June 23, 2017

I forgot to mention yesterday that one of the kindergarten teachers I used to work with came to the library with the daycare he runs to watch a movie. He stopped by the desk to give me a Thank You card and gift card for helping update the graphic for his summer daycare shirt. I went back back over to the auditorium with him so I could talk to one of the paras and my fifth grade teacher friend who I haven't seen in forever. It was good to catch up with them and made me feel very nostalgic for the school.

Last night, the moment I stopped the video recording for my audio journal my laptop died. Turns out I forgot to plug it in before I started recording. I would say I got incredibly lucky that it died at the very end instead of in the middle. Or even right before the end. When I started everything back up my Audacity file cut off the last few seconds and the last few seconds that were there were only mono instead of stereo, which was interesting. And we'll say the video is fine because it won't let me skip to the end for some reason. I'm just glad both Audacity and OBS create files as they go so I didn't lose everything in the crash.

Last night I set my alarm clock for when I was supposed to be at work, not when I was supposed to wake up. At 6:57AM I opened my eyes, realized it was much too light. It was then that I put my glasses on, looked at the clock, and said “God, damnit.” Then I rushed around and made it to work on time, even though I lost an hour from my morning routine. It was a great way to start the day.

Also, John Green announced his new book yesterday, Turtles All The Way Down. Apparently it's been five and a half years since The Fault In Our Stars. That seems impossible. Time goes so fast. I'm pretty excited for the new book.

Today should have been a note-taking kind of day, so we'll see what I remember. I spent a lot of today coming up with a description for the video game discussion in the Fall. I hadn't decided on a game yet so I looked at the lists I have made and clicked around Steam. I ended up decided to do a simulator theme. I still don't know what game I want to play but I want to talk about simulators as a genre, why they're popular, and see what other people think about them. With that in mind, I was eventually able to come up with a description that may or may not be good. I sent it to the PR lady so we'll see what she thinks.

I got a brief start on a personalized reading list this afternoon. I think I'm three or four books in. It was another pretty broad request, other than wanting books with strong female characters and feminism. Which is fairly specific, I guess, but I don't want all the books to be about that. I'm figuring it out.

I helped a lady who works at one of the nursing homes we deliver hombound books to with her Kindle. I was mostly successful and she left happy, so I'm counting it as a win.

And I think that was pretty much my day at work. We'll say it was anyway.

When I got home I made dinner. It was a mash-up of two recipes and it worked out pretty well. I made sweet potato tacos with marinated vegetables. I marinated red onion, broccoli, yellow squash, and zucchini in mix of balsamic vinegar, red wine vinegar, dijon mustard, olive oil, oregano, basil, and garlic powder. I tossed the sweet potatoes in olive oil, maple syrup, paprika, and chili powder. Along with that I made brown rice and black beans. And then I put it all in tortillas and ate it. It was delicious. And now my house smells like a restaurant. It's pretty great.

After dinner my dad stopped by to drop off all of my Grandpa's old woodworking plans. Very cool. I stood out in the driveway and talked with him for a little over an hour or so and then came back inside to write this. It has been a very long, distracted process because it is now 12:20AM.