October 24, 2016

 This morning I woke up an hour early so I could read. I enjoyed it but unfortunately I couldn't go back to sleep afterward like I do on the weekend because I had to get up and get ready for work.

Work felt long and fast all at the same time. I weeded over one hundred books today, which included taking one double card and two single carts upstairs. Taking two carts at the same time is a bit tricky. I also “found” a book that had been declared missing earlier in the year. Not as impressive as the book that had been declared missing three years ago but not bad. The best thing is that I managed to only find one book that I want to read.

For an hour before lunch I had to stand by one of our entrances and ask people if they wanted to take a survey about the library. I got some people to fill them out but I didn't like it. People are preconditioned to either avoid eye contact or immediately say 'no' when someone starts to ask them to fill something out. I felt like a bell ringer at Christmas. It also didn't help that I was doing it at noon when a lot of people rush in over their lunch break. I have to do it again tomorrow but it will be first thing in the morning so at least I won't be interrupting people's lunch break.

I got the handouts from the genealogical society for their class tomorrow so I got those copied and ready for them. They ended up having to cancel the evening class on Thursday, which is unfortunate but no one had signed up for it so no one really affected. One person had to pull out of the class tomorrow so we're down to only five people signed up. They were saying they usually have a packed house, so that kind of sucks but at least five people will be there.

At one point today another librarian and I were looking up K2 and trying to find out how high the base camp was. I had just weeded a cart full of books and she was leaning over it when the whole thing tipped over and all the books came crashing down. She didn't fall, just the books, and it was pretty funny.

I got a note from my cousin about the roof and I sent that on to the bank to make them happy. And it didn't make them happy because he didn't sign it so it wasn't official. Good grief. I let him know and he was coming back into town tonight so I met him when he got back and had him sign it. I then went home, scanned it, and sent it to the bank. My fingers are crossed that this is the end. My realtor was saying the bank has until Thursday to get me all the documents if we are still going to close on Monday. It's so ridiculous. They have all my financial information and can see that I have the money to replace the roof if I have to, even though everyone is saying the roof doesn't need to be replaced for awhile. I don't get it. It's very simple math, but the bank seems to struggle with it.

When I got home I was able to finish the last mission in Battlefield 1. I had to clear a village and then defeat a giant armored train. The first part was pretty easy but the train was a pain in the butt. It had x-ray vision and it seemed like every time I got a glimpse of the train it was raining down shells on my head. I had an anti-tank rifle but got screwed when I tried to re-load it from a crate so I ran out of bullets too soon. That left me with the artillery guns. There was only enough time to shoot or reload before the train would start dropping shells so I had to shoot the first gun, run to a second artillery gun, shoot, run back, reload the first gun, run back and reload the second gun, run back and shoot the first gun, etc. and so on. I think I started with four guns but by the end there were only two left and I was super worried I was going to get hit and have to start all over. I had to start over several times. But I managed it in the end. I really enjoyed the campaign. It was interesting because each storyline felt like it could have been expanded into its own game. Each one gave a taste of different things so it was cool to try each thing. I am hoping that the DLCs include some more campaign missions, not just new maps or guns for multiplayer. I won't be getting the DLC if it's just multiplayer stuff because I don't really care about multiplayer. Unless they release a remake of Metro. That would be super tempting.

Now I'm going to go to bed because it is late and I'm tired. I think whatever triggers my allergies was peaking today because I spent all day with an itchy throat, runny or congested nose, itchy eyes, and a headache. It didn't help that I drove to and from work with the windows down. I need to stop doing that. Anyway, bed time.