September 5, 2017

 This morning I slept in and then got up so I could sent my email to the HOA and write a couple checks (which I mailed on my way to work). I ended up going with one big one for the past dues and one for October. I haven't gotten a response from my email, so timely responses aren't their thing. To be fair, I'm still a little annoyed it took them almost a year to contact me. But to be fair, it took them almost a year to contact me and now at least more than a day to respond to my email, so my judgment of their timeliness seems acceptable.

Today felt like a fairly unproductive day at work. I was on desk for an hour, which gave me time to catch up on emails and a couple of my monthly statistics things. Then I had an hour off and a lot of that was spent talking to the teen librarian about adulting stuff, both the class tonight and the future of the series.

For the two hours after that we had our tech drop-in. We didn't have anyone for at least the first half an hour but then a lady showed up. She works that the university and was having trouble accessing her email on her laptop, phone, and tablet. My first thought was she should talk with the IT people at the university, who are actually located in the library I believe, but we did what we could for her. We basically just added shortcuts on each device so she could more quickly access her email. She should have been able to just use Outlook and mail on her phone but I know in the school district that was a more convoluted process than just typing in your email address, so we recommended she talk to the people at the university. We also had our old curmudgeon stop by and I showed him how to take screenshots on his phone.

Then I had my dinner break and when I got back I was on desk for an hour. And then we set up for the class tonight. We set out schedules, brochures, paper, and pencils. We also decided to put out water and lemonade, which were both popular, so it was a good choice. The class itself went well, they had a presentation as well as visual aids, some of which they passed around. We had twenty-one people register for the class and I we're going with a total of nineteen people being there (because we're counting myself and the teen librarian because we were just as interested in the class as the other attendees). I learned two particularly interesting things. The first is that a taillight and a brake light can be accomplished with a single bulb that has two filaments. Pretty cool. The second thing is that a battery is filled with a mix of sulfuric acid and water. As a battery depletes, a greater portion of the mix is water, which means it is more prone to freezing in the winter and boiling in the summer. Interesting. The instructors mentioned wanting to do a class over the summer where people can actually bring their own cars into the shop and get the chance to look things over up close and get hands-on experience. I think that's a pretty cool idea and we're going to see if we can make it happen this summer.

We got everything picked up with about five minutes before the library closed, which is just about perfect timing. I got home really quickly because I only hit two lights and they went fast even when I hit them. When I got home I checked internet things and watched YouTube videos. And now I need to record my audio journal because it is after 11:30PM and I want to go to bed.