July 25, 2017

 I had a chance to wake up when my alarm went off. And I did, but then I didn't get out of bed and eventually went back to sleep. Only partially, though, because I had weird dreams that involved the random things I was hearing on the radio. Maybe tomorrow I'll get up. I need to take that first step to exercising again.

I took notes for the first half of my day. I pulled more books for my America display because it was starting to look a little empty. I printed out and cut more prize tickets. I decided to cut all 400 of them and I'm feeling good about it. I will probably have to print more before the program is over. We ran out of solar glasses in envelops so we had teen volunteers stuffing envelopes all day. I picked up a stack this morning and throughout the rest of the day the teens brought them up to us. We should be good for awhile. Hopefully. Our social media posts have done the trick and we are getting a steady stream of people asking for glasses. I also did multiple walkthroughs this morning.

Before lunch we had a little birthday celebration for my boss. The new librarian also brought cherries. We thought she was bringing something salty. Instead, we had a lack of fear of running out of cherries.

This afternoon I pretty much just spent my time writing numbers on prize drawing tickets. At one point I had to redo over 200 of them because for some reason I went from 539 to 340. Whoops. Despite that, I was able to catch up on all of the tickets I had pulled out of the jars. There are a bunch of tickets in the jars again because it is never-ending. Well, for at least another week or so.

I also pulled a few more books for my NPR display. I might pull a few more to hold me over through the end of the month. I think it has checked out eighteen books this month, which is pretty good for the kiosk.

The PR debacle from this weekend continues to grow. The spot on the news last night probably didn't help. It does show the power of a single individual and social media, though, so that's something. Based on the Facebook discussion, it looks like this guy saw the description of the event, got worked up and started posting on Facebook, went to the event having already made up his mind that it was promoting hate groups, and then went back to Facebook to post about his already formed opinion. Then someone else saw it and they posted it to the news station, which got that ball rolling. It is all still based on a single person's opinion of an event that he already formed before the event. The torches were lit before the monster was even created. And in this case, it doesn't really seem like there was a monster, just shadows and clouds mistaken for monsters. But again, I was not at the event, along with 99% of the people talking about the event, so maybe we should all just chill out.

On my way home I stopped by my Mom's house so she could explain what I needed to do over the next several days while she's out of town and I'm dog sitting. I'm not really looking forward to it because I don't like change, but I'll survive. Hopefully.

When I got home I ate the rest of the pretzel bites my sister made and then started making dinner. I made the stir fry recipe my coworkers gave me for my birthday. They gave me all the pre-measured ingredients for my birthday, so this time around it was a little more involved, but I managed. I also altered the recipe a little bit by adding a jalapeno and red and yellow bell peppers, which made it way more colorful. Something that I think is second only to taste when it comes to food. And in this case, it was pretty tasty, as well, so I had the whole package.

My ethernet cables came today so I hooked up both of my desktops. I had more than enough length to reach my new desktop in the basement but it's better to have too much than not enough. I also got my new wi-fi adapter but haven't had time to try it out. I'm curious to see what kind of connection I can get with it in the basement. I am thinking about taking my new desktop to my Mom's house when I'm over there, which will give me a chance to try out the wi-fi adapter there as well.

I bought Playerunknown's Battlegrounds today. My how my tone has changed from earlier in the month. I still think it might be a game I end up not enjoying, but it was on sale today, which I was waiting for. I've got it downloaded but I'm not sure when I'll get a chance to actually play it. Hopefully soon. Tonight I've been watching a livestream where they are all just annoyed with the game, which isn't a great thing to see after I just bought it, but I'll try to keep an open mind.

An update on my throat. It is still bothering me, but mostly just later at night. Kind of like my eye. I'm falling apart.

An update on the dating app. Still no matches. At least as far as I know because I think only girls see the matches. I do know that I haven't gotten any messages, so that seems like a pretty good indication that no one is interested. I'm beginning to think that dating apps might not be for me. It's still a decent distraction, though.

It's now after midnight again. I'm going to record my audio journal and go to bed. I'm really behind on uploading videos and I'm running out of space on my hard drive for all the videos I've recorded. I need to work on that.