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There were plenty of girls at the cookie sorting gathering last night. Scott and I didn't actually have to do anything but stand there. I think, out of the girls who sold cookies at all, Cordelia sold the least-- eighteen boxes (with another two added on for someone Scott works with who missed the ordering window). There were extras of pretty much every kind of cookie because the troop is required to order whole cases rather than just what they actually need.

The troop leader had pizza and salad and brownies available for those who wanted them. I don't think anybody touched the salad (she didn't put out any forks, so it would have been challenging). Cordelia and I had eaten before going over. Scott had been too rushed to get food. Scott and Cordelia both had some cheese pizza.

We stopped at Whole Foods on the way home to get treats and to pick up some shredded cheese. I also ended up getting a big bottle of iced coffee because I like it and it was on sale. Cordelia asked if she could have some, and I told her in the morning, but she appears to have forgotten as the bottle was still unopened when I got up around 9:00. She can have some tomorrow.

It was kind of weird not having our cleaning lady in yesterday. It meant that I could do Sit and Be Fit, but it also means that nothing got cleaned. My goal for today is to sweep at least the kitchen/dining room. I should be able to do that.

My time at the school library yesterday was a little unusual because there was a substitute teacher in for the librarian. He did a pretty good job with the kids, but he hadn't the slightest idea where anything went or what to do to fill time when there weren't kids present. He didn't even know how to put non-fiction into call number order which is something I just kind of assumed was a normal adult skill (my time working in libraries is probably showing). I mean Dewey call numbers are really very easy to sort. LC would be harder, but the school library, unsurprisingly, doesn't use LC.

I did a fair amount of shelving and a lot of shelf reading during my three hours. The non-fiction section needs shelf reading badly, so I hope I have time to go on with it next week. I got from 001 to 579 which isn't quite half the collection (I did five out of twelve sets of shelves). The 500s, 600s, and 700s are usually were there's the most disorder because those are the books the kids seek out most often.

I had to go down to retrieve books from both of the first grade classes who visit the library on Thursdays. One of those two teachers always forgets to send her books down, but the other one hasn't forgotten before, so I was surprised. We like to get those books in while I'm still there so that I can check them all in and shelve them. The librarian really doesn't have time to do that when there's a class present.

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metanews is having trouble. There are only three of us trying to keep up with everything, and we really need another couple of people. We have nobody doing LJ link finding and nobody doing Tumblr link finding.

LJ gave us some trouble posting this week because they've changed the default posting interface from html to visual editor. We'll be fine as long as we remember to click over to html when we want to post, but it's an added hassle.

Tumblr posting is totally borked, and none of us understand Tumblr worth a darn. We had a way of posting that kind of worked. It was clunky, but it rendered the links without us having to fiddle with the Tumblr interface much. That method no longer works. Today's Tumblr post is a single, undifferentiated block of text, and none of the links work at all. None of us have any idea why that happened or how to fix it because none of the three of us have ever done anything with Tumblr but make the post by rote.

Our efforts to find more volunteers turned up one person who might be able to link find on LJ (we don't currently because we don't have enough volunteers to do it), but LJ also hasn't been very rich in links in the places we look for quite a while, so missing it wasn't a big deal.

We desperately need someone who can search for links on Tumblr. Of course, on Tumblr, we run into the problem of trying to figure out where a given piece of meta originated and when. We don't, as a rule, link anything more than two weeks old, and by the time we come upon most Tumblr links (usually via Pinboard now), they're too old. They may be brilliant meta, but they're too old. (I think this rule is to keep us from posting duplicates. We can check back two weeks to see if something's already been posted without much trouble. Checking back through six months or a year worth of weekly posts is too much.)

DVD Logging

( Burn Notice season 7 DVD 1-3 )

( The Grand Budapest Hotel )

( How to Train Your Dragon 2 )

( Mr Peabody and Sherman )

( Rurouni Kenshin )