June 17, 2017

 Today was a pretty good day. This was helped greatly by the counting of the drawer this morning at work going very smoothly. I figured out the new cash register and there was plenty of money in the register so I didn't have to do any math or get any change from the bank.

It was an uneventful day at work, which is always appreciated on the weekend. My main focus today was homebound stuff. I was able to finish my lists for all but two of my patrons (those two being the ones I just go to the shelves and pull for). I also pulled and checked out the books for those patrons. I ended up having to get a lot of alternate books because several had been checked out since I started making my lists, which is always annoying. Tomorrow I should be able to pull the books for my remaining two patrons, print bookmarks for everyone, and get them all bagged up. And then I won't have to worry about it next week.

When I had finished all I could with homebound for the day I played around with Excel, still trying to figure out how to make my homebound spreadsheets better. I got the button system working so I can click one button to hide certain rows and another button to unhide those rows. And I figured out I can use any image or shape I want and assign a macro to it, so I can click one of those instead of using a boring looking button. I'm getting closer to figuring out what I actually want to do with the spreadsheets.

Throughout the day I also signed up patrons and handed out prizes for summer reading, and helped other patrons with various patron things. Two of the summer reading people were girls I graduated high school with. I was not friends with either of them and have no idea whether or not they actually knew who I was but either way we didn't acknowledge that possible connection. One of them is a cool mom of two little boys now, which is strange because I remember her being a nerdy high school girl. When I look at myself I don't feel like a grownup but then I see people I graduated with that are married with kids and they seem super grownup. Life is weird.

Right before leaving work I ordered a Papa Murphy's pizza online. Maybe not entirely professional but I don't feel too bad because I don't take breaks so we can say I took a short break to order the pizza. And, my timing wasn't too bad. It said it would be ready at 6:15PM and I got there at 6:17PM. When I got home I baked the pizza and it turned out pretty good. I really want to make my own pizza at some point but tonight was not that night.

After dinner I watched YouTube videos and then eventually jumped into Elite Dangerous. I am enjoying it. I only cursed a few times but that was because I would accidentally click something on the map and it would kick me out of the game to open up a browser window. But other than that, I had a pretty decent session. I even leveled up a couple times thanks to all the trade missions I did. I decided to stick with the missions where I was given something and asked to take it somewhere else. I didn't want to get involved with the missions that required me to find random things. I'm sure it really isn't as hard as I made it out to be yesterday, but I didn't want to risk it. Not yet anyway.

It is now one o'clock in the morning and I am struggling to stay awake, which is why it has taken far too long to write this entry. I need to record my audio journal so I can go to bed. I must sleep.