April 23, 2017

 Oh goodness, it's already after midnight.

This morning I got to sleep in and it was pretty great. I woke up a few times but just rolled back over and went back to sleep. Despite that, I still got up before my alarm went off. It was only three minutes before it went off but that still counts.

At work today I did things. I forgot to mention that yesterday I worked on a display sign. Today I decided to change the background picture but that took about five minutes and then I printed it out. It's a very simple sign but I really like it. Mainly because I changed the regular title background from a rectangle into the shape of the state because the display is about notable books in our state. It's really subtle but I like it.

My main accomplishment for the day was finishing three personalized reading lists. That's a lot for one day. We got them earlier in the week and I decided that if no one claimed them before the weekend, I would do them because the weekend is generally slow and a good time to work on personalized reading lists. And no one took them so there you go. I picked out all of the books but didn't have time to put them together and send them out. That will have to wait until Tuesday.

I know I did other things today, like helping the occasional patron and various other things, but no specifics are coming to me.

Near the end of the day there was a commotion in the meeting room where a Bible study was happening, and then one of the woman came bursting out and ran by the reference desk, followed shortly after by another woman. Not too long after the maintenance kid came up to the desk and told us there were cops outside. I went with him to see if they needed anything and on the way out he told me what had happened. Or at least what he had seen while he was outside taking care of the trash. He saw a kid in the parking lot run out between two cars and then a man (presumably his dad) grabbed him from behind and forced him back in their car. I guess this is also what the women in the Bible study saw and I think they also thought they saw the dad hit the kid. At some point the kid got back out of the car and ran off in another direction and the dad came into the library. And at some point the police were called.

Right after we closed when we were about to leave one of the cops came to the door to ask us about our security cameras. I told him that I didn't know how helpful they would be because I didn't think they pointed where he needed them to be. He was still interested in seeing the tape or at least the TV to see where they were pointed but that generally required a police report and warrant as well as the presence of the director or assistant director and the HR person, I think. None of those people are there on the weekend so we gave him the card of the assistant director. The cop also wanted to see the view from the room where the Bible study was, so I took him up there. I had to get the key out that unlocks the cabinet where our other keys are kept and I told him the key location was a secret so I told him I was trusting him with that secret, which got a little laugh. After he confirmed what could be seen from the window and had the officer down in the parking lot test some things with the car that was still there to check visibility inside the car, he thanked me and went back outside. And then we got to leave, probably about ten minutes after we closed. I think that might count as late enough that I have to get time back for it, but I'm not going to say anything and we'll see if it will be forgotten.

On my way home, instead of going to the store like I originally planned, I went to Little Caesar's to get a pizza. The Bible study group had pizza delivered and it smelled really good. The lady who walked in before me had a nearly $80 order and a huge stack of pizzas. It had to have been at least ten and she stacked them up and got them in one trip. I was impressed.

When I got home I ate pizza, which was delicious, and watched YouTube videos. Then I was going to watch a movie but nothing sounded good so instead I bought Saints Row: Gat Out of Hell because it was $3.74 (usually it is $15) and I've wanted to play it for quite awhile. I put forty-seven hours into Saints Row: The Third and forty-nine hours into Saints Row IV, so you could say I like the franchise. Gat Out of Hell is a standalone mini-spinoff of Saints Row IV and as you may guess, it takes place in Hell. It has been a really long time since I played Saints Row IV so I'm having to get used to it again, but it's pretty fun. And pretty funny, which is one of the things I really like about the games. It's a little weird getting used to the third-person camera being so close to the character but other than that I'm doing okay with it. My favorite part is definitely being able to fly around and collecting the various orbs. Fishing and flying are two of my favorite things to do in games. In Saints Row: The Third the best thing was all the cars and the customization but when they went the superhero route with Saints Row IV they really nerfed the car aspect, which was annoying, but all the cars in hell look awful so I'm cool with the wings. And speaking of looking awful, at first I thought the game hadn't aged very well but after the initial opening I went into settings and it was set to 720p with Low graphics settings. I bumped that up to 1080p with High graphics settings and that helped a lot. Overall, it makes me want to jump back into Saints Row IV. I'm assuming because it is still installed on my computer, my character was in the opening cut scene of Gat Out of Hell but you don't actually get to play as your old character. I might need to go visit my old character.

While writing this I have been listening to music. I started with the new Incubus album. I didn't even know they had one, so that was a pleasant surprise. And now I'm listening to the all their old hits. Incubus is pretty great.

It is now 1:30AM. It shouldn't have taken me so long to write this but I kept getting distracted. Now I'm going to record my audio journal so I can go to bed. I'm glad I chose a ten o'clock haircut tomorrow morning and not eight o'clock.