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Wotan must be my enemy
Dec. 1st, 2005 11:35 amBecause Wotan's Day surely sucked.
Following a successful evening of Ars Magica gaming at the Vault Cafe at RMIT (nice location), I entered into an email debate the following day with our StoryGuide,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
jimboboz. He was of the opinion that we would be changing to the 5th edition of the game, despite the fact we all have access to the 4th edition rules (free pdfs) and have multiple copies of the printed version. He seemed to think that I because I had expressed issues with the 4th edition (heck, I express issues with all roleplaying games), therefore I wanted to move to 5th. He took some convincing that this was not the case.
That afternoon I crammed for the CCNA Semester 2 prac exam, even to the point of building a nice little virtual corporate network with a DMZ and webserver hanging off it and with a number of Access Control Lists to protect against private IP spoofing and internal attacks. Not bad for an afternoon's work really.
The I walked into the exam, looked at the 20 sequential questions and promptly forget entirely how to do a necessary semester 1 task which I have known for about three years now; subnetting. I don't know what it was; my mind just went completely blank (well, almost - I worked out the subnet mask). The fact that the questions were sequential meant that I couldn't progress any further.
So I walked out, handing in a near blank paper, got home and proceeded to successfully get drunk.
At least I can get that right; and today I'm skipping work.
The subnet in question (like all subnetting questions really) was easy. Heck, I usually do the damn things in my head. I have appropriately recorded how stupidly easy the example was so if I ever feel like a smart-arse, I'll just look at this and remind myself that I can be, at times, a complete idiot (not to mention a total shame to my username).
The practical upshot of all this is uncertain. I've just checked my CCNA grade sheet and it's given me a final mark of 87% for semester 2. Whether or not I have to do the prac again, or they'll ignore it and let me take semester 3 next year or redo semester 2 (worse case scenario), is uncertain.
I feel depressed, embarrassed, stupid and weird.
Following a successful evening of Ars Magica gaming at the Vault Cafe at RMIT (nice location), I entered into an email debate the following day with our StoryGuide,
jimboboz. He was of the opinion that we would be changing to the 5th edition of the game, despite the fact we all have access to the 4th edition rules (free pdfs) and have multiple copies of the printed version. He seemed to think that I because I had expressed issues with the 4th edition (heck, I express issues with all roleplaying games), therefore I wanted to move to 5th. He took some convincing that this was not the case.That afternoon I crammed for the CCNA Semester 2 prac exam, even to the point of building a nice little virtual corporate network with a DMZ and webserver hanging off it and with a number of Access Control Lists to protect against private IP spoofing and internal attacks. Not bad for an afternoon's work really.
The I walked into the exam, looked at the 20 sequential questions and promptly forget entirely how to do a necessary semester 1 task which I have known for about three years now; subnetting. I don't know what it was; my mind just went completely blank (well, almost - I worked out the subnet mask). The fact that the questions were sequential meant that I couldn't progress any further.
So I walked out, handing in a near blank paper, got home and proceeded to successfully get drunk.
At least I can get that right; and today I'm skipping work.
The subnet in question (like all subnetting questions really) was easy. Heck, I usually do the damn things in my head. I have appropriately recorded how stupidly easy the example was so if I ever feel like a smart-arse, I'll just look at this and remind myself that I can be, at times, a complete idiot (not to mention a total shame to my username).
The practical upshot of all this is uncertain. I've just checked my CCNA grade sheet and it's given me a final mark of 87% for semester 2. Whether or not I have to do the prac again, or they'll ignore it and let me take semester 3 next year or redo semester 2 (worse case scenario), is uncertain.
I feel depressed, embarrassed, stupid and weird.