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Jan. 24th, 2005 09:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stormdogThe grand excitement of a day back at work was once again amazingly absent! Phenomenal! Still, I had good thoughts of the weekend to keep me going through the day. Though my tendency toward obsessive/compulsiveness briefly made life at the Stormdog/Moira household rather frustrating for all residents therein, the details are obscured by all the good stuff that happened. And that's as it should be.
I got up early Saturday morning to get on the road to the test site I registered at. The ten inches-plus of snow that had fallen over the night made the trip an interesting one, though to be honest I actually enjoy driving in deep snow. Managing it successfully gives me this silly thrill at having mastery over my vehicle. But anyway, I managed to make it to the testing center (a small, one office-suite computer skills training place called Digitrain) just a few minutes early to discover that the proprietor (and test administrator) had not yet arrived. This was 10:30. The two other people who were waiting in the lobby for the same person had been there since 10:00 and 9:00 respectively. This was not a good sign. As the time crept past 11:00 and on toward 11:15, the early-arriver gave up hope and left. I was on the verge of making the same decision along with the other prospective test-taker when he finally made it in. Honestly, I can't blame the guy for being late; the roads were seriously bad.
So. Entered the office, produced ID, sat down at the little Dell terminal, and proceeded to angst my way through the Microsoft 70-215. "To disabling directory browsing of all websites on an IIS server, do you need to:
A)propagate the changes to all child web sites
B)propagate the changes to all child virtual directories
What? That wasn't on the practice test! I know you have to propagate the changes somewhere... As it turned out, I didn't do nearly as badly as I thought. I finished all the questions, hit the end test button, and, after waiting an amount of time that I suspect Microsoft purposefully calculates to cause the most anticipatory dread possible, found that I'd scored over the passing threshold of 700 with a score of 895 out of 1000. That out of the way, I can begin work on the Managing a Network Environment exam. I will have that one and the security exam out of the way before we move. The MCSA, despite the lack of much experience to accompany it and the profusion of people with that or the MCSE who are in the job market, will still be a foot in the door. Or so I hope. Maybe I'll at least figure out how to configure my PIII Xeon box as a VPN server. Stupid authentication certificates...
What other excitement should I report? I managed to step on a piece of broken glass in the living room and proceed to trail blood all along a path between there, the bathroom, and geekland before Andrea noticed that my foot was bleeding. Looking at the not insignificant stain on the computer room floor, I was somewhat disturbed that I could lose that much blood without noticing I'd cut myself. Andrea washed my foot and put band-aids on it for me which I greatly appreciated. I had two cuts; the one on my heel has been particularly bothersome today.
It's been a while since I read to Andrea before bed. I really miss that and I want to get back to that soon. Tonight, though, Andrea is staying up late to work on moving more Ebay product (which is going swimmingly I might add) and last night we were just both too tired. (That reminds me; there's something I really want to post in my adult filter, but that's another story...) Be that as it may, Andrea has been so much happier since she left her soul-crushing job that I wouldn't care what she was doing so long as she's not there anymore. I am so happy to see my mate so happy.
A final, inconsequential note: I have a couple new icons. Unfortunately, the one I've used for this post is shrunk down so much that no-one will likely be able to identify the strange yellow piece of plastic I'm holding under my nose unless they've worked with one before. Suffice to say it's an ingenious little device that, the more I learn about it, the more fascinated I become with it. Everyone should learn how they work; it's a wonderful visualization tool!
More to come later or, hopefully, sooner.
I got up early Saturday morning to get on the road to the test site I registered at. The ten inches-plus of snow that had fallen over the night made the trip an interesting one, though to be honest I actually enjoy driving in deep snow. Managing it successfully gives me this silly thrill at having mastery over my vehicle. But anyway, I managed to make it to the testing center (a small, one office-suite computer skills training place called Digitrain) just a few minutes early to discover that the proprietor (and test administrator) had not yet arrived. This was 10:30. The two other people who were waiting in the lobby for the same person had been there since 10:00 and 9:00 respectively. This was not a good sign. As the time crept past 11:00 and on toward 11:15, the early-arriver gave up hope and left. I was on the verge of making the same decision along with the other prospective test-taker when he finally made it in. Honestly, I can't blame the guy for being late; the roads were seriously bad.
So. Entered the office, produced ID, sat down at the little Dell terminal, and proceeded to angst my way through the Microsoft 70-215. "To disabling directory browsing of all websites on an IIS server, do you need to:
A)propagate the changes to all child web sites
B)propagate the changes to all child virtual directories
What? That wasn't on the practice test! I know you have to propagate the changes somewhere... As it turned out, I didn't do nearly as badly as I thought. I finished all the questions, hit the end test button, and, after waiting an amount of time that I suspect Microsoft purposefully calculates to cause the most anticipatory dread possible, found that I'd scored over the passing threshold of 700 with a score of 895 out of 1000. That out of the way, I can begin work on the Managing a Network Environment exam. I will have that one and the security exam out of the way before we move. The MCSA, despite the lack of much experience to accompany it and the profusion of people with that or the MCSE who are in the job market, will still be a foot in the door. Or so I hope. Maybe I'll at least figure out how to configure my PIII Xeon box as a VPN server. Stupid authentication certificates...
What other excitement should I report? I managed to step on a piece of broken glass in the living room and proceed to trail blood all along a path between there, the bathroom, and geekland before Andrea noticed that my foot was bleeding. Looking at the not insignificant stain on the computer room floor, I was somewhat disturbed that I could lose that much blood without noticing I'd cut myself. Andrea washed my foot and put band-aids on it for me which I greatly appreciated. I had two cuts; the one on my heel has been particularly bothersome today.
It's been a while since I read to Andrea before bed. I really miss that and I want to get back to that soon. Tonight, though, Andrea is staying up late to work on moving more Ebay product (which is going swimmingly I might add) and last night we were just both too tired. (That reminds me; there's something I really want to post in my adult filter, but that's another story...) Be that as it may, Andrea has been so much happier since she left her soul-crushing job that I wouldn't care what she was doing so long as she's not there anymore. I am so happy to see my mate so happy.
A final, inconsequential note: I have a couple new icons. Unfortunately, the one I've used for this post is shrunk down so much that no-one will likely be able to identify the strange yellow piece of plastic I'm holding under my nose unless they've worked with one before. Suffice to say it's an ingenious little device that, the more I learn about it, the more fascinated I become with it. Everyone should learn how they work; it's a wonderful visualization tool!
More to come later or, hopefully, sooner.
