October 12, 2017

 This morning I woke up early, went out to the living room, put on Spotify's Autumn August playlist, and started reading Turtles All The Way Down. I'm about fifty pages in but have decided I need to go back and start writing down all of the good quotes. I could start from where I'm at but there have already been several, and it shouldn't take me too long to skim through what I've already read.

Around 9:30AM I heard the mowers and shortly after that my music stopped playing. It is a very first world problem to say my mowers cut my internet cable, but it is also a personal problem, and I'm annoyed. I feared when the strung the cable across the yard that something like this would happen. They missed it the last time and I was hoping this time was just a coincidence and that my router needed to be reset. But it wasn't my router. After my shower I went and walked along the cable. It was cleanly sliced through about halfway along the line and it was completely chewed through near the post. Once wasn't good enough apparently.

Rather than trying customer service again, which would just have me restart my router and then give me a service time sometime next week, I told my sister and she got on Twitter again. Based on my schedule they weren't able to come until Saturday, but it's Saturday from 8:00AM to 10:00AM. I'll be at work most of tomorrow so this is better than a couple weeks ago. Still annoying though. Hopefully it will get buried more quickly this time. One funny thing came of my sister's Twitter conversation. After telling them the cable had been cut in two places they told her I would be charged $75 for the visit if the problem ended up being something inside the house. I'm fairly confident the problem is with the cable being cut in two places.

When I got to work I caught up on emails and the staff blog. Then I read a few news articles before I was on desk for two hours. In that time I helped one patron find a book, I helped another with her resume on the computer, and I worked on homebound stuff.

After my desk shift we had a meeting at the desk with the teen librarian. She made a presentation for us to show next week at our outreach and she wanted to go over it with us. It ended up taking about an hour. The information didn't take that long but there was the occasional patron to help and a lot of random tangents that were mostly library-related.

When I got back from dinner I was on desk again. I continued working on homebound stuff. After the hour on desk I had a couple walkthroughs and in all of that time I was just able to finish my homebound list. Tomorrow I might be able to pull my books but I'm on desk for four hours, which really cuts into my book-pulling time. We'll see.

After my last walkthrough I went to the classroom because we had our 3D printing workshop tonight. By the end of it we had twelve people show up, which is really good for an evening class. Or for any class actually. The presenter, who works for our library system, covered a whole bunch of information about 3D printing and then the attendees were able to look at and play with different software for making 3D models. They had the option of picking one of the already made files or creating their own, and then having it printed for them. Surprisingly only five or six people chose to do that. Overall, I think it went really well. I'm going to send out the survey tomorrow so we'll find out what everyone thought.

I had enough time to upload statistics and the attendee list before we closed. After we closed there were a couple cop cars in our parking lot. I went over to talk to one of the officers and apparently some stuff had been stolen at the high school and they found one of the phones in our bushes. They didn't need anything from us and as we walked away several teen girls with their mothers showed up. I'm assuming they are the victims. Tomorrow I'll tell my boss and possibly write up an incident report just so everyone is aware that this happened.

I am now at my Mom's, using the internet, but I will shortly be leaving so I can go home, record my audio journal, and go to bed. I open tomorrow, which I'm not looking forward to, but at least I'll get off at five o'clock.