Wednesday, October 18, 2017

October 18, 2017

 This morning six o'clock came way too soon. But I got to bed at a somewhat decent time last night, so it could have been worse.

I had to be at work at eight o'clock for a staff meeting. Turns out the staff meeting only consisted of a presentation by my boss and one of the other librarians in my department, so thirty minutes later we were done. I figured there would be more to the meeting because it seems like forever since we've had one, but nope. The presentation was about customer service, and it was good, but the best part of the meeting was before it actually started. The head of the maintenance department was sitting behind me and I heard this interaction:

  • Maintenance Guy: “These things are child-proof aren't they?”
  • Tech Guy: “What is it?”
  • Maintenance Guy: “Just a damn stick of cheese but I can't open it.”

I laughed so hard.

I was on desk for an hour and then I went upstairs because I had registered for a virtual conference. It was the same virtual conference I attended last year. I think the theme this year was digital equity and minimizing the digital divide. The keynote focused on that and net neutrality and it was really interesting. After that I was only able to watched a couple short things before I had to go to lunch. Everything should be archived so I can go back at some point and check out some of the other sessions.

I went to lunch slightly late because I was talking to the teen librarian, so I got back from lunch slightly late. And then we went to do homebound. It went about the same as always. I did learn while talking to one of my patrons that one of the grocery stores in own may do curbside delivery, so you can order your groceries online and they'll bring it out to you. I know the grocery store that I currently go to does the curbside thing in other towns but I don't think they do it here. So I might need to check into this other grocery store. I'm kind of tired of getting screwed on produce late at night.

When we got back to the library we dropped all our books off and then I went to talk to one of the tech people about a new project that I might get to pawn off on one of our assistants. That would be great. And then I was on desk for an hour while everyone else went to the second staff meeting (we do one in the morning and one in the afternoon so everyone can go to it regardless of when they work). I had enough time to finish updating my spreadsheets with the bookmarks I got back from homebound today. So I'm way ahead of where I was last month, when I kind of forgot about it for weeks. Then I talked with my coworkers when they got back from the meeting until it was time to leave.

After work I picked up Qdoba and headed to my Mom's for dinner. We ate, talked, and watched videos. Good times as always. And then I came home, watched YouTube videos, and started writing this.


And now I'm going to record my audio journal so I can think about going to bed. I have to be at the library no later than 7:30AM tomorrow which means I need to leave my house really close to seven o'clock. It's going to be a rough morning. But it's better than the teen librarian who did the presentations this morning because she has about an hour long commute. I'm giving the same presentation to three different classes, so I'm sorry to the first class because that one probably won't be very great, but I should be decent by the third one.

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