Did my necessaries this morning, swapping out my fb profile picture for that of a happy donkey, and expressed my gratitude for the safe return of my wife from her business sojourn to the Land of Ten Thousand Lakes.

In about an hour, my son and I get to head west to the Kansas state capitol and meet up with some friends for the first time in a long time and revisit the Forgotten Realms and resuscitate my dwarven cleric, Odeon Hammersmith.

(I’m still surprised how many of my gamer friends don’t get the little joke with my character’s name. I guess my gamer/music fan friends would get it pretty quick, however.)

Anyway, we’re taking care of a few things around here in anticipation of the adventure. We have to get a healthy breakfast (love my wife’s corned beef hash and eggs), and slake my thirst (some Starbuck’s medium roast coffee that doesn’t taste burnt).

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Sadly, seems like one of the members of our party won’t be able to make it due to illness. We shall slay our nemesis in his name… although we probably should slay his archnemesis right now. I think the name “Montezuma” falls in their somewhere.

May you make all your saving throws, and may your dice be loaded with natural 20’s.

Peace, y’all.

Trying to change one’s habits can be challenging. Part of the trick, in my opinion, is to focus on making those changes first thing in the morning. It’s a bit of that “Eat That Frog” philosophy that you can read about in Brian Tracy’s book of the same name.

For most of my adult life, I’ve been a terrible procrastinator. I have an irrational fear of way too many things, and now, here in my 50’s, I am working to correct that behavior. I recognize that I do it – I guess that’s step one. The other thing I need to focus on is that idea of “What’s the worst thing that could happen?”. In the case of not getting things done, the negative outcomes are far more likely than getting things done, even if one is putting piss-poor effort into a completed project.

A couple years ago, during the political season of 2016, I was a very active critic of Kansas governor Sam Brownback. An old buddy of mine would pop into my facebook posts with a picture of a puppy or a kitten to get my mind back in right place (thanks, Tony!), and that kind of morphed/evolved into a habit that I still pursue daily. I try to update my facebook profile picture every morning. The other component to this particular habit change manifested in my pursuit of a positive attitude. I can be a grumpy old bear sometimes (my wife might say that’s my default state), but finding and posting on a new thing to be grateful for every day is one of the most positive habits I have ever created for myself.

Some other things to read about regarding creating positive habits…

Anything by Brian Tracy.

Here’s a Lifehack article… “18 Tricks to Make New Habits Stick“. I like both the Lifehack and LifeHacker websites, although I often go to one searching for an article that’s actually on the other site… I wish they would merge.
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The main thing is to find a source of motivation/inspiration that you can fall back on to keep things going in the right direction. Daily. First thing in the morning.

I’ll take mine with coffee.

#writechain

If you’re reading this and you know me, you know a few things. I’m technical. I’ve been a Microsoft Certified Trainer for a long time now (just renewed to start year 23), and I enjoy working with people that want to learn.

Ths past week I was quite fortunate. I was teaching a class that is one of my peripheral classes, not one I do on a regular basis. It’s a course on Microsoft Internet Information Server, and we cover four different versions of the service as part of that course. That course is odd, due to the way it has some appeal to the web server administrator and a different appeal to the web designer.

I teach the class from an admin (or “IT Pro”) perspective.

My one student this week was a developer, and she was a great student to have this week.

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Technical training is very dry. We’re talking Ben Stein dry. But it’s the trainer’s responsibility to try and keep things interesting and draw the student into a repartee, making it more of a shared experience. If we can have a little fun along the way, that makes it even more rewarding.

This week is one of those weeks that makes me so glad that I made the decisions that I made along the way, and lead me to this point.

A bit of a rarity here in my household. My wife is traveling on business, but both of my daughters decided to come by the house tonight for this and that, and I have all three kids here (Bonnie, 20; Gracie, 19; Dane, 15) and nobody is fighting!

Bon is having a little computer trouble with her computer, but we’ve found a little bit of a workaround for the meantime. Little external keyboards and mice can come in pretty handy. Gracie wanted to do some cooking, and having her here to cook is great – the kitchen in her dorm is nothing to brag about. Dane’s looking at something interesting on his phone.

(Brief interlude… Bon’s computer situation is worse than expected)

And now the quiet comes. I’ve taken steps to help out my eldest (pricey steps, but steps none the less). G prepped her chicken wraps to share with her classmates tomorrow. Dane has gone upstairs to do whatever it is 15 year old boys do at 8:30 on a Wednesday night.

I’m back to being in the room all by myself. Maybe it’s about time for me to ponder the mysteries of life, the universe, and everything. Or maybe I’ll just grab an adult beverage and watch “The Expanse” on SyFy. Looks to me like no matter what, I win.
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Congrats to the Tarheels and Roy Williams. It broke my heart when you left Lawrence so many years ago, but we were fortunate to land our feet with Bill Self. I’m confident that he’ll get KU back to the top of the mountain in the coming seasons. After all, Dean Smith was in his 60’s before he won his second national championship, and Bill has one at 54.

There’s this weird transition period as sports fans move from one sports season into another sports season. College basketball has just wrapped up, and it just so happened to coincide with the beginning of the professional baseball season here in the states. The NBA will linger on for a couple more months (I’m a huge college basketball fan, but NBA? Not so much). Football will have OTAs and the draft in the coming weeks, and this weekend will also see the return of one of my favorite sports events, The Masters (because we all know what that green jacket means).

It’s not too bad. I’ve made a return to baseball fandom in the past few years (thank you, Kansas City Royals), and I will always be a fan of my Chiefs and my Jayhawks (just about spelled ‘Chefs’ instead of ‘Chiefs’… oops), but the big anticipation for me will be what is been for the last 16 years or so, the return of college basketball in November.
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I have decided to join #WriteChain, and I am now committing to writing 200 words per day in my blog. One of the things I am pursuing as a goal is developing better habits, and I’m hopeful that making this commitment will help me along that path.

