I slept a little better in the recliner last night but I still woke
up several times. I think part of it is related to not having
figured out the temperature and blankets quite yet. I keep getting
hot in the middle of the night. I can't sleep when I'm hot. Maybe
tonight will be better.
When I got to work I was off desk for two hours. I made an end cap
sign for one of the shelves with the appropriate call numbers,
accurately reflecting the newly shifted books. I was also able to
finish my latest weeding list and withdrew the few books I pulled
(the cookbook section is well used). I also cleared off one of the
shelves on my cart. My cart has been completely filled since the
last time we weeded, with books I want to read. But that's been
maybe a year ago and I have pretty much just ignored my cart. I had
switched all of the shelf locations for the books to my cart, in case
anyone tried to find them, but today I went through and withdrew all
of them. And I picked several of them (enough to free up one of the
shelves), and added those to the weeding cart with my name on them.
I've gotta be getting close to pushing the limit on free books. I
got a stack of them back today from ones that got sent up yesterday.
If anything they'll get tired of bringing them back down for me.
After my walkthrough I went up to the cubicle and caught up on the
news and looked through the obituaries and arrests for the last week
or two in our local newspaper. One reason for looking at both is
that they're on the same page. Another reason for the obituaries is
because I haven't heard from one of my homebound patrons in a little
while and I'm a bit concerned. Thankfully I didn't find her name.
As for the arrests, the head of the IT department was fired over the
weekend, escorted down to his office to collect his things and all
that, and the reason is still a mystery. I found out about it
yesterday but it wasn't officially announced until today. And it was
a weird announcement, because the majority of the blog post was
congratulating one of the other IT people for being promoted, and
then almost as an afterthought, mentioning that the old IT no longer
works at the library. So we're all trying to figure out the real
reason, without actually going to the top and asking the director or
assistant director. Or even the managers. There are several people
in the library that know what's up, so it's only a matter of time.
They would have saved a lot of staff hours if they just started with
the details, because now we're just sitting around talking about it
and coming up with ridiculous scenarios.
I had two walkthroughs after that and looked at library magazines
after each. Then I was off desk for an hour after lunch. I went in
and talked with the one-on-one tech trainer and the volunteer for
awhile during the first hour of the tech drop-in (which no one ended
up coming to). And then I went back to the library magazines because
there wasn't a computer available.
I was on desk for two hours after that and it just flew by because
there was just a constant stream of things. I looked up a baseball
schedule for a patron. Only one of them had the game times in the
central time zone, all the other ones were eastern, which I think is
stupid because it was for a team located in the central time zone.
Whatever. I also looked up the second fuse diagram for a pickup for
a patron who was in the other day looking for fuse diagrams. He
thought he only needed the one but it turns out he needed the other
one as well. I also helped a patron on the phone asking about a
Steven Seagal DVD, but I had no idea which one because his accent was
so thick. And not a foreign accent, just a unique, difficult to
understand, way of speaking the English language. Through various
ways I asked him to repeat the title he was looking for at least four
times. When I determined we didn't have it (only because we have a
single Steven Seagal DVD and it didn't seem likely that was the one
he wanted), I switched to ILL and had him spell the title. Twice.
An that's when I finally figured out the title and was able to
request it from another library.
When I wasn't directly helping patrons, I finally got started on my
book list for the parent cart. I didn't make it very far with that
because the phone kept ringing. It was just one of those desk shifts
that was filled with patron stuff so I didn't have much time for
other stuff.
In the last hour of work I talked to my coworkers and continued
working on my book list.
After work I was going to go to the grocery store but I went through
the parking lot and it was completely filled, so I said screw it.
I'm going to go tomorrow after Chipotle night. I can survive a day
without cheese sticks.
I made dinner when I got home and then spent the rest of the night
watching videos and clicking around the internet. I also briefly
messed around with a program for creating augmented reality stuff.
One of my latest things is wanting to created an augmented reality
pop-up for books. We'll see if that goes anywhere.
Now I'm going to put a hot towel on my eye for awhile and then go to
bed (aka the recliner).
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