June 27, 2017

This morning I didn't get anything on my pants right before I walked out the door. Or at any other point during the day, so that's an improvement over yesterday.

Today was mostly spent helping patrons and playing with prize drawing tickets. Some of the prize jars were getting to the overflowing point so I started pulling the tickets out and writing a number on the back of each ticket. The main point of this is so that we can use a random number generator to select winners. An added bonus is that we will be able to see how many overall tickets have been used, which I think will be interesting. I nearly made it through the adult tickets but not quite. I'll need to space the rest of that out because I have been avoiding other things that I probably shouldn't be avoiding.

I helped a lady several times throughout the day (as did all the other librarians) with PDFs on a DVD. It's been a month or two since she was in with the same thing. I have no idea what she's doing but she is not a big computer user, which she mentioned every ten or fifteen minutes when she asked for help. There were two things that really confused her.

The first was that the document she was looking at was broken into multiple documents. She was looking at the first document, which was basically just a standalone table of contents. And she kept wanting to click on the thing she wanted in the table of contents and didn't get why it wouldn't go to where she wanted. I remembered this from the last time she was in and explained to her again twice today, that the other documents on her DVD were named after the items in the table of contents, and she needed to open the document she wanted, not just click on the table of contents.

The second issue was understanding that the number on the scanned document was not necessarily the same as the digital page number. She kept trying to print page ranges based on the scanned document rather than the digital file. Thankfully when she was doing this she was picking ranges outside of the digital range so she wasn't accidentally printing things she didn't want to print.

I've got to give it to her, though, she stuck with it. For hours. Many many hours.

At the end of the day I started making a book list for one of my displays next month. And I was given an idea for my other display, so that should be fairly easy. Now I just need to finish my book lists and come up with display signs.

After work, on my way home, I stopped by Home Depot to get a new stopper thing for my toilet and a gift card for my friend for his wedding. I still need to get a card.

Tonight I did much of the same. I watched YouTube videos and livestreams, and I played with GIMP and the book thing. I tried a bunch of things and I'm getting closer to what I want. And by the time I get there I will probably be over the whole idea of needing it. We'll see.

Writing this has taken me forever because I started watching a stream of people talking about and debating Twitch's addition of an affiliate program. The broad concept is that now streamers can become affiliates, which is below the partner level, but gives them a sub button so their followers can subscribe to them. I don't really care either way because I don't have the dream of being a professional streamer, but it seems like the affiliate program is only good for Twitch, and in turn Amazon, who owns them now. Internet drama.

It is now creeping ever closer to one o'clock in the morning and I still need to record my audio journal. So I'm going to go do that.