Neglect

I have been neglecting my blog. Sorry about that. Here's a run-down of what I have been doing to keep myself busy and away from here.

If you didn't know, I'm enrolled in a Microsoft Academy. Two night a week , for four hours each night, I'm attending classes that will lead me to Microsoft Certification. When It's all said and done, I should have a few certs, including Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist; Vista Client, Microsoft Certified Professional, and Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator. This will finally validate my skillz with an objective industry standard. I had been hoping for my employer to send me for certification, but none of them have ever seen the need, so I'm doing it myself. It's kind of expensive to do it this way, but I thrive in the classroom environment. My first test (MCTS:Vista) is May 4th.

I'm supposed to spend 12 hours a week outside of class time studying and doing lab exercises and practice tests. There's a lot of info, obviously, and it's keeping me quite busy. I also have to write technical articles for a class blog, homeowrk assignments on line, and read and read and read. One book is 737 pages, the other is 420 pages. Lots of dry technical stuff. Good stuff, but dry.

On class days I'm out of the house for 15 hours, from 7AM to 10PM or so. I come home for lunch and dinner, but the rest of the time, I'm gone, so those are long, lonly days. The other days of the week are usually days that my lovely bride is working at her job, so we don't get to see each other very much these days. One day a week is about it. That's stinky, but it's not forever.

I'll graduate the program on August 20th, after six months of this routine. Once that is done, I'll be pouring more energy into my IT services business, Schreibnet Technology LLC.

I've also recently signed up on Facebook. I admit I kind of like it because it allows me to post brief updates and have small "conversations" with friends.

So that's what I'm up to. Thanks for reading.

Back to the books!