Got to work on my first "real" network job

Got a Cisco 1750 router set up and multilinked to 2 T1 lines over in Hastings, and thanks to Jason, my mentor to some degree at work, set up all the encapsulation and IP routes. I can't thank him enough for letting me give it a try, especially after only 5 months there. I will pay back the trust in spades some day brotha! The best part out of it, after about an hour and a half of testing and troubleshooting stations, was to hear everyone talk about how much better it ran, and they thought Jason and I were full-blown heroes! Ya just don't get that too much in this line of work. This is a job I was meant to do....

Wow, its been a while

Wow, I have not posted in quite a while, and I thought I would share a few images that have occurred over the past few months

Here's a view of downtown BC from our office...


This is Summit Pointe, where I work most of the time, when desk work calls...


Part of the server room where the datacenter is


This is the server rack Troy and I have been assigned to decommision over the next 3-4 months


The telecom patch panels


The PC/Server Patch Panels


This is Troy, he's the man. He and I called that overfilled conference room our office for about 3 months


Chloe, a couple of months ago


Up at a park in Waters, Michigan


Chloe and Tracy in Charlevoix


When it comes to things that have been going on, it can be easily summarized by "busy." I have really found tons of ways to apply myself at the new job, and there is a never-ending list of stuff that can be done. I wish I was working closer to Lansing, but compromises had to be made, at least the money is better. Some of the guys at the office I consider my "Mentors" have been very willing to push new projects my way, and that is greatly appreciated. I have this Cisco 1700 Modular Access Router sitting at my desk to configure, and have about 50% of the knowledge needed to get it to do what I need it to. Scary feeling, but I love it. I will figure the other 50% out in no time, (Time to get the command line interface manual...) I laugh when I remember the CDW ad that has the lady talking about cuddling up to a Cisco modular Access Router manual, and realize that I will be doing exactly that this weekend! What a dork I am....

Chloe is quite the tornado lately, she can tear a room to shreds in less than 15 minutes. Thank God for baby gates!

I have been struggling with Tracy and her depression. It really seems to have reared its ugly head in the past few months. She has quite consistently admitted that it is a condition she is dealing with, but is afraid to take any measures to help to cope with it. A very tough struggle for me to watch and live through. She has days when she just can't find anything nice about anything, and the bottoms she hits are really low. I felt so bad for her this morning, she took the day off to work on some homework, the same homework that will take all weekend to complete. It turns out that most of Michigan had no school today due to the 7-8 inches of snow we got, so Chloe had to stay home. The daycare provider follows the same rules as what the schools due for weather, so basically Tracy ended up at home with Chloe all day. She just can't get over the though that she might be able to make up the time she lost today and still get the project done, all she can do is dwell about how she can never get the project done, even though it isn't due until Monday or later. Sometimes her hopelessness gets the best of her. Today it owned her. Tracy is also involved in Anna's Wedding due to happen in June. I will be curious to see how she can get through this whole ordeal as well, she seems to harbor quite a bit of hostility toward Anna, and some is for justifiable reasons, some is a plain mystery to me. I hope they can all get through it in June and be friends when its all said and done.