Short Timer

On Wednesday, a coworker asked me for a paperclip. I handed him a colored one and he responded "No it has to be silver." Confused, i found a silver one and handed it to him. "Ok, now put it on your pocket." Still confused, I did so and asked him why. "In the Navy, on a sub, a paperclip on the pocket indicates someone is a short timer, leaving active duty soon." I wore it with pride for the rest of the day, and i think ill continue next week.

In 4 more work days I go from Grizzled Vet to FNG all over again. During a team meeting on Wednesday, the director of the RNOC called me a traitor in jest. I actually have a meeting with my manager monday which I'm guessing will be some sort of informal exit interview. Hopefully i can convey the message that i want to leave on good terms and work towards better communications between Tier4 and the RNOC.

I did find out that one of my first "official" training sessions when i get over to the new department is going to be Juniper training. it sounds like Juniper is going to be used a lot more in the Core networks with CPE (Customer Premise Equipment) being Adva or Juniper switches. I had planned on trying to get a CCNA, but maybe a entry level Juniper Cert work be better. Heck, maybe ill just go for both! After the wedding I'm planning on putting together a CCNA lab, and probably building a hacked Juniper router for practice. You can run JunOS on just about any computer since its based on FreeBSD and their system controller cards are essentially just blade computers.

I spent yesterday working on the Jeep and Melissa's car, and i plan to spend today gaming and cleaning up the apartment a bit. Its going to be a bit odd not having Thursday and Friday off any more, but i think it will be good in the long run. In other general life news, We got a kitten about a month ago that we named Ninja, and we are 30 days until the wedding!