October 17, 2017

 This morning I slept in a little bit and then watched a recorded livestream for awhile before getting ready, eating lunch, and going to work.

I was on desk for two hours but when I first got to work I ran around to get the whiteboard set up to advertise the tech drop-in and the signs put up for the healthy cooking class. When I finally got back to the desk I spent my time working on my conference presentation. I'm feeling a little better about it but it's still really up in the air. And time is running out. Yay.

When I was off desk it was time for tech drop-in. We had two patrons, I helped the old man while the new librarian helped a woman who came in a little later. The old man was the same one I helped during the ebooks class where we got a little distracted by YouTube. I helped him for an hour and forty-five minutes and in that time I learned more about him, which was pretty cool. He used to be an electrician in the army and went to a few different colleges to learn about electronics and programming. This was back when you programmed in binary or cards and then read the output in an array of small light bulbs. It was really interesting. I helped him with his Kindle Fire and found a book in our collection that would help him further. I also found an old book on Project Gutenberg that his grandpa used to think was funny and he was interested in reading it, and I put it on his Kindle for him. I also inadvertently taught him that the power cord for his Kindle could be unplugged from the plug and then plugged into a computer.

Following tech drop-in I went to dinner. When I got back I was on desk for an hour. I did stuff during that time and then I had two walkthroughs. In between those walkthroughs I started setting up for the class tonight. The teen librarian wasn't scheduled so I had to do all of the running around. We ended up having six people show up. Would have been nice if it there were more people but it could have been worse. The class itself was really good. I got some good tips on and resources and the people who attended seemed to like it.

The class ended at eight o'clock which gave me plenty of time to pick everything up and take care of several things before we closed. I restocked the DVD display, wrote down magazine information (because we're tracking what is being read), uploaded attendance statistics, wrote a Thank You note for the speaker tonight, and took a few notes about my day.

On the way home I got gas, because I needed gas. When I got home I ate a snack, clicked around the internet briefly, and then started writing this. It is late and I have to be at work tomorrow morning at eight o'clock for a staff meeting. That's going to be rough. And then Thursday I have to be at work by 7:30AM so I can do an outreach thing in the morning. So this week I close twice, open twice, and then I'm off on Friday. It's a weird week.

Now I'm going to record my audio journal so I can go to bed.