Hi Dad,
Greetings from Santa Cruz. The odd rainy weather here has disappeared and we are back to normal June sunshine. I don't remember our course ever looking so lush this time of year so at least there were some benefits from the rain.
Over the next three days I'll we wrapping up my first pass at writing an advanced Cisco troubleshooting class. Then next week I'll be making an alpha delivery to a bunch of Cisco engineers, engineers who are intimately familiar with the product -- tough crowd. After the alpha delivery, I'll fly to North Carolina to teach a different class. During that time I'll revise the Troubleshooting class. Finally the week after that I'll deliver the revised version to real Cisco customers. At that point I'll almost be done with the project! Hooray! Later in July I'll deliver one more class, this time to instructors who will be delivery the class.
Anyway, I received an old joke recently that I thought you might enjoy. For reasons that will become obvious once you read it, she who must was less amused!
A man is stopped by the police around 1 am. and is asked where he is going at this time of night.
The man replies, "I am going to a lecture about alcohol abuse and the effects it has on the human body." The officer then asks, "Really? Who is giving that lecture at this time of night?"
The man replies, "That would be my wife."
It sounds like you will soon be back in H224. I hope the transition goes well. I look forward to seeing you on Thursday June 23.
Much love,
Tony