It is SO quiet at work. The librarian is on vacation, so only two people were even in the library today. I was one of them, and the other is the summer hired worker. She's a new college graduate trying to figure out what is next. She's a philosophy major.

She is currently updating the barcodes on the books and entering the information into the system. Or something like that. Today I was on the computer most of the time, typing in the inventories of all my finished boxes (except for the right kind of folders.) Luckily there are two computers. (PCs--Macs and I don't get along very well.) But the printer down there (library is on first floor, offices on second) needs a new ink cartridge. When I go back in on Friday I'll talk with the secretary about that and see if she has one lying around. Meanwhile, I'll send all my inventories to one of the printers upstairs. But first I'll need to know which printer is where. The printer menu has about six listed.

I also need to learn how to forward calls. I'm sure it's quite simple but I've never had to do that in the past.

I am just bursting with new "skills"!

Today was hot and it didn't rain. And it doesn't look like it will tonight.

Tomorrow I have to contribute some more of the yellow stuff to see if the antibiotic is working. That won't take long, but as long as I'm out I'd better swing past a gas station.

It never rains but it pours.

I still have a bunch of books from various sources sitting around, and am still reading the Elizabeth Peters. I stopped at Walgreen's for some stuff on my home this afternoon and was instantly seduced by the sign "2 books for $6" on the paperback rack. It didn't take long to find two promising ones. Then I got home and found three book packages in my mailbox. (I have a large mailbox.) That was four more books. Two of them were the same--Janet Evanovich's "13" in the Stephanie Plum series. I guess I told somebody to send it as soon as it was out, and then ordered it again. Oh well. It may find a home at the library where I work. It has a fair amount of mind candy on the shelves--most, if not all, written by women.

I am now searching flights to Rochester for late July. I'm going to visit a friend and her husband. The last time I went to Rochester was for their wedding several years ago. I can't remember just when that was--Katrina has put a wrinkle in many people's sense of time. It's probably about five years or so.

So, I'm taking tomorrow and Thursday for my days off this week. I wonder how much yard work I'll get myself to do. (I need to give those kids a call.)