I just wanted to provide a brief "Blog Vacation" update. Believe me when I say it is no vacation. To give you an example of how my days are going, I'll give you a timeline of my day today.

I started off by arriving at work at 6:15 AM. I had to work for about an hour, doing some administration functions at work. I had to send out a fax that had been left on my desk, answer all my email and voice mail, and perform the daily maintenance on our network server. I had several documents to print out for my boss' meeting today, which he had to host without me. I managed to get all the important stuff done by 7:15, and then it was off to my MCSE boot camp.

Class started at 7:30 AM, and we had an exam first thing in the morning. I passed, and completed the first step toward my MCSE certification. Technically that makes me an MCP, but I'm not going to get too excited. I have 6 more exams to face over the next 12 days. After the exam, we had lecture and studied for the rest of the day. (And I do mean, the rest of the day.)

Class let out at 9 PM, which made for pretty much a 15 hour day. That doesn't include my home work. I have about an hour or two of reading to complete tonight, before I start the whole process over again tomorrow.

I have to keep this schedule up for two straight weeks. It started on Sunday, and goes through next Saturday, the 19th. The only breaks I get are on Saturday and Sunday when I don't have to go to work, and can concentrate just on my MCSE class. No, the boot camp doesn't give us any days off. (sigh)

As far as the web site goes, there is absolutely no way I could maintain the blog on top of all this. I think Lope is doing a great job running the site while I'm gone. His politics are just about polar opposites of mine, so I expect that all you people that were sending me hate mail on a daily basis will start sending lovey dovey notes now.

At the very least, please be sure to send thanks to Lope for holding down the fort while I'm away. (And no, Acidman didn't fire me and hire someone else. Don't believe a damn word he says.)