knitting librarian

You know, sometimes I’ll go to an eighth-grade graduation and there’s all that pomp and circumstance and gowns and flowers. And I think to myself, it’s just eighth grade. To really compete, they need to graduate high school, and then they need to graduate college, and they probably need a graduate degree, too. An eighth-grade education doesn’t cut it today. Let’s give them a handshake and tell them to get their butts back in the library!

I saw a portion of this in Daniel Pink’s Twitter post yesterday. I knew there was a reason I want to vote for Barack!

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We had a great day today. We slept in until about 9am, got showered, kids fed, and were on our way to my mom’s by 10:30. I had to stop and pick up rolls for dinner (my contribution, along with mashing the potatoes.)

Vince presented Rob and I with Medical PoA papers for him and Mom and talked a little about what they wanted and expected from us. (Nice way to start a day of thanks, right?) But really, I am thankful that we don’t have to wonder or worry about what they want or what the right decision is.

We sat down to dinner and before Vince could get a chance to say grace, AJ jumped in with it, complete with “Bon appetit, you may eat!” after he finished. That is apparently what Miss Mindy says at school before the kids get to eat. AJ’s taken to adding it to the end of grace at home and I think it’s adorable.

Dad came back home with us for another night and we spent the better part of the evening playing with Qu!cken and trying to get things working. Fortunately we figured out what the biggest problem was—I hadn’t put in a starting balance when I downloaded our transactions from the bank, so we were operating in the negative to the extreme according to its accounting. The correction solved a lot of problems. I added our vehicles as assets and the house and van loans as liabilities. I still need to get our investment accounts entered but I’m making some progress.

These are some of my fiction stacks. (H-Z to be exact.) Yes, they are dreadfully empty. Both the top and bottom shelves are always empty. The last two sections of shelving are completely empty. I’ve spoken with someone about creating some decorative banners to go above the fiction, non-fiction, and reference stacks as well as ones for the circulation desk and book return cart.

We had a meeting yesterday about the library budget and I’m optimistic that we’ll get some additional funding. We were armed with statistics about the number of books per student and the average age of the collection. I hope that the board will be receptive to expanding the per student expenditure—which is currently $7.24. I’ve been somewhat fortunate because of my aggressive weeding, it’s been clear to the superintendent and business manager that the library needed some added funds, so they’ve been working with me and adding some extra money to my budget to help recoup some of the loss to the size of my collection.

I’ve been using Flickr for personal photos for about two years now, I think. In September, I upgraded to a paid account so that I can upload an unlimited amount of pictures and have an unlimited number of photo sets. One really neat thing that you can do with Flickr is to make notes about a photo right on it. I’ve joined a few groups: a “swaparooni” group (color-based gift swaps), a free knitting patterns group, and with this Flickr exercise, I learned about the libraries and librarians group and added my library pictures to that group.

This post is kind of silly, since I have been blogging for about 2 1/2 years, but here’s my blog! I’ve added an avatar which is new (to the blog) but has been a part of my Yahoo! Messenger for a while now.

I can’t seem to register with SLL2.0 because of a server error. Have any of the rest of my SLL2.0 buddies had luck with this? I think it might be because the summer is over and that’s when it was originally scheduled for registration.