Thursday, December 29, 2016

December 29, 2016

 Good grief I'm starting this late. Thankfully there wasn't a lot going on today so this should go quick.

This morning while eating lunch my Mom and sister stopped by with the second shelf because Hobby Lobby ended up still having it. I was trying not to get my hopes up but I'm pretty happy they were able to get it.

Work happened today. It didn't feel very productive. I weeded for a little while. It's going slower than my last few sections because I'm flipping through every single book. I figure I am familiarizing myself with the collection. I haven't really paid much attention to our painting section but now I have a much better idea of what we have. The best part of weeding, other than improving the accessibility of our collection, is getting my hands on the collection and increasing my awareness. I am much better at knowing where things are when helping patrons thanks to weeding.

Tonight I found early 1900s menus for Delmonico's restaurant in New York for one of the people in circulation, who needed the information for a book she is writing. My initial thought was to go to the NYPL website. Their catalog wasn't working but I eventually found my way over to their digital collection, which is what I wanted, and was able to find a bunch of scanned menus. NYPL's digital collection is really freaking cool. I also like that you can buy prints of the scans. They're a little rich for my blood but maybe someday if I come across a really cool picture.

After work I met my mom at the mechanic so she could drop her car off again. When we got back to the house I loaded up with my small appliances that I hadn't had room for before the shelves. And when I got home I found a place for everything on the shelves. My kitchen is really starting to look like something. I like it. Baby steps.

This morning I made a lava trap in Terraria so I can stand under it and easily collect all the loot when mobs die in the lava. There are probably better designs out there but it's working for me. Now I'm able to let the game run and hang out in relative safety while doing other things and let the loot stack up. If I were to make another one I would make it more like a funnel or v-shape so that mobs would fall down into it and the loot would automatically go into my inventory without me having to run along the trench to collect everything. The main goal behind it was to increase my collection of presents because those will probably go away soon. Before the lava, I was waiting for nightfall, going far enough away from my house for mobs to spawn, and then killing a bunch of zombies. The lava trench gets the zombies at night but now I also get all the slimes as well. I've I let it go for awhile this morning and for the last hour or two, and I'm up to 82 presents, without having to run around or fight any mobs. At one point I was killed by a King Slime but I didn't have the game on screen at the time so I'm not entirely sure how he got me. I need the event to happen again while I'm actually paying attention.


Enough Terraria, though. I'm going to bed.

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