6:00 - 9:00 p.m.

What I'm doing between questions: nothing very work-related, frankly--updating my Launchcast music ratings with some new ones from Entertainment Weekly magazine, pull review journals to work on...sometime, check email and blogs...wander around....

We've had switch problems today off and on, and tonight we have about 6 working Internet stations, out of a normal count of 25. Consequently, it's going to be a quiet night with a lot of repeating myself.

• [phone] Directions for someone in a car to an address here in town, and also to an address in a town about 40 minutes from here.
• Signs re Internet problems for front doors, circ desk, main Internet bank... [which I know will be ignored]
• Yep, they are ignored....
• I try logging in some "maybe working" stations...Nope. We are crashed.
• "I'm sorry...internet stations are down...broken switch...wait till someone finishes or come backtomorrow... blah blah blah"
• "I'm sorry...internet stations are down... blah blah blah"
• Two books on intuition for patron's mom [found one here, reserved the other]
• Smelly Man wants to chat [Eeeuuuuwwww]
• "I'm sorry...internet stations are down... blah blah blah"
• [phone] Help with cataloging class: muskrats vs. beavers, Rule of Two, and other insanely boring cataloging stuff [I think I answered his questions, and I offer to talk to him whenever he needs an assist]
• HP arrives, in a good mood, almost flirty [shudder]
• "Where did what I printed go?" [nice guy: I point to the main printer and he gets all embarrased]
• Poetry book [he wrote down the ISBN--we find the call # and then find the book]
• "I'm sorry...internet stations are down... blah blah blah"
• Circ person brings me cookies
• "I'm sorry...internet stations are down... blah blah blah"
• Local want ads
• "I'm sorry...internet stations are down... blah blah blah"
• Three 'bangers come in: "I'm sorry...internet stations are down... blah blah blah" [they end up wandering into the children's room and hacking into the net via World Book--why have we not fixed this!!?]
• "I'm sorry...internet stations are down... blah blah blah"
• "I'm sorry...internet stations are down... blah blah blah "
• "I'm sorry...internet stations are down... blah blah blah"
• "I'm sorry...internet stations are down... blah blah blah"
• I run away to the workroom to escape my own voice
• Circ people want to know if I sent the 'bangers in there [no, I rarely send adults into the children's room for just this reason]
• "I'm sorry...internet stations are down... blah blah blah"
• Want ads return
• HP leaves
• "I'm sorry...internet stations are down... blah blah blah"
• [phone] Two books about why we shouldn't eat beef [reserve one, order the other]
• "I'm sorry...internet stations are down... blah blah blah"
• Pay for print jobs
• [I start counting down the minutes and call home for a glass of wine to be waiting]
• "I'm sorry...internet stations are down... blah blah blah
• [Well, closing will be really easy tonight!]
• "I'm sorry...internet stations are down... blah blah blah"
• I shut down all the computers and at 3 minutes before 9 : "I'm sorry...internet stations are down... blah blah blah"
• The place is closed. Time to go home!