December 27, 2016

 This morning I woke up early so I could pick my Mom up after she dropper her car off at the mechanic. When I dropped her off I also fixed the sections of Christmas lights that had come loose when we had all that wind the other day. I'll be taking them down in the near future but I didn't want to leave them hanging there.

When I got home I still had a few hours before work so I decided to watch The Peanuts Movie, which I got for Christmas. I ended up pausing it part way through and taking a couple short naps in my chair because my early morning was catching up to me. I did eventually finish the movie. I think I liked it but I'll need to watch it again. My main complaint was that it was really long. That makes sense because it is a movie but I'm not used to seeing that much Peanuts. It could be my tiredness but it was hard to stay focused for such an extended period of time. I'll give it another shot at some point.

At work a lot of my day was spent working on book lists for displays. I continued working on the list I started yesterday for inspirational book but while working on that I kept coming across books that involved libraries or bookstores. That led me down a rabbit hole and I started another list of books that involve libraries or bookstores. Next month I also have the main display, and I don't know that I want to use the libraries and bookstore theme for that, but I will use it at some point in the future. I also don't want to do an overt New Years resolution display on the main display next month but I'm not sure what else I would do. I've still got a few days to figure it out.

It was a fairly quiet and uneventful day at work, at least what I'm remembering of it, so there isn't a lot to write about. It is also late and I'm tired.

On my dinner break I went to my Mom's house and had the leftover pizza and pie I had dropped off there this morning. While I ate I continued to watch the Doctor Who Christmas special. It might take me a couple more days to finish it but I'm getting there.

While I was at work I got a text from my friend who is in town for the week. He had pushed something on his mom's TV remote that caused the sound to stop working. I stopped by when I got off work and we played around with it for awhile and eventually got it working. Somehow the HDMI inputs had gotten switched, so when the cable was playing there wasn't any sound, but when it was on the DVD input the cable sound would play. My friend said he had been pushing a bunch of buttons trying to get it to do something but neither of us could figure out how he could accidentally swap the inputs like that. We may not have actually undone what he did, just come up with a different solution. Regardless, his mom can now watch a show and hear it at the same time. Crazy. After we got that fixed we stood around and talked for an hour or so. It's always good to talk to friends.

Now we're coming up on midnight and I need to go to bed so I can wake up early and open tomorrow. The only thing I'm looking forward to is getting off at five o'clock.