Fallen Warriors ⁽³³⁹⁾

Brian Bilbrey August 3, 2014

Certifiable

OOOooo ... err. Certified. That's whut I am. The week of death march revising on RHEL7, followed by two certification exams on Friday, it is over. And most interestingly, I passed both exams, and now have my RHCE. Coming out of the building after 5 on Friday afternoon, I was sure I'd passed EX200 (the RHCSA exam), but frankly wasn't feeling too warm and fuzzy about EX300 (the RHCE). So I was pleased as punch to learn that I had in fact passed both, and by comfortable margins. Better yet, I learned a hell of a lot about the tools…

Brian Bilbrey July 28, 2014

A billion, billion comment spam

Well, that might be an exaggeration. It was more like a few hundred comment spam. Fortunately they were all so marked, making it easy to click--delete. * * * Monday? Monday?!? So sorry to have missed y'all, yesterday. I've been preparing for this week's RH300 course, and stayed pretty focused on that goal. We're covering 14 days of regular Red Hat coursework in four days of grueling review, followed by the RHCSA and RHCE exams on Friday. And the exams are ... challenging. I'm really good with the bits I use. And I can puzzle out the bits I don't…

Brian Bilbrey July 20, 2014

Cool July

We've had several days of unseasonably cool weather. I'm not complaining, mind you. But all the same, it's weird. Temps in the early mornings in the high 50's, and barely breaking into the low 80's. Who'd a thunk? But they let me take Lexi on a two mile walk this afternoon without arriving back home as a sweatball holding a dead dog. The garden, it fares poorly. I gave it virtually no attention in the days leading up to Marcia's surgery, nor in the weeks that followed that event. Bugs have killed my zucchini plants, the tomato plants are small-ish…

Brian Bilbrey June 30, 2014

At the Edge of the Woods

We're not out of them yet, but there's more scrub brush at the edges, right? Stuff that needs pushing through before we can be out of the woods? Yeah, that's it. Overall, Marcia's doing well. We got here home midday on Wednesday, and had formal outpatient PT on both Thursday and Friday. We managed a lot (relatively) of exercise yesterday, including a couple of walks up and down the sidewalk on our block. So she's improving rapidly. Today: blood test (for effectiveness of blood thinner) and PT. Me? By the time I was done with all the chores plus the…

Brian Bilbrey June 22, 2014

Ready for tomorrow

Marcia gets even more bionic tomorrow early, with a full (left) hip replacement. They'll have her on her feet in the afternoon, walking around and doing stuff on Tuesday, and presuming everything goes dory and hunky, home on Tuesday evening. Wow! We expect wonders from Dr. King and the great staff at AAMC. Wish us luck. * * * I'm glad to note that DoD has reported no casualties in the last week.