Blog
This would’nt be a complete website without a personal blog! I’ll post what I feel like as well as any updates with site. Posts that are older than 2025 were from a previous personal site I started in 2021, right after my ciscoskills website. I think one of things I’ve learned about writing online is that once you start with certain content its hard to break out of that. So what I’m hoping with this little blog space is a way to mix my technology passions and some life events, Enjoy!😊
Ships in the Night
So I’ve been learning about administrative distance and updated my first CCIE topic Administrative Distance. One thing I learn about was this phrase called “Ships in the Night”. So when I first saw this I paused, because it reminded me of a song from Mat Kearney. Just people who pass each other by without truly connecting, missed opportunities and missed relationships. The expression highlights the idea of ships passing by each other in the night. Aware of each other but continue on their own path. I did some additional research on this phrase and found that its reference in The Theologian’s Tale from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
April 20, 2025
DNS Zone Scopes
Microsoft DNS servers have a pretty cool feature called DNS zone scopes which was introduced back with Server 2016 and higher. I knew about this feature a while ago as I had to make it work with a project and it worked wonderful back in 2018. Recently it came up again on a different project that I’m working and although a different use case it also worked like it should. So here’s to zone scopes!
April 11, 2025
LAB: What is BGP
So we are kicking the tires a bit and going right into a lab that I’ve got on my Cisco_CML repository. When I was looking through the CCIE exam topics this lab that I did about ~3 weeks ago does not really fit into the CCIE docs, but I think its a good way to kick the tires. If you got Cisco Modeling Labs for the first time this is a good lab to try it out.
April 6, 2025
Here We Go
If you are seeing this over the world-wide-web then we got a website site online! I’ll let you explore the content so I don’t have to repeat myself but thanks for visiting and welcome! This site was fun to put together, I’m using a a static web site generator called Hugo and the theme is Hextra. I like the simple layout and the search feature rocks! This took at little bit of time to figure out how to organize the site, but so far I think the layout works!
April 4, 2025
Another Summer Ahead
I’ve got everything packed and in the car waiting for an early drive into central Idaho for a 30ish mile hike with the family and my amazing guy of three years together. Although he’s questioning this ‘hike’. It’ll be a challenge, but I think we can make it and come out on top and in the end, we’ll both love it. I’ve been in this area before with my family but with a different person four years ago, we went onto different paths at the end of our relationship, but it was my first time ever bringing someone on a family trip which opened nervousness, and precautions for me. At that time in my life, I came out to my family a year ago. (It’s hard to believe it’s been about 5 years already) So it was my first-time telling people about him and my family talking to him.
June 24, 2024
Carry On or Move On?
There is always going be crossroads in life and the question of do I carry on or move on can really be applied to anything, from a new career option, to moving to a different place, or even a relationship, it’s a question that I think everyone takes a mental note of. It’s usually not something that can be answered right away, and we have this question in the back of our minds, and we are subconsciously thinking about it until we arrive at one of the many crossroads in life.
October 8, 2023
Natural Beauty
I was fortunate to have the opportunity to see Glacier National Park this year with my family and a special guy who has changed my life! Glacier is special place, the natural beauty around glacier is amazing. One of the many reasons I love the outdoors, and that was probably in part of when I was younger. As a teen I was in Boy Scouts and our troop would go camping on the weekends and it was the biggest thing that I appreciated about scouting, it got me and kids out to see the natural beauty of the world for what it is as well as teaching us the importance to make ethical and moral choices over our lifetimes. A great program that shaped me to who I am today.
November 19, 2022
In the Name of Love
Love is a tricky thing that can start relationships, trust, and commitments. It also can be the opposite if your love was betrayed. Making it harder to start over on those relationships again, building trust again and commitments. Emotionally affecting you, perhaps affecting your way of life and even wondering if you could “start-over” again, all for love. A complex and difficult emotion that seems to hang on the past is a part of what love is. It’s beautiful what love can do, like trigger memories from a distant past perhaps your first love, to your first realization of what love can really do, to those close friends and family members that you loved who passed away years ago.
July 27, 2022
Aww Life
We’re given a chance on this place that we call earth to do what exactly? I think that is a question that man and woman have wondered since inception. When we look at the history of mankind it’s not pretty and sometimes its horrid. However as awful as that is, life and mankind has also shown us, compassion, beauty, love, community, and grit. We play on the one string we have here…and that’s life and it continues regardless of circumstances.
June 11, 2022
Don't Think So Much
Being in the technical field those are words that I don’t normally come across much. I’m constantly thinking of better ways to improve something, change something, and or add in something. That’s why I love technology! However, during my lifetime so far ;) there have been plenty of situations that I thought too much of something and it affected the outcome of it and it wasn’t technical problem, it was a personal one.
September 8, 2021
Experience the Weekend
My normal work schedule is Monday thru Friday and although I’ve been working from home now, something that I felt in the very beginning when I started the “home office” is I need to get out more! That change of not driving to work and the freedom of essentially work from anywhere is a different mindset then what we had a couple of years ago. So, what I like to do from time to time is take advantage of the weekend and experience it! I was in SLC with a friend, and we did all kinds of things! From visiting Dreamscapes to playing volleyball, roller skating, and going on a small hike looking up at a waterfall! It was amazing so thanks friend for reaching out!😊
July 31, 2021
Welcome You
Introductions can be awkward right? Can we pretend that I’ve been on this site for years? 😋 So, I’m going to jump right into it, over time I’ll get used to this. It’s the end of June and summer has officially started as I write this. Unlike last year with COVID in play which really is something for the history books, its getting better but for me this has made me appreciate this small little world that I live in, and care about the people I love. This year I’ve been traveling for bit and although some of it was for work, some of it was for pleasure, it’s been nice for a change.
June 28, 2021