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…

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…

DevOps Journey Workshop

a couple weeks ago i went to a workshop/training event, and shadow-soft asked if i would review it and do a guest blog. so here it is. :) This past Tuesday, I had the pleasure of being invited to a workshop hosted by Shadow-Soft here in Charleston. I had been…

All Over The Place

this week has been a complete 180 compared to last week. the plague that is HFMD ended. lucky for me, it ended the night before my red hat training began. no more blisters, no more ulcers, no more fever, no more crippling foot/hand pain, no more messed up face,…

Official Red Hatter

this was by far the hardest goal i’ve set for myself so far… pretty much ever. getting my RHCSA and RHCE in one week. i’ve wanted to do this since college. since before i even got into security. basically since i knew what red hat was, i knew…

Kernel Panic, Spiders, Cake

i woke up this morning relieved that i did not awake with a swollen face again. my allergies got the best of me yesterday, and it i was not pretty. i guess i’ve been used to sleeping on my pillows with the hypoallergenic cover and uh… minor reaction. i…

Survived Day One

i made it through my first day of red hat training. for those of you unfamiliar with the subject, this is the course i’m taking all week. i am SHOCKED that it went by so quickly today, really. i don’t usually do well in classrooms. in terms of…