It took me forever to get to sleep last night so I ended up only
getting about six and a half hours of sleep. Six o'clock came really
quick but I managed to get up without much problem, which was a
pleasant surprise. And I ended up getting to work early because the
traffic was favorable.
I did all the usual opening stuff and learned the elevator right by
our desk was broken. Not long after we opened an elevator technician
came to look at it. When he got there, he stepped in the elevator,
hit a button, and as the doors closed I heard him say “Oh, no.”
Not really the most reassuring response from the guy there to fix the
elevator. I'm not sure what ended up being wrong with it but he did
find a big book somewhere inside the shaft.
After he was done fixing it, we discovered it kept making a repeated
series of high-pitched beeps. I narrowed it down to happening
whenever someone or something was over the threshold of the elevator.
So as people stepped in or out of the elevator it would beep. Or if
you just held your arm over the threshold it wouldn't stop beeping.
I also noticed that crossing the threshold when the door was closing
would cause the door to open without it even touch you. Before you
had to grab it and kind of pull it back open. Now it's like a garage
door that will automatically open back up if you trip the sensor. So
that's nice, but the beeping was really obnoxious. I thought the
technician had left so I sent an email to the maintenance guy, the
assistant director, and the rest of the department just to let them
know the elevator would beep anytime it was used. Not long after
that the assistant director came over with the technician and he was
able to turn the beeping off. My main worry, other than being
frequently annoyed by the beeping throughout the day, was that
another book or something would get dropped in such away that we
couldn't reach it but it would trigger non-stop beeping until a
technician could get there. We would all go nuts, employees and
patrons alike.
Today was a productive day. I edited and posted my notes for the
leadership video I watched to the department blog, along with an
appropriate GIF of a woman dance-stepping up a stair machine at the
gym. I also edited and posted my notes from the virtual conference I
watched a few sessions for awhile ago. The keynote was about net
neutrality and I used a slow loading GIF that represented what the
internet would be like if net neutrality went away.
This afternoon I spent awhile creating a mock-up of how I would
change the tech training page. The main thing was just moving the
tech class and workshop stuff to the bottom and adding buttons for
each of the classes so that people could use those to either navigate
to the class page and access the resources for the class, or open up
the registration page and sign up for the class. The page I made was
a combination of screenshots from the current page and Publisher
elements. It's not that pretty but I think it gets the point across.
For the last two hours of work there was a woman at the computers who
was talking loudly on her phone while she worked through signing up
for college. It was pretty annoying but she was at least trying to
improve her life, which is a lot more than most of the loud people at
the computers. And, no other patrons complained and I think that is
unprecedented given the length of time she was talking. Not even the
old long-haired patrons who was constantly complaining about the teen
siblings and the guy who got kicked out for a year and then arrested.
Coincidentally, the lady today was white, and people he has
complained about in the past were not. Coincidentally.
On my way home I stopped at Target. Among other things, I got frozen
pizza. One of my fellow librarians said she was going to have cold
pizza for lunch, which sounded really good. And then, the teen
librarian had pizza delivered to our desk for her event this
afternoon. It smelled so good. Like, best pizza I've ever smelled,
good. I thought about ordering a pizza but decided to save money and
get a frozen one. And I didn't have to wait for the delivery.
When I got home, I ate pizza, watched videos and clicked around the
internet, and then played a few matches in CoD: WW2. My first
game was Hardpoint and I went 35 and 21 with a sniper. That a
ridiculous K/D for me in general, but with a sniper? Good grief. My
next game, also Hardpoint, I went 17 and 13, so not as good, but I
also had almost three and a half minutes on the harpoints, which was
over two minutes longer than anyone else.
I also played a little bit of Tera tonight because they
released a new character class today and they're doing another
leveling event. I don't know that I'll go all the way to max level
this time but we'll see.
Now I want to go to bed, so I'm going to record my audio journal.
I'm glad tomorrow is Friday. This has felt like a really long week.
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