Study week

This week I stayed home and I studied. I am going to take my last exam of the Cisco CCSP certification soon so I needed to do some practice.

The exam is all about the ASA Firewall and since I don’t have one at home and none available to me at work, I decided to get a one-week of SNAA remote lab from , a slovenian Cisco training partner. I guess I could’ve also taken a course for this exam but I think the remote lab is a better deal if the subject is not a complete mistery to you. It’s not sky-high expensive, you get exercises to practice all the items from the exam blueprint and you get to do this at your own pace, on real equipment.  Which worked perfectly, all from a browser. I was quite impressed.

Anyway, at least I get to stay home this week. Next one it’s Munich again which is gonna be real “fun” since it’s the last week of the . 6 million visitors come to  … get drunk Yeah, really great. But I guess each with his own.

Present for bikers

I have a friend who has biker talents. And since he can only buy stuff from Louis, I went downtown today to their two locations to look for some boots. But not any kind of boots. No way. These boots had to be the famous Sancho Tucson II ! I, the farmer, had no damn clue who the guy is but to my friend, the guy has no secrets. This is not kiddie stuff, these are real badass biker boots:

And since the dude never drank wheat beer before (Weißbier) I thought that I should be so nice and stuff the boots with two bottles, in the Christmas spirit. I hope the guys from Eurolines won’t mind tomorrow when I take them there to be delivered to Romania.

It’s that day again

Yes, it’s that day again

Typical day at work

Well, not really, it’s not happening each day. There is here this thing germans call Brotzeit, it’s a kind of snack you take at work between breakfast and lunch. This “snack” consists of Weisswurst, a kind of white sausage specific to Munich, or from Bavaria in general, Brezel and Wheat beer. This is one of the few ocasions when you can drink at work so people here are quick to participate.

“This is brilliant, you can drink at work!” – an approximate quote of my british colleague. I think it’s safe to say this does not happen in England.

I have to mention that while the plate above is mine, the beer is not. I just borrowed it for the picture