Who wants to know more about me?

… or more specifically me to shut up about politics :/

I wish I had a really interesting story to tell. Its always fun to read Mike’s posts about simulations or March’s failures at life (<3 March), but I'm sadly just going along on auto pilot right now. Work was really interesting for a while. I got to dive into true security investigations dealing with a few customer issues. I'm not sure what I'm actually allowed to say publicly (as it involves potential security vulnerabilities in Cisco's products), so it will have to suffice to say that I was at least successful and made some clients happy. Since then, I've had some very mundane bugs to work on and even those have dropped of recently as my manager doesn't want me to start anything big since I'm going to be working a new feature for an upcoming release soon. This last week has been spent reading technical documents, RFCs and functional specifications intermingled with trying to hunt down a bug (I think is) in code I don't have access to see as it is code only licensed by Cisco... suffice it to say, I've been reading a lot of news sites and forums lately. My feature may not start for another week too... and I'm starting to get concerned that not having any observable work products for the last week and the coming week may really hurt me. Outside of work I've gotten into a game called Darkfall. Its a sandbox FPSMMORPG... Think WoW+CSS and everything in the game is full loot with no real safe zones or instances. The game itself has a lot of problems... 4 hour queues to log in for one. Beyond that the server has some bad sync issues that make it hard to play at times and city siege mechanics as well as player alignment need some serious work before they're playable. Sadly, the game is live (in what I've come to believe is the worst game launch ever) so they're actually earning money while pretending to fix the vast array of player complaints and game bugs. Worse, a fellow Sgt in my clan (AOD) seems to have made it his personal mission to try and make me miserable. I'll admit I dealt poorly with some people asking the same questions repeatedly on vent, not paying attention to what is going on or listening to direction and let my temper get ahead of me... but I went a long way to curb my actions and he wouldn't give me an inch of space. He seems to have called a truce for now... but knowing him its almost surly temporary. Ignoring all of the above, the game is actually an amazing amount of fun. PvP actually gets my heart rate up and gets me completely focused... whereas in CSS I can barely be bothered to care that someone dinked me anymore. Last night, our clan alliance broke down somewhat and we easily had a 35-40 vs. 25-30 man fight in our clan city. The fight lasted a couple hours too and it was glorious... except for the fact that we got word that they wanted to challenge us for ownership of the city and I had to wait up until 2a to see what was going on... and came to work at 830a this morning... For anyone who I've neglected to tell, I'm driving into the Akron area this Saturday and will be staying through the next Sunday. Theresa and I have some plans for going out and dealing with various wedding issues, but I'm pretty sure I can work some people in. Give me a call!