To whom it may concern:

Jonathan Kintner suffered a terminal brain aneurysm yesterday morning, shortly after he woke up.  He was pronounced brain dead at 3:45 pacific time, and donated his organs shortly afterwards. He is survived by his wife, Maria, their two daughters: Weslee and Aurora, and numerous family and friends. He was 27.
Jonathan Kintner
September 5, 1980 – May [...]

oh noes!

I can’t find my notes!
I think I may have a week to sit back and recover from all of the stuff we’ve been doing at work.  Consider this the calm before the rest of the storm.  We’re cutting over our corporate campus (including new gear AND IP addressing) the first weekend of June.  There is [...]

been a while..

I feel like a horrible blogger.  I haven’t updated in a few weeks.  We’ve gotten into the full swing of this transition at work, and I’ve been working like a dog.  I haven’t had a day off in two weeks, and there’s no stopping in sight.
I currently work in a Foundry shop, but with our [...]

ugh….

I haven’t abandoned this blog.. I haven’t stopped prepping for the BSCI exam, although I definitely didn’t have as much time as I wanted to last week.  My goal was to take the exam again by Friday.  Instead, I my youngest was hospitalized, and I spent half the week camped out in a hospital room.
We [...]

quick update

I haven’t done a bit of studying since I failed that exam a week ago. I wanted to jump right back on the horse, this week, and get to studying my weak points (IPv6, IS-IS, and multicast). My wife and both of my daughters came down with the flu last weekend, and I’ve [...]

work…

Our company was given the go ahead to be purchased today. The next few months are going to be an interesting transition. I’m anxious about it.
Otherwise, I’m continuing with studies every day/night this week. I’m going to sit BSCI on Friday morning. Even if I don’t feel like I’m 100% ready [...]

trainsignal/lack of sleep

Alex Skinger from Trainsignal contacted me last week, and asked if I would be interested in checking out the BSCI/BCMSN/CCNA training materials from them. Until this point, I’ve been relying solely on Cisco Press books and reading things on the internet. I figured I’d give the VBT a try and see how I [...]

ugh…

I hate it when I cut cables wrong and don’t check them before I need to use them. I cut a T1 x-over cable for the T1 WICs I have sitting around and didn’t bother to check it. I went to use it tonight and I have the wrong 4/5 pin pair. [...]