Day of Rest?

Day of Rest?

04.25.04 (1:44 pm)   [edit]
Thanks to a complaint from someone that I hadn't updated my blog in a while, I finally decided to devote some time to writing an entry. :wink:

Things have actually been so busy for me at work and at home that I haven't been reading other blogs much, let alone writing my own. I haven't had much material to write about either - at least none that seemed blogworthy. I mean if I'm only going to post sporadically, then it should be something more than just the usual "things are fine" or "this crappy patron bugged me today."

But anyway, I did have a complaint from my friend Goofylibrarian that he needed something new to read on my blog, so here it is:

As I said before, things have been really busy at work. I haven't had much time for surfing the web there and what little time I've had for it has been devoted to doing genealogical research. I've done a lot before, but I've recently had more interest in working on my ancestral database because my dad's memorial service is coming up in June. I've got a lot of relatives from his side of the family coming into town for the service and I thought I'd try to do as much work as I can on genealogy before then so I can share the info with the relatives. I really just need to clean up and organize my database, but since several of my web-based sources (Ancestry.com & HeritageQuest) have been adding to their databases recently, I keep finding more and more - particularly from the ever-growing wealth of online census images on those two sites. I won't bore anyone out there reading this with a lot of details, because it's really only of interest to me and my family and sometimes not even to them. :roll:

Yesterday at work, we were scheduled to provide emergency help for other libraries in our system, so we had three librarians (including my paraprofessional self) on duty and surprisingly no other libraries called for help. That meant that I was able to work in the staff area cleaning up some of the piles of damaged items that I've been assigned to deal with. I managed to test a box of supposedly damaged videotapes, replace a bunch of CD cases and labels to get the items back into circulation, bill people for damaging or returning items missing parts and generally take care of about 75% of the crap that's piled up on my desk since I arrived at my current library. It'll probably be another month or two before that happens again. :roll: It was really satisfying to get that much accomplished and to not deal with patrons for a whole day. :)

Last night though was a really fun one for my family and I. First, my wife asked one of her friends to drop by with her new 3 month old cocker spaniel puppy for our daughter to play with. That was a blast, and the puppy was really well behaved - aside from a few little puppy-nips on the hands. :wink: Then we went bowling and had a great time. :D [b]R[/b] had a blast rolling her bowling ball down the lane with the bumpers up and knocking down the pins. After we did three games, we went into the arcade area for a little while and let her play some videogames for tickets that she redeemed for a piece of candy which painted her tongue and mouth blue. :roll: The only downturn to the evening came as we went shopping at Target after the bowling excursion and [b]R[/b] had an "accident" in her pants, causing her a bit of embarrasment and discomfort since she's been so good with her potty training. :oops: And there was one other unfortunate complication brought on by the whole bowling/shopping excursion: [b]R[/b] got so wound up that she didn't get to bed until way late last night . . . so mom and dad didn't get to have any time alone together as planned. :wink:

Today, I'm "voluntarily" working at one of the three locations that my library system has open on Sundays. It's the last one until Fall and it's been pretty crazy here (rainy day outside).

I'm having flashbacks of my last library since there are many people trying to fight for time on very few computers at this location. I've been having to chase kids away from the computers when they aren't using them because it's getting to be like a video arcade here today with crowds of them wanting to watch their little friends play games on the computers. :x

Once again, I'm wishing they could ban games from the computers and reserve them for research only - in fact, I've had several people complain that they needed to get on to do homework and couldn't because of the gameplayers. Unfortunately, there's not much I can do about it with our current system and policies. :x

Tonight though is D&D night and I'll be able to channel some of my building aggression into slaughtering monsters and verbally fencing with my friends as we roll the dice and drink a few beverages - revelling in our geekdom. :wink:

Okay, is that enough for you Goofy? :P