Home again
I’m home again. Chicago traffic was murder, so I didn’t get home until fairly late, but I did get home.
I had a very good week. Time to think about a few things. Time to sort out what the deal was with Egeria (turned out to be actual problems, the sort of thing one must actually think about how to solve—sorta fun). Time to rethink the Historical Society page header (I have a new idea for that, but it’ll take me some vile bad cursing to implement). Time to watch truly mindboggling amounts of Buffy the Vampire Slayer—quite enjoyed the Faith arc.
(There is actually a very role-playing-friendly vibe to Buffy. I’m not surprised it got made into an RPG.)
And credit where it is due—I left a house somewhere between “piled higher and deeper” and “slime pit” and came back to House Beautiful, or at the very least House Picked-Up and Vacuumed. (My turn. I think I’m going to spray the deck, if it stops raining long enough this weekend. And then there’s the groanworthy front yard… time to try out the new weedwhacker.)
And my keyboard is back. I cannot possibly tell you how much I missed that thing, except to note that I am bloody well calling the doctor again today because I hurt and I’m tired of hurting. Kinesis put a new cord on it, de-cat-haired it, put a new label on my E key and replaced the serial-number label, put new firmware in it, and sent it back looking downright spiffy (except for grungy keys).
I’m still behind on things, I’m afraid. I wanted to be further along with the Historical Society stuff than I am, but at least I know what the next steps are—merging a bunch of linklists (in progress; it’ll just take time) and contacting the woman in charge of them to see if they can be seriously weeded. I’m hoping so, because as things are I don’t see how anyone can find anything. I need to go in armed with a few replacement links to omnibus reference pages, I suspect, to overcome some resistance.
(Of course, that assumes that the state employment office has better information architecture than the WHS, and I have the uneasy feeling that may not be the case. Well, we’ll see.)
I owe email in seventeen directions, but me being me, I suspect that’ll get blown off.
And then there’s the Extreme tutorial, which I have three or four weeks to put together handouts for. I think the word there is “yeek.” I think the plan is to do background reading in the SLIS library after management class sessions.
Management class starts Monday. I looked over the reserve-reading list; nothing too unexpected. If I can spare some time this weekend, I may dig into the more interesting-looking bits.
But I’m home. And it’s good to be home.