Happy 2015!

Read to your heart's content...everyday of the year!!

I didn't mean to embarrass you...

An elderly man asked me to help him download books onto his new iPad. I told him I would if he would come to the second floor where I was scheduled that afternoon. He never came to get the help. A few days later, I saw him at a corner table, his back was to the wall, I was looking out the window very near where he was sitting. I asked how he was getting along on his new iPad. He said fine. But, I didn't just leave it there. I asked him if he managed to figure out how to download books yet, this time he said no, but he would figure it out eventually. I kept pressing. I can help you anytime, I say, just ask, may I see your new iPad? I wanted a closer look at it, it looked smaller than most iPads I had seen. By this time, he has shut the lid on the iPad. And he said ... in a quiet voice, "I was looking at dirty pictures and I didn't want you to see. And I didn't know how to get out of it." Then he gathered his things and left, but before he left, he said, "I'm very embarrassed"....

My day...

A friend asked me what my typical day is like. Well, to be honest, no day is like the day before, never typical, never the same. Here's a sample, I hope it doesn't bore you. Today:

• Ordered books in for the Mystery Book Club, they need 15 copies.
• Helped someone get their laptop connected to our wireless. She couldn't log in, all she needed to do was reboot her computer.
• Had homemade vegan birthday cake made for one of our librarians. The cake was made by a staff member, Fresh Orange Cake, icing made with coconut oil.  Yum yum yummy cake!!  Her B-day is actually another day, but she's taking her b-day off and won't be here. Lucky us that we got to share the cake with her.
• Read tons of emails.
• Sent tons more emails.
• Helped a young man make copies on the copy machine. He didn't know how to work it.
• Helped a lady on the copy machine. She said it didn't work, but it did work, it didn't like her nickels.
• Helped a lady log in to our computers. She kept typing her card number in wrong.
• Talked to the custodian about the squirrel that got electrocuted on a power line the other day and blew out our power for about 45 minutes. And I was off that day and missed all the excitement!
• Ordered travel guides for a lady planning a trip to Ireland. All our books were out.
• Let a girl use the phone to make a call because she left her cell phone in the car. Not sure why she couldn't just walk out to the parking lot and get her phone.
• Helped a lady get to a website so she could apply for a job. The website wasn't connecting using Internet Explorer, but it connected just fine using Mozilla Firefox. Not sure why that happens.
• An older lady told me about an article she read in the newspaper about a book, about a child who died and went to heaven and came back to tell about it. She was laughing hysterically about it, she said it was such a crock. Then I told her I had read that book. It's called Heaven is for Real . She stopped talking, looked at me with a serious look on her face and asked, "WHY would you read that?"
• It's almost 3:00pm...3 more hours to go...and I'm so drowsy today...

Have I bored you yet...??