March 29, 2017

This morning when I got to work I had some free time and I can't remember what I did with that time. It must not have been all that important.

Around ten o'clock I went upstairs so I could be ready when my webinar started at 10:30AM. The overall idea of the webinar was media literacy. Which is apparently different than information literacy. In my understanding, information literacy is being aware that you need information and knowing where to find it. And media literacy is being able to determine the reliability of a particular piece of media. At the very least I think I'm in the ballpark. There seems to be some overlap.

Anyway, the webinar was interesting and there was a lot of useful information, include the list of resources. I don't think any of it was groundbreaking, it was kind of just a refresher on the stuff I learned in college and grad school, but I'd say it was worth it. When the recording goes up I'll probably watch it again and try to take better notes. It was paid for by our library system in exchange for me giving a presentation on it at one of their training days. I thought this would be relatively soon but it apparently isn't until November. Yikes. There is no way I'm even going to remember this happened by the time November roles around without copious reminders.

After the webinar I finished updating my attendance spreadsheet and then went to lunch. It was pretty much raining all day and when I was walking to my car for lunch it was doing this weird misting thing that was pretty much blowing horizontal. I didn't really think much of it until I sat down in my car and the front of my pants were completely damp. Not cool, rain.

This afternoon I played with my schedule calendar for awhile and then I was on desk for a couple hours. I spent a lot of that time watching and taking notes on the the tutorial ecourse I took because I haven't gotten around to finishing all of the videos. I need to do that and write a report about the class as a whole just a proof that I actually did something and that it was useful.

For the last hour of work I looked at a Library Journal and talked to my coworkers about mostly work things.

After work I mailed my stolen credit card number fraud thing and then went to pick up Chipotle and head to my Mom's house. And on my way to my Mom's house I stopped and got gas so I wouldn't have to worry about that later. Dinner was the same old thing. I need to change things up again I think. I only had a few videos to show and they were all music-related because of the rabbit hole I fell into last night. After dinner we talked for awhile and after I mentioned my umbrella had a hole in it my mom looked around and found a brand new one in her luggage. She said every time she would go on a trip somewhere she would inevitably forget her umbrella and have to buy one. Works for me.

I also need to get new windshield wiper blades. The passenger side one has been broken for at least a couple years and when it pops out the metal part screeches on my windshield. And apparently scratches it, because I think I might have a curved scratch on my windshield now. On rainy days, when I remember, I check it before I start driving. This usually works out but yesterday and today it started screeching again about halfway to my destination. Kind of annoying.

I got home around nine o'clock and spent the rest of the night doing the same old thing. Not very exciting. And now I'm going to record my audio journal so I can get to bed at a reasonably decent hour. That hour will probably be after midnight but I don't work until noon tomorrow, so as long as I have time to sleep in I'll be happy.