Still taking a break from the elliptical. I want to wait until there
isn't even a hint of pain in my knee.
When I got to work I learned that the opening librarian had gone home
sick, which meant I was along for the first two hours, but I was okay
with that. I answered quite a few phone calls and helped a few
patrons, but for the most part is was pretty quiet. It gave me time
to catch up on the news and proofread one of our assistants'
newspaper articles. I can't go over things with a fine-tooth comb,
like the other librarians with masters degrees in English, or the
head of technical services who used to be an English teacher, but I
can spot misspelled words and things that don't sound right. The
assistant is a good writer, though, so I didn't really have much
input. I changed her formatting a little to fit with the newspaper
formatting, but other than that I didn't have much to say. I did
suggest she run it by the other librarians, though, just to be safe.
My boss was back from her vacation today and she had taken a look at
the new format for the new monthly reports, and she liked it, so I
ended up spending a lot of the day working on a
mini-tutorial/explanation to send to the rest of the people in the
department. I included a lot of screenshots to make it easier to
follow and it ended up being a little more involved than I was
expecting. But I eventually got it done and sent out, so now we'll
see how it goes over with everyone. The one other librarian who was
there today spent some time playing around with it, changing the
colors, and tweaking things, but for the most part she seemed pretty
comfortable with it. I'm anticipating questions but hopefully my
tutorial gets people going on the right track.
I had three walkthroughs leading up to lunch, and then after lunch I
was back on desk for an hour. This is when I got the tutorial
finished and sent to everyone. I also helped a patron print a few
paystubs. This is the same patron I helped the other day print
paystubs. I had completely forgotten where to go in her employee
portal to get to the paystubs (and she had as well) so it took a bit
of clicking around, but we got there in the end.
I spent the last part of my day creating thermometer icons in
Publisher. Due to our lack of software on our computers at work, I
end up using Publisher to do a lot of things it really wasn't
designed for. The idea of the thermometers is to show the level of
importance of various ongoing projects in the monthly report
spreadsheet. At the moment I'm just using colored dots, but I
thought a thermometer might be more interesting. Then the other
librarian mentioned a stack of books, so with the last few minutes I
created a 3D book in Publisher. It turned out surprisingly well.
For dinner I made scrambled eggs with a little bit of Parmesan
cheese, and more Bisquick biscuits. The eggs were tasty and the
biscuits were even better than last weekend. While I ate dinner I
watched videos, and then I spent the rest of the night playing CoD:
WW2. I started playing with the new sniper rifle, and it can be
a little frustrating because it's slow and if you aim too low you
just get hit markers, but it sounds really cool. I was able to
completely level it and prestige it once tonight, so I think I'm
going to keep using it so I can unlock the diamond camo like I have
on the rest of the sniper rifles.
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