I woke up this morning, ran on the elliptical for fifteen minutes,
got ready, and went to work. I did all the usual opening stuff,
including sharpening a bunch of pencils. I was on desk for two hours
when we opened, answered phone calls, caught up on emails, and
reprinted the MLK articles I found the other day. The originals
printed out really blurry and I wanted to see if I could do better.
I compressed the images before importing them into Publisher and I
also printed them out on the copier, instead of the regular printer.
I don't know if it was one of those things or the combo but the
result was a much better print job, so the articles are much more
legible now. And it was worth the trouble with the copier, which
took three of us to figure out how to print in black and white, which
sounds ridiculous, but it's true.
The spanking phone caller came up today because of the email I sent
this morning about the call last night. My boss wrote an incident
report, based on both phone calls, and there was talk with admin
about it. One of the IT people looked up the number and found out it
was for a 101 year old man in Wisconsin, who lives with his 69 year
old son. We're thinking it was the son. Later in the day someone
found a post on a librarian Facebook group from a librarian in
another state describing a phone call she received that sounded
exactly the same as our phone calls. And this post turned into a
long thread with multiple librarians in different states describing
the exact same thing. So this dude is definitely a serial library
creep. I think it was after the Facebook post that it was decided to
block the number so we won't have to deal with him anymore.
I went upstairs briefly before lunch so I could call one of my
homebound patrons. And then after lunch we went out to deliver
books. We had to use the other librarian's car because all the
library vehicles were taken, and that added a more laid back dynamic
to the whole thing. We also didn't have as many books to deliver so
we got the whole thing done in about two hours, rather than closer to
three hours, so not bad.
When we got back to the library I got my new weeding list. The
second floor remodeling is on a much faster schedule than we
originally thought and now we need to do a lot of weeding in a short
amount of time. Unfortunately I didn't get to print off my own list,
which would have allowed me to reorganize things and sort the list to
make it easier for me weed. It's way more efficient the way I do it
and saves a lot of paper. But apparently the person in technical
services who usually prints the list felt bad that we were printing
our own lists, which made my boss feel bad, which led to me getting a
423-page weeding list that I have to sort through. Hooray.
After work I picked up Chipotle because there were parking spots.
Then I took a horribly planned route through town, getting caught in
a lot of traffic at every turn. I stopped and got gas, and then
stopped at my house to pick up my trash and grab an HDMI cable before
heading to my Mom's house for dinner.
When I got to my Mom's, the first thing I did was take a look at her
TV because she said it hasn't been working for a day or so. It would
come on but all she got was a black screen. My first troubleshooting
step was to check the different inputs to see if I could get a
picture. I got one for the Chromecast and got her Xbox to show up,
which was a good sign. Then I switched the Xbox input to the one the
satellite was on and could still see the Xbox on that input, also a
good sign. That is when the HDMI cable came into play. I switched
out the HDMI cable going from the satellite box to the TV with the
cable I brought over and, voila, the TV was working again. I'm
really glad it was an easy fix like that, and not a broken TV.
Once the TV was working we ate dinner, talked, and watched YouTube
videos. It was a pretty good night. I got home around eight
o'clock, clicked around the internet, watched YouTube videos, and
took forever to finish this, as always. I'm still deep in the rabbit
hole of rapper interview videos.
I open again tomorrow and I'm already looking forward to getting off
at five o'clock. I need a weekend.
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