Mid March, can you feel it? Baseball season is soon upon us. And I have already seen a Sox game. I went with Paul, Cait and Erin to Spring Training in Fort Myers, Florida. I saw one game, the Sox vs Tampa Bay. By the way, The Tampa Bay Devil Rays are no longer the Devil Rays, just the Rays. I took a few pics.
Florida was fun, I got to see my Cousin and her family, ate some crab, had dinner with Christie, a dear friend who lives in Fort Lauderdale. Florida itself was interesting. For cost savings we flew into West Palm Beach, which is almost directly across the state from Naples, where we stayed. It took about 3 hours to drive across the state, it doesnt look that long on the map. It was mostly farm land and straight as an arrow, most of the roads there seem to be that way. Naples was full of our Greatest Generation. Some where loud, smelly, scary, most were just normal old people acting old. I felt their stares, jealous of my youth, lack of a fishing cap and stomach of steel as I downed a hot dog for lunch!
I also finally went to a Sonic. For the better part of a decade I have been taunted by Sonic commercials. In college ( Hartford ), Home ( Cranston ) and here in Home 2 ( Boston ), Sonic commercials are on all the time. At this moment the closest Sonic is 300 miles away in New Jersey. And I have little to no reason to go to New Jersey. But there are a bunch in Florida, so we went to one. An interesting place. It’s a Drive-In, like the 1950s places. Or the intro to the Flintstones. They pull up in the car and the lady brings them out a side of woolly mammoth or something? That’s what Sonic is. Only the waitress is a depressed teenybopper on rollerblades with no personality. I got an Oreo Blast, it was OK, nothing to write home about. In the end it was cool to go to, but trust me, you’re not missing much.
So Florida trip, success.
I am also going on a little Spring Training myself in April. At work we use Red Hat based Linux distros for almost everything. Some of the servers have Red Hat Enterprise, Red Hat Linux, Fedora Core, or CentOS. I have my gripes with Red Hat, but it’s what we use and I dont forsee anyone changing that anytime soon. I still prefer Ubuntu these days, but that’s neither here nor there. Work will pay for training and grad school, so I am going to start that with some Red Hat Training. I signed up for Red Hat Training Course #253 Red Hat Linux Networking and Security Administration, which is 4 days of training with the 5th day being Red Hat Test 302 The Red Hat Certified Engineer Exam. The Exam has 2 parts and based on your score you either become a Red Hat Certified Technician or the higher grade Engineer. I am going to try to rip Red Hat apart on my laptop in preparation for the test, maybe I can become an Engineer.
I am also thinking about grad school. If work is going to pay for it, why not? Ive got some idea of what and where, details as I get accepted someplace. This might not be until next year though.
