December 7, 2016

 This morning I woke up at four o'clock to use the bathroom and checked my alarm clock, noticing that I had forgotten to turn the alarm on. So I did that and went back to bed. I woke up a couple more times but didn't think much of it because my alarm didn't go off. Then, it seemed bright enough outside, so I rolled over, put my glasses on, and looked at the clock. It said 8:03AM. I was supposed to get up at 7:00AM. I was a little pissed and got up to check my alarm clock. Turns out I had not only forgotten to turn the alarm on, I had also forgotten to change the time to seven o'clock. I have forgotten to turn the alarm on at least a few times recently and I think it is because my alarm clock has been sitting on my floor. Tonight I grabbed the cabinet thing I had at my mom's and now my alarm clock is sitting on that, hopefully it will help me remember it is there.

Despite waking up an hour after I wanted to I still made it to work on time. Not bad. Today was another day of feeling kind of like I was in limbo. I sent the list of tutorial videos to the lady in the Children's department I'm supposed to be working with on this random project. I didn't hear back from her and I know she was at work today but I don't know how often she checks her email. Or how often she works. There are a lot of people in the Chrildren's department and I can't remember how many of them are full-time. Oh well.

I spent a lot of time researching my augmented reality idea. Most of that time was spent looking into Sportvision, which is behind the superimposed yellow line in football games and the tags that follow cars in a NASCAR race, among other things. That seems to be a different, more advanced technology than what I want to do but it got me thinking.

My main accomplishment for the day was finding out the architect for our library. A patron wanted to know that information last night and I couldn't find a copy of the book I was thinking of so I got her number and said I would call her today when I figured it out. My boss showed/reminded me of the history folders in the cabinet by the microfilm. I had been shown that once before but it was months ago when I didn't actually need information from it. Now I know. I found the architects name in the book I had been thinking of, and then I found a digitized copy from the local university library of a small book about the architect with pictures of the local buildings and houses he had designed. I looked up the patron's information and emailed her the name of the architect and a link to the digitized book, and then I called her to let her know I had found the information because she is older and I didn't know how often she checked her email. She told me her and her husband actually come to the library every night to check their email because they don't have the internet yet because they only recently moved to town. She said she would be in tonight so hopefully the information I sent her, particularly the digitized book, will be of use to her.

We're thinking about getting a digital magazine service and the free trial started today. When we actually get the service I think we'll only get about ten magazines just to try it out and see how it goes, because each magazine will cost $150 each, or something like that. But, for the free trial, we get access to all the magazines. That's over 1100 magazines. It's fantastic. There is a magazine called Garden Railways and I have now had to update my life goals. I need a backyard now so I can have an intricate train setup that fills the whole thing. I spent way too long looking at issues, staring at all of the pictures and feeling envy. Before our trial runs out I need to see what other magazines are out there I've never heard of.

After work I went to my Mom's house because we were finally going to have her belated birthday dinner. It ended up being a little later than planned because my sister had dozed off and didn't show up. It turns out our text messages hadn't got through so I didn't get her until I called and she ended up meeting us at the Chinese place. Food-wise it was not the best experience at the Chinese buffet. Definitely had better, in all the various food I got, but it could have been worse. I also learned that “Happiness isn't an outside job, it's an inside job”, kind of a like a bank robbery. Thank you fortune cookie.

We went back to my Mom's house after dinner and had cake that my sister made. She made three tiny ones that were double-layered pink with chocolate frosting. I'm not sure if the pink had a flavor or if the pink was just for color. Regardless, the cake was really freaking good. I only had a little of mine because I ate way too much Chinese food, as per usual, but I am looking forward to eating more.

It is now late and I am going to go to bed because I have to open in the morning. I am most looking forward to sharpening pencils because people have obviously been slacking on that and we ran out of sharpened ones today.