July 28, 2015

 Today I watched things online while working on my final budget assignment. It really is a thinker. And it doesn't help that I don't really know anything about library budgets or even the different roles of library staff. More experience would be nice. But I'm working through it. Today I focused on going through the key staff members, at least one of which has to be fired. Along with a little insight from my mom, right now I am thinking of firing five people, replacing a couple with part-time staff, and promoting one of them. After some rough estimates for some of the numbers, all of that will save me $185,000. I still need to go through the non-key staff and maybe move some of them to part-time, and then go through the rest of the budget. Only $115,000 to go. In real life I probably wouldn't fire so many people, I would go after other budget stuff first, but in this hypothetical situation where I don't personally know or have to face any of the individuals involved, I'm bringing the ax.

I watched Big Hero 6 today and I liked it, minus the death because I don't like death. I'm a fan of comas that characters wake up from by the end of the movie. Death is unnecessary, especially in cartoons. But other than that, I liked the movie. The best part was when Baymax's battery was running low and he started acting drunk, something that the kids wouldn't pick up on (hopefully) but it was pretty funny. I also liked when he had to let out air out of himself. And when he was patching holes in himself with tape. That part was in the trailers but it was still funny in the movie.

I also started watching the show The Whispers. It looked good when I saw a commercial for it and I decided to give it a shot. I'm now seven episodes in. The idea of the show is interesting but I'm not entirely sure how I feel about it. Part of it is due to not liking the two main actresses, there is just something about their faces that annoy me. I'm also not a big fan of the main little girl. I don't know if she is supposed to be acting in such a way that she is unlikable, but that's the vibe I'm getting. I don't know that I'll keep up with the show once I catch up with the episodes that have already aired.

We got our first site evaluation so I looked through that. I ended up adjusting the size of one of the images on the homepage so it matched the other one. They are stacked on top of each other and switch when you move the mouse over it. It is kind of pointless but it uses Javascript and we needed an example of that. And the different sizes of pictures kind of annoyed me so I didn't mind the excuse to fix it. The other issues that were pointed out weren't necessarily things I feel need to be changed but I'll consider them. One cool thing was that the classmate who evaluated the page thought the main area was meant to look like a clipboard, which goes along with the basketball theme. That wasn't my intention but I'm cool with the interpretation. I also liked that overall, my classmate liked the site I made.

Tomorrow, more budget analysis. I can't wait.