Afternoon Thoughts, Be Thankful

An Image of A Black Hole. We Could Have Been There Today.

Afternoon Thoughts

I spent some more time looking at Zoomii, I tried the different categories for social science books. I found that an awful lot of the books were textbooks which is not good for a public library. There of course was a mix of classic titles and new titles. I think that I found a few more books to order after looking through the storefront.

Our collection development meeting was cancelled this morning. It was kind of frustrating.

I also did some more weeding this afternoon. I constantly do weeding. I know it sounds tedious and it is, but it is something that I will be doing every single day for a long time. De-accessioning items is quite frankly a bit boring.

There was absolutely nothing interesting in the bestseller lists which I wanted to read from Publishers Weekly, or the New York Times Bestseller List. Sometimes these things bore me. I occassionally get that contrarian feeling where what is popular is not necessarily good. There is an awful lot of popular trash in the world.

How do you like the new font and font size? I am not going to center the header, I am going to resize the width so it fits better on the screen. It might take a bit for me to do it right.

Be thankful today that the day did not end in doom. We could have been swallowed by a giant black hole. But we weren't so breath a sigh of relief. :)

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Morning Thoughts

I have finished reading The Good Fairies of New York by Martin Millar. I read it while I was on the train. I noticed in back that Martin Millar also writes as Martin Scott. Martin Scott writes a series called Thraxas about a fat detective in a sword and sorcery setting. Thraxas won the World Fantasy Award. His website looks pretty interesting. http://www.martinmillar.com/ Lonely Werewolf Girl looks like something I might read. I am looking at The Good Fairies of New York and Rainbow's End. I am going to start writing a short review for each tonight.

This morning, I went and got my car from the shop. Then I rushed to get to the train. I usually just drive my car to get groceries, the laundry, and a few places around the neighborhood which I can't get to by bus or if I need to take someone somewhere. I sometimes wonder why I still have it.

I did my usual things when I first get in, checking my email, and checking the general reference email. Someone wanted to know if their email worked, so they sent a message to the reference box for the library. I also checked the processing of some of the reference books before they went out on the shelves.

There were three books which I hadn't had a chance to check out last night. Futurecast, How Superpowers, Populations, and Globalization Will Change the Way You Live And Work by Robert J. Shapiro, this was on the New York Times Bestseller List. Shadowbridge by Gregory Frost which is a fantasy novel, and Hot Text Web Writing That Works by Jonathan and Lisa Price. I think, the next book I am going to read is Hot Text. Hopefully, this will improve my web context writing skills.

I did a brief bit of cleaning up my blog and added some more keywords to my blog posts.