From: Swaroop Potdar (swarooppotdar@hotmail.com)
Date: Thu Oct 12 2006 - 16:42:42 ART
It was touching!!,
You bought the whole narration to life and i could imagine seeing what you
were narrating.
You have a second skill there hidden, do give a try at writing too.....!!
:-)
All the best for your future.
Cheers,
Swaroop.
>From: "Scott Smith" <hioctane@gmail.com>
>Reply-To: "Scott Smith" <hioctane@gmail.com>
>To: groupstudy <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
>Subject: Passed @ RTP Yesterday, CCIE #17040
>Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 09:10:41 -0500
>
>First, I'd like to thank God for giving me the ability and desire, and
>my wife and daughter for all their support over the last 2 years.
>
>A big thanks to all the folks who support this group and the guys at IE.
>
>For prep I used IE's workbook as well as their CoD. Great work guys! I
>hope to do some teaching soon and you guys are a perfect example of
>how it should be done.
>
>This was my 3rd attempt and it was an adventure. I didn't sleep a wink
>the night before. It wasn't nerves so much as it was just being fired
>up and ready to kick some tail. By the time I sat down in my cube I
>had been awake for 24hrs. The combination of caffeine and adrenaline
>had me feeling pretty good. After about an hour or two my lack of
>sleep really started to be a problem. I was making so many mistakes
>with the most simple of tasks forcing me to waste time troubleshooting
>stupid stuff like applying a config to the wrong interface. Things
>I've done a hundred times seemed so difficult. By the time our lunch
>break hit I wasn't even finished with IGP. Tired, upset and depressed
>all I wanted to do was lay down on the couch in the lobby and sleep.
>After lunch I still wasn't doing well. My brain was still misfiring as
>I tried to fend off that little voice in my head telling me to quit
>and get some sleep. With about two hours to go I went outside to get
>some air and gave myself a good talking too:-) I came back in with a
>new outlook and things started to go much better as my brain came back
>to life (2nd wind?). I ripped through the remaining tasks and still
>had over an hour to verify every task. I found and fixed several
>issues from the AM but after tallying up the points I thought I was
>still short. I left a little early and was 95% sure I had failed again
>but I was ok knowing I gave 100% and didn't quit when quiting would
>have been easy. I spent the flight home thinking about the upcoming Me
>vs Cisco round 4 and dreading opening the books again. With all the
>flight delays I didn't get home till nearly 11p and decided to check
>my email just to see... and... bingo! I sat in absolute shock for like
>5 minutes. I did a "print screen", closed my browser and logged back
>in just to see if it was real :-) I then went running through the
>house yelling I PASSED, I PASSED (lol)... scared the heck out of my
>wife, daughter and dog.
>
>This has been by far the most difficult thing I've ever done and boy
>am I glad it is over!
>
>-Scott
>
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