Hey everyone,
I've been lurking in the shadows for a while but I think it's about time I joined and said thanks for all the help and gave something back to the forum - There has always been a great deal of information here which has helped me out during the process of getting my CCNP.
I started in 2007 with my CCNA and have been slowly making progress ever since. I currently work as a systems administrator for a company in Perth, Australia... and even though I have to work a lot with the 'other' (evil!) side of IT (servers, vmware etc) there's always something Cisco related for me to play around with which has helped me out
@#$%loads on my journey.
It also helps that I've spent a lot of time at work lately mucking around with the TSHOOT topolgy in GNS3 - I got to the point where I could build it without even looking at the topology diagrams for IP addresses

hmm.. I'm taking a break for the moment but I think i'll get the CCNA Security next - the CCIE looks way too full on and to tell you the truth - scares me

Anyway guys thanks for such a great forum!