November 7, 2016

 Let's make this a thing that happens quickly so I can go to bed.

This morning I woke up and got ready earlier than normal so I could go over to the house and unlock it for the carpet guys. I also went around and put sticky notes on the parts of the floor that squeaked so they knew where to put screws, on the cables coming out of the floors so they could cut them and not worry about dealing with those with the new carpet, and I put a note by one of the scent things saying they could unplug them if they became too smelly. About an hour after getting to work I got a call from the main guy saying they were at the house, it had to go to voicemail because I was in the middle of something but I called him right back. I basically let him know all the same information that I had written down on the sticky notes, just to reiterate the points.

At work I did things. I worked on my budget presentation, I helped the occasional patron, answered some emails, talked with my coworkers, and probably did some other things. It was one of those days that kind of happened but wasn't entirely memorable. One of the emails I answered was from a college senior who is interested in going to library school and becoming a librarian. I was partial to responding, being a recent graduate of library school, because all the librarians I spoke to when I was making my decision and then while in school were really helpful and supportive. I am part of that community now and I want to be a worthy ambassador of the profession. I got input from my boss and fellow librarians and included all of that information in my response. Hopefully she will find it helpful.

After work I went over to lock up the house. I did a quick walkthrough and took some pictures just because. The main guy had to leave early because of a family emergency but they managed to get all the carpet pulled up and they got the carpet pad installed upstairs. It looks like it will probably be a three day job, but that was a possibility going into it so I'm not too concerned. It seemed like they were able to get rid of the big squeaks in the floor upstairs so that's a definite plus.

Also, the first thing I noticed when I walked in, other than all the carpet work underway, was the beep of a smoke detector battery dying. It wasn't beeping this morning and I hope it wasn't going off most of the day because that would have been annoying for the carpet guys. I pulled it down and brought it with me so I could replace the battery and take it back tomorrow.

Tonight was supper weird. For some reason I was overcome with tiredness. I wanted to work a little bit more on my budget presentation but instead I took a couple short naps at my desk and in general just kind of felt out of it. Not sure what was going on.

I tried to schedule another service appointment tonight but that was unsuccessful because I couldn't log into the Cox site. I don't believe I ever created an online account, just signed up for service and scheduled the installation, so I tried to register online. I couldn't do it with an account number because I didn't know my account number. My order for the service included the last four digits of my account number but I never got the full number. When I tried to register using my address I got an error. I tried using the online chat feature, which was successful in getting me my account number but unsuccessful in getting me registered. Their final opinion that something was wrong with the website. I'm not really surprised by that. Tomorrow or something I'm going to try going into the local store and seeing if they can get an appointment set up. The store is notoriously awful when it comes to customer service so we'll see what happens. My opinion of Cox involves a very low bar so I'm not expecting miracles. I've still got some time before I expect to be fully moved into the house so for the moment the internet is not an immediate need. My outlook will change when I have all my stuff moved in and I'm still running in circles trying to get the internet but we'll cross that bridge when it inevitably appears. I probably made things more difficult today by having the carpet guys cut the cables coming out of the floor, including the one the technician hooked up to the internet, but as I have said before, I don't want a cable coming up out of the carpet in my living room. So yeah, we'll see what happens.

It's now after midnight and I'm going to go to bed. Tomorrow is going to be a long day with little sleep. I have to get up even earlier so I can go vote before heading over to unlock the house before going to work. At work I need to finalize my presentation and go over it before my class in the afternoon. I also need to figure out the handouts I want to make and update the website. Hopefully it is not a busy morning on the desk.