hectic

It seems my life is pretty busy these days!  Lots of things going on, and some times I wonder just how much stuff I want to post…. how much stuff other people (family, friends) might even care to read?!  There are days when I feel I should only post the rather large events, and other times I think it’d be cool to post what I’m doing at any given hour (minute?)!   True, many people would probably not be interesting in THAT amount of detail, but some might be… if only for a particular day, week, event, etc.  It could also be interesting to look back at a year or two later, but again… with too many minor details it might be TOO much!

I think what I’ll do is try to keep this blog for some of the more general things going on.  And perhaps use my Twitter account () to give up to the minute happenings (if it’s worth reporting - which is relative… AND current-mood sensitive)

So, what’s been going on the last couple days?

RHCX - work
I’ve taken the Red Hat RHCX certification class, and passed the live hands-on test!   One thing I REALLY like about Red Hat certifications, is there is never any multiple guess.  Almost makes the cert meaningless.  In stead, Red Hat asks that candidates sit in front of a live machine, and preform tasks X, Y and Z in a certain amount of time.  If you can do it (without notes) according to the test guidelines, then you pass.  Otherwise,  you don’t pass.  If you do a search on http://redhat.com for things like “RHCE passing rate” you’ll find reference to an ‘Official Pass Rate’ hovering around 45% and others like 12,000 tests taken and 6,000 certs handed out (rounded numbers), which I think is interesting, because many people take it multiple times, which means the pass-rate for First Time Takers is probably a decent amount lower than 50%.

Exercise:
On the fitness front, I’ve started my jogging regiment, yet again.  Fairly proud of myself for doing my 2 mile track the first day back after almost a year.  Although I will admit I only jogged about 1.5 miles of it, with the first mile done in 10 min as usual!  However, I was VERY winded afterward, and legs TOTALLY sore the next day… so much so that I couldn’t jog again for a couple more days. I guess about 4 days later I did the 2 miles again.  This time took 11 min for the first mile, but breathing was amazingly improved, and I felt good enough to go again the next day…. I’ll certainly keep the ‘exercise’ progress on ongoing updates as in the past.

 House:
I’ve finally made the FIRM decision to rent out the house I’ve been living in (originally MEANT as a rent house 4 years ago!)  I’ll be selling off a bunch of old stuff I just don’t use on a regular basis.  Probably more than 50% of the things I own… and some things I have owned for over 20 years.  I just feel this need right now to ‘live lite’… and perhaps the feeling of wiping away the old and starting with a clean slate. I also plan on taking pictures of a bunch of items I’ve just been hanging on to as memorabilia, when I don’t really look at them much.  I think it might be more cool to have a picture (taking less space) which I could have online in an album for other to see and comment on, as well as evening hanging on my full hall of pics.  As I rent this one out I’m thinking of buying my permanent house just outside of Austin… probably on 4-6 acres of land in the hill country.  Hopefully with some running water, but at least sloped/hilly land, tons of trees, and probably a log cabin-ish looking house.  I’m sure you’ll find out just after I do. :)

Guess that’s enough for now.   LOTS to do!