Tag: Work

I just finished my third attempt at the Voice CCIE today. My first impressions: 1. Wow, I’ve never seen any of these questions before. 2. Wow, I can do all of this. 3. Man, I kicked that tests ass. Things went much better than the first two attempts. And now… Cinco De Mayo!!! I have…

Took a while to update this one. I failed my most recent round of CCIE testing. I did better than the first time, but not good enough to pass. I knew all of the answers, but I was not calm, cool, or collected enough to correctly apply this information in a timed test. Next time…

I looked back and read my first post on my first CCIE attempt. All of those things apply again. I was more nervous than I should have been and made stupid mistakes because of it int ser 1/0:23 shut left unchecked for several hours.. then me doing my testing wondering.. wtf why isn’t that working?…

I got my CCIE Voice Lab score report this morning. I failed. Time to sign up for the test again and give it another try. I would say that I was close.. but I don’t know that for sure. In fact I even got 0% in some of the sections. Apparently I need to try…

Justin had some interesting comments on serviceability and error messages: http://tinfoilsoldier.com/blog/2007/11/02/net-helpmsg/ I run into this crap CONSTANTLY day after day trying to figure out what a certain error message means. Turns out it all depends on who programmed the lines of code spitting out your specific error. Suck! We need to make this better from…

So I brought home some books and have some material here for CCIE studying. I think it’s finally time I started since I posted about it a LONG LONG time ago. So hopefully I’ll stick to studying for the next few months and you guys won’t be seeing too much of me. If you do…

Today we had a slow day at work. This was quite possibly the best thing that could ever happen to me. I worked on an escalation, worked on my backlog, and just got to sit there without the phone ringing off the hook. I even got to close a 70 day old case. A very…