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The Wings are up 2-0 in the series clinching game so my attention is there.

- Maryland trip was great, got to see lots of family and friends and of course, more crazy stories courtesy of CPD
- I passed the CISSP! Such a relief, and I’m going to take a break from the studying thing for a while. Between the CEH and the CISSP, I’m a bit burned out in that department
- The cats and Peanut continue to get along well and we’re working on making Peanut more comfortable by addressing his anxiety
- Everything with the house is awesome. We’re definitely settled and living the good life. It’s getting hot and the A/C is crankin’. Summer’s
- Work, well, is work. We’ll see if the budget gets cut, and by how much, and if I have to find something else, again. Yes, I’m a bit frustrated.

Despite everything going on I feel bored, if that’s the right word. Things have become routine and it probably didn’t help that I have spent so much time on the certification stuff at home, which was basically an extension of work. Again, bored might not be the right word, but I do want to mix things up – get cracking on the car projects that have sat for a while, get back into the groove of learning something new on the programming front since I’m not doing that everyday anymore, get back into taking pics on a regular basis… something. Maybe all three.

I passed the exam for the Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) certification today with some relief. The course last week was invaluable, but I was still not overly confident since the majority of the material was new to me. I guess I studied enough though since I passed by a comfortable margin.

Now, I will move on to some self study in preparation for another certification, the Certified Information Systems Security Profession (CISSP). I have about 6 weeks between now and the exam and plenty of material to go through. I’m more familiar with a good portion of what the CISSP covers, so I’m going to skip taking a class. While the CEH class did help, it is hard to sit through a marathon week of class trying to absorb over a thousand pages of technical material. I do not really want to do that again.