August 2, 2017

 This morning I didn't burn myself and my car started, so it was automatically a better start to the day.

I didn't take notes but I did things today. I finished messing with the web stats spreadsheet. I got all of the charts to work and I also colored the cells in the table to show if there was an increase or decrease in views from month to month. I started doing this using conditional formatting, and it worked, but I was having to do one row at a time and it was taking forever. It was much quicker to do it manually and change the color myself. Using the colors ended up showing some interesting information, like how two of the pages dropped in views every April (and maybe another month) for as long as we've been keeping track of stats.

We were slow for the first hour or so of work and then all of a sudden we were inundated with patrons in person, in chat, and on the phone. It was strange, like the bat signal had gone up, except one made for patrons.

I worked on prize tickets today. By the time I left I had all the tickets pulled out of the jars and I was completely caught up on writing numbers on all of the teen tickets. There are still a decent number of adult tickets to write numbers on but I'm getting there. We will still probably have people coming in, and I printed out another two hundred tickets just in case, but I am hoping it won't be too crazy. I think if we do the same thing next year it might make more sense to count them out and mark every twenty-fifth or fiftieth ticket. After we pick a random number, out marked tickets would get us in the ballpark and then we could count up or down from there to find the winning ticket. It would be a lot quicker and achieve the same purpose.

I refilled the DVD and audiobook displays, both seem to be doing well. I also took down the large print inspirational displace and pulled books to make it the large print romance display. It's a little harder to tell large print romance novels by their spines compared to regular print romance. That made things a little trickier than I thought. I need to keep track of authors, I think, rather than focusing on individual books.

This afternoon when the teen librarian was at the desk we talked about books and work stuff, but we also talked about pens and PTSD. Those last two were different conversations. Both equally interesting but thankfully separate.

This all doesn't sound as hectic as the day felt at times, but I think I covered everything. Well, not everything, but enough to get the highlights.

After work I picked up Qdoba and headed to my Mom's house for dinner. After dinner we watched videos, which went over well, and then my Mom gave us a few things she got for us on her recent vacation. The coolest is a little wooden frog that has a little stick with it, and when you run the stick over the ribbed spine of the frog, it sounds like a frog. Pretty cool.

I got home around 9:30PM and have kind of been trying to write this for almost two hours now. Good grief. It's not quite midnight but thankfully I can sleep in tomorrow because I don't work until noon. I always look forward to sleeping in.