The craptastic school network/ about me

So I was at school today and had some extra time so I figured what the heck I’ll go online. That didn’t work out so well. Once I get past the home page I went to Yahoo and saw a cool news story, so I figured I’d click on it and read it. Guess again! I click on the link and it says Access Denied by the Network Administrator. So let me get this straight I can’t access a news story because it takes me the dreaded Yahoo Games? What the fork man! Then as I’m reading my e-mail instead of advertisements about different Yahoo services I see says Access Denied by the Network Administrator all along the sides and top of the page. What the hell is the purpose of this? Oh and in the past I’ve noticed that I can’t access My Space but I can access Facebook. Why the hell would they deny access to My Space?

Although the one website that I was denied access to that really ticked me off was when I tried to access the Wizards of the Coast site while on my own personal laptop. Now I could understand if this was just on computers in the classroom or in the library that are owned by the school, but the computers in the lunch room? These are computers that are there for fun. Is it really that hard for people whose job it is to run the school’s network to only restrict certain computers access to sites? All’s they would have to do is tell the network to deny access to whatever sites they wanted for only those MAC addresses of the computers in the classrooms, library, and labs.

Anyhow now that I’ve gotten that off my chest I thought about it and well sure some of the people reading my blog may know me but there could be some of you who may not so I’ll tell a little about myself. I am thirty years old and a college student learning to be a web designer, so that one day I could go anywhere I wanted to and not have to worry about my job because I’d take my job with me. I’m originally from North-Eastern Ohio. I grew up in a small suburb of Youngstown called Austintown. Then after not doing so well on my own I moved in with my family in Stow, Ohio at the age of twenty-two. After living there for a year my mother and stepfather decided to move down to Florida. Unfortunately I had no real choice in the matter and had to go with them. So at age 24 I was picking up everything and moving to Florida leaving behind all my friends. When I got down to Florida after waiting almost a year for our new house to be built I got a job at old reliable, McDonald’s, I worked there for a good couple of years until I saved enough money to move back to Ohio. I lived with my best friend and his fiancé for a few months until a saved enough money to get my own apartment. However my time in Ohio was shorter than I planned. After about eight months of trying to make it on my own I decided I couldn’t do it so I moved back to Florida and now here I am today. I’ve made many friends down here in Florida and try to keep in contact with my friends in Ohio as well.

Oh well I could go into more detail I’ve bored you all enough for now. Maybe in the future I’ll talk about my time being a roadie for my best friend’s band One Breath or my time as a convenience store clerk, let’s just say Kevin Smith wasn’t far off with the movie clerks.

Well anyway this has been another set of random thoughts from me, Spence.