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Only update that matters today. 100%

Winter came back

Got a bit on the chilly side today for Florida, low 50's they are saying tomorrow morning with the wind chill it will feel like the 20's in Miami. I think if feels nice, alittle chilly, I wouldn't mind some mid 60's weather.

Spent all day again today in class for IP Office, today was all call flows, and building auto attendants in VM Pro. It was a great day, this is what I do, one of the few things that even I think I am truly good at. I love to be able to build out new call routing, and call flows. I finished well ahead of the class and started to work on some things on my own, building out conference bridging, and adding functionality to my menus.

Later in the afternoon, I got a little blast from the past. One of the vendors that I had a relationship with at BD reached out to me. Joni from CXtec, she as always was super friendly asking how I was. She is actually going to make a point to come down from Rochester NY the next time that I am up in NJ.

Tomorrow is about 1/2 day of class and then .... the TEST...
I went through my pages of notes and wrote them out into a word doc for easy searching. I also have about 7 PDF's that are all marked up with highlights and comments that I can reference during the test. I am a very horrible test taker, and also superstitious about jinxing myself so I don't want to say how I think I will do. I think I prepped the best that I could. I went down to have the hotel bar had a beer to try and unwind and watched some Netflix, TV in the hotel has been out since I got back to the room this afternoon.

Humpdaaaay yeah

Halfway through class today. Got to build out some auto attendants , worked with video softphones and built sip trunks between 2 500's. Was a pretty good educational day. Stayed late to help the instructor troubleshoot and issue with one of the connections.

One ,not sure if its funny, thing is 2 times we had issues connecting our unit to another's both times there were issues. Both times fingers were pointed at my programming, both times it was fuck ups on the other end. Its kinda the unwritten rule of IT, blame the other guy first. Generally your supposed to know your right first. Its cool though I'm there to learn so I have no issue looking closer at my programming, and it's nice to get proven right in the end.

Tomorrow its all about VM Pro configuration, I oddly have a good feeling so far.

2nd day in Tampa

Was another good day in class. Finished up reviewing hardware, and started talking about programming. Good amount of hands on workshops today made it go pretty quick. Got to set up incoming call routes , fire up a PRI and link two IP500's.
Before class I got an interesting surprise, I was sitting in the hotel lobby drinking my coffee. I look up and DPO my old boss from Deloitte was getting off the elevator. It really is a small world. We talked for a few min before he had to head to a meeting and I went in for class.
Tomorrow its supposed to start getting 'cold'. Wed low 60's & Thurs in the 50's... Brrrrrrrr

Early Monday

Was up at 5am to head to Tampa for training. It was a long day to say the least. Doing a 40hr course and the an Avaya certification exam for IP Office. First day was good, IP Office is a small / medium platform something I'm not all that familiar with. Mostly I deal with large enterprise deployments. But one of the biggest reasons that brought me to my new job was that I would get certified. Something BD would never pay for.
I'm up here all week, then Saturday we're going to have the company Holiday party.

Should be a good week, definitely getting to bed early tonight

Sunday Funday

Another day of Tanks and catching up on some back Hulu
We watched the pilot of Chicago PD, big fans of Chicago fire it looks really good. Also watched a bunch of Renovation Reality, kind love that show.

I even recorded an episode of "This Old  House", its funny to me that I now take another step towards being my father. Every weekend my parents would watch This old house and New Yankee Workshop. As a kid it used to be the most boring 2 hours of each day, in the winter when I couldn't escape outside. Now I find it interesting, and as I stare down the barrel of home ownership in the next year I'm even taking notes.

We started watching the Golden Globes, Amy is an award show junkie.

Tomorrow I head to Tampa for a week getting certified in Avaya IP Office.

First visitors

We had our first visitor from NJ, Amys' uncle Mark came down with a friend of his to visit. We put him to work helping hang our pictures and some artwork we have.

We met back up with them a while later for dinner. Went to a nice Italian restaurant "Cafe Vico" in Ft. Lauderdale. Was very good, reminded me allot of some of the restaurants we had in North Jersey.

I'll update this tomorrow, the blogger app is very lacking.