It's been long

got home from work last night, did ETK week 2, day 2. (Remember I dropped back 1 week after injury). Still Holding at 5 per side on my Turkish Getups.

Ate bread on PB really quickly, since I only had 10 minutes to get to power core. Yes it was a bad idea.

I was going to take my 80lbs heavy bag in a fireman's carry, and jog. However I couldn't manage the bag, the water bottle and the yoga mat at the same time. I also ended up having to postpone my leaving. So I ended up driving to the class.

Worked hard, but now that my weight is going down, I don't seem to be burning as many calories. I did a HRM test just before I stopped working out because of my shoulder.

Power Core was a good class though. We even had a 4 minute cardio set. Oh so much fun.

Then I got home, im'd a friend to see how her doctor's appointment went. She called me, and basically moaned in pain. Turns out that she went back to the ER yesterday morning and they sent her home, but she was in pain again. Her doctor's office on-call told her to go back to the ER, and she wanted me to take her. Got there at 9pm. At almost 5am the doctor came in (this is after a bunch of tests) said that they can't find anything wrong. However this was the 4th trip to the ER for this problem since Friday Night. They finally agreed to admit her.

ER exam room chairs, and waiting room chairs, are not the best place to try to sleep. My back is really sore today. I only got about an hour's sleep at the hospital, and that was because my body was at the point where it said "you pass out now".

Ok, somethings just are not cool.

I'm not a McCain fan, but with all the garbage that has gone after 2001, this is just so not cool.

Some freak sent white powder to one of McCain's offices.

All that does, is make everyone look bad. It's just so not cool

The total so far

203.79

2 cisco 2501
2 cisco 1924
1 cisco 2507
1 cisco 2924

mounting brackets for all of them. AND I scored a freebie.

Free Rack. Don't know about that though, I don't know if it will be free standing, or if it will be short enough to fit in the space I need it to.

really cheap

What I have bought so far for my lab:
2 switches for less than $37.00
2 routers for less than $45.00

Everything else I'm bidding on, but waiting until last day bids to do get them.
So far:
1 router (which will finish my collection for the lab, until CCNP time) looking at less than $30.00

Still need one more switch, cables for everything (power, cat5, serial to serial for the routers), a network rack (going to be the most expensive part), a switched PDU, and mounting brackets.

The really neat part. Looking at pre-built kits on ebay, they want between 400 to 500 for them, I'm building mine piece by piece, including a rack, for less.

nice and cheap

So I've been thinking about putting a cisco lab together. For CCNA training. Since today was slow at work I spent a large part of the day looking at parts and pricing it out.

The places I was looking had really, really good deals. I'm going to be getting at least 2 switches tomorrow. I'll also have to order a serial port adapter for my laptop. But that won't be that big of a deal.

It's January

It is January. Winter. In Michigan... You would think blizzard warnings, snow warnings....

BUT TORNADO WATCHES? WTF MATE?

From the Weather Underground

Statement as of 10:03 PM EST on January 07, 2008

Tornado Watch 6 remains in effect until 200 am EST for the
following locations

Mi
. Michigan counties included are

Bay Genesee Hillsdale
Huron Lapeer Lenawee
Livingston Macomb Midland
Monroe Oakland Saginaw
St. Clair Sanilac Shiawassee
Tuscola Washtenaw Wayne


To the Global Warning Deniers... You're wrong, the world says your wrong. TORNADO WATCHES IN JANUARY!!!! IT'S 63.5 degrees FAHRENHEIT