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Local host 127.0.0.1
Even networks always need to have a guaranteed home that is always up and ready to welcome them back. Doesn't it feel good to head home at the end of the day? In IT we sure put in the hours. Upgrades and maintainance windows are always at late hours. Certainly troubleshooting occurs at all hours of the night, meetings, conf calls and then email late into the night. It is 10PM here in San Jose and I just got an email from Robb. Late nights... Do we love it or are we just sick? In the frozen tundra of Wisconsin (where I live), snow storms and black iced streets get a solid foothold and then oops! the routing tables get trashed or patch Tuesday just crashed the LDAP server... scrape the windows, turn up Casting Crowns and head out into the darkness, to rescue the 21st centuries digital version of a damsel in distress...well to geeks like me anyway...
But in the end it always feels good to point the car towards home. Robb and I travel a lot for TechWiseTV. He lives in Texas and I of course live on the third moon of Hoth. Cisco is really cool about having a "Flat Earth" policy, so our team is really all over the place. When we all get together the conversation always turns toward leaving to go back home. Robb's kids started a video Skype session with him during a mind numbing Power Point Power Session about the reflectivity of paint or something and I saw him take a deep breathe and I knew where he wanted to be, the great thing is, all of us sitting around home vicariously were all transported back home if just for a second. Nothing like Home.
Airline travel is a well worn out topic of discussion that can always alisit a groan from fellow road warriors. Setting in the middle seat, all 248 lbs of me (maybe I should lay off the In N Out Burger...yeah right!) all I can think of is driving home and seeing my family. Doesn't that feel good...unless you are sitting next to me on the plane...
I love networking . I study, practice and research all the time. Networking is really something I am absolutely fascinated with. I certainly want to really know my trade the best I can, but if I am being really honest with myself, I believe I just want to get home quicker and knowledge is the road that paves the way back to my 127.0.0.1
Jimmy ray
