they're 1, and she graduated

3 weeks late. better late than never. 3 kids and everything going on these days has put blogging on the backiest back burner. it kind of makes me sad, but it means that life is full. the twins turned 1 on 5/31. caylin graduated kindergarten the first week of…

Almost 1

the twins turn 1 at the end of this month. i was so diligent about writing monthly when caylin was younger. then again, i had about 9000 fewer things to worry about. that said, i still feel bad about not doing the monthlies. there are daily pictures, for sure. but…

10 Months

the twins turned 10 months old this weekend, and caylin is 5 and a half. it's hard to believe that so much time has passed already. they're not crawling yet, but there's a lot of rolling around and scooching. ella is a lot more mobile than zoey, for whatever reason.…

Home Network Updates

thanks again to the incredible people over at @ubnt, i have some new additions to the home network. if you didn’t see the first post, you can read more here. basically, earlier this year i rebuilt all the things for the home network/lab and wrote about it. and…

There And Back Again

i had to make a really hard decision last week. tl;dr – i have decided to leave red hat and go back to booz allen / SPARC. when i took my position at red hat 6 months ago, i had never worked from home full time before. i also knew that…

A Blur

that’s what the last 7 months feel like, at times. especially day to day. a normal day goes like this: * wake up around 6:30-7. caylin is more often than not, the first one up. the babies are usually stirring or babbling before or around then. * get caylin moving…

Home Network Overhaul

[UPDATE] posted here[/UPDATE] a few months ago, i started realizing i was going to need to make some changes with regards to my infrastructure at home in general. we had a decent ASUS router at home and i set up a VPN, and i had a couple hard drives…

Achievement Unlocked - RHCA

my 10 year goal. roughly 6-7 years in the making since my first red hat certification. because time, money, kids, work, etc. in september 2007, i visited red hat with our AITP chapter from app. several of my friends already had their eyes set on red hat, or already worked…