Walking home...

I moved about a year ago and now it is about a 20 block walk to and from work, instead of the old 8. So, I can't do it both ways everyday, but usually in the evening I'll make the trek home; for the exercise and to see what's going on around town.

On the way to work...

Morning light...

The morning light seems softer than the light of evening. It's that first light touching the world and you're awake and it all feels like morning. (As it is.) I wonder if there is a physical, as in scientific, difference, or is it just that I know it's morning and as opposed to evening.

Or, maybe it's the fact that here the sun is coming up over the lake. Although I could look this up, I sort of like just wondering about it; it leaves some mystery to my day.

Cool things to do at the library...

You can write the call number in books, on the back of the title page, officially called the t.p verso...

You can go to the Conservation Lab and use the giant paper cutter...

You can look at old books...

This is the first U.S. Census, where they counted everyone in the country...since then they feel they need to count more than just individuals...

You can push books trucks around...

We have rules at the library...

Work...

Here is a shot of my desk at work. Does it look like I'm busy? Library work used to be such that you always had a lot to do. Now with most things being done electronically there is less and less to do. So, I've developed the art of "looking" like I have a fair amount to do. That stack of books on the right, I can't even remember what I was doing with them. Now they say, "Whoa, she has real work to get done!"

Puzzeling situation...

We do puzzles at work. Not for work, but at work; to build team work, because we're a team; to bond !? (we're with each other 90% of our lives!); mostly to take a break from the computer and our "real" work.


There are different puzzle protocols; some say you shouldn't look at the picture, it's cheating;some say you should do the frame first; there are those who just dive in and start putting pieces together; there are the strategists who plot out what part we need to work on first; then there is sorting the pieces, by color, shape.

On March 3rd we will have a new department head starting. He's been told that we do puzzles, but will he remember? And, now he has the job, where as back then, at the interview, he might say anything to make a good impression. So, we are a little apprehensive about the future of the doing puzzles.