Just taking some time to write about my Christmas experience this year…
We had a great time yesterday, the 24th, with my in-laws, who brought their gifts for the kids, and some Santa gifts for the kids, as well as gifts from friends of the family for us and the kids. I quite like the fact that the entire holiday revolves around the kids… and I wish it would revolve more around the kids than it currently does.
We drove up to my folks’ today, and had Christmas dinner with them and my immediate family, as well as singing “Happy Birthday” to my ol’ man, who we are lucky to still have around. Thanks to the wonders of medical technology (Boston Scientific, thank you so much) we still have him around for his 61st birthday, and hopefully many more.
I’ll save my rant about consumerism for another day, and, perhaps another blog.
For those one or two of you who follow me: Today, I imported my LiveJournal blog into WordPress.
When I started moving to www.seanbossinger.com, it was for several reasons - the main one being that LiveJournal was restricting me from adding some JavaScript code to my page. I’m not upset with them… that’s just a rule they have, to prohibit abuse. But it was enough of a limiting factor to warrant running my own site.
So, feel free to browse. You’ll see almost four years of history, with plenty of gaps big enough to drive trucks through.
This much was made certain to me by the beer I had last night at the local Hooters (Doral, for those who really need to know too much… 
). One of my partners-in-crime and I, after finishing our presentation, decided that we needed to get out, so we invited two of our classmates and went. These classmates were a couple of ladies who we terrorized, encouraged, and who will be missed as we move on in our respective programs.
I’m truly hoping that I’m able to keep in touch with all three, and perhaps a few other people from the class. I generally find it hard to make friends, because I’m usually quite shy (though people who get to know me might argue with me on that point), and the people I got to know in this class are genuinely interested in helping improve themselves while simultaneously improving society.
And that’s not a bad combination…
I’ve been reading the manual on OpenLDAP today, OpenLDAP being a free implementation of the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol.
Why?
Because I think there’s a better way to take care of my address book than to have it on one machine when I really could be using it on all five of my machines.
Besides, I’m trying to be geeky.
About three hours ago I finished my final assignment for the term. It was a paper on transit-oriented development in the Miami Metrorail corridor between the Northside station and Earlington Heights. It’s an overwhelmingly desolate area in some serious need of sprucing up.
The last thing, academically-speaking, I will be partaking in this term is a presentation tomorrow at the Miami-Dade County Government Information Center. A group that I participated in (and acted as a project manager for) will be presenting their assessment of the Miami-Dade government web portal. We hope to ace our assignment. Some people in the class view our group as having an unfair advantage because we have two Ph. D. students on the team… I’m more inclined to say that it’s because the two Ph. D. students have serious “real-world” experience.
The kids are doing well, though I must say they are indeed missing their father. It shows. The amount of misbehavior increases tremendously when I reach this portion of the term; but even at this level, they are better kids than some of the other kids I do come into contact with at the parks.
I’m working at the library, covering the Library Service Center desk for my student employees who are also taking final exams.
Can’t wait to go home.
…and I have to say that I’m a bit angry.
Michael Moore is right: We live in the wealthiest nation on the planet, and I have to say that I agree with him. We don’t take care of each other.
Too bad I didn’t realize this earlier, like when it still would have made sense for me to live overseas. Now I guess I’ll just need to put my anger to good use by helping do something about it.
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