June 14, 2017

 The book I finished yesterday was All The Birds In The Sky by Charlie Jane Anders. I think I liked it but only a little bit. I thought it was an interesting concept but it seemed much longer than it needed to be. It could have been much more concise. There seemed to be a lot of stuff that was unnecessary to the plot while I would have liked other stuff to be explained better. I am kind of annoyed when I get sucked into trilogies because I think maybe this story would have been better if it was spread out across three books with more focused detail going into the story. There also could have been less random cussing. I have no problem with cussing but it seemed to come in waves, so I guess whenever the author was in the cussing mood, and it was more often than not just awkward and didn't really seem to fit the characters. Basically, it felt like a rough draft that could still use some polish. So yeah, I think I liked it but only kind of. If there is ever a sequel I'll just read the plot summary and save myself the time.

Moving on. Today was a new day with a lot less reading.

At work today I got a tad bit sidetracked and didn't really make any progress on my homebound lists. My day started with pulling books for the parent cart display because it surprisingly checked out six books yesterday, bringing it down to seven books left on the cart. We'll see how the next round of books goes over.

On Sunday our next passive program for adults goes out. It has been Lincoln Logs and Tinker Toys and next we're going with jigsaw puzzles that match our summer reading theme. I spent way too long today making a sign for it but I think it was worth it. Originally I wanted to just find a picture of a puzzle, but nothing I found was quite what I wanted. Then I found a jigsaw puzzle generator and used a picture of colorful buildings, which was then turned into a puzzle. I took screencaps as I put the puzzle together so I could try out varying states of done-ness of the puzzle for the sign. I think the one I'm going with is the puzzle solved except for one piece. I think it looks pretty cool.

We had a department meeting today where we talked about planning. An exciting topic indeed. I need to get better at planning, mostly so I can see all the plates that I currently have spinning. At the moment I tend to keep track of everything in my head but I'm only able to focus on one thing at a time so all the other stuff just kind of drifts in and out of focus when I shift my attention. So far I have been able to manage it but it would be nice to have everything sorted in a more efficient way. If nothing else I think it would greatly reduce my stress level. There are still a lot of things to figure out but I'm slowly beginning to figure things out.

After work I picked up Qdoba and headed to my Mom's house for dinner. After we ate we talked and watched YouTube videos. The first several of them were mine and then my sister showed a bunch of music ones. It was a good night.

Not too long after nine o'clock I made my exit and came home. I spent the rest of the night watching YouTube videos, clicking around the internet, deliberating over cheap video games, and losing track of time. It is now somehow 12:21AM. I'm not quite sure how that happened. Thankfully I close tomorrow so I can sleep in.

Now I need to record my audio journal so I can go to bed.