November 4, 2016

 This morning overslept. My alarm went off at six o'clock, or so I assume because I didn't become aware of the new day until about an hour later, which is half an hour later than I usually start getting ready on days I open. I still managed to get to work on time but it required a bit of rushing around. Not a fan of that.

I did things at work this morning. I'm sure of it. I'm thinking most of my time was spent watching usability recordings. I also did a little work on my budget presentation. There was also other stuff but nothing is coming to me. It's late and I didn't get a lot of sleep last night, despite that unintentional extra hour.

One thing I do remember, because it just came to me, is that the teen librarian and one of the youth librarians came tromping up the stairs together this morning and were telling me to put my green jacket on before they even got to the top. They were both wearing green today, coincidentally, and the teen librarian is in charge of the library's Instagram account so she wanted to document it. We ended up taking three pictures, one for the library's Instagram, one for the teen librarian's personal Instagram, and a third just in case I guess. It was pretty funny. I saw one of the pictures and I look like my cutout. Very two-dimensional. It's odd.

This afternoon I also did things, whatever they may have been. At the end of the day I had a meeting with the PR coordinator and the head IT guy to discuss the future of the tech training website. It started late because my boss was supposed to be there but she ended up forgetting about it. While we waited we talked about random things, including the problem with too many options, because I brought up not looking forward to testing beds like Goldilocks. I also mentioned that after work I was going to talk to the carpet people and maybe go buy a microwave. The PR coordinator told me not to because she had one and said I could have it. Sweet.

The meeting itself went well and it was very productive. It looks like we'll have everything set up for the next round of classes next semester. In the meantime I'm going to continue using my site. My boss remembered the meeting right as we were wrapping things up because I needed to leave (I was taking off a half an hour early to make up for having to come in a half an hour early for the insurance meeting). Do to the slight delay of trying to catch up my boss on what happened in the meeting I got off about ten minutes late, but I'm not making a fuss about it because that plays havoc with my timesheet.

Once I left I went to the carpet place to get more information about the installation. The guy I originally talked to said they had me down for Monday-Wednesday because apparently the area is large enough that it might take three days. Fingers crossed it doesn't. I also mentioned not needing the cables and telephone cords coming up out of the floor so those didn't need to be worried about.

From there I went to Home Depot. I wrote down the price ranges of various things I may want to get at some point, like ceiling fans and door handles. I also looked at light switches and outlet cover plates. Turns out there are several different types of switches and I didn't know what type I needed so I decided to look it up and come back later. As for the cover plates, I want some that are larger than normal because whoever did the drywall work in the basement did a horrible job cutting out the outlet holes and there are gaps around some of the current plates. I lined the larger plates up on my notebook and made a mark on the paper so I could use that as a ruler, holding it up to the outlets in the house and see if it will be enough to cover the hole. I'm going to do that tomorrow. When I got home I looked up the light switch thing so I now know which one I need to buy. Another thing on the list for tomorrow. Before leaving I took a look at their key selection, which was pretty poor. There is one more place I'm going to check but if that doesn't work out it looks like I'll need to go the online route.

Tonight I watched YouTube videos and continued watching the second season of iZombie. I also agreed to take the PR Coordinator's microwave after she sent me a couple pictures of it. I asked her how much she wanted for it and she said it was free. I'm going to pay her in a cross stitch. It will either be the one that says “0 Days without sarcasm” or “A swift kick in the butt $1.00”. She liked both ideas so I'll need to sort that out. Hopefully by tomorrow night because we're having a craft night for the department as my boss' house and the cross stitch would be a very convenient project.

Anyway, now I'm going to bed because it is still late, even later than when I started writing this, and I've got to wake up in the morning.