Oh boy, eclipse day has arrived. I got up slightly earlier than
usual so that I could drop off a pair of eclipse glasses for my
sister at her house. And my timing was perfect because I got to work
with a couple minutes to spare.
I was on desk for the first two hours of the day and I answered a
bunch of phone calls, but surprisingly only half were about eclipse
glasses. It was nice having some legitimate reference questions.
When I got off the desk I did a walkthrough and then went to lunch
early so I would be back before the majority of the eclipse happened.
Unfortunately for us, there was pretty much solid cloud cover.
When I got back I went to the auditorium to see if I could help with
their technology issues. I did eventually get the laptop working but
it was after the eclipse, so it didn't really matter. The idea was
to have a livestream going on the projector. They hadn't been able
to get the laptop working, and the iPad wasn't connecting, but one of
the other librarians was finally able to get her phone connected. We
never really had that many people in the auditorium but we also had a
livestream going in our other meeting room and it was pretty packed
in there.
Around sometime we left the room and there were people standing and
looking up through the atrium for awhile before we all moved outside.
Thanks to the clouds we only ever got peeks here and there at the
eclipse but it was still a cool social experience, standing outside
with everyone and talking about the eclipse. The change in light was
also a little overwhelming, someone pointed out that it was more like
the precursor to a tornado than dusk thanks to all the clouds, but
all the street lights came on, so that was pretty cool.
After the peak of the eclipse passed we went back inside and I sat in
the auditorium with a few of my fellow librarians and watched the
livestream. We got to see two totalities before I went back to take
over the desk. Overall, I had a good time. The cloud cover made the
eclipse itself a little disappointing, but it was still a good event.
We think we got around eighty-five people, which isn't bad. We were
worried that either no one would show up or that we would have
hundreds. I think it would have been different if the clouds hadn't
been out, but eighty-five is a pretty good number and we didn't have
too many glasses left over (we gave out 1,984 glasses in the past few
weeks), so it all worked out.
The end of my day is a bit of a blur at this point. I was on desk
for awhile, then off desk for awhile. I restocked displays and
printed some “no food or drink” signs for the computers. It was
my first time using the new copier and I'm already not a fan. There
was a lot of beeping and the administrative assistant ended up coming
back to help because he was probably tired of listening to all the
beeping. I eventually got the signs to print and the color quality
isn't as good as the old copier. I'm interested and a little worried
to see how our display signs print.
In the last thirty minutes or so I looked at a Library Journal,
got some ideas for things that I think would be cool to do, and then
it was time to leave. When I got home, it was the same old thing. I
ate dinner, watched YouTube videos, watched a livestream, and played
Kritika. Through all the repetitive gameplay I have made it
to level eighteen, so I'm feeling pretty confident about reaching
level twenty in the next ten days. Piece of boring cake. And I'll
get a pink wolf mount in Tera. I have absolutely no idea what
is happening in Kritika because I have yet to read any of the
quests or pay attention to any of the story. I don't think that
would improve my opinion of the game though. It's just a button
masher in the form of an anime MMO. I do like the art style, so
that's a positive, but it is also super sexualized. It can be a
little ridiculous in Tera but it is way over the top in
Kritika. I'm looking forward to hitting level twenty so I can
go back to games that I like. Tera can also be very
repetitive but it has a much larger world to play in. Kritika is
basically just a collection of small dungeons that you have to play
over and over and over again until you level up and unlock another
tiny dungeon. But good grief, I need to stop talking about it.
Now I'm going to record my audio journal so I can go to bed.
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