September 29, 2017

 This morning I would have liked to sleep a little longer. But I couldn't, so I got up, got ready, and went to work. I had almost a perfect run to work, with only one or two traffic lights, so I got there almost ten minutes early. This meant I finished all of my opening stuff quite a bit earlier than normal. I also sharpened all the remaining pencils. I might need to steal some from circulation so I have something to do the next time I open.

I edited my article today based on the suggestions I got from the three people who read it. And got some more suggestions on the latest draft. I'm a little worried that because I have it done so early I'm going to forget to send it to the paper next week. Let's hope that doesn't happen.

Most of my day was spent coming up with my displays for next month. I have the DVD cart and the upstairs display. It took me awhile to come up with ideas but for the DVD cart I'm going with “Cheeky and Creepy” and the upstairs display is going to be “Costumes and Creatures and Cooking: Oh My” (or something like that, I can't remember the order of the words). I wanted to go with a Halloween theme for both and apparently I was having a very 'C' day. I also think I'm going with a similar design for both. Above the title I have Pennywise's eyes from It and underneath I have a dog with glasses for the DVD cart and pumpkins for the upstairs display. At least that's the idea for now. I also came up with a long list of books for the upstairs display. It is overkill because that display only checks out a handful of books each month, but I'm prepared nonetheless. It would be a good idea to use again on a more popular display.

Other than my article and the displays, I helped the occasional patron and talked to my coworkers. It was another fairly quiet day. Not a bad way to end the week.

I had a two hour lunch so I went home. And all was well until I arrived and found that my internet was out. I tried resetting it but that didn't help. So instead of watching YouTube videos or livestreams I played Terraria. Not a bad tradeoff but I still like the internet.

When I got home after work the internet was still out. I called technical support and got someone who sounded like it was her first day. She wanted me to reset the modem and I told her I did that right before calling but she wanted me to do it again. It didn't work. Then she wanted me to reset the router. I tried telling her that I have a combination router/modem so there wasn't anything else to reset, but she seemed a little flustered and insisted, so I repeated what I just did. Surprisingly, it didn't work. She then told me that the next available tech wasn't until Monday evening. I have no idea what my schedule is next week so I said I'd just call back to schedule an appointment.

During dinner I watched some old YouTube videos I had saved to my computer. I found the first three videos Lewis and Simon (of the Yogscast) made for Terraria when it was still in its alpha. Made me a little nostalgic. After dinner I headed over to my Mom's house because I needed the internet to get stuff ready for the outreach event tomorrow.

I downloaded the two games I told them I was thinking about trying, just in case. Then I made an improved cardboard controller. I left longer tails on the wire buttons and I completely covered up the wire on the back so I didn't have to worry about them touching each other or myself touching them and activating more than one button at once. I also taped a piece foil to the back where my finger naturally rested so that I could connect the ground wire to it. I then tried Race The Sun, Ragdoll Runners, Pac-Man, and Tetris. They all worked out well so I'm hopeful all will go well tomorrow.

While I worked on that stuff I watched episodes of the original Star Trek. They were... unique. Still a fan, though.

Now I'm going to call this good because it is ten o'clock and I want to go home. It would be nice if the internet would greet me, but it won't, so I might just record my audio journal and go to bed. I'm tired and have a headache.