On the radio today I heard a song called “The Right Song” by
Tiesto and Oliver Heldens, featuring Natalie La Rose. It's a
catching song but the only reason I bring it up is because for most
of the song I thought she was singing “Come on lick me with the
right tongue”, which made very little sense and led to several
questions. Turns out she was singing “Come on hit me with the
right song”, which made much more sense, especially after seeing
the title of the song.
This morning I took a few batteries to work to put in the recycling
bin. I didn't think much of it. Then when it was time for me to go
to lunch I couldn't find my keys. I looked in the usual places but I
was stumped. I decided to go look in my car, hoping I hadn't locked
them inside. On the way I thought I might as well look in the
battery bin. At first I just saw a bunch of batteries and I was
about to move on, but then I spotted my keys, in amongst the
batteries. They really blended in. But I found them and was able to
go home and eat food, which is always a good thing.
Today I got a chat question from a patron that wanted a specific book
but couldn't remember the title or the author. I had her describe it
for me and thanks to Google I was able to find it. It was
reminiscent of the book joke “I'm looking for the one with the blue
cover.” Turns out that's a thing that happens in real life. We
ended up having two copies of the book but she wanted the audiobook.
That added several more minutes to the chat as I double-checked that
we didn't have access to it through one of our resources and then had
to search for it and put in an interlibrary loan request. But I was
successful in the end. And I felt like a librarian.
In other eventful news, I emailed the IT manager about wanting to use
scanners for my class on digitizing and editing old family
photographs. That opened a can of worms. He emailed my boss and
explained basically how that was the biggest inconvenience and kind
of a bad idea. He also contacted the assistant director who came
over to talk to us about the concerns the IT department had about
tech programming in general. This led to my boss emailing the IT
manager again and saying that having access to one or two scanners
was fine and we didn't need to inconvenience anyone and that I had a
history working with technology so I could help out if that would
make things easier. He eventually came upstairs to talk to us and I
think we worked things out. It is much easier talking to someone
than it is communicating through emails or superiors.
What started as a simple email this morning turned into a whole big
thing because there was an underlying issue that I wasn't aware of.
Mainly that IT often feels left out of the loop when programs and
classes are planned that may involve their services. I didn't see
the use of a couple scanners as that big of a deal, and I still
don't, despite how big of a deal it has been made out to be, but I
can see where they're coming from. It all comes down to
communication, which is the main complication in most group work.
This was a learning experience. I didn't realize this kind of
inter-departmental conflict actually existed in real life, but it
totally does. Noted.
Tonight was Chipotle night because I got off at five o'clock. My
burrito bowl was good, even if it had a little too much cheese. The
videos after dinner also went well. I had more than I remembered.
I spent the rest of my night reading, watching YouTube videos, and
eventually playing a little No Man's Sky. I booted it up last
night just to see if I got screwed with the glitch the other day and
luckily I did not. I was put back on the planet but I didn't lose
any of my progress and the bugged out enemy ships preventing me from
using my pulse drive were gone. So tonight I was able to play the
game. I discovered the remaining planets in my current system and
got ganked by enemy AI at least three times while traveling between
planets. That was a little frustrating because there were always
four of them, so I was constantly being shot and I quickly ran out of
materials to repair my shields. Then then after surviving I would
get to a new planet and forget to collect the resources needed to
repair my shields or my weapon. So when I got back up to space and
inevitably got attacked again it was pointless to fight back because
it was just drawing out the whole thing. In my next system I think
I'm going to buy a new ship, so I don't want to sink money and time
into upgrading my current one. I'll go full out on the next one.
My dad text my sister and I tonight that my grandma fell in the
kitchen and was in a lot of pain. My followed behind the ambulance
that took my grandma to the hospital. Initial diagnosis was that she
didn't fracture the same area she hurt before but they needed to do
further tests to see if she had hurt her pelvis. Good grief.
Falling is never good and it only gets worse the older you get. My
fingers are crossed for a bruise.
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