draining the world\’s beer supply one pint at a time

August 20th 2007. Cisco releases IOS 12.2(33)SXH for 6500s with sup32s and 720s. This release actually does useful stuff for 802.1X – almost feature parity with the low-end switches that have had these features “forever”.
Guest VLAN, Auth-fail VLAN, multi-domain, etc etc. FINALLY!

Still playing with the built in OS/X supplicant (make sure the keychain with your 802.1X certificate doe NOT lock on screensaver activation!) whilst I wait for Xsupplicant 1.3 to stabilize.

Got Xsupplicant 1.2.8 working with TLS for the Linux desktops we have here… shame they ripped out the OS/X support in that train only to have to add it back for 1.3

The blogs site was down for a while, so I couldn’t post, but we’re married and I couldn’t be happier. Thanks to everyone who came from far and wide to make sure the reception was a party that cow-orkers are still talking about

The pool is in and is awesome…. the fence for the pool is up and the back yard is finally growing a lawn.

Pictures are uploading to the gallery…

Oh, and we have a puppy!

Melissa played around with the website a couple of weeks ago, and I finally put the new site live.

Check it out today

Just spent a week moving into our new home. Closed on schedule on March 8th and we’re loving the new house. Couple of issues the builders have to finish in the spring, but nothing major. Next up is getting a pool constructed which we’re hoping will be usable by May 19th when we’re having a birthday/graduation/house warming party

I’m also now the owner of a gas BBQ (grill). What happened? It’s just so damned convinient to be able to fire the thing up and throw some meat on without having to worry about coals and getting them up to temp. I’m still going to have a good old reliable charcoal grill, but that’ll be down in the pool area.

Wedding update – the Save The Dates are out, and the Wedding Site is up with limited content. If you didn’t get a save the date card and magnet, I’m very sorry – but we’re having trouble keeping the numbers reasonable.

July 14th or 28th is now officially the current plan. Waiting to meet with Father Isaac at St Mary’s. Reception is hopefully at Roger Williams Park Casino. 
Just need caterers, licenses, music, etc etc…

Edit: July 14th is the reserved date at the casino. Now we need to work on church, caterer, flowers, etc. Easy as cake. OH! and the cake

First off, save the date if you’re reading this: May 19th. It’s my “extra bit” birthday, Melissa’s graduating with a Master’s in Severe Special Needs Education and we thought we might as well throw the house warming in there too!
Evites will start going out soon, if you don’t get one, don’t be afraid to remind me

Wedding update next. Nothing is booked yet, we do know that we can’t do anything before July 5th for family reasons, and we also have to avoid conflicting with Patrick and Jezzibell’s wedding in September. There’s also some stuff to work out with the priest, or find an orthodox church that will marry us.

Melissa has started looking at dresses (already down to 2 that she loves), and we spent last weekend looking at potential reception locations, but we’re trying to stay close to whatever church we use, decent hotel coverage and we’re also mindful that we’ll have a bunch of out-of-town guests that might want reasonable access to Boston (either useful public transportation or near to town).

All that said, our current “ideal date” is November 10th 2007.

A couple of more pictures in the UK trip album.

A couple of more sub albums in the House album… including some of the already built houses to give a better idea of what we’re buying

I’ve added an RSS feed to the right of the blog to track when new sub albums in the House album are created.

I finally got the sketch plans for the house online.

More pictures coming

After introducing Melissa’s family to Real Mustard and Real Beer, I decided to get even more adventurous and make some Yorkshire Puddings.  Out of laziness (or just not wanting to screw an entire meal up), we opened some cans of beef stew to serve with the puddings.

After a momentary panic of “I can’t remember the ratios!” I found a recipe specifically for American ingredients .  Whilst I forgot to take pictures, the results were….

… not that bad.  I used a little too much oil in the preheating stage, I overfilled the batter, both combined to leave us with a smokey kitchen and yorkshire puddings that were a little heavier than I was hoping for.  I’m definately going to practise and also find some tins for making giant puddings!

Melissa and I have been house hunting for a while. After several failed offers (boo!) we went back to one of the first places we looked at… new construction in Norton (ArrowHead Village) With some haggling back and forth over the purchase and sale, the specifications and the floor plans, we’re getting very close to actually signing the purchase and sale agreement.  Yep – 20,000 sq ft of what Google still thinks is a sand pit off North Washington St in Norton will hopefully soon be ours!

Melissa’s parents have been of great assistance – they even agreed to build the kitchen for us.   Check out their franchise or go see them at the Boston Home Show