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Feb. 6th, 2014 11:57 amThere was a substitute in the school library today. He wasn't an experienced librarian-- He said he'd subbed for a librarian once before, a few days ago. I got the circulation program up and running. It can be a little challenging to find the school library when one opens Firefox because the librarian's instructions are decidedly vague-- She doesn't even specify which browser to use. I just happened to know it was Firefox and not Safari. At any rate, opening Firefox opens the district web page. From there, one has to go to the directory of schools and find the school website. On the school website, there's a side bar that includes the library as an option. That finally gets one to a screen where one can click 'login' and get into the circulation program.
I am a little concerned that the scanner we use in the library is on its last legs. Usually, one has to click a button to turn it on so that it will scan, but today, it was on all the time. I couldn't turn it off. It scanned fine fortunately, but not shutting off seems to me a bad sign.
There was a lot of shelving when I first arrived at 8:30 (ten minutes before the sub. The school secretary knows me and let me in to start shelving). There were a fair number of winter holiday books that needed to go back on the shelf, and there was about half a shelf each of non-fiction and fiction to shelve. There were fewer picture books, easy readers and early chapter books to shelve, and I did the graphic novels/comic books pretty easily.
Scott's coming down with yet another cold. He hadn't quite recovered from the last one, so he's very frustrated. What with one thing and another, he's been sick since about a week before Christmas. We're not sure where he caught this one. Cordelia and I both have colds, but I'd assumed that we caught them from him. It's possible, of course, that one or both of us caught something from somebody at school. I'm surprised Cordelia and I aren't sick more often. Scott seems to be the one who comes down with the most colds, however.
Tonight is Cordelia's school's winter carnival. It's a big PTO fundraiser. I volunteered to run games for two half hour shifts. I'll be running bingo from 6:30-7:00 and the lollipop tree from 7:30-8:00. I like the lollipop tree because every kid gets either a tootsie pop or a blow pop for each ticket spent. They may also get a prize, but if they don't, they still don't go away disappointed.
Cordelia will probably spend most of her tickets on the lollipop tree and the cake walk. One year, she won the cake walk something like five times, and she keeps hoping she can repeat that and bring home a lot of cupcakes. We're contributing a container of rice krispy treats to the cake walk. Every time this comes up, I think about baking something to donate, and then I don't. This year, it's that Thursdays are too crazy busy for baking, and I didn't trust us (or the mice) to keep cupcakes safe over night.
I'm working on a Girl Scout training module, one on trip planning. I'm finding it overwhelming and more than a little confusing. I think it may be building on training I don't have. I'm doing it because the troop leaders don't have time and so asked me to do it so that somebody has. We have a trip planned for the 16th, and we need to know what we're supposed to do so that all the i's are dotted and all the t's are crossed. (Of course, I'm hoping to avoid the trip on the 16th. It will be four hours outside, around a campfire, and my coat is not washable, so I'd be stuck with the smoke stink all the rest of the winter. Not to mention that I'm not sure I trust my boots to keep my feet warm for that long.)
My new boots have arrived. They do just what we were hoping they'd do. That is, they're easier to put on and take off than my other boots. I'm going to use them largely for walking Cordelia to school every morning. Any time I need to wear boots longer than that, I'll wear my old boots. They're harder to put on and take off (lace ups), but they're warmer and more comfortable.
Mast Shoes called me last week to tell me that my loafers are back ordered. SAS is behind in production for that particular style, so I'll have to wait four weeks. I'm not pleased about it, but what else am I going to do?
I am a little concerned that the scanner we use in the library is on its last legs. Usually, one has to click a button to turn it on so that it will scan, but today, it was on all the time. I couldn't turn it off. It scanned fine fortunately, but not shutting off seems to me a bad sign.
There was a lot of shelving when I first arrived at 8:30 (ten minutes before the sub. The school secretary knows me and let me in to start shelving). There were a fair number of winter holiday books that needed to go back on the shelf, and there was about half a shelf each of non-fiction and fiction to shelve. There were fewer picture books, easy readers and early chapter books to shelve, and I did the graphic novels/comic books pretty easily.
Scott's coming down with yet another cold. He hadn't quite recovered from the last one, so he's very frustrated. What with one thing and another, he's been sick since about a week before Christmas. We're not sure where he caught this one. Cordelia and I both have colds, but I'd assumed that we caught them from him. It's possible, of course, that one or both of us caught something from somebody at school. I'm surprised Cordelia and I aren't sick more often. Scott seems to be the one who comes down with the most colds, however.
Tonight is Cordelia's school's winter carnival. It's a big PTO fundraiser. I volunteered to run games for two half hour shifts. I'll be running bingo from 6:30-7:00 and the lollipop tree from 7:30-8:00. I like the lollipop tree because every kid gets either a tootsie pop or a blow pop for each ticket spent. They may also get a prize, but if they don't, they still don't go away disappointed.
Cordelia will probably spend most of her tickets on the lollipop tree and the cake walk. One year, she won the cake walk something like five times, and she keeps hoping she can repeat that and bring home a lot of cupcakes. We're contributing a container of rice krispy treats to the cake walk. Every time this comes up, I think about baking something to donate, and then I don't. This year, it's that Thursdays are too crazy busy for baking, and I didn't trust us (or the mice) to keep cupcakes safe over night.
I'm working on a Girl Scout training module, one on trip planning. I'm finding it overwhelming and more than a little confusing. I think it may be building on training I don't have. I'm doing it because the troop leaders don't have time and so asked me to do it so that somebody has. We have a trip planned for the 16th, and we need to know what we're supposed to do so that all the i's are dotted and all the t's are crossed. (Of course, I'm hoping to avoid the trip on the 16th. It will be four hours outside, around a campfire, and my coat is not washable, so I'd be stuck with the smoke stink all the rest of the winter. Not to mention that I'm not sure I trust my boots to keep my feet warm for that long.)
My new boots have arrived. They do just what we were hoping they'd do. That is, they're easier to put on and take off than my other boots. I'm going to use them largely for walking Cordelia to school every morning. Any time I need to wear boots longer than that, I'll wear my old boots. They're harder to put on and take off (lace ups), but they're warmer and more comfortable.
Mast Shoes called me last week to tell me that my loafers are back ordered. SAS is behind in production for that particular style, so I'll have to wait four weeks. I'm not pleased about it, but what else am I going to do?
