I got seven hours of sleep last
night, got up, got ready, and went to work. When I got to work I
quickly made a whiteboard sign for the tech drop-in today and had
another librarian take it down to the atrium because I was on desk
for two hours. It was a very active two hours. Seven or eight
purchase requests came in since last night, one of them couldn't be
purchased but one library in our ILL network had it so I suggested
that but never heard back. And we already owned two of the other
requested books. I also had a number of phone calls throughout. I
only got hung up on once by our regular patron who is always calling
and asking for random phone numbers and addresses. I had gotten a
few words into my sentence when she hung up, immediately called back,
and said she was waiting for me but was conserving her minutes. So
she used more minutes to hang up and call me back and explain why she
hung up on me, rather than just letting me finish my sentence.
In between all of that stuff I
worked on my presentation. I started exporting the slides I had made
in Publisher as PNGs and importing them into PowerPoint. It's a
convoluted system but I have more options to tweak things in
Publisher so that's that.
When I got off desk I went to a
meeting for the upcoming updated room reservation and event program.
It's better and worse depending on how you look at it. Overall,
though, I think it will be for the best. We'll get used to it.
After that I had two walkthroughs
and then went to lunch.
Immediately following lunch we had
our tech drop-in and it was a big success. One person showed up
early and over the course of two hours we had six people, four of
whom were there most of the time. Thankfully we had our volunteer
today and we had to pull in another librarian and there was still a
bit of a wait for people to be helped. We helped patrons with:
saving camera phone pictures to an SD card instead of internal
storage, syncing mail between an iPhone and an iPad, our ebook and
audiobook resources, paying bills online, setting up a printer (which
the patron actually brought in), and a Kindle Paperwhite that started
out in German. Quite the range of questions.
I spent the rest of my day finishing
my presentation. I threw in some GIFs at the end and rewrote my
conclusion and I think I'm good. Hopefully. I also had a
walkthrough, which was uneventful except I saw one of the sister's of
the teenager we banned for a week. None of the siblings have been in
for the past week and I thought seeing the sister might be a sign
that the brother was also back. Today was the last day of his ban,
however, so when he did show up upstairs I went over with one of the
other librarians and gave him his ban letter and let him know that he
was welcome back tomorrow but he would have to leave today. The best
part was that he said he hadn't been to the library in two weeks and
that he had never been disrespectful to library staff. Hilariously
false on both counts.
I checked out a book with an
eggplant parmesan recipe in today and when I got home I made it. It
looked really good but it turns out I don't really like eggplant. I
couldn't even finish the portion I put on my plate. It wasn't
overtly bad but there was just something a little bit off about the
flavor that wasn't for me. Luckily I also made mashed red potatoes
with parmesan and garlic. They were pretty tasty and they ended up
being the majority of my dinner. I ate way to much.
After dinner I put air in my tires
and the air compressor was far less scary this time. I only jumped
when it kicked on halfway through filling my tires. It helped that I
was wearing earplugs, because it is uncomfortably loud. I meant to
grab my protective earmuffs from my Mom's house today but forgot but
I still had earplugs from the Fourth of July, and those worked well.
Then I washed my dishes and played a
couple matches of CoD: WW2
multiplayer. I wasn't too bad. I wasn't great, but for not having a
lot of practice, I wasn't too bad. I even got in the top three in
one of the matches.
And it is now eleven o'clock. I'm
going to record my audio journal and go to bed. That sounds like a
really good plan.
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