I didn't run on the elliptical this morning because I went up and
down the stairs so many times last night while messing with the
furnace that my knees were a bit achy.
I went down to the basement again this morning to take the ignitor
out of the furnace. This was a pain because the gas pipe runs right
over the top of the screw so I could use screwdriver or socket
wrench. I ended up using a crescent wrench, turning it less than a
quarter turn each time because that's all the room I had to work
with. But I got it out. The point of this was so that I could test
it. My multimeter was at my Mom's house, and I thought I would swing
by there before work to grab it but I wasn't moving fast enough for
that to happen. I also thought I would go to Home Depot after work
to get a new ignitor but all the ones I saw on their website that
looked like they would work, weren't available in the store. Instead
I tracked one down on Amazon that has the same model number, which
means I don't have to worry about it working.
Work went by pretty quickly today. I probably spent too much time
creating a diagram in Publisher for a possible desk layout using the
two tables we use for the print station, instead of the one big table
and two smaller ones we are currently using for our temporary desk.
Despite putting too much time into it, I think it looks pretty cool.
One of our semi-regulars, a younger guy who has had some incident
reports regarding the phone, was briefly back in the library today.
Now that we are so close to the computers it is a lot more apparent
when people are being annoying, which makes it harder to ignore.
This patron was listening to music a little too loudly so I went over
and asked him to turn it down a little. A minute or two later he
shouted out something I can't remember but it involved the word
'fuck', which is not appropriate, even if he wasn't saying it to
anyone in particular. I went back over to talk to him and pretty
much kicked himself out of the library for the day. He said
something about being mad at a girl, being heated up, and doing a
male dominance thing. And then continued mumbling as he left. Made
my job easier.
I had several other positive patron interactions throughout the day.
We are now in a much more central and visible location which I think
is increasing the chances of patrons coming up and asking us
questions. So far this is the main positive of our new spot. Today
I helped people with printing, finding books, and using the microfilm
machine.
The second half of my day was spent adding the automated bookmark
sheets into the workbooks for the patrons of the librarian I deliver
homebound books with. It's tedious for multiple reasons, the first
being that Excel doesn't like copying one-for-one when it comes to
copying a sheet from one workbook into another. Each time I had to
go through and adjust the column width for all of the columns, which
were all slightly off. The other tedious part is changing all of the
formulas on each bookmark so they reference the new workbook they're
in, not the one I copied the template from. Despite all that, I
nearly finished. I just need to finish changing the formulas on one
more patron. It was a very productive weekend.
On my way home I stopped at my Mom's house to get my multimeter. I
tested the ignitor and it seems to be working fine. Which is
frustrating because that would have been an easy fix. I'm still
going to try the new ignitor when it gets here on Tuesday. If
nothing else, now I'll have a backup ignitor. When I got home I also
tested the voltage going to the ignitor and it seemed low but the
furnace was on for maybe a second or two before shutting off without
the ignitor in it, so I think maybe there just wasn't enough time for
it to get up to full power. I'm just glad this is happening on the
tail-end of Winter weather.
I finally got around to roasting vegetables for dinner, and then
watched videos while I ate. After dinner I played a little bit of
CoD: WW2. I had several really good games on Shipment because
there is currently a challenge with a sniper camo reward and so many
people were using snipers to complete the challenge. I don't want
the camo, so I was using my favorite rifle, and I was destroying. It
was fun.
Now it's far too late so I'm going to go to bed.
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