Nothing much...

Wendy went to a wedding shower while Kenden and I watched the Vikings lose to the Eagles. He napped and so did I for a bit. We then went to my niece's fist birthday party. I think they were over the maximum capacity for the house, but it was good to see my in-laws. I left early to take Kenden over to my parents for dinner. With Dad leaving for Okeechobee tomorrow, he likes to have a dinner with his grandkids before leaving.

Okeechobee will be the first stop on the FLW tour, and with 2004's hurricane's the lake could be a lot tougher fishing. The 100 MPH winds associated with the storms ripped up the grass that usually keep the water clear. Dad will be fishing all 5 FLW events through June, then he moves on to the Everstart northern circuit from July through Sept. It's a lot of travel and fishing, we'll try and keep his kitchen remodeling business running while he's gone all that time. I don't do much for "Kitchen's By Design" in Kettering, OH but I'll be there if they need me.

Now on to my work, tomorrow a vendor is flying in to install 12 new Lab devices for the hospital. These devices connect to my network and transfer patient blood gas levels and other stats back to the lab for analysis. I had to build out the 4th floor Seton Tower network to handle the new ports. I'm building out the network for the entire building for another project anyway, but I wasn't expecting to need the new switches this soon, I stayed late Friday night to make sure they were ready to go for Monday morning. I also start my on call week this week, it's been pretty hard on my teammates the last two weeks, so I'm not looking forward to all the support calls and outages that are probably in store for me.

Just so you know, my team of 8 is: (1 cable tech., 2 Engineers, 1 Sr. Engineer, 1 Net. Administrator, 1 Architect, a Manager and a Director). So really only 4 of us do the day-to-day network support and installs. The Network administrator is still on call with us engineer's but not for long. We support over 500 Cisco switches and routers in out network, which serve over 10,000 hosts (PCs, Printers, Servers, medical devices etc.).

MJ out