I focus on immediate work, and fly through the day - like I did yesterday, although yesterday I worked my later shift and missed ninety minutes of fun with guns, Breda and Ahab, and fine folks. Anyway, the fog was waiting for me in the morning, as was the blue-eyed snowcat that want to adopt me - or just likes being stroked. Same chill in the air, thanks Al. Same walk in the darkness to the dock, feels good, nap on the boat. Open the library and work. Carry three bins of mail down to the mailroom, bring two bins and two boxes of new books back - and no inmates escaped, nor helped this limping old man, should have asked my supervisor for assistance, since she hasn't gotten me any yet.
Good books coming in - I see three I really want to read, but can't because Newsweek says President Obama is going to remake America, is it going back to the wonderful one I grew up in? You know; before PC, credit cards, internet, abortion and sex education. Probably not. Funny, my mother (who didn't leave the country when Bush was selected, twice, but thought about it) is very happy and she hopes he (President Obama) will have them bring all the people in Iraq, back to the States. I didn't know all the Iraqis wanted to come to America. It would certainly be a start on remaking the country, wouldn't it? Well, quick lunch and back to work.
The three man crew and I really do well, although I sometimes wish I could stop them from bothering me when I have focus - but then realize they have needs, too. So I take the quick break to get stuff for them, and back at it. Ordering ILLs, finding MARC records for donations being added, labeling for Call Numbers, answering emails and back to patron requests and the traffic is light today in the library, a couple of newer inmates to add to the system and a call to the Shift Lieutenant for an RM escort (doesn't happen for whatever reason). One final check of the email and I find my supervisor wanting to know if something happened on/or by the 21st of January so she could report it completed to her boss by the 22nd. I answer "nope" and log off my computer and close the library.
One of my thoughts as I noted it is day two of President Obama's Reign, and I am working as fast as I can, and I haven't caught up, there isn't any help at my level for getting just the light work in the library done - and I am expected to trust the government to get it perfect anytime soon? I have worked inside the government (not governing anything thankfully, yet) for a little more than forty years -- I thought I had been doing pretty good, and sometimes darned fine work, but now I have to change... sad day to know I am the problem and not part of the solution. Best get to doing my taxes, although I am so far ahead of the nominated Secretary of the Treasury in doing them well, never having had too much money to tax wrong. Now if my numbers will just drop I could do as badly and land a great government job... retirement!
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