Friday

What I'm doing between questions: whatever I can think of to do...mostly adding call numbers in Core Collection book

10:00 [front door patrol]

• Empty book drop for the first time today; fill cart, move to quarantine, replace cart [now fully damp yay humidity]
• Talk to circ staff [best part about this extra duty is that I get to spend time with our awesome circ staff]
• Chat with friend that I haven't seen in months; she says her 85-year-old hubby is repairing the fascia on their house, on a scaffold [I love old guys, but I told her to tell him not to be dumb]
• [phone] Are we open this weekend? [yup]
• Boss comes in to buy raffle tickets [Raffle pull is at noon...lol]
• Empty bookdrop once more
• Clean off station in preparation for the next person

11:00

• Scan/fax machine is broken, and the old fax machine can't connect to this guy's number [Librarian AB and I both try]
• Long-winded movie buff has me looking for an American remake of After the Wedding since we got him in Danish....after a lot of searching he decides it's probably a better movie in Danish [the English-language one is completely miscataloged in our system]
• Arrow Season 6 [of all the copies in the system, ours is the only one checked out, of course]
• One of our Crosses to Bear arrives, goes through coupon box, and then settles in for her usual long stay which will involve lots of dumb questions she's asked a million times before today--and we've answered multiple times before today
• Meanwhile, another guy on a computer heaves a loud sigh every 4 minutes or so. He has no idea how *$^@ing annoying it is
• New circ person comes by with errors she found in call numbers in NF picture books while shelving [she works for a nearby book jobber and does vendor cataloging there so she's picky 😛]
• SUPER-entitled young man "needs" a guest log-in. No ID -- "I never needed one before!" -- grabs the pass from the printer before I can hand it to him... ["GET OFF MY LAWN!"] He did push in his chair, at least
• [phone] Can I renew my library card over the phone? [no but I explain the procedure for doing it via email]
• [there was another phone call but Entitlement kid's behavior threw it right out of my brain]
• [phone] Renew three books

12:00

• Just realized that Sighing Man now has a Greek chorus from another station in Exclamation Man; also the sighing is now occasionally accompanied by what sounds like a light burp to start (also he's wearing his mask from nose-tip to just under his lower lip--how do people like this survive daily life?)
• Woot thank God he's gone!
• Exclamation Man has been trying to get online for 10 minutes; just now asks for help [reboot]
• Someone else can't get online [Num Lock is off]
• ...I overhear Librarian KB telling someone about the Scan/Fax machine being better to use....so I run over to say nope, is broke
• Guest pass
• Exclamation Man has a stalker who is making his computer not work right [seems fine to me, but I'm not arguing with him]
• Cross keeps just asking questions from her seat ("are you open Monday?" "Sunday?" "When do you close today?") [I have now blocked her from renewing her time again when her second hour's session ends]
• [12:21....will this hour never end....?]
• We are filling up: only 3 open Internet stations
• Very sweet man needs guess pass