April 27, 2017

Waking up this morning really sucked. One of the roughest mornings I have had in awhile. I think it was around one o'clock in the morning by the time I got to bed and yesterday was just exhausting. But I eventually got out of bed and went to work.

I don't think I really accomplished much at work this morning. I had three free hours and one walkthrough and no real goals in mind because I was too distracted by this weekend. I watched some usability videos and worked on catching up with chat statistics, but that was about it. At least from what I can remember.

This afternoon I think I was a little more productive. I came up with the last descriptions for the tech classes and workshops. I also emailed back and forth with one of the people from the library system in our basement to do a 3D printer workshop next semester. I am dropping one of the video game discussions and moving the Sphero workshop in order to get the 3D printer workshop to workout but I think it will be worth it. Hopefully. I really want the video game discussion thing to become a regular thing but my boss wanted to do the 3D printer thing so it only made sense to cut one of the two video game discussions.

I also had various discussions about mostly library things but not always, because that happens sometimes. One of the library things was microfilm. Microfilm is incredibly expensive, about $60 per roll, which comes out to around $3000 a year. My boss had planned on canceling it when we got our latest online newspaper service because it would be available to patrons from home and they claimed they would remain up-to-date. This service costs around $3500 a year and at the moment they are three months behind. We were initially really impressed with the service but not staying up to date is a major drawback, along with the fact that it is text-only. I know that the local newspaper has PDF copies of each newspaper page, because they sent me one with my correct name after they used the wrong name for my first article. I suggested the idea of trying to get them to send us PDF versions of the newspaper. Even if it was delayed, like our microfilm which I think is three or four months delayed, that would be the best option I think. My boss suggested having volunteers scan and digitize the newspaper at the library but those files would end up being much bigger than the PDF files and we most likely wouldn't be able to search them, so it would be just like the microfilm. We would be able to search the PDF however, which would make certain reference questions a lot easier. Even if they wanted to charge us $3000 it would be a good deal. I think my boss said she would give the newspaper a call because the assistant director said it couldn't hurt to ask.

Other things may or may not have happened today but I am quickly losing interest so let's move on.

After work I stopped by my Mom's house to pick up some stuff for this weekend, and I got two donuts out of it, so that was cool. When I got home I ate the last of my leftover pizza and watched a few YouTube videos before spending the rest of my night working on the presentation. I typed out the first 400 words just to get the ball rolling. I started practicing that and then eventually rolled it into the rest of what I wanted to talk about. I should probably write that down as well so I don't forget but I'm tired and my shoulder and wrist hurt, so I don't want to type any more than I have to. With my various ramblings I have gotten my part to around ten or eleven minutes. That will probably go much quicker once I'm up there and start racing through it and forget stuff. I think it will go well though. Hopefully. I'm interested to see how many people actually come.

Now I'm going to record my audio journal so I can go to bed. I need to wake up early enough that I have time to pack for the weekend and possibly stop by my Mom's house to print out directions before I go, because I still like physical directions when I am driving alone. It would also be nice if I could use the elliptical for a little bit because I am going to be spending a lot of time in the car tomorrow.