Well this weekend certainly seemed to fly by, is it Monday already? Lunch with Microsoft on Thursday was pretty good. It wasn’t the best steak I’d ever had, but I certainly can’t complain, it was a wonderful experience. I had the chance to learn a lot about their unified communications tools and licensing, two things I’ve been out of the loop on for a while now.

I do know that Cisco has an amazing unified communication/PBX type system as well. While I have an extensive Microsoft background, I also trained with the Cisco Academy for two years. I learned everything I would need to attain CCNA certification, but never actually took the test. Don’t ask me any questions about spanning tree protocol, I don’t remember.

In any event, I spent the better part of the weekend catching up on some much-needed housecleaning and running some errands. I fell quite a bit behind being sick in bed the first week of the year. Things are finally back to normal on the home front, and that feels good.

I have read on various blogs where people have trouble trying to work on a side business while also holding down a full-time job. I have to admit I can certainly feel where they are coming from. It’s indeed a challenge, not just fighting for the time, but also for the motivation. There are a lot of nights where I come home and I’m looking forward to unwinding, maybe playing a little guitar or something. I look at a computer screen all day, some days it’s just not that appealing to do the same when I get home.

That being said of course, I do find at least a part of every day where I get charged about the next step for BKE. I’m a procrastinator though, and I do need to work on my execution. You can plan forever, and sometimes you just have to pull the trigger.