March 2, 2018

Last night I got seven hours of sleep, so that was a slight improvement over previous nights. I also didn't run on the elliptical this morning because yesterday my left knee started getting pretty achy while at work and I decided I wanted to give it a little time off.

I was off desk for the first two hours of work. I looked at Twinery examples, read news articles, talked to my coworker, and worked on the active shooter cheat sheet. I tweaked the cheat sheet throughout the day but I think it's pretty close to its final form. Or at least the final rough draft. I'll get input from the managers' meeting next week.

I was on desk for two hours after that. I worked on the active shooter thing, helped patrons, answered phone calls, and had an interesting interaction in chat. They asked for a cool book and when I asked what there definition of “cool” was they said “cold”. So I asked if they wanted places or food. When they said food I gave them a link to a book about ice cream. Then they asked for a cookbook. And when I asked what kind, they said ice cream. I sent a link to one of those, they said thank you, and thankfully that was the end of it.

When I got back from lunch I answered a call from New York. The person wanted to know if we had access to the local newspaper from the 1930s, which we do on microfilm. Then he asked if I could find and mail a copy of the front page of the March 10, 1938 to a local address. It was meant to be a birthday present for a local resident, who was born on that date. The guy calling was the boyfriend of a woman who I think is the granddaughter of the local resident, and the rest of the family lives in Germany, so this was their attempt at a birthday present. I managed to find the page, got it printed out across two legal size pages because the entire page of a newspaper is big, wrote a quick letter to go along with it so the guy knew what was going on, and got it put in an envelope and ready to be mailed out.

I was on desk for an hour again and spent that time doing things. The main thing was updating drop-in information on the calendar. Previously I moved the location of the drop-ins happening in April and May because of the remodeling. Then it was decided we needed to move the ones in March as well. I was able to move the one at the end of March but there wasn't really a viable location for the one next week, so I think we're going to leave it because the room shouldn't be needed next week for remodeling-related things. I also updated the description for each one to reflect the the correct room, because I forgot to do that when I moved locations. After that I signed up for a webinar about conflict and read news articles.

The last hour of the day was spent reading library magazines because I wanted a break from the computer. I also ordered a pizza, because that sounded good, even though I still have leftovers from Chipotle and the last time I cooked.

On the way home I stopped for gas, and within maybe two or three minutes of getting home, the pizza was delivered. This was perfect timing and a pleasant surprise because it was supposed to take quite a bit longer than that. I got Pizza Hut for the first time in years. I mainly avoid it because it's pretty greasy. I think it was slightly better than I remember but still kind of greasy. My pizza had barbeque sauce and it was half green peppers and half pineapple. I also got fries, because apparently Pizza Hut has fries now. They are in the same realm as Spangles fries, which is cool because those are my favorite, but they were put in a covered box when they were hot (which is the same thing IHOP does), so by the time I got them they were just kind of soggy. Still tasty though.

While I ate I watched videos, and then I played CoD: WW2. I noticed the playlist for the new maps so I jumped in that. I got to play all the new maps but one of them caused my game to crash the two times I got into it. After that I updated my graphics driver (because that fixed things back when Operation Griffin was crashing my game) so hopefully the next time I get that map my game won't crash. Other than the crashing, I had fun. I need to play the new maps more to see if I actually like them. Right now they are interesting but I can't fully have fun with them when I have no idea where I should be going and where I should be expecting the other players to come from.

After playing I went back to watching videos and I got distracted by that for too long because it is now 12:45AM and I'm freaking tired. But I will hopefully get a full night of sleep tonight and won't be waking up to an alarm in the morning. I might even do something productive tomorrow. It's a solid maybe.