lnlypaladin's Journal: out with the old?

Well, back again. It seems a long time ago that I last used this login for anything and to proove it my old journal entries have dissappeared. Ah well, it's not like anyone really looked at the thing. Of course, as I'm now actually working in the I.T. field rather than just being a power user my entries will probably be rather different anyway.
          I suppose I could use this as my own personal blog but knowing how I tend to write in a journal religiously for a few days and then forget about it for months or years at a time my entries here will probably be as sporadic as they are in my paper journals. I guess I'll use it to vent frustrations with technology specifically. If someone happens along that may change depending on discussion topics but it makes little difference. In the mean time I'm falling asleep at work after going out with the guys to the billiard hall so I figure I'll give myself the ultimate challenge and try to study from one of my MCSE training books without nodding off.
          Oh, before anyone happening along asks, the MCSE stuff is because my work is a Microsoft shop, as in using all microsoft OSes and Dell hardware. It makes automation difficult because I always have to test something before it's implemented. I can't trust a company who'll release software with critical flaws to release patches which will work with everything, even in such an ideal environment as mine. I went to school mainly for programming, now I'm an everything guy, doing networking, security, hardware and software support, administration, etc and very little programming if any, hence my reading MCSE stuff to learn everything I haven't been able to glean on my own. I thought of the MCSA but it just doesn't have all the info I need. I figure I'll read the books for the info and since my bosses are getting psyched about haveing a MCP on staff I'll take the tests for the hell of it and to get a paper which says I know the stuff. Yay... paper.