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My apologies, internet. I’ve neglected you. I’m usually pretty busy around the holidays and this year has been no exception. My parents gave me the gift of green this year, which is becoming an increasingly reasonable gift to give. I tend to want stranger things the older I get. This year I embraced my inner geek and got some New firewall hardware. The device I was using worked more or less fine, but was an abomination. I was tired of being asked “oh god, what’s that thing?!” every time someone saw it. Ok so it’s not that ugly, but this is LESS less ugly. And I was tired of running a separate wireless device.

I’ve been geeking out a little more than usual lately, and it’s partly to blame for my absence. At home I’ve set up a monitoring system similar to what we have at work. Why would anyone want to bother with something like that? It makes a nice sandbox to learn in. I need to get pretty ninja at what I do if I really want to end up where I’m headed at work. So I’m teaching myself all kinds of ridiculously nerdy stuff in my spare time. I like my field and I like my career path, so I need to make sure I kick it’s ass and don’t fall to the side in a mess of mediocrity.

That’s all I’ve got for now, internet. I hope we’re cool. I’ll be around, you know I will.

PS – The car isn’t fixed yet, but I’ve narrowed down my shop choices. It drives more or less fine. no big.

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