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I haven’t had 3 weeks off of anything since summer break in college.  1 week here and their for vacation, maybe stretched it to 10 days occasionally, but the email leash was never really off.  Here I am 3 days into my “break” and I am finding myself mostly just filling time.  The good news is that changes tomorrow.  So far, I did do a kick ass job on organizing my contact list, and it is now in sync between by iPhone, computer and Yahoo account.  The gutters on our house are spotless (that was a real treat).  We dominated the Gilroy outlets over the weekend and celebrated victory with a little In-and-Out Burger.   I am catching up with lots of people via Facebook/LinkedIn etc.  Last night, I had a great time with my close work friends over some beers and dinners (thanks everyone for coming, it was really great to see all of you!). But tomorrow, tomorrow things really get fun!  Joy and I fly out tomorrow night on a redeye to Puerto Rico and then on to Tortolla.  We are meeting some close friends for a week of boat camping….we rented a 47 foot powercat (perhaps the ugliest boat known to man) and will be cruising the BVIs for the week.  Gilligan’s Island, here we come!

After that trip, I am back to San Jose for a couple of days before heading back to the east coast to spend a week with my parents, gram, sister, brother-in-law, and nephews.  I don’t think I have spent more than 48 hours in the town where I grew up in more than 10 years (now that I think about it, that coincides with the time I started my most recent job).

After that, I want to do something really fun with my wife (just the 2 of us) somewhere on the west coast.  Not sure what that will be yet, any suggestions for a good 2-3 day long trip or activity?

As the deployment of 10G switches gains traction, the case studies, 3rd party “independent” test and rebuttals are flowing like mad.  I thought Omar Sultan from Cisco did a very good job with this one (rebuttal to a recently published Network World article) in particular in making the case that while 0-60MPH testing is certainly interesting, the majority of us drive on highways, back roads, traffic jams, parking lots, bridges, tunnels, and a variety of other places which require our cars to be good in a lot of different scenarios, not just on the drag strip (although, as a amateur track enthusiast, I love taking off fast).

http://blogs.cisco.com/datacenter/comments/the_perils_of_equipment_testing/

Net-net, network devices need to be able to perform well in a variety of scenarios, not just on the drag strip.  A test drive is the only way to determine if a “car” is right for you.