Personal:
Good thing this April first was fairly uneventful. For some reason I’ve never really enjoyed some of the surprises played on me over the years, although occasionally I there are years I really can’t resist setting a good one up for friends or family. If YOU were involved (giving or receiving) some hoax for April 1st, add a comment at the bottom. Sometimes they can be a blast to hear about!
I was too busy with work to get any exercising in during the week, but AM planning on getting out for my jog right after I finish this blog post!
Also, I’ve really been trying to keep up with my twitter posts, and auto-posted phone pics, so if you want up to the minute details, be sure to check those out. I’m still very torn about posting relationship stuff to this blog. Of course that’s a very big part of anyone’s life, and so how could I leave something like that out of MY page? But at the same time, if I were to write, I would want to be able to write WHATEVER I felt at the time, and often that could be painful to one or more people, and that’s just not me either.
Later this evening I plan to get back over to Leslie’s and help her hand Michael finish up some computer set-up stuff we didn’t finish last weekend. I got her running on Fedora Linux and she’s really been enjoying it, but still needs a bit of help trying to set up her new home network, and other light admin stuff. It’s fun. I enjoy helping her out with Linux stuff. However, Traci has some new play, that it sounds like is ONLY going on tonight. It also sounds interesting and I’d like to go, but probably not alone, so well see if Joy or another friend is up for it. Maybe I can push around my Linux stuff with Leslie a little.

Work:
Very stressful Monday morning, trying to get set up for the class I’m suppose to teach in just a couple hours, and not having complete documentation as to how to do some things, and also not having a few needed files! Some of it I could have (should have) avoided by grabbing the files and shooting an email to a couple folks last week, but even last week was busy. Still, not really an excuse. In the end the class got set up, and from that point on everything fell in to place perfectly! Back in my element…. and by just Tuesday, I was feeling happy and alive again. Teaching really does do it for me. :)
Had a cute girl in class this week!   Cute girls and Linux are a rare combination.  Some how those classes always just seem a little more fun.  However, I must also say I’ve never taken it beyond a light flirt, hardly enough to be noticeable, as to not single anyone out or disrupt class.  There has only been one time in 10 years I met up with someone who had been in class, and it was she who contacted me afterward.  We tried to date for a few months, but the distance was an issue.  Anyway, class ended a bit after lunch on Friday (as usual). Made it to the airport, caught my flights back home, and nothing extremely exciting to report.

House:
Nothing really new on the house front. I am getting a daily report of various property on the market, and have looked over a couple, but need to spend more time doing that. Thanks to my mother’s help, my current house has still made a little progress toward being ready to rent out, even with me gone last week. Hopefully I can find extra time to put in to it this weekend.

Wrap-up:
Well, looks like it’s about time for my 2 miles today! I’m looking forward to getting the job route back up to three miles, but that will take a couple more weeks at this point! Whenever I get out of it for a while, and back in, I always feel like such a big fatty…. not because I think I’m fat, but just because some muscles have loosened up and everything seems to jiggle around a lot more… hmmm… at least it won’t be too much longer and THAT will stop.. heh (EDIT: 1st mile in 10 min flat.  2nd mile… oops.. still having to walk a quarter to half of that… hmmm)

Lots of other things I want to do today (shopping for travel items, lunch with family, re-pot some pepper plants, pack up things in house, etc), so I’m off!

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!