Bits and Bobs: Fall Happenings

[forestofglory]

*Today is the Midautumn Festival and twitter is making me want mooncakes

*I'm still getting used to the new routine of N having pre-school five days a week. It's mostly been good. But mornings have been a bit stressful. There has been a certain amount of disagreement about getting dressed. I'm still not quite sure what day of the week it is some days. Last week I almost forgot to to go to the library on Tuesday! It doesn't help that the last two Mondays have been off -- first it was Labor day and then I was sick.

*On the subject of the library I have very little self control when putting books on hold. I keep saying to myself "I'll just check and see if the library has it, but I won't put a hold on it yet" and then putting a hold on it. I suppose that a pretty harmless problem. Also it library news there's now an official date for Link+ the statewide (and awesome) ILL system to to be back. It Oct 31! I've missed Link+ so much -- its been down since May.

*I've decided that brainstorming five workable ideas is not actually very actionable. I can't decide what ideas are workable or not. So I've just got a piece of paper and I'm writing stuff down on and I will pick at least one idea form there to try at the end of the month.

*Today is the last day this year for the California legislature to pass new laws. I've been trying to keep up with the flurry of new bills this week, but I haven't really manged. Still several good housing laws, including just cause eviction and a limit to rent increases have passed.

Comments

[lunabee34]

A new routine can be hard to get used to. You'll get there.

[forestofglory]

Thanks, things are better this week than they were last week so hopefully the improvements will continue.

[jesse_the_k]

Ohhhh, Link+ sounds delicious. The city of Madison is part of the SCLS, which provides a similar sharing among a much smaller population.

A hold habit is a truly harmless problem, which we share. Our catalog lets me create up to 100 holds, and then I can suspend the holds (which keeps my place in line even though I'm not actively waiting), and then I can create lists for that unlikely day in the future when I've read all my holds.

[forestofglory]

I love link+ sooo much! I'm glad you have access to a similar system.

100 holds is lot. I don't have that many. I think my system lets me have 50? It used to be 12 and I was always hit the limit and feeling frustrated but they upped it a couple of years ago and I haven't got to the limit since then. I guess having only 12 holds trained me to be extra careful and I'm still unlearning that.

[jo_lasalle]

When there's a lot of stuff going on and public holidays in the mix, it can be so hard to remember the days of the week!

Hope you'll get settled into the new routine soon!

[forestofglory]

Thanks, its getting better slowly.

[alchimie]

I also wanted mooncakes! I thought about going to get them from our local 85C but they have had signs for weeks about needing to order ahead, which of course I did not do, and I was too busy to make it an easy stop to check, so alas, no mooncakes for me.

I too have just this problem with the library holds -- both ebooks (which I have complicated by getting cards for all the Bay Area libraries I could get to) and Link+. And I am sorry to hear your Link+ has been down, I am glad you will have it back soon! I use it all the time, and much trouble it gets me into (if we define trouble as 'At all times I have a stack of ten books to read in the next 6 weeks').

[forestofglory]

I did end up getting mooncakes. R went to the local Asian mall just to get some for me. They where good too. I'm sorry you didn't get any.

Really my library holds problem is not as bad as it could be. I'm sure it will get worse after I get access to Link+ again :)