January 15, 2018

 This morning I woke up, ran on the elliptical for fifteen minutes, got ready, ate breakfast, and went to work. I went upstairs for the first two hours at work, read news articles, and worked on my homebound lists. Then I was on desk for two hours and continued working on homebound lists. I also answered a lot of phone calls and a couple chats asking if we were open today because of the holiday. We were.

I got a real reference question while on desk, asking for more information about when Martin Luther King Jr. gave a speech in 1968 at the local university. Online I pulled up the archive of the university newspaper and clipped the article about the speech. Then I used our microfilm to find the article about it in our local paper. It was fun doing research.

For lunch I used my bread for my peanut butter sandwich. It was pretty good but the bread is very dense. I need to get better at not making dense bread. Maybe throw a book in with the other ingredients...

When I got back from lunch I had a walkthrough and then I edited and printed out the Martin Luther King Jr. articles. The one from our paper was arranged weird on the page so I had to cut and move columns around so I could get it all on one page.

Then I was off desk for the last three hours of the day, which was perfect. I finished making my homebound lists, pulled all of the books, checked them out, made bookmarks and got them stuffed in the books, and bagged up the books. All I need to do is update my spreadsheets. And maybe call one of my patrons to see if she wants books this month. I was far more productive than I thought I would be.

On my way home I stopped at Target. Once again their bread aisle looked like a hurricane is coming. It's crazy. When I got home I ate dinner, the highlight of which is that I didn't eat too much spaghetti. I have a horrible habit of eating too much whenever I make pasta of any kind. It's just so good. I did it last night but I avoided it tonight, and I'm thoroughly impressed with myself.

After dinner I maybe dozed off in my chair for a little bit and then I played CoD: WW2. It took several games but I was finally able to unlock diamond camo for my sniper rifles. I needed to get five kills without dying two more times and I think I did it once in my first or second game tonight. And then I played several games where the other team had four friends playing together and they were coordinated and good. I would have accused them of cheating but there aren't kill cams in hardcore so it's hard to prove. Also, they were using SMGs and rifles and I was using a sniper rifle, so it makes sense that they were winning the gun fights. I finally managed it when I switched to hardcore Domination. It helps when there is an objective to focus on because that provides a little bit of a distraction for everyone. I tried to do Kill Confirmed because I had success with that last time, but no one was playing it tonight. But Domination worked on, on the first try I think. And I actually played the objective, coming out on top on my team. Hardcore Domination is kind of nice because there are a lot fewer grenades being thrown around thanks to friendly fire being on. At least their should be.

I once again got distracted by YouTube and Twitch and it is now nearing one o'clock in the morning. I don't go in until noon tomorrow, which is nice because it is supposed to be in the negatives to low single digit temperatures tomorrow morning, with a wind chill advisory. It's only supposed to be up to seven degrees by noon but that's better than negatives. Because of this they canceled school. They've had two cancellations so far this semester and I am really missing not working at a school anymore. Oh well, at least I get to sleep in tomorrow.