Yet another quiet work day here. At risk of being dubbed a sci-fi geek (which I am), I'd like to state here that switching to Open Access Internet terminals has resulted in a sort of post-atomic winter at our library, with a heaping helping of quiet and not a lot of activity. (Except for printing, that is; and it appears even this duty may be shifted to our circulation desk in the near future.) But like I've said before, I'm not one to complain about a lack of buzz.
There are exciting things happening at work these days. Yesterday I was able to place the library's 25-year old newspaper indexing project on the Web -- something I have been trying to accomplish since arriving here over a year ago. TIL has graciously integrated the programming into our library's website and soft-launched it. We're keeping it a secret for now and will do a big unveiling for administration later next week. I am beside myself with excitement and relief that it has finally happened.
Yesterday was Movie Night at TIL's. While eating my kabocha leftovers and the last vestiges of my radish kimchi, we watched Dark City. (Sorry for stinking up your car and house, TIL.) Not a bad flick at all -- I particularly liked the dream sequence. The film was definitely a hodgepodge of aesthetics and storylines, with elements from Hellraiser, Blade Runner, Nightmare on Elm Street, and a number of others. Kiefer Sutherland of course sucked royally in the role of Dr. Daniel Schreber.
Remodeling has been going... fairly slowly. The landscape guy has turned out to be a total, incompetent loser. He finished about 90% of the job and then went on to bigger and better projects. Because water has not been routed to all of the new plants, a number of them have died. Big Loser Landscape Guy was scheduled to come by last Saturday to survey the carnage, but he never showed and never even called to apologize. Today he said he was sending his pipe guy to come do some more work; I'll believe it when I see it. I feeling rather upset about the whole experience, naturally.
On the other hand, cabinets for the bathrooms are being created by a contractor who I think is very competent and professional. (God it'll be great to have bathrooms again...) The same guy will also be prepping the existing kitchen cabinetry for painting and filling in gaps created by the "new" appliances. So, slowly but surely, things are crawling along with this crazy, unfinished house.
I don't know what's come over me, recently. The warm weather has arrived and I seem to have lapsed into some sort of doldrum-like lethargy based on my ability to sleep deeply and relax. (It makes me wonder how people to who live near the equator ever manage to get up in the morning.) I haven't been on the Net much at all in my free time (relatively-speaking) -- instead I've been finding more pleasure in the mornings watering the various Asian vegetables and other plants that I have sprouting in my garden, in a side area I call the 'tiki garden.' Even Ebay has seen much less of me these days; I wonder if there's such a thing as an Ebay Search Party that will be sent out to locate me?
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Yesterday was Movie Night at TIL's. While eating my kabocha leftovers and the last vestiges of my radish kimchi, we watched Dark City. (Sorry for stinking up your car and house, TIL.) Not a bad flick at all -- I particularly liked the dream sequence. The film was definitely a hodgepodge of aesthetics and storylines, with elements from Hellraiser, Blade Runner, Nightmare on Elm Street, and a number of others. Kiefer Sutherland of course sucked royally in the role of Dr. Daniel Schreber.
Remodeling has been going... fairly slowly. The landscape guy has turned out to be a total, incompetent loser. He finished about 90% of the job and then went on to bigger and better projects. Because water has not been routed to all of the new plants, a number of them have died. Big Loser Landscape Guy was scheduled to come by last Saturday to survey the carnage, but he never showed and never even called to apologize. Today he said he was sending his pipe guy to come do some more work; I'll believe it when I see it. I feeling rather upset about the whole experience, naturally.
On the other hand, cabinets for the bathrooms are being created by a contractor who I think is very competent and professional. (God it'll be great to have bathrooms again...) The same guy will also be prepping the existing kitchen cabinetry for painting and filling in gaps created by the "new" appliances. So, slowly but surely, things are crawling along with this crazy, unfinished house.
I don't know what's come over me, recently. The warm weather has arrived and I seem to have lapsed into some sort of doldrum-like lethargy based on my ability to sleep deeply and relax. (It makes me wonder how people to who live near the equator ever manage to get up in the morning.) I haven't been on the Net much at all in my free time (relatively-speaking) -- instead I've been finding more pleasure in the mornings watering the various Asian vegetables and other plants that I have sprouting in my garden, in a side area I call the 'tiki garden.' Even Ebay has seen much less of me these days; I wonder if there's such a thing as an Ebay Search Party that will be sent out to locate me?
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