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Hi! We're Rick and Mei-O (pronounced Mayo, appropriately enough, just like the Mayo Clinic) Shabsin from Rochester, Minnesota (home of the Mayo Clinic). We maintain this web site just for fun, using only a simple editor, a couple of graphics programs, a digital camera, and a scanner.

Mei-O and I have have lived in Rochester since January of 1984 when I came here to work for IBM as a software engineer. Before that, we lived in Warren, Ohio where, after I got fired from my job as an air traffic controller by Ronnie Reagan for participating in the air traffic controllers' strike in August of 1981, I attended school at Youngstown State University, earning a B.S. in Mathematics with a Computer Science minor in December, 1983. We have one son, Chris, who lives in the Boston area, having graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a degree in Computer Science and Engineering in 1995.

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What We Do
I currently work for Celestica Corp., a global technology services company headquartered in Toronto, Canada as a consulting software engineer for IBM here in Rochester.

Mei-O works in Student Nutrition Services at Pinewood Elementary School and Willow Creek Middle School for the Rochester Public School District.

Chris, too, is a software engineer, currently working for in Cambridge, Massachusetts!

e-mail
If you want to e-mail us, we can be reached at the following addresses: Rick: rshabsin at gmail.com
  Mei-O: mshabsin at gmail.com
  Chris: crs at mit.edu

Interesting Links
Check out these links of ours. We hope maybe you'll find a few of them interesting.

Mei-O's Name and Birthdays
Our Honeymoon
Our Chinese Zodiac Animals
Early Family Pictures
My Aunt Yeva
The Amazing Gold Sweater
The Address Plate
My Moment as an Opera Singer!
Our Significant Places in and
   Around Taichung, Taiwan

Our 2001 China Trip
Our 2002 Taiwan Trip
Our 2002 China Trip
Our 2004 Taiwan Trip
Our Paris Trip, Christmas, 2005
Our 2006 Taiwan Trip
Our 2007 Trip to Europe
Our 2008 Taiwan Trip

Christmas day, 2006, at the Kan's Christmas party.

One of my favorite pictures of us - on the Great Wall at BaDaLing during our trip to China in October, 2002.