September 8, 2017

 It is after midnight and I am tired so we'll see how well this goes.

Today was a pretty slow day at work. Most of my time was spent working on tutorials. I added a few more tweaks to the tutorial I finished yesterday. The most time-consuming one was adding links to all of the Table of Contents items. In Publisher you can create hyperlinks to other pages in the document, and those remain when you turn it into a PDF, and that is exactly what I wanted. But it turns out you can't copy and paste hyperlinks in Publisher. So instead of adding the hyperlinks on one slide and then copying them to all the others, I had to individually add the links on all fifty slides that have the Table of Contents. It took awhile. I also added little green arrows in the bottom corners to navigate back and forth. Those also required hyperlinks but that process seemed to go much faster. Lastly, I added a tiny progress bar under the currently highlighted section in the Table of contents. So as you go through each section you can see how close you are to finishing that section. It's not really necessary but the idea popped into my head and I think it's kind of cool.

I took a slightly later lunch so I could call the HOA management company because the guy said he would be back in his office by 1:30PM. He was not. I left a message with his secretary. Another strike.

I got a start on my next tutorial. It turns out I really need to make three, not two, for the tech training thing because it doesn't make any sense to put the room reservation stuff with the event stuff. I got several slides into the new tutorial but kind of got sidetracked near the end of the day and didn't make it too far.

I feel like that was pretty much my day at work. I woke a patron up and helped a few other patrons, but that was about it. My favorite patron today was a lady who came up to the desk and said “I need a book.” I responded with “We've got a lot of books.” She laughed and said she needed that. Winning the hearts and minds.

After work I went to my Mom's house, ate a quick dinner (which was my third meal of the day involving peanut butter), and then we went to pick up my Mom's friend, who is also one of the kindergarten teachers we used to work with. She lives out of town, so it took awhile, but once we had her we headed back in town to see a comedian. She was hilarious. There weren't any opening acts, it was just her for over two hours, which is impressive because I couldn't talk that long. She didn't seem to have much of a structure to the act, it was very much a stream of consciousness thing. A lot of time was spent talking to three different couples and a college student. Which might sound boring but it was hilarious. I'm just glad our tickets weren't in the front row. One of the ladies was a librarian and that made it all the more funny. At one point during it I felt a tap on my shoulder and it was one of the university librarians I interviewed in school and shadowed during my practicum. We both acknowledged we were glad not to be up front.

It was a really good night. The comedian was funny and I got to catch up on some school gossip with the kindergarten teacher. It made me kind of glad I wasn't at the school anymore because things seem to have changed quite a bit. But I do still miss it. Working with kids was pretty fun. Now I pretty much just get old people. And loud teenagers.

I got home around 10:45PM and took forever to start writing this. And have now taken an hour to write it. That is way too long. I keep taking long blinks which are getting harder and harder to recover from. I'm going to attempt to record my audio journal and then go to bed.