Well, I am feeling a lot better. Whatever I had was horrible, and took about 7-9 days to get rid of. I don’t feel 100% yet, but I’m back at work for better or worse. Figured I would make a post with my current status as it relates to CCIE study. I’ve been studying cisco docs a lot lately, mostly centered around Frame Relay. I haven’t labbed much in the past week since I have been sick, and not gotten a lot of sleep. I plan on labbing tomorrow morning, but we’ll see how I feel after I get off work. Right now I work 7:30pm till 7:30am, so when I get home I’m usually ready to crash! Here’s some other updates:

• The free CCNA audio nuggets are somewhat on the back burner right now. I have the class layout drawn up, and it’s ready to be recorded, but time has been so short lately, and the CCIE study takes precedence over those. Once things free up a bit I’m going to record that and post it.
• I attended Jared Scrivener’s (Triple CCIE from IPexpert) Ask the expert session on Prefix-lists as it relates to BGP the other day. It was pretty good. I definitely left that session with a better understanding of prefix-lists. The following morning I labbed some BGP to play with prefix-lists a bit and get a more functional understanding of them. I think the key without doubt to prefix-lists is knowing your binary. If you know your binary and the layout of a prefix-list, you can figure it out. Maybe I’ll post something up once more time allows.
• I’m realistically about 50-60% done with Switching and Frame Relay as far as technology based labs. I’ve completed all of the tasks in IE Vol I, but I’m going through the Cisco docs and using those as my yardstick. Once I feel like I’ve got the majority of topics covered I’ll move on to IGP.

That’s about it for now. I am going to hop off here and get back to reading. I make it a point to pick a subject each night at work and read about it in the cisco docs. Don’t know how much it’s helping, but it certainly can’t hurt!