This morning the power blinked out and it really did a number on my
old desktop. It seems that it can't find Windows all of a sudden.
Or maybe it's a motherboard issue, because it doesn't seem to have
any interest in going into the BIOS. I didn't have time to mess with
it this morning, and haven't had any luck in my brief time spent on
it tonight. It's frustrating.
I am working with another librarian this weekend, and that made
opening go a lot faster. No offense to the assistants, we just
seemed to get a lot done. After we counted the money, I printed out
the room schedules (because that wasn't done last night). And after
we opened, I went around and put up the weekly staff newsletter.
Then I had a walkthrough and put more audiobooks on my display.
After that I was on desk for two hours and worked on my evaluation.
I only ended up adding one thing to it and eventually just submitted
it so I could move on to other things. Like my homebound lists,
which I worked on on and off throughout the day. I also answered
several phone calls, one of which was from a dorm on campus that had
found a set of keys with a library card on them. I was able to look
up the patron and gave them a call to let them know their keys had
been found and where they could go to pick them up. It's been awhile
since I've had one of those calls but it makes me glad I have a
library card on my keychain.
I ate lunch upstairs in the meeting room because our cubicle is no
more and the cubicle computer is now in the meeting room. I read a
little bit but spent most of the time watching videos and catching up
on my daily notes because I hadn't written anything in my notebook
all morning.
When I got back from lunch I went to find the tape dispenser I had
misplaced while putting up the newsletters earlier. It ended up
being in the kitchenette off of the tech center. I also retrieved
one of the newsletters I had put in the wrong place, and moved it up
to the third floor breakroom, which was the correct place. And I
restocked my audiobooks again.
Then I was on desk for two hours. I spent a decent amount of time
talking to the other librarian because we were both trying to avoid
stuff. But I eventually went back to my homebound lists and I think
I pretty much finished them. Tomorrow I'll go pull books and we'll
see if I need to add more. I'm a little worried for my patron who
gets sixteen non-fiction large print books every month, because we
may have finally reached the point of her having read our entire
collection. I'll find out tomorrow.
I had a walkthrough during the last hour, worked on my lists, talked
to the other librarian, and helped one of our regular patrons with
Google Slides again. And then the day was over.
When I got home I ate dinner and watched Black Panther. I
really enjoyed it. There were badass women with shaved heads, cool
fights, and a decent story. I liked how they made choosing sides
difficult. You want to go with the “good” guys, but it's easy to
see, and empathize with, the “bad” guy. The only thing I didn't
like was when the Black Panther and Killmonger were fighting in their
suits as they fell into the mine. The special effects weren't quite
there and it looked like they were on par with the end of the Neo and
Mr. Smith fight scene in The Matrix: Reloaded when they went
full CGI. But other than that, I liked it.
I played a little bit of CoD: WW2 but pretty much all of the
games involved a horrible connection and I was left emptying clips to
no effect before getting shot and killed. Or going up against teams
that spent the whole game laying in the grass or standing in corners
staring at spawn points. Oh well.
I also texted with the academic librarian. In that exchange we
decided to go to a music festival next month. It's something I've
heard about but I've never been, so it should be fun. Once I get
past the anxiety of getting out of my comfort zone.
After that frustration, I messed with my old desktop again, but that
just piled on more frustration. It might involve just reinstalling
Windows, which is probably the easiest route to take, but I can
survive without it for a little bit, so I'll do a little more digging
and see if I can find a better solution.
And now it's midnight and I want to sleep. So I'm going to go ahead
and do that.
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