I know my recent post have been crazy long.  I’m sure they will slowly start to shrink as the excitement of having a blog wears off.  Anyway…  As promised I went out and took a picture of the sunset today.  It is currently 14 below zero outside.  Definitely colder if you account for the wind chill into account.

So after school I went and finished tracking down the computers that were up to no good.  Having located them I will be talking to a couple of classes tomorrow about appropriate computer use. After I finished that task I remembered I needed to run to the store.  I had thrown together some stuff for stew at lunch, but didn’t have any vegetables to throw in.  The store has been a little bare lately after the poor weather we had a week ago, and they haven’t had a chance to stock back up yet.  So for now we don’t have any eggs, potatoes, or carrots.  🙁  Not so good for stew.  So on my run over to the store I snapped a picture of the sun set.  I about froze by but off.  I ran down to the beach to take a picture without the houses in view, and I was out longer than expected.  I foolishly run round without a coat, and with sandals regardless of the weather.  So by the time I made it to the store I was a little chilled.  Unfortunately they haven’t received replacement supplies yet.  So I found a bag of frozen stew vegetables, which I have had before, and the potatoes aren’t the best.  Anyway.  I picked up some of those and some bugles and Twinkies (One of the things I have grown a taste for since living up here). When I got home I found a box of food waiting for me.  When I was in Anchorage, Katie and I did a little shopping for the second half of the year.  The boxes are starting to trickle in.  The custodians from the school are nice enough to pick up our mail from the post office.  They deliver the boxes to the house and the paper mail to our school mailboxes.  It’s really nice.  The only things we have to go to the post for are things we have to sign for.

I am chatting with Katie right now (via. iChat) who is typing in her blog as well.  I think it is time for some dinner and a little Alias.

Finding a Culprit

Well… The kids are off to P.E. right now.  It’s nice to be sitting in a quite classroom.  After school on Saturday one of our teachers brought me some stuff she found on one of the school’s printers that wasn’t exactly school appropriate.  So to find out whom the culprits was I first had to find out which site it came from.  Luckily on one of the inappropriate pictures there was a water mark (text over the graphic showing ownership) that gave some sort of a web address, and there was a banner at the top of the page.  So I tried the site that was watermarked on the picture and it turned out to be a website for video games.  No porn there, or links to porn.  So I thought I was at a dead end until I started to examine the top of the page.  There was a site index, no links that gave the www. —–.com, but names.  So I goggled one of the names of the links and what do you know, I found the site in question.  So now I had the site, but how do you find out who has visited it you ask?  Well this morning I called up GCI School Access (our ISP).  They run our Internet filtering via a proxy.  So I told them my problem and they asked for the site in question, and he gave me an IP address.  Problem being it was MY ADDRESS.  Mine was the only one there, which was really confusing.  He did a little more looking and that I was the only one who typed in the entire address with the “www” at the beginning of the address.  The other users had just typed in the part of the address that followed the “www”.  So I now have a list of like 5 IP addresses to find.  To locate those I find an IP that is in use that is on the list.  Using my computer I ping that address (send out packets of info and bounce like radar).  While the packets are being sent our I go to the switch and unplug one connection at a time until the packets don’t go through.  That tells me what port the computer is getting its internet connection from.  Then I locate that switch and it is either connected to a computer directly or to a airport base station that is giving the connection wirelessly to a computer.  Once I find if I can have a talk with the class about appropriate computer use.  That’s my exciting news for now.  Looks like the kids are back from P.E.  Gotta go  🙂

Brushing Teeth

I am back from my lunch break. The kids are brushing their teeth right now. It is about 17 below zero out right now, 43 below with the windchill. One of my more challenging students has decided to show up after lunch. So we’ll see how the afternoon goes. Its a beautiful day out today minus the cold. I’ll see if I can post a picture of the perpetual sunset later.

Sleepless Night

Didn’t get much sleep last night.  I went to bed and just couldn’t fall asleep.  So I got up and created this blog.  I tried going back to sleep at 2:00 A.M. without much luck.  I don’t know what time I finally fell asleep.  I luckily woke up this morning on time and not very sleepy believe it or not. When I got to school this morning, I was greeted with one of my least favorite chores.  I was tasked with trying to get a “PC” to work on our wireless network.  They are really picky when it comes to wireless encryption passwords.  They have to be a certain number of characters long or they won’t work.  So I had to redo all of the settings on our wireless network.  Which I still haven’t finished.  I have a wireless access point that is unwilling to reset.  Something to play with on my breaks I guess.   I was going to take a picture of my class for you, but don’t have a camera handy right now.  🙁  Sorry.  We are in the middle of SFA (Success for All reading) right now.  It is tough on a Monday morning to get the kids back in the groove.  They are all a little tired from staying up all night, and reading isn’t one of their strong suits.  So it always makes for a challenging morning. I had better get back at it.  Have a good morning.