I thought I’d add a quick explanation for the incredible slow-down in my posting rate. It wasn’t really Summer vacation, but it might as well have been, as far as most of my usual activities go. The reason? I decided to look for a new network position (well you see, there was this acquisition at my previous employer…).
The Summer months were time for brushing up on interview and resume’ production skills, active job seeking, followed by starting a new job and moving. Top that off with breaking in my new cold-forged titanium third leg, and training my newest pet, the yak Matilda, and I’ve got a schedule that barely leaves time for sleeping. (Just kidding about the last two items, of course.)
Anyway — new city, new house, new job. Quite crazy. Along with this comes a slight change of tack in terms of my future networking direction. I had been hedging my bets between going into more depth on general networking, or branching out into Voice networking. Now, because of the needs of my employer, it looks like I’ll be doing as much additional work with VoIP (and Unified Communications) as possible. I’ve started reading the CVoice text from ciscopress (so far, not bad, not great), and am trying to finish up on a LAN and wireless project for new work so I can start hitting the CCVP. I’ll see how that develops over the next few months.