Shane's Babblings

I'm venturing into looking at RedHat again. The university I work at boaught a 3 year site license agreement, which for me means, use use use. I like the initial setup but I need to get a few things like wireless working. Everything else out of the box perse for RHEL5 Desktop seems very stable and fairly straightforward and impressive. The satelite RHN we are using is a little buggy but it is a holiday weekend and no support is there at this time to see if it is a PEBKac or true problem.

Dennis is doing good. He keeps growing and growing. he says 'shoes', 'cheese', 'allo', and 'uh-oh'. We are trying to teach him the principle of 'NO' and boundaries. Yeah, he's winning. Liz is doing a wonderful job at trying to be a good mother. I just wish she'd understand she is doing well.

Another Holiday weekend and I wake up at 6 in the morning. My body is soooo trained to be up early. Fun for me. Well off to the fun things associated with being dad.

Cheers

Seeing that I seem to be on a monthly posting cycle, i'll try to ramp this up a bit. Since the last post, I've seen a decent movie or three and been around the country. I love my job. I am an Assistant Registrar in the state of Utah for a land grant, carnegie research institution. That's right Utah State University. However I couldn't pass up the opportunity to be interviewed by a small private college in upstate/northern New york (Paul Smith's College). What a cool little place. It's definitely where I'd like to be and it makes Logan Utah look like some thriving metropolis, although nowhere close. I'm awaiting dsetails on the offer I think they will want me to entertain. The thing that has been frustrating me the most lately is the lack of society wanting to take accountability for their actions. It seems that more and more people don't want to be in that driver's seat yet want someone responsible that is not them. I mean for example the tragedy at Trolley Square in SLC that happened a few weeks back. Just b/c 2 guys sold this kid that cracked a gun, had this sale not occured, is no guarantee that the events would not have passed. Similar tot he situation in Viginia Tech. By all means, deepest sympathies to those lives lost, but we are all to blame in the ills that society has created. It's not a race thing. It's not a priveleged vs a poor thing. Simply stated it's the lack of social responsibility. I was taught from a young age that there is a philosophy to life. The ultimate plan was to develop a lifestyle that would present me with the option to choose, in other words: freedom. I do not use drugs, drink, smoke or use other substances as I firmly believe I surrender my ability to freely choose whether I will partake or not partake. When addiction occurs, that choice is removed and people cannot freely exercise their will without being subjects to their addiction.
This quaint little town in New York is so appealing to me. It's campus boasts only 925 students. i manage some 22,000 annual enrollments a year presently. This combined with the lack of campus colleagues of providing excellence is driving me insane. We are in the process of losing some great individuals due to politics. Frankly I find politics immoral, and no place for the work place. I wouldn't have sex with my wife on a desk space in my office, so politics shouldn't be allowed either. It's extreme but it illustrates my disdain for politics in higher education. It's just silly.

What else. Dennis is the joy of our lives, and the most stress too. he is awesome, he' such a little monster. He's like a bundle of energy, good bad and tantrums. Liz is very important to me and the love of my life. I am trying to find a way to express this more readily to my beautiful wife and companion. Marriage is such a cool dynamic thing and it always has its blessings and challenges. I shudder to think where I might be without her. I already know how lucky I am for her to love me in return.

Back to Paul Smiths. this little niche community was sooo cool. Despite being interviewed by 22 individuals through about 8 or 10 committees, yeah so I lost count, I was very impressed. Sometimes things come into our paths where you have to take a step or two into darkness before the light at the end of the tunnel appears. Trust me, entertaining a cross continental move is not an easy thing to just up and do without a lot of thought and other ddep thinking. Sometimes Liz and I think it would be most awesome and other times, not. USU has been so very good to me and us. I mean who would have thought it would have presented me this opportunity to be where I am at.

Anyways, only the future holds where we are going. more to come. Liz says its sleep time.

cheers...We hope we'll know soon.