March 30, 2018

I opened this morning. All the usual stuff happened, and I also shredded a bunch of raffle tickets from last year's summer reading program. They were put in a drawer and kind of forgotten about over the past several months. We have to shred them because they have patron information on them. It's a very tedious process. It would be much easier to just burn them all. And more fun. But I don't think that would go over very well.

I was on desk for two hours when we opened and handled several requests for room reservations. It was weird how many there were all of a sudden. When I was dealing with that, I read news articles, wrote an email and blog post about our new patron printer because it's got some weird stuff going on at the moment, like only printing in color even when a patron selects black and white, but charging them for black and white, not color. I also downloaded Dropbox so I could take screenshots of the different preference options. Then I had a walkthrough and read library-related articles until lunch.

When I got back from lunch I went and weeded my new section for an hour and a half. I got through the pet section and have nearly made it to vegetarian cookbooks. We have a surprisingly large vegetarian cookbook collection. And I will soon find out how popular it is. It's kind of nice that we are just inheriting other people's lists, so I don't actually have to go through and mark what needs to be weeded, because it's already been done. I just have to make the final judgment call.

I had enough time to withdraw all the books I pulled and get another empty cart from upstairs (because I nearly filled the other cart with the books I pulled) before going on a walkthrough. Following the walkthrough, I went upstairs and spent the last hour and a half in the cubicle. I zoned out with some music and worked on creating my informative sheet about the Dropbox preference options. I compiled all of my screenshots and used the explanation for the main options I found on the Dropbox website. I also had time to make a few edits to my presentation slides, namely, adding the links for the two videos under the videos. I turn the slides into a PDF to put on the website (because that's more universally accessible than a PowerPoint), but you can't watch the embedded videos when it is a PDF, so I added a hyperlink below the video, so now people can click on it and jump over to YouTube. After finishing it I replaced the old one on the class page. Then I sent an email to all of the patrons who came to the class with the questions and answers PDF I made, along with the preferences PDF. It was a productive time in the cubicle.

After work I got an oil change. I realized a couple days ago that I was a thousand miles over the mileage on my sticker. Whoops.

When I got home I roasted vegetables and made rice for dinner. I also had a baked potato with salsa. It was a pretty good dinner. While I ate I watched videos, and later on in the night I played CoD: WW2. And after that I finished listening to Panic by Lauren Oliver. I started listening to it on my trip to see my grandma, and made it through disc six yesterday, I believe, which ended on a bit of a cliffhanger, and then there wasn't a disc seven. So I checked it out again today and was able to listen to disc seven and the end of the book. Overall, I liked it. I kept expecting something more to happen, but it never really did. But other than that, it wasn't bad.

And now I'm really tired, but Mister Rogers is about it talk to an astronaut, so I'm going to try and stay awake for that, and then go to bed. Tomorrow I'm going to do my taxes. I'm excited. So excited.