Night Shift = Manliness

Last week I got to add another gold star to my Man Card. (Man Card is a trademark of MattZ Ink.) I covered for someone on the night shift which goes 10pm to 8am. I'm not sure what makes me more manly, but I feel it. I think it because I can now somehow relate a little more to the hard working factory workers or coal miners that work all hours of the day. The experience was kinda fun. (What fun loving boy doesn't like to stay up after bedtime?) I think I handled 2 or 3 incoming calls the whole week. I usually get about 10 or more a day.

Mostly I checked scheduled backups and stood guard for any outages. There were a couple that happened. Luckily, most of them fixed themselves before anyone woke up. And when nothing was happening I caught up on some man movies. You know the ones that your wife puts on the end of your Netflix queue or says she'll watch it with you, but really doesn't want to. I finally watched Iron Man 2 and I also watched Red. Red was a fun movie with classic impossible feats with a comic spin on it.

Oh and I also passed my next exam (Microsoft Networking 70-291) for MCSA. I was a fool and took this the day after my first day on the night shift. So I had been up for over 24 hours. I didn't feel tired; my head just felt fuzzy. My next step is the exam for Microsoft's firewall, ISA server 2006. I have to get this done and passed before the end of March. The exam will expire then. I could still get MCSA, but not the following my first choice of paths. Then I have to take an exam on Windows 7. That should be pretty easy compared to the rest of these tests that I've taken. I think after my MCSA, I'll update it to the 2008 server series. That only requires two additional tests.