December 2023 archive

Evie Day 273 Good morning, and a happy Thursday to you. Today is 14 December 2023. Today is the last day of my security course, a course primarily focused on security theory, policy, and compliance, following cybersecurity architectures and regulatory security policy. It has been an outstanding week and has helped me prepare for a …

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Evie Day 272 Good morning, and a happy hump day to you all. It is Wednesday, 13 December 2023. Odin is at Lisa’s feet begging for a bit of her breakfast. Lucy is outside barking at an errant cloud hovering in the early morning darkness. Lucy is a little nuts. One of the things that …

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Evie Day 271 Good morning, and welcome to my favorite day of the work week. Today is Tuesday 12 December 2023. Yes Virginia, there will be tacos! One of the tools I have loaded up on this WordPress site is a little tracker that shows me how many folks check out my site daily. I …

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Evie Day 270 Good morning, and a happy Monday to you. It is 11 December 2023. I go back to Eastern Time this week, as I’m back in the security chair to teach a theory course. It’s the same class I taught two weeks ago by myself, but this week, a larger class and a …

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Evie Day 267 Good morning! Happy Friday to everybody, today is 8 December 2023. I took a moment to check my day count, and I’m on the verge of day 22000. The average person lives between 28500 and 30000 days, so if I’m lucky, I’ll reach that first 28500 milestone on September 26, 2041. OK, …

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Evie Day 266 Good morning, and I wish you all a happy Thursday. Today is 7 December 2023. A day that will live in infamy. And not just because a couple of old friends were born on this day. Growing up, I remember my grandmother telling me the story about Pearl Harbor. My dad was …

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Evie Day 265 Good morning, and a happy hump day to you all! It is Wednesday, 6 December 2023. Wow… writer’s block. OK, a recap. Yesterday was a pretty good day. Gracie (my youngest daughter) came over for a bit with Evie. Gracie was taking care of some things around here, preparing for the holidays …

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Evie Day 264 Good morning, and a happy Tuesday to you all. Today is 5 December 2023. Yesterday was a special day in our family. My niece gave birth to a baby boy, my brother became a grandfather, and my mom became a great-grandmother for the second time. All are well. My class is off …

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Evie Day 263 Good morning, and a happy Monday to you. Today is 4 December 2023. I’ll be back in my virtual classroom in a couple of hours to teach cloud solutions architecture. 4 days on Central Time this week, back on Eastern Time next week for another security course, then rounding out the calendar …

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Evie Day 260 Hi. It’s me again. Today is Friday, 1 December 2023. Yeah, December. It’s kind of crazy how fast the days, weeks, and months seem to be passing at this point in my life. It’s a math thing, right? Every day we live is a less significant fraction of our lives. Today will …

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