February 4, 2016

I forgot to mention that yesterday when I was walking down the hall one of the kindergarteners stopped me in the hall and asked me if I liked The Goonies. I said I did and asked her if she liked it, and she said it was her favorite movie. Her parents are doing something right.

This morning I found a Valentine's Day card on my desk but it didn't have a name on it. This afternoon when the kindergartener was in the lab she called me over to ask a question about Compass Learning and then asked me if I got her Valentine's Day card. So mystery solved there. As her class was getting ready to leave she asked me to tie her shoe. She always seemed kind of scared of me but I guess we're friends now. My mom told me later that the kindergartener had asked her if she liked The Goonies and my mom had told her that it was one of my favorite movies. And this morning the kindergartener had gotten up and left the gym without telling anyone, which is when she went around to deliver her Valentine's Day cards. I couldn't understand everything she was saying in the lab this afternoon but it sounded like something or someone had told her to make cards for people so she did. It sounded like an imaginary friend or maybe an advent calendar type thing. I don't know.

However long ago I finally broke down and replaced a bunch of things in the color printer in the computer lab. I had the parts sitting around since last year but the printer was still working fine so I figured I'd see how long I could go. Recently it started adding a thin line on everything and I couldn't figure out how to get rid of it, so I replaced a bunch of stuff. And it didn't fix the line so it was kind of pointless. I mention all of this because this morning two of the IT people brought in a brand new color printer for the lab. Which made the replacing of the stuff in the old printer all the more pointless. It would have been nice to get a heads-up on that. But I've got a new printer now and there isn't a black line. It is also apparently a close enough model that the old printer drivers work so I am still able to print things. So good times.

The air conditioning in the lab stopped working this morning. Even with the doors open it kept getting hotter and hotter but I didn't realize it until classes started coming in. People coming from the kindergarten side of the building really liked it because it is always cold down there. I had to to put up with it for over an hour before I had a chance to go to the office and see if there was something going on. One of the ladies sent out an email and not too long after that the vents opened up and the air came on. It felt amazing.

When I was passing through the office today after clocking in from lunch one of the office ladies wanted me to try one of the sweet potato waffle fries she got with her lunch. I'm not a fan of sweet potatoes or sweet potato fries but I was being polite so I took one. And it was delicious. She ended up making me take most of them so she wouldn't eat them. I think they were from Freddy's because they tasted like Freddy's onion rings. But I could be wrong because I don't remember Freddy's having sweet potato fries. Who knows, they were delicious though.

This afternoon I filled out the volunteer application for the public library. Yesterday I printed one out but today I figured out how to type in the PDF so I did that today instead. After work I drove down to the library to drop it off. The girl I handed it to wasn't quite sure what to do with it but she said she would figure out where it goes. Not very comforting but we'll see what happens.

Tonight I didn't really accomplish a lot. I think I have picked out the “technology” I want to post about for my technology class. However often we have to complete a “try new tech” assignment where we pick a piece of technology that we think would be good for libraries. I'm going with a website that allows you to easily create mobile websites. Every library needs a good mobile website.

Now it is late and I'm going to go to bed. Tomorrow I get to sleep in but it would be nice if I could wake up early enough to get my tech write-up done so I don't have to worry about it when I get home from class. I foresee myself doing it on Sunday but I can hope.