Among the topics that I can/should/will write about:

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And that’s where I hope to go with this. Live by the numbers… 30,000 days, 10,000 steps per day, starting at 5:45. Woot!

I’m going to try something new, and, hopefully, it will stick. I was listening to John Fugelsang’s show in Insight SiriusXM (channel 121) the other day. He brought up this idea that human beings living an average lifespan of 30,000 days. I decided to calculate how many days I have spent on this plane of existence and came across this site, timeanddate.com.

Doing the actual calculation was a bit of an epiphany. Yes, I know that every day is a precious gift, but it changed my perspective a bit when I took a look at that number. If I live an average life, I’m at day 19,957. In 43 days,  I roll over to 20k… it’s a bit like having an odometer on your life.

Maybe I just replaced my starter.

In the coming days, I’m going to take a look at different WordPress themes. I’m going to think about where I’ve been and where I’m going. I’m going to think about my relatives who have lived very long lives, and those close to me that didn’t get their fair share.
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So, what do you think? Anybody have a suggestion for a new WordPress theme?

Good morning, good afternoon, good evening where ever you may be.

A couple of years ago, I lost my domain. I had owned the domain piercingblue.com for a number of years, and in a little piece of miscommunication between me and my web-services provider, that domain somehow ended up in the hands of some Chinese squatter trying to peddle my domain to tattoo and body-piercing shops for 35,000 dollars US.

Rather than fork over 35 grrr to get my domain back, I decided to move on, and over the last couple of years, bobsterism.com has been my internet home away from home.. or, at least, my home away from Facebook.

For 2016, I’ve decided to get back on the ball. I’m going to do my best to post something every day, and I hope that something is meaningful to me, the MCT community, Exchange/Skype admins, and my friends that plop down from time to time to wonder what sort of drivel I’m posting that day.

I’ve thought about participating in a Write Chain that focuses on dropping a thousand words per day, whether the grand be blog entries or that ever-elusive short-story or opening scene to a book.

Here’s the deal. I’m a trainer. I work for a fantastic training company in Leawood, Kansas. I focus on Microsoft technologies, specifically Windows Client & Server offerings, Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft Skype for Business. I am married with a genius of a wife and three kids that are all smarter than me. I have two dogs that I adore. I’m an old-school, sit-around-the-table-and-roll-dice gamer with two different groups, running a game for my son and his friends, and playing in a game organized by a one-time student of mine that has become a tremendous friend. I dream of writing a great story about mystery and magic, and procrastinate on that goal regularly.

201 is going to be an interesting year. Professionally, I have some goals I have to attain, as Microsoft Certified Trainers have to keep their certs up to date. As Exchange 2016 nears release, I’ll probably seek out an opportunity to work on another book relating to that subject matter. My family will be seeing some interesting changes as well, as my second child graduates from high school and begins pursuing her degree across town at the University of Kansas.

I hope to do a better job of organizing and categorizing parts of my life. I could stand to go through a serious decluttering of my office in the house, as well as the garage. I could also benefit from spending a little more time practicing the guitar, an instrument I fell in love with as a young man.

Today is the last day of 2015. Throughout the day, I’ll make an effort to add some more thoughts. I’ve more to share, and I have to figure out the best way to approach certain topics. I guess I think a little too much about trying to be diplomatic in the presentation of my ideas. I recall an old maxim, “I’m too old to fight and too fat to run… I’m a diplomat!”.

More to come…

My last professional submission for the year, unless something better comes along. Step-By-Step: Skype for Business 2015 Hybrid Configuration

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Here in Lawrence, it’s almost 1:00. About time for me to pack up my eldest and head off to our annual birthday lunch. She’s 19 years old today, and it seems like yesterday when she was spewing the most vulgar substance out of her bottom before we checked out of the hospital. Today, she’s an honors student in Chemical Engineering at the University of Kansas, and rocking the post-secondary world. I’m proud of her, and quite grateful that she takes after her mother more so than the old man.

Ramen Bowls is a solid place to have lunch in downtown Larry. Their yelp reviews attest to the quality of their food. You will get filled up, trust me.

My goal is a thousand words per day… now looking at about three hundred more words to go on the day. I’m feeling more confident, and that leads to my mind spewing out more drivel.

Wish I had more time to watch bowl games today. My responsibilities today include driving people here and there, but first, lunch with the Bonnie monster!

More later…

Well, it’s now lter. A scant 23 minutes until 2016 falls across Central Standard Time. I’ve had a full day with family and any number of strangers that needed a ride (that’s another story).

The teams I was pulling for fell by the wayside in their pursuit of a national championship in football, but I’m more of a college basketball fan than football these days (such is the life of a University of Kansas sports fan).

I may not make it all the way to tone thousand words in this maiden voyage, but I’ve enjoyed dropping these thoughts onto my blog. As we get further into the year, I hope to find new nuggets for my Exchange and Skype friends, and any number of folks that work with the client and server operating systems from Microsoft.

May your 2016 be filled with wonder, and may all of your goals be within reach… but not too easy, right? If your goals are too easily attained, it might be an indicator that they were too easy to start with. I guess that whole “baby steps” thing can come in to play at some point. If you reach a goal, make a new one, and keep on keepin’ on. Happy New Year everybody!.

First of all, I want to thank all of the people that attended my Exam Prep session yesterday. It was a great crowd, with energizing enthusiasm, and y’all made it a lot of fun for me.

My presentation deck, with HIDDEN slides can be found HERE.

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