Again, I have neglected this blog. Partly because life is life, partly because I was unsure what I wanted to post about and partly because I’m lazy. I can’t fix life, and I can’t fix my laziness - I’m too damn old for that one - but I do have some ideas on where I want to go with this blog. I will give the occasional post about life. There are many things to come with life this year.

It’s been nearly ten months since my last post. A lot has happened in the last ten months. Clayton granduated from graduate school and took a new job in Little Rock, Arkansas. Benna took a new job with Vanderbilt University. Joseph graduated from his Georgia Tech - the real school. The last year for me has been a year of rekindling childhood loves. Since March 2023, Elisa and I have seen Billy Joel in concert three times.

After nearly two months of studying and taking practice tests, I took and passed my AZ-104 exam to receive my Azure Adminstrator Associate certification. My primary tool for preparing for the AZ-104 exam was Microsoft Learn. I highly recommend taking practice tests for this exam. Many of the questions are detailed limits for Azure resources. I cannot emphasize enough that hands on experience with the base Azure solutions of storage, key vault, compute, recovery vault, monitor, subscriptions, and Azure policy is required for this exam.