May 3, 2018

I got a lot of sleep last night, which was nice, and I finally ran on the elliptical again, which was also nice.

When I got to work I had two walkthroughs. During the first one I ran into my friend's dad and we talked about British shows for awhile because that's primarily what he likes to checkout from the library. During my second walkthrough I ran into the one-on-one tech trainer looking at DVDs, and she was also picking out British shows because her and her husband really like British dramas. A fun coincidence. I picked up a lot of good recommendations, so now I need to make time to watch things other than YouTube videos and livestreams.

I was on desk for for two hours after that and spent a little bit of that time looking up possible music for dinner tomorrow. I asked what I could contribute and she said music. She doesn't have the internet, so streaming is out. At the moment she's into bluegrass and folk music, and I've got some of that (if I can find them in my CD collection, but I thought I would also check out collection at the library, because I always forget we have a CD collection. Well, I don't forget about it, I just never think to look at it. I ended up finding a couple things, and I think I need to check out more music from the library. I miss CDs.

While on desk I also looked up the web traffic stats for last month, created a spreadsheet and charts for the tax stats, read the local paper, and had a long conversation with one of the other librarians about mental health.

I was off desk for an hour after that and the first half hour was spent speaking to two of the other librarians about completely random stuff that was in no way library related. It was pretty great. Today felt a bit like a Friday. In the second half of the hour I went and printed raffle tickets for summer reading. I think last year we started with 400 tickets and thought that might be pushing it. And then we quickly ran out and needed to print more. This year I decided to start with 2000. I can't remember if I wrote down how many tickets we actually used last year. It's probably somewhere, possibly even in my journal, but I decided 2000 felt like a pretty good number. When I got done printing them I also checkout a couple of the CDs I looked up earlier.

On my way to my Mom's house on my dinner break it started sprinkling. Not long after arriving the downpour hit. It knocked out the satellite TV so I spent most of my dinner in silence, which I was actually okay with. I also had a chance to read a new children's book that I requested at the library called This Is a Taco! by Andrew Cangelose. It's about a squirrel named Taco and it's pretty funny. By the time I left my Mom's house the rain had stopped, which was nice because it meant I only had to dodge puddles on my walk back to the library, not worry about getting completely soaked again.

I had a walkthrough when I got back and then I went down to the basement to use the large paper cutter to start cutting summer reading tickets. By the end of the hour I made it through the first 1000, which isn't too bad.

I got stopped by the assistant circulation manager when I went to put the cutter key back and she said someone had spotted a leak in one of the staircases. We went and looked at it, and it was in fact a leak. Then we went outside to check the outside of the wall, because I was curious, and there was a giant puddle of water, so I'm thinking it might be a ground water issue. Later on in the night I happened upon two other leaks. In each case I took pictures and sent them to the head of the maintenance department and the assistant director, not only so they were aware, but also just in case they dried up before I could show them the spots tomorrow.

With the rest of the evening I didn't really accomplish anything. I helped figure out how to replace the toner cartridge in our new printer, caught up on the news, messed with the tax stat graphs a little, and talked to my coworkers. I learned that the assistant graduated high school in a class of sixty-nine people, her hometown has a population of about 4000 people, and there are only two stoplights. I think my graduating class had at least 400, possible 600. Way more than sixty-nine.

When I got home I clicked around the internet, ate a snack (because I ate dinner at four o'clock), and now I'm recording some songs so I can burn them to a CD. When I'm done with that, I'll be going to bed, because I'm tired, and a fan of sleep.