Saturday

What I'm doing between questions: in the kids' room, I'm reading old RSS feeds, and on those rare quiet moments in the adult area, I'm working on Death Dates.

9:00 in the children's room

• [phone] I returned some things yesterday but they're still showing on my card [yes, we were down for a couple of hours yesterday; people are checking things in right now, and backdating them; maybe check after about 10 and if things are still showing up that you know you returned, give us a call back]
• Librarian M's kids are here today while she sorts out the computer issues from yesterday. They are 8 and 6 (holy shit how did that happen?!) and thoroughly entertaining...and bored. Librarian M comes in to see what's up with them just after they log into the internet: "Why can't they read a book!?" ha ha ha
• "Oh. The dog's coming today. [to be read to] Shoot." [no no no! No shooting dogs--but yeah, we do need permission slips and the room unlocked]
• Bilingual books: chatter chatter Librarian T
• [phone] Son calls to say my cell phone is sitting at home charging and offers to bring it in for me
• "Are these DVDs in English or Spanish?" [probably both, but primarily English -- Spanish-only would be elsewhere, but you can swap the language track on a lot of them...she is really clueless]
• We have a new blue fish in the tank. Yay. [yawn]

10:00 in the children's room

• Bad Kitty books [we find 'em]
• "Do you have any 4th grade books?" [uh..yeah--like what? I find her some Laura books, since she said she liked Little House on the Prairie]
• "How many books can we check out?" [your choice...which is not really what she wanted to hear] I suggest he read a few of the 'extra' books to the dog, and he agrees which is a win for everyone
• Do the games work in a laptop? [uh, sure? but they're old and slowish]
• [phone] Any change in hours this weekend? [nope, we're open the same as usual, including Monday, which surprises him]
• Book is torn [we're supposed to have another copy, but I can't find it; however we have another, very similar, book, and I promise to get this one fixed for the next time they're here]
• Books on José Martí for a 7th grader, in Spanish [we don't have, but there are some in the system]
• Oops, forgot to close the bathroom doors--custodian here to clean them and is buffaloed by the fact that they're unlocked

11:00

• Return local paper
• Staple
• Discussion of creating a new bib record with Librarian T [no]
• Staple-on-the-run
• Leathercrafting books [which, naturally enough, are called "leatherwork" by LC; had I looked for that, it would have been the other way 'round--and THIS is why I do See references!]
• Pay to print [werewolf paying with chilly, slightly damp dollar bills...]
• Wheat Belly [all copies are checked out with holds, so I add her to the list--and her card's expired, so she heads off to remedy that situation
• Change for a dollar
• [phone] Catching Fire [all checked out; I place a hold for her after checked to see if the ebook is similarly unavailable (yes); and tell her to bring her new Kindle in and we'll help her get it set up]
• Vikings [werewolf]
• Help logging into Yahoo! [dude, if you have a number in your ID, you have to type it in! I get him set up eventually]
• Circuit Breakers Form [no longer exists] ; FUNNY patron, dealing with her mom: "If the library decides to close on Monday..." [I'll be right over to deal with your mom, I finish ; and I print a bunch of senior service stuff for her]
• Scissors [C.B. woman tells him not to run with them...OMG lol]

12:00

• Living wills and trusts
• "Good morning, or afternoon, or whatever the hell it is!" [from the usual guy; we decide on "day": Good day!]
• Scissors are back
• Paper and pencil
• Update expired internet pass
• "Heroes" season 3 [checked out, now on hold]
• Have I mentioned that we have a Dee Snyder look-alike here? He's taken, since Christmas, to wearing a long trenchcoat and often a man-skirt. The latter is quite unusual in this area at this point. Oh, yeah, I have: he used to have his long blond hair sprayed red-fading-to-pink. He absolutely is our most interesting patron; also slightly weird--he never speaks to us, just comes in, uses the internet, and leaves....  Why, yes, he did just walk past me in a long man-skirt, and coat and combat boots
• Two requests left at circ are now on hold for the patrons (1 DVD and 1 book)
• Pencil
• Friend stops to chat
• [phone] "Are the computers working?" [yes, dude who calls the police, they are back; I'm sure he'll be here in the next half hour]
• Are you somebody [is here, she's happy]
• Keri Arthur and Elizabeth Estep books [we don't have the series he's looking for, although some of the other titles have also disappeared from the shelves, as in MIA]