Network Geek Blog

Twitter handle @LogicalisMikeJ

Went live today on that handle. Focusing on professional tweets. UC and Collaboration and general IT Topics.

Focusing my efforts on Twitter for now

But if it's time to blog again, I'll likely put it here.

What could have been

I wish I would have bought some stock in Google when I started this blog back in 2005. I'd be blogging about my multi-millions. But alas, life is good anyway.

2.5 years

What have I been doing the last 2.5 years? I'll have to post about it sometime...

1 year Hiatus

:) I'm back after a year of not Blogging, and guess what - the Florida Gators are still the Champs. LOL. Beat the Buckeyes this time.... I'll try and come back soon.

Mike

Mom, KJ and the new House

Florida Gators are NCAA Champs

What a great team! They are impressive champions. Great teamwork and skill - congrats 2005-06 Final Four winners Florida. And yes, their win cost me $365. If UCLA would have won, I would have won my 62 team pool. But the best team won and I finished 3rd with $60.

It was a bad (BAD) Opening Day for my Cincinnati Reds -losing 16-7 to the Cubbies. You'd think I'd be upset with those two results above, but I spent the Reds game with Kenden at home and watched the basketball game with my Wife, Kenden, Mom and Dad. If you're going to have a bad day watching sports, you might as well spend it with the one's you love. It's Spring Break for Lexie and Billy and they were at their Dad's today. I wanted them home for the Reds game, but they were resting and enjoying their day off over there.

The rest of the family is doing well. My parents broke ground on their new house a few weeks ago and it's comming along nicely. The foundation is poured and the basement walls are completed. Tons of dirt are due in this week to start backfilling around the foundation. I'll post some pictures soon. Matter of fact, I have one I'll post now.

See you all later.

Checking in

Since we've been back from Disney it's been pretty hectic at home and at work. My father went into the hospital with a wicked kidney stone. The surgery to remove it was not successful, so they have schedule Dec. 12 to perform the ultrasonic treatment where the stone will be crushed by sound waves. It's unfortunate it takes over a month to get on the schedule for that procedure. I'm not sure why it takes so long. It probably has to do with the failed negotiations between my company and Anthem. The hospital network I work for no longer accepts Anthem patients. I can not comment on the facts of the issues at hand. It is what it is. But if you look at the facts, you'll see who is right and who is wrong. The end result is the Kettering Medical Center network is serving many more patients than normal and I would bet this affects things like my Dad's long wait for the procedure.

My life as a network geek is getting more dificult. Projects are piling up, support issues keep coming and new facilities are opening. My small team is overwhelmed but taking it one day at a time. Frustrations are certainly mounting. I'm going to refrain from details - but the silver lining is that my experience and knowledge of Cisco technology is ever growing. And I always have the technology at my fingertips to design, implement and support. We have grown to over 600 Cisco devices in my network with over 1200 Wireless LAN devices going in over the next 6-8 months. I am currently planning for the netowrk growth needed to support 300 plus Wireless access points we will install at my home hospital by July 2006. I will need to devote nearly all my time well into 2006 to get everything ready for this important clinical wireless rollout. And with 3 new facilities opening in 2007 there is no end in sight to the massive hardware rollouts I'll take part in. It's intimidating, but well worth going all out to make the most of it.

My Disney Photo Blog

Start at the bottom to go Chronilogically. Or just enjoy these selected picture of the 450 we took all week at Disney! MJ.

Great Picture!

The Time Machine Roller Coaster in Animal Kingdom. We rode it 3 times, it was so fun. Wendy took this great picture. My favorite picture that was taken all week!