Depressing

I just read that Philadelphia is closing all their free libraries. They have not had state money since July 31. They want their materials back and plan to close down by 10/2/09. Now that is truely depressing.

Summer almost over

Summer is waning.

The summer reading program ends in 12 days.

The fair will be starting in 16 days.

Hopefully the bearing that went out in the A/C unit at work will be fixed soon.

It should be interesting to see how we do for business once school starts up again.

Start of the summer reading program

Today, the Summer Reading Program starts. Two reference staff called in sick. The kickoff party is at SV so we were already only running with 4 people here minus 2 equals 2. Rainy day, beginning of SRP, and 2 Ref? ACK! HH to the rescue. BM sent HH back to us from 10-3. Yahoo!

Uncle Edgars / Uncle Hugos

I was checking on Uncle Hugos/Uncle Edgars webpage today when I noticed they have their own blog on livejournal. So I dusted off my RSS reader knowledge and added them to my reader.

The blog appears to list titles that have arrived recently at the store. I find their lists handy sometimes for more local authors and /or reissues of titles, but don't care for the format of the lists overmuch. It makes sense for them, but it's a pain in the neck for how I use it. I'll have to see how I like their blog.

Thing 47 Evaluation

Best thing - Ok, I really liked scrapblog.com. Some of my co-workers saw my at home project which was a Lifebook for my son. It turned out so much better than anything I could do at home.

Worst- Twitter- get over it!

I thought the first grouping had more things I actually had not done or used. This time through, I had to wait forever for the "things" to get posted. Please do not put up incomplete lists. It drives me crazy. I tend to go full speed ahead when I have time and when I have to wait for someone to finish something it tends to drive me crazy.

So goodbye for now. I will probably only post periodically on this site unless they come up with more things on a stick or some other online learning.

Thing 45 Cloud Computing

Ok, I read the PC magazine article. Yes there are advantages to having your stuff backed up at remote services. If there weren't do you think businesses and such would bother? Do I plan on doing it? No.

I tend to backup the most important stuff on flash drives these days. I had a computer crash last summer and lost stuff. I got the computer up long enough to retrieve my vital stuff before it crashed again. So backing up documents is something I'm trying to be better at.

Even the safest sites have security issues and I don't want my stuff out there. Paranoid, maybe, but I feel ok with that decision.

I tried Zoho & Goodgle docs and found them to be a pain. Too much advertising or not that easy to use. They bogged down my productivity since I had to figure out how to use them and then had to correct whatever it or I screwed up.

I glanced at some of the bookmarked cloud applications and at this time do not plan on using them.

Thing 44 Economy

I liked Yard Sale Treasure Map. It was missing sales though. The local paper mentioned that this weekend there would be lots of sales with a map benefitting the local high school.

I took a quiz on mymoney.gov. I got most correct. It was interesting. It had some nice educational information.

I have used FuelEconomy.gov site before. It has some useful info.

I have Quicken at home so I really don't need or want alot of the online financial sites.