Thursday, August 11, 2016

August 11, 2016

This morning my alarm went off at six o'clock but I didn't actually get out of bed until seven o'clock. I was still productive, though, managing to get through the first set of assessment data with time to spare. I could have started on the second set, and probably should have, but I didn't. Instead, I ironed my clothes for today and searched for the plastic folders I used to make lamps many years ago. It would only make sense for it to be with my craft stuff but I can't find it anywhere. It's becoming a bit frustrating.

At work today I did things. I finished making my book lists for my homebound patrons. Last month I started including at least one extra book on each list in case something ended up being checked out. I can also carry that extra book over to the next month, which gives me a little bit of a jump start because I don't have to start with nothing. I think it is a good system.

I helped patrons with computer and printer things. I'm getting pretty decent at that. I updated all of tech classes on the calendar so they have the right phrase in the title so they'll show up on our tech page, and I made them all require a reservation so we know how many people to expect. I still need to come up with one class for October and fill in details about the classes in November, but I'm making progress. I imagine this weekend will be filled with a lot of research for classes because I don't have much else going on.

Tonight I talked with the newest assistant about my trip to the conference and my free day spent at The Wizarding World of Harry Potter. He's never read the books (which doesn't make sense when people say that) but he has seen all the movies and really enjoys them. He was very envious of my trip.

I slacked a little bit when I got home and have only managed to grade seventeen responses in the second set of assessment data. That leaves me with between an hour and an hour and a half of grading left. I would like to finish that tonight but I'm also feeling a tad tired. So we'll see. I will have time to do it in the morning, unfortunately.

And I say unfortunately because I should be playing No Man's Sky at midnight and then all day tomorrow. When games come out they are supposed to be released at midnight. For digital games, especially on PC, you're also supposed to be able to preload the game a day or two in advance so that when it is officially released at midnight, you can start playing it almost immediately. This is not the case with No Man's Sky, however. The game doesn't actually release until noon tomorrow and as far as I've seen, you can't actually preload the game. This means that thousands of people are all going to try and download the game at the exact same time tomorrow, rather than spreading that out over a one or two day period. Doesn't seem too smart. And it means I won't actually get to play the game at noon because I will have to wait way too long for the download to finish. I also have to keep my fingers crossed that most of the neighborhood is offline and not streaming or downloading massive files. But, despite all that bitching, the game is finally here and I will get to play it at some point tomorrow. Hopefully. I've been waiting for nearly three years so a few more hours isn't going to kill me.


Now I'm going to grade some more assessment responses. Maybe all of them. Or maybe just some. And then go to bed.

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