I’m going to get back to this, I swear; just took some time off to start working on the CCIP. 

Pleased to report that I passed the BGP exam yesterday, having recently completed the Implementing BGP on Cisco Routers course as delivered by Elan Beer — who, at #1837, is one of the first 1000 CCIE’s. 

For a full week, we had the opportunity to pick the brain of someone who has acted as a technical reviewer for Cisco Press products; impossible to come out of that and not know a little something about the stuff. : )

Anyway, happy new year, etcetcetc.  Lots of nerdly goodness to come, honest!