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Jul. 11th, 2016 12:39 pmSomehow, I have no library items due this coming weekend but more than a dozen due the weekend after. And half of those are things that can’t be renewed. I’m not particularly worried that I won’t get to the CDs that can’t be renewed because CDs are easy (as long as they don’t crash iTunes due to scratches). The three books are much harder. I haven’t even opened one of them. Another is a graphic novel where I want to smack most of the characters. Maybe I should give up on that one as a poor investment of time. I just keep looking at it and thinking that it’s so very short that it won’t take long. The third book is a poetry anthology, and I strongly suspect that I won’t have the focus to finish it before it’s due.
Scott made it to part of the open gaming thing and played a couple of games that he enjoyed. One of them, he liked enough to buy for our local niece for her birthday (that’s in November, but it can’t hurt to plan ahead. I suppose I should have pointed out that we still have the thing he ordered for her for Christmas that arrived after New Year’s Day). I think the two games were called Sharks and Lanterns, but I’m not absolutely sure.
Cordelia wanted to come to the library with us because she’d finished her summer reading challenge and could get a free book for that. Her coming along meant that Scott and I really didn’t have the option of wandering around to do Ingress stuff. There’s only so much of that that she’ll put up with before she starts complaining. I wonder if Pokemon Go would appeal to her more? Something that would encourage her to go outside more would be excellent.
Scott is expecting to have to work late more than once this week. One of the second shift supervisors quit, and someone else on second shift is on vacation, so those folks have to be covered for. If the supervisor opening wasn’t on second shift, I think Scott would consider applying for it, but second shift really isn’t doable without him giving up pretty much all family time. Sadly, supervisor openings on other shifts tend to turn into openings on second shift because second shift supervisors would rather work first or third instead.
Scott and I did a tiny bit of Ingress after dinner. We drove to the science center and spent a little time in the woods. I’m not sure why, but I got winded just walking from the parking lot to the woods. I’ve walked from home to there without getting winded (recently, too! Only three days ago), so I have no idea what was going on. We were driving because our official purpose in going out was to buy frosties at Wendy’s, and even if I could walk that far, we wouldn’t be able to get Cordelia’s frosty home unmelted if we were on foot.
I think I wrote about five hundred words yesterday. Most of it was on the WIP Big Bang, but some of it wasn’t. I also changed the sheets, washed two loads of laundry, loaded, ran, and emptied the dishwasher, alphabetized some DVDs, and chopped a fifty page alphabetical list into small documents that would be easier to navigate. The last two, I’m definitely calling cat waxing. The other stuff genuinely needed to be done and needed to by done yesterday. My cat waxing for today will be useful but not essential— I want to go through the fridge and find all the bottles of marinades, sauces, salad dressings, etc. and throw out the ones that are iffy. Anything that’s open and older than about six months really should go. We collect these sorts of things because Scott keeps trying to find things that Cordelia will find acceptable that will give us an alternative to plain food seasoned with nothing at all or just with salt.
Hm. Someone just rolled through the neighborhood and took all of the portals. I could probably take some of them back. I don’t know. It’s pretty warm out there (my weather app says it’s 78F but feels like 86F). Also, taking those portals back might give Scott the points he needs to make level 9. I think he needs about 40000 points at this point. I need almost 300000 to get to level 8, so taking those portals wouldn’t be as big a boost for me.
I wish the library were more careful about how they catalog CDs. There are a lot of tribute compilations that they’ve got catalogued as being by the the person that the album is a tribute to. I’ve got one right now that is catalogued as performed by Dolly Parton but that is actually a bunch of other people doing songs she wrote. The album’s not terrible, but it’s not what I thought I was getting. They’ve also got a number of single artist CDs that don’t list a musician/group. I know they’re buying their cataloguing records somewhere, but I’d like to see a little more quality control. I don’t think the library would accept these sorts of problems in book cataloguing.
Scott made it to part of the open gaming thing and played a couple of games that he enjoyed. One of them, he liked enough to buy for our local niece for her birthday (that’s in November, but it can’t hurt to plan ahead. I suppose I should have pointed out that we still have the thing he ordered for her for Christmas that arrived after New Year’s Day). I think the two games were called Sharks and Lanterns, but I’m not absolutely sure.
Cordelia wanted to come to the library with us because she’d finished her summer reading challenge and could get a free book for that. Her coming along meant that Scott and I really didn’t have the option of wandering around to do Ingress stuff. There’s only so much of that that she’ll put up with before she starts complaining. I wonder if Pokemon Go would appeal to her more? Something that would encourage her to go outside more would be excellent.
Scott is expecting to have to work late more than once this week. One of the second shift supervisors quit, and someone else on second shift is on vacation, so those folks have to be covered for. If the supervisor opening wasn’t on second shift, I think Scott would consider applying for it, but second shift really isn’t doable without him giving up pretty much all family time. Sadly, supervisor openings on other shifts tend to turn into openings on second shift because second shift supervisors would rather work first or third instead.
Scott and I did a tiny bit of Ingress after dinner. We drove to the science center and spent a little time in the woods. I’m not sure why, but I got winded just walking from the parking lot to the woods. I’ve walked from home to there without getting winded (recently, too! Only three days ago), so I have no idea what was going on. We were driving because our official purpose in going out was to buy frosties at Wendy’s, and even if I could walk that far, we wouldn’t be able to get Cordelia’s frosty home unmelted if we were on foot.
I think I wrote about five hundred words yesterday. Most of it was on the WIP Big Bang, but some of it wasn’t. I also changed the sheets, washed two loads of laundry, loaded, ran, and emptied the dishwasher, alphabetized some DVDs, and chopped a fifty page alphabetical list into small documents that would be easier to navigate. The last two, I’m definitely calling cat waxing. The other stuff genuinely needed to be done and needed to by done yesterday. My cat waxing for today will be useful but not essential— I want to go through the fridge and find all the bottles of marinades, sauces, salad dressings, etc. and throw out the ones that are iffy. Anything that’s open and older than about six months really should go. We collect these sorts of things because Scott keeps trying to find things that Cordelia will find acceptable that will give us an alternative to plain food seasoned with nothing at all or just with salt.
Hm. Someone just rolled through the neighborhood and took all of the portals. I could probably take some of them back. I don’t know. It’s pretty warm out there (my weather app says it’s 78F but feels like 86F). Also, taking those portals back might give Scott the points he needs to make level 9. I think he needs about 40000 points at this point. I need almost 300000 to get to level 8, so taking those portals wouldn’t be as big a boost for me.
I wish the library were more careful about how they catalog CDs. There are a lot of tribute compilations that they’ve got catalogued as being by the the person that the album is a tribute to. I’ve got one right now that is catalogued as performed by Dolly Parton but that is actually a bunch of other people doing songs she wrote. The album’s not terrible, but it’s not what I thought I was getting. They’ve also got a number of single artist CDs that don’t list a musician/group. I know they’re buying their cataloguing records somewhere, but I’d like to see a little more quality control. I don’t think the library would accept these sorts of problems in book cataloguing.
