Sam's Blog

B-U-S-Y...

Work
I finally get a candidate for one of my positions that I'm ready to hire and what happens? The recruiter takes a vacation... Geez. I've been busting my butt trying to fill the other two positions. Question for the engineers reading this: When did senior network engineers stop having to do configuration and verification? I've had several engineers comment that this was NOC work. What do they do? High-level design and pass it off? Geeeeeezzzzz. Here's another pet peeve: just because you can spell spanning tree doesn't mean you're a 'senior network engineer'. You might want to know what it is and how it works.... Might want to know how routing protocols work too.... Can you spell summarization and redistribution?

I have so much other stuff going on at work that I can't even begin to list it all.....

Home
I got to have my birthday dinner and cake at home with the wife and kids. The kids even tried to sing part of the happy birthday song. Pretty cool.

Things are happening with the house. Looks like we should be wrapping things up soon. Good thing. I think all the stress of work is getting to me and all the stress of the house is getting to Lisa. She's been doing an awesome job with the house arrangements!!! I think the kids are picking up on our stress - and I don't like that. Hopefully, we can keep them out of it.

We definitely need to get the kids separated more too. They are starting to refer to everything as "Aly and Mitchell's". For example, we were having spaghetti the other day. Aly remarks "Aly and Mitchell" don't want spaghetti - Mitchell loved it. It's Aly and Mitchell this and Aly and Mitchell that... They need their own individual identities..... I think we're going to work on that by separating them a little each weekend...better clean my car out and install the child seat.....

Quote of the Day:
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. ~Thomas Edison

posted by Sam @ 4:15 PM