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Jun 22, 2009 10:48AM
The old shelver overload crisis. I see.
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Good luck with the shelves, the shelvers, and the shelving.
Well get cracking, there Matt.
What's wrong with your back, sir?The shelver overload crisis sounds weird. What the hell? Did everyone plan to take everything back at once? Was it a conspiracy? Was it a protest? Are the shelvers spreading untruths and have let the returned books pile up? Something is not right in Olympia.
I try to spread my returns out so that I don't inadvertently contribute to this problem. I think they call it "work leveling" in the Lean implementations I've seen.
ok - cleanup so much of my inbox i am exhausted! Need a nap! :)
My back was a bit tight, Anthony. I feel much better.
Five Olympia Library staffers were out for various reasons, RA, plus that branch has been having heavier returns than usual. They didn't even have enough carts to put all the returned books on, let alone enough people to shelve them.I paged for 5 hours (and did some childrens readers' advisory, too, which was a lot of fun - here kid, read this!), and I am exhausted. I'd prefer not to have to lift my arms for the rest of the day, thank you.
There she goes again with the library jargon.Paged?
Sorted and shelved books, Larry. The folks who do that in libraries are called pages. It's cute, isn't it?
Yes it is. If they organized would they belong to a chapter?
Eating leftover papaya salad. Thai food = goodness.Long day. Could use a chiropractor myself.
I am taking a moment to myself, my teen is off the computer, my hubby and his fracture are sleeping and my toddler is finally done bouncing off the ceiling and crashed on the couch( I fed her pasta).I am downloading something onto Fan-Fiction and off to bed or read more like it. Good night all.peace
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What's the crawlspace like? How long were you in there?Not long after we moved into town, nearly thirteen years ago, we had the worst storms in decades, knocking down trees, power out for days, etc. I was like...where in the f--k did we move?
Right now I'm hiding on the front porch. My oldest had a friend sleep over. Too much stimuli over there. Might head to work soon and the gym later.
I am up to bleeping early,damn bird won't stop screaming, she wants peanuts Iwant coffee. Goodmorning
Right now I'm waiting for the pizza to finish cooking. After I eat I'll lock myself in an air conditioned room and prepare for the two week intensive assessment class I'm teaching after the fourth of the July.This morning I rode 18 miles on the bike path in 80 minutes, but I could have gone faster if I hadn't had to cross so many streets. Then I went to Costco.
OMG i love pizza we had home made pizza last night for dinner - hope there is some left overs!!!! :)
I picture you as a genteel Texas lady, and then you say "OMG" and it blows my mental image.
Sarah Pi wrote: "I picture you as a genteel Texas lady, and then you say "OMG" and it blows my mental image."OMG my family would LOL at this post - they see me as maniacal - not most days but every day!!!!!
my name on some sites is maniacalme ........... oops gave that one away heheheh
BTW I post on the GOLF thread too and I have decided that OMG mean O MY GOLF!
OMG. I am NEVER going to catch up on what's been going on since I've been away. You guys post too much. I'm overwhelmed. I think I need to leave TC/GR alone until I can deal.
Heidi wrote: "OMG. I am NEVER going to catch up on what's been going on since I've been away. You guys post too much. I'm overwhelmed. I think I need to leave TC/GR alone until I can deal."WELCOME BACK HEIDI! yea we have been at it at a mad pace!
TRUTH! We don't want to work at work just read and post!
Right now nearly nodding off on this training manual. Ug. Hate having to test beta sites. Mostly because I end up with a list of complaints and none get implemented or fixed.Whoever heard of a form that doesn't let you TAB through the fields?
BunWat wrote: "Hey Heidi! Welcome back! Did you have fun?"Thanks, BunWat. I had an okay time. I was ready to come back to work. I went out of state with cousins. Their idea of vacation includes LOTS of internet, television, and planning outings around college sporting events (specifically the College World Series) - a visit to a winery, shopping, some trailriding through the mountain forest, pool time, paddleboating. My cousin Leah's cell phone ringtone is the LSU fight song. I got tired of being holed up in our condo on my vacation, and finally took control of my own schedule the last couple of days I was there.
True statement (from cousin): "We wanted to visit the Atlantic Ocean so while we were in Hilton Head, we went to the beach and stuck our toe in the water so that we could say we've been in the Atlantic."
I really, REALLY wanted to go white water rafting and hiking while I was there. I didn't get to do it.
Was the trailriding fun? I'm with you - more hiking, less planned outings.
Right now I'm wishing I hadn't accepted the cookie-brownie-thing that came past my office a little while ago. It was so sweet that I can't get the smell of sugar out of my head. I threw away half, but my eyeballs are bugging out of my head. When will I learn? Sugar. Is. Not. My. Friend.
It's hard to turn away food at work. I'm convinced you could study teachers' lounges and discover teachers will eat the grossest food ever if it's placed on the table right before recess.
