July 12, 2017

 This morning I once again struggled to get out of bed and ended up running around so that I could leave the house on time. I imagine tomorrow morning will be much of the same.

I took my new route to work and it does appear to be slightly faster than my previous route. This is important when I get a bit of a late start to my day.

At work I finished the personalized reading list I started yesterday. I'm pretty happy with it. We'll see if the patron is as well. I also refilled one of my displays, which ended up involving way too many trips up and down the stairs. I'm not quite sure how that happened but it seemed like every time I got downstairs I needed something upstairs. It was hot and exhausting. Still better than working outside when it's over 100 degrees, though, so I'm not complaining. Just a little bit of whining.

Our new frequent sleeper was back again today. I think it may have started last week, him coming in and almost immediately falling asleep. And I woke him up every single day, except yesterday when I said screw it, and decided I would just wait for someone to complain. And no one did, so I pretended it wasn't happening. Well, today I woke him up and handed him a copy of our policy stating that we don't allow sleeping in the library. That was ineffective because a couple hours later the assistant director woke him up. And then later in the afternoon I had to wake him up again and told him that sleeping wasn't allowed. It's getting to the point where we are going to have to ask him to leave for the day. We probably should have actually done it today but our library (along with most I would presume) is filled with passive aggressive introverts that don't like confrontation. I've decided that if I'm the person who runs across him tomorrow I'm going to sit down next to him and try and have a conversation with him. Try and figure out what's up. He's either not getting sleep at night, wherever he's staying, or he's got a medical condition. Or something completely different. I would just like to figure things out so he can continue using the library, but not for sleeping.

And I feel like that may have been the extent of my day at work. It was another pretty slow day.

After work I picked up Qdoba and headed to my Mom's house for dinner. After dinner I only had four videos to show, two of which my Mom added and the other two were only a couple minutes long. It was apparently a slow YouTube week. I ended up leaving around eight o'clock after getting a box from my sister with the kitchen stuff my aunt brought me. My sister also brought me the dining room chair that my grandpa used to sit in. I already have the dining room chair my other grandpa sat in, which I took from my grandma's house when she moved. The new owner bought a bunch of the furniture in the house (including the dining room table and chairs) but I said screw it because she was already screwing my grandma on the house.

When I got home I kind of eventually played VR stuff here and there.

The only things the HTC Vive is consistently good at are pissing me off and smudging my glasses. It excels at both. I enjoy it when it works but I have probably spent as much time trying to get the controllers to connect as I have playing games. I tried something new tonight, that hadn't worked previously because I wasn't using the supplied USB cord (just the one I use to charge my phone) and apparently it's special. The idea is to reset the controller by awkwardly holding down a bunch of buttons, plugging it into the computer, waiting a little bit, releasing the buttons, and then unplugging it. When I used the correct cord it worked. Other things have also randomly worked and then stopped working, so we'll see if this one sticks, or at least remains a reliable thing to do when the controllers won't connect in the future.

On the dating app front, I upped the radius to fifty miles, which has seemed to help out. At least in the numbers game. We'll see if it leads anywhere.

It is now creeping up on 1:45AM and I need to record my audio journal so I can get to bed. I was reminded with a phone call this morning that I have a dentist appointment at ten o'clock tomorrow morning. That is unfortunate. At least it's not at seven o'clock.