Fighting mental illness is never an easy battle as some days are merely harder than others. Yesterday, I managed to fight back from the brink of mental health crisis. I was teetering on that ledge and just grateful I could recover without having to go to an emergency room and potentially face a hospitalization. Whatever…
I Am A CCNA
After a long and intense four and a half months, I am officially a Cisco Certified Networking Associate. The periods of trials, tribulations, and self-doubt were many but I passed the Interconnecting Cisco Networking Devices 2 exam and I achieved a certification that is often sought after. The next hurdle is getting employed in the…
My Amateur Radio Callsign
For my readers that do not know, I am an FCC-licensed Amateur Radio operator. Amateur radio operators in the United States have three classes of operating privilege: Technician, General, and Extra. The Technician class is the entry level, the General class is the mid-level, and Extra is the top tier of band privileges. I recently…
Trump and The Hobbled Hoy
If you have not taken the time to read this article from The Hobbled Hoy please do so! It is an extremely insightful take on why the English thoroughly despise Trump and are puzzled by the fact that any number of Americans could possibly think he has anything of any value to contribute to humanity….
Close Your Facebook Account
It is really and truly time for everyone to close their Facebook and Instagram accounts. It is time to stop making excuses for continuing to use both of these services, because with Facebook, you are the product. Facebook takes your data and sells it to the highest bidder; all you got in return was psychologically…
America is Not a Christian Nation
I cannot help but get quite angry when people proclaim America to be a Christian nation. In fact, I became inspired to write this blog entry because Fear God was trending on Twitter. America is absolutely and unequivocally not a Christian nation. Certainly much of our laws have roots in the Abrahamic religions but a…
An Update
I have now effectively completed my Cisco Certified Network Associate course, and I am sorry to say, has not resulted in the employment promised land. All of my attempts at professional employment in the Information Technology field have resulted in precisely nothing at all. I have applied to at least 50 jobs, had 1 telephone…
I am Exhausted
As the title reads, I am totally exhausted and it is the kind of exhaustion that one does not recover from right away. I am so tired of the grind that life in America is. It is even more exhausting knowing that life does not have to be this way. The poor and working classes…
Cisco Eliminates EIGRP From Curriculum
I learned yesterday from my CCNA instructor that Cisco is dropping EIGRP from version 7 of the Cisco Certified Network Associate curriculum. For the uninitiated, EIGRP or Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol, has been Cisco’s fair-haired golden child. Cisco typically has had a very adverse opinion of OSPF (Open Shortest Path First), the open source…
Learning Frame Relay
I am kind of faced with a challenge right now in my Cisco Certified Network Associate class. I actually have to learn enough about Frame Relay to pass Interconnecting Network Devices 2, the second of two in the series to get certified. I have never actually worked on a Frame Relay network, much less know…