February 15, 2018

Last night I got eight and a half hours of sleep, woke up before my alarm, and had awhile to watch videos and do internet things before I ran on the elliptical, got ready, ate lunch, and then headed to work.

I got to work at 1:30PM and I was off desk for two and a half hours. During that time I read news articles and started working on my homebound lists. I also emailed one of my homebound patrons because she sends me a list of books every week but it includes new books and DVDs, which I can't bring, so I wanted to clarify that. And she was understanding and offered some more suggestions.

I had a walkthrough at four o'clock, during which I refilled my DVD display, and then I talked to my boss and coworkers about the upcoming remodeling. Plans have changed again and now we're going to get our workroom first because they have decided to push back the teen space until after summer. That means we can slow down with the weeding a bit, but we have to put more thought into what we want our workroom to look like and what we're going to do with all the stuff that is currently at our desk.

There was a leak up on the third floor and we had to shut off the water on that side of the building until someone could come out and look at it. One of the other librarians printed out signs for the bathrooms and I went and put them on the bathroom doors. I think I had been back at the desk for maybe five minutes when we got the all clear, because the repair guys came really quick and it ended up not really being much of an issue. The HR person brought over the signs that were on the second floor bathrooms and by the time I got down to the first floor the signs had already been taken off those bathrooms as well. I think it took me longer to put the sticky tack on the signs than it did for them to get the issue taken care of.

I had my dinner break at five o'clock, which is better than the usual four o'clock dinner break, and way better than the less frequent three o'clock dinner break.

When I got back from dinner I was on desk for three hours, but the first thing I had to do was go down to the basement to shut off the toilet down there, because it had apparently been running for an hour. The librarian on desk got a call about it, tried to contact the maintenance guy but couldn't get ahold of him, and then got distracted and forgot about it. So I grabbed our screwdriver and went down there. It was a bit of a struggle to get the cover off the pipe, but I managed it. I then turned the thing the wrong way because the water started coming out a lot faster, so then I turned it the correct way. Once it stopped I gave it a second and turned it back on, flushed it a couple times to make sure all was well, and called it good.

Most of my on-desk time was spent working on my homebound list and I made decent progress. I should be able to easily finish that up on Saturday and maybe even start pulling books. Preferably I will be able to get everything done this weekend because the library is closed on Monday, but we'll be there all day for a staff development meeting, and I'm off Tuesday for the weekend.

I talked to my Mom and sister a little bit because they were there for the craft night. My Mom also signed up for a library card, because it has been awhile since she's had one. I also talked to one of my former scoutmasters who was there for a different event, and learned that the father of one of the kids who was a scout with me had passed away. That is always unfortunate to hear about. He was always a nice guy.

Near the end of the night I saw that the new Chuck Palahniuk book finally made it to my Kindle. It's a pre-release copy and I have been trying for at least a few days to get it sent to my Kindle, but it didn't appear to be working. Until tonight. Hopefully now I will be able to read it before I lose access to it.

When I got home I played a little CoD: WW2 and then watched videos for awhile. I have now been trying to write this for far too long. I would hate to know how much time I have spent writing about my life over the years. Thousands of hours.

Tomorrow I need to buy groceries and stop by my Mom's house to let the dogs out. On my days off I prefer not to leave the house but that doesn't always work out.