June 28, 2017

I took notes today, so that's exciting.

I woke up with a headache, which always awesome. It eventually went away but it was kind of a bitch for awhile. I had a little extra time this morning so I ironed my last two pair of pants for the week. So the headache was a downer, but ironing was nice to future me. The world needed to even itself out with a bias toward the negative because then I forgot my lunch. I don't think I've ever forgotten my lunch before. I made it and everything, so I'm not sure how I forgot it. I will admit something felt a little off as I walked out the door with my jacket and half-filled water bottle (which is weird because I usually always fill my water bottle before I leave the house). I don't know what was happening.

Yesterday I got an email from the lady who organized the tour I gave awhile ago. I thought she was just a grad assistant but it turns out she got her Library Science degree in May and she wanted to know if I would want to present at a conference in October. She doesn't have the idea flushed out quite yet but she was thinking something about being new librarians. I told her I'm game. Trying to get outside my comfort zone.

I created two display signs today and started on a third. The first was for a patriotic/America display. I spent a little too much time putting fifty stars on a textured blue background. I ended up creating a table, making the stars about the size of a cell, and then eyeballing it. I also used a white marble texture for the stars, added a shadow, and beveled them. Paired with the requisite maroon title box, it looks pretty sweet. The second sign is for an NPR display. At first I went with a big old microphone and a wood background. It wasn't quite what I wanted and then I found a stock image of a phone and headphones, which I ended up going with. I figure a lot of people listen to NPR via podcasts, so it made sense. The third display sign is for the coloring pages we're putting out on Sunday. I was going to use a picture of a coloring page and then fill it in with Paint, but I think that may look weird. So now I'm thinking just an uncolored coloring page. We'll see what comes to me tomorrow.

For lunch I went home, because that's where I left my lunch. It takes me longer to get to my house and I have to leave earlier, compared to my Mom's house, so I'll try my best to remember my lunch from now on. The plus side is that I was able to finish watching Big Game. It kept freezing when I was playing it on my computer over the weekend but it played fine on my Blu-ray player, so I was able to finally see the ending and I will no longer lose sleep worrying about whether or not President Samuel L. Jackson got out of the woods.

This afternoon I showed the new librarian how to print stuff from the copier. That part went smoothly. We then tried to figure out how to scan and email from the copier. There's a good chance that feature isn't set up on our copier. So our figuring went nowhere. At least we tried.

And lastly, I worked on my book lists for my displays. Really it was only the NPR list because that was easier and I already have a bunch of books for the other display. I'll continue working on both tomorrow. Probably.

After work I picked up Qdoba and headed to my Mom's house for dinner. After dinner we watched YouTube videos and then I took a look at an old printer my sister had. It was broken and it is still broken, sadly.

I got home around nine o'clock, clicked around the internet, watched YouTube videos, and wrote this. It's 10:30PM but I kind of want to play Elite Dangerous because I haven't done that recently. I keep getting sidetracked by editing the book image in GIMP. And I have another idea for what I want to do with it, so we'll see where that goes. I think I might jump into Elite Dangerous though. Just for a little bit...