The trailriding was awesome! We were out for two hours, crossed brooks and rivers... my horse, Tonto, was HUGE and he loved to jog. It's been so long since I've gone trailriding, I didn't know if I could remember what to do. It didn't take long for me to get into it, though. It's been 6 years since I've done any trailriding. It's been about 2 since I did some barrel racing around my friend's arena. He was the nicest horse I've ridden in a while. It seems like I always end up with the aggressive ones who like to bite the other horses on the butt. :) My favorite day was the day of my drive home. I stopped in Nashville for several hours to visit with a friend. It was Nashville Pride Day. The downtown area was bustling and fun! Then I stopped in Memphis for dinner with my old roommate and his girlfriend. I love roadtrips. Next time, I'm doing it on MY schedule and no one else's.
Heidi: Are the horses yours or did you rent them for trailriding? It sounds like a wonderful experience!
Randomanthony wrote: "....discover teachers will eat the grossest food ever if it's placed on the table right before recess."Ahahaha. RA, you should start a thread and write daily what the grossiest thing someone ate.
You should get strange foods just to see if they'll eat them. Start with squid jerky, and go from there.Heidi, that sounds lovely.
Sarah Pi wrote: "You should get strange foods just to see if they'll eat them. Start with squid jerky, and go from there.Aahaha. Sarah Pi, you reminded me of the strange Asian ice cream flavors - SQUID Ice Cream.
AH HAHAHAHA! RA, that's hilarious. I bet if someone set out organ meat they'd turn up their noses. Some one could do a television series or reality show on what people will eat in the breakroom. Tanja, we rented the horses from a nearby ranch and had a short trailguide who had impressive arms (I tried to get pics, but they all came out fuzzy because we were so bouncy... nm that that doesn't sound right, it is what it is) leading our group of 8. Oddly, I expected my thighs would be massively sore after the ride, but they weren't. They were just jello-y for a short while an my knees were pissed at me. My stomach and back were sore the next day (from all the bouncing... like crunches sitting up) though, like seriously sore. It was awesome!
I used to work at a trail stable. Once a couple showed up in shorts and sandals and said they wanted a two hour ride. I warned them that they would be hurting by the end. "It's ok!" the wife said cheerfully. "We brought Vaseline!"
So, rather than wear jeans, they slathered their legs with vaseline.
I kind of enjoyed making it a rough ride for them.
Heidi, horses are a great hobby for creating impressive arms (all that hay) and abs (if you absorb the jolt through your abs, it doesn't hurt your back, and gives your abs a great workout).
We were going up and down steep grades, Sarah, so I leaned back (would've def. given back a good workout) when we were heading down the mountains and forward when we were going up (same for stomach). That vaseline story is HILARIOUS! Ding dongs. Who DOES that sh*t?!! I hope you guys galloped.
My grandparents had a farm with horses (I had one named after Heidi), cows, a goat named Tinkerbell, and a stocked pond for fishing for catfish, complete with a summer resident swan. I'd spend summers with the grandparents. I never competed, but I could hold my own in saddling up, horseshoeing, bareback, trailriding, and climbing on and off on my own. My aunt was a competitive barrel racer. She taught me how to do that, too. I'd have the full range of the farm for riding... and I loved to ride fast as I could without getting in trouble with the grownups (the only way to do that was to ride fast when they weren't looking). I was too young and ignorant to know just how dangerous it really could be. But I was small enough that my weight was insignificant and the horses were very well-trained.
I would have given anything to have had summers like that, Heidi. I guess you know how fortunate you were.
Those sound like great summers, Heidi. And, other than the three day Girl Scout horse camp I went to when I was ten, very different than my summers as a kid on army bases. There don't tend to be any goats around, for one thing.
I do, Larry! I swear. I'd only stay for 2-3 weeks at a time with them. It was never the full summer. Man, it was awesome, though. Some of the pics from summer visits are posted on that other site.
As of this morning, I've officially decided that Cinnamon Toast Crunch is my new favorite cereal.
Heidi wrote: "As of this morning, I've officially decided that Cinnamon Toast Crunch is my new favorite cereal."Great Choice! Think I will have some now too!
That was my favorite sugary cereal as a kid. I was never allowed to have it.Right now I'm shaking my fist at whoever started jackhammering at 7:30 this morning. It's not that I wasn't up, but I just can't write when it's that noisy. Why are people so inconsiderate?
Sarah Pi wrote: "That was my favorite sugary cereal as a kid. I was never allowed to have it.Right now I'm shaking my fist at whoever started jackhammering at 7:30 this morning. It's not that I wasn't up, but I j..."
usually they see it as job security! agggggg
Just added "Cinnamon Toast Crunch" to my list of Gross-Sounding American Delicacies To Be Tested. (It's listed just after fried ice-cream and several items gleaned from the Food-on-a-Stick thread.)
Say what you want, Richard. That cereal is GOOD! And I don't even like cereal.
Richard, don't you hail originally from the place that appetizingly names its cereal Pronutro?
Thanks for prompting a gag reflex there, Sarah. I had banished that foul sawdust from memory until you so kindly intervened.
I am getting my poor husband ready for surgery on his broken foot( fathers day present to himself). I will have to mow soon or children of the corn nightmares are going to invade my sleep. It keeps raining and it's to hummid to dryout.
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