October 22, 2017

 Last night I got seven hours of sleep, so I already off to a better start than yesterday. I woke up at 9:00AM, got out of bed at 9:30AM, and clicked around the internet for awhile, ironed my pants, and then got ready for the day. I actually forgot I had to be at work at 12:30PM, not 12:00, so after eating lunch it was like I gained another half hour.

Goodness. I've just been ridiculously sidetracked by installing and customizing a new messaging app.

When I got to work Circulation was listening to an interesting playlist. I came in to a hardcore rap song, later it was a slow R&B song, and by the time I headed upstairs it was a DMX song.

Counting the drawer at work today way not as fun as yesterday. It was really short on five dollar bills. I ended up just trading out the only five dollar bills (three of them) and some ones from the change box. I didn't hear any complaints during the day so it must have worked out alright.

Most of my day was spent working on conference presentation stuff. I made an outline for the slideshow with talking points for each slide. Now that I have that I am feeling much better about the presentation. I still need to practice and make sure I'm covering everything, but I'm getting there.

It was a busy day at the library but it was a pretty quiet day at the desk. Most of my patron interactions just involved handing over guest passes for the computers.

I refilled my DVD display a few times and I got all three of the Men In Black movies to check out. I displayed the first one on top of the second two and the first time I went downstairs only the first movie was taken. There was another copy of it on the shelf so I put that out and the next time I came downstairs all three were gone. I want to believe someone checked them all out to do a marathon.

There wasn't a closing custodian so I had to walk the emergency stairs and lock the elevator on the first floor. The emergency stairs have alarms on the doors that you have to un-arm and then re-arm once you go in. There is also a time delay on the alarm, to give you time to re-arm it. If you don't do it fast enough than the alarm goes off. At least I think that's how it works. I'm not entirely sure I re-armed it correctly but I feel like the alarm would have gone off if I hadn't. Hopefully.

When I got home I roasted vegetables, made brown rice, and scrambled eggs for dinner. I then spent the night watching a few long YouTube videos, reading stuff on the internet, and messaging with my Bumble match. We decided to exchange numbers tonight because the Bumble app is surprisingly awful for communicating. When typing a message you can only see two lines of text at a time, and you have to wake up your phone to see the notification for new messages, it doesn't have a light notification or at least wake up the phone screen. So now we're texting and it is so much more convenient.

That is also the reason I downloaded a new text messaging app. I was using the default Android messaging app but I never liked the notification light options, so I turned off notifications and used another text messaging app just for its notifications. It was convoluted. So now I'm trying a new app. The app itself looks really nice and I like the customization options within the app. I didn't get it set up until after midnight so I haven't been able to test out the notifications. I'll try that out tomorrow and keep my fingers crossed that they live up to my expectations.

And now it's time for my audio journal so I can go to bed.