August 30, 2017

 I forgot to mention that yesterday I came to work and found my inbox filled with about 65 emails. Sixty of them came between 7:00AM and 7:59AM. One every minute. They were reminders to upload attendance information for the last drop-in we had, which I uploaded on the day of the drop-in, so that was annoying just by itself, getting a reminder to do something I did two weeks ago. Sixty reminders is a bit excessive. I emailed the IT guy who wrote the attendance program and he got back to me letting me know it was a mis-click on his part. He had set the reminder to happen at 7:00AM but then also set it to happen every minute, starting at 7:00AM. Whoops. It should be fixed now. Hopefully.

I also decided yesterday that 'denounce' should be the antonym of 'announce'. Just saying.

Today I woke up with a headache and as the day progressed my neck got progressively more stiff. I obviously slept wrong. The headache eventually subsided but now it is a literal pain in the neck to look to the right.

The staff meeting this morning was about harassment. We watched a video that had a decent production value about various forms of harassment in the workplace. The best part about meetings about harassment in the workplace is all the joking about harassment following the meetings. Later in the day I needed to borrow the credit card to buy wire for the maker faire and the administrative assistant said it would cost me, quid pro quo. That was one of the forms of harassment talked about in the video. I thought it was pretty funny.

And speaking of that wire, we decided on the final ideas for the maker faire, one of which is the telephone wire bracelets, so I bought the telephone cable today. I got fifty feet and it is twenty-five pair cable, meaning fifty wires. So, if we cut it at five feet intervals we can get five-hundred bracelets out of it, which should be more than enough, and if there are leftovers we can use them for a craft night.

My boss posted information about active shooter situations in the library, due to what happened in New Mexico, and she included a video about Run. Hide. Fight, which is supposed to be our response in an active shooter situation. I watched that video and then went down a mini rabbit hole of other active shooter videos. It is scary to think about but it seemed much more likely to happen when I was working at the elementary school. That was also much more depressing to think about because a school filled with kids is much more tragic that a building mostly filled with adults. No offense to adults.

I have now heard back from three libraries about their Kindle programs. Two have discontinued them because they kind of ran their course and the other library still has them but they check out very infrequently (she thought only twice in the last ten months). Not great but I still think there is potential with our homebound patrons. I'm going to create a survey to take out and see what their interest is in getting Kindles. That will really determine if this idea is worth anything. If they aren't interested then there's no point.

My tour went well this morning and it lasted the perfect amount of time because I only had a few minutes to kill before lunch. The group all had varying levels of mental illness or handicaps. Thankfully one of them was pretty talkative and asked a bunch of questions which gave me more stuff to talk about. The others were pretty quiet, so I don't know what they thought of the tour but it seemed like I kept their interest the whole time. It was my second tour and I think I'm getting better at them.

This afternoon I got sidetracked while on desk and started looking at braille books available through ILL. I still remember a bit of it and want to relearn all of it. I also want to learn how to actually read with my fingers. That's the real trick. Our one-on-one tech lady has a braille writer in her office so at some point I might borrow it.

I feel like I'm forgetting something about work but I'm moving on.

After work I picked up Qdoba, running into the new librarian while in line. It is interesting how socially awkward we all can be outside of the library. It was the same when I ran into another librarian at the grocery store. Very interesting.

I went to my Mom's house after picking up the food and we ate dinner, watched the news, and then watched YouTube videos. There were a bunch because we missed last week. Most of them went over well but it is easy to tell when my Mom or sister start to lose interest.

I got home around eight o'clock, quickly ran through the few YouTube videos that looked interesting from today, and then I watched the last two or three episodes of the fifth season of New Girl. And now I need to wait for season six. Waiting sucks.

Now I'm going to record my audio journal so I can go to bed. Hopefully I will sleep better tonight. It would be nice if my neck isn't stiff tomorrow and/or I don't wake up with a headache.