July 21, 2017

 This morning was so long ago. I made it to work on time, despite once again ignoring my alarm clock. I was awake enough to hear the radio DJ after reading the weather say “If anyone asks you to do something outside today, fight them.” It was pretty funny. And accurate, because it was around 108 degrees today and it probably felt much hotter.

My morning was spent working on a personalized reading list, which I managed to start and finish, and working on the idea for a physical Thank You card. My boss showed me where the library Thank You cards are but it turns out they were all for Thanksgiving. Not quite what I was going for, so I decided to make my own. I had the idea of using a picture of an old bookplate for the cover but that proved to be a bit tricky. I had a picture of one but it was kind of blurry so I went out to the stacks to try and find one. I looked through a bunch of old books and was eventually able to find one but it had tape over part of it so it didn't look very presentable. I finally emailed the head of technical services and asked if she knew of a better way to find one. Later in the morning she came down with a notebook that was basically a history of their department, and inside there was a copy of the bookplate. Jackpot.

I was able to scan the picture and this afternoon I edited it and got it printed on cardstock. I just had the thought that I needed to put something on the back, like the library logo and the date, so I'm going to do that on Monday and print it again. The whole point of the card is to send a physical Thank You note to the historical society. I already sent an email and got a response, but I want to get into the habit of physical Thank You notes.

I worked at the desk in the children's room for about a half an hour this morning but it was pretty uneventful. There was a program happening so most of the people were in the storytime room. I only got one question and it was about a free book program that I didn't know anything about so I passed it off to the children's staff person that actually knows what's going on down there. I spent my time working on the personalized reading list, so I was at least productive.

When I got back from lunch one of the other librarians and I went on a shopping trip to find stuff for our cubicle. The goal was to find Post-It notes and a big dry erase calendar. And a card for our coworker whose last day is Monday. We found the Post-It notes and dry erase markers, but they didn't have the calendar we were looking for so we're going to order it online. We also managed to find a card but we weren't totally sold on it so we also went to the grocery store to look there. Nothing there really jumped out at us so we went with the card we got at the office supply store.

A decent chunk of our shopping trip consisted of me on my phone trying to sort out my computer delivery. The original delivery window was between 10:45AM and 12:45PM but that came and went and the window was extended to 2:45PM. It also still showed my home address instead of my sister's. Just in case, I asked my Mom if she could go over to my house and wait. This was a good idea in theory but I forgot that my screen door was locked so she couldn't actually get into my house. She waited until five minutes outside the window before driving around to see if she could see the truck and then she ran over to my sister's house real quick. When she got back to my house she said it was less than three minutes until UPS finally showed up. It wasn't the most secure of deliveries. She asked him to put the box in her car, which he did, and he volunteered my sister's name when my Mom asked if she needed to sign something. I told my Mom that I had put my sister's name down so my Mom wouldn't be caught off guard. But she could just have easily been a complete stranger that just happened to be in the right place at the right time. Thankfully that wasn't the case.

After work I went to my Mom's house to pick up my computer. It was in the back of her car and when I went to pick it but I forgot that I wasn't tall enough to stand upright under her raised tailgate door. I slammed my head into the door, which knocked my head down and sent the edge of the box right into my Adam's apple. My throat has been sore the rest of the night and it hurts to swallow and yawn. It's pretty annoying.

I managed to get the box into the backseat of my car but only just barely. It ended up being a slightly narrower box than the last time I got a desktop, so that was nice. When I got home I unboxed it but decided to eat dinner before messing with it. So I ate dinner. And then got to messing.

I set it up in my office because I wanted to get everything up and running to make sure everything was good to go before taking it downstairs. Then ended up being a good thing because it was immediately broken. Sort of. When I hit the power button the computer would blink on, then immediately turn off, wait a few seconds, and then start the process over. I tried some troubleshooting and managed to narrow it down to the RAM. The two sticks had been installed in the wrong slots. Once I fixed that, it was smooth sailing. I have only started to download stuff onto it, but I'm hoping I'll be able to start playing some games tomorrow.

After getting everything up and running I celebrated with a frozen hot chocolate and fries from Dairy Queen. They were delicious. I think I'm good for awhile on the frozen chocolate but the next time I get a craving for fries I'll probably go with Dairy Queen.

It is now after one o'clock in the morning because I have been very distracted while writing this. I need to record my audio journal (fingers crossed my throat can handle that) and then go to bed.