November 15, 2017

 Last night I only got six and a half hours of sleep. It was not enough.

I opened with another librarian today so all the opening stuff went pretty fast. I took upstairs and she did the downstairs stuff. When we opened I was on desk for two hours and my main reference question was from a grandma helping find books for her grandson who was working on his final merit badge. She came in yesterday or the day before looking for books as well. The grandson is apparently working on his Eagle project, and yet it seems like his grandma is doing his merit badge for him. It could be completely innocent, and she could just be getting the books for him, but I'm the one picking out the books and I have a sneaking suspicion she's the one doing the reading. I know there were parents when I was in Scouts that did stuff like that for their kids. Even some who did the vast majority of the work for the Eagle project. That takes away from the kid's experience and I don't really think it sets them up for success later in life. It's kind of frustrating to watch.

The rest of my time on desk, and then after my walkthrough, I added links to the table of contents in my presentation. I remembered that I needed to add the links in Publisher, which would allow me to link to pages in the document, and those would save in PDF form. I also remembered that I had to add the links on each slide, I couldn't copy and paste them because for some reason the links don't carry over. So it has turned into a very long, tedious process.

This afternoon we went out to deliver books. I picked up books from one patron and delivered books to three others. It was a slow month for homebound. The other librarian didn't have much to deliver either and I think she had three or four patrons that didn't want anything. After delivering books we went to Hobby Lobby to pick up a few things for tomorrow's program. I haven't been to Hobby Lobby in close to a year. I need to get back into making stuff.

When we got back to the library we dropped our books off at circulation and then I went upstairs to continue working on adding links to my presentation. I made it to slide fifty, out of one-hundred and twenty or so. It would be sweet if I could finish tomorrow but that might be unrealistic. We'll see how distracted I get.

After work I picked up Qdoba and then went to my Mom's house for dinner. We ate, talked, and watched videos. I was also able to finish replacing smoke detector batteries because my Mom bought more batteries.

When I got home I checked internet things and then played CoD: WW2 multiplayer. I played several different gamemodes and had a good time. I'm close to prestiging my Infantry division, and the last thing I did tonight was prestige one of my guns. I can't remember all the benefits of prestiging a weapon but I do know I have to unlock all of the attachments again, which will be a little bit of a pain. But I like unlocking things and leveling up, so all is well.

Now, audio journal, and then sleep.