Well I like the new job, it is a bit of  a commute, but I think it will be alright for a few. I get to play with cool new things, like virtual machines. I am getting my hands dirty with VMWare in a live production data center. VMWare and myself go back a little ways. I first heard of it/saw it in 1998 when I was working for a dot.com and someone said "Hey why don't we try this?" We did, and it wasnt very good. It was actually painful to see and to use, it could only support up to three OSes on a box at a time, that wasn't to bad back then, but with the hardware being really cheap it was just better to just buy the actual servers and use those instead. But I did watch it, and kept an eye on it. Then suddenly within the last two years, it snuck back up on me with a vengeance. Seems like Green Data Centers and standard Data Centers are using it now for any OS that can be installed on a server. There is even the older now OSX Hack that was first sent out via VMWare.

Also some other interesting things that I am working with, Certificate services, clustering services, system monitoring , and IIS. I like this, the whole world is suddenly Microsoft. One question is "Am I going to forget Linux?" The answer is I don't think so, I will have to do some deep dark voodoo magic for email and be able to get that running. Always seems to come back to the one thing that I hate, email. Ok Hate is a strong word, but I really do not like email. I do not like it to the point where it could become hate, and it could take me over to the dark side, just letting my emotions rule me and ... that was a tangent.

But after week two on the job, I am really liking it, although I do not have access to anything that isnt on my workstation yet, I am ok with this. I took the time to learn the certificate services in detail and can not go on about a PKI and how it can best be utilized in almost any company, large or small, I don't think I will call on it to much. I guess I just wait and see what the next step is at the moment.

On a personal note, it was good to see everyone who came out tonight, we should do it again more often. Or at least simi-regularly. And who knows, maybe I will get a little better at pool.