Happy Saturday, everyone! For those one or two people who actually follow and/or read this, I didn’t forget to put together a blog post yesterday. Things were just a teensy tiny bit busy yesterday. You see, there was this little inconvenient thing that occurred yesterday that took, oh, one, two, a few hundred-thousand, or maybe a few million of computers down and rendered them out of commission, and unable to start up. Yesterday was spent running around to customers’ computers amongst mass hysteria to touch every computer one-by-one to fix the issue. Unfortunately, this will be the norm for many days to come for people all over the world, as everyone scrambles to bring systems back to life.
Yay.
I will say that I am thankful that it didn’t fully impact our customer base, but it’s closer to about half. Speaking of thankful, here’s my list o’ gratitude for this week:
On the physical therapy front, things took an interesting turn during the day on Monday. I started to develop pains in my hip, on the opposite side of my ankle. On Tuesday, it was so painful that I was limping, and between my hip and my ankle, my body didn’t know which way to limp. 😂
Apparently I was compensating for my injury something fierce on Monday, and my hip simply had enough of it. My therapist was able to help identify and work it out, so now it’s down to a dull roar and an annoyance. I’m still not sure what caused it, and fingers crossed it doesn’t flare up again.
In other news, training has taken a bit of a back seat this week, being involved in all kinds of meetings for the school, and Friday’s debacle didn’t exactly help things. I’m hoping that perhaps I will be able to pick my AWS training back up later in the week, and finish up the last training module, so I can hit some practice tests before scheduling the certification exam. I’ve also got the SANS Security Awareness Summit coming up in about two weeks or so. I’m thankful/sad that it’s not being held in Las Vegas this year like it was last year (boy, Vegas is EXPEN$$$IVE). This year, it’s a bit closer to home. I am SUPER excited to return to the summit again. I made a number of great connections at the event last year, and it will be great to see them again, especially to reconnect with and learn from a couple of leaders in the field, Jessica Barker and Perry Carpenter. The entire event and the security awareness field in general is extremely warm, welcoming, and is comprised of people from all walks of life, and varying careers. Can’t wait! 😁
Finally, let’s take a look back at what I wore to work this week. Wednesday’s look isn’t missing, it’s just that I was working remotely.
Have a great and safe weekend!
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