November 14, 2016

 My house is now a home. I have the internet.

I woke up a few times throughout the night but for the most part slept pretty well. Well enough that my bed did not want to release its grip on me this morning. But I managed to get to work on time so all was well.

Work today was really productive. I was busy the entire time and it wasn't just busy work. I came up with the lists for my remaining homebound patrons, pulled the books, processed them, made the bookmarks, and got them all bagged up. For a couple of them I actually just went to the stacks with my phone so I could check their previous books and grabbed new books based on their general preferences. That was much easier than scrolling through the catalog.

I got a little bit of weeding in but only had time to make it through one section of a shelf and there wasn't a lot of weeding to be done. So out of all the books I only pulled twenty-eight. Apparently books about gems are popular.

I watched a bunch of usability videos for the website. Much of the same old thing. I was talking with my mom and sister yesterday about how there are all these different teams at the library and how I'm not on any of them, even though I may be qualified to be on some of them. Or in the case of the team that works on the website, analyzing data for them in the form of all the usability videos I watch every week, but not actually being a part of the team. In general I'm not a fan of group work but it would be nice to at least be considered.

It is taking me forever to write this. I keep getting distracted. Case in point, it has been almost five minutes since I wrote that last sentence. I'm currently watching an episode of Supergirl and it is one of those needlessly frustrating episodes where people act like idiots and assholes. Supergirl stops two road rage guys from plowing into a bunch of kids but then everyone turns against her after one of the guys tries to punch her and she stops him. Then the military asks her to fight a robot and she does but then they blame her when the robot goes crazy. Frustrating. The plots in this show are a little too on-the-nose, blatantly giving Supergirl a problem in the beginning that neatly aligns with the overall story of the episode.

We got a call today about a lost set of keys with with a library card on them. I was able to look the patron up and leave her a voicemail letting her know where her keys were. I think that is the second time I've been able to do that, and it hasn't definitely happened more than that since I've been there. Even if you never read a book, it pays to at least have a library card on your keychain, because you never know when you'll lose your keys, and the library is very helpful.

I need to take another personal day at work so I am taking it on Thursday. I previously had to move my furniture delivery to Friday because I was working in the morning on Thursday instead of closing like usual. But now that I'm not working on Thursday, I called the furniture store over lunch and asked if I could move my delivery back to Thursday. Thankfully they were able to do that and I promised this would be the last time I moved the delivery. I also scheduled a haircut for Friday morning. And I'll be getting my oil changed on one of those days. So productive.

Tonight I went straight from work to my house to await the internet. After an hour there still wasn't a technician but I did get a call from someone telling me the technicians were finishing up a previous appointment and they would be about thirty minutes. I was shocked at the consideration shown. Definitely unexpected.

About thirty-five minutes later two technicians showed up, I explained what happened last time, told them where I wanted the cable run, they offered a solution, and got it done in about a half an hour. That, compared to the odd duck who took an hour and a half after being an hour late, connected the line to the one coming up out of the carpet in my living room, and then I still didn't have the internet. These guys were able to run the line along the back porch and drilled through to the spare bedroom.

Before they left we tested it to make sure I had the internet, which was a good thing, because I did not. I had the same issue I had last time, where I could connect to the router but didn't have an internet connection. They called it in, tried resetting everything, which didn't work, and then read the information on the modem to the guy on the other end. Turns out the MAC address was off by one letter or number, which someone allowed it to be authorized or whatever, but wouldn't allow it to actually connect to the network. This would be a result of the odd duck reading off all the information in several different accents. Nice. One of the technicians also noticed that my connection was set to a much lower speed than what I signed up for, so that was also changed. Overall, it was a very successful evening. And on Thursday, after I get my bed and couch, I'll be set. Minus all the other stuff I need to move.

Now I need to go to bed because it is after eleven o'clock and it has taken me nearly two hours to write this. Thank you Supergirl. Tomorrow will be another day at work. I'm not sure what's on the schedule. I need to do somethings probably, so we'll see how successful I am at that.