look into what Novell has for linux certifications. Finished Neil Stephenson’s “Quicksilver” this weekend. It took me since Christmas to read it and now i need to start reading “The Confusion” which is the second book in the serious. But before i dive into that i am reading Ray Bradbury’s “Something Wicked This Way Comes”. So far its pretty good, i am about 15 chapters into it after one day of reading. I heard its a pretty good and screwed up book. I just hope i get to the good screwed up parts soon 
July 20, 2004 i figured i would check out to see what my political compass looked like for the hell of it. The Political Compass hrm interesting, looks like i am in the same area as The Dalai Lama and Nelson Mandela
Economic Left/Right: -4.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.97
July 16, 2004 Well today i got my promotional code in from netacad so i can retake the CCNA again, so i went and registered. Ny retake is going to be on July 29th at noon at the same place i went to before. This time there will be no failure, no matter what. I know what i am dealing with so i will be able to kick this thing in the ass. So tomorrow i am going to begin the studying and i am not going to stop till i take the exam and pass it again.
