Fed Up!

So finally after three days of patiently waiting for the internet to come back in my dorm (Sanger, in Tabler Quad) i have reluctantly given up and i am currently sitting with my now pretty much useless laptop (90% of the time) catching up on everything i have fallen behind on.  The school's ITS people are blaming this limited (three building) internet outage on students using wireless routers in their room, somehow this is supposedly cutting out all of the internet in half of my quad. I personally feel that they are full of shit.  These outages started back at finals time last semester and have recommenced in the second week of the new semester.  I highly doubt that the campus-wide rampant use of wireless routers from kids who can't live without their xbox live is causing only three buildings to lose their connectivity.  It sounds like bullshit in it's entirety.  

It is freezing cold at night so i am not about to walk 15 minutes across campus to a sinc site in order to complete my homework; are we not paying money from our housing fees that pays for this service? And yet we are quite often deprived of this service and all we get are excuses.  What can we do to stop other students from using wireless on their routers (if that really is the culprit)???? Go door to door and ask nicely for them to turn them off? As if they would admit to having them in the first place.  I am very frustrated and disappointed with the school because it seems as though all that is being done to fix the issue are excuses in answer to the complaints.

Family

Unless i have been given a particular subject to write about, i usually just end up finding something to complain about and going from there.  In this case we have been assigned to create a narrative using old family pictures in order to explore these pieces of our lives.  

The photo above is a piece of what i am working on.  It is the oldest photo i have, and it is of my Dad and his sister Ro.  He was born in 1945 and he looks about 6-7 years old here so this picture was most likely taken in the early 50's.  My Dad is the type of guy who is not good at making lasting connections with other people.  Most of his side of the family is either deceased or disowned, including the Aunt pictured above.  He was the youngest of two sisters and another brother, all of which i haven't seen since infancy.  He doesn't really have old family photos since my Aunt got them all when their mother passed away about 17 years ago.  His father was an immigrant from Bari, Italy and passed away when my dad was a teenager.  My Dad is pretty secretive and doesn't like discussing his past a whole lot, his attitude is "why the hell do you need to know?"  So, all these little bits and pieces of information i do have i hold on to, mostly because it feels like there is an entire half of my family and my history that i am missing.