Hello. I have not been keeping this blog up to date much lately. My cybersecrity bootcamp started on Halloween and we just completed the fifth week, covering system administration basics like auditing and logging. This week we’ll doing bash scripting. So far it’s been a pretty easy course. I’ve consistently been about a week ahead on the homework. I just recently looked over the first project that will come due in February, and it’s about a domain and a blogging website. So I guess I was on the right track setting this one up. I really have enjoyed working in Linux and hope to continue that more.

Oh, got myself a new car! 2023 Nissan Leaf — I’m all-electric now. Just tacked on the 500th mile on the odometer. It’s a comfortable and quiet improvement over the 2011 Honda Fit.

Now is also the time of year when I need to start using up my vacation. I took Thanksgiving week off and enjoyed the relaxation. My friend Laura was cat sitting and the host was gracious enough to let us use her kitchen for making dinner.

And now that it’s December I’m taking Mondays and Wednesdays off. 1 day on, 1 day off, 2 days on, 3 days off. That’s a nice schedule. I might have to bake some bread or something for the coworkers.

Meanwhile, the leaves are everywhere right now! As the only real caretaker of my COA, I have already filled up our green recycling bin completely. Otherwise this would be a great day to take on some yardwork, I just don’t have a place to put them right now. They get picked up tomorrow, but there’s also a storm coming through. Oh well.

Another positive thing recently is reconnecting with my friend Tara and my old bandmates from college. I had gone looking through old cassette tapes and realized I had no way to play them anymore. I found a cheap tape-to-mp3 transcriber and enjoyed listening some old sounds we made back in the day. I think they were amused by them as much as I was. Plus it makes all the easier to visit again in person after breaking the ice with the unexpected “lost tracks” of Soulcraft.

Well the sun is out, maybe I should try getting a walk in while I can. Here’s a picture of Mt. McLoughlin I took last Friday.