Oh my damnnnnn

Well. You didn't luck out; I remembered to update this thing again.

Today is hot. Not in the way that normal days are hot where you can actually sort of enjoy the heat and the feeling of sweat... but hot like an oven. Hot like you don't even want to set foot outside your door. It's an oppressing heat.

Help! Help! I'm being repressed!

I decided to take my next Cisco test this morning, three days after taking the last one. It did not go well. Now, to be fair to me, had I taken it farther in the future it would not have gone any better. The problem is that the study guides I was using are a littttle bit out of date. Normally this doesn't seem to matter much as the subject of the tests rarely changes too much from one version to another.

Well, Securing Networks With Routers and Switches is the test that DOES change I suppose. I knew 5 questions into the thing that I was going to fail. I powered through anyway despite my brain screaming just to get up and walk out. Admit defeat. I admitted defeat alright but I certainly wasn't going to walk out without answering all the questions.

Boy oh boy does Cisco love their acronyms. When you don't recognize an acronym it can make figuring out a question pretty difficult. One question made me laugh, it went something like:

A Cisco router uses (ACRONYM) to communicate with these: (choose two)

A. (ACRONYM)
B. ( ACRONYM)
C. (ACRONYM)
D. (ACRONYM)
E. (ACRONYM)

I didn't recognize any of them.

Soooo.... I am taking a break from the studying and taking tests. It's costing me way too much money at the moment. It's now time to do some work around the house and finally finish that shed I've been building. Hey, at least I have the structure of the roof built!

Maybe I'll post some pictures of my shitty shed later when it's finished.

I think I am going to end this entry now because Kerry is being an awesome girlfriend and making me fruit salad (and I fucking love her fruit salad).