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Heading back down to cupertino next week for another training session… last time it was the alpha of the Mac OS X Administration and Integration course, this time it’s the alpha for the Mac OS X Server Admin and Integration (no page for it yet), both of which are part of the Apple Certified Systems Administrator certification track. Should be similiar to last time… basically an early test run of the courseware by its developers to a live class, for the purpose of working the kinks out and getting suggestions for improvement, etc. If it’s anything like last time, there will be very few non-apple employees present, which uh… rocks, if I do say so myself ;) I’m pretty stoked to have been invited back by apple for a second alpha, and I feel like I’m building some good relationships with folks down there.

Week after that, I’m *finally* teaching another QuickTime Streaming Server class. Only done one of those so far… unfortunately, the demand has been rather weak… you may recall that I was in the first round of QTSS certified trainers (in the world, heh… there were dudes there from china and austrailia ;) – since then I think there may have been one more round of certified trainers… but even apple has trouble filling those. At one point I was scheduled to teach three QTSS courses for apple; only ended up teaching one in NYC, the other two were cancelled. The one I’m doing soon isn’t for Apple, it’s for my company… we’ve tried to offer it I think 4 or 5 times, cancelled each time due to lack of enrollment… well we finally got enough people to run it, so we shall :)

Saturday should be my last day on the sales floor! After that it’ll be full-time training + curriculum dev + whatever else I have time to do.

oh yeah, get this. NORMAL SCHEDULE!!!!! I will work monday through friday for the first time in my entire life. I will have weekends off, with perhaps the occasional Saturday class, until we get them moved into weekdays (which is fine since saturday classes generally start in the p.m.).

first, however, some time off! this is my last official weekday weekend. I get the feeling that I should try to do things that can only be done in business hours, but I can’t think of anything :)