The holiday season begins

The holiday season for me used to be exciting... the expectation of new gifts... some family time... etc.... but slowly that has eroded over time. Christmas in and of itself is no longer exciting. What is great is that a lot of my friends are going to be back in southern Ontario so we'll get to hang out a bit before they are off on their whirlwind adventures.

I am also taking 2 weeks off of work to work on a programming project for Athletics. This should also help to make my time more flexible to hang out with friends more.

My class is done for the most part. I currently need 13% more to pass it. Which should be fairly easy as I still have 55% of the grade still outstanding. One more class to go to graduate.

Also, there is a position posted for ITS that is more of a programming/database kind of job and I am wondering if that is more up my alley than the technical support job I currently have. I really like the people I support, but I don't think that the challenge is really there for me.

We'll see. Now I just need to start my Christmas shopping.... sigh.... I find it amusing that we spend all this money giving gifts to each other, while the person who's birthday we are celebrating we tend to ignore. Sure... we goto a church service or two... but do we actually do anything for Him during the Holiday season? What gifts are we giving the Birthday Boy? The commercialization of this Holiday makes me kind of sick.... too much money being spent on the wrong things... sigh... if only the world were perfect.